Tonight I had to run to the store to get some rice cereal for Aeryn. I took Jack with me, and as we drove, I clicked on the radio to entertain him. While fiddling with the controls I came up a station low on the FM dial that I never listened to before. It took a few seconds to sink in that I was listening to a western radio play. What stunned me was how much I got into the story. I actually didn't want to get out of the car by the time we got to the grocery store.
The ride home was the same, only there was a second play on. It turns out that I was listening to an episode of Gunsmoke from 1955 called "Homer Tisdale" on the way to, and to an episode of The Green Hornet, which I still haven't nailed down on the way home.
I never listened to a radio drama before, and I think I could definitely get into that. I've been poking around on the web to see what I can turn up, and I may have to delve deeper into it. I'd love to find out what happens to old Homer, and to see if the councilman's suicide was really a murder, as the Green Hornet reckons.
Hmm..I also saw some of those awareness bracelets at the grocery store with the proceeds going to help out paralyzed vets. I may have to pick up at least one of those. Finally a cause I can really get behind.
Ok, off to look for old time radio shows on the web.
