Month: September 2019 (Page 3 of 4)

Tuesday on The AIR we deliver new episodes of Radio Free Charleston, and The Swing Shift to our loyal listeners. You may tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to this happy little embedded radio player…

It all kicks off at 10 AM (with a replay at 10 PM– all times EDT) with a brand-new edition of Radio Free Charleston. This week’s show opens with a song from Ann Magnuson’s newly-reissued album, Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories. You can order it through her bandcamp page, which will be linked in the playlist below.

The show this week is split into three parts. First up we have newly-released, or re-released music with local ties. Then we offer up a set of relaxing instrumental music from local artists. Lastly, in the spirit of our 30th anniversary archival dig, we bring you a set of live music by The Mad Scientist Club, recorded out in the middle of nowhere about twenty-five years ago.

I’m going to try to link the names in the playlist so that you can buy the music we play this week. And as is our new tradition, I’m going to upload the show to YouTube, and put the resulting video right here…

So now, check out the playlist:

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Ann Magnuson “The Picture On My Dentist’s Wall”
Emmalea Deal “Queen” Live Unplugged
Fletcher’s Grove “Decker’s Creek”
The Big Bad “Spit On Your Grave”
Time And Distance “For Real”
Spencer Elliott “Yin and Yang”
Todd Burge “Main Street Auburn (guitar)”
Neostra “Explorations In Silence”
David Synn “Paths To Nowhere”
The Mad Scientist Club Live

Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM and 7 PM, Saturday at 11 AM and Midnight, Sunday at 1 PM and the next Monday at 8PM, exclusively on The AIR.

At 3 PM your PopCulteer returns to host a new hour of The Swing Shift as we continue to bring you the best Swing Music of the last century. This week, in order to conserve his voice, your humble host (and PopCulteer) presents another mixtape show, which means you sort of have to come here to see a list of the music we play this week.

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Jimmy Hamilton and his Orchestra “Salute To Charlie Parker”
Squirrel Nut Zippers “West of Zanzibar”
Queen Bee and the Honeylovers “Logan and Moore”
Pat Travers “In The Mood”
Glenn Miller “Anvil Chorus”
Joe Stilgoe “Nothing’s Changed”
Helen O’Connell “The Bad Humor Man”
Dr. John “Tauro Infirmiry”
The HUngry Williams “Where’s My Baby”
Jive Aces “Feelin’ Happy”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Whistle Stop”
Tape Five “Love Gun”
The Swingin’ Sisters “Tanav, Kus Sa Elad”
Hetty And The Jazzato Band “Un Bacio a Mezzanotte”
Susie Arioli “If Dreams Come True”
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra “We’ll Be Together Again”

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM and 6 PM, Thursday at 7 PM and Saturday at 5 PM, only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

Remember, you can tune in to The AIR at all hours of the day and night for a variety and quality of programming that you will not find anywhere else. Check PopCult regularly for details on our new episodes.

It’s late on a Sunday evening, and I didn’t have any candidates for Monday Morning Art that I’m really happy with, so I sat down and knocked out a quick digital painting of an Alpaca.On our recent trip through Pennsylvania we noticed that there were a few Alpaca on the Amish Farm in Lancaster, near the scenic covered bridge.

I didn’t get any photos of them, so I did this from memory. The reason we didn’t get close enough for photos is that, as you probably already know, Alpaca are fearsome beasts who, upon seeing an innocent animal or human, will immediately charge, leaping over fences and farm utility vehicles so that they may pounce upon their prey, ripping ferociously at its neck with their long, sharp-as-knives claws so that they can instantly slay it and begin feasting on the resultant dead body.

Or so I am told.

I must salute those brave Amish men who get up at 4 AM, when the Alpaca are still lethargic after a long night’s hunt and don Medieval armor so that they confont these animals and retieve the wool, milk, ambergris, limericks and other products that these majestic animals provide.

This painting was done from memory, as we only briefly glimpsed the fearsome predator and were able to speed away before it zeroed in on us and made us its next meal. Makes my heart races to think of how close we came to certain death.

If you wish, you can click this image to see it bigger.

