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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SUPREMES!

On an evening where everyone could just use a little time away from everything going on hopefully tonight's Music Series can offer an escape, however brief. Motown always sounds good in such moments so let's hear from Flo, Diana and Mary on 'Where Did Our Love Go' to get things started.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PRINCE!

Johnny still has a standing offer to several movie stars to cosplay this song, you know, like a movie. 

Naming names would be indiscreet, shame on your Dirty Mind. 'Let's Pretend We're Married' making its Music Series debut here tonight. 

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LOU REED!

Closing up shop on the Music Series this week is Lou Reed withe classic 'Walk on the Wild Side' to again, let you simply enjoy some time out of mind during a very trying week.

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Winter is always time for a Destination Oscoda video.

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Oscoda, we need to talk a little weather this morning...

...actually maybe we should have a big talk about the next 24 hours of weather around here. 

Snow and ice are on the way but the big problem is the ice and the amounts. Some predictions have almost a half-inch of ice setting up around the greater Oscoda area. You read that right, a half-inch. Bet on at least a third of an inch and that means loss of power and trees and branches coming down no doubt. If your phone or iPad or other electronics need charging, now would be the time. Now, there is the threat of some amount of snow, 2 inches, 3 inches, 4 inches, no model seems to have landed on a solid amount of snow on top of the ice. This whole winter storm party kicks off tonight around 6pm so whatever preparations you feel you need to make, you have some time today. 

Stay with the Oscoda City Desk Action Weather Team for more information as it becomes available.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SIOUSXIE & THE BANSHEES!

A perfect song to get things started tonight, the classic 'Peek-A-Boo' from Siouxsie & the Banshees. When the band first started back in 1976, lead singer Siouxsie Sioux used the name "Suzi Sue"

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SUZANNE VEGA!

The 'Songs in Red and Gray' album is a real treat. Tell ya what, how about Johnny plays the title track and you can see for yourself why you may want to check it out and add it to your collection.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with KISS!

If you're from Michigan, as Johnny is, you always have time for this one, 'Detroit Rock City'

Johnny is of the opinion that when the Red Wings during their dynasty years and came flying onto the ice to this song under all those banners as almost 20,000 people lost their minds made some players and teams check out before the game even started. KISS as home ice advantage if you will.

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Confidence is high, repeat, confidence is HIGH for some snow on Thursday

Looking and sounding like the wind, rain and temps in the low 40's tomorrow will give way to snow around 11pm in current models and a 3-6" snow system should be going when you wake up for your Thursday morning coffee. Commuting Thursday morning will probably eat, suck and blow.

Stay turned to the Oscoda City Desk Action Weather Team for more updates.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

Johnny maybe floated the idea long ago to Mrs. Johnny that he should wear a suit like David Byrne for their wedding reception at the Michigan Union. 

That didn't happen. So, do enjoy the aforementioned Mr. Byrne in his really big suit and 'Girlfriend Is Better' to start things off tonight.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!

Movie night tonight with Johnny's was none other than the classic Midnight Express so off into some of that rich world history with 'Istanbul (Not Constantinople)' and a reminder, you kids don't get into any time machines and try smuggling hash out of Turkey in the 1970's.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SAM & DAVE!

They just don't make soul songs like this anymore. Such a classic American sound. 'Hold On I'm Coming' taking us out tonight into some frigid air with one hot tune.

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Did you know then, NASA spent millions developing a pen that would work in space because in zero gravity pens don't work.

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If it's Thursday the Air Force must have been caught in another LIE about PFAS

Indeed, it's pretty much all the USAF does when it comes to PFAS that they caused. Their outright lie now comes as they claim there's no proof veterans and others had ANY PFAS intake through the water source. The Air Force says no, the experts who have the receipts say YES:

“That’s a flat out lie,” said Bob Delaney, a retired geologist who led the state’s oversight at the former B-52 bomber base for years as site manager for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE).

In 2016, Delaney authored a report which found high PFAS levels in unflushed hydrants and old water appliances in abandoned buildings at the former base. In 2018, he followed that up with hydrogeological analysis, which concluded old groundwater wells that supplied base drinking water likely drew from an aquifer highly contaminated by toxic plumes.

So, more lies from the Air Force who obviously have given up giving a shit about Oscoda, Wurtsmith and the issue they caused. Unfortunately this repeated insolence from the USAF is really hurting USAF vets around here as they hear again and again what they were part of and that their paymaster won't do anything for the rest of the residents. The Air Force is essentially turning their veterans into second-class citizens in their own town. That's lazy AND sad.

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The view from Johnny's rooftop deck in Jersey City.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PAT BENATAR!

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be ashamed. How does the premiere female singer of the late 70's through the mid 80's not exist in your Hall of Fame? How is it Pat Benatar's best chance to get in comes in the same year Eminem is eligible? 

If Pat Benatar is not elected this year just close the place, seriously. 'We Live for Love' off of the tremendous 'In the Heat of the Night' album getting us started tonight.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with NICK LOWE!

Johnny just found the one song that might not be on the YouTube, 'Party of One' by Mr. Nick Lowe which was going to be our second song tonight. No worries, Johnny has a huge catalog from Nick Lowe to choose from. Executive decisions bring us to 'Switchboard Susan' up next tonight.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LAVERN BAKER & JACKIE WILSON!

You bet it's the track, 'Think Twice' but this here, this is the X version of this song. Bad words, insults, and some back and forthing from two of the best ever. Do remove the kids from the room.