Hunter Pence is a baseball player with the San Francisco Giants.
He has become a popular and successful player with the team. His great play on the field and quirkiness off has endeared him to Giants fans and others across the country.
Being Beer City USA, Grand Rapids has a lot of beer type advantages that other sudsy places don't have!
For instance, there are all our great breweries and pubs, our=well connected beer drinking public, our great Summer Craft Beer Festival and beer technology!
The Amway Family Fireworks today at Ah-Nab-Awen Park in Grand Rapids is more than just fireworks celebrating the Independence Day holiday weekend.
It's music, entertainment, food, and fun, while embracing family, freedom and community.
Share the fun you're having and the festiveness and friendliness you're seeing by using Twitter or Instagram, and posting tweets and pics using the hashtag #GRFirew
II will be the first to admit it. I have some friends on social media I have never met in real life. They are friends just online. They are either people who work in radio in other cities, so we have something in common. Or they write blogs that I read and enjoy often.
I'm usually not so into celebrity stuff, but following them on Twitter can not only prove to be useful to me, but it can be humorous, too.
Take for instance Aziz Ansari.
Two City of Wyoming police officers gave the public a unique ride-along on Wednesday.
Officers Kelli Duimstra and Margo Clark live-tweeted during their shift.
They discussed the calls they were responding to, K9 dogs, panhandlers, Slurpees, and more.
I'm sorry to all the Townsquare Media web honchos, including our own Rick Martinez. That title isn't very search friendly, or what have you. But there's no way to describe the following picture from Twitter without burying my head in my hands and wondering "what's next?"
For all the things social media can do that is annoying (I'm looking right at you "sponsored post") and all the complaining, whining, judging and basically unfriend-like stuff that gets posted, there ARE a few things things social media gets right.
It helps our lives out on a daily basis.
Here are a few.
I like to think I'm kind of a funny guy. Funny looking! Ha!
Seriously, I always have had an interesting outlook on things and people. Kind of helped my radio personality career. But on the air or not, I always see life and have a unique perspective of things.
Did you see Grand Rapids Griffins player Mitch Callahan tweeted a selfie of his mangled, puck slashed and tooth lost mouth? I will warn you, it's not for the faint of heart.