Buddy Early

By Buddy Early, October 2020 Issue. I’ve noticed one of the more popular things to do on social media is grumble about how others are using their social media. It works [...]

By Buddy Early, September 2020 Issue. When I started writing this column a few years ago, I told the then-editor I wanted it to be light, positive, and uplifting. I also said [...]

By Buddy Early, August 2020 Issue. There’s something that has been gnawing at me for the better part of a decade. You see, in the early 2000s I served as “the voice” of [...]

By Buddy Early, July 2020 Issue. Not even the most inventive Hollywood minds could script a three-and-a-half year run like we’ve had. Sure, individually the phenomena of [...]

By Buddy Early, June 2020 Issue. There’s something wrong with me. I’m not talking about my inability to wink or my obsession with people fake-eating hamburgers in [...]

By Buddy Early, May 2020 Issue. As I am writing this, I have been quarantined in my apartment due to the Coronavirus pandemic for, oh, I guess about six months. Actually [...]

By Buddy Early, April 2020 Issue. This column ought to come with a warning: you may interpret this as one of those “things used to be better back in the day” meditations. [...]

By Buddy Early, March 2020 Issue. When I was in my 20s and early 30s, I suppose I was a bit of a barfly. You could’ve found me in any one of a half-dozen watering holes [...]

By Buddy Early, January 2020 Issue. My senior year in high school I wrote in multiple yearbooks: “Watch for me on Saturday Night Live.” That’s when I thought I was [...]

By Buddy Early, December 2019 Issue. Arizonans are known for touting “eight months of beautiful weather” while other parts of the country are fighting off freezing [...]

By Buddy Early, December 2019 Issue. When the buffoon who currently occupies The White House moves out — whether that’s in January of 2021 or sooner — this nation can [...]

By Buddy Early, November 2019 Issue. Happy 30th Anniversary to Echo Magazine! I had to get that out of the way immediately; otherwise, I’d forget the same way I do on [...]

By Buddy Early, November 2019 Issue. To celebrate Echo’s 30th birthday, this year I will be catching up with some of Arizona’s LGBT personalities from past and present to [...]