Month: January 2010

  • January 28, 2010
    (OK, so it doesn't work for everybody.) In the space of roughly 3 minutes during Jay Leno’s 9:00 debut show…

  • January 22, 2010
    Francis: On New Year’s Day, I found (carefully stored in a long-unused file drawer) a 1981 R.E.M. 45 RPM single—released…

  • January 21, 2010
    In January 2009, the Birmingham News reported that the Jefferson County Commission was seriously considering a sewer system Non User…

  • January 19, 2010
    “Writing is easy. You just sit at your typewriter and concentrate until beads of blood form on your forehead.” —George…

  • January 18, 2010
    There is a pivotal scene in the 1984 mockumentary classic “Spinal Tap”—the comic history of a band’s slow decline from…

  • January 12, 2010
    If you’ve been around the proverbial block before, you know the economy’s bound to get rolling again. Eventually. So what…

  • January 12, 2010
    Of the three celebrities who died last week (including Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon), the one I’m going to miss…

  • January 4, 2010
    Everything. (This column was written for Randall-Reilly's January, 2011  e-newsletter) Having served my first truck-firm client in the early 1990’s,…

  • January 3, 2010
    (This column was written for the November, 2010 issue of Randall-Reilly's RPM For Truckers magazine) Coping With The New HOS…

  • January 2, 2010
    (This column was written for Target Publications, November, 2010) If you’re a driver considering a change of employment, the words…