Whither Shotgun?

(image from the comic Regarding The Matter Of Oswald's Body
by Christopher Cantwell & Luca Casalanguida)

This is something maybe important to know - I plan my show's in advance. I find a theme (or a theme is presented to me), I start gathering material for the theme, & when I feel like I can make a radio show, I assign a date to it. The date like the theme is arbitrary. It's usually only around holidays that I am scheduling a theme for a time of year, for a date on a calendar.

It's the same in my "real life." I scheduled a dental appointment for 8am the day after the election. Granted, I made the appointment six months earlier, but most people might have thought, hm, maybe not the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday in November when the world might be falling apart. Not me!

So please don't read into this week's theme, which is kinda dumb: shotgun. It's the result of a kind of negotiation with someone who really, really wanted me to do a show about guns. As I explained yesterday, I am loathe to make radio shows about very general themes. Finally I asked this person what their favorite kind of gun was, & the response was, "I don't like any kind of gun at all!!" So I asked what kind of gun did this person like least. & the answer was shotguns. & I said, is it okay if I do a show about shotguns, to which the person said, "If you can find enough songs about shotguns!"

There were plenty of songs about shotguns. But mainly I hope you don't think the theme has anything to do with recent events, because it doesn't. It was set into motion before I was even thinking about what a terrible time the first week of November would be.

Which brings me to: tonight from midnight to 2am Self Help Radio has a show with the theme "Shotgun." You can listen in Portland at 90.7fm & online at kboo dot fm. If you're listening in someone else's car, make sure you call shotgun! It will annoy them.