Bill Childs

I still use it, so I guess I like it okay still. But there are things that just confound me about it. I am also aware that doing a radio show is not its core goal.

"WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS"

--me, just about every week, when contemplating the ever less useful versions of Audacity

It's a fun route. Do not depend on it getting you there on time. If you can splurge, the Roomette is a nice upgrade. If you can splurge a lot, the family room (full width) is fantastic.

They emailed me to ask what I wanted; I told them, and they sent me a WAV file.

Eek!

Local friends: I’ve got two tickets to see Beausoleil at the Parkway *tonight*. Want ‘em? Good seats.

if superman was a freak:

Hell yeah congrats

Yeah, but that one has a phone in good shape in it. I mean, I don’t know what the “right” price is but that’s in better shape in general too

I have no idea how much a fairly decrepit phone booth should cost but I believe it is not $500

Okay someone went nuts on this phone booth and it will not be mine

She’s great

As long as it isn’t my phone booth

Sir.

If I get outbid by one of you people I’m gonna be so pissed

I bid on it, friends

There is a spot in our yard though

I do not need a phone booth from the State Fair auction.

bid.auctionmasters.com/ui/auctions/...

With Kasell gone, that’s probably the move.

I was the beneficiary of the Not My Job when Tony Robbins was on. (It is a longer story than that, but not terribly interesting.)

Endless breadsticks to go and now there’s this guy following me around just jamming bread in my mouth

I’m just driving through northern Indiana now to go pick it up, so I’ll get it to you by probably Friday evening

Shannon from Olive Garden didn’t let on at all that she’d heard anything out of the ordinary. Just a straight message saying that they had an order for him. What a professional

Got a wrong number voicemail from a Connecticut Olive Garden, calling Joshua, who hadn’t picked up his order. The caller listened to my outgoing message, which is Carl Kasell noting that it’s my cell phone and then reading some of the lyrics to @tmbg.bsky.social’s “Dr. Worm.”

I did not know that! Wow. And yes, he was very enthusiastic about a compilation album that the show released as being "from" that station.

It's certainly possible that it was this, though I do not remember the show at all: Toad the Wet Sprocket/Gin Blossoms, September 14, 1992

(Any one of those bands might be offended by that statement, which I mostly mean as a way to say “those bands all got played on KJ-104 and not elsewhere”

There are a lot of bands that fit in that neighborhood of bands, so I still think this happened. I just don't know which band it was.

I had in my head that it was something like Dramarama or Live or Too Much Joy. Live was a couple of weeks before the announcement. Dramarama was the previous spring. Too Much Joy and Material Issue was at Glam Slam (I did not see that show).

The actual flip was basically September 7, 1992.

I'm almost positive I attended a KJ104 show at First Avenue--possibly one where the station gave away all of the tickets--either in that intervening time or maybe even after the flip.