Do us all a favor.

Do me a favor and listen to the first three minutes or so of Thusrday's episode of Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream. I believe you'll enjoy it. Especially if the fact that it's snowing on the first day of spring has you down. 

Do yourself favor and listen to the whole episode. It's Charlie in top form. (And I'm not just saying this because my name is mentioned and I win a prize.) 

And do WFMU a favor and drop a few coins to WFMU before their fund-raising drive ends Sunday night.

 

A welcome and triumphant return

One of my radio heroes, Charlie (of Busy Doing Nothing on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream) recently returned to the fiber-optic waves after taking a year or so off, and has quickly returned to top form with a show dedicated to the shopping insanity that consumes (no pun intended, but there it is) America all year long, but particularly in December.

Not everyone can segue from Philip Glass to Fannie Flagg without flinching (or causing flinching), but including this in a set that also includes Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Biz Markie, Hank Williams, Paul McCartney, motivational speakers, and an story about the racist packaging of frozen vegetables (among other things),  all while making a sharp sociological commentary, I can only hope to ever do something like this.

Bravo. Welcome back.