I'm channel surfing on the radio the other day and I stop on a local rock station. The DJ asks "How many people watched 'American Idol' last night?" before she sarcastically answers "Not me, because I have a life. I was watching pirated hockey and drinking beer." This is not a referendum on "American Idol," but, while it's not exactly rock-oriented, it does include all types of music and this year one of the judges is rock icon Stephen Tyler from the group Aerosmith. Give or take a few million, the audience of "Idol" is around twenty million. If that many people are watching pirated hockey, somebody better ring up Captain Barbosa. I'm guessing the advertisers of this radio station, whoever they may be, would rather have the "Idol worshipers" over the pirates. So, that's why disc jockeys don't make any money. If some dude is stealing hockey games in south Florida, I'm thinking he's not the demographic everybody is after. I'm just saying.
About Me
- Life is Heald
- Naples, Florida
- I like to laugh. If you don't, please hit whatever button escorts you from the premises immediately. I write a humor column for the Naples Daily News called, get this, "Life is Heald." It's about life as we all see it, just from a pair of rose-colored glasses that need cleaning. I tell stories, I rant about things that drive us all to the point of filling out a gun permit, I make fun of you and I make fun of me. If I can't use it in the column for whatever reason, it ends up here. Sometimes, you'll need to read the column to know what I'm writing about, but often the posts are just random, drive-by thoughts that entered my brain and exited my fingers. Just a flesh wound, so don't go dialing 911 about anything you read here. This is not one of those blogs that will tell you how many prunes it took to jump start my last bowel movement or what grade the kid got on his math test. The good stuff, I save for the Christmas newsletter.
