AuthorJosh Benson

What do you do when your football team is not good?

I could think of a lot of things. But I don’t know how to fix it. It’s a mess. But three hours on a Sunday you wait for all week – only to lose OVER and OVER and OVER. My beloved Vikings blew it again this week against the Chicago Bears. They pretty much look as bad as a team can get. Injuries, off-the-field drama, a confused coach, low morale, laziness and just disgust pretty...

Conan’s back!

I don’t watch much TV, but I had to catch Conan in his new slot on TBS. It was great. He had Seth Rogan and Jack White from the White Stripes on the show. He opened with a video outlining his failures attempting to work for places like Burger King.  It was a classic dose of self-pity that Conan has grown to be known for. It was also good to see he dominated the ratings last night. Conan...

Website discovery saves the day!

I had a near-disaster today. Since I live in Orlando, I don’t get all the Vikings games on TV. So I sent a Slingbox to my buddy (who lives in Minnesota) and I can watch the games on my Apple MacBook Pro with a HDMI converter that hooks into my TV. The Slingbox could be one of the coolest gadgets I’ve ever owned. With Slingbox, I can watch any games I’d normally miss (in HD as...

Election Night 2010 (and day, and morning, and…)

I was selected to cover the Florida Governor’s race this election year. My photographer Cory and I headed to Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday after a morning meeting devising our election plan. During the three-hour drive we discussed our plan of action over Pizza Combos and 80s music. We got to Fort Lauderdale and checked into our hotel room. We caught up with Bob (our sat truck operator) and...

Blogging at 30,000 feet

I am returning from a weekend getaway and decided to try out GoGo’s Internet service on US Airways. Not bad, I must say. WordPress is a bit quirky on the iPad. The guy next to me is probably reading this. Hey there. Enjoying SkyMall magazine? Just wanted to say this is a successful post 30,000 feet above the northern tip of Florida or somewhere close to there. Election week coming up. Going...

Election night assignments: Fort Lauderdale

The election night schedule came out and it looks like I’ll be headed to Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, November 2nd. I will be covering the Rick Scott campaign for the Florida Governor’s race. His election night party will be held at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina. At this point, the race looks pretty close. It’s been a wild campaign for both sides with some nasty ads running...

The xx: a musical gem of a discovery

I’m usually the last to learn about great music. I’ll be the guy who asks my friends if they’ve heard the great track from some band only to learn that the song came out two years ago. On top of my failure to find good tracks, I have a pretty quirky musical taste. It wouldn’t completely be inaccurate for me to mix in some electronic, followed by a dose of hip hop, backed...

Let’s go racin’ boys!

I never grew up watching NASCAR – but when I lived in Tucson, my buddy Chris Tardiff urged me to check it out. I thought it was a joke prior to really sitting down and learning more about the sport. I have to admit, there’s some pretty cool things that go on – from the track, to the sound, to the crazy technology in the cars. It’s quite a sport – and fans are crazy...

Good time to be a sketch artist

A sketch artist always seems to be a good career move. There will always be criminals. There will always be people trying to identify the criminals. What I find so interesting is the different styles and artistic abilities of each artist. It makes for some wild representations of the criminal. Central Florida sketch artists are pretty good for the most part. We have had a rash of stories recently...

Naked jogger taken down with taser

I just wrote an entry about some of the most bizarre stories we cover in Orlando. And here we go again. This was a story makes the list for sure (as reported on our WFTV-TV website): A police dashboard-cam and taser-cam video has been released showing a West Melbourne police officer chasing down a naked jogger wearing swimming goggles and nothing else. The officer had to use his taser to get him...

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