Meanwhile, over in radio-land, Monday on The AIR, our Monday Marathon brings you four episodes of Radio Free Charleston international.  After airing, these four early episodes will go into mothballs and disappear from the server to make room for new programming. As Haversham Recording Institute is providing international coverage to news outlets of the mess in Britain, Herman Linte has begged off this week, and we’ll be bringing you an encore of a recent episode of Prognosis at 3 PM.

You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on this embedded radio player…

2019 marks 50 years since we landed on the moon, but it’s also the 20th anniversary of a tragic space anniversary that has thus far gone unmentioned in the media.

This week marks twenty years since the moon broke free from its orbit, taking the crew of Moonbase Alpha on an interglalactic journey.  Nobody will forget that fateful morning, September 13, 1999, when nuclear waste stored on the moon triggered the fateful circumstance.

While we on Earth have had to contend with the consequences of catastrophic climate change and hysteria that caused the election of an insane reality TV star to the highest position in government, those 311 brave people on the moon have had to contend with even rougher hardships…except for the whole president thing, anyway.

This week we once again turn our video eye toward the best science fiction show with a really moronic premise ever…Gerry and Silvia Anderson’s Space: 1999.

The premise of Space: 1999 involved the folks on Moonbase Alpha (Remember that base we had on the Moon just two decades ago?).  The Earth had been storing its nuclear waste on the dark side of the Moon, where it blowed up…real good.   The force of the explosion sends the Moon right out of orbit, launching it into space like a giant spaceship, with Moonbase Alpha going along for the ride.

Ignoring the likelihood that such a cataclysm would not only kill everyone on the Moon, but also pretty much end life on Earth as we know it, the series was a lot a fun with sharp writing and a first-rate cast that included later OSCAR winner Martin Landau. We first ran the above video of the pilot five years ago, but it was paired with a couple of complete episodes from later in the series, which have since fallen victim to YouTube’s notorious copyright hook. Still, we must never forget the tragic events of September 13th, 1999, and endeavor to never ever again bury nuclear waste on the moon that isn’t there anymore.

Space: 1999 was a welcome lifeline for fans of science fiction on television in the mid-1970s. Back in the dark ages before Star Wars, good old-fashioned space opera was a rare sight on the small screen. Space:1999 was the first prime-time series set in outer space since Star Trek and Lost In Space had ended their runs in the previous decade. Space:1999 ran for two seasons, from 1975 to 1977 (back when 1999 seemed like a far-off future date), and spawned a ton of cool toys, comic books and action figures. Just like with Star Trek, the final season of Space: 1999 was produced by Fred Frieberger, as so it is rarely mentioned by fans of the show.

This week we go back to late November, 2013 for an early edition of The RFC MINI SHOW featuring music from the annual CYAC tradition, MARY A Rock Opera, Dan Kehde and Mark Scarpelli’s musical which has become a Charleston holiday institution. We brought you three songs from the show’s 2013 rehearsals, starring Rowan Maher as the titular mother of Christ. The RFC crew recorded these three songs, “Spin and Grow,” “Hear Us O Lord,” and “Child, My Child” before the set was finished or the full orchestra was available. It’s still a stunning work and we are happy to share it with you.

We will keep you posted about this year’s production of MARY, which I’m guessing will be at CYAC’s new home, the Elk City Playhouse. The show usually opens the day after Thanksgiving, and is well worth experiencing.

Also of note is that this is the first of two “episode sevens” for The RFC MINI SHOW. Months after posting these, I realized that I’d numbered two of the shows as “seven,” I don’t recall if I ever skipped a number later to make up for it, but next week you can look forward to The RFC MINI SHOW number 7.2.

The PopCult Toybox

Action Man is the British version of GI Joe. Hasbro debuted GI Joe as the first-ever action figure (seriously, they invented the term just for him–if someone says different, they don’t know what they’re talking about) in 1964, and America’s Movable Fighting Man proved to be so popular that Hasbro was approached by toy companies in other countries who wanted to license the hit toy.

In the UK, Palitoy secured the license, and changed the name to “Action Man,” mainly because “GI” was a meaningless term in the British Military. Also, having “action” in the name reinforced that he was an action figure, and not a doll.

