It is no secret that I like radios and often sleep with a pair of headphones.
While I have never taken the time (it would be too embarrassing) to count how many radios I have, they must number in the dozens, ranging from hand built crystal sets, a '27 Rogers batterlyless, a Revox bruiser and my latest acquisition a Wi Fi set.
Who else can you name who owns three Tivolis? But I digress.
One of the great things you can do with radios is listen to them.
However, the quality of programming that we have from our national broadcaster is becoming increasingly repulsive.
Case in point: the CBC just spent 30 minutes waxing in an almost orgiastic state about how great the Leonard Cohen's last concert in New York City was. I nearly threw up on my desk.
Why do I continue to listen to the CBC? Well, for one thing there are no commercials which for me counts for a lot. And for another, like the gambler that continued to play craps at a rigged game even though he knew it was rigged because it was the only game in town, I still listen to the CBC, because, well, it is our public broadcaster and used to be good.
Today, however, I might as well just hit my head with a two by four with a rusty nail hanging on it for all the pleasure I derive from it.
Posts
