SOFAS AND SPIDERS DON'T MIX

I have a situation that I'd love to get some advice on. I have this sectional sofa that's been in storage for over a year. Out of the elements, but not airtight and not heated in the winter nor cooled in the summer. So yes there's been a lot of bugs in that storage unit. In fact I've even seen those little balls stuck in webs that I believe to be spider eggs in different parts of the unit.

Well now I need the sofa. It was up off the floor, some sheets thrown over it, but it was not shrink wrapped or anything.

What would you do to it to make sure you didn't wake up with five thousand spiders crawling out of the thing? Is a simple bug bomb really going to be enough? Is there some company that will fumigate individual pieces of furniture? Do I just throw it out? I don't have arachnophobia, but I don't want thousands of miniature friends living rent free either. Your comments or emails would be appreciated.

And just another reminder, Mr. B's in Royal Oak tomorrow night (Saturday night) at 8 pm till maybe midnight, unofficial get-together. Scroll down for more info.

CHECK THIS OUT

This guy has taken over a video dance game at Jeepers in Great Lakes Crossing and has become obsessed with it. Watch the video here...

http://tinyurl.com/gamerdance

This cracks me up on several levels. I've been to this place SO many times with my kids but haven't seen this guy. Can't you imagine all the little kids forming a line waiting their turn while this guy hogs the machine for three straight hours? This is his workout. Look, he even brings a gym bag, lol. Weird.

Don't forget if you want to hang out and have a couple drinks I'll be at Mr. B's on Main Street in Royal Oak this Saturday at 8pm. Rudy says he's coming out too sometime between 8 and midnight. Hope to see you there. Maybe they'll have a video dance game. Later.

220 221 whatever it takes

The Mr. Mom thing today had me attending back-t0-back birthday parties. I have a 4 yr old and a 3 yr old and the parties fell on the same day. One ended an hour before the other one started. I now know why they serve beer at Chuck E Cheese. Sensory overload. And OMG, one of the parties had 80 percents girls. I never noticed until today the level of hearing damage that occurs when mostly girls decide to all scream at once. It goes front row at a rock concert, 5 year old girls all screaming at once, then thermonuclear explosion.

So, help me out, I need a drink.

Remember the first get together for anyone interested starts at 8 pm at Mr B's in Royal Oak this Saturday the 30th. Scroll down to last post for a map and other info. I'm letting Bill Doyle and Rudy know about it too but not sure if they'll be on hand. Hope to see you there, and if you can't make it, hey, more Jack for me!

TWO GET-TOGETHERS

Saturday night January 30th I'm going to hang out at Mr. B's in Royal Oak if any of you want to come and have a beer with me. I'll get there about 8pm and hang out till at least midnight, so if there's anyone who wants to come by that'd be awesome. It would be great to see you.

Here's the address

Mr. B's

215 South Main Street, Royal Oak, MI‎ - (248) 399-0017‎

Here's a map

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Royal+Oak&state=MI&address=215+S+Main+St&zipcode=48067-2611&country=US&latitude=42.4885&longitude=-83.14425&geocode=ADDRESS

And then Friday night February 12th I'll be imbibing at Snooker's in Utica. I'll get there same time about 8pm and hang out till at least midnight.

Here's the address

Snookers

45100 Northpointe Boulevard, Utica, MI‎ - (586) 726-0510‎

Here's a map

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Utica&state=MI&address=45100+Northpointe+Blvd&zipcode=48315-5856&country=US&latitude=42.628113&longitude=-83.000159&geocode=ADDRESS

Again this isn't some big event or anything. I'd just like to see you again or meet you for the first time, and God knows I've got a little time right now, lol. I wish I could buy everyone drinks but I just can't. Please, NO pity drinks bought for me! That's not what I'm looking for. Let's just have a couple of us get together, b.s., drink and have some fun. Hope you can make it.

TEN DAYS

into the show being in cold storage and yes, I'm bored. I'd like to tell you what we're looking into but I don't want to jeopardize anything. I will tell you there's not a lot going on these days. Radio as an industry, like most industries, is hurting, and budgets are real problems. Maybe I'll just become a personal trainer, hahaha. If you knew me you'd get the joke.

So I had this great morning taking my daughter Mina who turns 3 this weekend out to Twelve Oaks Mall, just her and me. I often don't get enough one on one time with the kids so those times are special, and this morning was really cool. To have her at that age where we can have actual conversations about things is so cool. We end up going to Max and Erma's in the mall for lunch. She can be a terror other times, but this time she was so well behaved she might as well have been 10. I thought I had this touching moment where she's looking around the restaurant and puts down her food and looks at me very seriously and says, "This is a very nice place." It seemed so mature, almost like to a 3 year old she was appreciating Max and Erma's as fine dining. I say I THOUGHT I had this touching moment because when I got home and told my wife, she pointed out that she was merely repeating a line said by Giselle in the kid's movie Enchanted. Insert Price Is Right buzzkill music here. I'm sitting there thinking how grown up she's acting and all she was doing was what I've done for years, quoting movie lines. Lines from Scarface, Goodfellas, As Good As It Gets, Tombstone...it all came back to haunt me.

