WA2K Radio is now on the air

Perfect! I am sort of embarrassed having that signature for so long, just meant it to be a pop in, but waiting for the next one to strike me...

WA2K radio would like to welcome dj. (perfect initials) of the great white North to our studio and appreciates the songs and the inspiration of Ani Difranco. (one of my kids loves that gal).

Listeners, I have often wondered if the Hoover vacuum was named after J. Edgar or Herbert.

Speaking of vacuuming, I have some pressing needs, (irons in the fire) to attend to, so please stay tuned and enjoy.

Osso, I agree with you that a separate thread on the art of architecture, landscape architecture, land use, design etc would probably not attract enough eyeballs to keep it alive. That's what is cool about WA2K. A lot of airtime is devoted to music but Eva can find you a space to set up a desk and you can periodically report on the topic. It will be heard by a goodly number of people.
I don't know exactly what Letty had in mind when she started WA2K--probably not what it has turned out to be--but I see it as a place where ideas can be expressed that may not fit into the broad A2K format.
(This may or may not work, but I'm going to try a signature line for the first time).

Letty
Letty, one of the things I like about WA2K is that, unlike other radio and news stations, if it bleeds, it doesn't lead.

BBB

BBB, don't you know that according to Alice Cooper "Only Women Bleed"?

Actually, listeners, this is one of the few songs that Cooper did that was trip into the labyrinth of user and usee:

Only women bleed
Alice Cooper
Man's got his woman to take his seed
He's got the power - oh
She's got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can

She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed

Man makes your hair gray
He's your life's mistake
All you're really lookin' for is an even break

He lies right at you
You know you hate this game
He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain

She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed

Black eyes all of the time
Don't spend a dime
Clean up this grime
And you there down on your knees begging me please come
Watch me bleed

Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed

What do make of this song, listeners? I have often wondered if it were about women who allowed themselves to be abused.

January 19 Birthday Celebrities:

1807 Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (Westmoreland County, VA; died 1870)
1809 Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer (Boston, MA; died 1849)
1839 Paul Cézanne, painter (France; died 1906)
1923 Jean Stapleton, actress (New York, NY)
1926 Fritz Weaver, actor (Pittsburgh, PA)
1931 Robert MacNeil, TV journalist (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
1935 Tippi Hedren, actress (New Ulm, MN)
1939 Phil Everly, singer (Chicago, IL)
1942 Michael Crawford, actor/singer (Salisbury, England)
1942 Shelley Fabares, actress (Santa Monica, CA)
1943 Janis Joplin, singer (Port Arthur, TX; died 1970)

Happy Birthday Mr. Crawford:



and remembering Mr. Poe:

Not a one that I don't know, Raggedy.

Just an aside:

I got the strangest message when trying to access this site through Yahoo:

http://us.f308.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=6804_236939_22097_1663_833_0_125065_-1_0&Idx=0&YY=45891&inc=25&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox

It's been a night of memories, my friend.

Happy January 20 to All.

Born on this date:

1896 George Burns, comedian (New York, NY; died 1996)
1906 Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate and 2d husband of Jacqueline Kennedy (Greece; died 1975)
1920 Federico Fellini, director/screenwriter (Rimini, Italy; died 1993)
1920 DeForest Kelley, actor (Atlanta, GA; died 1999)
1926 Patricia Neal, actress (Packard, KY)
1929 Arte Johnson, comedian (Benton Harbor, MI)
1930 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, astronaut (Montclair, NJ)
1946 David Lynch, director (Missoula, MT)
1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, expatriate Soviet dissident (Ukraine)
1956 Bill Maher, TV personality (Rivervale, NJ)
1958 Lorenzo Lamas, actor (Santa Monica, CA)



It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

First of all you've got to have talent. And then you've got to marry her like I did.

