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Friday, April 23, 2010
Join Me on live365.com
Hey, thanks, Ms. Gore for autographing those records eleven years ago. As far as I am concerned, they can throw
'em in my casket when I go, 'cause they ARE NOT FOR SALE AND NEVER WILL BE! Happy birthday May 2nd, and I'll have some
of your songs on both hours of my internet radio show this Wednesday evening. Again, thanks for being so kind to a geeky
Hoosier boy who heard inspiration in your voice.
NICK POFF RADIO 45 can be heard every Wednesday evening at 8PM US Eastern, 7PM Central, 6PM Mountain, 5PM Pacific.
I blast two hours of great music from the 60's, 70's, and 80's, including all the songs you love from the HANDYMAN books.
I tell the "behind the scenes" stories about the HANDYMAN books, and share an occasional radio tale as well.
It is absolutely free to listen on www.live365.com. I hope you'll join me. The next live show is Wednesday, April 28th. This is the page you bookmark:
6:22 pm est
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Internet Radio Show continues
Nick Poff Radio 45 will return LIVE this Wednesday evening, April 7, 8PM - 10PM US Eastern on live365.com.
A lot of folks have already discovered this show, and have declared it the perfect mid-week relaxtion break. This week's
show will feature some thoughts on the HANDYMAN books, and great music you haven't heard for awhile from ABC; Blood, Sweat
& Tears; Player; Hot Chocolate; The Sandpipers, and much more. I hope you will join me for two hours of musical
memories, commentary, and a wee bit of silliness (it creeps in because I always manage to screw something up).
And please feel free to email here with any thoughts, comments, or questions about the new show.
Friday, April 2, 2010
NICK POFF RADIO 45
Well, the first episode of my new internet radio show hit the worldwide web this past Wednesday evening. Thanks
to everyone who tuned in! It was a big success, and I loved sharing the music and the HANDYMAN books with the listeners.
If you missed the first show, it will be re-broadcasted several times this weekend. Today, Good Friday, you can
hear the playback at 1pm and 4pm US Eastern. The show will also play again Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 4pm as
well.
I will return live with a new show Wednesday evening, April 7, at 8pm US Eastern.
I hope you'll take a chance on one of the rebroadcasts this weekend, and tune in for the next live show on Wednesday.
Here's where you go:
Click on the yellow PLAY button on the left side of the page to hear the show. I'm ready for your comments and
questions, so please keep the emails coming! Best wishes to everyone for Easter Weekend. I hope the bunny
stops by your house, and I also hope you'll take a chance on Nick Poff Radio 45 as well.
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When I'm Not Writing...
UPDATE: If you are on Facebook I hope you'll join the NICK POFF Author of
the HANDYMAN series group for discussions, updates, and more.
The sad but honest truth is that most writers need to supplement their income with something other than writing.
I've worked in the radio industry since the tender age of sixteen, and for the same two radio stations for the past fourteen
years. We call it The Hotel California -- you can check out but you can never leave! It's amazing how people go,
but then seem to come back at some time, including me. Radio has been good to me, and although there are still times
I regret not sticking with the writing thing at an earlier age, it's been an interesting ride.
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Things I'm Enjoying....
In The Handyman's Dream Ed and Rick spend time at a cabin on a small lake in southern Michigan.
In a weird fiction-meets-non-fiction kind of way, John Sellers writes about just such a place in his latest
book, The Old Man and the Swamp. It is a must-read for anyone who, like me, has been intrigued by that strange part
of the world at the borders of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio; fears and respects snakes, and has enitrely too much
memory space dedicated to the 70's & 80's.
I enjoyed Joyce Maynard's latest, The Good Daughters.
I still can't believe All My Children is leaving ABC this September. I was a SLAVE to this
soap opera for 27 years. Even though I stopped watching every day back in '01, I've checked in occasionally, and talked with
co-workers about what was going on in Pine Valley. I mean......a world without Erica Kane? That, to me, is scarier
than facing the end of the Mayan calendar! I have, of course, read Susan Lucci's recent memoir, All My Life.
It's a nice, breezy read, but for diehard AMC fans only. Still...Ms. Lucci is on my list of people I hope to meet someday,
if only to say "THANKS!"
The wonderful thing about "All My Children" is that it was, for many years, more than "just a soap
opera." It was a second family of sorts to its most loyal fans. We can thank the amazing Agnes Nixon, the show's creator for
that, but I also think thanks must be given to the entire production staff, and those incredible actors who made those characters
so special to us. Did I learn some basic facts about life from watching this daytime drama? Yes. Did I learn how to write
a good story from watching "All My Children?" You betcha. Anyone who reads and enjoys the HANDYMAN books can be grateful
for the hours I spent in front of the TV, absorbing the finest writing in daytime television.
Just below is the link to the YouTube video from the intro of the 20th
Anniversary special from 1990. It contains some brief clips from the first 20 years of the show. Although AMC soared wonderfully
into the 21st Century, I gotta admit the best stories were from the first 20 years.
This show ain't dead yet, but it will be in September. Yeah, I'll probably be watching those
final episodes. In the meantime, I want to celebrate some of the best creative writing classes I ever attended. Thanks,
"All My Children!"
And I'm truly finding a great deal of joy in producing and broadcasting my little internet radio
show on www.live365.com. I hope you'll tune in some Wednesday evening for some wonderful old music and chat.
It's all RETRO here at the House of Nick. I also love the occasional old game show clip on YouTube.
I'm all about the retro fun stuff. I'd like to think it reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously in the here
and now. I celebrate old pop music on my internet radio show, NICK POFF RADIO 45.
As most writers do, I love word games, so I always enjoyed the game shows dealing with words. I loved the
$10,000 Pyramid (and the $20,000 and the $25,000 Pyramid, etc.). For those with a short attention span, here's Billy Crystal's
record-breaking trip to the top.
"I can't even watch The New Treasure Hunt anymore because you give me so much shit about it!"
(The above line of dialogue was deleted from the final draft of The Handyman's Dream. Ed's enjoyment
of game shows and Rick's dislike of them would continue to be a source of irritation.)
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Meet two potential victims of global warming.
If you want to save the bears as much as I do, vote wisely in each and every election, and check out the link
on my Favorite Links page.
Nick Poff
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