I guess the head honchos over at Live 105.3 read my post yesterday and agreed that it was odd to have me on to discuss the implosion of a popular radio show while in the midst of a sorta similar crisis themselves. Something to do with Pugs & Kelly’s depature…
It’s official, I’m out of Greg Williams photos. Tune in tomorrow and rip me when I talk to the guy second from the right. We knew The Ticket wouldn’t invite me on, but seems my Greg Williams story is compelling enough for a competing station to discuss it. To that…
The guy on the left is my brother, Major Mike Wilonsky, USMC. The dude on the right, who doesn’t have the camera aiming his direction, also looks familiar. I know where CSI: NY star Gary Sinise was over the weekend: drinking my baby brother’s last Perrier, not an easy item…
Bob Shacochis on the cover of the Mayborn’s mag There’s an awful lot of pressure on this year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest. After all, the ruckus Nan Talese caused at last year’s conference, when she unleashed her double-barreled comments about Oprah Winfrey and her fans skewering…
There’s Greggo. Jeez, Richie, seems Ed Bark really dug your story on Greg Williams: “It may well be the best media piece ever written in this market.” Wow. Guess I should read it. Greg Williams did. But, first, who’s Greg Williams? –Robert Wilonsky…
We do have closure, right? Like you, I listened to The Hardline discuss my story and Greggo yesterday afternoon. It’s impossible to tie a pretty bow on it all because it remains an ugly situation. But, one way or another, we gotta wrap it up and move on. As a…
Late yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing Tracy Rowlett say the word “vajayjay.” And, no, he wasn’t using it as a pejorative. We were talking about the changing face, or something, of news and how it’s all one big commercial nowadays anyway. “Anything who’s accusing me of selling out…
Guess 6,500 words weren’t enough. Damn. From the Dept. of Be Careful What You Ask For: Holy Crap! I’ll try to address them in order posted but, dude, no way I get to all them in one sitting: *CORBY: I left two messages on his work phone, one on his…
As we can’t get Tracy Rowlett on the phone this afternoon — left a message, surely he’ll call back, because that is how he rolls — we’ll go with what he told Uncle Barky about his controversial new gig working for Chesapeake Energy’s new WebTV enterprise: “I guess the best…
Might as well re-post this item from last summer, the first time XM Satellite Radio’s “Sonic Sound Salutes” paid homage to golden-oldie KLIF-AM (1190) on its channel devoted to the 1960s. From the looks of what just arrived in the in-box, it’s the same press release and everything. So I’ll…
Big Boss Mark Donald and I were just marveling at the summer ish of The Barnett Shale: The Official Magazine of Thriving on the Shale, which has paper stock thicker than most apartment walls, when we got this press release announcing that longtime legendary local newsman Tracy Rowlett is likewise…
The Hard Line. Same as is it ever was? Thanks again for everyone’s patience, and feedback. I appreciate it. If you have any lingering questions about the story or want me to expound on something from the piece – How many times did I try to interview Corby? How did…
Thank you for your patience. Enjoy…
Take a number, pal. First of all – duh – I have zero control of when the story gets posted online. Generally, cover stories are posted at our home site on Wednesday afternoons. But I’m a lowly sportswriter, not an IT geek. Secondly, there are a couple more people in…
Behind the break-up. T-Minus 24 hours. I’m sure the Sportatorium blogdom is all atwitter about my opinions on Angels 9, Rangers 6. Okay, let me label rookie catcher Max Ramirez’ miraculous effort as baseball’s “Double Play of the Year”. But, really, who am I kidding? If I own a McDonald’s…
So, just maybe The Dallas Morning News won’t be able to deliver, heh, on its promise to litter rich folks’ front yards with those unwanted single-section papers called Briefing, blech. The latest adventure in CueCatting is due to touch your more manicured lawns come August 27 — but today Editor…
Curtain pulled back in T-Minus 2 days. Local author Jim Dent penned award-winning stories while living a nefarious night life. Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen has been known to have a drink between the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban has admitted to smoking pot in…
Merritt Martin Above, one of Merritt’s photos from the Fair Park Fourth — a review of which is available here, where, um, “Pdiddy” deems the event’s debut a success but also “a mixed bag.” Some of us opted for a less stressful in-and-out: the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Preston…
Murphy Martin Everything you need to know about former WFAA-TV and ABC News anchor Murphy Martin, my late grandfather’s favorite local newsman and the gent known to most as The Voice of Texas Stadium from 1975 through ’98, you’ll find in Charlie Van Dyke’s introduction of Murphy recorded for his…
Later this summer, Zenescope Entertainment will debut a comic book titled Beyond Wonderland, featuring cover art by J. Scott Campbell, a fave among the fanboys who dig his drawings of the rather busty danger girls. This morning, Zenoscope sent us a completed cover, and it looked a tad like one…
Don’t mince words, Sam, how do you really feel about Mayor Tom? –Robert Wilonsky…
KTYS program director Vic Thomas Vic Thomas, midday host and program director at the relaunched KTYS-FM (96.7), which went from new country to old pop yesterday, called Unfair Park with further details concerning the change — which, turns out, stems from Citadel Broadcasting Corp. bossman Farid Suleman’s love affair with…
