10. Closing theme music and pronouncements. COMING ATTRACTIONS:
There are currently 3 new Digital Flotsams in various stages of production right now. The first one is a bit of an experiment . I stumbled upon a really interesting story, about a man who has dedicated himself to achieving a goal in memory of his father who died when he was only a young boy. Most of my Digital Flotsams have been about me, and my life, and my family. But this story so moved me I wound up asking him if I could tell it on my show. I swear this was never part of my plan, but it looks like this one will get released on Fathers Day. A bit of providence perhaps.
The next one was also an experiment. I had an idea for a story that I thought would make a good Digital Flotsam. One of the hardest parts of putting a show together is finding good independent music that fits the story. It’s not that it isn’t out there. There are plenty of wonderful indie artists out there. It’s that it’s very difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. If, for instance, I’m looking for songs that have to do with a relationship “breaking up” there is no way to search for that unless those very words are in the title. So I got an idea that I wasn’t quite sure could work. Why not approach some of my favorite indie artists and see if they might be willing to write and record something specifically for my show? Much to my amazement several great artists agreed to give it a shot. Some eventually gave up on the effort, but 4 artists delivered on their promise. I am extremely excited about their work and I’m now hoping that my work will live up to theirs. I will talk more about this later, but that should be ready after Father’s Day. Which would put it about right around June 29th. Please “stay tuned”.
Finally in July we shall hear a personal confession about an incident that has never been publicly revealed before. Revealed now, only because the statute of limitations has made me feel safe about sharing it.
Unavailable since mid 2005, this is a re-mastered and reissued version of the very first Digital Flotsam. I had a very different concept of the show when I started. I thought it would be more of an eclectic variety show than what it has become. I plan to re-release the first 3 Digital Flotsams over the next 3 weeks. Here are the original “Show Notes” as well.
Digital Flotsam 01 - Show notes
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1. Show Opening
2. The late Artie Shaw gives his thoughts on “Art”.
3. Editorial by P.W. Fenton on the sad state of “The Movies”.
There are currently 3 new Digital Flotsams in various stages of production right now. The first one is a bit of an experiment . I stumbled upon a really interesting story, about a man who has dedicated himself to achieving a goal in memory of his father who died when he was only a young boy. Most of my Digital Flotsams have been about me, and my life, and my family. But this story so moved me I wound up asking him if I could tell it on my show. I swear this was never part of my plan, but it looks like this one will get released on Fathers Day. A bit of providence perhaps.
The next one was also an experiment. I had an idea for a story that I thought would make a good Digital Flotsam. One of the hardest parts of putting a show together is finding good independent music that fits the story. It’s not that it isn’t out there. There are plenty of wonderful indie artists out there. It’s that it’s very difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. If, for instance, I’m looking for songs that have to do with a relationship “breaking up” there is no way to search for that unless those very words are in the title. So I got an idea that I wasn’t quite sure could work. Why not approach some of my favorite indie artists and see if they might be willing to write and record something specifically for my show? Much to my amazement several great artists agreed to give it a shot. Some eventually gave up on the effort, but 4 artists delivered on their promise. I am extremely excited about their work and I’m now hoping that my work will live up to theirs. I will talk more about this later, but that should be ready after Father’s Day. Which would put it about right around June 29th. Please “stay tuned”.
Finally in July we shall hear a personal confession about an incident that has never been publicly revealed before. Revealed now, only because the statute of limitations has made me feel safe about sharing it.
During the early 1980s I worked for a city police department and I was assigned to a specialized squad that provided “field training” for rookies coming straight out of the academy. This show features a couple of stories about those experiences. At times, I think, you’ll wonder if these are fiction. I may have changed a name here and there, but I assure you, these stories are true.
As usual the show opens and closes with the incredible theme created by my favorite indie band “3 Blind Mice”.
The United States has two amateur drinking nights each year… New Years Eve… and Saint Patrick’s Day. Some might argue that Mardi Gras qualifies. While I agree it’s a huge amateur night… it is local to one city. Real drinkers, like myself, choose to never go out on these nights. I have visited New Orleans many, many, times… never during Mardi Gras… and never WILL I visit during that period. The closest I have gotten to either of those dates (New Years and St. Patty’s) has been when I was WORKING, with my old Blues Band.
On both of those dates I am EXTREMELY careful. Normally a band in this area finds itself driving home 30 to 60 minutes after “closing time”, which in Tampa is 3 AM. On those particular nights… I would do my best to stay off the road until sunrise. The roads are just too filled before then with folks who have never learned how to pace themselve’s.
Here’s something I don’t understand. If we took all that money in that “stimulus package” and divided it up evenly among all of the households in the USA it would give each American family roughly 8000 extra dollars. Wouldn’t that stimulate the country? Wouldn’t it put money into businesses… into banks… into the system that runs our economy? Why do they assume that it has to be done the other way around?
Happy 200th Birthday Charles Darwin. Despite not looking a day over 190 you have managed to become the enemy of bible thumpers everywhere. I salute you, and wish you another 200. Oddly enough, 3 days earlier (February 9th) marked the 84th anniversary of the day that teaching the theory of evolution was officially forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools.
One of my favorite pictures of Roz on the occasion of a “life beer” in Hohenschwangau, Germany
This is also a test of posting from Flickr. I believe if you click on the picture, you will go to Flickr where you can see this picture at various sizes.
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