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February 28, 2014 Favoriting
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
Sarah Webster Fabio 
Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues   Favoriting Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues
(Folkways 1976)
ECD  In Tempo   Favoriting Major Force: The Original Art-Form
(Mo' Wax 1990)

Monroe Silver  Pittsburgh, PA   Favoriting Jewface
The Desideros  I Pledge My Love   Favoriting
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band  Help Me (A Tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson)   Favoriting

Talkover Music:
Blue Mitchell 
Hnic   Favoriting Bantu Village
(Blue Note )

Merle Haggard  I Take a Lot of Price in What I Am   Favoriting The Complete '60s Capitol Singles
(Omnivore )
Merle Haggard  Workin' Man Blues   Favoriting The Complete '60s Capitol Singles

Talkover Music:
The Soul Brothers 
Fiddler on the Roof   Favoriting

Bill Callahan  Winter Road   Favoriting Dream River
(Drag City 2013)
Bill Callahan  The Sing   Favoriting Dream River
(Drag City 2013)

Talkover Music:
Kabbala 
Ashewo Ara   Favoriting

Christy Essien-Igbokwe  Ever Liked My Person?   Favoriting African Twang: Country Songs from the Motherland
Merle Haggard  Good Times   Favoriting The Complete '60s Capitol Singles
Dedication  Concert Fever   Favoriting African Twang: Country Songs from the Motherland

Talkover Music:
Dave Pike Set 
Mathar   Favoriting

Lonnie Holley  The Start of a River's Run (One Drop)   Favoriting Keeping a Record of It

Talkover Music:
Emil Richards 
Turquoise (December)   Favoriting New Sound Element "Stones"
(Uni 1966)

Emil Richards  Ruby (July)   Favoriting New Sound Element "Stones"
(Uni 1966)
Lonnie Holley  From the Other Side of the Pulpit (feat. Bradford Cox & Cole Alexander)   Favoriting Keeping a Record of It
(Dust-to-Digital 2013)

Talkover Music:
Tom Dissevelt 
Syncopation   Favoriting Electronic Sound Patterns
(HMV 1962)

Pattie Rosemon  I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say   Favoriting Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music
(Advent/Dust-to-Digital 1975)
Ephram Carter  Sorrow Come Pass Me Around   Favoriting Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music
(Advent/Dust-to-Digital 1975)
Dorothy Lee, Norma Jean and Shirley Marie Johnson  You Got to Give an Account   Favoriting Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music
(Advent/Dust-to-Digital 1975)

Talkover Music:
Emil Richards 
Amethyst (February)   Favoriting

Lonnie Holley  Six Space Shuttles and 144,000 Elephants   Favoriting Keeping a Record of It

Talkover Music:
Appendix 
Space Trip   Favoriting Space Trip

Johnny Dowd  Gargon Gets All Biblical   Favoriting Do the Gargon
Juaneco y Su Combo  Selva, Selva   Favoriting Cumbia Beat, Volume 2
(Vampis )
Los Ecos  Chichita   Favoriting Cumbia Beat, Volume 2
(Vampisoul )
Charles Bradley  Victim of Love   Favoriting Victim of Love
(Daptone 2013)
Johnny Dowd  Shaquille   Favoriting Do the Gargon
Charles Bradley  Strictly Reserved For You   Favoriting
Ofege  Come Right Back   Favoriting African Twang: Country Songs from the Motherland
The Funkees  Point of No Return   Favoriting Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77
Poor Charley Akaa  Be in Your Arms   Favoriting African Twang: Country Songs from the Motherland
The Funkees  Dancing Time   Favoriting Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77
Razzy  I Hate Hate   Favoriting
Charles Bradley  Through the Storm   Favoriting Victim of Love

Closing Theme:
John Lee Hooker 
Stand By   Favoriting I Feel Good
(Jewel 1971)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome friends and (music) lovers! Please make a donation to WFMU/Drummer Stream on behalf of this radio show. To give, use the PLEDGE box atop this page, or go here: www.wfmu.org...

