[Kzyxtalk] If you go out in the woods today.

[Marco McClean]

I just read Sheila Tracy's article in the web version of the Anderson 
Valley Advertiser, about Will Smith and football concussions and Martin 
Luther King: http://theava.com/archives/55228

I commented as follows:

In the early 1980s, after the Todds left and took their Teddy Bear 
Picnic with them, Will Smith used to do a children's show on KMFB, eight 
o'clock every Saturday morning. I'd listen in the kitchen when I was 
cooking breakfast in Brannon's. He took many weeks to very slowly read 
/The Call of the Wild/ in chapters, and the part that has stuck in my 
auditory memory all this time is where "Buck was enraged." (Great 
emphasis on the K sound; almost a whole word by itself.)

Whenever there's a tense situation, I hear Will Smith rumbling, "Buck 
was enraged," and that makes the problem funny. Try it yourself; stretch 
it out to about five seconds.

In the last years of KMFB (ending in late 2011) Liz Helenchild did the 
children's show there (same 8am Saturdays). She's been trying for nearly 
a decade to get the management of KZYX to let her do her kids' show 
there. Mary Aigner was against it, so. Maybe it has a chance of 
happening now.


-- 
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com