• Radio

    Sweet Home Chicago

    It’s been an interesting day for AAR listeners in Chicago – the local station continued to broadcast in Chinese until at least 2pm according to the pre-show comments at Majority Report: The Network, Tonight, Next Week. However, sometime around 3pm or so, AAR was back on the airwaves at WNTD AM950. Listeners to Randi Rhodes show reported that the Chicago AAR staff wasn’t able to get in to the studio until then. My own personal theory is that someone walked off with the new keys after the locks were changed. Here’s my list of items AAR studio staff should have…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    However, This Doesn’t Suck At All

    John Cleese and Tim Curry have joined the cast of upcoming animated picture “Valiant. What is it? I hadn’t heard of it before, but based on this, it probably will not suck one tiny little bit. The animated comedy tells the story of a wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain’s Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. Cleese plays an Allied pigeon who gets trapped behind enemy lines. Curry voices a character who is devoted to the pigeons’ destruction as part of the enemy’s Falcon Brigade, the…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Making A Faint Sucking Sound

    The big screen movie version of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” may do just that, even if John Malkovich joins “Galaxy” cast. He plays a heretofore unheard of character created for the movie by Douglas Adams in the screenplay he wrote before his death in 2001.

  • Radio

    Nihau Nihau

    Chicago Tribune | Air America restored in Chicago Well, as of 832am local time April 16th, it’s still in Chinese. I’ve got a little AM radio at work today, set very low, so that I can hear if/when they make the cutover. Why? I don’t know. The situation is bizarrely fascinating. I’ve been chatting most nights on IRC. There’s a simpler way to get to IRC, for those people who have no idea what Internet Relay Chat is. It happens during the Majority Report live show weeknights. Go to http://www.undernet.org and click “webchat” from the array of buttons. Specify channel…