By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I am old enough to have thought while growing up that Buck Rogers was just a science fiction character, but I have since come to the conclusion that Phillip Francis Nowlan, who first introduced Rogers in 1928 was merely a prophet.
I thought I had seen it all when my TV screen [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
In case you haven’t noticed, with all the news about oil spills, gasoline prices have gone through the roof once again. I may be a skeptic, but I don’t believe an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – as bad as that is – or a leaky pipe in Michigan spilling [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
Having worked in the newspaper business for 20 years in Long Beach, Calif., I am familiar with traffic circles because I had to make the rounds many times at the intersection of Lakewood Boulevard (State Route 19) and Pacific Coast Highway (then known as U.S Highway 101 Alternate.) Those days, the [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
This past Fourth of July I had visits from my two youngest sons, both professionals and I listened intently as they talked in a language admittedly I did not understand. It was techno talk and at that moment I realized that even though as an editor decades ago, I had ushered in [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
In my early newspaper days in Los Angeles, I was given an unusual assignment to read the Associated Press, United Press and all the wire services for which my newspaper subscribed in search of oddities in the news. I would compile for a front-page column. It was my editor’s way of lightening [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
It seems of late I have spent more time in a hospital bed waiting for the hours to creep across the face of the clock. For a person as active as I am, the worst part of this ordeal is not the bland hospital menus, not even all the poking around by [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I am a great fan of the cartoon, Frank & Earnest. The antics of Frank & Earnest are more true to life than perhaps we’d like to admit. However, I think I enjoy the word play in the cartoon more than anything else about these two unlikely characters.
Frank & Earnest, if you [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
If e-mails, letters and personal phone calls are any indication, I am not alone as a dinosaur roaming the jungles of cell phones. To my surprise many others feel as I do that no telephone call is so important it can’t wait.
One of the shocking revelations came from a reader who researched [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I have a confession to make. I do not own a cell phone.
There are a few of us dinosaurs roaming the earth including, I discovered Edward Grinnan, editor of Guideposts magazine, who made a similar confession in May to his readers. Like, Grinnan, I am not opposed to technology. In fact, I [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
Here I lie, or is it lay? Confound English. But then who hasn’t confused lie and lay?
The last time I wrote this column from this position was two weeks go and I said I’d be out of the hospital in a couple of days. I lied.
There you go again. This lie means [...]
