TALK TALK

Hello, my name is Mark, and I’m addicted to radio. (Hi Mark!)

Seriously, I could go a couple weeks without turning my TV on, but I can’t get through a day without radio, specifically talk radio. In fact, as I write this, I’m listening to the underappreciated Jonathan Green on WTMJ from Milwaukee.

Today I lost one of my three favorite radio hosts of all time–Tony Kornheiser, about whom you have already heard, if you’ve been reading this site. TK’s been the subject of much blogging angst for the past two months, ever since he announced that his radio show would be ending. (To be fair, some people aren’t as bothered by this.)

As a longtime TK fan, I know when the man’s speaking from the gut, and when he’s feeding me a line. And he’s feeding me a line about why he’s left his radio show.
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A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON

In compliling my “favorite albums” list, I most regrettably overlooked an album that’s sustained my soul for almost two decades now: Level 42’s World Machine.

What sort of jaded audiophile am I if I can forget an album like World Machine?