THANKS VERY MUCH!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:32am Brian in UK:

Dolly playing Glastonbury.
Oh where are my manners. Good day good sirs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34am Doug Schulkind:

Give my love to Dolly, Brain in UK!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35am Brian in UK:

Got the rotavator out Doug. You can turn unearth some money now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37am Doug Schulkind:

I would, Brian, but I couldn't wake up the mule.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:39am Brian in UK:

You will not find me within a wellingtons throw of that festival.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40am Doug Schulkind:

Sure, but your wellington hurling ain't wait it used to be.
Avatar 8:45am glenn:

wellington hurling shall open for purling hiss.
Avatar 8:47am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

Guten Morgen. My plans were to tag-team Drummer Some and Keili as usual...but...I have a house full of sick humans and probably won't have the energy today
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47am Doug Schulkind:

@glenn
Didn't Canadia win a double Gold in hurling this year? (In the bathrooms, after the Olympic competition, I mean.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48am Doug Schulkind:

@ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ
Here, snort some Purell. Get well soon, ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ family!
Avatar 8:49am glenn:

i'm sure they probably won a few extra curricular medals.
Avatar 🥁 8:53am duke:

Good morning Drummers
  8:53am Gary:

Commutin
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:55am listener james from westwood:

good friday, all! health to the ill, safety to the commuting, and good fortune to those getting in the running for those incredible prizes!
Avatar 8:55am glenn:

is that the charles bradley album with changes on it?
Avatar 8:56am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

we're kind of doing the opposite of snorting around here...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56am Doug Schulkind:

@Gary
Sure hope the judge is commutin your sentence!

Good morning good brother James from Westwood!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57am Doug Schulkind:

Hiya duke!
Avatar 🥁 8:58am duke:

Great documentary about Charles Bradley - Soul of America,
Avatar 8:59am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
I've only seen the trailer. Made me cry. I'll be giving away Bradley's 2013 record later in the show!

Howdy ndbob!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:00am Uncle Michael:

I'm chasing ducks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am Webhamster Henry:

Hi Doug!
I hope you listeners who appreciate Doug's amazing musical passion and generosity will pledge to the station today -- it is payday for a lot of you after all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:01am Brian in UK:

Anyone seen this half hour film abour the elusive William Onyearbor?
www.youtube.com...
Avatar 🥁 9:01am duke:

@UM you have to worry when the ducks chase you
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am Doug Schulkind:

As long as you're not chasing duke!

What Webhamster Henry said...
Avatar 🥁 9:03am duke:

@Brian thanks for that link. I'll definitely be checking that one out later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am Doug Schulkind:

APOLOGIES TO ANY COMMENTERS I FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE. Things get kinda crazy and I miss some.
  9:05am van:

Oh. Hi.

DOUG!

I have come to Give the Drummer Some.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:05am Uncle Michael:

On behalf of Doug, I'd also like to apologize to any commenters he's failed to acknowledge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05am Doug Schulkind:

Van! Van! Van! So happy to see you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:11am Uncle Michael:

Is Dubya still the Desidero?
  9:14am van:

Mucho work for me...I'll be on and off, in and out...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15am Doug Schulkind:

We'll keep the coffee on for you, Van!
Avatar 9:19am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

ah, Squirrel Hill. Drove through it over Xmas. Did you hit the Carnegie International Doug?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:26am Brian in UK:

Comb & Razor is in the William Onyearbor film linked at 09:01.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29am Konin:

Price, Merle, price...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29am Doug Schulkind:

YES, that's him, Brian. Uchenna Ikonne played a key role in finding William Onyeabor and convincing him to allow his music to be officially reissued.

@ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ
Nope, missed it. I don't get out much. I've got too much music downloading to do.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:30am Uncle Michael:

Let's get those pledges in early and get on the prize drawings. I'm drooling and jealous... I want these but can't have 'em!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:30am KevinfromBayRidge:

Morning FMU-GTDS World! Two Gold medals in this time slot. Gotta pull out the double barrel pledge gun to git the Beasties und der Drummers-Somers.
Avatar 9:30am Holly in NC:

Hi Doug and friends! xo

Off to help a VERY particular Jewish grandfamily unpack a lifetime's worth of tchotchkes (and their entire house, including a vast hardcover library), because I a) babysit/adore their grandkids and am b) nice c)broke d)broke.

