Trump’s Labor Day Weekend At Bernie’s [Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day]
‘Resist Starvation’: Israeli Chefs and Restaurateurs Call to Stop the Hunger in Gaza — It’s getting harder and harder to credibly equate opposition to Israeli genocide with anti-Semitism.
Also shared privately by the same friend, who is on a roll: “The socialism that scares me nowadays is national socialism.”
Shared privately by a friend, in reaction to Florida banning vaccine mandates: “Florida is the meth lab of democracy.”
A family came in with their 2mo. And they were very hesitant about vaccines. “Which ones are really important?” So I went through each disease for which the child would be vaccinated today.
The WKRP: Johnny Fever Mix
A three-hour playlist of great 70s rock hits compiled from every DJ break that Dr. Johnny Fever made on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” with introductions and comments by the Doctor himself, news from Les Nessman, and a commercial read by Venus Flytrap. I’ve listened to more than an hour so far and only heard one bad song.
A friend sent me this link, which caused my wife and me to rewatch the first episode of “WKRP.” It holds up.
Jon Nelson, who created the mix, describes himself as a college and community radio producer, audio editor and artist. He’s also done mixes for other fictional DJs, including WKRP’s Venus Flytrap and Chris in the Morning from “Northern Exposure."
After listening to the Johnny Fever mix for a while, I remembered that there are Internet archives of hours or radio DJ sets, recorded off the air on tape, digitized, and uploaded to the Internet. I found this hour of Dan Ingram on WABC New York from September 1976. I was a teenager then, living in that area, and might have listened to that hour live! But listening to it for a little while this morning reminded me that I didn’t much like WABC; I was a 99X guy and, in the 80s, WBAB. Listening also reminded me that 99% of the pop music in the 1970s was bad. However, Sturgeon’s Law probably applies here.
Dan Ingram had a heck of a career, well respected for his quick wit, spanning 50 years on radio stations and a little TV, including 22 years at WABC. “One of Ingram’s unique skills was his ability to ‘talk up’ to the lyrics of a record, meaning speaking over the musical introduction and finishing exactly at the point when the lyrics started.”
I have never liked the word “mouthfeel.” Ironically, I don’t like the way it feels in my mouth when I say it. And when I hear it or read it, I think of how it feels in my mouth.
If only there were a shorter, punchier way of saying “how something feels in your mouth.”
Stop saying “wrap your head around.” It’s a cliche, and it makes me think of catastrophic motorcycle accidents.
I was able to pill the dog this morning using “the force open her mouth, pop it in the back of her throat” method with minimal trauma to either of us. And I finished the operation with the same number of fingers I started out with.
“The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up. “ www.tumblr.com/rudywiser…
If America continues on the path it is on now, today’s babies will grow up to dream of a life in India or China, because they will have no future here worth living.
Normalize not having TVs on in waiting rooms and other public places. If people want something to watch, they have phones.