Note: I vowed to make sure that there was an update a day on this site for as long as possible. However, there is a new entry from John here which should not be missed.

It’s 4 in the morning and you’re on WZZZ with the Moon Man. I’m here for your regular overnight man, Brian Nelson, until the sun rises, then I have to creep back to bed. This will most likely be the last time I sub for Brian. Or anybody subs for Brian, seeing as how he’s dead at my feet right now.

Just kidding.

He’s dead in the other room.

I’ve been his only listener this last month, or so he says, so I’m reasonably sure that I can finish off his shift so long as I leave before the morning crew comes in. I mean, I assume that nobody is hearing this. If you are, you can call the station and make a request. I promise I’ll play it if they have it - which is more than Brian could have promised you.

Couple months back, I called up and requested Rebel Yell, the Billy Idol tune. Brian played it - sent it out to the Moon Man. I rocked out in the bakery.

I called back the next night, and he played it again. And the next.

Fourth night, he asked if there was anything else I wanted to hear - even another Billy Idol song. Nope, there really wasn’t. I mean, it is sort of the only good Billy Idol song. You know, I’d say it was my theme song. He played it, but he was sassy about it.

Fifth night, he flat out refused to play it. I asked him, “Who else is listening?”

I guess nobody was listening, because he played it for me.

The next week, he played it before I could call in and sent it out to me. That went on for two weeks.

Then he started saying his show was an “80’s free show.”

What an asshole move! Not a Billy Idol free show, not a new wave free show, but a show free of all music from the entire decade.

I wrote a letter to the station to complain, but never got a reply. Damn college radio stations. No sense of responsibility to the listener.

I refused to listen to the station for a couple of weeks, until last night. I turned on the station last night and he was playing “Rock the Cradle of Love,” a totally pussy Billy Idol song. At the end, he said something about how he could finally play that again since he’d “driven off the Moon Man.”

Fuck him. Fuck him.

I can say that. I don’t have an FCC license.

Anyhow, I came down to visit him tonight and I’m playing my request now all night long. I’ll play yours, too, if you’re listening.

Here’s “Rebel Yell.”