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A Tribute to KBOO Engineer & Programmer Jim Braun

I knew Jim Braun at KBOO for twenty years,  over which time I occasionally asked him to engineer a show for me.  He was always willing, and always  modest and self-effacing.  I only got to know Jim personally in the year before he died,  and I came to feel that he had ta... Read more

Reviews of "Jennifer's Body," "The Informant," and "The Baader-Meinhoff Complex."

Jennifer’s BodyDirector: Karyn KusamaWith: Amanda Seyfried, Megan Fox, Johnny Simmons, J.K. SimmonsMegan Fox (Jennifer) tells us she wants to be taken seriously.  So far, she has been scantily-clad eye candy in the Transformer movies.  So, she hitched her wagon to screen... Read more

In the future....

I hope to start blogging about various local and national music topics soon.    Read more

Jeezus! The entire novel

I don't know how this was deleted....try this url: http://kboo.fm/node/16551   Read more

Sarcasm versus war

A serf is a feudal subject, as you know, not quite a slave but imprisoned in a system of exploitation.  Land owners also owned the labor of the people living on the land, so if you were a serf, you had to work at certain times of the year to get in the Master's crops, an... Read more

Remembering Mary Catherine Lamb

Mary Catherine Lamb died Aug. 15, 2009. She was a pioneer of women’s programming on KBOO. From the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s she had a bi-weekly program, first called “Women Reading Women’s Writings” and later “Women’s Voice,” on which she read diverse fiction and nonfi... Read more