Well, here we are. Coming up on the last installment of The Rick Emerson Show at our current time and dial position. As of Thursday morning, we move to Rock 101 KUFO, 5a-9a, which means I need to invest coffee and Viso shares. Like, now.

Join us on Wednesday, as Sarah, Tim, Ritchie, and myself do a final wrap-up, reflection, and rumination...then, to the future, and beyond!

We couldn't have done it without you. You are, truly, the Best Audience Ever. Now and always.

Sneak preview to think about: Wednesday's high-concept topic is a doozy. For such a music-obsessed show as ours, this question has vexed us for days and days. What, dear listener, should our first song be on KUFO? We play more than our share of music now, and that will continue...a Rick Emerson Show without music is like Dean without Jerry...it just ain't got that razzle-dazzle. But the first song? The first piece of rock and roll glory that comes out of the gate? That's a tough one.

Think about it, and be ready with your thoughts on Wednesday. See you at 11am.

Be sure to join us this Sunday for another installment of CBS Radio Theater, featuring:

"Kimmy Waters and The Stumptown Starlet": A Portland cop gone dirty, a bloody drug war about to spill red on city streets, and a ditzy Hollywood dame caught caught pinned between a bullet and a rail of white powder. It's a detective noir thriller set right here in River City.

And...

"A.Z.: Preludes, Part One": As the long winter slowly releases it's grip upon the Ross Island survivors, new dangers rise up. As water levels rise with the thawing ice, a small cruise ship long locked in the ice, slowly makes it's way to the Island. Mary and the other Island Leaders must decide to help or turn away whatever awaits upon the slowly drifting ship...


Dames who smell like danger...and zombies who smell like doom. It's all part of CBS Radio Theater, airing this Sunday at 6pm, only on AM 970, The Talker.

Whatever you thought you knew about the man named Walker...you were wrong.

Join us on Friday, as we give away the final pairs of passes to Monday's screening of Watchmen. This is a critics' screening, so it's unlike some of the first-come, first-served screenings that typically accompany such films. There are only a finite amount of tickets to this landmark event, so you definitely want to be listening.

There are two ways to win:

1) We'll be rolling out more "Trivia From the Golden Age of Comics." If you can demonstrate a command of facts, minutiae, and detail from the early days of the art form, you could be sitting there for Monday night's premiere.

2) At some point during today's show, the Watchmen logo (the smiley face button spattered with blood) will appear somewhere on the station website. If you spot it, and you're among the first 25 people to click the logo, you'll score a pair of passes. This is only for the first 25 people who click the smiley face, which will appear somewhere at www.970.am at some point during today's show. (We'll announce the moment that it's appeared, but you might want to be checking in advance...)

All that, plus Scott Dally from GeekInTheCity.com, another installment of "The Greatest Songs Ever Made", and a truly unnerving Monkey Watch. Be there!

Sorry for taking so long between posts---it's been a bit of a crazy week, and things are just now settling down...sort of.

If you heard this past Sunday's installment of CBS Radio Theater, you were apparently treated to a thing of pure brilliance: a double-dose of A.Z., our original radio drama chronicling life in Portland after the zombie apocalypse. I say "apparently" since I have only rumor and word of mouth to go on. I was at the Hollywood Theater's Oscar night soiree, but had planned on catching the show later via podcast. Unfortunately, the internal audio logger at CBS decided to go belly up just in time to miss the greatness.

So...if you or someone you know was taping, recording, or otherwise archiving this past Sunday's broadcast of CBS Radio Theater, please get in touch with me. If you can provide us with a listenable copy of the show, we'll reward you with something shiny from the AM 970 Pile of Consumer Goods.

Everyone else, stay tuned: the podcast will be posted soon, one way or another.

See you Tuesday...when we'll have advance Watchmen passes....clutched in our hands like so many blood-spattered Wonka tickets. Be there!

Today (Tuesday), we'll be talking with Mike Nelson, formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and currently of RiffTrax.com. For the entire month of February, Mike is eating nothing but....bacon. Yes, crisp, tasty, delicious bacon. All month. For the whole month. We'll the million-and-one required questions on today's show.

Also: we'll be speaking with Ricardo Torres of GameSpot magazine; he'll be talking about the evolution of the first-person shooter, leading up to such current favorites as Left 4 Dead.

Plus: Dawn Taylor from Film.com, a triple Monkey Watch, and another installment of Facebook Status Poetry. Be there!

Of course, we'll be in on Monday, to provide entertainment as only we can.

Highlights from the upcoming five days of merriment:

• We'll talk about Friday's "all exposition, all the time" episode of Battlestar Galactica.
  
  
• Ricardo Torres of GameSpot will talk about the evolution of the first-person shooter, leading up to such current favorites as Left 4 Dead.
  
  
• The woman behind the FaceBra will attempt to convince us that her cheesecloth-and-salt-in-a-box product is worth $150.00.

Plus, Peter Carlin joins this week's installment of "Lost in 3:42", we present more Facebook-Status poetry, and we answer the magical question: why are they called The Boo-Yah Awards, anyway?