Author Archives: James Rising

Aggregate Saturday The Penn State scandal is like a snowball turning into an avalanche. It may crush the entire Penn State football program before all is said and done. In a way I am unable to feel too badly about … Continue reading →

It looks like a scene from a bombed out suburb of Beirut or Pakistan or some some gawd forsaken shit hole where people have little or no regard for property or human life. But it’s not. It’s “Happy Valley”. It’s … Continue reading →

Radio DaZe: This was a test: The National Alert System test was a spectacular failure yesterday, prompting this memory: I was in the control room at WSNO on a Saturday morning, suffering with the country music show. My only salvation, … Continue reading →

WEEKENDER Column : No El! I love the holiday season. No, not exactly right. I love many things about it. Couldn’t care less about the gift giving in my direction. Love seeing the joy the things we send to the … Continue reading →

An artist signs his work Norman F. Ramsey, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed a precise method to probe the structure of atoms and molecules and used it to devise a remarkably exact way to keep time, died on Friday … Continue reading →

R.I.P. Andy Rooney So here is my brush with fame story about Andy Rooney. I was doing the morning show on Froggy 101, a country station. In a misguided attempt to raise the level of discourse on the show I … Continue reading →

Sunday Wrap 10/31/11-11/6/11 A look back at the past weeks postings. Many times I forget that people need a little road map to the things that get put up on my blog so this is the best way I know … Continue reading →

Aggregate Saturday: A day at McDonald’s this Thursday, due to total Comcast fail. No TV, No I-net and no phone. Talk about being plunged back into the dark ages. Comcast blamed PPL power line burning up and doing same to … Continue reading →

I always loved this image of Bob. And he was always Bob when he signed off after doing a stand-up. Never “Robert”. The real story is that Bob was an avid tennis buff and was scheduled to play when he … Continue reading →

Radio DaZe: Wacky 102. WAQY at 102.1 was a class “B” FM which meant that it really had 50,000 watt coverage even though it ran just 17,000 watts to the antenna. It’s transmitter was in the same building with WWLP … Continue reading →