Wired Mesh

The Festive Fifty

I was listening to WUTC, Chattanooga's painfully solid National Public Radio station, last night in my kitchen as I mixed up a plate of spaghetti, Prego, and ground beef, one of the few meals I can concoct with anything resembling success. Nothing is so comforting as a cup of instant coffee, a bubbling stove, and the DJ stylings of the unimpeachable hipster Joshua Daniels. If only he would lighten up on the Rickie Lee Jones, whose accompanists sound like they're sacrificing a cow with their violins in a corner of the studio.

Anyway, I was reminded by Daniels that WUTC is taking votes for the Festive Fifty of 2003, a list of the year's best albums played on public radio. You can vote online, and you'll be elligable for a nice Stone Cup gift basket, which I'm sure you would enjoy, you being into coffee and all, you reader you. It's quite the list, so take your time and consider your choices carefully. I selected Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash and Fountains of Wayne, but you go with what you like. Although if you select Jack Johnson I will have to hunt you down and yell at you for hours on end.