But like the Borg, everyone is assimilated into Throwback Thursday, and resistance is futile…as witnessed by the photo above, which a dear FB chum of mine found in a Marshall University yearbook from 1982. It features members of the staff of WMUL-FM 88—“the Mighty Mule,” as we called it—and the fellow wearing the hat may look familiar to some of you. (I showed this to my father, who asked: “Why are you wearing a hat?” I was stumped for an answer, so I returned: “Somebody had to.”) I’ve talked about my experiences at the ‘MUL here in the past—once in a post about my paisan Jeff Lane and the other about a pledge drive I worked—and I just have to say that seeing this picture brought back a flood of wonderful memories for me, because hanging out at WMUL was unquestionably one of the best times in my life. (My parents are not convinced of this, because my time spent at the student station was directly proportionate to the amount of time I didn’t spend in class.) Another Facebook compadre (he’s the one looking away from the camera) said it so sweetly and succinctly: “No way to get people to understand just how much fun that place was…just very glad to have been there.” Amen to that.
Once again, my eBay auctions have been taking up a good deal
of my copious free time but the response has been truly phenomenal…and I’d like
to thank some of the members of the TDOY
faithful for finding things they like and taking them home: longtime friend of
the blog Matt Hinrichs (of Scrubbles fame), The Lady Eve (positively the
same dame!), my lowcountry paisan (and personal
Ron Jeremy friend) B. Goode at Gonna Put Me in the Movies,
and comedy writer-critic Stephen Winer (Late Night with David Letterman), a frequent
contributor at Criterion.com and author of an essay included in that
company’s The Freshman
release…which I swear I’m going to open up once the eBay furor dies down. (I promise.)
But a major shout-out is reserved for my Savannah homegirl Faustina, who was nice
enough to drop a mention of my eBay auctioning into casual conversation on
Facebook. (Sales skyrocketed as a
result.)
With the eBay stuff reaching its peak, I’ll be able to climb
back into the ol’ blogging saddle this weekend with an edition of Serial
Saturdays (and Doris Day(s) this Monday), but in
the meantime I invite you to check out my latest “Where’s That Been?” column at
ClassicFlix, A
Life in the Balance (1955), and the latest installment of the Boston
Blackie movie roundup, One Mysterious Night
(1944), is up at the Radio Spirits blog.
I now leave you with a scene of a boy and his dog (namely, nephew Davis
and Willie the Wonder Dachshund).
1 comment:
Love the radio station photo! I worked at my college station too. It was so much fun. We didn't have as many ladies as you did though. As a result, lots of Beavis and Butthead impressions and air guitar. Still, I loved those guys!
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