I was lucky to have seen George and Gracie in the context of those times. Although the comedy never touched on social problems(pre Norman Lear) it did focus on the eternal struggle between the sexes.
The only character today on TV that comes close to Gracie is Raymond's mom on Everybody Loves Raymond

<Please pardon this interruption to transmission while I gaze admiringly at panzade's wonderful cat! - Which I have already admired & commented on in the Cat Room. What a delightfully devilish critter ! >

The Burns and Allen show ran from 1950 to 1958 on TV, but I only saw it a few times. It was Gracie's decision to retire in 1958 that ended the show.

Oh Panzade, you mean that funny lady, Doris Roberts




I love the cat, too.

Good morning, Raggedy and Panz and WA2K radio fans.

Ah, George Burns and his wit. Interesting that a man who smoked cigars lived to such a ripe old age. Isn't it amazing that Pat Neal is still with us. I remember her having had a really bad stroke, and her husband, Raoul Dahl, worked with her until she recovered. It seems to me that he wrote a short story, "Beware of the Dog", which was excellent, but I'll have to check on that. I'm always taken with our Raggedy's list of celebs, and especially with the pictures.

Panz, you have been everywhere. Speaking of being everywhere, listeners, I do believe that our C.I. is on his cruise in the troubled waters of Antarctica. Hope he doesn't have problems with the iceberg.

World's Largest Iceberg Posing Problems
(AP) - The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground near Antarctica, posing more problems to scientific bases and penguin colonies, where tens of thousands of chicks face starvation, scientists said Thursday. Experts had predicted that B15A -- a 100-mile long iceberg -- would likely slam into a huge glacier near the U.S. McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica some time last weekend.

In 1966 Miss Neal suffered a series of massive strokes. After surgery, she was unconscious for three weeks, waking completely paralyzed on the right side and unable to speak. Her recovery is an epic in the annals of stroke rehabilitation. Learning from her own experience, she and her husband devised a system using amateur therapists that is now globally recognized. Thirty stroke centers using this method are now in operation in the United Kingdom alone.
In 1978, the Ford Sanders Regional Medical Center dedicated the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Neal was offered the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967) but she was nervous about doing such a demanding role so soon after her stroke.

Neal and Dahl divorced in 1983 after 30 years of marriage. (5 children) Their daughter, Olivia, died suddenly of complications from measles at the age of seven.

Dahl did indeed write Beware of the Dog and the books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Witches, among others.

Well, Raggedy, I did get that correct then. I'm practicing remembering.

Speaking of remembering, listeners. A recent study shows that a couple of drinks a day may help memory in older women as opposed to younger females who don't drink anything.

Since C.I. is not here to give his medical report, I recently found this out:

Curry Spice May Reverse Alzheimer's

Bright yellow curry spice not only may treat Alzheimer's disease, but also lower your risk of ever getting it. The same pigment that makes this spice yellow may help prevent Alzheimer's by breaking up the "plaques" that mark the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.

Scientists from the University of California Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System found that the magic ingredient is curcumin, a component of the yellow curry spice turmeric, that appears to reduce deposits of beta-amyloid proteins in the brains of elderly lab mice that ate curcumin as part of their diets, reports Reuters. Studies have found that in India, where curry spice is a dietary staple, the rate of Alzheimer's disease among elderly adults is very low.

It gets more interesting. One of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain. When the UCLA scientists added low doses of curcumin to human beta-amyloid proteins in a test tube, the curcumin prevented the proteins from aggregating and actually blocked the formation of the amyloid fibers that make up Alzheimer's plaques. Co-study author Dr. Gregory M. Cole said that findings suggest that curcumin could be capable of both treating Alzheimer's and lowering a person's risk of developing the disease.

Curcumin is also high in antioxidants, a compound in certain foods that is known to help combat fatal illnesses, including Alzheimer's, cancer, and heart disease.

Remember, folks. You heard it right here on WA2K Radio.

I'm going to pay attention to that one, Letty!

As am I, Osso, for me as well as my husband.

WA2K radio fans, has anyone out there heard that Lily Tomlin died?

what, oh, no....

Notice how he's drumming his paw....in impatience?

Letty


I checked several breaking news sites and found no mention of Lily Tomlin, dead or alive. Where did you hear such news?

BBB