Listener comments!

Wed. 7/2/08 3:09pm From: Listener Dave

Chris Burden ripped off the Old Codger. Unbelievable.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:09pm From: Ike

HA!

Wed. 7/2/08 3:10pm From: Sean Daily

You know, you could send ME money, too. I just want you to consider the possibility of sending me money and making me filthy rich while driving you farther into the vicious cycle of poverty and desperation. I'm not a religious group or anything. I could definitely use it, because I'm not paid much. I just want you to consider the possibility.

(Repeat nine billion times and watch the jack roll in)

Wed. 7/2/08 3:22pm From: C

Lambchop is America's best band. Makes me want to celebrate the fourth this year.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:23pm From: Listener Dave

Sean Daily, I would like to send you money. Just post your address, bank account and social security numbers here on the playlist and I will send you everything I got from this Nigerian prince a few years ago. I'm sure everyone else here will do the same.

-Dave

PS I am not a crook.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:27pm From: Laurie

I KNEW IT! Kenny G & Irwin are totes the same person, I've been saying it for years.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:31pm From: Denise in Washington, DC

Damn. I missed not only Florence Foster Jenkins, but also the evidence proving that Irwin is Kenny G, and vice versa.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:48pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

Hooray for ORANGE.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:54pm From: Peter K.

Thanks for the shout-out, but you're wrong. Not only will editors NOT always be needed; editors (and proofreaders) are ALREADY not needed. Maybe you and I and a small handful of other people give a shit about things like spelling and punctuation, but we are (a) a tiny minority and (b) a dying breed. Sad but, quite clearly, true.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:55pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

flase

Wed. 7/2/08 3:57pm From: Peter K.

But never mind that other stuff; the Weepies rule!

Wed. 7/2/08 3:58pm From: Laurie

Irwin, you're mean.

Wed. 7/2/08 3:58pm From: Laurie

What, no Cowboy Troy?

Wed. 7/2/08 3:59pm From: Denise in Washington, DC

Peter K., I completely disagree. In fact, one of the support staffers in my office just came to me, on her own initiative, to point out places in which she thought the capitalization on our office's website was wrong. (Of course, she was wrong in almost every instance, but the principle still holds.)

Wed. 7/2/08 3:59pm From: Irwin

Petar, I agreee with you &; and that is sorry of thINg. about the profreaderz. We n eed to SWtck totgethetr!! brohter!

Wed. 7/2/08 4:00pm From: Parq

Oh yeah, Brooks & Dunn! Turning the volume way up over here.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:01pm From: Swami

Irwin is not Kenny G: he's Kenny Chesney

Wed. 7/2/08 4:04pm From: Parq

Irwin, I heard Scott's "The Penguin" in one of those late-night "Adult Swim" cartoons the other night. Are producers seeking licenses to use that stuff in cartoons? It would be great to hear Scott's music in that medium again.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:06pm From: Irwin

Was that in The Oblongs episode "Narcoleptic Scottie"? If so, yes it was properly licensed from Scott's publisher.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:10pm From: Parq

Cool. Yes, I think that was it. I hope that it sparks a trend, and more such license requests will follow.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:20pm From: fred

Thanks for the heads up on Juliana Hatfield's forthcoming record.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:27pm From: Sean Daily

Just who were the idiots who called it "wonderful spam," anyway?

Wed. 7/2/08 4:37pm From: Ike

Peter K., I hope you are wrong. I would like to be a proofreader. Unfortunately my experience is limited, but I'm good. Sadly, I missed Irwin's shout-out, so hooray for archives.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:37pm From: Irwin

I think those idiots' names were Eric, John, Graham, Michael, Terry and Terry.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:40pm From: Listener Dave

Ike, I believe that's "hurray" or "hurrah".

Wed. 7/2/08 4:48pm From: Ike

I cling quixotically to serial commas and "hooray" (which is confirmed by M-W as being an OK variant).

Wed. 7/2/08 4:52pm From: Denise in Washington, DC

Ah, the serial comma. How I love the serial comma. I can pontificate about the serial comma for hours. In fact, a former housemate and I once encountered each other at the top of a stairway and somehow got into a conversation about the serial comma. We got so absorbed that we sat down right there at the top of the stairs. And yes, we were talking about the serial comma the whole time.

IOW, I am a proofreading freak.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:54pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

It is established that introverts tend to be more inclined to massive revision and proofreading.

Wed. 7/2/08 4:55pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

Let me revise that...
Obsessive revision!

Wed. 7/2/08 4:59pm From: Sara

Pink Lemonade sounds like she's really growing as an artist.

Wed. 7/2/08 5:02pm From: Peter K.

What, if anything, is the connection between serial commas and serial killers?

Wed. 7/2/08 5:03pm From: Denise in Washington, DC

Hm. DCE, I am an extrovert. At least according to Myers-Briggs.

Peter K., I suspect that persons in both categories could be classified as obsessive.

Wed. 7/2/08 5:06pm From: Steve Barton

Never trust a hippie (no punctuation)

Wed. 7/2/08 5:08pm From: Irwin

Steve, how 'bout ex-hippies?

Wed. 7/2/08 5:09pm From: Pink Lemonade

Thank you Sara!

Wed. 7/2/08 5:10pm From: Denise in Washington, DC

I could probably name at least one person who I can see becoming homicidal over comma misuse.

Wed. 7/2/08 5:17pm From: Ike

Proofreaders seem to swarm around WFMU. (Can one get an office job in this field without doing freelance first? I can't always concentrate at home.)

Wed. 7/2/08 5:18pm From: Steve Barton

Like a worn out shoe, ex-hippies are comfortable and familiar...trustworthy? Sure.

Wed. 7/2/08 5:19pm From: Sean Daily

1913: Marie Curie wakes up to realize that the radium that she's been experimenting with has given her fantastic superhuman powers. And an arm growing out of her forehead. She quickly becomes SUPER FOREHEAD-ARM NUCLEAR PHYSICIST. But since there isn't any Stan Lee, this phase of her career is forgotten.

Wed. 7/2/08 5:19pm From: R. P.

Milk, eggs and cheese.
Milk, eggs, or cheese.
Not that I get obsessive about it...

Wed. 7/2/08 5:21pm From: matt in Indy

I can't concentrate at home either, but listening to WFMU is also a distraction at work. Thanks to Irwin and Denise, I just spent about 20 minutes reading about the damn serial comma 'controversy'. (I do love wikipedia).

Wed. 7/2/08 5:51pm From: Sean Daily

Nice Delgados song.

Wed. 7/2/08 5:52pm From: Irwin

Enjoy it, Sean, I'm about to ruin the mood w/some Star Country

Wed. 7/2/08 5:52pm From: Steve Barton

Great show, Irwin. Wonderful songs, performances, recordings. Now it is time to find something to throw away.
Your listener, skb

Wed. 7/2/08 5:54pm From: Steve Barton

Now I'm sticking around. You found a Brooks and Dunn song that was okay. What next?

Wed. 7/2/08 5:58pm From: Sean Daily

Whatever, Irwin. As I remember, it IS your show.

Wed. 7/2/08 6:00pm From: Steve Barton

Don't forget the straight-forward rhymes and song structure -- and stories without a hint of absurdity. It's all good....(except for the really cheesy stuff, I mean)

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