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danny-kaye:

Four of show business’ biggest stars performed on the Jack Benny radio program and delighted listeners with a rendition of a song Benny wrote himself. March 6, 1952, are Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx

Sinatra, Groucho, Danny Kaye and Jack Benny gathered round a microphone—those we’re the days indeed!

3 great things? Archive.org, Radiolab, and cephalopods. Done. I got yr trinity RIGHT HERE. Via wnycradiolab:

More great illustrations for Die Cephalopoden.  You can read the whole thing on archive.org (and if you don’t read German, you have our permission to skip to the pictures).

Look at them now, hear them later: “Benedict Cumberbatch and the cast of Neverwhere - first photo and air date revealed”

An exclusive look at the first official cast shot for the Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy drama also starring James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Sophie Okonedo and David Harewood…

The six-part series begins with an hour-long episode at 6pm on Saturday 16 March on Radio 4 and continues with five 30-minute instalments stripped across the week on Radio 4 Extra from Monday 18 March.

NPR’s financial show Planet Money set up a shell company, two actually. And they tell you all about it, including what country lets you do it without any ID whatsoever.

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Orson Welles, February 3rd 1940 issue of The Saturday Evening Post

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The Can Haz DJ finale, tune in tonight 3/27/2012 starts at 8pm on Flickr.

The Last episode of Can Haz DJ is tonight, starting early on http://radiovalencia.fm at 8pm and going late til 2AM—6 hours@ details below…

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My cat Astrophe may not look stressed, but she’s undoubtedly sad that she won’t be photographed as much soon—at least not with incredible music like Rahasaan Roland Kirk, MC 5, Monks of Doom, The Heartbreakers, Fishbone, Thomas Brinkmann, Hugo Largo…. the stuff of what Can Haz DJ is made.

Used to be anyway. Tonight is the final episode of my show on RadioValencia.fm. And I’ll make the most of it. Expanding to a one-time-only out with a bang 6-hour show from 8pm to 2am. More details on the Can Haz DJ finale here.

6 hours. That’s 25% of a whole day! And I still, definitely cannot fit everything in that I’d like to.

I am going out with an extended echoey bang. Playing Jazz, Punk, Rap, Glitch and other Electronica, good old rock and roll, plus New Wave, Dub, country-dust-songwriting-Americana-whaddyacallit, a horde of amazing covers, and a bit of everything else. Hope you can tune in at radiovalencia.fm starting at 8pm Pacific!

You can hear archived Can Haz DJ podcasts here.

Attached please find last week’s podcast of Can Haz DJ. Lots of great Roots dub, a walk through dub and other versions of some of the classic reggae ‘riddims’, and a chunk of latter-day dub-meister Bill Laswell’s finest. The previous 3 weeks of dub are here: 1, 2, 3.

This week’s show starts at 10pm tonight on RadioValencia.fm. Still a bit more dub. And lots of other stuff, too. Including March coming in like a bunch of songs about Lions.

Starting at 10pm Pacific, my weekly radio show Can Haz DJ is on Radio Valencia transmitting from the Mission in San Francisco to around the world on RadioValencia.fm. Surf on over and check it out, tonight I’m playing ALL kinds of music, pairs of songs by each artist from Art Blakey to Prince Buster to Prefuse 73 to The Kinks to The Fall. So, yeah, everything. Here’s some Prince Buster for ya!