by Bach Polakowski | May 29, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
It’s pronounced Buh-JAY-koh. My last name that it is. Just remember it’s three syllables and it will just roll off the tongue. It’s a Slovak name with a Ukrainian twist, or so I was told when I was touring in Slovakia where my dad’s parents are...
by Bach Polakowski | May 26, 2009 | Laura Laing |
No one likes an argument, but according to my partner my passion for language makes me a real pain in the you-know-what. I have this horrible tendency to pick apart her examples and comb through her word choices, searching for a moment to shout—with my index finger...
by Bach Polakowski | May 20, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
I’m always bad at introductions. Even when I’ve written personal ads on dating websites, I never know what to say in the introduction. I’d like to think it’s because I’m too complex to sum up in a paragraph, but I actually think...
by Bach Polakowski | May 17, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Let’s get two things straight: My first name is pronounced like the bird from the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles (not like the Oreo cookie), but I spell it without an “e” at the end. My parents are from Cuba, but I was born and raised in New York City. I’m...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2009 | 2009 Hall of Fame |
Deb Price’s debut column for The Detroit News invited readers to help her come up with a less awkward way of introducing her boss to the woman who, at the time, had shared her life for six years: “Surely, a little ingenuity will solve this problem. So tell me,...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2009 | 2009 Hall of Fame |
Ronald Gold opened a brief biography by stating that he “was born in Brooklyn in 1930, entered Brooklyn College at fifteen, and took twelve years to get a degree. By that time he had been a junkie in San Francisco and had his head shrunk in Topeka, KS.” A sharp writer...
by Bach Polakowski | May 4, 2009 | 2009 Hall of Fame |
Garrett Glaser was the first television journalist to come out of the closet to the radio and television news industry. During a 1992 speech before a large group of TV and radio executives at RTNDA’s annual convention Glaser began his remarks by asking the that...