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K&D Show Essays by David Gunn

2010

Playlist Essay Date

560 Stayin' Alive April 9

559 Ten Uto February 5

2009

Playlist Essay Date

558 Olives à la Dalí November 13

557 The Brick Elephant October 3

556 Collecting Sound September 26

555 The Joke August 14

554 Rosenthal and Guidenstern are Dead June 16

553 What is a Chippewa? June 16

552 Way Up There June 5

551 Defenestrationism March 9

550 Les grands artistes volent February 15

549 Esophageal Singing February 9

2008

Playlist Essay Date

548 Just a Heck of a Lot December 13

547 Finlaaaawwwnnxxxggxxxd! December 5

546 Tent City November 28

545 The Whistlers of Uxbridge October 3

544 House Music August 23

543 Beware the Ookpik Bird September 6

542 Hizz and Hirs July 23

541 The Sixty-by-Sixties July 19

540 Texas T-Bird July 9

539 Call Waiting June 16

2006

Playlist Essay Date

538 The Beat Generation September 17

2005

Playlist Essay Date

537 Whodunnit September 17

536 Trocadero's September 10

535 Project Mr. Potato Head September 3

534 Beano Burr and Weasel Hamilton August 27

533 Thawing the Wolverine August 20

532 Days of Dog August 13

531 The Land of Satan's Dancing Cows August 6

530 Thumb Music July 30

529 Punjab Patel July 23

528 Dada Vinci July 16

527 Inharmonic Convergence July 9

526 The Bumpkinses July 2

525 Battle of the Bands June 25

524 Why Nature Abhors a Vacuum June 18

523 Coiffurniture June 11

522 Harpy Marks June 4

521 Black Bart May 28

520 Boomwhackers May 21

519 The Museum of Jackhammers May 14

518 Scavengers May 7

517 Pinocchio's Nose Job April 30

516 Superconductor April 23

515 The Day of Collisions April 16

514 The Cryptozoological Solution April 9

513 The Perils of Prometheus April 2

512 The Sage of Chelmsford March 26

511 Locksmithereens March 19

510 El culto de la Piraña March 12

509 The Stern and Exacting Miss Sebastos March 5

508 L'homme de l'amiante February 26

507 The Hypermusicians February 19

506 The Gates February 12

505 Tuber Animato February 5

504 The Theory of Finite Height January 29

503 Hippocrates January 22

502 Bassoonami January 15

501 Melophobia January 8

500 The Day of the Leopard January 1

2004

Playlist Essay Date

499 Oregon Donor December 25

498 Miss Aminata Kabba Needs Your Help! December 18

497 Concert Survival December 11

496 The World's Biggest Instrument December 4

495 Janitoria November 27

494 How Hungry Are You? November 20

493 The Sherlock Holmes Principle November 13

492 M. tete de la pomme de terre November 6

491 le grand garçon October 30

490 Nancy's Bloomers October 23

489 Procrastinates October 16

488 Charm Quark October 9

487 Clam Chador October 2

486 Bluenogginism September 25

485 Wisdom September 18

484 Double-ble Vision-ision September 11

483 Borborygma September 4

482 And now, Blasto August 28

481 The Lozenges of Possibility August 21

480 The Road to Helminth August 14

479 The Taobots August 7

478 Raoul MacDowell July 31

477 The Mushroomians, Part II July 24

476 The Mushroomians, Part I July 17

475 Rain Dance July 10

474 The Equinians July 3

473 il dogpera June 26

472 The Wayward Pianola June 19

471 Thor Throat June 12

470 The Yuman Condition June 5

469 Vegemite May 29

468 Return of the Überpuppets May 22

467 The Quartet May 15

466 Handling Pan May 8

465 The Other Buckminster May 1

464 The Crown Jewels April 24

463 Burrito Boy April 17

462 The Deadly Sins April 10

461 la vengeance de Mars April 3

460 The Unanswerable Question March 27

459 Kono-sabi March 20

458 Nostrildamus March 13

457 Musique du ballon March 6

456 The Order of the Refulgent Convolution February 28

455 Rando, the Wolf Boy February 21

454 le fluff February 14

453 Pipe Dreams February 7

452 Bitterns of the Apocalypse January 31

451 Beethoven's Trousers January 24

450 Too Cold for Music January 17

449 Panland January 10

448 The Slowest Composer in the World January 3

2003

Playlist Essay Date

447 The Salt Mines of Taoudeni December 27

