After his legal segment on GMA Dan took over the role of guest host on Live with Kelly.  I usually don’t get to see the show because I’m gone before it comes on, but this morning I planned my work schedule around it and it did not disappoint.

I always enjoy it when people like Dan step out of their usual roles and take on something completely different.  This morning Live began with the Host Chat where Dan discussed his impending fatherhood and the fact that he and his girlfriend are expecting a boy.  The conversation moved on to what your snack foods say about you.  Also discussed was smell sensory and we got to hear a little from Dan about, how beer, the stale smell, reminds him of his college days and what his first drunk experience was like, it came the summer after 9nth grade.  There was also a segment with Channing Tatum talking about his soon to be released movie, The Vow.

Hopefully Dan will return to Live as a guest host again, it was very enjoyable on mid Winter morning.

Person of Interest v Suspect

Busy Monday morning for Dan Abrams.  First, his usual gig on @GMA then a co hosting stint with Kelly Ripa on LIVE!.   This morning’s GMA segment was more of interest to me  than usual since its subject took place right here in SE Michigan.

The segment dealt with the murder of Grosse Pointe Park resident Jane Bashara and her husband who is according to Police a person of interest, though he failed the polygraph.  According to Dan when you call someone a person of interest it is because you WANT them to talk to you without the atty stepping in, once you are labeled a suspect and your lawyer appears things change dramatically.  And for once Dan and Nancy did agree on this.

Also Dan brought up the point that the crime seen may have been staged to look like the victim was murdered at the scene, but most likely she was murdered somewhere else and her car driven to the location it was found.

All of Metro Detroit and SE Michigan is watching this story and many of the neighbors of couple can’t and won’t believe that Bob Bashara could have murdered his wife, but according to police things are not always what they seem and more suspicion is falling on Bob that ever before.

Watch as Dan Abrams and Nancy Grace discuss the case:





I will post Dan's guest hosting on Live as soon as the video is up.  Let me just say it was adorable.

Chinese New Year

Back in February of 2010 Dan Abrams cohosted the second hour of the Today Show with Hoda Kotb. And as it happened it was just before the Chinese New Year. Here is a video of the cooking segment with Ming Tsai preparing dishes for the New Year Celebration.

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Meet Jane Dough

Last April Abrams Media launched its 7^th website entitled Mogulite.  The site’s subject matter was to deal with business moguls both current and those up and comers and what they are up to, how they live AND how they spend their money.  My first thought was why build a site for such a limited audience, say oh the 1%, but as I daily checked out the site I found things that were interesting, funny and very often insightful especially when it came to the women in the business world.  Then a few weeks ago Dan Abrams tweeted that something exciting was going to be unveiled from Abrams Media, my guess was a new website.

While I wasn’t totally correct I was in the ballpark - Mogulite was to be relaunched on December 5^th, 2011 as The Jane Dough(nice play on words.)  The site would focus on women in business; Editor Amy Tennery described the site as follows:

“But primarily you will see us focusing on the often under-reported successes of female business leaders, and occasionally highlighting the subtle and, at other times overt, sexism in the business world — and the media that covers it.”

http://tinyurl.com/janedough

Again the site was laughed at by a few critics, mainly concerning the name and the play on words, but the majority of the comments have been positive.  So what does the new site have to offer?  Well, how about a Q&A with people  like Arianna Huffington, a look back at a 1930’s PSA warning young women about moving to the big bad city of New York and of course there are the outrageous Toys all of which I found to be interesting.

A few months ago I caught a documentary about the rise and fall of Enron called, “The Smartest Guys in the Room” during which they interviewed Sherron Watkins, who blew the whistle on Enron.  I always wondered what happened to her and The Jane Dough gave me the answer, in one of their first posts.  They have also dispelled rumors regarding women in the workplace and set right a few of the article authors for their comments.

While I may not be into Martha Stewarts linens, household items or holiday decorations I do find her business sense useful – I have used some of her practices in my own business and found them helpful.  Women know how to look at business from a different perspective; we look at it from the human point of view and not just from a monetary one.  The Jane Dough seems to be following that pathway, in my opinion anyway and I hope that it continues to do so for a long time.

So everyone check out The Jane Dough, it’s not just for women.