a literary confidence
Click the link to the Mischief Time Blog, where you can listen to Picture This 115: Best Scores of 2025/Gus Khan, which was broadcast last Sunday, December 21, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org. Join host Wayne Cresser when he kicks off 2026 with more of the best Film and TV music of 2025, and other, stranger things. Same time, same place: Sundays, 6-8 PM on WRIU 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org.
Listen here to Picture This 114: Christmas Time is Here, originally broadcast on Sunday, December 21, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org. Join host Wayne Cresser next Sunday (12/28), at the same time and place for a look back on some of the year's best film music and a celebration of one of the great American lyricists, Mr. Gus Kahn.
Listen here to I'll Be Blasting You!: Picture This 113, which was originally broadcast on Sunday, December 14, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org. Join host Wayne Cresser and special guest, Mike "Dai Bando" Stevenson, this Sunday (12/21) at 6 PM for the third annual Picture This Christmas Party, Once again, you will find us at 90,3 FM, and streaming at wriu.org.
Picture This 112: Getting to the Good Stuff!, originally aired on Sunday, 12/7 at 6 PM on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM. and streamed at wriu.org. Join host Wayne Cresser on Sunday 12/14, same time and place, when we'll all get lost in space music together. As the brilliant rock poet Steve Miller said, "Time keeps on slipping, into the future!"
"In the frothy days of hit parades and top forty stations that could in the space of thirty minutes serve up pop songs from Eydie Gorme’ to Frank Sinatra, jazz from Cannonball Adderley to Ramsey Lewis, garage rock from ? Mark and the Mysterians to the Standells, soul from Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding, psychedelic rock, blues rock, folk rock and novelty hits from alpha to omega, the occasional tribute song offered a wonderful little diversion." Read more of Wayne Cresser's Meta-hits of 1967: Spotlight on the Year Pop Music Celebrated Itself in Song, here on the Mischief Time Blog ...
Listen here to Gallant Gulls, Episode 55 of Catunquit Chronicles, for which your intrepid scribe was invited by hosts James Allan and Ashland Comorack to drop by for a chat and to read some of my short stories for their podcast. I am very thankful for the chance since it was a joy to talk about writing with people who appreciate it and do a fair amount of it themselves.
Happy to let all readers of the Mischief Time Blog know about the activities of Jamestown literary group, The Rhodeo Poets, whose active citizens have pulled together a monthly open mic at the popular Narragansett Cafe. If you're around. you don't want to miss it. And if you've got the work, they would love to hear it.
Hello Mischief Time Blog readers...Yours truly has been gone for a while, traveling the beautiful Canadian Maritimes, covering many miles on the Lobster Trail. More about that shortly; I’ve got some goodies on my plate that need to be shared. Much thanks and announcement about an upcoming live event!
News from the Bubble World of Pop Euphoria: The French Connection Comes to WRIU Radio! and we here at the Mischief Time Blog just want to let you know. Bonne journée!
Meet the author: Wayne Cresser will be signing copies of The Book of Norman at Wakefield Books, Wakefield Mall, 160 Old Tower Hill Road in lovely (it is!), Wakefield, RI from 10 am to noon on Saturday, May 3. If you're in the area, please drop by.
Just Between You and Me 