Below is a story that just moved on the Associated Press wire. Not sure which part is more unfortunate: the foreclosure or the name of the funeral home.
Even the dead can’t escape foreclosure in suburban Detroit.
Five bodies and the cremated remains of 22 people have been evicted from the House of Burns Memorial Chapel, a funeral home in Pontiac.
After removal, they were delivered to the Oakland County medical examiner’s office for storage early Friday. The medical examiner’s administrator, Robert Gerds, said some of the cremated remains date to the 1990s.
Bill Wilson isn’t alone in his random radio screw-ups.
One day, I was recording three or four business items, one of which was about the B-52 Stratofortress. I practiced saying the word several times before the recording. Then, during the recording, I made such a point of enunciating Stratofortress that it came out sounding ridiculous. I started laughing. Then I apologized to George and tried it from the top again. And, of course, I started laughing again. I couldn’t stop.
Finally, I had to give up on that item altogether. I apologized to George again and just went on. But anyone who happened to hear the rest of my report when it aired probably wondered why my voice was shaking. I wasn’t nervous. I was struggling not to laugh.
George did not laugh. However, he was very nice about it. As he is with each one of my radio forays. You might say I have a voice for newspapers.
Sorry, George!
As many of you know, we’ve been doing daily morning business news updates on KFDI for a few months.
I’m not a stranger to radio, or to public speaking, but I have to confess that I’ve found the experience rather vexing at times – only when veteran KFDI newsman George Lawson is on the other end of the telephone recording the report.
I consistently screw up the report when George is on the other end of the phone and have to re-record parts of it. No real specifics here, for obvious reasons, but the gaffes range from a rather bizarre characterization of a local aviation company – one of those “What did I just say?” moments – to one spot in the broadcast when I inexplicably began babbling incoherently. Thank God it’s not live radio … and that Freud is dead. I’d hate to learn what it all means.
Nothing against George; he’s a great colleague and a nice guy to work with. Don’t really think he makes me nervous.
But I hear he and the station collect taped gaffes. George, quote me a price for mine.
Now.
I’d say the answer is still no, but today’s market reaction to OPEC’s production cuts is a little surprising. Experts say that demand continues to fall in the U.S., which I find a little puzzling. I wonder if the decline is actually demand-related, or if there’s been a bigger shift to fuel-efficient vehicles.
One of the Midwest’s biggest oil wholesalers doesn’t see a floor in the falling oil market, either. In a conversation this week about gas prices falling under $2, QuikTrip spokesman Mike Thornbrugh said, “You know what? It could happen.
“And if you’re asking if QuikTrip would be happy if that happened, the answer is yes.”