bio:PeterBochan
Born
on a mountain top in Tennessee, greenest state
in the land of the free...wait,
that's
not exactly true..hold on..Elvis & Davy Crockett were both from
Tennessee?
What
a coincidence! Two 50's icon's coming from the same state like that...oh
wait wasn't Elvis actually born in Mississippi?
Anyway
it was more like a apartment over an small resturant in Bridgeport,
Connecticut...sort of like a mountain top,
maybe two or three stories off the ground...pretty high up anyway

...it
was there, using only a melting stick of butter and a sheet of coarse sandpaper
that the young albanian genius
first fashioned the screenless television that his family would marvel
about for years to come. His parents encouraged the budding inventor by
presenting him with his first record: a 78 rpm recording of the strange
adventures of a mutated reindeer who led his tribe out of danger using
his "glowing"
red nose...

t...profoundly
influenced by one of the minor characters in this sordid tale of
humilation, exclusion and finally redempetion , the lad who also had felt
the sting of mocking laughter (having been denied a middle name)
began insisting that he too was from the North Pole and to refer to him
as "Santa Junior"
from then on...Quick to see a profit in this misguided fantasy, his father
contacted a local Buick dealer and with a sponsor and "Santa Junior" in
tow headed for a Waterbury radio station....t
many more astounding facts: Page 2
Meanwhile
tune in:
all
mixed
up
Saturday
Afternoons from 5 to 7 pm
WBAI
99.5 FM New York City
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