WDET Programming Schedule Change
UPDATE: More changes have been made. Find more in a later post here.
I just received an email from WDET about the changing their program schedule again. Unlike last time, its for the better. They’re bringing back one of my favorite shows, This American Life. Also the host, Ira Glass, will be in town this December.
The downside to the new schedule is that they dropped The Listening Room and brought back Tavis Smiley. Thankfully, Tavis is only on once a week, now.
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January 8th, 2006 at 7:51 am
Although this WDET thing has upset me greatly, I am not without understanding.
If I had a nickel for everytime that I tried to discuss music with a friend, relative, or aquaintance only to be met with feigned(sp?) interest …HELL I would be rich! Lord knows that I have tried. One can always preach to the choir, but you can’t make others drink. Tis a hard pill to swallow fer sure.
Therefore I’ve decided that if I can’t beat em, I might as well follow. Now it’s your turn.
Although I’m not musically challenged, I am a self admitted social retard …er challenged. Furthermore I know diddly squat about the visual arts. You know, paintings and the like. Hell I could not differentiate a Monet from a Bidet. A mere glance at a Van Gogh and I want to lop off my own ear! I draw stick figures, but not nearly as well as my niece. Well ..certainly you get the picture.
At any rate, I’m not deluded enough to think that I can begin at the top, but I believe that I may make a great PR person for the DIA. Later as my lack of appreciation for the visual arts become more appreciated by those in power, well who knows?
Certainly I would be named the Director of the DIA or at very least Curator …don’t cha think?
I’m extremely interested in your thoughts.
Your Socially Inept Servant,
Casey D. Drumm
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I for one had missed shows such as Fresh Air & This American Life. That is until I found them available elsewhere(as in …on the internet). As a mattet of fact, it used to annoy me very much when someone would call me or try to engage me in conversation while I was listening to these programs.
On the other hand I found myself quite easygoing and receptive to the normal work-a-day interruptions during the course of the weekday variety music shows that WDET once provided this frequent contributor. Music can be ambient and (IMO) contribute to productivity. Just think of the Seven Dwarves song ‘Whistle While You Work’ or consider Sam Cooke’s ‘Working In A Coalmine’ …well you get the point.
In conclusion, There has always been the joke made about never buying a Detroit car built on either a Friday or a Monday. Well let me expand that axiom by writing that if all automotive workers are now listening to WDET’s new format …then I wouldn’t TRUST a car to be well built on ANY day ceptin maybe Saturday.
To those whose opinions may differ than mine, please allow me to clarify. Most people CANNOT walk and chew bubble gum at the same time! Furthermore, as a retired D-DOT bus driver, that I can pick out a cellphone, multitasking driver at a distance of 200 yards minimum!
Remember …music is the backdrop of life!
Now if I only could get my wife to shut her yap when I’m watching and listening to my favorite curmodgeon Andy Rooney on Sunday night! With that and a return of WDET’s previous format, and this writer can step back off his soapbox and exclaim: “Life is indeed good!”
-Casey D. Drumm
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