Live Oak Blues What happens.

Typically, when I do these “year” shows I struggle to fill two hours with, for want of a better word, “good” music. Michael Jackson was a no-go for 1987, as was 10cc for 1975, for instance. No such issue for this week’s 1994, the brilliant suggestion of a “Left Of The Dial” listener. Kurt Cobain sure picked a bad time to check out, because I can’t think of a more rich, imaginative, varied, and prolific year for music than 1994. With solid outings by Pavement, Sebadoh, Elliott Smith, and Archers Of Loaf and hip hop never sounding better with Digable Planets’ finest and Outkast’s first, was this postmodernmusic’s Annus Mirabilis? Tune in tomorrow from 3 to 5 Eastern to find out. (Grow Radio).

Among The Airboats And Garfish

Airboats own the south end of Lake George. Clearly, we were the interlopers and took our lives into own hands when we crossed the channel at the end of the St. John’s. Below the surface, it’s all about the prehistoric garfish, one of whose skulls I proudly display on my patio table. They are everywhere, some up to 5′ long, jumping out the water, prowling the eelgrass. I always forget, but once you get out on a lake of large size, there ain’t much to do. In the case of Lake George, the abundant shoreline is nearly unapproachable, as it shallows out 100 feet away. But what better day than this to overdo it in the sun? Alligator update: they have now made it out of hibernation in full. We saw at least two not too far away from us…and yes they eat garfish.