446 The Dint of Moore December 20

445 Gunung Santubong December 13

444 Orono Madcap Pies December 6

443 E-5 November 29

442 Wholly, Mackerel November 22

441 Theremindynamics November 15

440 The Maroon Inferno November 8

439 The Holes of Calcutta November 1

438 Slybersonic Tromosome October 25

437 Oddus Appetitus October 18

436 Señora del dolor October 11

435 Shortening October 4

434 Mendocino Cappuccino September 27

433 Das Wozzeckende September 20

432 Humpty Dumpster September 13

431 Banned Music September 6

430 The Acousticophibians August 30

429 In the Fiefdom of Highmore August 23

428 What is Hyperreality? August 16

427 Blastbusters August 9

426 The Bosendorfer Hammerlock August 2

425 Billy Argus July 26

424 Pantaloom Chigwell Bengaze July 19

423 Field Trip July 12

422 Almond Music July 5

421 The Garden of Grog June 28

420 Benny the Bee June 21

419 Genetically Modified Music June 14

418 12 Monkeys June 7

417 The Audible Red Tide May 31

416 Battle of the Bands May 24

415 Hyde Center Desserts May 17

414 Saint Blanche May 10

413 Remembering May 3

412 Who's Minding the Music? April 26

411 Zogard, Son of Wheezle April 19

410 The Beano Counters April 12

409 The Repelicans April 5

408 Jabberwonk March 29

407 Oneirocriticism March 22

406 Violinics March 15

405 le Fromage March 8

404 Who done it March 1

403 Frogooxi February 22

402 Les rêves du Hector February 15

401 Trenchermania February 8

400 bots February 1

399 Sisyphus, King of Corinth January 25

398 Clown Day January 18

397 The Butterfly Effect January 11

396 MADMAN January 4

2002

Playlist Essay Date

395 Prophet Karma-Ears December 28

394 The Crypts of Lieberkühn December 21

393 Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear December 14

392 The School for Scoundrels December 7

391 Lamb Brains November 30

390 Weapons of Mass Deconstruction November 23

389 The Great Poet November 16

388 Futontology November 9

387 Abeanogo November 2

386 Talking Drums October 26

385 Colonel Sanders' Worst Nightmare October 19

384 Desert Jitters October 12

383 Tautalus the Tuba Player October 5

382 Microchiroptera annoyinglata September 28

381 The Frog, the Snail and the Topical Anti-Infective September 21

380 Jailhouse Tongue September 14

379 The Tongue of Elvis September 7

378 The Beanolator August 31

377 Überpuppets August 24

376 Teec Nos Pos August 17

375 Cabin Physics August 10

374 TIPS August 3

373 Bubbles July 27

372 War Tug July 20

371 Resolution July 13

370 Happiness July 6

369 Atoka June 29

368 Seas Annoy Seeders June 22

367 Zingo June 15

366 No essay (partly pre-empted). June 8

365 Yangtze and the Turtle June 1

364 Titanic Dreams May 25

363 The Titanium Gherkin May 18

362 Gammagong May 11

361 Ursanola May 4

360 The Widow Ululator April 27

359 Making Rain April 20

358 The S/V Cromwell April 13

357 les trois morts amigos April 6

356 Diego Garcia March 30

355 Ga-Jing! March 23

354 Johnny Bumpkins March 16

353 ShavedHeadBangBoondock March 9

352 Doodyville March 2

351 History repeats itself; so do echolalicists February 23

350 la musique corpulante February 16

349 Fantastic Voyage II February 9

348 Axis of Evil February 2

347 Xenon A. Bagbee vs Aviation Security January 26

346 Adopt-a-Composer January 19

345 The Boy Whose Teeth Sang January 12

344 The Drone January 5

2001

Playlist Essay Date

343 Shoe Bomb December 29

342 Lexann December 22

341 Beyond Bondo December 15

340 Who's In Charge Here? December 8

339 National System of Defense Music December 1

338 Karaokology November 24

337 The Surreal Accommodation of Angst November 17

336 The World of the Leisure Weasel Slayer November 10

335 Weasel Slayer: The Wiggers November 3

334 Anthra... October 27

333 Weasel Slayer, Part II October 20

332 Weasel Slayer, Part I October 13

331 Heather October 6

330 Homeland Security September 29

329 Blackmoor's Open Letter September 22

328 Pavanne des ailes September 15

327 Smackover September 8

326 Like a Brick September 1

