Hi everyone it's me Commie Francis back on Saturday nights for the summer and coming to you live from the Barge for the very first time! Wait til you hear how scratchy my Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon 45 is at 10!

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Coming to you live from ye olde London Englande and it's almost Rivka's bedtime.

It's another 2 hour theme cause I am just a theme girl I guess. Songs that are called (something) city). Mostly not songs about actual towns called _____ City but songs where a noun or adjective is used to describe a city. OK!

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Hi everyone it's time for my traditional birthday week show where I just play my favorite songs!

This was a bit more of a thrill when I did a purely themed show and didn't do at least an hour of whatever I want to play every week! But it's still fun to trot out old (and new!) favorites.

Next year I might start a new birthday tradition. Any ideas? Drop em in the chat!

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Hello it's me Commie Francis I just can't stay away from Saturday nights! I'm here with a lil theme I had in my back pocket for emergencies. I did a show about still photos about a year ago but ended up with enough great songs for fully 3 shows. So here's photo show #2, no repeats!

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young poseur commie francis and friend, halloween... 1984?

Maybe the last drive show from my home studio THE FACTORY OF HOPE because thanks we are on the brink in the power of freeform, human-curated broadcast radio to support independent music and keep exposing people to things that they never would have known they would like (and that an algorithm would never know to play for them). Being live, human, connected, and available randomly to anyone with a radio receiver makes radio special in a way that is hard to articulate. Being part of WPRB has been so important to me personally, and I am so proud to be able to contribute to it. So if you like me, the show, the station, the general concept of this kind of radio, please contribute!

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It's been a wild ride making this show happen but i'm HERE with Dana K playing just good ol good music and a mini theme of songs about taxes and financial instruments and a reminder to DONATE YOUR TAX REFUND TO WPRB LOVE YOU ALL

Jon Solomon (pictured here about to hide the afikomen) is at a seder so here I am! Drinking extra fizzy kosher seltzer and thinking about ways I can fight oppression and slavery wherever they may occur.

This isn't an entirely passover themed show (I did that year before last!) but there will be some acknowledgement of the holiday. Chag Pesach sameach!

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It's a show about resurrecting the dead!

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Jon Solomon (pictured here about to hide the afikomen) is at a seder so here I am! Drinking extra fizzy kosher seltzer and thinking about ways I can fight oppression and slavery wherever they may occur.

This isn't an entirely passover themed show (I did that year before last!) but there will be some acknowledgement of the holiday. Chag Pesach sameach!

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I'm not doing any fooling but I am doing songs about fools! Filling in for Quinneth and I'll be on tomorrow 2-4pm as usual!

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Mini theme this week is songs that go oh NO!

If you're in Philly,drink and cook with bottled water until further notice! Note this link has been updated with specific areas of the city that could be affected.

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This week's mini theme is songs about forms of communication that we don't use much or at all anymore! Plus some obsolete phone tech.

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the mini (midi?) theme will be the whole second hour, songs about spelling and I already did another whole show of spelling songs which you can check out here.

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Since it's women's history month and International (working) Women's Day was this week, here's my annual show of all music made by women! OF COURSE this includes trans women. With a national/international panic about trans people going on right now, I'm giving my trans sisters a little boost and making a concerted effort to include more of their music this time around. It's a small gesture but when you're seeing people like yourself being scapegoated, demonized, outlawed and attacked every damn day, small comforts can help. Of course ACTION helps more and I hope you will consider doing concrete things to combat this bigotry. More info on the issues and what you can do here (the other day there were 385 bills nationwide attacking the rights of LGBTQ people; today there are 399) and here (intro the the issues and ways you can help).

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This doesn't have anything to do with my mini theme, I just love it.

Mini theme (which I have triumphantly kept to one set finally!!) is SONGS ABOUT OTHER SONGS

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Today's mini theme (at 3pm) is stuff for nerds! Specifically stuff that I was into as a nerdy youth in the 80s/90s. I do not view nerdiness as derogatory in the slightest.

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Some new musics and some songs about maps! Moving from last week's maxi set to a medi-set, someday I will work my way to mini sets!

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