There is a ton of history that comes after that, but for the purposes of this review, we’re going to jump forward about fifty years. In 2014 GI Joe hit his 50th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, Hasbro did almost nothing. They did slap an anniversary logo on some 3 3/4″ GI Joe toys that had been delayed from the previous year, but outside of offerings from the Official GI Joe Club, there was no 12″ GI Joe product.

However, two years later, when the 50th Anniversary of Action Man came about, a small company called Art + Science International Ltd licensed the rights to produce 50th Anniversary Action Man sets from Hasbro (who bought Palitoy back in the 1980s).

These were well-done sets that included nearly exact replicas of the original figures with great accessories and they were priced with the adult collector in mind.

After having a decent level of success with the collectors figures, last year Art + Science decided to shoot for a more mainstream, children’s market, and came up with a new, less expensive, body design. Apparently inspired by Marvel’s Titan Hero series of figures, of which I am on record as not being particulary fond, the new Action Figures are aimed at ages 3 and up.

These figures were released in the UK in time for Christmas last year, but I just now got my hands on one of the basic models (more deluxe sets have weapons, but I believe they have the same body).

These may well work as toys for kids, but I think even kids would be disappointed. The figure itself sports a great headsculpt–a perfect likeness of the GI Joe/Action Man head that we all know and love. Unfortunately that head is poised atop a body that can best be described as that of a knockoff of Ken, Barbie’s boyfriend.

There are eight points of articulation, and half of of those points have limited range. The nead has the neck built-in, and plugs into the body, which makes it incompatible with most other action figure bodies without serious modifications.

The figure comes with no weapons. The uniforms have no real pockets and close with velcro-type closures. You get a shirt, pants, boots (molded with a distinction between left and right), very cool scale dog tags and a nice beret. The basic model has no other weapons or accessories. This is a budget-line action figure.

There is more articulation than a Titan Hero and a cloth uniform that can be removed, but aside from that, it fits right in with the cheap-o standard 12″ figures that dominate the mass market today.

We’ll address the positives: The headsculpt is perfect. This is GI Joe (or Action Man), down to the scar. The scale dog tags (seen right) are terrific, although I can’t figure out how they got around the choking hazard standard to get this marked safe for ages 3 and up. The beret is very nice, pliable vinyl-like material. The boots are well-sculpted military boots, and seem to be big enough, and soft enough to use with a vintage 12″ action figure.

There are plenty of negatives too: The body sucks. Articulation is poor. The head can twist, at the base of the neck, but can’t move up or down.

The hip joints are very loose. The legs are neoprene and the plastic click-joints within can only hold three positions. Ankles are not jointed. The waist joint is a simple swivel.

The arms are way too short. The hands will not grip anything and are posed open, like he’s waving. There is no articulation in the arms, other than the ball-and-socket joint where they attach to the torso. Elbows do not bend and the wrists are not articulated.

All told, there are eight points of articulation, but that’s being a bit generous.

The uniform is cloth, and not some kind of plastic or vinyl, but the velcro-type closures are clunky (and white on the uniform I got, which makes them more visible). The pants may be useful on other figures as part of a kitbash, but the shirt is hampered by being tailored to fit the unnaturally short arms and might look a tad doofussy on another figure.

At the moment, I’ve only seen these at Amazon. None showed up at any of the toy shows I’ve been to this year, and even ordering from Amazon, they ship from the UK. You’re looking at spending twenty to thirty bucks a pop, depending on the vendor and how elaborate the set you choose is.

I went with the basic desert-camo guy, and he ran just over twenty bucks.

That’s not a great value for the money. The figure, as sold, is not intended for collectors, and once he’s out of the box, he does not display well at all. My guess is that, if these were marketed in the US, at mainstream retailers, they’d sell for ten or twelve bucks, just like most 12″ figures do now.

At that price, these have some good kitbash/custom fodder value. I’ve just popped the head off the body as I’m typing this, and I’m going to extend the neck with Apoxie and see how he works on a Marx 12″ action figure. I’ll find a use for the uniform, boots and beret, and those dog tags will look sharp on a detailed military kitbash.

