Station Break-In (by Lou D'Antonio and Liz Berg)
A frantic SOS call came in to a party that DJ Lou D'Antonio and other assorted WFMU staffers were attending. Fellow DJ Dave Myers was on the air and under attack by an irate pro-Vietnam War ex-Marine, who had barged into the station like a crazed lunatic. Even though Myers was well over 6 ft tall, his fellow DJs knew that he weighed no more than a Snickers wrapper. In a rash display of heroism, the party attedees rushed to the station armed with D’Antonio’s Dunlop Maxply tennis racquet (expertly strung with top-of-the-line imitation gut). Fortunately, DJ Vin Scelsa had already phoned the police, who were at the scene when the FMU rescue crew arrived. Engineer George Black sustained an injury to the forehead, and D’Antonio had to be restrained from executing a backhand half-volley to the assailant's testicles. 1968.
Illustration by Lyman Dally
And they call today's peace movement "moonbats", all the while listening to Michael Savage or whatever other crazy person...
Posted by: ljp | February 21, 2008 at 10:52 AM
well what kind of foolish hippie would buzz in a total stranger?
Posted by: bartleby | February 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM
@bartleby:
Door buzzers -- in 1968! You kids...
Posted by: Gaylord Fields | February 21, 2008 at 01:02 PM
I'd like to read the story (again, it was told to me once) about the squirrel that got into the studio and Dr. Tom tried to capture it on air.
Posted by: John Trembly | February 21, 2008 at 02:14 PM
GF-
I guess just call me McFly. Get it-buzz, McFly? O.K. so it's not as funny as I had intended.
Posted by: bartleby | February 22, 2008 at 09:55 AM
Beautiful.
Posted by: Bob Paine | May 08, 2013 at 03:05 AM