Off The Hook With Gage

AS GOOD AS IT GETS! * OFF THE HOOK strives to do its level BEST to bring you STIMULATING programming each and every week! * It hopes you will be INSPIRED to hang the whole dang three hours of its host's IDIOSYNCRATIC CURATION! * But, who's kidding who? * Its host is just an opinionated old man who can barely manage to work the controls in the studio and his dream of OFF THE HOOK being seen as the Flagship of KXSF (102.5FM / http://kxsf.fm ) is laughable! * Be that as it may, OFF THE HOOK is as good as it gets! * Take it or leave it at 1:00.

Maybe DEMOCRACY is NOT DEAD after all! * The results are still coming in, but OFF THE HOOK appears to be on track to remain the Top Musical Radio Program Featuring Predominately Current Music of any Bay Area station operating on a mere two watts! * Yes, listeners have voted with their ears and, unlike many races, YOU can still vote by listening to OFF THE HOOK at http://kxsf.fm * FREE RADIO (plays what it wants, costs you nothing) is NOT DEAD!

Who's gonna wear your shoes when you want to run away from THE BLUES? * Well, you are! * And you're gonna run right over to OFF THE HOOK, where even SAD SONGS are glad! * It's not Rocket Science and it doesn't even make sense, but please trust The Show That Shows to show you a good time, sailor! * So, go on, RUN right now to http://kxsf.fm * OFF THE HOOK is a music-playing program.

TRICK OR TREAT? * With OFF THE HOOK it's usually both! * But, while OFF THE HOOK is always SPIRITED, it doesn't believe in GHOSTS! * Therefore, despite its proximity to HALLOWE'EN, and allowing that the GORY CORPSES of the past WILL RISE as they always do in the Birthday Segment, you will not smell the ROTTING FLESH of last year's BURIED hit parade, but will hear only FRESH BLOOD on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * Tune in at 1:00 (I know it's SUPER-NATURAL for you to do so) and wear a COSTUME, if you like, but don't miss OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM  http://kxsf.fm ! * BOO to you, too!

UNSUNG though I may end up, I'll be DAMNED if I let my roster of ROISTEROUS ROCKERS suffer a similar fate! * These songs and their singers shall not be consigned to lonely, forgotten corners of the Musicverse, but shall have their day (if only one) via the OFF THE HOOK program! * Arcing triumphantly over the city span through the MIRACLE of RADIO technology, these BUMPTIOUS bellwethers of bold beginnings will proudly proclaim "I AM HERE!" * We would like for YOU to be here: to hear The Show That Shows, OFF THE HOOK!

Woo-hoo! * OFF THE HOOK! * GO GO GO! * Today's OFF THE HOOK presents SONGS with a crushing lilt! * SOUNDS to make you successful! * OLDIES by the score (actually fewer than twelve)! * and FREE TICKETS to live performances! * Three hours CANNOT be spent more enjoyably! * So, what are you waiting for?  One o'clock? * YES! on KXSF 102.5FM! * KXSF 102.5 FM San Francisco * OFF THE HOOK! * Put yourself in the middle of the ACTION!

IT'S MY BABY! * Giving birth to OFF THE HOOK every week is a MIRACULOUS thing and, after days of Labor, I DELIVER it to you alive, kicking and decidedly non-binary! * Now and then some insensitive clod will point out flaws THEY perceive, but to the proud parent they are all PERFECT! * Yes, OFF THE HOOK is my baby and I'm already Pregnant with ideas for the next one! * Attend the birth of this week's baby!

OFF THE HOOK has always been HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS, but SPECIAL in its own unique way! * And while regular listeners are not bothered by its Very Rarely Bluegrass programming, they are also relieved to not have to traipse across town in overcrowded buses or surge-time taxis to dehydrate themselves fighting over blanket space! * Phew! * No, they are more than content to kick back with a couple of doobies in the comfort of their own home or car listening to the VERY SPECIAL HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS (read: practically never) OFF THE HOOK! * Become a regular!

Autumn is upon us and you can use a break. * Although the Dog Days are behind us and we feel a glimmer of hope that Public Enemy #1 may finally be put down, we know that it's too late to change our downward trajectory. * Too many bad dogs and the selfish ghosts of the past leave us with our only hope: hope that the rest of our days (and our kids', I guess) are spent in not too much discomfort. *  Bummer? Yes. * But for three hours we can live in the present, feeling-not thinking, staying our fear of the future! * It's called OFF THE HOOK, bathing our senses in rapturous music, keeping us feeling alive and hopeful, if only in the now.