Oy vey!

So pledges later, Doug AND UM :-) xo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:31am Uncle Michael:

Hey hey, Kevin.
Avatar 9:31am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

Yes, you must stick to the downloading. It was good--all over the map as usual. Some really amazing, some eh. My favorite artists were old dead guys unfortunately, although I liked the Playground Project.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31am Doug Schulkind:

Hi KevinfromBayRidge! Howdy Holly in NC!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:32am Uncle Michael:

Hi Holly and thanks!

Hope there's not too much tsuris in with the tchotchkes.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:32am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! pledgers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:32am Brian in UK:

Doug who plays guitar on that first Merle song. Sounds so similar to a John Stewart toon on California Bloodlines. Is it Fred Carter?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33am Uncle Michael:

Red Voelkert, maybe?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:36am Uncle Michael:

I think you might be right, Brian.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:36am Brian in UK:

Sorry to keep dropping links but this is a lovely setting for Bill Callahan. Great album, never off the player.
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36am Webhamster Henry:

I used to hand format about 20 playlists every week!
Avatar 9:37am glenn:

no. that's james burton.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38am Gary:

Ooooh, nice flash album cover thing you got goin on
Avatar 9:38am Holly in NC:

I am out the door but people, y'all should pledge at least a mouse for that Merle, because imho it's at least as as important as Hank W's 40. Love Merle, that cantankerous coot.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38am Uncle Michael:

Can always count on you, glenn!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38am KevinfromBayRidge:

Hey Unc M. only tsuris today is if we don't make the goal!
Doug, we're all cohosting, in spirit, with you in Studio P.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38am Artie:

But a single thin coin was placed on the stack by each of the humble Drummerfolk, and yet by the time the sun was high in the sky a sharp shadow was cast across the face of giants.
Avatar 9:39am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

ooooo, hats off WH Henry--I use to do that kind of HTML work. Not fun after about 10 minutes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40am Doug Schulkind:

Heyo, G A R Y!
Avatar 9:41am glenn:

a friend of mine had the pleasure of playing with james at last year's sleepwalk guitar festival. a class act all the way.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:42am Andrew Waterloo:

good morning
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:42am Brian in UK:

The only things I said today were "Beer" and "Thank you".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43am Doug Schulkind:

@ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ
That HTML work (or some hack self-taught version of it) it all I've ever known.

But...if you go back and look at the visual history of WFMU's online playlists, you'll see that mine were the first to look all purdy, with links and images and stuff. Now, they're just middle of the pack.

Greetings Andrew in Waterloo! Thanks for all your helpings out this marathon!
Avatar 9:43am glenn:

there's a country song, brian. the only words i said today.
Avatar 🥁 9:43am duke:

This is a beautiful song
  9:44am van:

Loving this
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:45am Andrew Waterloo:

YW welcome Doug, it's been a lot of fun.
Avatar 9:45am kimgland:

damn beautiful
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:46am Brian in UK:

This is it glenn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46am Doug Schulkind:

Things I can't do, but wanna...

1) Draw
2) Sing like Bill Callahan
Avatar 9:46am glenn:

apparently keilli's offering a waxing premium. how are you gonna beat that?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46am Doug Schulkind:

To all who have pledged, I say BEER and THANK YOU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47am Stanley:

Draw cowboy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47am Gary:

I think if you drink enough beer, you'll find that drawing is rather easy
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48am Jeff Golick:

Doug: Hi! You'll teach willing students how to make such purty gifs? I can pay in mp3s...

