Archive for March 2009

03.28.2009

Friends I Didn’t Know I Had

It’s amazing. In the last two weeks, I’ve heard from hundreds of new friends who have appeared out of cyberspace to inundate me with good news: Sgt. Perry Gibson, fighting valiantly in Iraq, wants to share millions of Saddam’s newly-found loot with me. His rationale for keeping the money is “we found it first”. It’s [...]

03.18.2009

Enemy At The Gates

It started as a trickle. Then it turned into a stream. And then a flood. I’m talking about spam. As anyone who has created a blog knows, spam artists are quick to seize any opportunity to promote something, anything by hijacking comments. In creating the Radio3K.com blog, I had hoped to avoid this pestilence. Alas, [...]

03.16.2009

The Kamikaze Presidency

It is with reluctance that I dip my toe into the cesspool of politics via this blog. I really prefer to concentrate on the ongoing throes of Radio, the Media I Love Best. However much I try to ignore it, the political climate always seems to rain on the Radio parade at one point or [...]

03.1.2009

Passing of A Legend

With the death Saturday of Paul Aurandt—better known as Paul Harvey—we have seen the passing of a true Radio legend. Harvey’s Radio career began in 1933 when, as a 14-year old high school student, he landed a part-time job at KVOO in Tulsa. While many of us started part-time in Radio, Harvey’s career was exceptional. [...]