So Josh and I were discussing the tragedy that is borf getting arrested and he said "yo, there's something on NPR right now about it." So i connect with my laptop to npr.org to catch some streaming audio of it (which is upsetting because they only support RAM and Windows media) and start listening.

Immediately I am accosted with the voice of Neal Conan. I used to DJ at a radio station he called baseball games for and this guy was a colossal prick. He was also quite a bit loopy, so much so that he wasn't allowed to operate a motor vehicle and as such had to ride a bicycle around the mean streets of Aberdeen & churchville, MD. But... I digress. Back to how this guy set new epochs in being a tool.

So he was calling baseball games for the new farm team "the Aberdeen arsenal". The Aberdeen arsenal was a monumental failure in baseball. See, there was this idea that people gave a shit about baseball in Harford county, which is untrue. So the plan was that the team would play their first season games at the community college then move to the new stadium that Cal Ripken was building. To make a side comment about this, let me pull a quote from the Aberdeen arsenel website:

"The Arsenal spent one season in the Atlantic League before totally dissolving. Managed by Darrell Evans, the Arsenal played their games on a community college field, something players felt very uncomfortable doing. "

So lets analyze this. They form a baseball team and make them play at a community college. They get some wacko from NPR who can't drive a car to call the games...then they broadcast them on a community radio station.

Brilliant.

Now, to the part where I come in.... During all of this, there were 3 punk rock radio shows on the air, "The Mongolian Bar-be-que" hosted by erict. from "The Shitdogs of War", "Broken Hearts and Busted Arms" hosted by Jessse Morgan, and a third radio show called "A Grinding Noise" hosted by moi. It was always really annoying because our shows would get pre-empted by these games (which few people listened to) and we'd lose anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour of our radio show and have to sit working through this stuff. So i decided to have fun with it. I would play sound clips and read the weirdest public service announcements I could find and purposefully get parts of them wrong, My favorite part of all of this was the segues. On the most memorable occasion I played the Reversal of Man - "The Hills Have Eyes". That's the one with the amazing clip from "the burbs":

"I want to kill everyone. Satan is good, Satan is my pal...
I want to kill everyone. Satan is good, Satan is my pal..."

And this guy would call the station flipping out and complaining about me. Ranting and raving about the "devil worshipping stuff" i would play and how it would throw him off. (The best part off all though was that I could cue things up that he would hear in his headphones that wouldn't get broadcasted. I'd play Daybreak and shit to get it cued up at the beginning of the show, blaring it in his ears and to the general public this guy would just lose his shit mid-scentence and forget what he was saying.)

So as Josh and I were waxing poetic about this, I decided to look up some information about this and found that they're still using all of the web designs and logos I did in 1999. - WHFC, 91.1. Public Radio