Oh, also: MARATHON!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48am Uncle Michael:

I'd like to hear a vocal harmony trio made up of Bill Callahan, John Doe and Leo Kottke.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48am Doug Schulkind:

@glenn
I'm waxing poetic? Maybe? Nope, I can't beat that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:49am Brian in UK:

Wish I could sing like Marvyn Gaye.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:49am Alex In Illinois:

Right now I am wearing 2 headsets. One is for the meeting that I am attending, and the other is for Give The Drummer Some. Once the meating is over and I have heated my oatmeal in the science oven, I will do some pledging.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:50am Andrew Waterloo:

@Jeff Animated Gifs are very easy. I started making my own after reading a short Gimp tutorial.
Avatar 9:51am glenn:

leo kottke 's self appraisal of vocal abilities - "i sound like geese farts on a muggy day"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:52am Artie:

This is a Marathon, not a Blintz.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53am Uncle Michael:

It's a pledge Blintzkreig.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:54am Gary:

We all like your person, Doug
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55am Doug Schulkind:

Happy oatmeal, Alex in Illinois! (Just keep it away from the headphones.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:58am Brian in UK:

How did they get hold of a pedal steel?
How did W O get hold of a Moog?
Avatar 9:59am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

by the way, wish I could sing like the Wolf.
Avatar 10:00am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

love the black lodge singers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01am Stanley:

I keep some money in an old wall down at the river.
I'll be back soon.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02am Jeff Golick:

@Andrew Waterloo: thanks!
Avatar 10:03am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

I can swing a pretty decent Tom Waits imitation but Howlin Wolf kills my throat.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03am Brian in UK:

Hey Stanley. Swans are touring over here end of May/early June.
Avatar 10:04am Texaslpguy:

You are extraordinary....thanks for Bill Callahan & Haggard.....Finally gave up and PLEDGED....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05am Stanley:

Brian - you know everything. Are they coming north of the border?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07am Stanley:

I've got a scratchy old vest on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09am Webhamster Henry:

The first show netcast by WFMU was MAC's Antique Phonograph Music Program - to make sure there was an established scratchiness aesthetic from the very start.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10am Uncle Michael:

'97, Henry?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11am Brian in UK:

Stanley, this just came out today.
www.wegottickets.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am Stanley:

Thanks Brian. Nae Scottish dates, tho.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:14am Brian in UK:

Stanley am I good to you.
www.songkick.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am Doug Schulkind:

Hi Texaslpguy! Looks like you're a wiener!
Avatar 10:15am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

LONNIE!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:16am Gary:

This guy is so awesome it hurts
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17am Brian in UK:

You all must see Lonnie if you get a chance.
Thumbs up for Mother Earth.
Apologies, Doug.
Osteopath calling. Byeeee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am Doug Schulkind:

Hurts so good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18am Doug Schulkind:

Better osteo than psycho, Brian in UK.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18am Uncle Michael:

I'd like to mention that Doug is going to me my mime-MC today...so if you want prizes between noon and three...be nice to *him*...he's pulling the names out of the virtual hat for all six hours today.
Avatar 10:18am Texaslpguy:

Thank you for the Callahan! He lives is Austin but I have not seen him. Thank YOU.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18am listener james from westwood:

trouble's lonnie holley month and doug's yusef lateef month are twin totems in fmu's history.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am Stanley:

Brian - you're are indeed very kind.
Glasgae - I knew it. I will check the diary when I get home.
I know I'm going to see Neutral Milk Hotel around then
Avatar 10:19am ndbob:

this is great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am Stanley:

Catch ya later Brian.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am Webhamster Henry:

@Michael - it was about then I guess.
Avatar 10:21am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

"outsider art" totally agree, BS term as far as I can see.
Avatar 10:22am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

art establishment's attempt to distance itself from "untrained" artists.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:23am Wally Tax:

i find it quite appropriate
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24am Webhamster Henry:

When WFMU bought its license and moved to Jersey City, I was really excited at the prospect for several audio streams to be running. There weren't enough hours in the week to transmit all the WFMU goodness! And it's worked out very well with the GTDS Stream, and there's room fro growth! The new performance space is another expansion that will be very exciting this year!
Avatar 10:25am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

how? is folk music outside art?
  10:25am van:

Oh, you're sinful. DEFINITELY sinful.

