OK, so it's a rainy day after Christmas and the (Jon)Spencer-Hughes Explosion is
filling in for Howie. Do I tune in or continue to read one of my gifts, Excelsior! You Fathead!, a bio of Jean Shepherd? I chose the latter.
One part talks about how Jean rarely had listeners call in (or if he did, they
could barely be heard) but often he'd kind of bounce his ideas off the engineers
in the control room.
"You know, I kind of miss baseball season already, don't you, Corny? There's
no--and it's terrible now. You come into the station here and the engineers
have got nothing to watch. You know, the television sets are all turned off,
and the engineers for the first time in months have been forced to listen to
the programs that they're engineering."
Reminded me of how Howie used to do his monologues and he'd keep referring to VB.
"So these hacks actually go into the State House in the dead of night, VB,
when we're not paying attention and vote themselves a big fat pay raise."
This was before VB (and Sandy) were allowed to speak on air. (Union rules and
such.) So while Howie was talking to his listeners, he also kind of pointed his
opinions toward the person on the other side of the glass, like Shepherd did.
And the book refers to how Shepherd saw himself and his regular listeners
as the intelligent, cool ones...and the rest of the world was pretty much
a bunch of slobs. Sound like Jay Severin and his "best and brightest"
anyone?
Ron della Chiesa (friend of Shep) is quoted in several parts. I have seen
Shep's "A Christmas Story", I have four of his albums, and a couple of his
shows (plus a Harry Shearer "Le Show" retrospective).
filling in for Howie. Do I tune in or continue to read one of my gifts, Excelsior! You Fathead!, a bio of Jean Shepherd? I chose the latter.
One part talks about how Jean rarely had listeners call in (or if he did, they
could barely be heard) but often he'd kind of bounce his ideas off the engineers
in the control room.
"You know, I kind of miss baseball season already, don't you, Corny? There's
no--and it's terrible now. You come into the station here and the engineers
have got nothing to watch. You know, the television sets are all turned off,
and the engineers for the first time in months have been forced to listen to
the programs that they're engineering."
Reminded me of how Howie used to do his monologues and he'd keep referring to VB.
"So these hacks actually go into the State House in the dead of night, VB,
when we're not paying attention and vote themselves a big fat pay raise."
This was before VB (and Sandy) were allowed to speak on air. (Union rules and
such.) So while Howie was talking to his listeners, he also kind of pointed his
opinions toward the person on the other side of the glass, like Shepherd did.
And the book refers to how Shepherd saw himself and his regular listeners
as the intelligent, cool ones...and the rest of the world was pretty much
a bunch of slobs. Sound like Jay Severin and his "best and brightest"
anyone?
Ron della Chiesa (friend of Shep) is quoted in several parts. I have seen
Shep's "A Christmas Story", I have four of his albums, and a couple of his
shows (plus a Harry Shearer "Le Show" retrospective).
