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is it true that each time you bang your head you lose some brain cells? because if so, i must be in the negatives.

i banged my head again last night. on the corner of the dinner table, made a pretty loud thud. all for a popcorn that had fallen on the ground… was it worth it? it was worth it.

but my head is still sore, hours later. i’m worried that i’ll develop a bump where i banged it. and i find i am sucking at settlers again. i attribute that to the traumatic head injury. also, it could be coincidental…. but i was extremely fidgety tonight. haven’t been this fidgety since i don’t remember when! do i not remember when because it was so long ago? or because my memory is going due to the head trauma!?? am i get dumber? why does head hurt so much? i is worried!

noooooo!!! not another one of my favorite radio stations!! whyyyyyyyyyy!??! first whfs, then z104 (though i hadn’t followed them as closely after high school) and now oldies 100! grrr, i still listen to oldies and i’m not 50!!!

boo, i’m sad. i won’t even make it back to my car by 5pm to hear the last song.

Posted at 10:22 AM ET, 04/ 3/2006
Goodbye Oldies, Hello What…More ‘Classic Rock?’

The current incarnation of Washington’s oldies radio station, Big 100.3, is in its final hours. By 5 p.m. today, the station will die, to be replaced, according to executives at competing stations, by the market’s second classic rock outlet.

The new station will carry the same name and call letters, but a different selection of music, seeking to appeal to a different audience.

1 PM UPDATE:

Here’s how the station is describing the change, billed as an “evolution” to a lineup of tunes that dumps Motown, Elvis, anything pre-late 60s, and pretty much all black music. What you will hear: Mostly 70s pop rock–think Billy Joel, CCR, Elton John, the Eagles. Here’s the station’s promo for the new format.

And here’s what has been playing earlier today on the oldies station:

You’ve Got a Friend James Taylor 10:10am
My World Is Empty Without You Diana Ross & the Supremes 10:07am
I Shot the Sheriff Eric Clapton 10:03am
Hooked on a Feeling B.J. Thomas 10:01am
Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond 9:57am
Shoop Shoop Song Betty Everett 9:55am
Reason to Believe Rod Stewart 9:51am
Piano Man Billy Joel 9:46am
Suspicious Minds Elvis Presley 9:42am

It’ll be interesting to see what tune comes last–the station’s promos say the switchover will occur at 5 this afternoon. Anybody like to hazard a guess the last song on oldies Big 100.3? Winning entry gets a nice musical prize. Slap your guess on the comment board below before 4:30 p.m. today and check back later to see if you’ve won.

Oldies stations are dying across the country, victim of the aging audience. WBIG’s average listener is about 50, which is high for pop music radio, though right in there with the audience for all-news, sports and public stations, all of which do quite nicely in the revenue department. If the industry rumors are true and the switch is to classic rock, that doesn’t exactly bring down the average age of the audience.

But oldies stations are dying because the coalition that came together around disparate forms of pop music in the 1960s and 70s ended right there. The generations that followed that era grew up with much more segregated and finely tuned categories of music–you were either a rocker or a dance music fan. You either listened to the pop station or the light rocker, the black hits station or the harder rap outlet. Once traditional Top 40 radio splintered into a slew of narrower niches, oldies radio was doomed; a new generation of listeners grew up without the experience of listening to a little bit of everything. Oldies flits from Motown to bubble gum pop to Beatles to Elvis to 70s silliness to disco to 60s crooners, and its audience says ok, fine, if I don’t like this song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, I’ll stick around because I know Fleetwood Mac is coming up soon. Younger audiences never learned that kind of commitment to a blend of music; they were trained to get their kind of music, all the time. So the new Big 100 later today will offer a narrower range of tunes.

Let’s see. Your nominations for last song?

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so i got hooked on snowboarding at the end of the 2005-2006 season. went 3 times after presidents day. and really, by the last time, the snow was all ice. you could see the dirt/grass starting to show… hahhaa

but i’m hooked. to the point that on my last trip with my friend, we both saw the discounted boards on sale at the ski store. not knowing ANYthing about purchasing snowboards (‘cept that snowboards typically run for ~$400? even this we were unsure of, we just heard this from the other friend who had gone boarding with us the first time and had also gotten bitten by the snowboard bug and started pricing things online. we didn’t even know whether $400 was just for the board or the entire package!) , we reaaally strongly considered purchasing those boards. in the end, better senses prevailed.

… but i’m still looking to buy! anyone have any suggestions/advice on how to buy a snowboard? like i realized afterwards, after reading up, that perhaps it was best we didn’t buy those boards as their lengths didn’t seem right? though i’m not sure what length i should be riding on. at one ski resort, they gave me a length 147, but at the other place, they gave me 143. i did the best with the length of 143, but it was also my third time snowboarding and the hill at that resort was considerably less steep. other questions- boots? bindings? type of snowboard? i dunno any of these! reading how-tos on snowboard buying just confused the crap outta me!

also, not sure how much to spend? i’m obviously a beginner and would like to get better and go more often.

and finally, anyone wnat to go snowboarding?! i so wish i lived somewhere where there’s year round snowboarding

this week was a good week

the weather was great- got to play tennis, lots of fun. got to watch other people really play tennis, even more fun!
i started a new job… i’m extremeeeely paranoid about getting too excited about things in case it doesn’t work out, but so far (knock on wood) it’s been good
i won another game of settlers! thereby extending my win streak to 2… and winning against 6 people total for the first time. i then promptly lost the next game… oh well
my insurance agent sent me an ecard what a nice man