[Ipg-smz] Jim Freund got a shout-out in one of my dreams last night...

[Jim Freund]

Please be sure to send good ol' Dave my best regards next dream.  And if he
needs an announcer...

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:51 AM Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:

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> (Jim, I don't think you're on this email list, but if you want to follow
> up, if nothing else, I'm sure Barbara will be happy to do the honors in
> fwding any comments to/from you.)
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> One of my dreams from last night: I was (dunno why) visiting David
> Letterman (really dunno why) in his apartment (presumably) in New York
> City, taking phone pics of the amazing (although geo incorrect) views from
> his full-wall windows... our conversation segued to his mentioning WBAI, a
> long-standing non-commercial NYC radio station (which I listened to, a
> bunch, back when I was a teen in NJ).
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> So I started telling Mr Letterman about the wire recorder (a precursor to
> the tape recorder, you can look it up) that I'd borrowed, decades ago,
> from Mel Most (I knew Mel's daughter, was visiting, saw it, he let me take
> it home to play with), and which, a few years ago, I'd passed on to Jim
> Freund, who had been and was still doing a show at WBAI ("Hour of the
> Wolf"). Jim recognized the machine as having originally belonged to WBAI,
> and that Mr Most had worked there. (Note, everything in this paragraph is
> true IRL.)
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> I was about to convey Jim's regards, or at least name-drop, to Dave
> Letterman, when, dreams being dreams, something shifted to some other
> scene, or our dog barked, whatever. Jim, I'm sure Dave woulda said hi
> back. And, come to think of it, I have no idea whether you two already
> know each other, but I'm thinking odds are good you do.
>
> This isn't my first media dream, here's a blog post from some years back:
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> http://www.dern.com/DernNearEverythingElse/2011/10/i-dreamed-i-had-dinner-with-jo.html
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> DPD
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