My alarm usually wakes me up to the sound of the KS95 morning show. I like to wake up, lie in bed and listen to the news. I don’t like to wake up to the infernal beeping of an alarm clock, it scares me.

For some reason I set my alarm last night, maybe because I was over there monkeying with the clock to spring forward and all that nonsense.

Apparently, I?ve been sleeping through the radio for a bit because it’s like 8:30 now and I?ve just been roused from sleep. I was roused from sleep because “Can’t Hardly Wait” was on the radio.

“Hmmm,” I thought in my early Sunday morning sleepy brain, “that’s odd KS95 never ever plays the ‘mats.”

Usually KS95 is home to Top 40 pap like Nickelback, The Calling, Jewel, Train, Lifehouse, et al. At least that?s what I imagine Top 40 pap to be, I?m not so sure anymore what it really is. So, I could be totally wrong. But for the sake of argument, let?s call it To9 40 pap. KS95 just doesn?t play cool stuff like the ‘mats. Which is fine and all, because that’s what Drive 105 is for. KS95 is for their morning show that just gossips, gives me the news and weather.

So, my sleep-addled brain decided it was dreaming and that “Can’t Hardly Wait” wasn’t really on the radio. I was pretty sure I was just dreaming about the song being the radio. Then I pinched myself. Yes, I decided to pinch myself because I wasn’t sure I was dreaming and I?d always heard that’s what you do to see if you are dreaming. Apparently when you dream you can’t feel a pinch.

I felt it.

Then I got scared because the very next song after “Can’t Hardly Wait” was Westerberg as Grandpaboy’s “High Time.”

Yes, I was scared and had decided that Paul Westerberg was dead and the radio was just gonna play all his songs all day long. I started to cry a little bit and wondered why nobody had told me.

Because I had also decided that someone would have called me had they known and I was pretty sure that someone I knew did know that Paul Westerberg was dead. That?s when I got really upset. So I layed there, in bed, crying and wondering how Westerberg had died.

Then whomever this Sunday morning DJ is came on and started talking about the whole Grandpaboy/Westerberg thing and the albums Stereo and Mono being released. I was still crying, then he talked about Westerberg?s upcoming tour dates and so I thought, ?hmm, maybe Paul?s not dead.?

But I couldn?t convince myself, so I had to get up and scour the Web. I am pleased to report that as far as I can tell, Paul is not dead.

Long Live Paul!