Satellite radio no longer in the zipcar, I had to resort to going through the entire FM radio dial every five minutes while driving to (and back from) Albany yesterday. 

But the best part of the drive was passing through some town that sounded like an ailment and hearing the DJ say it’s our You Pay, We Play for charity day so “I apologize to my boss but ____ from _____ made a large donation to our fundraiser so I have to play this song”

And then Dominic the Donkey started.

Hey! Chingedy ching,
(hee-haw, hee-haw)
It’s Dominic the donkey.
Chingedy ching,
(hee-haw, hee-haw)

That just made my day.  Christmas songs in (almost) June. Yea!  Made the 315 mile drive much more fun.  Too bad my son wasn’t impressed by his mama’s singing abilities –
 
When Santa visits his paesons,
With Dominic he’ll be.
Because the reindeer cannot,
Climb the hills of Italy

I was going to plug the radio station. I think she called it The Point. But I didn’t catch the FM dial number and all my searches online just come up with a Vermont station. Thinking it was still possibly the same station I went to look and see if that charity walk she spoke of was listed on the site.

Nope.

So if anyone knows of a radio station called The Point which can be heard if you are driving from Manhattan to Albany (Guilderland) let me know.

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What else can I say?

Besides it’s about time! 

KROCK is back.   WXRK has stopped being WFNY - 92.3 FREE FM. As of 5PM today.

Thank goodness.

Now they need to hire me (in a timeslot not filled by guys who want people to WOW) so I can play some music and talk to New York and New Jersey residents who missed the station more than they are going to miss The “jumped the shark three seasons ago” Sopranos.

You see, KROCK and I go way back. 

Over a decade ago, new DJs had just joined the station and one of them hit on me while I was at one of their movie screenings with my best friend (who later was hit on by the lead singer of Stabbing Westward – that in itself is a whole other story).  Mr. DJ, trying hard to impress me, gave me one of the free dinner for two at Planet Hollywood gift certificates. (Hey, big spender!) I took it from him and never called him. It’s a good thing, what I didn’t know then was that he was dating someone I would years later work with and find to be super sweet. Quality guys I meet. I know.  

On another occasion, one of the DJs let me read a poem I wrote about Dave Navarro on air. A friend of mine called in and said she knew me and he connected us both on air.  It was cute. Too silly girls, one with a silly school girl crush on a guy who didn’t even know she existed … until years later … embarrassing ourselves for the entire tri-state area. Ahhh, those were the days.

And then the last time I can recall without fully embarrassing myself; I asked another DJ who worked there to play a song not on the play list.  I guess I was super sweet – I swear, some people find me to be sweet — because he did something he was definitely not supposed to do. He played it. And then he lost his job.  Ooops.

Welcome back.  I’ve grown up. I promise not to make any trouble. (Just as long as you promise to play “Waiting Room” by Fugazi once in a while.)

92.3 KROCK
Listen to the Rock of New York live, no matter where you live.

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Just read some crazy beautiful news courtesy of Michael Ausiello of TV Guide who claims to have tried to pry the “final four words” of Gilmore Girls out of show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.  

He didn’t succeed. 

Why?

There’s a possibility that Amy Sherman-Palladino would write a 2 hour TV movie in order to wrap up all the loose ends… (You know, like why Kirk never had a job as a tennis instructor for Emily Gilmore… I kid. I kid.)

So Gilmore Girls fans, here’s Ausiello’s scoopage for you to believe with your own eyes –

In the next year or two, she hopes to make — wait for it — a two-hour Gilmore Girls TV-movie that ties up all those loose threads! I nearly fell over when she said it — especially given what she told me back in December. (BTW, lest you think Amy was pulling my leg, her partner in life and in showbiz, Dan Palladino, confirmed that a GG reunion pic is something they’re interested in pursuing.)

And I wasn’t the only one floored by this development. “She said what?” gasped Scott Patterson after I relayed the information to him over the phone. “I didn’t think she would be interested in doing something like that. But if she says she is, I would seriously consider it.”

Alexis Bledel was equally stunned. “A Gilmore Girls reunion?” she said with a laugh. “That’s certainly not something I had thought of doing. That’s really funny, I have no idea how I would feel in a few years. I don’t know, I’m sure the script Amy would write would be great, but I guess I’d have to read it and see how I felt at the time.”

Last but not least, Lauren Graham e-mailed me late last night to say, “Could be a fun idea if everyone wanted to do it. I would do it just to get the four final words out of Amy. They torture me.”

Stand by for a comment from Warner Bros. big cheese Peter Roth.

Let’s just hope Heroes is on hiatus at the time they film the Gilmore Girls movie and Milo and Alexis are on speaking terms so Milo can guest appear.. run through the set as Jess, profess his love for Rory and then leave again.  Can’t have a major moment in Gilmore Girls history without Jess included (and of course, doing something that has everyone left shaking their heads.)

Now, I just have to work for the next year or so on convincing Amy I should play a minor role in the movie… a memorable one… like the last person to ever be fired by Emily Gilmore.  *smile*

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When Oprah says she has a good relationship with her father but was surprised to find out he’s writing a tell all book about her, you have to wonder what that means for all of us who don’t have good relationships with their fathers. 

I mean, clearly there isn’t a huge demand for tell all books about moms in Toledo who work at the local law office during the day as a paralegal and make cheeseburger macaroni when they get home at night.  But I don’t think it’s just Oprah who can imagine how insane it is to have a good relationship with your father and then boom.. he writes what will most likely be a not so glowing account about you for the entire world to read.

I wouldn’t know anything about that.  I’m not proud of it but my father couldn’t write a tell all book about me because after making the manuscript font sized 75 and typing for about ten pages, he would run out of whatever he could possibly stretch for 10 pages in length.  I’d have to finish the rest of the rest of the book for him.

(Lucky for him, if he clicks here, he can see I’ve already started telling all.   Should give him a jumpstart to page three or so.)

What’s the worst thing her dad could say about her? I really don’t know.  But if she hasn’t murdered anyone a la OJ Simpson and she doesn’t have anyone hidden in her Santa Barbara home’s basement a la Desperate Housewives, she can probably get over whatever the newspapers choose to excerpt from the book (currently titled “Things Unspoken”) once it’s released.

Oprah should be happy her dad is coming out with this tell all book (By the way, who is the crazy publishing house willing to risk Oprah never encouraging her viewers to buy books they publish?!) because now she will never have to offer money to him again - she can tell him he should have gotten a bigger advance.  LOL  He officially looks like all those other parents of celebrities looking to make money off their kids hard work.  Love it.

Read more:  New York Daily News

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