Here Come Da Podman

You can stop holding your breath now...my podcast is up and running.

I've posted two commentaries since Sunday and hope to average two or three a week. Check it out for your own damn self here...

Radio Heard Glub

I heard one of those Radio Advertising Bureau ads over the weekend, the one where a bunch of people "on the street" slam XM/Sirius and tout terrestrial radio as the place to go for "live and local" programming in emergencies.

Following the RAB ad, the station immediately went back to a, ahem, syndicated talk show.

I should also mention that this was a news/talk station serving one of the areas hardest hit by the Iowa flooding.

Draw your own conclusions...

The Continuing Adventures Of (bong) Captain Obvious...

Camille Paglia has come to the shocking conclusion that the once-vital medium that is talk radio has devolved to a moribund cesspool of "hackneyed repetition"...

Geez...next thing you know, she'll be telling us the WWF is fixed, or something...

Is "California Soul" An Oxymoron?

This is the jazzed-up version of the old Fifth Dimension hit California Soul as heard in the Dockers commercials.

Not bad...reminds me of Little Esther Phillips...

A Moment Of Silence Please...

...for the musical force of nature that was Bo Diddley...

A Very Shatner Wedding

So George "Mr. Sulu" Takei is marrying his life partner, as he can now do in California. What's interesting to me is who is not on the invite list: Bill Shatner.

No reason is given for the non-invite, but you can imagine what animosity might be there. But as my friend Perry Simon points out, "wouldn't you want Shatner there anyway, just for the amusement factor? And maybe he'd get up and "sing" a few numbers with the band. You can't put a price on those memories..."