Current location:	All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
Current mood:	annoyed
Current music:	None. It's dead, Jim.
Entry tags:	prop 8 broadcast humor

The Big One That Got Away
Unfortunately, the well-lubricated 1934 KBBF transmitter died an hour before broadcast.

Tonite's broadcast was gonna center around the news. If you haven't heard it yet, the Supremes announced tonite that they made a decision on Prop 8, better known as Prop Hate.

Then they said, "We can't tell you what the decision was, until Tuesday." Apparently they need time to evacuate the building, and maybe even the state, before they announce the verdict.

This led to a wonderful idea, sort of like a "Mission: Impossible" theme, where my radio partner Bob would grab a station computer and try to hack into the California Supreme Court computer system to find out the results.



Peppered in the broadcast:

• Numerous incidents with the computer screaming: "You are preforming an illegal function, and this computer will be shut down."
  
  
• Bob, crowing in a high voice: "I'm getting through the back door!"
  
  
• Bob crowing in a normal voice: "I didn't find the decision yet, but I found free plane tickets to Utah!"