For the gormless gommuses amoungst you, we are talking kilts! Mike reminded me this morning of one nearly rational pronouncement out of Pyongyang - dinnae go oot w'oot yerrrr hanbok if your are a Korean lassie. Now why would the Magnus Gommus himself warrant something like (but not really much …

I think that one of the diffferences between Americans and Canadians is that Rodney Dangerfield got no respect. Red Green, on the other hand, is a Canadian icon and a standard against which every Canadian male falls by the wayside.  •  The last Red Green Show was taped last night in Toronto. While …

Interesting to read that my old pal from Halifax days, Kelly Ryan, is reviving her radio host career started twenty years ago when she did CBC Halifax's weekend wake-up show. Once I goaded her into referring her co-host as "L-7" and "four corners" based on the Flinstone's beat poet episode of …

“Hey kids! Gather 'round the radio. The Prime Minister is going to talk to us!”  •  This is the oddest reaction to a disinterested population that I can think of: the PM is going to speak to us every week through an address being picked up by private radio stations. Lord knows Canadians love being …

I was listening to Brent on CBC Radio's last remaining good show, Go, this morning and he played "Don't Fear The Reaper"...again. I checked the old notes for his musical choices that I kept when he was on CBC Ottawa and didn't see that he played the Blue Oyster Cult classic but he did play it on …

NPR is reporting Meirs has withdrawn her nomination for the US Supreme Court but it is not on CNN or any Google news. Has radio wons this race?

It was good even if I got woken up with the head phone blaring each team's ninth inning big play, the tying single and that most final blast.  •  We get WMVP Chicago 1000 on the AM dial clear as a bell here most days. They are the White Sox home station and I prefer to listen to local broadcasters …

...radiation of pure thought...  •  It is the last day of the NCPR funding drive and I have been strangely attracted by the whole event. I gave my $75 bucks early on - and I hope you did, too. You didn't? What is up with that?  •  You pretend that you can live in a virtual community, you look out …

Here is the deal. If you give North Country Public Radio 25 bucks, say, during this membership drive and then listen for a year on the internet I bet you will give more next year. I did.  •  Sure I like the station because it is by my near neighbours but as a certified radio nerd - my certificate …