I just wanted to send greetings to everyone back home in the Ozarks from here out on the shore of the Atlantic. I've been keeping up with the local papers, and even get a chance to listen to Pat Lynch from time-to-time online.

Things out here near the nation's capital are interesting, and the strange thing is that you might not even know you were that far from home. Once again I live in a state filled with Democratic members of congress, execpt in my district, which is represented by a Republican. Go figure. Also, one of the biggest businesses here is Perdue Chicken. I just talked to the PR exec from Perdue today during an awards ceremony, and she sends a "shout out" to Ed and Gary at Tyson Foods, with whom she occasionally works. Yep, you got it -- it smells like chicken crap here too, and you can't get away from Wal-Mart even in these remote parts of America, but I guess you know that already. Oh yes - we also have our mega-church here.

Truly my strangest experience out here has been driving my old Toyota over the bridge and into Washington, D.C. It's just up the street, really. I've also spun around Baltimore and Philadelphia a couple of times in my constantly breaking-down car.

It's been an interesting year or so for me. I returned to the world of local television, and even do a little local radio, so it's not like I've sworn off my media activities - I'm just a lot closer to the source of trouble in DC now.

After working with Cris and others to keep this thing alive in my absence, I've decided to return to it on a semi-regular basis, and yes, we've even spoken about bringing the old radio show back to life, which I believe we'll likely do on something called "blog-talk radio" where it'll only be an hour and you'll be limited to listening to it online here. We'll still focus on Arkansas and national politics, as we did for a number of years, so it won't be much different.

Who knows, if someone is crazy enough to pick it up, perhaps you'll hear it on a local station in the very near future.

In the meantime, I've got to work on writing something again for this blog, and as you already read here, we're deep into a wordpress transmigration and design project to make this more of a magazine than a straight "blog." We want to provide you with more content and make it so you have an easier time loading the damn thing and spending more time inside.

It's good to be back.

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