Stop Believin'

Is  #ThrowbackThursday still a thing? Probably not, right? Well, whatever....

I worked for the website of the TODAY Show from the summer of 2010 until, well, the summer of 2014. Ostensibly, it was a good gig, but ultimately, it was never the perfect fit, for me. Suffice to say, my personal predilections and sensibilities were frequently at pointed odds with the overall bent of the endeavor. You may very well have gleaned as much from allusions on this blog, from time to time during that era. I was a sharply square & thorny peg in a bullpen of round holes. That all said, however, I learned quite a bit (albeit not all of it good) and made several very good friends and contacts that I am thankful to maintain to this day. This is a shot from June of 2011, when the organization was saying a fond farewell to longtime anchor, Meredith V. We were tasked with performing some comparatively ornate choreography whilst lip-synching “Don’t Stop Believing” by ye olde Journey for an elaborate “lip-dub.”

My body language in this photo is very telling and prescient. Click on it to enlarge. See if you can find me. I'm the one that looks a bit like I'm about to be executed by a firing squad (something that would pretty much happen a few years later).