Rush Limbaugh is Canned in Boston!

Limbaugh - Canned in Boston!

by Bill Russo

WRKO Radio in Boston is dumping the Rush Limbaugh program.

     According to one industry study the broadcast is "Toxic" to advertisers. That's one possible reason that Limbaugh is being canned in Boston.   Another reason may be declining ratings for an act that is more than a quarter century old.  

     WRKO is not citing the specific reasons for giving Rush the bum's rush. The news came in a recent article in "Talkers", the radio industry's leading publication.

     It was also reported that no other station in Boston, including the desperate WMEX, will pick up the once 'untouchable' Limbaugh. Since WRKO is almost as needy as WMEX, this news has radio insiders all over the United States (including Alaska & Hawaii) scratching their heads.

    Boston is the NUMBER 7 Media Market in the U.S.A. and quite a few radio people are wondering if other stations will pick up WRKO's axe and use it to chop Rush from their schedules.  

     Limbaugh is through in Beantown when his contract expires this Summer. It's likely that some 'burb' stations will pick up the show. It is currently carried on the powerful WXTK on Cape Cod. The Cape talker is the highest rated station on the island and its signal also reaches Fall River, Taunton, and New Bedford, as well as Plymouth.

TOP RADIO MARKETS NATIONWIDE 

   New York City is the Number One Radio market in the U.S, with the West Coast checking in at number two, in the form of Los Angeles.  Back towards the East, Chicago is number three.

    Philadelphia is the fourth largest market.  The industry lumps Dallas and Fort Worth together as a single radio entity and calls it number five. 

    The number six media market is also a combination of several cities including San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.  Boston is number seven, but would be higher if it were counted with other markets in its listening area such as Providence (the 53rd largest market), Worcester, Springfield, Cape Cod and New Bedford.  

    Numbers Eight through ten are Washington, Atlanta and Houston, in that order. 

Five Star Reviews of Jimmy Catfish

     It's not Alice's Looking Glass; but a living tunnel that takes you to an eerie lake on the island of Cape Cod - a body of water unlike any other in the world. Jimmy Catfish lives at the edge of the lake. His relatives live beneath the surface. Free on Kindle Unlimited. 
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HERE ARE 3 RECENT FIVE STAR REVIEWS OF JIMMY CATFISH...

By J. Linson on May 21, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

Bill Russo's "Jimmy Catfish - The Beginning and The End" is an adventure story with some mystery/horror elements to it. The protagonist, Francisco da Silva (aka Cisco), is a captain of a ship that's destined for adventure. Russo does an excellent job developing Cisco, making him seem like someone you know. One of my favorite things about the book is the amount of facts (history, geography, etc) Russo incorporates into the story. There are even "author's notes" with trivia type info that is incredibly fascinating. The plot of the book is paced well with a good balance between action and downtime for character development, setting the scene, etc. If you're a fan of adventure stories, you'll enjoy this read.

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A great mystery

By Anne on May 21, 2015

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This sequel to some of Bill's previous books is not to be missed. There's action, happy times, tragedy, all mixed in with local color and even some real facts about the setting where the majority of the book takes place. It's paced well, keeping the reader interested and looking forward to the next thing to happen to the characters. It has a surprise ending, which I did not expect nor did I see it coming. Bill's books get better with each one he writes, and this is no exception.

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New England Folktale

By Amy on May 29, 2015

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The author did a great job telling this folksy, fantastical tale. I’m a little partial to stories about New England and what I really like is how they always seem to have a little magic in them. The story flowed well from what seemed like a seafaring tale off the coast of Africa to the slice of life on the enchanted backwaters of Massachusetts. The characters were fascinating. I couldn’t stop wondering how their adventures would turn out nor how they would change as they settled into life on land. The dark twist was great storytelling.

Sample from Jimmy Catfish - Mungo is Gaffed & Speared

Secret Cape Cod Lake - photo by Bill Russo

by Bill  Russo 

Somewhere on the island of Cape Cod is 

a hidden lake (pictured at right) where Cisco da Silva sought refuge after his sailing ship was nearly wrecked in a Northeast Gale.  The vessel survived, but the badly injured Cisco was forced into retirement in a tiny cottage on the shores of the lake.  When he moved in, he had no idea that the serene waters in front of his home had horrors in them.  Terrors far worse than anything in the stormy Atlantic Ocean.  

Sample from the book:

Here's a sample from Chapter 9 of Jimmy Catfish - The Beginning and The End - the hero of the tale has made his way into the eerie waters of The Brack in his 13 foot double-ended rowboat.  When the surface of the slate gray water is broken by the heads of the giant catfishes, he begins blindly throwing whaling spears and gaffs at them.  After the battle, the leader of the catfish is gravely wounded.  This sample begins with the fish, named Mungo by the locals, trying to get to his lair on the floor of the lake........

