An e-mail during the show to let us know you're listening would be much appreciated. I'm trying to beat Dave and Clare for most listeners during a show (they were showing off yesterday).

A last-minute reminder - The Radio Barnsley Alternative Hour, tonight at 6pm (GMT+1).

www.ymcaradiobarnsley.co.uk

Just a reminder (as if I haven't been pimping it enough) of my show on www.ymcaradiobarnsley.co.uk tonight at 6pm (GMT+1).

It'd be great if some of you guys could e-mail during the show and let me know you're listening. I have an actual producer tonight who'll need to get used to doing all the runner-stuff like answering calls and collecting e-mails - stuff that I used to do back when I was 16 and learning the studio ropes. I'm also going to be talking about TV stuff, the Proud To Be Different campaign and Alex should be doing gig reviews.

...happy birthday greatest_fay!!!

I have returned to the dark side.

Yesteday I paid my subs and officially became a Radio Barnsley member again!

Since they didn't get the community licence to broadcast full-time, they're relaunching next month as an Internet station. I don't know yet what my timeslot is, but I'll definitely be presenting, and since I get to pick my music, I'm going for Alternative again (and by 'alternative', I don't mean indie rock - I mean anything bizarre and freakish. I'm planning to play J-pop, Goth, Industrial, cello-rock and Half Man Half Biscuit).

So help me put my playlists together! Send me music - bands you love but no one else has heard of, bands that would normally never get played on your local commercial station, music that makes you squeal with absolute GLEE!

Tonight, I'll post the link to the station site, and hopefully share some of my own music as a thank-you for those who share with me.

So. LJ drama. You know I don't usually bother. But there are times when I just think, what's the point?

You know what I did this week? I offered to head up a steering group to co-ordinate and create facilities for homeless people in my hometown. People who don't even have a place to sleep at night, who can't afford to feed themselves, who go days, weeks, wearing the same clothes. They and I live in a town where the local authorities practically refuse to admit that there even are any rough sleepers here, so it's left to volunteers and members of the public to step up and do something with what limited resources we have. I go out each week and see people whom I know are homeless, dealing with substance addictions and estranged from their families. And yet here are people protesting about their blogs?

No one's impinging on anyone's rights here. No one has the right to blog - for a company to provide you with a forum to voice your opinion about whatever you want is a privelige, and a pretty nice one at that. We are customers paying for a service (or not paying, as the case may be).

You want to protest over unethical business decisions? How about Tesco's choice to promote its intensively reared chickens over its free range, organic ones? Proctor & Gamble's inhumane treatment of animals which is funded every time you buy Pringles, Tampax, Fairy Liquid, Always, Max Factor, Pantene, Olay, Head & Shoulders, Iams, or any number of other products? Nestle's numerous ethical fuck-ups?

All this energy that you put into ranting and raving over the privelige some of you don't even pay for could do wonderful things, if only you directed it towards something that actually would make the world a better place.

Title: Somewhere That's Green
Rating: G (pure fluff)
Summary: for monroe_nell, who asked for The War At Home domestic!fic (I did try to come up with something Zack/Slater-ish, but Larry and Kenny do domesticity so well!).

( A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine in a tract house that we share, somewhere that's green. )

Title: The Boyfriend Thing
Fandom: The War At Home
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Sequel to These Lies Are Killing Me. Kenny has doubts, and tries to get over them.

Title: These Lies Are Killing Me
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: The War At Home
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Summary: Sequel to ‘Hedonism’. The morning after.

Title: Hedonism
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: The War At Home
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Summary: Follows straight on from Khalil. Kenny tries to get over Larry, but nothing seems to work.

Title: Khalil
Rating: G
Fandom: The War At Home
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Summary: following on from 'No Easy Way To Say'. Eh, you know how this is going by now.
Author's note: Kenny's real name, Khalil, is mentioned in season two's 'Gaza Strip'. I googled the name to check the spelling and found that the Arabic meaning of the name is 'friend'. Which just makes me love the writers of this show even more.

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Title: No Easy Way To Say
Rating: PG
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Summary: Follows straight on from 'An Honest Fool'. Kenny stays with the Golds for the holidays, and thinks he's spending too much time with Larry.

Yes, I kow I said I was going to take a break. Then I watched 'Dave Get Your Gun' and suddenly had this wonderful mental image of Kenny and Larry on the couch under a blanket, and couldn't leave my computer until I'd finished this. It follows straight on from 'In Dreams'.


Title: An Honest Fool
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Raiting: PG-13 for sexual references
Summary: Larry and Kenny spend a night on the couch.

I stayed up way past my bedtime last night finishing this one, so I hope it was worth it.

Title: In Dreams
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Larry/Kenny
Summary: Follows straight on from 'Sick'. Larry has a date, and asks for Kenny's help getting ready.

Okay, I think I've officially crossed the line into obsession. This is story number five, following straight on from 'Definitely...Maybe'.

Title: Sick
Fandom: The War At Home
Rating: PG for a couple of vague sexual references
Summary: Kenny manages to hide the truth from both Larry and Vicky.

Title: Definitely...Maybe
Fandom: The War At Home
Rating: NC-17
Summary: following on from ‘Like the movies’, ‘Replay’ and ‘Sort of’. Kenny and Larry grow closer following their night in a gay bar, but will it last?

Title: Sort Of
Fandom: The War At Home
Summary: Following on from 'Like The Movies' and 'Replay'. It's summer vacation and Larry and Kenny make plans to spend time together.
Author's notes: This makes three. How sad am I?