On Demand
The No Show Archive
March 2004
The Bad Man
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Steve Post, host of the No Show, recounts a story from his childhood about his father’s closest friend, one of the few adults in the world who Steve remembers with fondness. And we extend our treatment of the theme of The Bad Man in popular music. Be listening. It may not be our best show ever, but it is too good to miss. (Or at least we want you to think so if you do miss it.)
Birth of the Spring!
Saturday, March 20, 2004
Savor the irony: the first day of Spring, with all its associations of hope, renewal, and affirmation, is also Steve Post's birthday, with all his associations of negativity despair, and rejection. Which set of universals will prevail? Here’s a hint: the No Show is hosted by Steve Post, not Mother Nature.
Abilene
Friday, March 12, 2004
Steve Post recounts a tale from his confused youth in which he follows his bliss to the promised land of women who don't treat you mean: Abilene. (How do you suppose it went for him?) Then he falls into an extended meditation on the Bad Man Theme in folk and popular music, and can't get up. The music is better than usual, if that is saying anything.
Boarding School
Saturday, March 06, 2004
You can cut the pathos with a knife as Steve Post recounts his two-year long childhood banishment by one of his wicked stepmothers to a boarding school of Dickensian quality "in the wilds of New Jersey when New Jersey still had wilds." Music selections do not include "Teach Me Tonight," because we have done that to death already.
