Some of you television fans out there certainly remember old commercials from the days of yore. And anytime you go on YouTube, my stars, there are myriads and cornucopias of TV fare that you just might run into anything.

Remember Mike Connors from the CBS-TV series, "Mannix"? Sure, many of you do. I liked him in those Clorets commercials. You can catch a few of those on YouTube today if you look closely. I mean, he knew how to sell a product, and...

Maybe it's just an exercise in overcaution. Ol' Case had just made plans to go watch some college baseball at Disch-Falk Field in good ol' Austin, Texas. That was once upon a time.

Leave it to Mother Nature to have her way once again. Your writer was at work when he missed the e-mail memo. It was from the University of Texas sports department ticket office. Weather tomorrow wasn't going to be so kind to the baseballers, so the honchos at UT decided to move...

if you invented a time machine and went back 10 years society would have been a lot different. for starters, the population wouldn’t be armed with the 21st century assault weapon: the cell phone camera. it is a totally legal way to intimidate those around you, and to bully those around you in the name of self righteous morality, and the threat of going viral for the victim on the receiving end of said camera. But why do people feel the need to video record people? It is kind of sad that people...

Let me assure you this: AM radio is not irrelevant. It isn't, folks.

I'm sure you've heard about Ford Motor Company's recent decision to phase out AM radios from their new models, electric and gas-powered, beginning next year. Yikes! What's going to happen if you purchase a new Ford in the next year and then you can't tune in to important news or weather information that will affect you?? That's apparently where Ford is going. Now, there have been reasons...

I've just read something off of KQBR-FM's (99.5, Lubbock) website, and it, of course, intrigued me. Food trucks are becoming more popular in many cities as entrepreneurs desire to "test the waters".

I was astonished to learn that Lubbock has fifty-three active food trucks going on all over the city. Fifty-three. That's a lot, folks. As a few of you may know, the Hub City has had some recent successes with food trucks graduating past food-truck status,...