The Mike O'Meara show is doing "Best Of" this week so I was listening to the music radio stations today because I feel pathetic listening to non-live talk radio I've already heard once before and decided that the radio DJ's time has passed. They can (and probably should) be replaced by machines. The standard argument I've heard against mechanization of playlists is that DJs bring personality to the radio listening experience. As far as I can tell, though, what these yammering imbeciles offer is inane statements half-disguised as serious commentary, c.f., these valuable interstitial tidbits that humans added this evening during my hour long commute:

  • traffic on the Beltway (tee hee, he called it the ParkingLot...twice) is bad and drivers will honk at you for no reason

  • pop music is formulaic

  • I didn't win the lower price tickets to DC101's crapfest this weekend but I can still pay the higher (regular) price for tickets to DC101's crapfest this weekend

  • it rained a lot today



It's bad enough that my attempt to listen for the 3 good songs per hour is punctuated by this nonsense, but what's worse is that all the DJs yell their vacuities at the listener, managing, amazingly enough, to make one of the most annoying things about listening to the radio even more annoying.