some of my friends sit around every evening and they worry about the times ahead

[spatch]

Today I woke up and heard Gary LaPierre on WBZ insert one judgemental pause too many while reading the news. You know what pauses I mean; the ones where he's obviously inserting a mental "tch-tch-tch" or a retching sound in the middle of a sentence. Figuring I no longer needed to put up with someone simultaneously reading me the news and telling me how I should feel about it (seeing as how I haven't needed "Traffic On The 3s" since 2003), I changed the radio over to WBUR.

And it felt so oddly liberating to know that not all the news stories in the Bay State right now involve lurid, gory deaths.

Comments

[brak55.livejournal.com]

I listened to WBZ here in western NY, so I could only really pick it up at night. I found Larry Glick when I was young (60's/70's) and listened to him late at night when he was on Midnight to 6. I even had a Glicknick Club card.

I remember Dave Maynard, too. Jerry Stevens was actually a pretty radical talk show host in his day. Today's talkers remind me of him more than the other talk show hosts of the day who acted more like moderators and never really offered an opinion.

[ron_newman]

When I was a kid in Ohio, I liked to tune the AM radio dial to distant stations at night. One of my favorites was Jerry Williams on 'BZ. He was a flaming liberal back then, in the early 1970s.

[ron_newman]

Who is (or was) Jerry Stevens?

[brak55.livejournal.com]

Actually, my addled brain mixed up the name. You are right. It was Jerry Williams.