Monk
Monk — former captain of the pirate radio station in Boulder (KBFR) — noticed my post about the apparently short-lived pirate renaissance in Boulder. Visit his blog COURAGE, TRUTH & BOOTY for interesting commentary about underground and pirate radio (apparently, not the same thing).
I remember that I had a very short email exchange with him sometime around 2004 or 2005 because I was interested in starting a news or talk program on KBFR. As I recall, he was very encouraging, but I was just too busy and also had no clue how to put together such a show, so I didn’t follow up on it.
At that time I was trying to make a go of volunteering at Radio 1190 under the guidance of a disaffected, pothead news manager who hated radio (and news) and would usually cancel the show after I had already put a dozen hours of work into my segment. Nice enough guy personally, but he really screwed up my opportunity to get some cool experience there.
After I got rejected by the J school twice, I turned my focus to political science and haven’t thought much about doing journalism since then. I do think a pirate news show local to Boulder issues would be awesome, and wouldn’t it be fun to pick up Steve Forbes in a nondescript van and drive him around town for half an hour doing a live interview about the economic crisis?
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