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The No Show Archive
July 2004
Life and Hard Times in Radio
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Steve Post continues his allegedly fictional recollections of his life and hard times in radio with another excerpt from his work-no-longer-in-progress. Be there as Steve experiences his first recorded technical disasterwith an addressograph machine. In other business, Steve ruminates on the new Sony computer game: "Shock and Awe." The music this week will feature Nina Simone and Earl King.
It's a stretch, but this is satire
Saturday, July 24, 2004
This week we hear another selection from Steve Post's no-longer-in-progress-but-encyclopedic-in-scale novel. This episode takes place sometime in a remote past when the United States was waging war against a country that had never attacked it. (We know it's a stretch, but this is satire.) As we join Steve, he has just left his job as mimeographer for the "Committee to Wipe out Poverty," or CWOP--under the direction of obsessive-compulsive Reverend Thornhill--to follow his bliss as mailroom supervisor for WPFR (Peace & Freedom Radio), a job he saw advertised in the "Society for World Reconciliation Newsletter," or SWERN. All caught up now? The program's music kind of wanders off on its own. There is no hidden meaning. Nor meaning of any other kind. This program was first broadcast April 19, 2003.
It's a stretch, but this is satire
Friday, July 23, 2004
This week we hear another selection from Steve Post's no-longer-in-progress-but-encyclopedic-in-scale novel. This episode takes place sometime in a remote past when the United States was waging war against a country that had never attacked it. (We know it's a stretch, but this is satire.) As we join Steve, he has just left his job as mimeographer for the "Committee to Wipe out Poverty," or CWOP--under the direction of obsessive-compulsive Reverend Thornhill--to follow his bliss as mailroom supervisor for WPFR (Peace & Freedom Radio), a job he saw advertised in the "Society for World Reconciliation Newsletter," or SWERN. All caught up now? The program's music kind of wanders off on its own. There is no hidden meaning. Nor meaning of any other kind. This program was first broadcast April 19, 2003.
RADIO: Conclusion
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Steve concludes the story begun last week with his triumphant entry into the exciting world of public radio (although not in the role you might expect). Stay tuned while Steve struggles with adolescence and loses. Share Steve's confusion as to the exact nature of the "bejesus" which his father regularly offers to beat out of him. Hear Steve clinch his first big radio deal with the immortal words, "I'll take it!"
RADIO: Part One
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Return with us to the distant antiquity of Steve's childhood, when he first discovered the romance of radio. Learn how his love for the medium overcame parental displeasure, personal misgivings, and public indifference. Listen while says the fateful words, "Well, that's all the time we have...." Musical selections will offer sly allusions to the theme, except for those that do not.
From the National Anthem to Blue Moon
Saturday, July 03, 2004
The National Anthem, Death & Taxes, Ruminations on Reagan, the Blue Moon, and a guest feature on The Perils of Martha Stewart comprise the agenda of this week’s No Show. The music ranges from Karl-Heinz Stockhausen to The Fugs (not such a leap, after all).
