On the radio tonight 6-7 Central

Just found out a few minutes ago that I'll be on The Rankins Report at 6 pm Central tonight. This time, it's about fossils.

The show broadcasts on the internet,
smartphone app TUNEIN,

and the FM radio DIXIE 94.5FM Jackson, Alabama WHOD FM.

The link to internet to listen live is the following:

http://www.bamadixie.com/dixie945

It is not preserved for listening after the fact.

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I don't know if anyone I know heard me on The Rankins Files yesterday evening. The station's website was down. It seems the thrust of the show is like the Dos Equis commercial: "I don't always write poetry, but when I do..." crossed with "Kids! Try this at home!" Which is all good. I did mention SFPA, & that, where they live, they can find fossils. Deborah told me that a 600-pound alligator was captured in her neck of the woods (actually, in a major river). She said she no longer walks along the riverbank's empty places, which is sad.

Next September: I talk about fossils! (Maybe read a fossil poem.)

London calling
anybody there
the scaled look up
a crumbling girder shades a nest
mom nictitates nearby

Radio show cancelled cos of weather

will be rescheduled

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I'm on the radio tonight, see prev. post.

No damage from yesterday's tornadoes in Tuscaloosa. More possible 3 pm-3 am tonight. The sirens wailed for > an hour, it seemed.

sleeping on the floor
dog won't stay
in the safe spot

I'll be on The Rankins Files radio show tomorrow 6-7 pm central

The show broadcasts on the internet,
smartphone app TUNEIN,
and the FM radio DIXIE 94.5FM Jackson, Alabama WHOD FM.

The link to internet to listen live is the following:

http://www.bamadixie.com/dixie945

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State holiday today, so I have one more shot at "chores," sensu lato.

A perennial problem continues to recur incessantly, today, as every day. Alien invaders are hogging our local food sources, as usual. I refer, of course, to the house finches. Why don't the cardinals shove them out of the way?

Also, tomorrow evening I'm on a local radio show, 6-7 pm central. Talking about and reading poetry. More details later today.

And, the storms that wrecked havoc & killed 17 last night in AR & OK will be moving through here this afternoon & evening.


Stevie Ray said his woman
shakes like a willow tree
not a traditionally erotic image
then
she shakes like jello on a plate

come on now

just what are you implying
about this woman's physique
methinks the writer
was powerful hungry
lord, god, king hungry
don't let him kissing close
till he eats, at least

a porkchop

maybe an interview about my writing

So yesterday I made a four-hour round-trip expedition to help do a 15-minute radio show about somebody else's book. And fossils. The book was "Time" by Roger Reid, and I think I have mentioned it here before. It's a good young-adult mystery set in the most important fossil site in Alabama, the Stephen C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site. the geology connection was, of course, why I was invited to participate. The show is Carolyn Hutcheson's community show (I am embarrassed to admit I don't remember the exact name of the show). The show airs at noon on Troy University's public radio station, and is heard in southeast Alabama, southwestern Georgia, and western Florida. While I was there we taped a show about geology, which will probably air in May or June. We also talked about doing a show about my fiction and poetry; I don't know if that will happen. But it would be really cool. Actually, being interviewed on the radio was cool and I had never done it before. It was much easier and a lot more fun than I expected, mostly because Carolyn is a very good interviewer.