As if times weren’t strange enough, my artist friend, Karen Wippich, and I have created an art book together. “Strange Days: A Pandemic Journey” attempts to capture through images and words a sense of the surreal experience we’re all living through. It features 48 of Karen’s reality-bending paintings matched with my brief ponderings on our […]
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In search of Buffalo Bill
Chasing down a rumor that Buffalo Bill and I are related, I left Big Sky, Montana last week and went in search of the man. It may be just a coincidence that we both wear hats size large, but I feel we are akin in many ways and may share some bloodlines. What’s more, I’ve […]
Read More »A KILLER STORY
I don’t know how else to explain it but a few years ago I got a wild hair and summoned up the gall to try writing a novel. Nobody stopped me and now it’s done. The “book” is called A KILLER STORY. In short, it’s a first-person crime noir with a memoir undertone. It takes […]
Read More »What my gut says
It’s true, I’ve got a gut. It’s not a huge gut, but still I must admit it is indeed a gut. Unlike a washboard gut, it’s more of a “washtub” gut, as my wife jokes. My gut has instincts like our President’s gut, but I would never make life or death decisions based on those […]
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Read More »Les Overhead in “Wall Street Journal”
30 YEARS SERVING THE ENTIRE EARTH Many thanks to clients and associates who have made it possible for Les Overhead to exist for 30 plus years. As mentioned in the “Wall Street Journal”. It’s amazing what you can achieve with passion, hard work, creativity, scissors, and double-stick tape. Les Overhead Do more with Les
Read More »Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end
I flew to Billings last weekend for a friend’s memorial service and got more than a flight into the past. On August 13, 1976 this friend banged his head on an armrest while lying in the backseat of a car heading home from a bar. The vehicle had ventured just a few feet off the […]
Read More »Why I no longer hate typos
Somewhere, a robot is laughing at me. Typos used to bug the holy bejezus outta me. They drove me berserk. Whenever I saw one on a sign I wanted to tear it down. If I saw one in a news story or magazine ad I wanted to set fire to it. Once when a Portland […]
Read More »Bus 75: Hidden Portland
There’s a line to get in. It’s not long but it’s lively. Everyone is excited for the doors to open. It’s like this every Sunday evening at six o’clock when NWA Blue Collar Wrestling takes the stage at the Eagle’s Lodge on North Lombard. Bus 75 goes right by, within shouting distance. It’s performance art […]
Read More »Grandpa Lazlo played for the Copywriters
Found this old photo of my grandfather, Lazlo Overhead, who played college football for the Nebraska Copywriters, before they became the Cornhuskers. Copywriting and football run in the family. Okay, I’m lying. Lazlo played for the Carlile Copywriters, not Nebraska. And before being called the Cornhuskers, Nebraska’s team was known as the Bugeaters (no lie). […]
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