Danny Tyree
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Unless you’ve been living in a van down by the river, you’ve doubtless endured a “Saturday Night Live” PR blitz over the past year. First came the October 2024 movie “Saturday Night,” dramatizing the minutes befor..
Tyrades by Danny Tyree Will “put a ring on it” be replaced with “put a surge protector on it”? According to the New York Post, a growing number of affection-starved young women are dating and “marrying” chatbots in place of flesh-and-blo..
Tyrades by Danny Tyree “I’ve looked at life from MY side now…” I can imagine Joni Mitchell singing those modified lyrics every time I encounter one of today’s most grating phrases. The phrase: “my lived experience.” Every time some blo..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “And if it comes back the very next day, well, then I’ll go bankrupt…” - apologies to Elvis. It started with “wardrobing.” Unscrupulous shoppers would buy expensive outfits for a special occasion and return them t..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out…” - John Sebastian The fall 1975 TV season remains special for me for several reasons. For one thing, it's when I began my life’s mission of collecting Fall Preview issu..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “Here’s a novel idea: read more fiction,” blared the headline of a recent Wall Street Journal article by Gerard Baker. (The less said about that other Journal headline, “Here’s a limerick idea: buy a timeshare in Na..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “Wouldn’t miss it for the world.” “Let me check my calendar.” “Meh.” “You mean I still haven’t outlived all those #@%& low-lifes?” As you doubtless know, those are the four main responses when a class ..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “Hear that lonesome whippoorwill/ He sounds too blue to fly/ The midnight train is whining low…” - Hank Williams Among the books I mean to get around to reading is Neil Ansell’s “The Edge of Silence: In Search of th..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Pay no attention to the seemingly frozen clock in sixth-period trigonometry class. Time is moving way too swiftly. My son graduated from high school four years ago, and I have yet to sit down and fully appreciate the work he ..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name/ There is booze, there is booze…” - apologies to Paul Stookey According to the Wall Street Journal, six percent of couples polled by wedding-planning website Zol..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “And we was too broke to even pay heed/But that’s how it is when you’re po’ folks.” - Bill Anderson. I was intrigued by a recent USA Today article about “poor-people” habits (i.e. vestiges of frugality that pers..
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Is work-life balance dead, and will you even find time to attend the funeral? During different phases of my five-decade working career, I have worked all three shifts, toiled every holiday, struggled with doubled production q..
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- 04/17/2024 Ready for the bathroom of tomorrow?
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- 03/27/2024 Ever have a work spouse?
- 03/20/2024 So you acknowledge Jesus as a wise teacher? Really?
- 03/13/2024 Has the Pentagon shattered your faith in UFOs?
- 03/06/2024 What does spring break mean to you?
- 02/28/2024 Am I overthinking slang?
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- 02/14/2024 Where do you fall on the sports fan spectrum?
- 02/07/2024 Ready for an Apple Vision Pro world?
- 01/31/2024 Using the right Valentine’s Day questions?
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- 01/17/2024 Do you suffer from the ‘stillgottas’?
- 01/10/2024 Been at your job too long?
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- 12/27/2023 Could you pass a citizenship test? Really?
- 12/20/2023 Will you be busted by a ‘noise camera’?
- 12/13/2023 What can the nativity teach us?
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- 11/29/2023 Would you like to sleep through Christmas?
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- 06/28/2023 Is your food ultra-processed enough?
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- 06/14/2023 Does TV-industry budget-cutting worry you?
- 06/07/2023 Ready to fire up those Father’s Day memories?
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- 01/25/2023 Brother, can you spare an excuse?
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- 06/29/2022 What happened at Roswell 75 years ago?
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- 06/15/2022 Should ‘eyes up here’ be enforced?
- 06/08/2022 Craving some fatherhood advice?
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- 05/25/2022 Do you have a personal catch phrase?
- 05/18/2022 Is this what Memorial Day means to you?
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- 04/27/2022 Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be brainless
- 04/20/2022 Do you hate parking lots?
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