First Comment! This is a great monologue, GK. Thank you for posting, authoring and speaking it! - Ah for the old days of Pie Aroma. I also miss ALT RACK!
Glad you are keeping the title of one of; 'America's Longest standing Comics'. Your cracked yet syrupy vocals recall a vintage age. Like a perfectly weighted gramophone record player. Hope the EMT's won't be hauling you to any van soon- have not doubt you will keep playing your music. always up standing!
Bravo for comment about shower. I’d like to roast the guys who design the shower hardware in hotels because I also get angry every time I have to stand there trying to figure out how to work the @#$% thing to avoid freezing or scalding myself.
How much would it cost to bring you to our neck of the woods . . . well, desert, actually, the far southwest corner of Arizona, like in the movie "3:10 To Yuma," how much? We have a great community college and also a cool civic center and a winter full of old people each year, as well as a grand old movie house in historic Downtown Yuma, any of which venues would be great for your show, I think. You're going to speak in Irvine, CA, in January. So how about a jaunt over to see us across what's left of the once-mighty Colorado River? We can put you up in the lovely Hilton Garden Inn overlooking the river that serves a great omelet breakfast or whatever you'd like, and they have coffee makers in each room. Who do we contact to bring you here?
Laughing so hard, in empathy: I once pulled my back out trying to turn an hotel shower on. The controls were waaaay below the norm. Tho EMTs were not summoned, I still suffer 8 years later.
Dear Garrison, I made the mistake of using Siri to send you a short note some weeks back, I am 77, so it may have been a few months back, but I’m sure that your Group of technicians/moderators will discover my first ever response to any living radio or television host.
When I was in my teens or even before that, Wolfman Jack, the good guys on WMCA, and Cousin Brucie at WABC New York were my favorite radio personalities. When the era of disc jockeys ad-libbing to commercials and records playing ended, I spent some time going back to school to get my masters degree, and to marry the love of my life and produced some wondrous, joyful children. (by the way, this may have been the most beautiful and beloved time of my life, when they were small and I was the whole world to them).
Because now, I am just an old guy who never gets a phone call from them; I must call them first and request a callback, which they never (or seldom) refuse. When I was younger and working for a living, I always admired those seniors who had retired and had a financial plan on which to fall back.
In the first few years of my retirement, I was voraciously roaming the house in search of things which needed adjustment, repair, or replacement. But listening to you since the 1970s, and now continuing into your ninth decade, I’m wondering, “Well he’s got it made, but what the hell do I do with myself when there is no one left to entertain or offer services to?” Do you have any advice, (an 80-something year old white Christian male living on $1200 a month) to impart to a short-sighted man such as I ?
And, I can’t help but thinking that I am not the only one in this position in life. Thank you for all the years of entertainment and education that you have provided through your radio broadcasting days!
Loved the anagram, "Pie Aroma in Microphone". Yet, shouldn't it be "A Pie Aroma in Microphone" as the official title of your show was "A Prairie Home Companion"? Signed, Anagramaniac Jane
I I have a “pie aroma in microphone” T-shirt, which I wear to work out in the gym at Rice University, my alma mater. I wore the shirt today, knowing the students probably aren’t familiar with the great radio show, and the nice people who run the gym had it open and students were there even though the university had a sad shock yesterday. The show may be gone but its spirit, the decency and good humor and good fellowship, lives on.
Thank you for this sir! I heard it on the way in to work this morning and I believe God used it as a confirmation to me of something that's been troubling me. I've been blogging about it already, if you care to see, and I'm quoting part of it in the post that will hit tomorrow, along with my comments. jimmylogan.substack.com I mean the part about being friends, too, if that ever becomes an option. :-)
First Comment! This is a great monologue, GK. Thank you for posting, authoring and speaking it! - Ah for the old days of Pie Aroma. I also miss ALT RACK!