I was thinking about organizing a small night out for any of you who might want to hoist a few. I wish I could buy for everyone but under the current situation I can't, I'm sorry. However no one needs to buy for me! Just would like to get together with whoever wants to. Assuming a Friday or Saturday night would work best but if anyone has any thoughts on the matter please feel free to either comment or write me at jeffdeminski@comcast.net which is my personal email but pretty much everyone has it. And again, I'm not talking a listener party with prizes and games, I'm just talking about a couple of us picking a place, night and time and knocking back a few, that's it. Let me know. Weirdo, you in?

THE REAL SCOOP

This is very funny. A listener let me know about this. I didn't even bother reading the link although I'm sure it was very entertaining. You guys remember about half a year ago when we talked about how it was frustrating the way some bikers (bicyclists) took their 'right to the road' to an almost zealot level and would not get out of your way while doing far below the speed limit? We were talking about the types who would ride three abreast at 13 mph in a 35 road, almost defiantly being a pain in the ass? Well now half a year later, some bikers' association or something or another is claiming THEY are the reason we moved on from WCSX, because of their complaints in other words. Riiiight. I told you they were nuts.

Coming off 13 straight hours watching my two yr. old and four yr. old. 220, 221, whatever it takes. On a fifteen minute breather and thought I'd say hi to you folks. Thanks for all the email and kind words. Check back in here to find out if we land something in town or somewhere else or if we slowly starve to death beneath an overpass. Either way I'm sure good stories will follow.

Oh special hi to Heather who I met...whom I met?...this chick I met at Chuck E Cheese on John R today. We both happened to take our kids there at the same time and she is, like many of you, a long time listener going back to 2000 or 1999. Very cool person and it made me miss ALL our listeners. Also makes me long for the kind of station where we can be more interactive with you guys again like the 97.1 days.

Okay, back to the kids and having to say things like, "You can stick it in my ear but you CAN'T pull the trigger!" and "If your sister wants to poop she'll tell me!"

DEMINSKI & DOYLE - HEY, WHA' HAPPENED?

As of 9:00 am January 4th I am no longer working for WCSX nor is my partner in crime of 16 years Bill Doyle.

When Greater Media first approached us they wanted the show as it was, a talk show, the same as we'd always done in the Detroit market. They hired us in for morning drive to do just that, but they very quickly decided that doing talk on an otherwise all music station was more radical for their 'CSX audience than they realized, and they simply wanted to get back to their roots. Throughout 2009 we were offered the chance to change the show to a music intensive one, but we're not disc jockeys and didn't want to become that. In the end, we both came to the agreement it was best to chalk it up to creative differences and part amicably. I also want to thank them for being classy enough to allow us the chance to say farewell on-air. There are some great people there for whom I wish nothing but the best. KC (Ken Calvert) is indeed the casual one; incredibly down to earth, funny gentleman. Karen Savelly is such a pro and truly one of the nicest people I've met in the business. Steve Kostan is probably the most knowledgeable classic rock jock anywhere, and while I never got the chance to run into him that much he was always a cool guy when I did. Uncle Buck who does overnights there (so I'd see him every morning at 4 am when I rolled in) is my fellow Springsteen-addict-brother-in-arms and I hope I always know him. So many people who work off air who's names you never know but who are terrific as well.

Thanks for all the calls, texts and emails from all of you. I want to say I'm sorry about how 2009 turned out, but a show and it's station has to be on the same page, period. I know the main thing folks want to know is "what now?", and what I can tell you is for right now we're both still living in metro Detroit but looking everywhere. It would be great to find a station in Detroit again that would actually want and commit to what we do, but the national economy has left the entire industry in a bad way and we have to be realistic. We'd be fortunate to find that station anywhere. If we land something here in the Motor City you'll hear of it right here a.s.a.p.. If we need to move away I'll certainly let you know that too.

Many of you will be asking about the others, so let me give you the rundown. Jamie Samuelsen was doing our sports and he is still there in mornings on WCSX. He'll be doing sports for Ken Calvert's new morning show. Same for Nicole Salem who remains doing traffic for KC. I'm not sure what's going on with Rudy Desantis at this point. Jim O'Brien who was our producer for just this past year will remain with WCSX. He was one of their guys to begin with; had been there at least 6 years before we got there.

So that's it. That's about all I can say. If anyone wants to write me directly my personal email address remains the same...jeffdeminski@comcast.net. Stay in touch, and I'll do the same. Now pardon me while I go home and get my f'ing shinebox HAHAHA.

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