Archive for the 'Radio' Category


Signal/Noise

I’m trying to separate the signal from the noise. Once upon a time, information was scarce, like music. You had to hunt for it, no one was pointing a fire hose at your face, which is what logging on to the Internet is like. It’s a tsunami of information. Time is limited. Where do you […]

How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?

I miss Howard. I hope Mr. Stern is having fun on AGT this week, because it’s doing nothing for his career. Swinging for the fences, playing for an audience that just doesn’t care, he’s abandoned his hard core and we’re going through withdrawal. This is not about Howard Stern. You don’t have to subscribe to […]

Howard Stern

It’s a full time job listening to the show. I mean it’s 2 A.M. and I’m sitting in front of Felice’s house unable to turn the radio off. Howard’s interviewing the nerds, Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong, and it’s so damn real, so much the essence of life, that I figure if it doesn’t end […]

I Hate Radio Festival

I thought Taylor Swift was taking a year off. What has Bob Pittman ever done, other than take undeserved credit and trump up publicity to make it look like he’s a wunderkind when in reality he’s a self-satisfied huckster barely different from a used car salesman. Do we really believe he started MTV all by […]