-cvj

Below the fold are blogs with titles that start with the letter ‘A’. Any glaring omissions? Anything worthy checking out? Is YOUR blog starting with this letter?……

Great to hear from you. You’ll have a great deal of fun with Prof Bickers’ class, and learn a lot too. You’ll get a class from me later on (probably) if you major in physics. There’s some physics on this blog, but a lot of other stuff too. Look through the archives (see sidebar or click here) and look under the various categories. If you want to join in our community here, you can bring out some of the physics that interests you too… since we have a lot of discussions from time to time, about lots of things.

Gosh… I’m really looking forward to one of those dinner. Sorry I missed the String one…. did you see my post on the blog in the archives about Superstring beans? Silly, but a bit of fun….

Best,

-cvj

KPPC-FM was a Pasadena FM radio station best known during the period 1967–1971, when it was one of the leading “underground” radio stations in the United States, presenting a freeform mixture of experimental and historical music with countercultural ideas that were not commonly broadcast in North America. Each disc jockey selected his own music, which would veer between rock and roll, folk music, blues and other genres. Hosts included B. Mitchel Reed, Steven Segal (aka “The Obscene Steven Clean;”), Susan Carter (aka “Outrageous Nevada”), Jeff Gonzor (aka “Jeff the Gonzo”), Tom Donahue, Les Carter, novelty music historian Dr. Demento, Elliot Mintz (whose late-night Sunday show played everything from Baba Ram Dass lectures to listener-created recordings), blues archivist Johnny Otis and comedy troupes The Credibility Gap (featuring Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander, Howard Hessman, and Michael McKean), and The Firesign Theatre. Station promos were sung by the a cappella singing group The Persuasions.

How some of the mighty have changed. Elliot Mintz is now the private publicist for Paris Hilton; Harry Shearer is a voiceover on the Simpsons (and lots of other productions); David L. Lander was Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley; and sadly several of the above mentioned are dead. But in those days, sandwiched between the DooDah and the Python were such wonderful segments such a Gonzor’s morning meditations with Alan Watts, Steven Clean’s bathtime with Bach, TD’s first US releases of some of the greatest albums in rock-n-roll history, and so forth.