radio head

I was on the radio for 10 seconds today.
It was weird to hear my voice on the radio...I sounded so serious, I should have perky.


I was a DJ in college for a morning Jazz show. That was fun...but even funner...on holidays, I filled in for the Onda Chicano show. I was in my second year of Spanish, and as anyone knows who speaks Spanish, textbook Spanish is nothing like spoken Spanish. I did my best, I hobbled it all together for $3.35/hour.
On at least one of the shifts, people would bring me their new record to play. Usually the records were yellow or turquoise. There were always lots of requests and dedications. Unlike the Jazz listeners, who called in mostly just to tell me I'd mispronounced someone's name, Onda Chicano show fans called in all the time, just to talk.