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Jun
28
Watching the other station could leave you dead!
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Hyper Doppler Radar on MegaStorm Center 17 has you covered — unlike the other guys at that other station who want you to die in a tornado!
If you’re not watching our channel, you could be struck by 10,000 volts of lightning at any second! We don’t want that to happen, unlike that other television station. Those evil doers!
If you’re not watching Hyper Doppler on MegaStorm Center 17, you’re letting the bad guys win.
I love all of these Doppler radar commercials for various television stations use the fear factor to make sure people are watching their television channels during severe weather.
Video: Doppler Dead Zone — Terre Haute
Video: Super duper Doppler radar will keep you alive — unlike that other channel!
Video: If you don’t care about dying, watch that other Fort Wayne station’s weather
Video: Any second now you could be struck dead by severe weather in Fort Wayne
Video: The only station that has a Doppler radar — except for those other stations that have Doppler radar, except ours is better
Video: Watching the wrong Doppler radar could mean instant death!
Video: Lucky for us, we’re in Chicago’s “no-hype” weather market
Jun
28
Sometimes I feel like Vanessa Williams.
Wikipedia sums it up:
Vanessa Williams is the name of three contemporaneous African-American singers and/or actresses who are sometimes confused …
My name, Christopher Hedges, is also the name of a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. It’s also the name of another person in my own county, according to our county’s online docket – and several other people in my state, as well as across the nation, according to Zabasearch.
Sometimes there is confusion because there are so many people named Christopher Hedges.
I remember arriving at an Indiana court one day for hearings on my commercial litigation cases and finding out that there was a trial in another courtroom involving another Christopher Hedges. There was a second or two of confusion when I checked in with the court staff as they figured out that there were two people named Christopher Hedges in the court at the same time for different matters.
We’re sometimes separated by a middle initial, just like the various Vanessa Williams.
We’re also sometimes confused.
I often get comments on this blog praising Christopher Hedges, the journalist, who writes opinion pieces that take on the powerful elites in our political system — like his most recent post taking on the mainstream media, the GOP and Barack Obama.
When I was in college and working on an semester-long internship in Washington, D.C. during the First Gulf War, people asked me if journalist Christopher Hedges was related to me when news broke that he had been captured by the Iraqis. I had to explain there was no relationship.
I feel a little like Vanessa A. Williams. Somewhat famous, but overshadowed by the more famous of the trio — Vanessa L.
Remember Vanessa A.? She was the actress on Melrose Place, but wasn’t the most famous Vanessa Williams — Vanessa L. Williams of Miss America fame and who is now starring in Ugly Betty. I remember seeing her name on the opening credits of Melrose Place and wondering if she was the beauty pageant winning Vanessa Williams.
I’m sure people think the same thing when they find my eponymous blog. “Have I found the famous Christopher Hedges?” they must ask themselves.
It’s all good.
Sometimes it’s nice to have a name that is somewhat common, but also associated with someone making a difference in his profession. It could be worse. At least the name isn’t associated with anyone infamous.
The most famous Vanessa L. Williams
Video: Sexy Vanessa L. Williams
