A pleasure hosting the first edition of Around The Fringe from the new broadcast studios of WYSO 91.3 FM in Yellow Springs. Around The Fringe , has been a staple of WYSO programming for well over four decades, and one I’ve been helping host for almost half that time. The program is a direct inspirational template for It’s All Happening , and most of the music featured in this program was taken from IAH playlists. The program's creator and regular host the Rev. Cool (aka Jim

Before there was Palantir and Five Eyes and Flock and Ring and Alexa, etc etc ad nauseam, there was Total Information Awareness . It was a horrible idea then, and it’s an even worse one now, especially since it’s been turbocharged through privatization and financialization by our tech overlord state. But what is  ‘total information awareness’?   Isn’t that what the whole concept of God is supposed to be? A figure who has total information awareness? That’s what our tech ove

Returning to my original radio stomping grounds of Around The Fringe , a live radio program that I’ve been helping host for nearly twenty years, and one which is a direct inspirational template for It’s All Happening . The program, created and hosted by my friend and compatriot the Rev. Cool, airs on WYSO 91.3 FM, serving as a cultural fixture among the indie music and media scene in the Dayton, Ohio area and beyond for over four decades now. I was hosting this week’s episode

Motoring Away - Driving Off A Cliff This new year already feels like its running off the road, as what feels like some of the last remaining parameters of justice and accountability get shot in the head in the front seat of a car in Minneapolis. Cars. They loom large in our culture, a fact that drives more than people around, but drives a major portion of the foreign policy of the U.S. and its fanatical defense of the petrodollar. And cars loom large in Audiobahn , an episod

The Rev. Cool in an improvisational moment from back in the day ") Returning once again to my live radio roots hosting another edition of Around The Fringe , a many decades running radio program that airs on WYSO 91.3 FM and is a cultural fixture among the indie music and media scene in Dayton, Ohio and beyond. I’ve been DJ’ing with and for the ever-esteemed Rev. Cool (producer and host of ATF) for nearly twenty years, on a program that is a direct inspirational template for

"Woman, Old Man, and Flower" (Max Ernst; 1923) I’ve always pretty much hated ties.  Maybe it stems from my being born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, threatening to choke the life from me before I was even able to begin it, I don’t know.  But they’ve always struck me as a kind of symbolic leash of conformity.  Of course a certain conformity is a prerequisite to maintaining civilized society itself, but becomes rather problematic when that society is clearly st