Longing for a Good 'Old Fashioned' Scandal

Just back from Vegas and the National Association of Broadcasters convention - always a fun affair with 100,000+ people. Rick Dees was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame (what took so long?!?!). He's always a class act - was very gracious to receive this honor.

What a career he's had - from comedy songs to successful radio host - love the fact that, back in the '70s while Rick was a DJ in TN (Memphis?) his song, "Disco Duck" was a hit everywhere in the country - except for Memphis - where he was on the air. Rick mentions the song on his morning show and GETS FIRED - only to be picked up by the station across town. Don't you love it when someone gets FIRED only to go on to superstardom?!?!? (you know, they say in radio you're no one until you've been fired at least three times!). You go, Rick!

Anyway - I've had 'two seconds of fame' - filling in as a traffic reporter for two days on Rick's morning show at KIIS FM - and, Rick was very fun - even tried to make me a better traffic reporter - well, maybe not BETTER - but, he didn't seem to dig that my traffic reports sounded like KFI traffic reports.... take a listen.

Now - onto this Katie Couric thingie..... where her "Katie Couric's Notebook" vlog (video log) on the CBS News website sounded an awful lot like (mmmkay - was in some parts word for word) a story in the Wall Street Journal. It was about libraries - and whether or not they are still useful. Katie even recalled the thrill of receiving her very first library card. The CBS News producer who wrote the vlog (what, now there are ghostwriters for blogs/vlogs?) was fired. Some are calling it PLAGIARISM. Come on - doesn't this deserve more press?!?!?

Don't you think it's a shame that what could be such a delicious tidbit is being, for the most part, overlooked in the wake of the Don Imus firing (I guess Katie can thank Imus for that) and the devastating news of the Virginia Tech massacre?

Sometimes I long for the days of MonicaGate - something to dish that doesn't involve blood, guts & tragedy.

Wow - it's LUCKY Friday the 13th!

Are you feeling lucky on this Friday the 13th? Oh, come on - you're not suffering from Paraskevidekatriaphobia (the morbid irrational fear of Friday the 13th), are you? A study published in the British Medical Journal in 1993 actually found that there are people who are reluctant to drive on Friday the 13th and that, in factc, the number of car crashes was higher on Friday the 13th, among the area they sampled.

Not only is 13 believed to be an 'unlucky' number - so much so that buildings taller than 13 stories rarely will include a '13th floor.' But, the number 6 is also unlucky, according to myth. So - FRIDAY, being the SIXTH day of the week - coupled with 13 - has led to the superstition that unfortunate things can happen on Friday the 13th.

Now, given all the talk about The Secret - the DVD/book that talks about the Law of Attraction - basically, what you believe you receive, isn't it time that we start thinking less about any possible bad things happening on a Friday the 13th - and instead focusing our intention on making this a TERRIFICLY LUCKY DAY, regardless of the date?

After all - for talk radio host Don Imus - his unlucky day(s) fell prior to the 13th - he lost his show at MSNBC on Wednesday the 11th (11 is considered a LUCKY number for many) and got fired from his national radio show on Thursday the 12th.


Now - get out and make the most of this very lucky day - Friday the 13th!