http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php Rob Sherwood Blog en-us Fri, 01 May 2026 02:24:58 +0000 Fri, 01 May 2026 02:24:58 +0000 SoftCab.com http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
Take care...]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:19:24 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281 I hope our starvation for the next chapter ends before Thanksgiving.
I did enjoy the new chapter.
Mark]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:48:04 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:59:51 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
I was going to write more but suddenly my head feels like it weighs about 75 pounds. It is big but not THAT big. That means I better go to bed. NOW! Nighty!]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:15:36 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:06:10 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
The other day I read a report from Rome, Italy where the oldest nun in the world...she's 106....has announced she voted with an absentee ballot for OBAMA!!!! So, am I to assume that Sister Ancienta supports partial birth abortion? Something tells me she is ga ga and taking advice from some euro-socialist.....Or....Arne & Karl are sharing some tabs with her. Wait a minute...is Karl R. dead? (I didn't even know he was sick)]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:38:04 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
I even watched the debate between the Senatorial candidates on PBS tonight. Is Al Franken just sort of stupid? There is such a difference between intelligence and chutzpah. In radio I have known so many DJ's, salesmen, and Managers who clawed their way to the top, not on the basis of talent or performance, but because they talked a GREAT game.

Speaking of the flu...and radio....how many times do I remember working while ill. Damn it sucked. Especially if it was of the intestinal distress variety and you either had to have a wastebasket handy for projectile vomiting...or ...well....the other. Once in Green Bay I had the other. And the bathroom was one floor down and the records were all 2-3 minutes or less! To make it even worse, while I was in distress and running back and forth, some fans who watched the Uncle Rob Show in Austin, were visiting in Green Bay and came by to see me. "Excuse me....I have to crap." That reminds me of a story my sister-in-law's mother told me. She was at the dentist...in the chair....and as the dentist worked on her...ever so often...very often...he'd leave the room for a bit and then return..and work some more...and then leave and then return...etc. Finally, he explained that he had a touch of the flu and was suffering from the worse case of diarrhea. (Open wide....) I think it made her sick. (Rinse and spit?)

What a great rainy day it was today. It so reminded me of SF. High in the 50's and continuous rain. Love that. Everyone is saying we may have snow on Sunday. Fuck! (sorry) I plan stay in the igloo for the next two days. See you around, booby....]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:58:16 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
The fact that I didn't hear from anyone yesterday afternoon or night, I palmed off on the fact it was Friday and people were out doing stuff. This morning I woke at about 6:30 and read for a while before dozing off again. Some very hard knocking on the door woke me about 9:30. It was my brother. I turned the phone off in that movie and forgot to turn it back on and it had been going into voice-mail for hours. Anyway....I hadn't collapsed....so we went to breakfast. After that I napped. Then I napped after that nap. I took another nap tonight about 7 and now it is 10:21 or so and time to actually go to bed.

I mentioned to someone that unlike the liberals, if Obama is elected I will always treat him with respect. In fact, I said, "I'll bend over back-ward to treat him like I wanted the libs to treat President Bush". My friend told me if Obama is elected I won't be bending over back-ward. I'll be bending forward and grabbing my knees! Did you see the democrat plan for your 401K? Damn! I'm glad all my money is in my 401Serta! Later!]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:24:18 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
I like the cool rainy days too. Always loved the cool, foggy days in The City by The Bay. I don't mind the snow though. In fact, I look forward to the snow in the early winter. (Never seemed like Christmas in California without the white stuff.) I am sick of it by April, however.

I am growing increasingly depressed at the spector of our great nation being turned over to the likes of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. And I worry tremendously about the Supreme Court justice seats they may have the opportunity to fill. To make matters worse I see Al Fanken is leading his race in Minnesota. (What the fuck is wrong with Minnesotan's??!! Are there California transplants setting up shop there??!!) Woe is me. Woe is us.

Think I'll take a nap.

Marco]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:11:14 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
I like winter without snow just fine. I used to love buying Christmas trees in a pouring rain storm in CA.

I think I may be able to get another Chapter finished by Thanksgiving and maybe even one before Christmas. I'm not looking forward to writing about K101 in San Francisco though.

Ever so often I add some more pictures to the Flikr File All Pic Sets I am just loading things willy-nilly. Browse at your heart's content.]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:28:45 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
Fortunately, I have made no such promises for niceties regarding any elected official or candidate for elected office before, during, or after the election. So I will be free to denigrate said persons with abandon. I'll do enough denigrating for both of us so you can enjoy, at least vicariously, a little dumping on the libs. Especially when things turn to shit about a year and a half from now and everyone is scratching their collective heads and wondering "How did we ever get into this?!".

I remember K101 being there in ess eff but with the exception of taking in the view of their tower field from the Bay Bridge I don't think I ever paid any attention to the goings on there. In the mid-late '70s it was that RKO legend, KFRC, for me and after returning to the Bay Area following tours in San Diego (KGB, KCBQ) and North Carolina I became a Foghead. When back in SF these days I pretty much listen to the ol' KFOG and KKSF (smooth jazz). Sometimes, hungry for news, I'll dial up KCBS. I do remember KYA as being a tough competitor but, as I said, not much about KIOI/KIQI. (I rmemebered the calls though!)

Like all the photos. I was perusing the short set of Green Bay pics and the old Laird Building the other day while some mesothelioma attorney spot was playing in the background and I got to wondering . . . How much asbestos do you think we were exposed to at WDUZ?

Marco]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:03:29 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
The towers you mention were right by San Francisco Bay by Bay Bridge. Those were the AM towers. (KIQI) At the time I worked there it featured Spanish language programming. The FM towers (KIOI) were on top of Mount San Bruno to the south of The City. Our studios were in what had been one of the original Bank Of Americas. In fact, over the portal of the front door at Montgomery & Washington & Columbus, in stone were the words Bank Of Italy. In order to get our signal from this high-rise canyon, we micro-waved it to the Fairmont Hotel roof on top of Nob Hill and from there to San Bruno Mountain. There a very unusual direction FM signal!! of 100,000 watts did the job. Unlike the KO93 tower for Modesto, the road to the top of the mountain was paved and scenic and used often. From their proliferation, I assume that the top of Mount San Bruno was where old condoms went to die.

R]]> Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:34:59 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281
I think that the government should give everyone a Jag. That would be nice. But that isn't how socialism works. (Think Cuba) Everyone will get a Cav. But it won't matter anyway, because why should anyone schlep groceries as a grocery valet when they can sit at home on their ass, supported by the Uncle Sucker, watching Jerry Springer. Come to think about it you won't even get a Cav. You can just buy your groceries from the locally government subsidized store. With luck you won't have to stand in line for a loaf of bread more than a couple of hours.]]> Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:25:21 +0000 http://robsherwood.com/blog/index.php?number=281#comment