July 06, 2004
Get Up with MorningWood!
Get Up with MorningWood, on 70,000 Watt Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am (eastern) every Tuesday!
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Building Fund Marathon
WMNF is raising funds for our new building from Tuesday July 6 to Tuesday July 13. MorningWood Marathon is on the last day, so please save some pennies for me!
Today on MorningWood
Blogging on the radio: comments and insights rants on news and events.
Sometimes sets are made from the thinnest of excuses...
I was looking for something else entirely when I stumbled upon this very over the top Wink Martindale tribute to Elvis Presley. (To download any mp3 from BlogWood, right click the link and then “save target as...” to download the file to your computer.)
Now, it just so happens that Elvis recorded “That’s All Right”, his first single for Sun Records in 1954 on July 5 or 6, depending on who you believe.
Hmmm, I smell an anniversary, and you can’t have an anniversary on MorningWood without a tribute. Thus, the first hour of today’s show was born.
Featuring The Cramps, Wink Martindale, Ronnie Elliott, Junkie XL, and Wesley Willis, this is one special you absolutely do not want to miss.
For people who wake up at a normal hour, a special offer: Pledge to MorningWood during WMNF’s current fundraising-for-our-new-building Marathon, and I will send you a recording of the Elvis tribute from today’s first hour of MorningWood.
That’s for everyone who pledges a minimum of $20 during MorningWood next week. Marathon starts today at 6 AM, right after MorningWood, and MorningWood is actually the last regular show of Marathon. So, save a few pennies for me, and get a cool CD in the process. To pre-pledge, just email me soon with a phone number. I’ll call and we’ll finalize the details by phone. Please DO NOT send any credit card information by email.
For our second hour this morning, I think some kind of actual holiday just passed, so I might just play some good patriotic music and spoken word from Anti Flag, Greg Palast, and more - whatever I can fit in around today’s Blogging on the Radio: Feeling vaguely Jesus!
After this incident last week in which a right wing fundamentalist group led by a certifiable nutcase named Dobson made Michael Moore a target by sending out his home address to the all of their followers via email, I phoned them. They call themselves Focus on the Family, an ironic moniker, considering that they seem to have no concern whatsoever for the health and well being of Mr. Moore’s family.
They are slimy, nefarious, pro-violent true believers, and every word out of their mouths is a lie, including the words “is” and “and”. Hear all about my conversations with Focus on the Family this morning in the middle of what has turned into a rather lengthy “Jesus” set, including this creepy song by John Ashcroft (“Let the Eagle Soar”, the same song heard in F911!).
If you’d like to call Focus on the Family yourself, and I highly recommend that you do, first bone up on your facts so that you can call them on all of their lies. Then call and have some polite fun at Dr. Dobson’s expense:
800-232-6459
Playlists
Each week, I bring my planned songs in on CD. I usually end up playing most or all of them in the planned order. But sometimes things go askew. Sorry - no guarantees or refunds.
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Posted by Norwood at July 6, 2004 01:39 AM