;)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27am Artie:

If commercial radio is insider art, I'd just as soon hang out here in the yard.
Avatar 🥁 10:28am duke:

In terms of music, I agree with Duke Ellington: There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. I think that goes with all art. Outsider art is often good art made by someone not in the right club.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30am holland oats:

ok so my wally tax joke was a bit obtuse - as a frequent commenter i'd like to apologize for never making any damn sense
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30am Uncle Michael:

If someone tells me they're presenting outsider art, it doesn't offend me. It tells me that they're sharing something with me that I won't find coming from the either the pop-culture or academic factories. It's clumsy shorthand but it can be useful clumsy shorthand.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am Doug Schulkind:

Well said, duke. WFMU's genre-oblierating approach makes it hard for those "clubs" to be considered with any validity (or a straight face).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31am Uncle Michael:

We're used to it, holland!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31am Doug Schulkind:

@holland oats
Just as long as Alex in Illinois is not devouring you at his meeting. (See, I can get obtuse, too.)
  10:31am van:

Me kinda likes this
Avatar 10:31am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

@duke: nailed it. sorry holland...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:32am Alex In Illinois:

Oh oh oh oh (drooling Homer Simpson) percusssion and fun in stereo, oh yeah! (Now back to that pledge page).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33am Uncle Michael:

Whoever did the Futurama theme likes this.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33am Gary:

Jesus God this is awesome
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33am Andrew Waterloo:

This is a good brand of crazy.
  10:38am van:

I'm so glad, Doug, that you didn't lose your show. How different so many lives would be today if you had (and for the worse).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42am Doug Schulkind:

I would be a miserable bum, that's for sure, Van.
Avatar 🥁 10:43am duke:

The beat to this Lonnie Holley cut goes perfectly with the Emil Richards you just played
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45am Doug Schulkind:

There are no coincidences, duke, but there are happy accidents. Blessedly.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47am Uncle Michael:

Sometimes the pattern is more obvious.
Avatar 10:48am earrie:

This show is a Friday joy. A joy that only extended/expanded through the GTDstream.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49am Uncle Michael:

I can't berate you fine folks in the comments...you're all sporting hearts.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51am Gary:

I was just talking with someone last night about Owl!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51am Uncle Michael:

Come on in and visit, sans hearts. We know you'll pledge as soon as you can. Don't lay low.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51am holland oats:

holy warbles - golden age of music blogs - arrrgghh
Avatar 10:53am glenn:

i have no heart.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54am Uncle Michael:

you got a lotta heart, glenn
Avatar 10:56am ndbob:

I miss Holy Warbles - I remember Owl posting something for me that I had mentioned in chat
Avatar 10:59am Jesse K:

I assume you mean bank account, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59am pacific standard simon:

mustn't... sleep... through... marathon...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:00am listener james from westwood:

ndbob, agreed; i felt a real pang when doug mentioned it.
worth noting: for a pledge show, doug's playing a goodly chunk of music. at public radio stations, all you get is clumsy banter. fmu asks, but it keeps on playing the sweet tunes.
Avatar 11:03am earrie:

Picking up on the categories-talk in this growing age of big databases. Categories don't scale well at all. Talking math, here . Category counts, amounts, and their definitions- they all change with scale. And yet db-jerks calculate, extrapolate and interpolate and arrive at false conclusions. 'All blanks blank.'
Avatar 🥁 11:06am duke:

I hate public radio fund drives. They seem to run all year. I enjoy the FMU marathons. There's really no comparison to the kind of thing public radio or TV does.
Avatar 11:09am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

NPR=National Refuge of Preciousness.
Avatar 🥁 11:09am duke:

I stopped contributing to out local NPR station years ago when my son was young. He would come home from kindergarten and listened to a kids show they had. I used to record it for him. During a fund drive, they said "If we don't get x dollars in the next half hour, we won't be able to have the show." My son started crying. I thought "screw this."
Avatar 11:10am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

...and the other public radio station in dc is "classical" which I'm fine with but they play the same 15 pieces of music overandoverandoverandover. I've never given them a dime cuz they infuriate me.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:10am Uncle Michael:

I hope you told them how fucked up threatening children was.
Avatar 11:11am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

holy crap got the letters backwards--I'm sleep deprived.

