This is more Last Word material than 'Pail material, but this discovery is so exciting I can't wait another month to reveal it! If there ever was a Snuffleupagus moment, this is it!
I've insisted for years that there was a local AM station in the 1980s called WCLU that programmed a top 40 format. Briefly in the mid-'80s, its on-air personalities called the station Clu 132. Everyone said I was just making the whole thing up.
Well, now I've found some solid proof that the station was real...
https://musicofmylife.net/2020/05/25/the-cincinnati-am-rock-radio-blues
Peep that blog entry! It's from someone who says they regularly listened to WCLU in its heyday! It also includes a copy of a WCLU music survey from the week of May 25, 1983. These surveys were distributed at record stores. WCLU's playlist of currents at the time featured 60 records, so its format was really more of a top 60 than a top 40. If you're going to run a top 40 station, well, a top 60 is even better!
The #1 record on WCLU's playlist that week was "Let's Dance" by David Bowie. The rest of that week's playlist includes everything from Def Leppard to Gladys Knight to Robert Ellis Orrall. And I guarantee you the Mtume song was not about gum.
A part of local radio history that everyone denied has been preserved for posterity!
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Get a Clu!
Have no fear, the November ish is here!
The November edition of The Last Word is pub-a-roo!
This ish talks about visiting national parks in Colorado and Utah, people bringing beer to school in 7th grade, a Frank Zappa poster getting ruined, college students partying, and more!
So point your pooper here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/481830249/The-Last-Word-11-2020
If that doesn't work, bip on over here...
http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2011.pdf
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
I'm voting!
I'm in the middle of filling out my mail-in ballot right now, and it's mighty sad.
As I am never voting for a major party again after they botched the coronavirus response, I'm voting Libertarian for President and Senate. But there's also 2 amendments to the Kentucky Constitution on the ballot, and I'm voting no on both.
The first measure is a section that would ostensibly expand the rights of crime victims. Last time it was on the ballot, I reluctantly voted yes, but that version of the amendment was thrown out as too vague. This time, I'm voting no, because our government has managed to make criminals out of everyone.
The other amendment would lengthen the terms of commonwealth attorneys and district court judges. I'm voting no on this too.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Pete Wilson statue removed
Remember Poopypants Pete?
Though of a different party, Pete Wilson was the Gavin Newsom of the '90s. Republican Wilson's authoritarian incompetence as Governor of California drew much ridicule in The Last Word in its early years.
A life-sized bronze statue of Poopypants, now 87, loomed in a San Diego park for 13 years. But now it's being removed because of Wilson's hostility to immigration and gay rights as governor. More recently, Wilson has voiced support for the failed Trump regime.
The owner of the statue says it will be stored for safekeeping, but no decision has been made on whether it will be returned.
Sunday, October 11, 2020
A person bunkerooed at Canyonlands
Last week, I went on a fact-finding mission to some fine national parks in Colorado and Utah. At Canyonlands National Park, I heard the audio of an LAP bunker blast.
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