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CJ's Bio

LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT ME: I'm a closet WHAM fan.....and I even know the name of "THE OTHER GUY".....Hey, everyone has their guilty pleasures. If you don't know who WHAM is go ask your Mom or Dad. A close #2 is that I can't spell to save my life.

MOST ANNOYING HABIT: I chew my finger nails. Wish I could quite, not even a nervous habit....I just do it. A close #2 is that I can't spell to save my life.

HOW DID YOU DECIDE TO BE A DJ: I think I've been through this before but I'm pretty sure it's a fact of my love of music. When I was a kid I used to have my boom box everywhere which in turn led my dad to dub the boom box my "LIFE SUPPORT".

WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING IF YOU WEREN'T ON THE RADIO: I often joke about running the drive through window at a fast food place but to be semi serious I don't know. Radio has been a very cool experience and I always meet really cool people. I'm going to guess I would be selling used cars. So, remember what I look like because someday I might need your business!

THE STUPIDEST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE: I can't decide if it's waving at that girl in the lunchroom that I thought was waving at me, only to realize it was someone behind me. It might have been the time I went into the womens bathroom accidentally at the McDonalds in Fort Dodge. When my mom came in to tell me I was in the wrong place I told her she was in the wrong room...she proceeded to correct me. There was also a nasty rash of vandalism around my home town one summer. I might have known more about that than I should have.

FAVORITE KISS 107 FM MOMENT: Actually, I have many. Usually they happen on the 15th and 30th of every month! Seriously though, probably some of the most fun I have had working for KISS has been the 4th of July Parades in West Des Moines when everyone busts out the water guns. It's a bummer working on holidays but that really makes it much more tolerable. By the way, if we soaked your Grandma last year, we're sorry.

RADIO BACKGROUND: I've been at KISS 107FM long enough now that I believe the statute of limitations has expired on having to mention the other stations. I will say this, one of them was a twangy country station that did a lot of funeral announcements and market reports in north west Iowa (I'm so embarassed by my time there I don't even want to mention that it was Sheldon, IA) on another station I played Big Band music (hometown station in Humboldt, it was my "BREAK" into commercial radio). It was cool. Thankfully I escaped.

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Future of the Olympics

Wednesday 08-27-2008 12:45pm CT

Is there any possible way that past Olympics are more sketchy than this year? A chinese girl that is barely over 12, Mike Phelps continually tested for drugs...oh, I'm sure there's more. One thing I did pick up on though, that many people are saying China is basically breeding children and parents to make uber athletes. This may or may not be true but can you imagine putting your children through the following? Of course being the Non-Athleet that I am maybe this is just part of the process...what do I know.

Do Gooders?

Monday 08-25-2008 5:30pm CT

So I'm at home writing this now and I can't tell you how miffed I am. Over the weekend we had 2 casualties in front of our house. Oh, I know that you're thinking ... SOMEONE GOT HURT! No, right in front of my house someone hit a raccoon and about 1/2 a block down the street another one had been hit. Fair enough, it's Sunday morning. They'll sit there and the city will pick them up come Monday. Well, somewhere along the line we had a do gooder that stopped and picked them up. Instead of sliding them over the the curb and leaving them in the street where the city would do their thing the do gooder actually threw one of them in my yard. First off, who in their right mind stops and moves road kill....only to be topped off by throwing it in someones yard. I'm debating how long I should leave it sit there before I call someone. Actually I live close enough to the city offices that I might become their problem.

More pretty pictures

Friday 08-22-2008 2:07pm CT

Ok, I know you love pictures so I'm putting even MORE up. This time around clever advertising. It takes a lot to stand out so when I see something that gets my attention it MUST be passed along. You know how the saying for CYA, that's what I'm doing as I say this "I do not endorse or promote any of the clients listed in the following photos"....they were just cool. Who comes up with this stuff and how much money did they make to come up with it? Oh, and is the money in that case real?