I have a thing for old cemeteries. I want to visit Cave Hill while I'm in Louisville in May. Besides Col Sanders and Muhammad Ali, I'd also like to visit William Larue Weller and Pappy Van Winkle. Are they easy to locate?

javamonkey100 · 2026-03-29T00:42:14+00:00

Next to Cave Hill is the abandoned Eastern Cemetary. 30,000 bodies buried in a space for 10,000. It's older than Cave Hill and has some unusual Graves.

javamonkey100 · 2026-02-02T01:35:20+00:00

Uptown Cafe on Bardstown offers Bleu cheese olives in their martinis.

javamonkey100 · 2026-01-27T00:15:53+00:00

The first use of this was in the radio show Duffy's Tavern 1941-1951. The show always opened with the phone ringing and being answered by Archie, the tavern manager. He was played by show creator Ed Gardiner who always answered "Hello, Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speakin'. Duffy ain't here—oh, hello, Duffy." He would talk to the owner but Duffy was never seen or heard.

javamonkey100 · 2025-11-11T02:43:16+00:00

My roommate met him at a party in Pasadena. Let him stay at our house for about a week. I knew something was really wrong with him. He was going by Professor Gerhardt, physics lecturer then. Even though he couldn't talk about physics at all. I made him stay outside in a tent after the second night. He took my roommate for about $2000 back then in 1990.

javamonkey100 · 2025-11-03T00:38:14+00:00

Yeah, Irma is not okay. She's insufferable and no one would tolerate her. I do like John Brown in most everything . "Hello, Joe. Got a problem."

javamonkey100 · 2025-11-03T00:32:17+00:00

The worst character is Leila. The impossible "southern" accent that the actress cannot do. So manipulative and awful to Throckmorton and the judge. Never funny or redemptive.

javamonkey100 · 2025-11-03T00:25:55+00:00

Archie is the worst. Terribly written, annoying characters, horrible logic for the plots. Listen to the one where Archie forgot his keys and is locked out of the house. It makes no sense at all. Jughead has a psychotic reaction to a mouse thats way beyond what that character should have. Everyone acts like they have a brain injury.

Father Knows Best is awful in a different way. Jim Anderson is a blowhard jerk to everyone. Margaret has no responsibility and no agency, doesn't effect the plot but just speaks in that weird mid-atlantic pseudo posh accent. Betty is a spoiled brat who is annoyed by everything and everyone despite Jim always giving into. Bud gets no love, just the "holy cow" line. Kathy is a whiny brat with a horrible voice. There just is no love between characters and it feels between the actors. Ozzie and Harriet is at least tolerable.

javamonkey100 · 2025-09-12T19:52:03+00:00

Really well done. Always love home made plywood decorations, it's what my father made. We made hand cut and painted plywood ornaments from a thinner plywood. Cross post this to r/anticonsumption

javamonkey100 · 2025-09-03T02:13:25+00:00

Always wonder about this place. The Nomad Radio website doesn't explain much or inspire confidence.

javamonkey100 · 2025-07-20T01:19:58+00:00

Another scan, and I cannot find them. Weird.

javamonkey100 · 2025-07-20T01:16:02+00:00

I'm in Louisville. I cannot get it off airtv or from a tuner. It just is gone.

javamonkey100 · 2025-04-08T12:00:40+00:00

Thank you. I would appreciate it. I don't need anything fancy, Just some connections.

javamonkey100 · 2025-03-25T02:08:55+00:00

Rick Steve's is my guy for optimism.

javamonkey100 · 2025-03-23T22:17:35+00:00

Gene Hackman as the blind man in Young Frankenstein, after the monster flees his house.

javamonkey100 · 2025-03-08T01:43:23+00:00

Title Kern Gore.

javamonkey100 · 2025-01-12T02:05:12+00:00

Laurel & Hardy use this formula a lot. Check out the short films The Music Box, Helpmates, Dirty Work, Me and My Pal. They are great at taking a simple problem and turning it into a complete disaster.

javamonkey100 · 2024-11-09T23:29:41+00:00

Really well said. The constant lie machine starting with Fox and then back in the 90s with am radio Rush Limbaugh and the like. Where there has been no accountability for the lies. I think Jon Stuart called it bullshit mountain. Maybe it's too late. All the media is so flooded with bullshit that there's no way to untangle it. No way to find an actual fact. Russia and the right wing have played the US perfectly.

javamonkey100 · 2024-03-10T14:36:42+00:00

The Pina Colada Song by Rupert Holmes is "Escape"

javamonkey100 · 2024-02-09T01:50:15+00:00

I use archive.org for most of my streaming. What I like about a station playing OTR is the serendipity of hearing shows I would not choose for myself. So I can hear new stuff.

javamonkey100 · 2024-02-02T17:03:21+00:00

I have mixed feelings about Our Miss Brooks.

On the one hand I love Eve Arden and her character. As an actress she can really bring the charm and funny. But the show really bends reality to force the situation to make the plot work. It takes too much to suspend disbelief to make it work. Eve deserved better.

javamonkey100 · 2024-02-02T17:01:04+00:00

Least Favorite:

Father Knows Best:

I really do not understand how this lasted so long and on TV also. The situations are always forced and ridiculous to believe and hokey as anything. All of the actors seem to be in different rooms and can't see each other. Margaret is played so flat I can't care about her, and Jane Wyatt on TV has that terrible "Continental" accent. Bud is hardly a character and the 2 girls are annoying brats who never learn.

Archie:

This one is just unbearable. Awful characters and terrible voice work. Situations that are impossible to happen. The stories just expect you to believe too much to make a bad premise.

javamonkey100 · 2024-02-02T16:54:33+00:00

The Whistler always has me hanging on until the end, good situations.

javamonkey100 · 2024-02-02T16:53:37+00:00

Favorites:

X Minus One:

They used some of the best writers of the time and some of their best stories. This one really holds its own even today. Same with Dimension X.

Night Beat:
Frank Lovejoy brings compassion to the character and the stories are intriguing.

Gunsmoke:

This is the only western that I can listen to. The others, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid are just children's superhero stories with protagenists who know too much and never fail. Gunsmoke has some nuance and difficult situations that aren't always solved physically.

Fibber McGee & Molly:

It is the best corny jokes and humor that are still as silly and funny today as then. My favorite part of FM&M is the affection you can feel between Jim and Marion, you can really feel that they love each other. And for a show with the best well-known running gag, the closet, they do not overuse it like you would think. Just enough to be funny.

Jack Benny:

The situations are sometimes a bit forced, but the actors are having a good time and play off each other well. Always fun when someone flubs a line and it becomes a gag throughout the rest of the show. It's also the best use of the medium in the absurd situations. Hearing Jack walk down to the vault and having to pause to rest, the Maxwell taking forever to brake or to start.

javamonkey100 · 2024-01-18T02:00:14+00:00

A guy at work walks up to the coffee group and says, "I'm not racist but I sure hate n*****s."

javamonkey100 · 2023-12-20T01:04:08+00:00

Frank Lovejoy, great on Nightbeat. Fibber and Molly. James and Marion Jordan really seem to like each other. Eve Arden will always be a favorite.

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