National Preciousness Refuge..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12am Alex In Illinois:

What Doug said explains why I have never seen this type of interactive playlist on any other on line radio station.
Avatar 🥁 11:12am bobdc:

Totally thrilled! I was hoping to win the Dust to Digital one. I bought "Goodbye Babylon" when it was their only product, and I especially love "How Low Can You Go."
Avatar 11:13am ndbob:

Same here Bob
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am Doug Schulkind:

It is a treasure, bobdc! Thank you so much.
Avatar 11:13am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

every stupid show they have is just a bunch of dorks giggling at each other. ACH! Bad vibes man, bad vibes...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:13am Alex In Illinois:

I stopped supporting my local NPR station when the got rid of Afropop Worldwide and Thistle and Shamrock, as well as a some of the locally done music shows.
Avatar 11:15am glenn:

maybe it's a canadian thing. i kinda like n.p.r.. i'll listen to it on road trips, as long as i'm within 20 miles of the border.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16am Doug Schulkind:

NPR is slowly jettisoning most music program and replacing it with... talk.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16am Uncle Michael:

NPR should have a show as good as "As It Happens."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:17am Alex In Illinois:

When my Local NPR station got rid of a show called "Mambo Express", I looked up the DJ in the Chicago phone book, called him and asked what happened to his show. He was glad to hear that peopl were missing his show. I think his show is now on a suburban college station.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18am pacific standard simon:

Finally awake (3 hours before you, so don't judge).
Avatar 11:18am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

I don't mind some of the news reporting (although the "and now for another view of Hitler" thing drives me nuts) and some of the science shows but all the rest is crap.
Avatar 11:18am glenn:

as it happens is easily the best thing on radio (other than wfmu / gtds) in the world.
Avatar 11:20am glenn:

i can tell y'all right now that every media outlet in canada is on high alert, waiting for the inevitable arrest of rob ford.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am pacific standard simon:

Pacifica went through a programming meltdown in '90s, with staff strikes and legal wrangles. They used to be great.
Avatar 11:20am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

I get tired of the preaching to the choir bent of As It Happens too. That's why I don't watch Rachel Madow--I agree with her but don't need to watch a bunch of people nodding there heads and enthusiastically agreeing with each other.
Avatar 11:21am earrie:

Lots of good science programming on cbc.ca/quirks.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21am Alex In Illinois:

I like "This American Life" with Ira Glass, and that their news occasionally does things like exposing David Barton's latest book as full of fallacies, but there is not much more NPR for me. I wish there were another station to get all of the music shows that NPR keeps getting rid of.
Avatar 11:22am Carmichael:

Good morning Doug and devotees. Glenn, if Ford gets arrested, who will consume all the chicke wings and crack in Toronto?
Avatar 11:22am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

too many bad vibes. I love clay pigeon..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23am Doug Schulkind:

Oh hey earrie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23am Doug Schulkind:

And good morning, Carm!
Avatar 🥁 11:25am duke:

@ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ I agree about the preaching to the choir. I have been trying to read/listen to the other side more - WSJ etc. However, Fox(Faux) News pushes me over the edge.
Avatar 11:26am earrie:

Hi Doug
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:26am Stanley:

Is this Johnny Dowd up for grabs?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:27am Uncle Michael:

Cyrus!
Avatar 11:27am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

I have friends that swear by Pacifica and I'm as lefty as they come but I get the willies when I listen to it. It's like tuning in just cuz you know they'll tell you what you want to hear.