If Hasbro allows these to be marketed in the US (which does not look to be likely) and the price is what I’m guessing, customizing and kitbashing would be the use for these. They’d be cheap enough to buy in bulk just to get the headsculpts.

However, at the current prices as imports, it’s a bit much to pay for a figure that can’t be enjoyed as-is, out of the box.

The PopCulteer
September 6, 2019

You know what we haven’t done in a long time. We haven’t done a PopCulteer that was made up of random items, assembled hap-hazardly. How about we do that again?

It’s been a bit of a busy week for your PopCulteer, still catching up from the backlog of work that accumulated during his vacation, while working on other projects for the future, reconnecting with old friends and preparing to bring you more cool articles, video and radio.

There’s a lot of cool stuff coming up, so let’s dive in.

Metal Flooring

Well, sort of. I wanted to plug a Kickstarter campaign for Chris Ojeda, the frontman of local Metal Heroes, Byzantine. Chris is also a professional contractor, and has, along with his father, created and developed a tool to align wood flooring, so that the planks are straight and flush against one another.

There’s about a month left to go on this campaign, and it almost looks cool enough to make me want to  take up installing flooring as a hobby. The Floor Cam could be a real game-changer for the flooring industry.

Check out the video…

The Floor Cam can be ordered through the campaign, with an expected delivery date of late next year for the rust-free aluminum installation aid. Click this widget for more details on how you can get your hands on one.

Anticipating Sydney

The previously-announced second part of the special “New Wave In The 21st Century” episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat will run next week on The AIR instead of this Friday. Sydney requested an extra week to put the show together, and you just don’t turn down a request from the legendary Sydney Fileen. Instead, you can tune into The AIR at 3 PM to hear the episode of Big Electric Cat where Sydney turns out not to be a fan of the Royals. Listen at the website, or on this embedded player…

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon, Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM and Thursday at Noon, exclusively on The AIR. Every Wednesday at 1 AM, we bring you three classic episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, just so you can be all New Wave-y overnight.

The Gospel According To Danny and Mark

I’ve known about this for a while, but now it’s official and you can be sure that I’ll tell you more about it as the date grows nearer, but Mark Scarpelli  is turning Daniel Boyd’s cult movie, Invasion of The Space Preachers, into a musical, and they’re going to have a table read open to the public next month. Visit the Facebook page, like it, and stare at this graphic, what I done swiped from there…

A Very Plez-ant Time

Earlier this week, between doctor appointments, I met up with Douglas Imbrogno at Mea Cuppa on Charleston’s West Side. Doug was my editor for years at the Gazette and later The Gazz.com, where was responsible for the creation (and the naming of) this very blog. Doug has since struck out onto new adventures, including The Changing Climate Times Newsletter and podcast, and his personal writing depository, plus some great freelance assignments.

I’ve always been very fond of Doug, and when he said he wanted to meet up and gift me with some cool Pez dispensers, I was very happy to catch up and add more toys to what will soon be the revamped “Wall of Coolness” in Stately Radio Free Charleston Manor.

I took Doug some candy selections from our recent foray to the Boyer Candy Company, and accepted a very cool batch of Pez dispensers into the fold. We caught up on what each other has been up to lately. Doug told me about his life post-Gazette, and his upcoming projects and I filled him in on my recent travels and dealing with Myasthenia Gravis. What was a really cool surprise was that Doug had written a cool sendoff to his Pez buddies, which you can read HERE. I’ve swiped his photo of the Pez gang, but will post an update here once they are fully assimilated into the toy vault that is my home.

This weekend Doug will be at Culturefest at Pipestem, in Southern West Virginia. At the rate I’m working, he’ll probably be on stage minutes after I get this posted. You can find more details on that at their Facebook event page.

A Monster Of A Gathering

Also happening this weekend, up in Flatwoods, is the Flatwoods Monster Festival, which is just starting up. This could turn out to be a lot of fun, and I wish I found out about it sooner. Next year I’ll try to dig up more details in advance, but for now, you can visit their Facebook page.

