Steve Kramarck's Super Holiday Funtime Boom!

Once each year, for the last 19 years, Steve Kramarck has come to WVUD and raided the airwaves with Christmas music, intelligent talk, and a boatload of panache. This year, it's happening during my show. It is rare for me to have the opportunity NOT to wake up at 3:30am on the Thursday before Christmas, so I leapt at the chance to have Steve fill in. He'll be bringing all of you listeners six luscious hours of comfort and joy, from 6am to Noon, on Thursday, December 20th, 2007. From the horsie's mouth: "Musically, it's a mix of the trite and sublime, the standards and the unknowns, long form, short form, etc... oh yeah, we have leg lamps, too." Tune in to 91.3 or listen online at wvud.org.

I'll catch you all on Thursday morning, December 27th, for my next show.
Happy Holidays!
-Sarah

P.S. Kramarck and I went to high school together and he never once gave me a swirlie. NICE!

Your Frozen Heart

Happy Valentine's Day, Folks! I hope you're enjoying the freezing rain and brown snow that undoubtedly greeted you this morning. Don't worry, though. Your V-Day can still be special. Assuming you haven't careered off of the ice-slick road and landed in the median.

I chose to spend Valentine's Day in the traditional way: Risking my life driving to work in an ice storm. What says commitment more than spending half an hour scraping away at the icy sarcophagus surrounding my idling car, then driving 23 MPH on a 4-lane slip 'n' slide to work? Nothing, say I!

I found this gorgeous picture of an ice storm from an Ontario government website. That's in Canadia! It's from some time between 1900 and 1919. Click on it to see the full image. Ryan noticed that it was reversed (notice the sign's letters are backwards on the website's original), so I've flipped it. It's intimidating, but beautiful.

Stay warm, folks. And for my friends who loathe this day, it's okay. There's enough wine and sarcasm in the world to get anyone through this silly faux holiday.