Wednesday oddems: goldy and frank shiers are back!; antidisestablishmentarianism on hold; compassionpalooza 2008; hello dalai; lesbianadians; sharp-toothed dick-heads; rachel maddow beats billo; dj no seats; wait, wait don't hit me

~~ we're always bitching about the graying sensibilities of NPR, and local public talker, KUOW in particular. But we must send kudos and accolades to David Hyde, producer of Ross Reynolds' The Conversation (m-f, 1-2p) for actually getting a blogger/activist on the show last week! David Goldstein was interviewed briefly about taxes. We know you're hard put to believe that Goldy could talk briefly, but he did, even in the windy atmospherics of public radio. Despite there's a new generation of politicos and politics going on, KUOW's choices from the punditocracy are always those predictably from legacy media, and of a certain age. (Danny Westneat, Joel Connelly, Knute Berger, Joni Balter. We know, we know, Dorothy Parvaz, and Naomi Ishisaka are exceptions, but not exactly disestablishmentarians). 

~~ And what a spectacle it was Tues. to hear Billo Reilly and war criminal Karl Rove on the teevee taking the side of those same Chinese communists to diss Hillary Clinton for calling for Bush to boycott the opening the Olympics to protest the crackdown on Tibet. Jesus, the conservatives wonder why their so-called movement has fallen apart? 

~~ Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) had Goldy in to discuss his dangerous, unhealthy, blogger lifestyle as described in this New York Times piece. We risk our fucking lives, people!

~~ made for talk radio... We're laughing at the punched-up outrage by conservative talk hosts like Dori Monson, (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) Kirby & Company (KVI m-f, 5-9a) and Dave Boze (KTTH m-f 3-6p) around the Seattle school district sending buses of school kids in Seattle to hear the Dalai Lama at his Compassionpalooza at Key Arena, April 14. Their encouragement of some complaining parents by giving them airtime and trying to stir up the ka-ka is what leaves such a bad taste in the brains of regular folk about conservatism. The Dalai Lama is a world figure, an historic figure; a head of state --and exiled by those chronically bad-ass Chinese commies, fer chrissakes. Yes, the kidz should go see the pope if he comes to town for the same reasons. This kind of obnoxious, nattering and fierce contrariana is part of why talk radio as we know it is dying off.

~~ We had a smarm flashback, having Frank "Shiver" Shiers filling in for Dori last week, and couldn't help think of the best arguments against live & local radio.  It was like having your ex-wife over for dinner -- the voice is comfortingly familiar, but has the effect of strangely pulling your fist violently towards the nearest wall. Frank is a DJ (B97.3 Saturday's 3-7p) and is a doppelgänger to his mentor Dori. We kid Frank, but we miss not having him to kick around any more.

~~ You missed it. If you don't have a ticket and you wanted to attend DJ Name's comedy benefit tonight at the Mainstage, it's sold out. He's got many friends and fans... now all he needs is a job.

~ we're not the only ones who think she's great. New York media was buzzing this week after Our Rachel Maddow aced hosting MSNBC's Countdown sans KeithFriday. She beat Billo in the ratings -- coming in as 2nd highest cable show in prime time that night. It was refreshing to have the first 25 minutes of that show not kicking Hillary around, and actually covering political news Chris Mathews hadn't already beat to death the hour before. Rachel also made the important  23/6 Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Divers Pundit Class Edition where she was listed as a hot "lesbinadian."

~~ Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, that witty, wildly popular, NPR Saturday news quiz show won this month, a Peabody Award, the Oscar of electronic media. Creator and Exec. Producer Doug Berman, (who also invented Car Talk, the most popular show on public radio) said, “We'd like to thank both the Clinton and Bush administrations for providing us with such wonderful material." There's a local angle: Luke Burbank, host of TBTL (KIRO m-f, 7-10p) is a regular panelist on the show. So is BlatherWatch friend Amy Dickinson whose syndicated Ask Amy column replaced Ann Landers for the Chicago Tribune in 2003. Amy told us "[WWDTM host] Peter Segal chose Luke to replace him a couple of years ago when he took a month off -- big mistake! Luke was a huge hit."

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