We just drove back from Long Island and found a really good radio program. I absolutely love good radio. It is one of my most favorite things in the world. Will has told me many times that I am a producer - and sometimes I imagine myself producing radio shows. Steve and I have talked about starting a radio station. I think it might be an interesting proposition for the web. I've been wondering if internet car radios are on the horizon. Someone told me that there was such a thing in big cities, but I've never heard anything more specific. Anyone know?

We had some really smashing good radio in the NYC area. Music programs like Delphine Blue's, Shocking Blue, Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight, Fred Herschkowitz's Home Fries, Peter Bochan's All Mixed Up. Peter Bochan also does these sound collages that would air every New Years' eve that are fabulous. Delphine Blue's show went off the air when she left WBAI over a year ago. She DJs at WFUV now but sounds all strangely smooth and professional and the music that she plays isn't as interesting and groovy. Steve always says that her wings got clipped. She is so cool though - she probably needed health insurance or something. I need good music on the radio because if I just rely on my cds, I tend to just play the same things over and over. I'm cheap too and pretty reluctant to purchase new music.

I loved and miss the talk radio too - mostly programs on WBAI - too many to really name them all. There used to be a great Women's health show called "Snatches". Kara would have liked that! Michio Kaku's "Explorations" is a science show that dealt with a lot of environmental issues and also some more unusual things like a group of Physicists that believe in God based on science, not just faith. Armand DeMele's show, "The Positive Mind" originally bugged the hell out of me - he is a psychiatrist that talks a little bit like Sylvester the cat. I felt like he was just always trying to make his callers cry. I don't know what made me change my mind about him, but I really like him now. I think I wasn't really listening to him in the beginning. Steve tells me that it used to upset him to hear me make fun of the show because he always really liked it. There are also a lot of ethnic shows on WBAI: Radio Tahrir, Radio Free Eireann, Latino Journal, Circle of Red Nations, and a Jewish Women's show that I don't recall the name of. I used to listen to Talk Back a lot too when Utrice Leid was the host. Listening to that show was like going to school. Once, when there was a KKK march scheduled to happen in NYC that folks were upset and shocked over, she asked her listeners - why does the KKK want to march in NYC? It took about an hour to get the answer she was looking for - because there is Klan and sympathy for the Klan in NYC.