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So, how about that weather?

It's somethin', ain't it?

What? What do you mean? It says "discussion"... what the hell do you want?

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Permalink Reply by Brian J. Burgess on October 6, 2007 at 10:43pm: Ha....you took my bait. Now we'll find out if you properly observed National Talk Like a Pirate Day last month or whether you chose to remain oblivious. The weather is inconsequential, much like the Mets and Yankees post season I'm afraid. Go Sox!

So are you thinking about sending XCI a CD show or do you plan on "doing it" live? I don't have the equipment or the technical expertise to pre-record a show. I'd rather do it live anyway, since having drunks wander in from White Street while you're reading a PSA makes for a much more wholesome media event.

Remember: No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, but some electrons were terribly inconvenienced.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff Morris on January 7, 2008 at 11:43pm: This is the real-time quickness of the Internet, experienced first hand: It only took from October to January for me to reply to your post.

I don't know if drunks wander in from White Street anymore. After all, Marcus Dairy is due to become a shopping mall. Danbury just ain't the same.

Oh, I think you asked about whether I'd be doing a show live, or pre-recording one. (Note that the sequence of this message is similar to a Quentin Tarentino movie, but with a lot less blood and profanity.) I suppose it would have to be live, since pre-recording involves too much planning and thought. But I'm still unsure if I want to even do it. Feeling old and irrelevant (if not exactly In The Way) and, let's face it: Nobody listened to me even when I was actually on the air.

If you respond, I'll get back to you in another couple of months. Oh, wait -- that would be after the Big Event, wouldn't it. Time Flies...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Forguites on January 8, 2008 at 7:43am: Sure...you want to TALK about the weather, but are you going to DO anything about it, eh!?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff Morris on January 8, 2008 at 10:31am: Don't get smart with ME, Porgy! Just go back and play some Kansas, will you?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brian J. Burgess on January 8, 2008 at 10:41am: Balderdash Jeff (if I may be allowed the latitude to use ancient terms like that) ...I used to listen to you, as well as the other two Swell guys. Let's face it, there wasn't a hell of a lot else available to listen to back then, unless you were able to pick up WHCN in Hartford or WPLR in New Haven.

Looking back over several of my old playlists (yes, packrat that I am, I still have a bunch), I would have difficulty even listening to myself. I'm sure at lot of my witty repartee made a lot of people glad we were only 10 watts.

I too have not yet decided whether or not to do a show. At first I was all gung-ho about it, but now I see that if I do I'll miss out on some of the buffet. I'm afraid I've reached a point where if it's a decision between ego stroking and a buffet line, the chicken wings will win every time. My musical tastes have changed somewhat but are still well outside the perameters of what anyone else might be interested in. Doing a shift might be fun for me, but possibly nobody else.

I'm sure if I procrastinate long enough the evening slots will all be filled and the decision will be moot anyway. I'll be working during the daylight hours and unable to do anything earlier. As much as I'd like to teach these young whippersnappers (another arcane reference) a thing or three about REAL radio (and at the same time undo all the BS propaganda that Zarecki's been undoubtedly teaching them), it would probably be a hollow gesture.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff Morris on January 8, 2008 at 11:13am: You better hope that TZ doesn't wind up reading this! It's not a private e-mail, after all!

(I was, of course, being facetious -- another archaic term -- in my reply to Porgy. And I agree with everything else you said. Especially about the procrastination part. But I probably should have waited longer to say that.); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Forguites on January 8, 2008 at 11:19am: Hey! I'm fat these days, so the buffet line is near and dear to my heart! :-) (although I'll be starting WeightWatchers soon... 9 months of weight training and cardio training have only made me a STRONG fat guy!)
and [right now] only you two, Greg, and myself are on this group. Pretty exclusive, eh? :-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff Morris on January 8, 2008 at 11:34am: Sure, it's exclusive NOW...but just wait until it becomes the new "IN" hotspot on the Web. Why, it'll become more popular than those Spears girls' vaginas!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Forguites on January 8, 2008 at 11:50am: I do so miss that smart ass sense of humor of yours! re: the radio 'biz', last time I was in CT I stopped and had a chat with Pam deWitt (aka Pooh, aka Pam-Jam) while she was doing her mid-day thing for I-95 and BJ's right about broadcasting these days. Glad I'm in the EE and software game...I've only been layed-off twice there!

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Morris on January 8, 2008 at 11:54am: I thought she was Pam Brooks! Pam deWitt? Wasn't she on Three's Company?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Forguites on January 8, 2008 at 2:09pm: SO, you now ADMIT to watching Three's Company?
When you knew her she was Pam MacKlusky. Her first tour through I-95 land when it was under the "guidance" of Chris Cage (aka Cagiano, catching the M.O. now? One of B.J.'s favorite people, BTW), resulted in the Pam Brooks (Our Miss Brooks) alias and some maniac in Hartford at either WHCN or WCCC applied the Pam-Jam label. She married a (so far as I know!) anice fellow named deWitt.
Now OBVIOUSLY no one on the RADIO could go by one of THOSE surnames!! And of course radio consultants don't have their heads up their anal orifices either!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brian J. Burgess on January 8, 2008 at 2:54pm: Okay, a little clarification. Chris Cagiano was NOT one of my favorite people, but he wasn't a big sore spot either. I basically told him to shove it after being lied to for 6+ months at WINE. He smiled too damn much. The fact was he never gave me an honest shot and admitted as much a few months later when he hired me for the gig in Massachusetts at WGRG.
I'm sure he thought he was brilliant in getting the Zareckis assigned to GRG as well. He told me he couldn't stand Tom, but in retrospect I have my doubts about anything the guy said. He was a pretty smooth liar, so I assume he's working somewhere in Postal management now.

Speaking of postal management, none of you will remember a woman by the name of Cindy Pesente. She was an early WSCTer but only belonged to the station for a year or two. Stan Mingo might remember her. A few years back she came into the Norwalk Post Office, as a supervisor! She didn't stay long (just a couple of days) but I thought that was cool. What the hell a nice girl like her was doing in management is beyond me.; ▶ Reply to This