@duke: I loath WSJ and am convinced that nobody really reads it, they just like to display it on their front porch
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:28am listener james from westwood:

w00t! thanks, jonathan, and all pledgers! (and RIP cyrus from "the warriors")
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:30am listener james from westwood:

the WSJ had some good writers before murdoch took it over. now many of them are with bloomberg news or the NYT, and factual stories carry a greater slant. and the editorial page, already thuggish, has become as trollish as the rest of the news corp empire.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31am pacific standard simon:

@ ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ - Yeah, that's the kind of stuff they got more into. They were always that way, but they had some kind of cleansing of more diverse elements.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am Doug Schulkind:

THANK YOU Jonathon for your Mouse of Today pledge!!!!
Avatar 11:34am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

Everyone who subscribes to WSJ in my neighborhood leaves them sitting on the porch, sidewalk until they start to rot in the plastic. Which is pretty much where it belongs. Why would you trust a bunch of pro-business yahoos to tell you what's going on in the world? Hoooo boy, I need some more coffee...with whiskey in it...screw the coffee..
Avatar 11:36am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

man I wanted to spread my pledges out over 2 weeks but I fear I'm already running out of dough...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36am Alex In Illinois:

When Pacifica first appeared on the scene, it was refreshing to have something that was the polar opposite of all of the right wing junk, and not afraid to air what NPR was too afraid to air. I am not sure how reliable my memory is, but I thought I heard an interview on Pacifica a few weeks BEFORE 9/11/2001 about an attack by al Queda likely to occur and how President Bush should be preparing for such a possibility
Avatar 11:36am ndbob:

The WSJ is a great paper in a lot of ways - just ignore the editorial page
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am Stanley:

I just got back from the river 'bank' with some cash.
I think I know where there might be some more.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am pacific standard simon:

People used to say that The Christian Science Monitor was a great newspaper (never mind the religion), but all I could think was, "But they're Christian Scientists!"
  11:38am van:

Love to see the Cow mooing!
Avatar 11:38am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

to me the editorial page defines the paper. but I'm being way too negative and absolutist...
Avatar 11:38am ndbob:

though as James says, it's gone downhill overall
Avatar 11:39am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

I was up all night with sick mrs. ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ and ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ jr. so the filter is gone.
Avatar 11:40am Carmichael:

Doug, I chose the African Twang as one of my premiums. Can't wait to spin it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41am Brian in UK:

The Funkees sounds familiar from another premium.
Wow, 19% to go.
Avatar 11:41am ndbob:

@Alex I like the NPR hourly news, but a lot of NPR coverage is repetitive and bland - and I'm still annoyed that the took of "Talk of the Nation" leading to the demise of "The Political Junkie"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41am listener james from westwood:

we got a moving cow!!
  11:41am van:

Dancing cow
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42am Brian in UK:

Ofege was my first win. You always remember the first time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43am Uncle Michael:

I've been photographed eating herring in Maastricht.
Avatar 11:43am Carmichael:

@bob, me too. I really don't like most of the new shows they recently started, and I miss the old ones like Talk of the Nation. And no more Terry Gross! Ted Talks sucks, and really, a show about cooking?!?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am Doug Schulkind:

The DOG wants to dance with the cow! We're only about $600 away!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am northguineahills:

Gee, when I tuned it was 20%, I read for a few minutes, and it's at 82% awesome!
  11:44am Dean:

The reputation of the CSM is indeed one of the paradoxes of modern media. For all of Mary Baker Eddy's weirdness, though, you gotta hand it to a church (organization, whatever) that runs storefront reading rooms.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45am Stanley:

King Sunny Ade was my first African action, long before I went walkabout
Avatar 11:45am ndbob:

@Carmichael I listen to a number of the Slate podcasts, and to several science ones
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45am Alex In Illinois:

@ndbob:
Yes, the repetitive and bland part has me checking the NPR news usually only once a day or every other day.
Avatar 11:46am Carmichael:

I'm a devotee of Science Friday, IndyBob.
Avatar 11:47am Carmichael:

2 mouse pledges is all it will take, folks.
Avatar 11:48am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

