Terry Cowgill

Banter at the Bar

April 2, 2008 on 2:05 pm | In Main, Oddball |

I usually work from home on Wednesday afternoons after my deadlines have been met. I typically do a little blogging, plan for next week and get ready for my evening of tutoring. Sometimes a nap is even in order.

But today there is so much construction going on at my house that I can scarcely think straight. Between carpentry and demolition work being done on the addition by our contractor, James Avery, and the roofing of Roy Wilcox and his fine crew, the noise vacillates between loud and deafening.

I didn’t feel like venturing back to the newsroom, so I have camped out in the Scoville Library, where much to my delight, there is a fast wireless network and (as you would expect in a library … shhhhh!) it’s reasonably quiet.

But I digress. I have not one, but two radio appearances tomorrow morning. First, there is my regular appearance on Marshall & Mike from 8:30-9 a.m. on AM 1020 WHDD. To listen live via CATV6, click here. We always have a fun discussion on this week’s LJ.

There is a great deal of banter about the back stories, allowing us to read between the lines to divine some sort of deeper meaning in the news. I’d like to think of it as the conversation we might have about the news at the end of the day while sipping a beer at the bar in The White Hart.

Right after that, at about 9:10 a.m., I appear on the Journalists’ Roundtable on WAMC (Northeast Public Radio). It’s still fun, but a little less free-wheeling and more compressed. Joe Donahue and Julia Taylor ask good questions, but I have to bring subjects to the table that offer regional appeal.

I usually have two or three regional issues to talk about. In previous appearances I’ve held forth on affordable housing, infrastructure, our shrinking population of school-aged children — the usual suspects. But I’m a little stumped about what to talk about tomorrow. Any suggestions? Click here to listen live when the time comes.