So, it was this past Friday, I found myself tooling around town, from Clarkston to Oxford, downtown Orion, back to Clarkston and up to Ortonville and finally Goodrich, when I noticed something. I moved my eyebrows up in my ever-expanding forehead and it felt a little tight. I peeked into the rearview mirror and, dang. […]
There are a few things that have popped up over the last few days which I wanted to share. Item One: Larry Drum Last month I received notice from Larry Drum’s sister, Gayle, that her brother is up for a parole hearing. Regular readers may remember the story of the former Lake Orion Eagle Scout […]
Last Friday the business of running a car dealership continued. The sun shone brightly through the walls of plate glass windows; salesmen showed new cars to customers; service continued and transactions transpired, but something was different. It hung there quietly in the air. ‘Mr. B? wasn’t there. John Elden Bowan owner and president of John […]
As I pop in and around this community and the surrounding communities, lots of folks seek me out to give their opinions on stuff. (I haven’t figured out why they don’t ask for my opinion, though, so I am usually relegated to giving it en masse in these, the hallowed halls of Don’tRushMedom.) First, what […]
There are many lads and lasses in these parts, who are old enough in years (yet young enough at heart) to remember this laugh, ‘Nee-aahahaahaaa!? Growing up in the Detroit television market during the 1970s, I was one of the legion of kids who saved Saturday afternoons for one show, and one show only — […]
Monday was Memorial Day. Now that we are all back to home and work, and since everybody else wrote about Memorial Day before Memorial Day, I thought I’d do it differently. I’ll do mine after Memorial Day! I first ran this column in 2003, and since then ? every year around this time ? some […]
There are many lads and lasses in these parts, who are old enough in years (yet young enough at heart) to remember this laugh, ‘Nee-aahahaahaaa!? Growing up in the Detroit television market during the 1970s, I was one of the legion of kids who saved Saturday afternoons for one show, and one show only — […]
Biff! Bam! Boom! ‘To the Batpole, Boy Wonder.? * * * Ah, it’s October. The colors, the (thanks to global warming) warm days and relatively cool nights, pumpkins all turn a young man’s attention to things warm and cuddly. And, if you’re Dave Kugler, that can only mean one thing, bats. Kugler, of Ortonville is […]
When I hear a sentence starting or ending with, ‘back in the good ol? days,? I automatically roll my eyes. I can’t help it, it’s instinctive. And I can honestly say the muscles that control my rolling eyes are ripped. They’re taunt and buff. They get exercised like no other muscle in my body. Longing […]
So, what has been going on with your hero (that would be me lest I am mistaken)? I have been quite busy over at Casa d’Rush and here at the newspaper. Why just last week I attended the first meeting of something that could be a grassroots campaign to sweep across the nation, no less. […]