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I just got in this morning from a quick business trip to Phoenix (where it was 65 degrees last night) to JFK airport (where it was 18 degrees this morning)… a cruel meteorological joke and I’m not laughing, as I sit here, freezing my nutmegs off in Connecticut.  The woman at my airline ticket counter pulled up the weather forecast for me and laughed… said I should stay a few more days in Phoenix… I thought she was being compassionate, but she kept laughing.  Even as I walked away she called out “15 degrees!”.  Odd humor in the desert.

While I was plotting out the future of the radio and television business with other disgruntled, displaced, and… unemployed associates, THE VOICE was jotting down his Superbowl analysis… IF it is possible to put such genius on to mere paper… and placemats… napkins… even his shirt sleeves…

THE VOICE checks in with his latest picks for The Superbowl… The Pro Bowl… The NBA… the Australian Open Tennis Tournament… news on Arena Football… and of course, the CHEERLEADERS… read all about it, and prepare yourself for the wisdom of the sage’s sage… the prognosticator’s prognosticator… the … well, you get it… read the predictions from THE VOICE, click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…

and don’t forget… see THE VOICE deliver his predictions… go to DoingItLocal.com and click on his videos…

MORE FOUND MONEY… MAN FINDS $3,100 IN PICTURE FRAME… guy in Florida finds a picture of the space shuttle… he was going to put it into a different frame and found cash stuffed in the back of the photo… story, click (here)…  SO… this guy finds a picture of the space shuttle… in the trash, and likes it so much he wants to put it into a new frame?… and THEN finds money?…  that’s gotta be one great picture…  something odd about this story…

2010… twenty-ten?… two thousand ten?… two oh one oh?… Remember the question a few weeks ago about the best way to pronounce the new year?… A teacher in Hartford weighs in with the twenty-ten vote… and more… click (here)…

It’s been quite the busy week on Earth, hasn’t it…?

Late-night television careers… Massachusetts political assumptions… the health-care bill… and portions of Haiti... all came crashing down in response to their own unique struggles with different gravity…

THE VOICE dealt with his own gravity last week, as well… he spent the first part of this week trying to get juiced again after his beloved Chargers lost their spark to the Jets… but he promises to come back stronger than ever this week with his famous predictions, pictures, and words of wisdom… all the bigs are covered here… 3 GAMES LEFT for the NFL this season… NASCAR… the NBA… insights and reasoning… and of course, CHEERLEADERS… read the latest from THE VOICE… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…

and see THE VOICE…and leave him some comments and love… go to DoingItLocal.com…

POLITICAL SKIN… SCOTT BROWN… the newest senator from Massachusetts… not only did he pose naked in Cosmopolitan magazine back in the 80s… but his wife, Gail Huff, (who is now a news anchor in Boston)… was a bikini-girl in a 1980’s music video… click (here)…

AND… someone has been sending around a picture of him and his daughters from Facebook… for the story, click (here)…

FOUND MONEY… you know those “unclaimed assets” announcements you hear from the state?… maybe you forgot about a tax refund, or a savings account you had when you were a kid?… sometimes they pay off… here’s a guy in St. Louis… who had forgotten… and claimed… a stock holding worth… $1.6 million dollars… click (here)…

FEELING USELESS?… buy one of these… a video of The World’s Most Useless Machine… click (here)…

Do you still listen to the radio like you used to?… drop me an email and let me know what fills your ears these days…  it’s been 7 years since I was on WPLR… and my 1 year anniversary of the WICC layoff is coming up… and I’m getting sentimental….

Middle of the month already… this decade is flying by…

THE VOICE continues to give us better sports picks and inside insight than anyone else out there in the business… this week he is working a little slower behind the counter at The Prognosticator Grill and Cafe as he realizes… there are just 7 NFL games left… but he checks in with his picks and pictures… including his famous CHEERLEADERS… and you can find out all… just click on SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (here)…

Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and NBC were having a great time with their ratings-boosting bickering… until the earthquake hit in Haiti… kind of makes the concern about a couple of millionaire entertainers not so gripping, doesn’t it…

Speaking of millionaire entertainers… what’s up with Rush Limbaugh? Even the people I know who enjoy listening to his comedic rants are not liking his anti-Haiti support today… but remember, he does have to try to keep his ratings up, and the headlines about the fake heart attack in Hawaii can only last so long… click (here)…

Remember, when it comes to radio and tv and politics… it’s not about what is right and wrong or political… it is ALL about the ratings and the money…

…and Happy Friday…

Just a quickie here today as I get ready to run outside and warm up the car… or give up and hibernate…
THE VOICE has turned the heat up as we head toward the NFL playoffs… and he checks in with his weekly picks…  will the Jets do it again against the Bengals this weekend?… only THE VOICE knows… check out his picks, predictions and wisdom, oh, and CHEERLEADERS… visit SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (here)…

SEE THE VOICE… don’t forget to check out THE VOICE on video, as well as other news and videos at DoingItLocal.com…
Ok… I hear snowplows and they are sounding ominously close… gotta hide… see you next week… -Brian

So, are we saying “Twenty-Ten”, or “Two Thousand Ten” for this year?  Email me your votes. Maybe “Two-Oh-One-Oh”? And for some of us: “Since I gave a damn plus thirty”.  I get stuff like that, you know.

THE VOICE is with us for the New Year festivities.  The Voice never rests.  While everyone else on the planet was questioning their ability to hoist a glass without spilling it by midnight, The Voice was bringing in the New Year by putting together his uncanny predictions for the final week of the NFL regular season (one of The Voice’s most bittersweet times of the year)… You’ll find it all, wrapped up as a late Christmas present… The NFL… College Bowl predictions… Sports from All Over… and of course, to cure the Auld in your Lang Syne, the CHEERLEADERS… just click on “SPORTS PICKS” over there on the right, or just click (here)…

AND SEE THE VOICE… yes, another video mysteriously transmitted from his secret underground bunker… directly for your viewing pleasure and informational download… at DoingItLocal.com… click on The Voice Week 17 in the video gallery on the front page…. start by clicking (here)… and happy viewing… (unless you are using Mac Safari, then you have to try something else)…

So, were you caught up in the impossible chronological physics of the holidays this year like I was?  Trying to be in two or more places at THE SAME TIME over and over again?  I really have to learn to use my calendar more wisely.  Someday, yes, someday I hope to be as organized as those guys who put together the Major League Baseball Schedule, or the train schedules out of Grand Central, or even… although it is the zenith of organizational aptitude… an almost impossible to obtain nexus of time and space coordination… I wish to try to be as organized as a soccer Mom or Dad… I don’t know how they do it.  I can’t.  Party hats off to those of you who kept all your appointments and celebrations on time this season.  I surrender… and collapse… into a smoldering heap of cheap booze, ripped gift wrap paper, and broken sugar cookies… -Brian

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us at BrianSmithRadio.com, and DoingItLocal.com…