325 The Coordinator August 18

324 Stayin' Alive August 11

323 The New Muzak August 4

322 Chicken Bus July 28

321 The Human Ululation Module July 21

320 Large Coddle Dog July 14

319 Terminal Island July 7

318 Dentro de la casa June 30

317 La casa de cinco ventana June 23

316 Water Music June 16

315 L'ispirazione June 9

314 Dance of the Coelacanths June 2

313 Calendar Nexus May 26

312 Zapotés May 19

311 Borraka B. Who? May 12

310 A Sinkful of Mayonnaise May 5

309 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night April 28

308 A Long Overdue Recap April 21

307 Whither Warbler? April 14

306 The Premiere April 7

305 Contraptionology March 24

304 Sandy "St." Patrick March 17

303 Bomb Grants March 10

302 Deadline! March 3

301 Elmer Diney's Adobe Hat February 24

300 The SS Napster February 17

299 Le fourneau du bois February 10

298 Zenon A. Bagbee February 3

297 Parrots of the Moon January 27

296 The Mesoamerican Connection January 20

295 The Blues January 13

294 Bob and Alice January 6

2000

Playlist Essay Date

293 Time Sheep December 30

292 In the Beano Cabin December 23

291 Playing Peekaboo With Reality December 16

290 The Khatchaturian Konnection December 9

289 Saturday, 1 a.m. December 2

288 The Carruthers Curse November 25

287 Chads and Jeremys November 18

286 Veterinarians Day November 11

285 Thai Hotmouth November 4

284 Fez October 28

283 The Black Mass October 21

282 Merv and the Mellotones October 14

281 Time Hiccups October 7

280 Another Conspiracy Theory September 30

279 Sitting in Judgment September 23

278 Nanomusique September 16

277 Ipecac Music September 9

276 Spatially Disorienting Music September 2

275 The Canal of Schlemm August 26

274 The Festival of Disturbing Music August 19

273 Musicam August 12

272 Radioing Headquarters August 5

271 Somewhere Off in the Distance... July 29

270 In Search of an Unbouqueted Clime July 22

269 In Line in the Busy Cafeteria July 15

268 Swallowing an Idea July 8

267 Les passereaux dangereux July 1

266 Revenge of the Boo June 24

265 "The Gulls are Very Graceful..." June 17

264 Petit Saint Elmo June 10

263 Mineral-Based Music June 3

262 Ontological Wellness May 27

261 Oh, Those Eyes! May 20

260 Backfires May 13

259 Love Bugs May 6

258 Whither Darmstadt? April 29

257 The Party of the First Part April 22

256 R-Veemglotry April 15

255 Evadio in Bunyip Country April 8

254 The New Musical April 1

253 The Intermissionaries March 25

252 Le jour effrayant de premiere March 18

251 The Seven Hypotheses March 11

250 Customs March 4

249 The Eyes Have It February 26

248 Emitex February 19

247 A Habsburg Redux February 12

246 Sayonara, Cyanora February 5

245 The Benefits of Eating Nuts January 29

244 A Novena of Nomadic Noses January 22

243 Reinventing IRCAM January 15

242 Subway Music January 8

241 Meanwhile, on the Gauley January 1

1999

Playlist Essay Date

240 Kinkajoul's Dumpster December 25

239 Quintessential Inconsequentiality December 18

238 Oh Woe is Us December 11

237 The Good Old Days: 430,000 BC December 4

236 The Tournament November 27

235 Initus non abeat November 20

234 Jerome in the Body of a Ferret November 13

233 Adhesive Creep November 6

232 Clippity Clappity Clop October 30

231 PCAs October 23

230 Base Ball October 16

229 Code Sniffing October 9

228 Audient Surveillance October 2

227 Violence/Violins in Music September 25

226 Rounds and Floyds September 18

225 Tombox and the Typewriter September 11

224 Waltz Supremicism September 4

223 Musique Critique August 28

222 Automatique Écriture August 21

221 Agriglyphs August 14

220 Saint Vitus' Envelope August 7

219 Order vs. Chaos July 31

218 Danny's Algorithmic Oxymoron July 24

217 Extreme Musicians July 17

216 Music Therapy July 10

215 Dragons Dancing Theatrically July 3

214 Bad Music June 26

213 The Perfect Gift June 19

212 Easy to Play June 12

211 Illegal Allities June 5

210 Concatenation of the Species May 29

209 The Phantom Matinee May 22

208 PETCom May 15

207 Clusterers May 8

