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Month: December 2015
Ten Arrows to Somewhere Else
Posted on 12/29/2015 by billvancil
If you spend any amount of time on Facebook, or checking the online news sites, or just cruising around the internet, you’ve come across
Category: Humor/SatireTags: humor, satire
What Would Hopalong Do?
Posted on 12/28/2015 by billvancil
The sun was starting to rise brightly above the Catalina Mountains. To the west, a nearly full moon was slowly calling it quits for the day.
Category: Cats and Dogs, Humor/Satire, Personal StoriesTags: cowboy, coyotes, dogs
A Christmas to Remember Forever
Posted on 12/23/2015 by billvancil
During the first few years of my life, we always spent Christmas at grandma’s house, on a farm near Bradford, Illinois.
Category: Personal StoriesTags: Christmas, Teddy Bear
Has Global Warming Affected Santa?
Posted on 12/19/2015 by billvancil
Christmas time seems to bring out some nice television commercials. The Budweiser Clydesdales are the perennial leaders
Category: Humor/SatireTags: television, tv ads
Okay Bo, What Do We Do Now?
Posted on 12/18/2015 by billvancil
We knew Bo Ryan was going to retire, we just didn’t know when. The timing of his retirement earlier this week
Category: People Features, Radio StoriesTags: basketball, Bo Ryan, wism
Could I Be Related to Dick Clark?
Posted on 12/17/2015 by billvancil
It was a typical weekday afternoon in the Quad-Cities, summertime 1969. Everyone alive at the time had their radios tuned to KSTT, or so I thought. Could be that’s why the station was so good. Everybody on the air was taught to perform as…
Category: Humor/Satire, Personal Stories, Radio StoriesTags: dick clark, KSTT, radio
Dumbest Radio Contest Ever?
Posted on 12/15/2015 by billvancil
Dumb contests can take many forms. An example of a dumb contest would be asking people to show up at a car dealer’s grand opening dressed like an Impala, or
Category: Radio StoriesTags: contest
The Truth About Dolly Parton and Me
Posted on 12/14/2015 by billvancil
On December 6th, in a story titled “And Henry Mancini Brought Pizza,” I wrote about having dinner with Andy Williams and Mancini following their concert
Category: People Features, Radio StoriesTags: dolly parton, radio, wism
Corny Radio Contest Goes Nuts
Posted on 12/11/2015 by billvancil
Corn Nuts is a popular snack that’s been around a long time. It’s a hybrid type of Peruvian corn that grows large kernels.
Category: Radio StoriesTags: corn nuts, KSTT, radio contests
Laughable Lines from Commercials
Posted on 12/10/2015 by billvancil
Radio commercials, in a way, wrote my paycheck over the years. That’s how radio stations make money.
Category: Humor/Satire, Radio StoriesTags: advertising, radio, wism
Chattering Cancer Gremlins
Posted on 12/08/2015 by billvancil
I can’t speak for all cancer patients, but any man who has had prostate cancer will know what I’m talking about.
Category: Prostate CancerTags: prostate cancer, proton
And Henry Mancini Brought Pizza
Posted on 12/06/2015 by billvancil
Fast forward to the early seventies. A friend who was a rep for Columbia Records, invited me to join him for dinner with both Henry Mancini and Andy Williams, following their concert…
Category: People Features, Radio StoriesTags: Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, music
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