Record Store Day »

Yes, it’s that time of year again. This Saturday is National Record Store Day, a "celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally."

So why not head on down to Recycled Records where WQNA will be broadcasting live and I believe there’ll [...]

I Blog on Sunday: no trivia edition »

I get paid for this?
Here’s a feature story I wrote on bad gifts. It turned out okay and there’s a great picture accompanying it. French author and father of science fiction, Jules Verne, even left a comment, from whatever dimension he’s currently residing.
And I’ve effectively killed any chance I had of winning best columnist with [...]

My I Don’t Have to Run Day* »

Technical difficulties prevented this from being posted yesterday.
Self Promotion
My column this month is on my undying need not to be on public display. It was inspired by a Heartland story, that ran last Friday, on two people who thrive in the spotlight.
Please Get Out of My Head!

Another columnist wrote recently on one of the [...]

Rapid Eye Movement »

I stopped buying REM albums after Automatic for the People. Although I’ve retained respect for their catalogue up to that point, I haven’t listened to it much over the last five years. Recently, 97.7 added Driver 8 to their weekend playlist and Dave Hustava played a track off Murmur on his show last night, rekindling [...]

WQNA in the Heartland »

I penned the feature story in the Heartland this week. It’s on some of the wonderful volunteers at WQNA who share their love and knowledge of music with the community.
I regret that I had but one (appx. 1,600 word) story to give for that station, and as such, was only able to give proper [...]