They’d have to “pass over the money without even thinking about it” to be willing to pay $20 per person to see a baseball field in the middle of an Iowa cornfield… just sayin’

Anyway, Happy Opening Day. Here’s hoping that 102 is the Cubs lucky number!

Merry Christmas!

On October 30, 1938, The Mercury Theatre, a young drama troupe under the direction of Orson Welles, performed a radio play called “War of the Worlds” on WABC, New York, and over the Columbia Broadcasting System network, coast-to-coast.

It was based on a science fiction story by H.G. Wells (no relation) which entailed Martians landing in New Jersey to take over the world. The broadcasted imagery produced through sound effects and acting was so powerful, it caused mass hysteria. Thousands of listeners panicked nationwide, not realizing it was just a radio play, even though disclaimers were announced before and during the production.

Well when the power gets knocked out at his house, the web server goes down for the bulk of that time.

I hope you didn’t miss me too much.

For those of you who may have missed the big announcement, I made the big return to my hometown to be the producer for John and Cisco on 560 WIND in Chicago.

It was a tough and frustrating year and a half in Atlanta, but there were some highlights that I’ll always remember. I’ll miss working with people like Matt Cook, Mike Conti, Connie Cummings, Jennifer Perry and even superstar news intern Leah Sims. WGST has one of the most professional and hard working news staffs around and they are also one of the nicest groups of people I’ve come across. There’s not doubt that I’ll also definitely miss having such easy access to my family, but I have a feeling that they’ll be making quite a few trips to the Chicago-area now that I’m up here.

I’m very happy to be back up north though, anyone who has ever met me is pretty keenly aware that I’ve wanted to get back to Chicago years. I’ve already become a fan of John and Cisco and the rest of the staff at WIND and I’m looking forward to contributing more and more to the show.

I apologize to my tens of readers that my site has been down this week more than it has been up. Luckly my skilled support staff (Kevin) seems to have fixed the problem and hopefully we’ll be able to stick around for a while.