Buncombe County has it's own channel. It's your usual info on school closings for weather, recycling info, county job information, and other such notices. It's underscored with music, and now of course, it's all Christmas music.
But it gets weird, in my opinion, when they start scrolling information and mug shots of "Mountain's Most Wanted" with Christmas choirs singing in the background. The song choices of this station wouldn't make the list of light hits - such as "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" or "Santa Baby". No, they are dramatic orchestrated versions of "Angels We Have Heard on High", or "Oh Holy Night" featuring Celine Dion belting it out and crashing cymbals in the background. We hear this while we can read about Danny Soandso and his list of felonies. This dramatic music continues at a lower volume, as a new segment comes on with a Sheriff giving us tips on fighting scams during the holiday season. Merry Christmas. I guess.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
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2 comments:
It seems you have just started this blog, but based on these few posts, I am curious to see where you go with it, especially the perspective you have of a Yankee in King Jesse Helms's court.
I'm not exactly an old pro (well, okay, old anyway) at this webblogging thing, having started mine in July, but you might be interested in one of the earlier posts where I wrote about losing my virginity (as a blogger). Here's a link to that particular post.
http://doniganmerritt.typepad.com/donigan_merritt/2008/09/on-losing-my-vi.html
Don
Hi Don
Thanks for the post. I enjoyed it as well as some of the other posts.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Kim
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