Saturday, February 3, 2007

Shark Jumping 103

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Time for another installment of the Best of JumpTheShark.com, and this time I feature "The Cosby Show".  Keep in mind, these are c...
Friday, February 2, 2007

Top 20 Debut Albums of All-Time

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Time to reverse the negativity trend a bit, as I know I’ve been leaning a bit too hard on the Rant button lately, thus, I give you the best ...

Etc., ad infinitum...

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HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY! Speaking of which, I can sorta relate to what Bill Murray went through in that film.  Every day at 4:30 PM, I hop in m...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

57 Channels And Nothin' On...

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That’s one of my favorite song titles of all-time (thanks, Mistah Springsteen!), and it pretty well summed-up my channel-surfing exploits wh...

Yadda x 3

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POWERBALL Seems this elderly couple in St. Louis bagged the $240 some-odd-million Powerball jackpot last weekend.  Is it just me, or don’t ...

Great Moments In Radio--Volume III

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One night while I was on the air in on K-JO, I got a call from the St. Joseph police department with a dedication request.  Some sergeant wa...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Shark Jumping 102

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Another installment, this time featuring the ONLY "reality" show that's ever been worth watching, "COPS", or as I af...

Shark Jumping 101

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One of my favorite web sites out there is jumptheshark.com, which chronicles the point at which TV shows went over the edge and declined.  I...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

News and notes

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RAZZING THE RAZZIES As disappointed as I was with this year's Oscar nominations, the usually-dependable Razzies let me down too.  This ...

Radio Ga-Ga, Part II

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The saga continues... After the demise of the Mighty 1030, I interviewed at a few radio stations within shouting distance of home.  I actu...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Radio Ga-Ga, Part I

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Time for yours truly, Sir Rant-A-Lot, to go to work on the very business I once sought to have a long career in—radio!  Is it any small wond...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Day The Music Got Shot?

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I read today that Jay Richardson, son of the late J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper) has hired some forensics expert to exhume his father’...

Where bad ideas come from...

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What goes around comes around, even when it comes to bad fashion. Witness Exhibit A, circa 1967, from the Intergalactic Wal-Mart Collection:...

What's wrong with this picture?

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Saw a blurb in the paper today that says "Judge" Judy makes $100 million a year—more than all the Supreme Court justices combined!...

Oscar nominations

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The Oscar nominations were announced today.  Of all the award shows, I think the Academy Awards have the most integrity and the most relevan...
Monday, January 22, 2007

General meanderings...

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MAYBE LIKE PEYTON MANNING'S TEAM, MAYBE That's my pick in SB XLI in two weeks.  I was quite pleased to see Peyton and Tony Dungy fi...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

After further review...

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Gene Simmons' stock hath fallen even further with me today.  I watched a couple episodes of his lame reality TV show today (btw, ain...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Great Moments In Radio, Volume II

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This story comes via the engineer I worked with at our little station in Blue Springs.  He was previously a DJ in the late ‘60s at KUDL-FM i...

So long, Mr. Harbor Master

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Was very saddened to learn today of the death of former Mamas & Papas singer Denny Doherty at age 66 from kidney failure.  John Phillips...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

World's Dumbest Song Lyrics of All-Time, Vol. II

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Again, in no particular order "Play Me"—NEIL DIAMOND (1972) "Songs she sang to me/Songs she brang to me."   Brang?!?!...