WIXY's Gone Bananas

When I was growing up, the most popular convenience store around was Lawson's. I spent the majority of my childhood years in the Brunswick area, and it seemed that Brunswick had a Lawson's on every corner. That's where we got our favorites, such as Big O orange juice. Lawson's was bought out by Dairy Mart in the eighties and we lost one of our local identities. I'm sure that especially hurt those of my readers from Cuyahoga Falls. Being funny about change myself, it was years before I would mention the DM word, calling it "Lawson's" instead. I knew other people who did the same. The other corporate identity it hurt this area to lose was Sohio. Dairy Mart fell on hard times and had to close some of the old Lawson sites, keeping open mostly those that had self-serve gas pumps. Dairy Mart finally sold to Alimentation Couche-Tard, who closed the under performing stores, and re-branded the remaining stores to Circle K. Recently, Alimentation Couche-Tard a...

On a day like today, if I were to call off it would be the infamous "mental health day". I'm sure most have taken those at least once in their lives. I called off today because I'm actually sick. One of the worst colds in recent memory. When you have to use the Puffs with aloe, you know it's bad. I've been in my recliner all morning with the television watching me. On a nice sunny day like today, what a waste. I guess having the two week total vote on American Idol helped Jordin squeak by this week. Now it's down to the final four-Blake, LaKisha , Jordin , and Melinda. Blake saved himself with his song styling this week, but I have this gut feeling he will be the next to go. If I'm wrong I will admit it, or blame it on the cold medicine I'm taking. Lastly, come to Rittman High School(correct me if I'm wrong about this Brenda)on June 1st. The Worlds Greatest Band Boosters( tm ) will be having a spaghetti dinner. This is a fund raiser to offset...

I had something ready to post last night, but my power flashed and I lost it. I will do that post again at a later date. My daughter came over last night and she brought her children. Our 2 year old granddaughter is hearing impaired. everybody in their household is learning sign language to be able to communicate properly with her. I walked in the room and she went to touch my shoes and touched her closed hands together side by side, signing shoes. She was so proud that she learned something new, as was grandma and grandpa. American Idol last night to me was somewhat a wash. I've never been into Bon Jovi's music. If I go by what the judges said, Jordin is in trouble. Melinda, even though good, looked out of her element. Blake gave the most original rendition, and for the first time I wasn't thinking he looked like Chad from the Alltel commercials. WIXYjr seems to think that this will be the week we see a shocker in the results show. Have to get ready for work now. Yest...

Well I got my first season of WKRP in Cincinnati DVD set last night, complete with musical substitutions. And as a fan of the series when it first come on in 1978, I like the fact that the show is available. I am disappointed in the fact that when the bogus songs come on, it takes away from the line just said by the character. However, as stated elsewhere( OMW ), to get what we all wanted would have been cost prohibitive , probably boosting the price of the collection to over one hundred dollars, instead of the $29.95 we paid for it at Wal *Mart. I think if we would have waited until the music became public domain, some of us wouldn't live long enough to see the release. But having one of the great ensemble series on DVD is somewhat a consolation even without the music. Who knows how much longer the series would have lasted if CBS hadn't jerked it around the schedule so much.

I didn't see all of the American Idol results show last night, but I heard that none were eliminated, which was cool by me, since it was a special benefit show. I think at this point that Melinda and Jordin will be the last two. I just wish Melinda would get over that false modesty thing. Should American Idol be a strictly amateur competition? I think that would leave Melinda out of the running, and I don't know if that would be good or bad. What I saw of last night's show definitely tugged at my heart strings.

Is for a little respect. I think one problem with people today is that they lost respect for others. That is why we have the language problems I discussed in my last post. The death penalty was carried out in Ohio today. Some think it's a deterrent to crime. I think a bigger deterrent would be to teach children some good old fashioned respect. And applying the board of education to the seat of learning wouldn't hurt either, at least not in the long run. Catering to the least common denominator as your audience and dissing anyone who wishes to disagree with what you do certainly isn't respect. Remember you reap what you sow. You plant disrespect, you will harvest disrespect. Sometimes we promote disrespect when we talk to young people. I've been guilty of this in the past. Teenagers will say hi Mr. Jones, or hello Mrs. Smith. They will reply, call me John, or please call me Mary. Mrs. Smith makes me feel old. Instead you should compliment their parents for doing a good...

I can remember when I was a senior in high school. I was participating in intramural volleyball. The teams were co-ed. I also had a very bad temper as a teenager, and when I felt it was necessary, I cursed like a "sailor on leave". I wasn't very good at volleyball either. My team was playing a game and I missed the ball and somebody hit my hot button. I then yelled every foul word I knew(or so it seems) at the guy, and one of the teachers took me out of the game. The next day I went to talk to this teacher and he reminded me of the incident and told me that I was lucky I wasn't suspended from school for that display of language, especially since there were young ladies present. I asked him if I should have thrown a punch and he told me that that might have been less severe. During the next several years my language didn't get any better. Maybe it was just as well I didn't make it into radio at the time. I would have had a short career. People would tell me abo...