Spinning records on my Geoffrey Giraffe turntable I fell in love with music, and vinyl, at the age of 3. While I do consider myself a music connoisseur, I have come to realize that I truly must have no taste, if I am as eclectic as they come. My ideal auditory experience could probably best be described as: Dr. Demento presents Glenn Miller conducting Dave Matthews Band backed by Dolly Parton and Johnny Rotten in a Hawaiian arrangement of "Do They Know It's Christmas"...the techno remix.

In the early nineties a brilliant new radio network was born in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. If Garrison Keillor and MTV had a love child, they would have named her Radio Aahs! Beaming a child-friendly collective of musical miscellany to every youth in America with an AM radio, it has now sadly become just another victim of the Pop Explosion and the Disney conglomerate.

When the notion struck me to try my hand at being a DJ in college, it was this format I hoped to not only emulate, but also improve. Convinced that there was more music than Barney and Britney to be shared between adults and children I began my stint, for two semesters, hosting the training station's first and only Alternative Children's College Radio Show. I turned to my most cherished possession of my youth, my crate of 45s, and let them mingle with the UCSB music vault. The rules were simple..keep it G-rated, use every genre, and ban the purple dinosaur and the pop princess. This was college radio, after all!

Thus was born KJUC's "Unbirthday Party" and later revamped "Chipperadio." Channeling Jim Henson and Sesame Street, each show had it's own theme: numbers, animals, Christmas in July, and even a "very special episode" about bereavement after the loss of our Congressman and former professor, Walter Capps.

While my mother wished that I were still on-air, if only to produce weekly tapes for Grandma's Car, the logistics of graduation and entering the Real World put the brakes on my mission to bring cool kids and hip parents together through a combined love of song. That is...until now.

Please listen, share and discuss. Witticisms, inquiries and caveats are always welcome!