Monday, May 01, 2006
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
| Ok, so today was perhaps the most chaotic day I have had in a life time. Car trouble, chaos at work, missing appointments, UGH! How could the day possibly be saved? Yup, you guessed it, a well timed phone call! As I stagger into the house I check my messages and what do I hear? "Hi Jason, this is Ed Grisamore with from the Macon Telegraph. I hope your day is going well. I wanted to call and talk to you a bit about this award you've gotten from Krystal..." For those who don't know, Ed Grisamore is a legend around these parts. For those from the Atlanta area, Ed is Macon's verion of Lewis Grizzard. Southern fried, good ol guy, who writes the best, most touching stories in the paper. He's worth buying the paper for, all by himself. I've already been interviewed by two TV stations and that alone has blown me away. Getting in the paper takes things to another level, but Ed Grisamore? HOLY COW!!! I have actually met Mr. Grisamore (it sounds funny in my head to say that, since everyone calls him Ed). If you go hit his web site you can read all about him: www.grisamore.com and you can read a lot of his columns on the Telegraph's site. On his site you can read about a few of his books, one named "Once Upon a Whoopee" about the old Macon Whoopees hockey team back in the early 70's. He wrote it with Bill Buckley, who was very involved in the team back then. If you've been to my site more than a couple of times you'll know I am a rabid hockey fan, and was a devoted fan of Macon's two most recent teams: the Macon Whoopee, and the Macon Trax. The Macon Whoopee were named in honor of the 1970's Macon Whoopees (the old team name had an 's' the newer team did not). Ed wrote the book during the years when the Macon Whoopee played and I met him at two different autograph sessions for the book. I got his signature along with about 4 or 5 of the 1970's Whoopees players. Lets face it, Ed is a legend and I am having trouble sitting still right now. If you read over some of Ed's articles in the paper you'll see he find some of the most interesting people in middle Georgia to write about. Which leaves me wondering about me. Suddenly, I now feel massive pressure to be interesting. Ugh! Being interesting on command is not a skill they teach in college! Anyway, I returned his call and got his voice mail, so hopefully I'll talk to him later tonight or tomorrow. I am going to try to see about meeting him for the interview. (Would it be too cliche to meet at Krystal?) In all honesty, I think I want my picture with him more than he could possibly want his picture with me! I am contemplating letting him print my Krystal Stuffing recipe in the paper so everyone can enjoy it. But I have been looking at reworking the recipe a bit to make it even more tasty. Yes, I know, you're wondering how it could be possible to make stuffing made out of Krystals even MORE tasty. Well, I have lofty goals my friends, lofty goals! If I get my new and improved version tested in time I'll see if Mr. Grisamore wants it. STOP THE PRESSES!!!  |
Labels: Hockey, Macon, Middle Ga Tech, Recipe
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Are you telling me that you are going to give up your Copyrights to the KRYSTAL STUFFING?! NO WAY! You hold that recipe for the FOODNETWORK! Here is a HINT: http://www.foodnetwork.com
Don't give it up to "Ed" wait for food tv to come knocking on your door. You also have a few aces in the hole, your cheesecake recipe AND your crab salad! Hold out man. You too can have your own show on tv!
Congrats! Good luck.
Renko
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Don't give it up to "Ed" wait for food tv to come knocking on your door. You also have a few aces in the hole, your cheesecake recipe AND your crab salad! Hold out man. You too can have your own show on tv!
Congrats! Good luck.
Renko
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