On Demand
The No Show Archive
November 2005
Misgiving Day
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Steve Post, host of The NO SHOW, announces a campaign to establish a new national holiday – MISGIVING DAY. Falling on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, MISGIVING DAY is designed to break the arc of forced bonhomie that extends from Thanksgiving, hits its apogee at Christmas, and climaxes on New Year’s Eve. Audience participation is invited. The music will serve as a palliative. (This program first aired November 27, 2004.)
The No Show Musical Necropolis
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Steve Post inducts two new members into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis: Saxophonist Eli “Lucky” Thompson, whose life teaches us to never nickname a child “Lucky,” and Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, without which much contemporary music would be impossible (think disco, hip-hop and electronica). Steve and Frank discuss several items of, well, not breaking but perhaps broken news, and muse further on the nature of nicknames. The music may give you the willies.
In Memory of Theodore Gottlieb
Saturday, November 12, 2005
This program, first broadcast on November 14, 2003, is dedicated to the memory of Theodore Gottlieb, born 99 years ago this week. Steve Post, host of the No Show, resurrects the spirit of his friend “Brother Theodore,” the macabre comic and social critic who remains as obscure in death as he was in life. This program will do nothing to change that. Steve does the show entirely dressed in black, and the music is creepy.
Tales of the Afflicted
Saturday, November 05, 2005
More of Steve Post’s adventures in hospital-land this week, as the afflicted one relates tales from his most recent illnesses and cites Oscar Levant as his role model. You will treasure Steve’s rendition of “Back in the Saddle Again,” for which the station expects to be sued by the copyright holder (and rightfully so). A kind of musical necropolis fills out the rest of the show, with selections by the recently departed Shirley Horn, R.L. Burnside, and Paul Pena.