Glad you are keeping the title of one of; 'America's Longest standing Comics'. Your cracked yet syrupy vocals recall a vintage age. Like a perfectly weighted gramophone record player. Hope the EMT's won't be hauling you to any van soon- have not doubt you will keep playing your music. always up standing!
Good afternoon, Garrison. The shower thing is very real for us all. When will they get that. RR
Bravo for comment about shower. I’d like to roast the guys who design the shower hardware in hotels because I also get angry every time I have to stand there trying to figure out how to work the @#$% thing to avoid freezing or scalding myself.
How much would it cost to bring you to our neck of the woods . . . well, desert, actually, the far southwest corner of Arizona, like in the movie "3:10 To Yuma," how much? We have a great community college and also a cool civic center and a winter full of old people each year, as well as a grand old movie house in historic Downtown Yuma, any of which venues would be great for your show, I think. You're going to speak in Irvine, CA, in January. So how about a jaunt over to see us across what's left of the once-mighty Colorado River? We can put you up in the lovely Hilton Garden Inn overlooking the river that serves a great omelet breakfast or whatever you'd like, and they have coffee makers in each room. Who do we contact to bring you here?
For that matter, what would it take to bring A Prairie Home Companion to Yuma?
Laughing so hard, in empathy: I once pulled my back out trying to turn an hotel shower on. The controls were waaaay below the norm. Tho EMTs were not summoned, I still suffer 8 years later.
LOL!
The guys who design showers will room next door to the guys who design packaging when they all end up Down Below.
Dear Garrison, I made the mistake of using Siri to send you a short note some weeks back, I am 77, so it may have been a few months back, but I’m sure that your Group of technicians/moderators will discover my first ever response to any living radio or television host.
When I was in my teens or even before that, Wolfman Jack, the good guys on WMCA, and Cousin Brucie at WABC New York were my favorite radio personalities. When the era of disc jockeys ad-libbing to commercials and records playing ended, I spent some time going back to school to get my masters degree, and to marry the love of my life and produced some wondrous, joyful children. (by the way, this may have been the most beautiful and beloved time of my life, when they were small and I was the whole world to them).
Because now, I am just an old guy who never gets a phone call from them; I must call them first and request a callback, which they never (or seldom) refuse. When I was younger and working for a living, I always admired those seniors who had retired and had a financial plan on which to fall back.
In the first few years of my retirement, I was voraciously roaming the house in search of things which needed adjustment, repair, or replacement. But listening to you since the 1970s, and now continuing into your ninth decade, I’m wondering, “Well he’s got it made, but what the hell do I do with myself when there is no one left to entertain or offer services to?” Do you have any advice, (an 80-something year old white Christian male living on $1200 a month) to impart to a short-sighted man such as I ?
And, I can’t help but thinking that I am not the only one in this position in life. Thank you for all the years of entertainment and education that you have provided through your radio broadcasting days!
Mike. M
Loved the anagram, "Pie Aroma in Microphone". Yet, shouldn't it be "A Pie Aroma in Microphone" as the official title of your show was "A Prairie Home Companion"? Signed, Anagramaniac Jane
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I I have a “pie aroma in microphone” T-shirt, which I wear to work out in the gym at Rice University, my alma mater. I wore the shirt today, knowing the students probably aren’t familiar with the great radio show, and the nice people who run the gym had it open and students were there even though the university had a sad shock yesterday. The show may be gone but its spirit, the decency and good humor and good fellowship, lives on.
Thank you for this sir! I heard it on the way in to work this morning and I believe God used it as a confirmation to me of something that's been troubling me. I've been blogging about it already, if you care to see, and I'm quoting part of it in the post that will hit tomorrow, along with my comments. jimmylogan.substack.com I mean the part about being friends, too, if that ever becomes an option. :-)
I loved the anagram of PHC.
Here are a few for Garrison Keillor:
Kaiser Groin Roll
Aerosol Girl Rink
Roaring Elks Roil