"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Tuesday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract... Continue Reading →
Movie – Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning (2008) - A good cast can sometimes (not always) overcome a weak script. Amy Adams and Emily Blunt manage to do just that with an otherwise predictable sweet story. Rose and Norah are single women trying and mostly failing to make it in this world. Their mother killed herself when they were small... Continue Reading →
Movies – Last King of Scotland, Letters From Iwo Jima and Better Off Dead
Last King of Scotland (2006) - Based on the facts of the rule of Idi Amin in Uganda this is the fictional story of a young Scots doctor who gets pulled into the dictator's inner circle. James McAvoy is wonderful as the footloose, ethically challenged young man who is running away from his life at home and... Continue Reading →
Book Review – The Maid and the Queen
The Maid and The Queen - The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone - This is a fascinating background history of a woman who was deeply involved in the events surrounding the Maid of Orleans, Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Sicily. Yolande was one of the great powers "behind the throne" in... Continue Reading →
A Moment for Memory
Talking to my friend Andrew Hill who still works at my last radio station and he told me that he had come across the audio file of me saying good bye on that last day. I told him I wasn't sure that I had that clip and he graciously made me a copy. One of... Continue Reading →
Chris Berman, The Future of Radio and Winning Advertising
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Tuesday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract... Continue Reading →
Star Trek Continues, Michael J Fox and Fake Reality
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Tuesday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract... Continue Reading →
August Books
This month's reading - Constantine's Codex by Paul L. Maier - Buried in the basement of Greek monastery ancient documents are found that may be long lost parts of the Bible. The discovery raises tensions through the Christian world and it grows worse when Islamic fanatics steal the documents in an attempt to discredit Christianity. Maier... Continue Reading →
August Movies
The Dark Knight Rises - (2012) - Yes, I actually got out and saw a current movie in the theater! The latest Batman film has generated all kinds of commentary. For some it is just the latest in a beloved story cycle while for others it is a disjointed shambles of a movie. When I... Continue Reading →
Reasons to hate the Internet
So I had a little run in with some kind of plant early last week. I don't see any evidence of Poison Ivy where I was working but I ended up with this nasty rash on both wrists and a little bit on my right hand. I find I don't freak out about stuff like... Continue Reading →