“By God” By Liz

Liz McCormick, who as a teen was a huge help in front of and behind the camera on Radio Free Charleston’s video show, is now working for West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and turned in this report on the etymology of the phrase, “West ‘By God’ Virginia.”  It’s so cool seeing Liz doing such great work for WVPB.

Later today in PopCult.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a detailed review of a toy in this blog, so I’m going to shake off the rust and come back at you later today with a review of the new, budget-line Action Man figures, which have been available in the UK for about a year now.

That’s a sneak peek at right.

I finally got my hands on one, and will give you the lowdown on the good and bad (mostly bad) about this latest British incarnation of the original 12″ action figure.

The Great Fudge Whale

Finally, I need to share a short story and photo from the recent vacation that most of my readers are probably sick of hearing about. As you may recall, that trip was mostly to celebrate five years since Mel Larch and I got married on stage at The Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. At the time, since we sort of eloped, we did not have a wedding cake. On the way back to the hotel on the L, I proclaimed that, when we did finally have a wedding cake, it would be “Fudgie The M****r F*****g Whale!”

If you’re not familiar with Fudgie the Whale, read up on him HERE.

It took us five years to find a Carvel anywhere near anyplace we would be long enough to make the trek to get the elusive beast.

It turns out that Carvel is not as widespread as you might think, not all locations sell Fudgie, and even though you can get Carvel ice cream cakes at Kroger, the whale itself is exclusive to their own retail locations. Those, it turns out, are as scarce as hen’s teeth.

However, our recent trip took us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is about an hour away from Reading, Pennsylvania, which does indeed boast among its many fine dining establishments one fully-functional Carvel Ice Cream Emporium. We diverted our hotel-hopping anniversary trip to Reading, hit up the Carvel and snagged the last small Fudgie what they had in captivity, and escorted him to our hotel, as he serenaded us with his beautiful ice-cream whale songs.

Later that night, in the privacy of our room at Homewood Suites, we partook of the tail of our killer whale, and that is the tale of our quest. Here is the photographic evidence.

And with that, our PopCulteer is a wrap this week. Check back later today for our review of Action Man, and come back all weekend for our regular features.

Our first new show, post-vacation on The AIR this week is Radio Free Charleston International, which you can hear at 3 PM Thursday timeslot on The AIR. You can listen at the website, or on this embedded radio player…

As is our new Thursday norm, we now have a replay of this week’s Radio Free Charleston at 2 PM, followed by a brand-new episode of Radio Free Charleston International at 3 PM. For you old-timers who remember the original broadcast incarnation of , this combination comes close to recreating the original experience, with your PopCulteer unleashed to play whatever he felt like playing, mixed with a generous helping of great local music.

This week we re-ran RFC 100, which you can read about HERE. However, RFC International is ALL-New!

Radio Free Charleston International is the two-hour weekly show where Rudy Panucci (that’s me, by the way) gets to play whatever he wants. It’s our way of revisiting the golden age of free-format radio, which is sort of what inspired us to go into this medium in the first place. This week I did a real show, with back-announcing and everything, instead of just playing two hours of random stuff and posting the playlist here.

But for those of you who enjoy playing the home version of RFC International, here’s this week’s playlist:

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Andy Partridge “Humanoid Boogie”
Moron Police “Beware The Blue Skies”
The Hatters “Обижен”
Wax “Right Between The Eyes”
Argyle Gooslby “Blood Cave”
Hans Gruber and the Die Hards “American Hero”
The Beautiful South “36D”
Residente “La Sombra”
Cherie Currie & Brie Darling “Something In The AIR”
Mark Knopfler “The Boxer”
Hollywood Vampires “Heroes”
PP Arnold “Different Drum”
The Pretenders “Stop Your Sobbing”
Buck O Nine “Tuff Rudeboy”
Ringo Starr “We’re On The Road Again”
Julian Cope “Psychedelic Revolution”
Waddy Wachtel “Wadraga”
Billy Sherwood “Sailing The Seas”
Terry Draper “Everything Will Be All Right”
Rupert Hine “Anvils In Five”
Paul McCartney “Dominos”
The Gift “Long Time Dead”
Fish On Friday “Godspeed”

You can tune in to RFC International every Thursday at 3 PM on The AIR. If you miss it, you have plenty of chances to catch a replay: Fridays at 1 PM and 10 PM, Saturdays at 1 PM, Sundays at 1 AM and 2 PM, Mondays at 9 PM, and Tuesdays at 11 PM, exclusively on The AIR.

