I do not recall asking for this birthday present.

[athelind]

Grumble grumble grumble,

For the last year or two, my favorite radio station has been KMAX 95.7, whose format has been "'70s, '80s, or whatever we feel like", with a minimum of talk and a station breaks featuring an amusing mascot character vaguely reminiscent of Jim Backus's various personae. One of their taglines was "we broke into your house and raided your CD collection", and, well, that's pretty accurate.

Currently, 95.7 is playing a synthesized voice counting down to tomorrow morning... and, alas, their site confirms that there's a format change coming.

This would be irksome in any event, but for it to occur on my birthday... that's just rude.

As a goth Keanu Reeves would say... "Woe."

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Overcoming the pain of this tragic loss, I'd like to thank everyone who sent birthday greetings my way. Thank you!

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Comments

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

That appears to be the same station as WBEN Philadelphia. On the same frequency, even.
http://www.957benfm.com/
Their site has a stream. Happy birthday.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Damn, I keep forgetting when all my friends' birthdays are. A happy one to you.

Too bad about the radio thing though. I know how important having a Good Station to listen to can be. My favorite ever has to have been 107.7 KRXO in Oklahoma City. Classic rock with just a hint of blues now and then. My local fave is 94.9 KGGO. They got taken over by a conglomerate not too long ago- and their format shifted. In this case it was a slight shift- in an ever so slightly more KRXO-like direction. Not as far as I'd like, but it's still an improvement.

[bfdragon.livejournal.com]

Hope the rest of your day goes better. Happy Birthday Athelend!

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday. Unfortunately the day itself often doesn't always go that well. Hopefully the ones afterwards are much better.

[soreth.livejournal.com]

Happy Birth/Hatchday. :)

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

I don't celebrate my birthday for personal reasons. That's fine I guess, but it makes me forget my friends' birthdays. For that I apologize. And happy birthday! The world is better because you are in it.

[wy.livejournal.com]

Happy hatchday.

Max, FM

[slith-tschillin.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your Max may have influenced our new station, Max 98.3 FM (http://www.max983fm.com/) (WWRZ), though it's non-corporate so more commercial breaks, but they make it fun and try to keep them short. Ours has this "5 decades" of music thing going (including present) and they tout such a large music collection, that sometimes after a song it'll say how good of a song it was, but don't plan on hearing it for a while (due to the large collection & apparent random selection).
Anywho. Hatchingday snugs & scritches if you want'm.
- CompuTechie

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Hippy Bath Day!

::B::

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

Argh! I'm sorry I didn't remember it...but anyway, Happy Birthday, my friend! I hope you spend some quality time with Quel on it.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

I sent you birthday greetings, only they were with THE POWER OF MY MIND. Thus, they might not actually get to you, hehe.

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Sucks to hear about the radio station ... but I hope the rest of your day has been a good one. Many happy returns!

[kreggan.livejournal.com]

Aaaand they've gone country. "95.7 'The Wolf'".

[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Wolf. Wait. Country? Erf.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Wait, they were country BEFORE they were The Max, and they TANKED. This is the friggin' BAY AREA.

[reveille-d.livejournal.com]

"Fresh" Country! BLEAURGH! Unless it's all Johnny Cash. But that would get old fast.

[taral.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Er. I forgot it was your birthday! Happy birthday!

[shdragon.livejournal.com]

You know what's even more sad? This is the second time in my life where I've had a "We play what we want" station go out. Both times they were replaced by a country station.

It was quite fun to wake up that morning to my radio alarm playing country music. I was all like "WTF?!?" :(