Still, the taste of Failed Concept Day lingers in my favorite orifice, and I would be remiss not to mention the failures associated with today in history, such as the Chernobyl Nuclear Agricultural Enclave in 1984, Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, who failed to watch his back while brawling with an irate band of Mactan Islanders, and the spunky little kingdom of Togo which, after being granted independence 36 years ago, promptly failed to establish a world class skiing industry.

Failure is, we hope, not a concept which will extend to today's mission of guilt which we hope to lay on you, our faithful listening audient, during the first-ever Kalvos & Damian New Music FM Fundraiser. Our show, laden as always with prizes galore, is this week also laced with sneaky deceptions to trick you into handing over your well-worn cash to us, your humble radiophonic hosts, so that we can buy our station manager a late model electronic chair, a small request in this age of computer chicanery and ebullient illiteracy.

So pick up the telephone right now -- the receiver part, anyway -- and call us at the sesquistudio. Tell us about yourself, why you're in this and not a parallel universe, who you'd like to utterly ruin if you had the opportunity, where you park when you drive to Omaha, what color your purse or wallet is, and if those extra greenbacks in there would be so sorely missed if they were stuffed in an envelope and sent to us at an address which will shortly appear on your radio dial. The hard part, this essay, is nearly over. The easy part, the purging of radiophonic guilt, follows directly. Here's somebody else to divulge that number to call.