Column Chronicles: More Larry King-like journalism

More Larry King-like journalism

Frank Cotolo
September 23, 2021

After years of retirement and with the demise of major syndicated newspaper material, Larry King's newspaper column is gone. I continue to attempt to convince struggling newspapers that a King-like column, filled only with his brief and timely thoughts, could still be popular. Again this year, I offer intermittent blog King-like column items that inform, entertain and honor Mr. King's journalistic jingo.

Lots of people learned to use home computers through Apple. It's thirty or so years later and for some reason of other, today most of them work through Microsoft and those who still use Apple hate the Microsoft folk. Sheesh.

Recently I read a book that was an eyewitness account of the last days of Pompeii. I finished it but only now am I thinking, how is that possible?

Nowhere in history is there a story that proves balloons are essential elements of festive activity.

Considering there were only forty-five U.S. presidents, the fact that four of them were assassinated is a remarkable percentage.

The common German citizen walks seventeen miles a day, not counting bathroom trips when at home.

Whenever I see the number forty-two, I think of Jackie Robinson and Bill Clinton.

Sometimes, according to people studying criminology, it takes ordinary circumstances to deliver very strange results.

It really doesn't matter what profession you take up, everyone you meet in that profession will tell you something different about it.

The older I become, the more I believe that Amelia Earhart took a wrong turn somewhere above Brisbane.

I recently went on vacation and realized that vacations are like heart attacks, they come once in a while and they're painful.

When I started broadcasting on radio, my highest goal was to smoke as many Chesterfields as Arthur Godfrey.

In today's digital world I read news in a magazine called WIRED. In the days of nobs and gears I got my news over the wires. Strange how things change but remain similar.

It pays to have a good teacher when learning how to swim.

I'll always feel bad about a friend I had when I was in my twenties. He was in his sixties, so I believed everything he told me due to the experience he said he had while living forty years before I was born. When my friend was on his deathbed, he said he was surprised I made such a success of myself. When I asked him why, he told me it was because everything he ever told me was a lie. See what I mean?

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.