One of the things I really, really liked about that Chrissie Hynde memoir that has me still trying to find words to write about is how much she loved the radio. A lot of the…
Posts tagged 89.3 The Current
Losing Mary
It took me eight months of having this here website before I mentioned Mary Lucia, which may not seem significant. But you gotta remember that was back in 2001 and, well, I don’t know Mary…
Anti-Bummers: Because, Of Course Edition
I haven’t really cried since Saturday. A few tears have slipped out my eyes, but nothing serious. The Current decided to play nothing but The Rolling Stones for four hours and it made me so…
Barb Abney, Sleater-Kinney & Being a 40something Woman Who Creates Things
I should have been a Riot Grrrl. The timing was right. I was a politically aware, music-loving twentysomething woman in the early-to-mid nineties, and somehow the Riot Grrrl phenomenon mostly passed me by. A few…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: The 27-minute Song Recovery Edition
I spent most of today recovering from all of yesterday. It involved a light nap, some book reading (The Original 1982), some record listening (“Personal Record“), and some Buffy-watching (the one where John Ritter plays…