I'm really at a loss for a default news source these days. Normally it's WashPost but...I guess Daily Show but I rarely get to watch it. thumbs up for Science Friday too.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48am listener james from westwood:

i like a number of the npr podcasts, such as sci fri, the moth, radiolab, and planet money. the latter was a great aid during the financial crisis a few years back. car talk turns everything i see red red red with blood.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:48am Uncle Michael:

Here come the marathon schpilkes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am pacific standard simon:

@Dean - I know! Our main street has one of those reading rooms and, like all CS reading rooms, it looks like the coolest old school relaxing place to read a book ever. If I had a million bucks, I'd give half of it to FMU, then hire whoever designs CS reading rooms to design a new den for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am northguineahills:

Unrelated to African twang, country songbooks were apparently popular in today's Zimbabwe & Zambia in the 30s-40s for some reason.
Avatar 11:49am ndbob:

I listen to that at times, but to the Science magazine and Nature podcasts regularly - a little more rigorous.
Avatar 11:50am ndbob:

I do listen to Radiolab - and to Freakanomics
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51am Uncle Michael:

The next room: www.wfmu.org...

Join me!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51am Brian in UK:

Do the Rotavator and unearth some money.
Avatar 11:51am earrie:

I stopped checking in with eg. BBC Nature with the demise of Google Reader.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am Doug Schulkind:

^What Uncle Michael said!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52am Alex In Illinois:

Science shows? I did not know they had science shows. There it is. Science Friday at 1:00 PM Fridays.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am pacific standard simon:

Make the haters smoke a bongload!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53am Artie:

Feedly is a pretty good stand-in for the lost Google Reader.
Avatar 11:54am ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

the hate is melting away...
Avatar 🥁 11:55am bobdc:

It sounds like you really love I hate hate.
Avatar 11:55am earrie:

Artie, the lesson was learned - I'm not going to pour hours upon hours effort into that risk hole.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am pacific standard simon:

I really hate "My Baby Loves Lovin'"
Avatar 11:57am christopher in chinatown:

Doug - just sent in my pledge...Razzy made me do it! Another great show today, and as always keep up the amazing work!
Avatar 11:57am ndbob:

@Simon Same here - and a lot of those Tony Burrows songs
Avatar 11:57am ndbob:

Excellent pledge show Doug!
  11:58am van:

I'm loving not hating any more, and hating that I wasn't loving for too long. Loved the show, thanks Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am Ike:

@DC Tap, Daily Show is solid but Colbert often surpasses it in quality lately.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am northguineahills:

Unemployment went through, so, I'll have a wee bit to give next week
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58am Gary:

88 = double infinity symbols!
Avatar 🥁 11:58am duke:

Keep on keepin' on Doug
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:58am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for a great pledge show Doug.
Avatar 11:59am Carmichael:

You can pay your mouse pledge off in monthly installments of about $30. C'mon, somebody.
Avatar 12:00pm ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

It's funny (sp)Ike but there's something about Stewarts ability to be serious for two seconds that makes me prefer his show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm Brian in UK:

Priceless Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm Brian in UK:

Who wants a beer?
Avatar 12:00pm ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

holy shit, I missed the apostrophe by mistake!! sorry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm listener james from westwood:

loved the show, doug! thanks, all!!
Avatar 12:01pm Carmichael:

Yay!! Thanks, Doug!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

You folks are just the HONKING BEST!
Avatar 12:01pm ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

man, nothing again. shitty luck this year.
Avatar 12:02pm Carmichael:

Brian, do you have a breakfast ale?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm northguineahills:

awesomeness, DOug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Stanley:

Beer? Me! Me! Me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

UNCLE MICHAEL OVER HERE: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Alex In Illinois:

See ya all in Hinky Dinky land .....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Artie:

Thanks, beer.
Avatar 12:02pm ᏧᏣ ᎮᎯᎱ:

so long Drummer Some, gotta go deal with bryce..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Artie:

And Doug.
  12:13pm van:

I'll take a beer, Brian...
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