Seattle Radio Dial


from the pages of HaveYouReadMyBlog.com

  1. Michael Douglas Reveals Throat Cancer Details - Michael Douglas stopped by David Letterman’s show this week, just three weeks after he learned that he had Stage-4 throat cancer. Looking healthy, the star of this month’s Wall Street sequel explained his diagnosis and prospects for recovery —
  2. Worst Web Hosting Company - IX Webhosting – hands down, this is the worst hosting company on the planet! Since December of 2009, my websites have been offline at least 2 full days every month. This could hardly be considered a great uptime percentage. For all this trouble, the same excuses. They have even tried to deny these downtime issues on [...]
  3. Today In History – September 2 - 1963 – CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes. Walter Cronkite takes over as CBS News anchor. He replaces Douglas Edwards. 1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York. 1972 – Rod Stewart’s 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) 1978 – George Harrison [...]
  4. On the AM Dial: South Sound MusicRadio - Dick Pust has been the voice of 1240 KGY [Olympia] morning drive for over 40 years! KGY plays adult contemporary music and has a local air staff. The station began operation in 1922, so is one of the pioneer stations of the Pacific Northwest [maintaining the 3-letter call sign to this day]. The KGY studios [...]
  5. Today In History – September 1 - 1939 – Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill 1941 – Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 1942 – Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans 1945 – Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan) 1950 – 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines 1962 – UN announces Earth population has [...]
  6. Anti-Social Media - I don’t share in America’s fascination with Facebook. The best way to contact me has always been, by phone or email. That has not changed much over the years. The idea of gathering friends through an online message board seems about as personal as playing online video games with a stranger half-way across the country. [...]
  7. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas [2006] - Bruno is an eight-year-old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin. His father is a high-ranking Nazi official and the family moves to a new location, which turns out to be right near Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. One day while Bruno is looking out of his window he notices a bunch of [...]
  8. Up [2009] - Pixar films presents a fun movie for the kids, which adults will also enjoy. Grumbly old Ed Asner [Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore show] is the voice of 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen, who finally sets out on a journey that he and his, now deceased, wife used to dream about. Attaching thousands of balloons [...]
  9. Those sexy Gabor sisters - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor asked for a priest to read her the last rites last night as she remained in an extremely serious condition at the Ronald Reagan UCLA medical center. The 93-year-old Hollywood legend, who married nine times, was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital again on Friday due to complications from hip surgery and [...]
  10. The Invention of Lying [2009] - Ricky Gervais stars as Mark Bellison, an unhappy and unsuccessful lecture-film writer. Bellison, who lives in an alternate reality where everyones speaks the truth, accidently discovers that he is capable of twisting the truth, something he has no word for. We call it, lying. Bellison’s mother is dying and the doctor bluntly tells her that [...]