if i wasn't sure before that radio consolidation is a Bad Thing(tm), a little incident this a.m. made me 100% positive. i was driving back from the SLF's, where i had enjoyed a lovely evening of homemade thai food and "other" activities. there was a boring story on the local npr station, so i switched over to the rock station to hear some howard. they were in the midst of commercials, too. defeated, i slumped back in my seat, since i was only a minute or two from home, anyway. so, in the middle of all the ads for penis enlargement and drivers license lawyers, they played a "bumper" for the local i'm-not-sure-what-format-we-are-so-we'll-cover-all-the-bases station. it just made me think about some huge octopus-looking computer, like the evil computer from superman III, just churning out "all your favorite hits of the 80s and 90s". makes me sad for the state of modern music, and how the top 5 songs every week sound exactly the same. i also noticed when i was collecting links for this entry that the websites for both stations look almost exactly the same. i guess that makes sense, but could you at least pick a different color scheme for one of them???