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Naturalist by devotion, humorist by genetics, hero by default; Kamaroh is a Republican, a Presbyterian, a Polio surviver, a former US Marine, & Great Plains Badger. Earned an MA in English from SFSU. Student & friend of novelist Kay Boyle. His blog is a no profanity zone. There is little edgey emotionalism if he avoids thinking about his children. Kamaroh is a masculinist, places value on fraternity & believes living stag is a responsible and manly option. Particularly apreciative of the charm of Asian females, he discovered in 1999 he is able to love one small lady to the extreme that thinking about her can make his nose bleed. From boyhood forward, he values having male friends & male role models; though this blog is an extention of that belief; it is all welcome. Though containing male posturing, biased poetry, shakey facts, & faulted bachelor housekeeping, this blog's intent is to be good for your health & contains no spanky material. Pardon me if I am speaking too loudly because even with the high tech ... hearing aids the Veterans Administration provides to me, I do not have normal hearing.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

DON SHERWOOD: The Worlds Greatest Disc Jockey


Don Sherwood" The Worlds Greatest Disc Jockey. By Laurie Harper. Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA. 1989. ISBN 1-55958-001-1
I was in the VA Module 1 Clinic at Ft. Miley in San Francisco Friday waiting for my appointment with the urologist when a man came by with a cart full of books. He asked me if I wanted one and since I had had to wait two hours past my appointment time, I said "Yes," I did and did he have any biographies. His answer was that he believed that he did. And, actually he had two, one of which was the story of Lee Iacocca which I had read many years ago and this one which I didn't have a clue existed and is extremely interesting and is a real score of a read totally recommended by Kamaroh. ...I am now about half way through and am having trouble putting it down in order to take care of practical exigencies. ...I remember the radio personalities that speak of Sherwood in the interviews in this book, although I cannot recall paying much attention to Don Sherwood, I remember Hap Harper and his Traffic Watch over The Bay; and the names of Russ Coughlan; Dave McElhattan; Aaron Edwards.... My remembrances of these yo yo heads starts somewhere around 1963 when I was discharged from the Marine Corps. I haven't a clue where you could locate this book as it must be scarce and for sure I am not willling to let go of my copy.