by Kevin Burton With so much space at the house in Yellow Springs, my cat Mex and I started a game I called “chase the kitty.” It was a real chase without catching her as an object. The purpose was to do something together, to get some exercise, whatever. I would always use …
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Talking Music After The Album Challenge
by Kevin Burton Today’s album challenge post will close the curtain on the series. This thing could go on forever. There are enough musical paintings in my mind’s eye to fill multiple galleries. I am charting a new course for Tuesday blog posts about music. For the occasion, I talked with old …
Headlong, Headstrong, Spit In The Wind
by Kevin Burton (This is part two of a five-part series remembering a great friend, my cat Mex.) My little girl kitten was named “Mex” in honor of my time in Mexico. My Mexican interlude was a triumphant time when through the working of God I got a teaching job in somebody …
This Is No Time For Complacency
by Kevin Burton To Biden supporters and those who dislike the current president, I understand your celebratory mood. I get it. But here’s one word of advice for those ready to exhale. Don’t. You can’t afford it. The country can’t afford it. Many people put in years of hard work to get …
The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship
by Kevin Burton It wasn’t a Walkman, it was an off brand, essentially the same. Most days I took it with me to listen to my tunes on the short bus ride down High Street in Columbus, to my job as an office assistant. One day I turn it on, no sound, no …
The Christian Poetry Of Susan Ashton
by Kevin Burton In college, I was the guy arguing that rock and roll is poetry. I was probably saying it is the real poetry. No, not the “Shake Your Booty,” kind of rock. We’re talking the “Sounds of Silence” or “Both Sides Now,” that kind. Real poetry, as opposed to someone …
Politics, The Art Of The Possible
by Kevin Burton The first time I became aware of the phrase “the art of the possible” was in connection with the Evita soundtrack. I thought wow, what a great phrase to sum up the cynical exploitation of events to get one’s way. “By any means necessary” comes close to saying the …
KDKA Marks 100th Anniversary of Radio
by Kevin Burton Most historians mark the beginning of radio as Nov. 2, 1920, when station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast returns from the US presidential election. Republican Warren G. Harding defeated Democrat James M. Cox 404 electoral votes to 127, according to Wikipedia. Harding won the north and west, Cox won the …
The Christian Definition Of Hope
by Kevin Burton Between the virus and the election, there is great anxiety in the United States. I believe the great American experiment in democracy has ended. I believe it to be already over. I believe what we get this week will be a formal confirmation of that fact. It comes to …
Talk Radio Isn’t What It Used To Be
by Kevin Burton On Feb. 16, 1960 there was a staff meeting at KMOX Radio in St. Louis. Change was in the air, soon to be on the air. General manager Robert Hyland announced a format change, to all talk. In a memo he stated that KMOX “does not choose to limit its …
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