Gelkote

Sitting on the porch this evening with the laptop and a beverage admiring the sunset. It’s one of those post-rain sunsets when the fire isn’t from the West like normal but from the East, South or sometimes even the North depending on the clouds. This evening’s fire is from the South.

The view required some tunes so I attempted to dial up Pandora and Last.fm but the sites were either acting up or asking for registration. It’s at this point that I remembered an old friend, WDET in Detroit and the overnight DJ Liz Copeland. Admittedly, I’ve only listened to her show less than half a dozen times over the last few years but I’ve always enjoyed it. I never became a regular listener due to the midnight to 5 AM hours but I would peek in from time. This evening was one of those times. It’s was still early for her show but I checked in none the less only to discovery that her show on WDET is no more. Programming changes in April of 2007 replaced her with BBC World Service. I like BBC programming but it will never replace the late night musical gem that I used to trip over to every year or so.

I’m off to discover where Liz might have landed. Oh and “Myself”, if you ever stumble across my little blog, thank you for turning me on to Liz and the WDET that I remember.

89X’s Morning X was playing around with a service yesterday called midomi. Midomi lets you hum, sing or whistle a tune and it will try to guess it. Amazingly, it does seem to work most of the time if the song is in the database.