Our 2015 HO Wrap Up!
Each year, we like to take time to reflect on HO and the wonderful writers and readers who make it what it is. After weeks of going over our statistics and demographics and all that […]
Year: 2015
Who Wrote “Santa Claus Is Coming, DAHTNTAHN?”
Today I go all Pittsburgh on you all! Below is a Yakkin’ With YaJagoff video with my cousin, Kevin Harkins who wrote the Pittsburghese version of the Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Santa Claus is […]
Upfaked Out of My Love Shoes
It was a New Year’s Eve in the ’90′s and I was at loose ends. I decided to skip the midnight show and go to a party with friends. After the obligatory dance with my […]
The Cheating Scandal Rocking America’s Most Popular Sport
This isn’t about the NFL. It really doesn’t matter if Peyton Manning turns out to be the next Lance Armstrong because there’s a much bigger cheating scandal roiling America. I’m talking, of course, about […]
My Year in Blogging–More Than Just Sonny Tufts
As I look back on 2015 and prepare the Gerbil Interactive Media Group (Gerbil News Network, Gerbil Sports Network, Gerbil Entertainment!) for an initial public offering, it is appropriate that I give potential investors a candid […]
I Came ThisClose to Doing a Color Run
My 50th birthday had recently passed, and I wanted to make a change, something a little bigger than parting my hair on the opposite side. I saw an ad for the Color Run pop up […]
A Day in the Life of a Hip-Hop Grants Administrator
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts said he would be open to funding rap artists. The Wall Street Journal I was sitting at my desk, tapping out rejection letters to the poets, community […]