Make on the suspect:
White male, a little too tall,
Could use a few pounds
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Otherwise known as the King of Grief*. Public radio vet/music trivialist. Audio/video mixtapes on occasion/request (80s our specialty). You canβt spell fascism without A or I (or gaslight for that matter) he/him|houston π§ * mixcloud.com/soundawakeradio
Make on the suspect:
White male, a little too tall,
Could use a few pounds
His βWho Shot J.R.?β was part of my on-air Larry Hagman tribute when he passed
03.03.2026 18:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Seasons 3+4 of Sanford and Son are back on Pluto. Give yourself the best medicine via βMamaβs Baby, Papaβs Maybeβ or βThe Headacheβ.
03.03.2026 15:24 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Chai-Chai Rodragweez!
03.03.2026 15:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I thought it was spelled βPiβ for some reason but yes
03.03.2026 15:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm serious as cancer when I say
03.03.2026 13:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So THATβS how his uncle died
03.03.2026 13:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Waiting for the man? Take your tunes along!
03.03.2026 12:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I didnβt even follow baseball and I was excited to find Reggie bars at a random convenience store on an early-80s road trip
02.03.2026 16:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0soundtrack to post
02.03.2026 14:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0'Twas a treat talking with Eric Ambel β and revisiting those Yayhoos albums, which remain tons of fun. Read his words of wisdom here:
27.02.2026 15:58 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0this made me grimace
21.02.2026 05:58 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hereβs a second tape if you will
bsky.app/profile/vjbi...
Ciciβs obvs
20.02.2026 22:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01973
20.02.2026 22:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Grok this way
(actually donβt)
In my pre-VCR childhood I loved βHey Diddle Diddleβ so much i taped it with my dinky recorder from the TV speaker. Always saw Mr. Simonβs cats in my mind on playback.
Also a banger to this day (aural and visual): the opening to βVegetable Soupβ
POOM POOM (sp)
20.02.2026 18:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now thatβs what Iβm talking about.
20.02.2026 02:53 β π 23 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0not putting on the contemporaneous Sound Warehouse vest but otherwise all of it
20.02.2026 03:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The bottom right image also served as the cover art for the original cast album, a copy of which resides with your narrator (who usually caught the last 5 minutes every morning after waking up for kindergarten).
The first episode, complete with Rankin/Bassβ iconic closing fanfare:
Jonestown:
19.02.2026 22:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0not to be confused with the boomer urge to Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um
19.02.2026 19:57 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0C H I C O β€οΈπ
19.02.2026 19:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
someone in your life might have walked around the playground at his nursery school singing this to himself but loud enough for a teacher to notice
but enough about last week
Not only does it remain a fantastic (and often gorgeous) album but the opener is also my favorite single of the 90s to this day. Jon Marsh and his chefβs kiss of a voice
19.02.2026 15:51 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are few opening lines in popular music as engaging as βSuppose I accidentally got my shit togetherβ
19.02.2026 15:10 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0i.e. shut up already
19.02.2026 13:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So long as the cereal doth not taste of wormwood
19.02.2026 13:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0