When I find myself in a curmudgeonly state, I listen to episodes of StoryCorps. I used to listen to it on NPR’s Morning Edition on the way to work on Fridays, but my car radio doesn’t work anymore. Now I listen via podcast. I honestly don’t know anything that more predictably awakens my love for humanity than listening to these recordings. All the complexities and quirks of human being are there, and those things are always kind of new and…
I am a serious fan of Joe Frank. He is the radio noir guru of my soul. I have been listening to him since the eighties. He was the joy of my Friday nights, and did much to get me through a difficult graduate program in philosophical theology and ethics. From 1986 until 2002, Joe produced four Series: “Work in Progress,” “In the Dark,” “Somewhere Out There,” and “The Other Side.” Late Friday night, “Work in Progress” (from KCRW Santa…
One of my big heroes, the extremely talented Joe Frank, had a kidney transplant in June. Hope you feel better, Joe. Sending you warmth and healing and laughter. Maybe now you can get off the pea soup. Please mail your cards and letters to: Joe Frank PO Box 491027 Los Angeles CA 90049 I credit Joe Frank with enabling me to complete an MA in philosophical theology and ethics with my sanity more or less intact. I listened to “Joe…
ARGHHHHH! Turned on the radio in the car to my customary 1690 WWAA AM station to hear Air America. BUT NOOOOOOO! Air America in Atlanta is GONE. J.W. Broadcasting, headed by Joe Weber (as in grills?), purchased the assets of radio station WWAA-AM (Avondale Estates) from Intermart Broadcasting of Georgia for $12 million. Weber has switched over the content of 1160’s programming to 1690, and it now broadcasts from Adel. JW Broadcasting was formed in May 2003 to acquire television…