Day 3 of retailer summit. Vegas has been wonderful. No real scoops, but having a great time. Saw LOVE. Dined at rumjungle. Played WOW minis demo. Useful panels.
As stolen from sassette726: WLIR (aka WDRE) is now off the air. Not only do I remember listening to it constantly at Adelphi, but I have memories of Elayne attaching tin foil to the radio antenna in our apartment in the Bronx so that she could tune it in when she was a teenager and I was... somewhat younger than that.
Today would have been Warren Zevon's 61st birthday. Coverville, the all-covers podcast, is commemorating this with a themed show which you can download here.
Tags:music, the zevon game Current Mood: thoughtful Current Media: Raspberry Beret -- Hindu Love Gods
Courtesy of Nathan Rabin's "My Year of Flops" on the Onion AV Club: The female lead role in "Howard the Duck" (which eventually got played by Lea Thompson) was initially offered to a "Y Kant" era Tori Amos.
Tags:small-talk Current Mood: working Current Media: secretly kinda liked that movie