So I once pulled a syndicated radio show off the air…

Recently, I’ve been involved in a really fun project regarding the history of Hamilton College’s radio station, WHCL. The station’s lineage goes back a long ways – right now I’m discovering that there was a radio club on campus somewhere in the start of World War II, with the call letters of WHC. The station…

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The continuing transphobic adventures of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a troll. Let’s just put that out there. Why else would this QAnon clown do this yesterday? Right now, there’s something going through the House called the Equality Act, a bill that would ban discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. It’s a bill that Congresswoman Marie…

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The Galloping Gourmet – the cooking show you forgot about

Quick, right now – name five TV cooking show hosts. Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, Racheal Ray, Emeril Lagasse, Nigella Lawson, okay, okay. But does the name Graham Kerr ring a bell? No? Really? See, at one point in time, Graham Kerr was one of the most popular TV cooking show hosts, with a program entitled…

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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 20, 2021

Before I do this week’s recap of the great blogs on my personal blogroll, there’s a very important and grim personal anniversary today. 51 years ago this very day, my baby brother Allen was involved in a horrific car accident. He was in a car with my other siblings (I was in first grade at…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 19, 2021

The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM.  The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Release 8:01 PM Lighthouse Pretty Lady Can You Feel It 8:06 PM The Icicle Works Whisper to a Scream…

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Ted Cruz is a feckless, dog-hating chisel-brain.

At some point in time, Texas senator Ted Cruz is going to have to realize that he is an elected official in the State of Texas, and that he WORKS for the people of Texas. And right now, Texans are hurting. The recent snowstorms have overwhelmed the poorly-equipped Texas power plants, throwing millions of Texans…

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