I think I've had a bad run with radio programs lately. At least Issues, Etc. has come back on the air. Now if Garage Logic goes away, I may give up radio entirely. Okay, not so much. I'm just disappointed that, as I alluded to in my previous post, the Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio is ending on December 11. It doesn't help matters that the hosts continue daily to remind us that the show is ending soon.
I really enjoyed listening to this show when I lived where I could hear it on real radio; now I listen most weekday mornings via internet. I continue to ask myself whatever will I do in the morning without Jim Ed and Dale serving up the eclectic smorgasbord of diverse music?
I have purchased at least two CDs thanks to this show. What other radio program plays Moxie Fruvous? How else can future generations learn to love Throat Culture's song "Easter Island Head?" Where else can on hear showtunes, klezmer, Celtic, Leo Kottke, Nancy Griffith, and ads for Bowzer Beds all woven together in a miscellaneous mix which can inspire or (gasp) remind one that it is Bosses' Day?
So many memories. Near Labor Day I will ever strain to recall the words to the State Fair song. I will always
consider a move to Memphis when I see a road sign for Memphis. I will always think of "King of Spain" whenever I see a zamboni. I will ever chuckle when I drive under the sign near the merge of I-44 and I-55 in St. Louis which reads, "Downtown Illinois" and remember 
Ann Reed's song, "Where the (ahem) [Heck] is Boston?". You can't buy stuff like that.Dale, Jim Ed, I will miss you terribly.
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