He is a character. My wife worked with him on a project at the Children's Museum here that never happened unfortunately but had wonderful stories of meetings and phone calls.
Went to MoMA PS1 Vito Acconci exhibit. Pretty cool stuff, but my fave thing was the dark room filled with beanbag chairs. Excellent place to take a nap!
@Webhamster\ Henry:
I _love_ the time-line where Laurie Anderson played the secretary on "WKRP Cincinatti"… `Mister… CARLson……will SEE you now…OOla….' and then she'd put the lightbulb in her mouth.
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
There the wrinkled old Nokomis
Nursed the little Ayahuasca.
I was referring not to a guest appearance by Laurie Anderson, but the alternate time-line where she played the secretary in every episode. I don't remember if Loni Anderson ever played the B.A.M. there; I _do_ know that I discovered this world the first time I heard Hugo Weaving do his Laurie Anderson impression in "The Matrix", saying 'MISter……AN-DERson'.
no offense, I listen to my share of FMU, but the Irie Storm Radio is a must-do preset in my hood (after all it is the "best station worldwide"), what's funny is that it turns to billie joel radio as soon as I enter park slope! but it is not as funny as the adds on iris storm radio
If there's a WFMU staff member reading this please take all Khlam CDs and put them inside a locked room. I'm seriously worried about their faith under the new Ken management.
Hey Ken, if you still want to be 'edgy', you can just play "Glass Houses" in its entirety. I once did so while hosing-out a dung-soaked bum's nest with the aid of half a yuge container of Dr Bronners…ideal listening conditions.
Adults don't give trouble-makers a _verbal_ spanking, they get them roughed-up with luxurious iron pipes.
"Reminiscing" by the Little River Band. I had a romantically disastrous summer when the only radio station we could get played nothing but that, "Copacabana", and "Shattered"….
Ok, I'm watching the comment board w/o the sound on. Tell me the coast is clear guys
10:21am
jan:
We were warned; but is this segment over at 11:00?
10:21am
Torbjørn:
Finally ! I feel like so much weight has been lifted from my shoulders. At last I can stop faking enjoyment of this horrible hippie noise, now we can get into some real music. Thanks Ken, I'm looking forward to the adult WFMU future.
Like his BFF Chris Christie, Ken is trying to secure his future in the coming Trump administration. This might save the station, folks. And the station has an exorcist on call (Kenny G once required such services)
The time has come to suspend the "No Burl Ives" rule.
10:29am
Todd76%:
It would be a balm to my fully-realized adult soul to hear some of the mature musical styling of Josh Groban and Michael Buble' this morning.
Ken - Thanks for being the wind beneath my wings.
10:29am
P-90:
Ken and Chris Christie "BFFs"? THE Chris Christie?
10:30am
jan:
@FɔFɔ: it just occurred to me that this is Andy's Script. Wednesdays I turn off WFMU at 6:00.
10:30am
MONEYBAG$:
My mom ruined Christmas a few years ago trying to convince the family that Poco was a classic band
@P-90: there was a pic (Sandy era). Think about it: Christie got a lot of grief from the alt-right about his hug with Obama. How much about his hug with Ken? None, that's how much
A friend said, for real, when he eliminated a great deal of sugar from his diet, a chronic rectal itch problem was helped considerably. So skip the Skittles and Scotcheroos.
10:36am
P-90:
I f Bette Midler's rectal itch isn't gonna ruin the show for her, why should yours ruin it for you?
10:38am
Listener142985:
Regaining a bit of focus here. It is all becoming clear.
10:38am
Laura L:
Pruritis ani is a Latin term meaning “itchy anus.”
Can you air a live conference call of people singing along with Piano Man?
10:44am
P-90:
For "rectal itch": try stirring a small amount of high-purity powder cocaine into the gel squeezed from a fresh-cut aloe vera leaf. Coat the first 4-5 inches of the rectum and the area immediately surrounding the anus with the mixture, and leave it undisturbed while is is absorbed (about 10-12 minutes).
Should bring relief in 95%+ of cases.
Good luck.
Having heard 'You can' t dress trashy 'less you spend a lot of money' very shortly after my first exposure to c.1980 Melrose Ave, I liked the line…and the internal rhyme and rhythm of 'true-baby-blue Continental'.
Andy and Ken:
You DO realise that unless you're a wired-in real estate guy who also doesn't pay his workmen, or edit a shite newspaper you bought, as Hebrews your only place by Year Three will be counting Large-Handed Leader's money in a yarmulke?
10:49am
jan:
Am I alone in thinking that Andy has a sense of humor for TV, but not radio?
10:49am
mm1gue1:
ken, i know how to fix your anal conundrum. go to a tall mirror(or the camera on your phone) drop trow, bend over, and flick off that little corn kernel outta there!
Male gazist of me I know, but suddenly all my attention is on the woman in the background instead of the brainy axing in the foreground. You can get away with a lot if you kill brains.
@Matt\ in\ Hillsborough:
I saw Eric Andre and Mary Lynn Rajskub in a scene in "Two Broke Girls", and wondered what these two good-to-amazing people were doing in the most aggressively shitty show I've ever seen, it makes "Three's Company" look like Edward Albee by comparison. Then I realised that Andre probably made more money from one episode of that show than from all the seasons of his own.
I can just imagine the sweet 70 yo grandma calling the station back and asking to talk to the manager to complain about the rude treatment she received on the phone!
11:18am
FɔFɔ (:
Okasa,
Specially when she is the largest WFMU marathon donor.
@Murakami, a friend made me watch a few episodes. It's always horrendous. It's like the scripts are all rough drafts where they put in "like-a-jokes" (space filler to be replaced by real jokes later) and then never went back and filled in any real jokes.
@Ike:
No, I think that Whitney Cummings, after trying to make it as a comedian, developed an hatred for her audience that burned like a thousand suns, and decided to create something so horrible yet tailored to that audience that its success would confirm that the hate were justified. I think the actors, except for the older sex-joke woman and maybe Garrett Morris, are *told* to do terrible line-readings…but there are 'funny foreigners' and two leads who between them probably excite 80% of the male audience, dollar-store Buffy 'n' Faith. (I _resent_ how keenly my eye is drawn to Kat Dennings overstuffed into her clothes….)
Many of the annoying issues with debris in clothes dryers can easily be solved by simply checking and emptying the pockets of jeans and shirts and unraveling knotted clothes and the like before inserting into the washer.
@Listener142985:
'Loser—I like Messiahs who DON'T get nailed-up. '
11:47am
Sandy:
About the abused callers, I suspect that Ken may have been using pre-recorded material. It was all a little pat. Are people really calling constantly or he just happened to have a few callers in those few minutes when he wanted to do that shtick?
11:48am
Listener142985:
Counter-intuition--that's a guy who will do anything The Baas needs. Even itch-scratching perhaps.
Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanis eunt domus"? People called Romans, they go the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home!”
Centurion: No it doesn’t!
11:52am
FɔFɔ (:
You know tonite's SSD episode is bound to be a classic judging by the number of people here already complaining about it.
'Mournful song' scene is from "Sadko", great Mosfilm soectacular from what future President's beau Putin calls 'best old days'
11:56am
FɔFɔ (:
Considering Ken never allowed to archive the show where he is very drunk in that SSD episode with the monk start I'll recommend to record tonite's SSD episode just in case!!!
Of course I would choose going shopping for computer crap instead of staying home and listening to one of the most epic Ken shows ever. I'm such a dumbass sometimes.