3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST First Wednesday of the Month
Nina Serrano and Jack Foley inhabit a world in which poetry—one of the earliest of humankind’s attempts to represent itself—happens daily, hourly, minutely. Expect songs, dances, funny stories—all in service to the goddess, Poesia.
Nina Serrano and Jack Foley offering their service to the goddess, Poesia. William Blake: “To see a world in a grain of sand”; “Damn braces; Bless relaxes.” Tongue’s tales and cunning concatenations with KPFA’s interwoven pair.
Wikipedia: The name WEDNESDAY continues Middle English Wednesdei. Old English still had wōdnesdæg, which would be continued as Wodnesday (but Old Frisian has an attested wednesdei)…The name is a calque [a word or phrase borrowed from another language] of the Latin dies Mercurii “day of Mercury,” reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as “Germanic Mercury.” A first Wednesday—Odin’s or Mercury’s Day—is still another excuse for the highly … Continued
Nina Serrano and Jack Foley offering their service to the goddess, Poesia. William Blake: “To see a world in a grain of sand”; “Damn braces; Bless relaxes.” Tongue’s tales and cunning concatenations with KPFA’s interwoven pair.
Today’s show is another round with that spectacular, sparkling, sparring pair of roustabouts, Nina Serrano and Jack Foley, all awhirl with rigmarole and wordly wisecracks. They’ve been around for many a year, roundly producing round ups of poetry and opinion, song and snappy patter, honey sweet and sour sober. Expect the unexpected. Not even they will know what passes for news on the Trumpfront and many another. If a president is impeached will he be impaired? Round and round it goes, and where it stops nobody knows.
et a comfortable chair, my old paisano,
Comes Giacomo Foley and Nina Serrano
They’ll fill you with nonsense and crazy wisdom
They’ll point out our president really is dumb
They’ll sing and they’ll laugh, they’ll cry, Ay, Caramba!
Jack Foley will tap and Nina will rhumba
Nina Serrano and Jack Foley offering their service to the goddess, Poesia. William Blake: “To see a world in a grain of sand”; “Damn braces; Bless relaxes.” Tongue’s tales and cunning concatenations with KPFA’s interwoven pair.
A first Wednesday means another edition of THE NINA-JACK-JACK-NINA SHOW, another compendium of radio hijinks (and lowjinks too) featuring Nina Serrano and Jack Foley with his partner, Sangye Land. What can be done with this amazing mass medium Nina, Jack and Sangye will attempt to do. Irrelevant irradiance! Have you heard their singing? Today’s show will feature the usual potpourri of razzmatazz, hullabaloo, and serious if sometimes doubtful cunning concatenations.
