Today marks the 40th birthday of my favorite radio station, KINK.fm. For the next forty days, t hey're focusing on music for each year. Today is, of course, 1968 - the same year I was born (if at the other end of the year.) They turn 40 on Christmas Day. :)

Listen to it streaming if you'd like to hear - they were Top 40 initially but once their sister station on the AM dial went to Top 40, they switched to album music. I wonder if 1977 will include David Soul (if he hasn't melted his buttery goodness into the radio, lol.) http://www.kink.fm/ click the Listen Live tab.

They have an awesome page up on their site here that I've not fully explored yet but it includes old commercials and old recordings of the air staff (Apparently Les Sarnoff's been around a loooong time!)

I always wondered how they got the call letters KINK and an old program director they've talked to shared - two college kids started this station (Underground KINK). At the time they were owned by KING broadcastin. Jeff enjoyed British music and liked the term kink because at the time it was meant as a slam on the king. He called the FCC to see if the call letters were available. Found they were owned by a ship in SE Asia, so they called the shipping company to check to see if they'd sell, and discoverd the ship had sunk! So they got the call letters for free. So interesting!

They've been playing bits of recorded interviews with old staffers like Jeff, the program director mentioned above. I heard this morning that when they launched, they ended up with a bigger listening audience than KGW - their AM sister station. KINK had a staff of 2.5, and KGW had ten! Go figure, lol.

Forty years later....hey, I got a sticker from them recently. Now the election's over, I need to peel off some from my car and put this one on...

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I am thinking I may skip all cons this year. (Cries about Constrict) It's purely a money-saving thing. Look, I have three kids and we all want to go to Disneyland but I'm forever traveling.

However, I still want to do the DMB concert since I skipped it this year due to SHarecon. I was planning on EMC, but....dammit, my kids are growing up. I need to buck up and shut up and do the right thing. And master_chatnoir is supposed to be coming to the show, too! (snugs her)

:sigh:

I wish I were made of money.

Instead I shall share lyrics from Dave Matthews Band:

And if I were a king
If I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all

you know the drill, ask and ye shall receive.

My ten favorite things starting with T:

1. The Torino!
2. Taking vacation!
3. Tarot cards for their beautiful art and helpful advice
4. Three cats for snuggling
5. Three kids for laughing
6. Two people in love
7. Teaching equality to my children
8. Taking part in a protest march
9. The Week by Kaye Austen Michaels
10. Tides

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Working on a vid. Even had sort of a story in my mind to go with it. We shall see where the muses take me.

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Since we're already going to be downtown for the protest rally, we're going to head over the the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in NE. It's going to be a gorgeously sunny day, but chilly. I have my rainbow scarf that sneezer222 made for me.

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Jayne just wrote me a letter:

I love you so Much that I wood never ever replase a mom like the one I have rite now! Love, Jayne

Oh, my heart.... :sniffles:

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Packing the backpack so won't have to carry my purse around. We can store scarves and gloves and camera in it that way.