If you’ve been following my posts here in PopCult for the last week, you know that I spent seven days before that on an extended anniversary trip that took us to, among other places, The Boyer Candy Company in Altoona, and Hershey’s Chocolate World, in Hershey.

On the actual day of our anniversary the Monday of last week, we were meandering our way down Interstate 81, when Mrs. PopCulteer asked, “We’re not on the clock are we? What if we see someplace cool to stop?”

I replied that we could stop anywhere we wanted, and then told her to get off at the next exit. I’d seen something.

We had stumbled onto the Lindt Factory Outlet Store in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Neither of us had any idea that there was such a place, but tucked away in an industrial distribution hub, with a sign nicely visible from the highway, was yet one more stop on our chocolate journey that had thus far included Boyer, Hershey and even Fudgie the Whale (I’ll tell you about Fudgie in a later post).

So we stopped in and were immediately greeted with free candy. As you can see at left, this is a happy place. The store offers a pretty complete assortment of Lindt Chocolates (which are pretty darned good, if you haven’t tried any yet) and the store is pretty impressive because it’s one huge room, with giant photographic murals on the walls, and sprawling open spaces which can accomodate bus tours and candy demonstrations. They don’t do factory tours since this is not where the factory is, but it is one of their main warehouses, so there’s plenty of chocolate passing through this building.

We sort of had the place to ourselves, which was really cool.

Most of the photos you’ll see were taken by Mel.  My camera was in the car and I didn’t want to leave this chocolate paradise. You can find more details about the Carlisle Lindt Factory Outlet Store by visiting their Facebook page. There are other stores around the country, and you can find them by going HERE. If you’re in the area, have a sweet tooth and appreciate fine chocolate, you ought to stop in.

Another view from outside.

The room is huge, and the chocolate is plentiful.

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Those fruits would be some nice, ripe, juicy reruns. Your PopCulteer took Labor Day off, and he’s got doctor appointments today and tomorrow, so there won’t be new shows on The AIR until Thursday.

Once again The AIR will be in reruns for the next couple of days. You can still listen to the wonderfulness of truly independent radio at The AIR website, or on this embedded radio player…

Lucky for you, we have the best reruns in the world, and that includes episode 100 of Radio Free Charleston, which somehow managed to escape inclusion in our recently-concluded three-day RFC marathon. You can hear it at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday, September 3, plus in the usual replay timeslots.

I promise that I’ll have a really teriffic new episode of RFC International on Thursday, and Sydney Fileen will return Friday with the second half of her special Big Electric Cat devoted to new music by the legends of the New Wave era.

When I get back from bloodwork and meetings today, I will prep a couple of bonus photo essays from our anniversary trip. And we also have some book, music and toy reviews to bring you. So don’t panic. Your PopCulteer just needed a day off after returning from vacation and plowing into five fourteen-hour days of work.

It’s Labor Day. Your PopCulteer has been spending about fourteen hours a day in front of the computer since he got back from his vacation last Tuesday, and this is one of those days when readership at PopCult is at its lowest because everybody is out doing other stuff. So this week’s art is a simple digital painting, a color study attempting to recreate the look of the Central Pennsylvania sky and mountains, as seen from the road while wearing mirrored sunglasses, the week before last while Mr. and Mrs. PopCulteer were meandering their way through the chocolate factories and toys shows of the Keystone state to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

If you wish, you can click this image to see it bigger.

Meanwhile, over in radio-land, Monday on The AIR, our 30th Anniversary marathon of Radio Free Charleston concludes with a third-day of our most recent episodes of The AIR’s flagship show. I have decided that, contrary to what I’d previously written here, this week RFC and The Swing Shift will be reruns. I will tell you about them tomorrow, and bring you a bonus photo essay or two from the recent trip to make up for it. Basically, I need a day off, and today’s a holiday, so it sort of makes sense. We’ll pick up with new programming on Thursday.

You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on this embedded radio player…