      Suffering intensely and bleeding from the spear wound and the gaffs, the big fish escaped from the boat and desperately swam through the brown, fresh water, where no catfish had ever swum before. Somehow, it made it back to the more hospitable environs of The Brack.

In agony, the huge fish struggled to reach the deepest part of the choppy waters. The catfish began to slowly rotate his fin across the grooves of his shoulder. The intense cat-speak that emerged was heard all the way through the cloudy boundaries of The Brack and even halfway through the adjoining waters on either end of Codfresh Lake.

Like the sound a finger makes running through the teeth of a comb, it varied in pitch from low to high and kept getting louder. After a moment, the wounded catfish leader heard an answer to his frantic cry.

Steady, rhythmic drumming sounds radiated from all directions toward the giant creature. The drumming intensified as scores of catfish answered the frenzied summons. Swimming to his side, they formed a circle around him.

Among the human population of Codfresh Lake, the catfish leader was highly feared by the small number of locals who had seen him. Anse Peckins and a few hunters and fishermen had witnessed the massive cat stalk and take down full grown stags. They had named him "Mungo."

Cunning and highly intelligent, the assembled catfish of Codfresh Lake knew full well that some of their number had died in the day's battle and more were badly wounded. They vowed that they would kill Cisco, who they thought of as 'the monster in the boat'.

Mungo's second in command, a young catfish the others thought of as 'Sky' for his ability to jump the furthest above the water's surface; was in fear for the leader's life. Blood wept from a jagged hole where his eye used to be. Two long metal gaffs protruded from his side.

Sky was aware that a gaff has a barbed end that when pulled out makes the wound even worse. Yet instinctively he also realized the horrible shafts could not be left in.

He resolved to pull them out. Just as if they could understand Sky's comb-speak, four of the bigger cats crowded around Mungo to hold him steady.

Grasping the end of one of the gaffs with his rows of jagged teeth, Sky pulled as hard as he could. Slowly the steel spine inched out of Mungo's flesh, the barbed hook painfully tearing up the leader's insides. Even with his superior strength and size, Mungo was not able to remain conscious during the brutal extraction.

With one last gallant wrenching of his body, Sky finally tore away the dreaded hooked pole and tossed it into the sediment. Mercifully, Mungo remained senseless and the second gaff was yanked out more quickly.

The leader of the catfish lay still, more dead than alive. He was breathing, but it was forced and labored. Four elders surrounded him, pushing their lifeless Chief to the very bottom of The Brack. They burrowed out an indentation and placed him into it. Heaping a cocoon of sediment and sand over his body, they left only his head exposed.

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Get to Jimmy Catfish's Lake on Foot, Horseback, or by Plane

Photo by Bill Russo, of Jimmy's hidden Cape Cod Lake

Codfresh Lake, Cape Cod

You can get there on foot,
on a bicycle, or on horseback,
or in a single engine airplane - but you can't
get there in your Audi or even in a Ford.

Here's a snippet from Jimmy Catfish: Chapter Nine

Cisco decides to take Blue 

on the Cape Cod Flyer to Hyannis:

After the passengers were boarded, the conductor saw that 

there was another person waiting for the train, whose

recumbent form had been obscured behind the crowd.

It was a man in a wheel-chair. He was attired in the 'service' 

uniform of the Merchant Marine: a black suit coat with four 

yellow sleeve stripes signifying his rank, black pants, white 

shirt and a black tie. A white captain's hat partially covered 

a thatch of curly, black hair. The man's olive skinned face was

set in a look that might have been a grimace or a threat; the 

conductor was not sure which.

Beside the Captain, seated on his back legs was a 

magnificent, blue-eyed Border Collie with 

a shiny black coat and fluffy white fur around his

face and throat. 


"We don't allow dogs on board the train," murmured the 

conductor in a tone more apologetic than authoritative. 


"I am Francisco da Silva, former Captain of the S.S. Lynette C

Cisco stated. "And we  do not allow dogs on board ships

either.  And yet there are dogs on nearly every good sailing 

vessel or sailing ship in the Atlantic.  A good captain

knows when to bend a rule.  I assume a good conductor

has the same knowledge.  Permission to come aboard?"

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A Cape Tale

Jimmy Catfish - A Cape Tale of love, adventure, misadventure, serenity and mayhem. It's really a tale of two capes.  Starting in Cape Verde the story moves over the stormy Atlantic Ocean on the last of the wooden sailing ships, to Cape Cod


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Here's the most  recent Five Star review:
 as posted on the Kindle Website: 

Bill Russo's "Jimmy Catfish - The Beginning and The End" is an adventure story with some mystery/horror elements to it. The protagonist, Francisco da Silva (aka Cisco), is a captain of a ship that's destined for adventure. Russo does an excellent job developing Cisco, making him seem like someone you know. One of my favorite things about the book is the amount of facts (history, geography, etc) Russo incorporates into the story. There are even "author's notes" with trivia type info that is incredibly fascinating. The plot of the book is paced well with a good balance between action and downtime for character development, setting the scene, etc. If you're a fan of adventure stories, you'll enjoy this read.

