The Power Play List is just after we changed from 96x to Power96 and I was one of the fortunate part timers that were kept on staff, everyone else that was with the station from Day 1 as 96x such as my very good friend Stuart Elliott whom I credit with starting my radio career were all let go. I actually used to deliver these play lists to all the local Miami record stores until we opted to just drop them entirely in early 1987.

I was with the station from late 85 to early 87 when I went back to club work, I only came back to radio in 1992 after running into Bill Tanner at Ace Music in Miami where he gave me the lead on going back to radio and I landed a job at Waxy 106 Miami.

The 2nd picture was from our 1st time in the Coconut Grove Bed Race in 1986, we painted and prepped the bed at my house in North Miami the team was (L-R myself, Mike Ritter (bottom center), Mark Moseley (top center) and Stuart Elliott, we lost to WSHE that day and the bed was used 1 more time the following year at the new Ft. Lauderdale Bed Race where we again lost to WSHE, in all fairness it was their event.

Enjoy!

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A couple of days ago I deleted my Myspace profile, I did it because I don’t visit it anymore, it’s so very 2005 and most importantly I wanted to show myself how easy it is to erase the past. Gone are my jabs at the two hypocrites who mutilated Don Imus’ radio career (Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton), gone is my quest to Free Mumia (Google it), and let’s not forget the Opie & Anthony Baby Bird video. They are all gone, the page is history, never to be seen again and I feel good about it.

On the web you can erase things, you can wipe things out, you can re-write history (Wikipedia), you can be a totally different person than who you really are and when the right time comes, press DELETE and it’s all gone. In life however you can’t press delete, there are no do-overs, so we deal with the issues, we deal with the past, it comes back to bother and annoy us sometimes over and over again (check out the-DDR) and we go on, get strong, get old and hope that in the end we have no regrets.

One of my favorite motto’s is that “In life the world is a stage (familiar huh) but I added, that this isn’t a dress rehearsal”. You only get one shot to make this work, for some they figure it out quick, I like to think that I did and for others, they never seem to get it.

My entire life has felt like I’ve taken 2 steps forward and 1 step backwards, every single day.

I remember when I purchased my first ham radio, found out there was a modification to make it work in other bands, did the mod and blew it up, best 600 dollars that I ever spent, twice, in two days! I have memories where this was the case so many times, I would wait to get a new toy and it was broken before I really ever had a chance to enjoy it. I recall flying a model airplane with my dad in NY, having it get stuck in a tree and being such a prick to him to get it down that when he finally did get it for me, he broke it in half to teach me humility. I’ve struggled for years with the way that I treated my parents, being adopted and not giving them a chance after I found that fact out, I was a real prick of a son, but I know that despite that, they loved me.

I have a few regrets in my life, I regret my being so non-committal to my one true love that she will always be the one that got away (SCB) and doing it again a few years later (KT) only to find out that my block with KT was due to not being able to erase SCB.

Now years later after swearing that I would live my life to the fullest and enjoy it despite all it’s challenges I find that I seem to keep taking more and more steps back and not many forward. I wish that I could press the delete key and get to do it over but you can’t and in fact I don’t think that I would. With the exception of one particularly dark time in my life (again see the-DDR) I love what I’ve done and where I’ve been and who I’ve been with.

I don’t intend to and never have taken down any pictures on this site from the past, I may no longer be with individuals pictured on this site, but the pictures that are here chronicle my life and I wish that I had more pictures from my life, earlier on and further back, but for many years I was not happy with myself, I was not confident with my looks and actually didn’t get comfortable with who I am today until I was almost 30, but for that I have no regrets.

This site has evolved somewhat over the last year in particular, it’s really become more about a little girl that I would do anything for just to keep her innocent to this world that is so harsh and has treated so many, so badly. I don’t plan on taking down any pictures as my relationships change, I can’t delete the past so I won’t delete what’s posted here.

It was once explained to me that the Japanese chronicle their lives in their pictures and movies, the joke was always how they always have a camera and are taking pictures, the reality is that they are preserving memories for future generations to see. I love that mentality, I adopted that when I started this site a few years ago and I see now where it’s even more important to maintain that approach to life and chronicle the past, not delete it.

Miguel Lombana – BTW, I hear Wisconsin is wonderful this time of year!