On October 14, 2007, Craig Burk was the guest host for the Italian Hour.

To see, Craig's playlist. Click here.

There's now a few easy ways to get involved with our website:

If you're a programmer or producer who would like training, there is now a sign-up sheet posted in the station lobby in the trainings section.  You can also email me with your name, phone number, and available times.  I'll be training people one-on-one mostly, so trainings will happen in the order people sign up.

If you would like to volunteer some of your time to help with our web efforts, there is a sign-up sheet posted in the station lobby in the volunteer section.  You can also email me with any specific elements you would like to help with and your any web or computer-related skills you have.  (Its okay if you don't have any!)  We are reforming a web group responsible for developing the website, training others, and improving our online presence.  You will be added to our email list where our next meeting will be announced.

Greetings from your new website assistant! This past week some changes have been made to make the website easier to navigate.

Most noticabley, you'll find that the menus on the left sidebar have been reorganized and simplified.

Also added:
• A new About KBOO page

Voice actors needed for radio theater... The Ubu Hour will be pre-recording scripts this week so if you are interested in participating, come down to KBOO and join in. No experience necessary... just an ability to read and a desire to perform in a radio theater show and have fun ... We will be recording in Studio 2 at KBOO on 9/26 at 1 pm and on 9/27 at 11 am and 7 pm, so show up at any one of those times... It shouldn't take more than an hour for each session, but again, if you can only stay for half an hour we can work with that too...  

Whole World Music of September 21, 2007 included a song entitled Only, performed by Joan La Barbara and written by American composer Morton Feldman. The composer based his song on a translation of a poem from Sonnets to Orpheus Part I, No. 23 (Feb. 1922) by Rainer Maria Rilke. Here is the translation from Rilke's original German text.

  
Only when flight shall soar
not for its own sake only
up into heaven’s lonely
silence, and be no more

Last year, Penguin Books issued a new edition of Jack London’s 1908 novel The Iron Heel. Probably London’s fullest fictional presentation of his socialist views, it’s a book that Leon Trotsky, some thirty years later, called a “prophetic vision” of “fascism, of its economy, of its governmental technique, its political psychology. . . . Jack London foresaw and described the fascist regime as the inevitable result of the defeat of the proletarian revolution.” The book has its flaws, as Trotsky acknowledged, though I would include that sense of inevitability as one of them.

The Ubu Hour's The Tragedy of MacBUSH (originally aired a couple years ago) is now available for download. A chilling tale of madness and power, witches and neocons, imperialism and fear. This is a hilarious one-hour radio theater satire that blends Shakespeare's classic  with the idiocies and sinister acts of the Bush administration. Starring Bill Dodge, Kathy Fors, SW Conch, Joe Scofflaw, Pat, Emily Young, Talon, Ken Enslow, Rolf Semprebon, Lee Rice, Aunt Joan, and Liam Delta, and written by Bill Shakespeare and Rolf Fakespeare.

As part of the Whole Whole Music program of September 7, 2007, I played a song by Elliott Carter based on a poem by Emily Dickinson. Here is that poem.

Musicians wrestle everywhere
(Emily Dickinson, c. 1860)