206 Green Up Day May 1

205 Like Minds, and Not Many of Them, Huddling Together for Protection April 24

204 The State Song April 17

203 Ethnic Musicmongering April 10

202 Coughmongering April 3

201 wymminsong March 27

200 The Decamillennium Show March 20

199 Danger Music March 13

198 The Troubled March March 6

197 The Pavlov Digestive Orchestra February 27

196 A.M.T.R.C. February 20

195 Musical Usury February 13

194 Holey Moses Lutoslawski February 6

193 Double Hearing-ing January 30

192 A Cephalopod at Death's Door January 23

191 Die Musikalische Schreibmaschine January 16

190 Carhorn Hobo January 9

189 Music Synthesis January 2

1998

Playlist Essay Date

188 Musical Unsaleables December 26

187 Impeachable Musical Acts December 19

186 The Aging Process December 12

185 Floozy Time December 5

184 The Great Inoculator November 28

183 Pheasant Feathers November 21

182 Monotograms, Pulmonary Hexachlorophene, and Other Types of Electrical Music November 14

181 Chiropractice November 7

180 The Ward of the Whorls October 31

179 The Circus October 24

178 Squirreling October 17

177 The Acme Death Machine October 10

176 Carl A.'s Todestagundflockefeier October 3

175 Susurrus, Gurgle & Boom September 26

174 Not in the Biblical Sense September 19

173 Transparent Subsidiary Code September 12

172 The Bulimarexia School of Radio Listening September 5

171 The First Cybercast August 29

170 Those Wacky Stockhausens August 22

169 The Trencherman's Limpet August 15

168 Trowler the Weasel August 8

167 The Beaver Baffle Bill August 1

166 The Dungsmith's Dilemma July 25

165 Beano Bengaze July 18

164 Dream of the Antisocial Composer July 11

163 The Baying of Bunyips July 4

162 Adopt-A-Composer June 27

161 The Whole Mouse June 20

160 Cooties June 13

159 The Algonquin Hole June 6

158 Whiskers Six-Draw May 30

157 The Wingback Vanishes May 23

156 Pie, Song, and Doggerel May 16

155 Ninkota? A Zontari!? May 9

154 Out of the Trunk of the Hudson May 2

153 The Story So Far April 25

152 The Pontiac and the Plantains April 18

151 The End of the Road for Ed Loudlegg April 11

150 Episode No. 150 Celsius April 4

149 The Musical Decency Act of Vermont March 28

148 Analogue vs. Digitale March 21

147 Bifurcability March 14

146 The Art of Grant Writing March 7

145 The Suction Algorithm February 28

144 Les Ecolé Boulanger February 21

143 Olympic Baton Competition February 14

142 The Band Instruments Winter Olympics February 7

141 Puce 'n' Lanimous January 31

140 The Day-Old Jello of Humus Krill January 24

139 The Visual Equivalent of a Hiccup January 17

138 Attack of the AnHui URL January 10

137 Alien Life Forms, P-Q-R January 3

1997

Playlist Essay Date

136 Beezer's World December 27

135 Ant Farms: The True Story December 20

134 A Loaf of Halva December 13

133 Pastels and Pointillism December 6

132 The Theory of Disputational Distortion November 29

131 La Doorbuster du Sandovac November 22

130 The River Styx Motel November 15

129 Mythology 101a November 8

128 Mesopotamian Physics November 1

127 The F Region October 25

126 Suffixic Perturbation October 18

125 Day of Atonalment October 11

124 Misplaced Etiquette October 4

123 The Drool Chute September 27

122 The Transformation of Chulkalongkorn to Chuck Longhorn September 20

121 Blood, Water, and Neil September 13

120 Oleo Nation Scrapple September 6

119 The Catbox Café August 30

118 Int'l Scty of Contemusic, The August 23

117 Player Again, Conlon August 16

116 The Mysterious Madame Vestris August 9

115 Hermit Lice August 2

114 The Earwig and Other Hairpieces July 26

113 A Klegmore Redux July 19

112 Meanwhile, Back in Klegmore July 12

111 The Klegmore Tokamak July 5

110 Alias Smith and Roswell June 28

109 Fürbletterplatz und Solstits June 21

108 Orlando's Historical Context June 14

107 The Real Manhattan Project June 7

106 The Great Unknown of Mismanaged Data Transference May 31

105 The Mesmer Pocus May 24

104 The Skull of Mantovani May 17

103 Babbittronics May 10

