Lester Kinsolving had an on-air slogan that radio was a great medium for the sophisticated because it didn't demand one's total att'n like TV, because you could still do other things while listening. It's one of those paradoxic self-compliments.
Any woman who pledges this morning at 800-989-9368 gets a badly mangled spanish phrase from me. Any guy who pledges gets his own real-life hazardous waste incident.
Hmm, Ken you need to work on your sales technique, maybe re-think your pledge rewards, Makes me glad I pledged earlier online rather than by phone. On the other hand, I already am a sort-of hazardous waste incident so . . .
I don't know when "opening day" for the tally was, but if you pledged this calendar year, I THINK you're eligible. I got my pledge in the day before this marathon.
I had to go to work today because there are only four men at my office. Which in itself is kinda feminist I guess, because they couldn't get anything done without us.
9:10am
zmmz:
Hi Ken, could you tell us when will you do next State of the Station? I'll try to tune it in live. Thanks,
I hope I'm not giving out misinfo, Gruesome, but IIRC if you made a general station pledge, there was a way online of having it become effective for a special limited-time drawing such as Ken just announced.
My impression is that you can either call and tell them you are applying however much to a specific drawing from your larger pledge, or use the on line donate page, check off "bill me", and then ignore the bills when it comes. I think...
Just in case you're serious, zmmz, State of the Station programs have become almost as scarce as LCD issues since putting info on the Web's been so much more convenient.
@ken - i'm happy to report that over the weekend i procured Clarence Carter 'Strokin' on 45 from area record store. it brought great joy to the household.
You've encountered those bros with the 1000 amp subwoofers sitting in traffic and rattling everyone's car windows? I'd like to see them put Olga on their CD player and crank up the speakers.
Petr is male name so I'd like to get HAZMAT. And the country used to be Czech Republic, but they decided to change English name to make it more marketable.
All the DK prophesy has finally come true! I HATE TO SAY!!!
9:47am
JakeGould:
@-Ken: Did you report that the “Azure Window” rock formation in Malta collapsed? There goes a tourist economy!
9:47am
Gareth:
Hi. When you make a mouse pledge, are you only eligible for the prize draws if you phone in your pledge? If I do it online, do they still get entered for the prizes? I live in the UK, so prefer not to make international calls!
@Frangry - i'm far too intimidated to comment on the SUW board, but kudos to you and Michelle for the 'Am I A Creep' show a few weeks ago. Brilliant show!
9:49am
Bobby:
Gareth: I landed a prize from Liz's show yesterday through an online pledge. You can do it!
Kennnn! My Swag For Life basically renews automatically. Is there any way i can still get in running for Dylan CDs?
Oh and btw remember that time I won a plus one in perpetuity to Monty Hall. Is that still good? Not that I go more than once a year, being I live miles away in Brooklyn...
Why can’t women donate the 80% on the dollar they earn compared to men on “National Women’s Day?” Wait, that is a stupid idea. Give 100% of each dollar.
our microwave at work has been making demonic noises and i said it sounded like something from my radio station and they all looked at me like i was insane
10:57am
dfb:
hey guys this is making me smile. I just lost my brother, so a smile is rare today. getting a hair cut before we tell my mum. sorry to b a downer
t.A.T.u. us please—Russian women forced by rich, homophobic, men to fake lesbianism resonates rill well right now. (And I just re-upped S.f.L.,and vote against Scheißes fläuten.
@Planet T@10:53, the great Fabio and the beret-rocking king of strangeness Daniel Blumin are weird on a whole other higher level, not the "this is ironic funny bad" mega-MST333K level (not that there's anything wrong w/that).
No wait, there's definitely something wrong with this! Ha ha ha. Come on people, PLEDGE to make it STOP!!!
I did a version of Arthur's Theme. Poopy flute is actually surprisingly hard to do.
You know , it's hard to find the proper segue from Poopy flute, and I'd suggest Portsmouth Symphonia or The Jethros.
Canines howling in response to what they hear as howling is soooo cute. The late Dr. Klinghammer at Wolf Park told of how the wolves answered a distant train whistle, & then learned to anticipate it by hearing the sound of the train on the rails. I saw a couple of dogs in the Bronx howling in response to a fire engine siren. Soooo cute.
Okasa, maybe it's not the heterodynes but just that they're not all on the same note, so they don't sound like just 1 dog. But imagine if they got into overtone chanting!
11:22am
Peter Arriaga:
This MBV album is great.
11:23am
GRANDPA:
NEED SOME MORE FLUTE POOP HERE. YER GETTING SOFT
11:24am
Danny in Bloomingburg:
Thanks Ken for the hazmat. Im glowing now
11:27am
FƽFƽ (:
Frangry,
Here are some Spanish words known for being hard to pronounce but easy for us to laugh listening Ken pronounce them!
"Aguja", "carro", "rato", "rueda", "sonrojado" o "rito", “perro”, “ubérrimo”, o “desarrolladores”, exigir, ejercer, corregir, armardillo.
Is that site Ken's reading from like the Fusion Center one the ACLU publicized some years ago (I saw it at Reason's Hit & Run blog) with the baffling map conflating all those various incidents as ostensible signs of...?
It was like, meth lap cleanup here, abortion protest there, oil spill in basement somewhere else, global increase in temperature, 8 car pile-up...adding up to DOOOOM! Homeland Security funded these regional centers to put together bits of intelligence to see if the aggregated data pointed to something.