I sometimes wish there were things like radio shows (ala The Shadow and such) on the radio these days. My generation came long after Video killed the radio star (did you getthe joke, or am I that much older then you wippersnappers).

I'll simply have to ponder out a premise for one of my scripts for this catagory too.

Yes I'm shooting for multiple scripts.

and here i thought my writing partner and I were crazy to do both this and nano...

I came about after the radio star was as well and I don't even know how many times I heard the song before I really listened to it and I truly believe we lost something in the transition. Of course, I was blessed enough to grow up with parents who had
would turn off all the lights and play 'The Shadow' on record. Good times those. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men..."

oh wow, you're lucky. I just get family with fond memories of those things and net articles I've looked up.

I really think it would be wonderful to have those old ones back among us. Something decent enough that families would turn off the TV and gather around the radio on a winters night (because on summer nights you'd be out catching fire flies and letting them go) for the next installment of...

The recent issue of make magazine has a person who took their I-pod and downloaded several old radio broadcasts and such into it, created an old transistor radio case and readout for it and plays it through an old style speaker for the experiance of that. I may just have to try something like that.

Ah..I've been searching for ideas for my next project. I have a joke/music radio show that I listen to every week. I phone in my jokes - trying to get more than one broadcast. So, I think I have some parody material.

My Dad was born in 1915, Mom in 1920 - they'd talk about the shows. My friends and older siblings remember them. One time Dad promised to listen to a radio serial for a week while his foster sister was away. He had the poor girl in tears with a fake tradgedy for her heroine and hero. Then he had to confessed.

TJ
"Senior Deliquents" comic/graphic novel - completed & looking for more ideas.

hey if you are looking for another ide I had a primary and a back up for each of my five catagories and my radio is the one I'm leading with almost 15000 words right now, and the back up is unlikely to see much use from me.

The premise was that a charter buss full of people are driving through the nevada dessert and there are the usual lot of sleezy people who are part of a group, band, something like that. One in particular is a real jerk who fifteen years ago got a girl pregnant and then stole her jewelry to fund his band start up before running away from her.

While in the dessert the bus breaks down and the people start to loose it with each other. Then one shows up dead. and another.... you getthe idea. End story it's one of the roady girls.

'She' is infact the jerks son, who his mother locked up as a deviant because he is a crossdresser and wants the chance to kill his father for abandoning them and making hi mother nuts.

The Roady is seen hitching her way to vegas.

RovingJack - thanks for sharing your idea. That would make a good story.

I decided to do a spoof on the Jeff Foxworthy weekly radio show. He does a country music countdown show.
It's full of colorful characters. My premise is that his real kooky one is on a break, so her equally kooky cousin takes over. Jeff is "off" for the week -- but we hear mumbling and a chair moving in the background (as if he's tied up). It's full of ramblings and fake ads.

I'd thought about adding parody songs, but realized I couldn't top some of the stuff that is already out there. Who can top lines such as, "She thinks my tractor's sexy", "If you drink - don't drive - do the watermelon crawl", "Thank God for good directions and turnip greens", and "I need you -- like a needle needs a vein ... like my Uncle Joe in Oklahoma needs the rain."

TJ
"Senior Delinquents" - comic / Graphic novel
"Raylene Does the Countdown" = radio script