What's with the capital "A" in Macalester? As a Mac alum, I can assure you I've *never* seen it like that...and what have you got against Nordeast? You make me feel bad for being a Mac alum living in Nordeast. Thank God I wasn't an anthropology major.

Well, I'll say this for Southern California - we have great radio stations. All the vegans listen to NPR and don't bother anyone.

Downside: NPR is the only station still playing Neil Finn.

Dammit.

Okay - so maybe our stations aren't ALL great.

But at least the Volvo music is hard to find.

Nice long sentence!

So, probably no Lynyrd Skynyrd or Ted Nugent, right?

I liked Mitch's description last week; something like "Music that sounds like a collection of cell-phone ring tones".

A lot of it really does.

I don't know their programming schedule yet, but last night (or technically this morning, I guess) they played blues -- like, old classic honest-to-god blues -- from 12 AM until something like 2 AM. That was pretty cool.

I never realize how much talking there is on broadcast radio until I stream it online. I swear to god, I hear more Mark Wheat than music when I listen to 89.3 online at night. Must be the context change, since the net-only radio stations I listen to almost never interrupt the stream with djing.

"Current" broadcasts "American Routes", which plays a lot of old blues, R'nB, folk, older jazz/blues and that sort of thing. It was one of my favorite shows on 91.1, and it's one of my faves on 89.3.

It kinda sticks out on the"Current", though...

Wheat is kinda talky. I listened to him for a while over the weekend, and ended up muttering "play the damned song" after a bit.

Mitch, your descriptive powers are wonderful-I can just see (and maybe even smell...somewhat patchouli-ish?) that little couple!

Mitch, only one quibble:

The women (actually, womyn) who truly believe all sex is rape aren't having sex with men.

There are, however, several womyn (actually, women) who like to pretend that they believe all sex is rape. These women tend to rather enthusiastically enjoy being "raped." Several years later, they tend to calm down, marry the successful guy, and become Christian conservatives, but that's another story altogether.

As for your description of the Current--spot on.

I've been known to rap Mac as a St. Thomas alum over the years but this couple is the poster couple for all that is kooky from the Left.Way to nail them.Imagine the stress level in that house trying to be PC from dusk to dawn.

As a former Cities 97 and Café 105 listener, I have been listening a great deal to The Current with high hopes. Unfortunately your evaluation was as accurate as it was hilarious. I was hoping for eclectic and ended up with 55 minutes of alternative and 5 minutes of Johnny Cash singing alternative.

Bring back Café 105

PS. My 17 year old daughter wants me to print out your comment so she can post it in her locker. It was a metaphorical joy. We were both rolling.

This is creepy, I work downtown in an architecture office and you just nailed the description of about half of my co-workers. Bottle blonde sits behind me, Wellstone mourners sit accross the office (the left side), and up-and-comers all drive old volvo wagons. You did leave out the Subaru Outback wagons though, you get one of those once you start earning your "blood money". One peice of Irony was that Bottle recieved a letter that misspelled her last name as 'Neugent'. Irony is best served cold.

Wow! You nailed it. I was trying to come up with my own KCMP profile, but yours surpasses my attempt by leaps and bounds. The interesting bit for me is that I fit the profile in some ways....I have an old Volvo in storage and loved and miss Paul Wellstone. The big difference between our profiles, is that mine had them married and after living in an apartment in "the city" they are currently living back in the suburbs near their family. Another aspect I had added is that they are totally ignorant to the fact that even though they had an ipod, a fast internet connection and a vast music library and oodles of disposable income, they still feel like they had nowhere to turn to listen to their music....which sounds exactly like the music they listened to in college, but since the band names are different, they can still feel like they are on the cutting edge of music.

Amy: Excellent, especially the last sentence. Wish I'd written it!

I've managed to save up roughly $34355 in my bank account, but I'm not sure if I should buy a house or not. Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?