102 Axiomatic Chaosphonics I May 3

101 101 Squarely Rooted Synergies April 26

100 Occult Dabbling April 19

99 The Wicker Wars April 12

98 Mice Brains and the Chromosome Theory April 5

97 Sidereal Time and the Kidney March 29

96 The Behemoths March 22

95 March 1924's Singular Adventures March 15

94 The Portugalian Influence March 8

93 Carl Castaneda and Don Cortisone March 1

92 More Musical Diseases February 22

91 Gimpel the Fool February 15

90 The Pluperfect State of Chaos Theory February 8

89 The Uncertainty Principle February 1

88 Scarface Al January 25

87 In the Quemby Building January 18

86 Bolero vs. Glière, Round 1 January 11

85 Beware the Macareña! January 4

1996

Playlist Essay Date

84 The Musical Heimlich Maneuver December 28

83 The Folly of Accounting December 21

82 Die Zeitgeist von Zipgriffenfeldenmutter December 14

81 Mighty Grossglockner December 7

80 Maria Speaks the Truth November 30

79 The World Cup of Musical Eccentricity November 23

78 Emorphous Topology November 16

77 The Kettle Drama November 9

76 Ezra Pound's Seventy-Sixes November 2

75 The Battle of the Light Brigade as explained by Soil Merchants October 26

74 Duking It Out with Brie and Camembert October 19

73 Zen Haiku in 17th Century Tokyo October 12

72 Musique Concrete October 5

71 The Analgesic Altruists September 28

70 The Disciples of Disproportion September 21

69 Sleepwalking with Sledgehammers September 14

68 Grandma Noses September 7

67 Time flies; Blimps do not August 31

66 The Algonquin Hole at Grand Coulee Dam August 24

65 Tulungagung: 1958; 7pm August 17

64 The Unadulterated History of the New World, Chapter 4 August 10

63 Humor in Music Day August 3

62 The Bedroom Closet at Arles July 27

61 A Year in the Fort Wayne Grange July 20

60 Ein Musikalische Gequiek July 13

59 Hunter-Gatherers of the Aleatory Culture July 6

58 The Tunguska Fireball June 29

57 Wheat Germ, Silicon, & Bowling June 22

56 Soon is a quaver muscle in a dawn skid hum June 15

55 Bangle a Neer June 8

54 The Full Moon Show June 1

53 Igor Sikorsky's Le Sacre du Helicopters May 25

52 What is an Accordion? May 18

51 The Fibonacci Sign for Mother May 11

50 Biber in the Bull Ring May 4

49 Failed Concept Day April 27

48 The Floopner Effect April 20

47 Forty Face Card Fandango April 13

46 Inaccurate and Discombobulating April 6

45 L'avion et labas! March30

44 A Recipe of Appalachian Squalor March 23

43 Le Flambeau Oriange March 16

42 No Outlet, No Gimlet March 9

41 Whodonit? March 2

40 O Scintillating Swine of Sacramento! February 24

39 Mime Appreciation Day February 17

38 Auto-Critters February 10

37 The Sea was Full of Murk February 3

36 A Bag o' Haggis January 27

35 The International Classification of Musical Diseases, Part 1 Joel Chadabe

34 The Patron Saint of Amusement January 13

33 Kahlil Gibran's Epiphany January 6

1995

Playlist Essay Date

32 Family Values Day December 30

31 In the Metrical Idiom December 23

30 The Early Broadcast Days December 16

29 Tonsilheim, Sweden: 1620 December 9

28 Acute Ontological Discombobulation December 2

27 A Heated Hand of Whiskers Six-Draw November 25

26 Musical Kibble Day November 18

25 A Free Radiophonic Vaccination November 11

24 A Special Amalgam of Molecularly Homogenized Tunes November 4

23 The Unadulterated History of the New World, Chapter 2 October 28

22 The Unadulterated History of the New World, Chapter 1 October 21

21 Alaska Day October 14

20 Margaret Fox October 7

19 Music for Golf September 30

18 Bel Canto ("With Food") September 23

17 The Prince of Acrylics September 16

16 The Feast of Things Short September 9

15 The Galvano-Soddy Theory September 2

14 Muffins & Marionettes August 26

13 The Intermuse August 19

12 Be Kind to Academics Day August 12

11 War & Peace August 5

10 The Grammatical Willies July 29

9 The Pilgrims Leave Holland July 22

8 The Mukluk July 15

7 Peter the Hermit July 8

6 This Was Woodstock? July 1

5 Music in Spite of Johns June 24

4 Do It Yourself/Duet Yourself June 17