This is a letter I sent to KEX Radio in Portland and some surprising events.
Dear KEX,
I used to live in the Fraser Valley 60 miles east of Vancouver Canada and I got exceptional reception. K-E-X in Portland!, sang the jingle. The dj’s were hip, the music was cool. I listened to KEX for inspiration for my morning show on CHWK, Chilliwack, CFVR, Abbotsford.
Since that time I moved to Hong Kong for many years and now I have moved my studio to the island of Samui in the Gulf of Thailand.
Today, I tried to tune in to your programming but was denied. It saddened me but reminded me of the above mentioned good times on the KEX airwaves before 9/11. Well before 9/11.
Today, I tune in to KEX and I’m met with denial. Amazing how security must think, to deny international listenership of an American talk station. As if, if I were the mysterious enemy stranger, that I somehow could sift through the words spoken over the air and manipulate them into some kind of feasible plan of, dare I say the word in print, uh, mischief?
America has much to be proud of but it comes at a price. The ambition and enthusiasm of the fifties have become the secrets and suspicions of today. The lack of trust today is spurred on by the continued manipulation of a barrel of oil.
But, help is on the way. A Japanese company has just announced production of a car that needs no gas or diesel, doesn’t have a battery and you don’t have to plug it in at night. All you do is add water. The car converts the water to hydrogen then electricity, automatically. Let me know on that. I’ll send the link.
Finally, if you find need for a reasonable writer/producer/performer of advertising and promotion material, I’m your guy, even if I can’t hear your station any more.
Thanks for listening.
James B
www.seehear.net
www.gravitycontrol.org
Shameless I should trawl for a job? Yes, but KEX would have thought less of me if they knew I was a radio guy and didn’t.
