When we were stopped in Oyen on Sunday, I noticed that they were selling books on tape in the gas station. I thought it was a good idea, since I was tired of listening to the CD’s that I have in the car, but sadly, our car doesn’t have a tape player. It did get me thinking though. Why not? I was thinking that it wouldn’t be that expensive to produce CD based audio books based on classic PD content graciously supplied by BlackMask. I’ve mentioned this to a couple of people now, and it seems like an idea with some merit.

One person even suggested we should go one further, and set up a website that produces “radio plays” on a regular basis. People might be willing to pay a small fee to download the plays, if they’re any good. The other merchandising types of revenues might also some day materialize. It’s an idea that’s still in the tire-kicking stage, but I’m really giving it some thought.

Anyway, when doing some research about radio plays, I came across the Old Time Radio Shows MP3 CD Catalog. They’ve got thousands of radio plays from the 40’s and 50’s for sale in MP3 format - $5 a CD, which is quite reasonable, especially considering how much material will fit on a CD when encoded as 32Kbit MP3s. They have samples you can download and listen to, so I’ve been listening to various things so far this morning, as I work. I’ve listened to “The Shadow,” “Nero Wolfe,” and “Dimension X (The Martian Chronicles)” so far this morning. Pretty good quality, especially considering how long ago they were created.

Ron McLean’s “3 7s? I thought you said Cherrys!” comment at the end of last night’s broadcast had me cracking up. Should be an interesting night of hockey in store for us tonight.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “A cup-holder! Bart, we’ve got to stop and get a cup!” - Milhouse