Five Star Reasons to Read Jimmy Catfish

Here's 

The First Five Star 

The Brack.  If you look close enough
you might see Jimmy's head breaking the surface

Review of Jimmy 

Catfish -

 as posted on the Kindle Website:




Bill Russo's   "Jimmy Catfish -  The 

Beginning and The End" 

is an adventure story with

 some mystery/horror elements to it. The protagonist,

 Francisco da Silva (aka Cisco), is a captain of a ship that's 

destined for adventure. Russo does an excellent job 

developing Cisco, making him seem like someone you 

Looking like a graceful Crane, this is an
actual Crane-berry blossom

know. 


One of my favorite things about the book is the amount of 

facts (history, geography, etc) Russo incorporates into the 

story. There are even "author's notes" with trivia type info 

that is incredibly fascinating. The plot of the book is paced 

well with a good balance between action and downtime for 

character development, setting the scene, etc. If you're a fan of adventure stories, 

you'll enjoy this read.

Buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XH8XY9Q

Veterans Ride Free on the CC Flyer on Memorial Day

ACTIVE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN  AND VETERANS 

RIDE FREE ON THE CAPE COD FLYER

SUNDAY AND MONDAY 

OF THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

The operators of the popular train bound from historic
South Station in Boston to Hyannis are running 

the promotion as part of  Troops in the Spotlight, a 24 hour event to honor and support U.S. 

deployed troops, veterans, and wounded warriors - and to honor Gold Star Families.  

and their 'Fallen Heroes'. 

The spotlight will be on,  in the Cape Town Plaza 
(anchored by K Mart)

on Route 132 in the unofficial capital of Cape Cod, Hyannis.

The operators of the Cape Flyer have teamed up with 

Charlie of the MTA to ensure that the Cape Flyer will have the beautiful 

Gold Star Coach, a special car that has the names of the more than 130 members of Massachusetts soldiers who gave their lives for the American people in the conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan.

If you are a serviceman or woman, or a veteran and wish to take advantage of this great ride, you need to be in uniform or provide a valid military ID. 

The CapeFLYER will run on Sunday and Monday of Memorial Day with the same schedule as its normal weekend operations (leaves South Station at 8AM and returns from Hyannis at 6:30PM).  For schedules and information about the CapeFLYER, visit:  www.capeflyer.com

and in case you have forgotten who Charlie of the MTA is: here's a refresher as set down in print and on an old 45 rpm record by The Kingston Trio.

These are the times that try men's souls
In the course of our nation's history
The people of Boston have rallied bravely
Whenever the rights of men have been threatened

Today a new crisis has arisen

The Metropolitan Transit Authority, better known as the MTA
Is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population
In the form of a subway fare increase
Citizens, hear me out, this could happen to you

Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA

Well, did he ever return?

No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston
And he's the man who never returned

Charlie handed in his dime at the Kendall Square station
And he changed for Jamaica Plain
When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel"
Charlie couldn't get off of that train

But did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned

Now, all night long Charlie rides through the station
Crying, "What will become of me?
How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea
Or my cousin in Roxbury?"

But did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned

Charlie's wife goes down to the Sculley Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumbling through

But did he ever return?

No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned
Pick it Davey, kind of hurts my fingers

Now, ye citizens of Boston
Don't you think it's a scandal
How the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the fare increase, vote for George O'Brian
Get poor Charlie off the MTA

Or else he'll never return
No he'll never return and his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned

He's the man who never returned
He's the man who never returned
He's the man who never returned
Are you still there, Charlie?

Singers: The Kingston Trio

Authors: Bess Hawes & Jackie Steiner (proper Bostonians both)

See the boys sing it on Youtube.....

https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4

Open House at Jimmy Catfish's Place - Only Six Hours Left to Get There

Photos by Bill Russo on the way to Codfresh Lake

 by Bill Russo


THANKS TO ALL WHO DOWNLOADED JIMMY CATFISH - THE BEGINNING AND THE END, DURING THE FREE PROMOTION.  

THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE ON KINDLE FOR $2.99 AND IS A DOUBLE ISSUE -
Containing the New book (The beginning) and the original story (The End) from the novella, Swamp Tales: Horrors from the Hockomock Swamp and the Marshes 
of Cape Cod

Hurry: Only Six Hours

Left to Get to the 

house of 

Jimmy Catfish

Here are the directions:

1.  Take the old Cape Cod Railroad right of way for about 
five miles after you get off the 
mid-cape highway.  You will have to walk - No Cars Allowed.

2.  Look for the secret
"LIVING TUNNEL" , just a few
hundred yards past Herring Run
River.  ENTER, if you dare.



3. You are there, at Codfresh Lake right by Jimmy's thinking log. 

OR

If you are not on Cape Cod today:  LAST Chance to download the book for free at Amazon: 
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