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Tenderness

On April 19, 2013 By

 

A few weeks ago, I was asked to fill in as a co-host at the Seattle News/Talk radio station where I host my weekly show, “It’s Raining Cats & Dogs”. I’m not a journalist and I’m new to the news format, so it was exciting and scary to [...]

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Nice, Nice, Baby

On March 1, 2013 By

It’s not every interview that gets interrupted by the birth of a band member’s child, but that’s what happened when I sat down with most of the fellows from Seattle indie-band-on-the-verge Ivan & Alyosha. Ivan & Alyosha band member Pete Wilson was excused from the proceedings as he was literally on the [...]

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To Will and Kate, Meet Me at Exit 109

On June 2, 2012 By

 

If you’re expecting a Will & Kate at The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Update, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong joint. But if you’re interested in an artist who wrote a song for the royal lovebirds that landed her on E True Hollywood Stories (The Kate and Pippa Edition!), well, Bob’s your [...]

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Life Is Hard

On April 16, 2012 By

…but really, does it have to be? Sometimes hard is in your head, I know because it used to be in mine. This week, I started my new full time job at Jet City Stream, a brand new Seattle start-up, that at it’s core is an internet stream playing nothing but Northwest bands [...]

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You Say It’s Your Birthday (Cake)

On February 28, 2012 By

So where were we? I baked those fabulous Super Bowl Cookies and then… went on an extended hiatus. Call it baking burn out, writer’s block, career minded hoop jumping, or culinary complacency, but I kind of ran out of steam. I was eating and baking, of course, but those little synapses that make [...]

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So Says I

On January 13, 2012 By

When John Fisher and I had lunch earlier in the week, he mentioned that he was having to work a little harder to stay up on new music with the changes at The Mountain. I mentioned that I was finding it a little easier simply by listening to my Music Director, Kevin. (I’m willing to [...]

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Hello, Old Friend

On January 11, 2012 By

We’re like gypsies, radio people. We go where the format takes us. Get a room of radio folk talking and it ends up like that scene in Jaws where they one up each other over battle scars.

Only with radio people the conversation usually goes, “I’ve worked in Omaha, Vegas, San Diego, Philly, Vegas [...]

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Blueberry Thrill

On January 9, 2012 By

I had the opportunity to be a panelist on The Bill Radke Experience on KIRO FM this weekend. It was a thrill for lots of reasons…it was great to be back on the air in Seattle, and to do it in a whole new setting. I’m a huge fan of Bill’s since his days on [...]

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Stung

On December 8, 2011 By

Super G, my former employer’s former Promotion’s Director, and I went to see Sting at The Paramount Theatre last night. We both enjoyed being at the show as private citizens; not trying to optimize our lobby presence or man-handle artists through a meet and greet.

About half way through the show, I thought [...]

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You Spin Me Right Round, Baby

On November 29, 2011 By

When I told Kevin my new idea for promoting this blog; asking everyone who reaps the benefits of my ‘bake and release’ program to follow, or tweet, or facebook about the goodies they receive, he said, “Oh, like payola.” Well, more like plugola actually. And since my FCC license has been stashed in a box [...]

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