I finally contributed to WFUV for all the enjoyment I'm deriving from "The Big Broadcast" show and archives. For all my many failings as a human being, I have never been comfortable being entertained at someone else's expense. And "The Big Broadcast" entertains the hell out of me.

At this writing, I have one aunt who is trying to escape from a nursing home--and who called me to see if I would abet her in the getaway, one uncle who is headed to state prison for probably nine years for repeatedly harassing and threatening a former girlfriend, another aunt who is my biological mother (whom I haven't spoken to in six years, and who has cancer), a mother who is my biological aunt (and with whom I get along much better since I left home at age 34, but who has worse cancer than her sister--but not as bad cancer as her OTHER sister had who died last year), and a President who couldn't give a flying fuck about any of us. Is it any wonder I look forward so to the first Saranac Pilsener of the evening?