Today is the 100th birth anniversary of the birth of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States. Since Nixon was president during much of my childhood, I've formed some pretty clear cut, if not accurate, opinions on the man my family loved to hate.
Ours was a staunchly Democratic household, and we had no love for Nixon. Personally, I did not like the man for two reasons: first, the sweat on his upper lip, and second, the fact that hearings into the Watergate scandal regularly interrupted important television programming.
This fact raised my ire particularly on Saturday mornings, when boring men in boring suits talking non-stop was on TV in place of fantastic shows like The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, Inch High Private Eye, and Hong Kong Phooey.
With a brother in Vietnam during part of Nixon's six years in the White House, I had more serious reasons to dislike the man. But my critique of him scarcely went to school with me. Most of my friends parents voted for him, so of course they thought he was a wonderful president....at the time.
After Nixon resigned, all the kids liked to mock Nixon, especially when we were at the city pool. A favorite thing to do was wave two peace signs in the air, say "President Nixon going down," and fall under the water as we shouted "I am not a crook!" Hilarious!
I'm not sure if I paid attention to it at the time, but I do have to give kudos to Mr. Nixon for appearing on Laugh-In to try and win votes in 1968. Sock it to me, Tricky Dicky.
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I'm not sure why Pete Yorn decided to name his new music project after a European cave dwelling aquatic salamander, but if he stops by to play us some songs in Studio M, we'll have to ask him.
The Olms is a collaboration between Pete Yorn and...
Today's song was written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary. It was inspired by the 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. No one was inspired by the song this morning. It was rejected by almost all the listeners.
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I'm pretty sure I was a Goth for at least for little while, for two reasons.
1) I almost hardly ever wear pastels.
2) I used to...
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Madison's summer music festival season kicks off this weekend with Brat Fest at Willow Island, where there are more bands than you can shake a bratwurst at! Check out the Brat Fest website to plan your itinerary.
Next up is the Marquette...
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He's promoting his new album, "Wrote a Song For Everyone" which comes out next Tuesday...
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