Mid-Valley Mutations

Word Jazz IV w/ Ken Nordine (A “Cheek-In-Tongues,” “Fill-In-Shows,” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) We make another nod to Nordine, as we continue to explore the classic Word Jazz series of broadcasts. This week, Barno was out again, so it made sense to grab two more installments of this program, and … Continue reading Word J...

The Melinda Snodgrass Interview WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Join us for a casual conversation with legendary Science Fiction author, Melinda Snodgrass. We get a nice overview of her career, stories about how she got involved in Hollywood, and lots of tips on writing, and what makes a dedicated writer. Melinda has two series … Continue reading The Melinda Snodgrass Intervie...

Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 2) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Continuing our Holiday Anniversary trend, we bring you two more episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and a short holiday installment of The Gift of The Magi, which apparently makes everyone else in the world cry, but makes me laugh. https://ia801704.us.archive.org/2/items/dimestore-christmas-two-2025/Dimest...

Thanksgiving Leftovers, 2025! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat I had to miss my regular Tuesday show this week, so I picked up a shift to cover for Don-O, and offering three house of Thanksgiving Leftovers: all albums and records that I’ve been meaning to get to this year, but hadn’t appeared on the show … Continue reading Thanksgiving Leftovers, 2025!

Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 1) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our Holiday Season this year is filled with anniversary retrocasts: shows that originally appeared on the same date, but many decades previous. We start this year off with two installments of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and a short holiday installment of The Victory Front. … Continue reading Holi-Day & D...

UBradio Salon 933 – SquircUBe Chronicles: WinterDrone V… 30 Nov 2025 on DFM.nu Aurora Josephson visits the UB Kitchens for an in-person drone session, and univac and myself call in to offer scripts, japes, and drones to help flesh this show out. This story is part of, “The SquircUBe Chronicles,” series of episodes on UB … Continue reading UBradio Salon 933 – Squ...

Smoke Two Joints In The Morning: 420, Too (A Danksgiving Special!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Since many of us are stuck visiting with family that we don’t particularly want to see this time of year, we decide to take a radio “walk” out behind the garage, and huff down a couple j’s, soaking in … Continue reading Smoke Two Joints In The Morning: 420, Too...

Dimestore Radio Theater Thanksgiving Special 2025 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Presenting in its entirety, The Elgin Watch 7th Annual Thanksgiving Show, which features music, comedy, and other solemn radio moments from the 25 of November, 1948. https://ia803402.us.archive.org/10/items/dimestore-thanksgiving-show-2025/DimestoreThanksgivingShow2025.mp3   Rough Playlist: Ken Carpent...

Howlin At The Doom Part 6: Partch-Meants Triad WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Number six in our “Howlin’ At The Doom”  series of biographical mix shows where we ruminate on how it was that well known artists from he past handed the horrors of their world and their lives. This is the third covering … Continue reading Howlin’ At The Doom Part 6: Partch-Meants...

The People Who Died 2025 Edition Part II WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Picking up where we left off with Part I (and in a larger sense, with are ongoing “People Who Died” series), we continue with more Tom Lehrer and David Lynch cut-ups, mixed in with other audio tributes to Wink Martindale, Hulk … Continue reading The People Who Died 2025 Edition Part II

It’s Alive! Performances in The Mid-Valley (w/ Brad Anderson & Four Dimensional Nightmare… LIVE!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Four Dimensional Nightmare has been a friend to the show, and a guest, for well over 10 years now, and the news of their (possibly last?) show in December has been very exciting to hear. … Continue reading It’s Alive! Performances i...

Another UFO: Another Supplemental (Document #MVM02) (A Hellraiser Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat On the anniversary of the Roswell Incident this year, we broke open the UFO file here in the Lava Lamp Lounge, and offered a long meditation on that particular corner of UFO-logy. However, I uncovered a treasure trove of vintage … Continue reading Another UFO: Another Supp...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2025! (Part 4) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Closing our our annual Spook-tacular this year, we continue with Four presentations that are perfect for the spooky in your family. More installments of The Weird Circle, The Price of Fear and Quiet, Please are all on the docket, but we also have a very … Continue reading Dimestore Radio...

UBradio Salon 928 – SquircUBe Chronicles: Exit?… 26 Oct 2025 on DFM.nu It’s another installment of “The SquircUBe Chronicles,” a show that I co-write with univac, and is hosted most months, on UB Radio Salon. For this show, we discover that Austin has trouble finding the exit to his facsimile of The Mid-Valley. It’s up … Continue reading UBradio Salon 928...

The People Who Died 2025 Edition (A Hellraiser “Singles Going Deady” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Digging into the archives again, to look for more music and recordings by The People Who Died, trying to keep it focused to 2025 deaths, for the Halloween Spook-tacular this year. Actual deaths are a lot scarier than … Continue reading The People Who Died 20...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2025! (Part 3) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our annual Halloween Spook-tacular continues, and with it, our tour through mid-century horror radio wends through the dusty corridors, to find new aural treats that have not yet scared us before. More installments of our four regular October Shows are available … Continue reading Dimesto...

In Search Of The Ghost Hunters of The Mid-Valley (A Hellraiser Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat It’s the holiday season, and as usual, we find that the once-a-year tradition of seeing the Ghost Hunters emerge and get sighted by any number of local oddball, here in the Mid-Valley. Miss Rikki (of legendary Closet Radio  … Continue reading In Search Of The Ghost Hunt...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2025! (Part 2) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our annual Halloween Spook-tacular is off to a good start this year, as we continue our journey through four horror radio mid-century broadcasts from the dark side of the radio dial. Its holiday installments of The Weird Circle, The Price of … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater Hall...

… IN HELL. WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat In a rare radio event that was far too long in the making, Miss Rikki of Closet Radio notoriety joins me for a pseudo A Momentary Lapse of Reason reunion, as we join forces as Jungle Room correspondents, who have gone on-location, to a town at the southern … Continue reading … IN HELL

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2025! (Part 1) WFMU Playlist & Listener Comments We begin our holiday season this year, in traditional style, with a return to our usual October features and fun. We deploy a documentary about Lon Chaney Jr. this year, over the entire month. We also include some excellent stories from radio’s … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater...

Stereogram #13: Reigning CattyWampus Hell In A Hand Made Basket Case of Unread Mixed Bag Messages From A Passive-Aggressive God Throwing Lamp Shade Graven Image Death Rattle Snake Splatterhouse Earthling Unearthing Mean Human Beans Elimidate Phlebotomy Crepes Mediocre Miracles In Disguise Surprise WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Arvo Zylo returns to the show, with … Continue readin...

UB Radio 924 – The SquircUBe Chronicles “medBay Mishap”… 28 Sept 2025 on DFM.nu It’s another installment of “The SquircUbe Chronicles,” a monthly serial Sci-Fi story, written by univac & Austin. In this installment, the pod has been malfunctioning in a variety of ways. Hour 1 proves to almost be fatal to Austin, who has … Continue reading UB Radio 924 &#8211...

Hangin’ On The Telephone Part Five WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Enjoy! https://ia801309.us.archive.org/17/items/mutation-422/Mutation423.mp3    

Found In The Demento Dimension III: Janitor’s Jubilee WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Enjoy! https://ia801309.us.archive.org/17/items/mutation-422/Mutation422.mp3  

Hangin’ On The Telephone Part Four w/ The Weatherman, LIVE! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Enjoy! https://ia801309.us.archive.org/17/items/mutation-422/Mutation421.mp3