Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Show Biz: Wednesday 05/13/09

*** Stevie Wonder turns 59 today. He is one of the best -- and one of my favorite -- singers/artists of the past forty-plus years. There's no debate.

While it was tempting to reach deep into the Stevie archive during the birthday segment and bring out "I Wish", or "Living In The City", or the always satisfying "Superstition", I chose to go with one of his softer classics, the glorious "Overjoyed" from 1985.





*** One of the stories we discussed today was one that virtually all of us can relate to, the workplace refridgerator. More specifically, the food that gets left in that fridge, and the problems that arise.

We do a pretty good job here at the station of keeping our fridge pretty clean, and limiting the amount of food that sits in there for more than a few days.

Most of what's in our fridge consists of drinks and condiments, with the occasional lunch -- usually mine that I eat every day.

It's a far cry, thankfully, from the work fridge at the AT&T building in San Jose. There was so much moldy and spoiled food in there that the smell that came from that fridge when it was getting cleaned sent dozens of workers to the hospital.

A hazmat team had to be called out.

Now, there have been times here at the station that a hazmat team certainly could have been called out after some excursions in the bathroom, but never for anything in the fridge.




*** Adam Clayton of U2 is having a birthday today, so for the 80's Escape we played one of U2's hits, "New Year's Day".