A True Story About Perspective

I was sitting on my front porch with the breeze kicking up.  Way down below me on the pavement, a little slug, maybe just about an inch long, was pressing forward through a small scale windstorm-- keeping its face turned into the wind, braving all the small pieces of smoosh (besides having to fight the headwind)-- when this twig, a teeny piece of straw, blew up and hit him right square between the eyes.  For you and me, like a two-foot-long hunk of wood.  Pow!

I've never seen a slug pass out before.  He verryy sloowwwly teetered over.  And stopped.  And sat there.  Eventually he roused himself and slowly rose to his foot, and carried on.  Because what else was there to do.

And indeed.  So while there might be things dropped here on the site from time to time, there's a few twigs in the wind today.  We'll just do what we can.

George Putnam

(1:57) While it's true that voices and pictures through the air were old news by the time I was a kid in the 60's, announcers in suits and with glistening hair were still expected to appear and make sense of things: let us know what to expect at 9 pm, 8 Central Time.  Preserve us from Dead Air.


George Putnam was born to announce.




While he lacked the euphonious pipes of, say, a Fenneman or a Frees--

(Okay, 

"A Fenneman or a Frees.")

-- he embodied State-of-the-Art professionalism in an age of Magic-Brain record changers.

...of course, 20 years later, by the time I was growing up, it was our parent's world, and serious men were appearing over the CRT in the living room, saying, "You don't have all your marbles!"  (Buy some now!)  The announcer's edge had progressed to self parody--

--so when, it was said, Mary Tyler Moore's own Ted Baxter

was based on George, he attained something of an apotheosis.  And a well-deserved one.

Today's selection is the young scout himself, at a small, 5,000 watt station in Fresno WEAF on the night on Pearl Harbor, holding down the home fires...

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ReChemical: Donald and Hillary - I've Had The Time of My Life

On YouTube.  The footage is from the second Presidential debate, just last night.  The theme is from Dirty Dancing.  Combined for a moment of sheer magic.

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Public Disservice Messages

Three one-minute items, courtesy of The Ad Council and this station.

Tom Hanks
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Oblivion Saves You Money

Anne Francis as Tinkerbell

10.09: The spirit of audio sneaking into the workshop.  I re-did the eyes, to make them more cartoony.  Trying to think like Preston Blair.  

Mr. F. Le Mur: Soupman

Mr Le Mur has an extensive collection on the Internet Archive,  His PR Gnus is already on this site.  Soupman is also brilliant.
- Soupman: Good Thing It's Dark

Making a bit by simply removing a syllable is some audio smarts.  Doing it with an Old Radio icon like Superman-- I'm stunned.  Of course-- Soupman!  Tireless fighter for soup and justice!  There's a series of episodes here, along with Andy of Bug Porn, Dragnest, Beave It to Lemur...

Rose Festival 2016

The ships have started to come in.  Here's the SS Dub Taylor, underneath Portland's elegant Boardwalque.

The 1,500-ton barge, named after the beloved character actor, carries its own toilet, and enough whiskey and plug tobacco for the week's festivities.