One of the few things required of an XDU DJ is to read two PSAs per hour. When I was at the station the other night I was pleased to see the holiday announcement from Save the Manatee Club. Cos (1) who doesn't like manatees? (2) I'm pretty sure the Save the Manatee PSA was the one being read when I caused a fellow DJ to break up on the air and cuss into a live mic. I'd been joking around with the next DJ & got him laughing so much that he couldn't get thru the manatee PSA. After stopping and starting a couple of times he finally lost it completely and said "oh shit" (possibly "oh fuck"). Good times...
Lots o' good new CDs crossing my desk recently, including Handsome Boy Modeling School, Githead, Daara J and Lo'Jo. Also several less than impressive offerings including a set of reggae Xmas songs, a Putumayo comp called Blues Lounge (a few good cuts but mostly sounds like Moby's Play run thru the blanderizer), and a reggae tribute to Bob Dylan (don't ask... please)
I always regretted not doing college radio pre-kids when it would have been relatively easier to pay my dues in a graveyard shift. UT didn't have a student station back then, but I could have done it in my early years at Rice if I'd gotten my act together.
Now I'm getting a small taste of it with some Webjay playlists:
http://webjay.org/by/riddle
I haven't really sorted them into coherent "shows" but what the heck.
More about Webjay in my blog:
http://aprendizdetodo.com/toys?item=20041115