Category: Retroglitteratiness

  • semitough

    His Eminence Front

    It’s a put on.

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    Catching Up

    I guess I should have put one of these up after my last post.  “Semitough has reached the end of the broadcast day.” Younger readers accustomed to 24X7 television may not recognize a test pattern or understand that TV stations used to sign off for the night and there was nothing on overnight. One of the perils of living in…

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    Zoo Freak Redux

    Awhile back I posted a wistful look back at my wasted youth and my preoccupation with KZEW 98 FM, an album rock format station from back in the day. Since then I’ve had a steady stream of visitors. Seems that not a day goes by without some search engine somewhere pointing another lost soul to these parts of the googletubes.…

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    Remembering Dallas When It Was Dallas: Follow up

    A few weeks back I posted asking readers to post their memories of Dallas back when it was still a “small” town and got some great responses. Reader Barclay Kleese remembered: My Grandfather started a radio show called the Early Birds. It aired every morning. Kind of a music, skit kind of thing. I was only six or seven at…