Nickel City Parents: Becoming Famous, in a very slow way.

I was listening to the first episode of the new season of Spark on CBC this Wednesday, and Michelle Parise read my Facebook comment aloud, on the air! My name was mentioned, and finally, my words sounded somewhat intelligent. You see, this is not the first time I have had an email read on CBC. It is all part of my master plan to become famous by having CBC hosts read my comments on air.

The last time was a few years ago on a program called Freestyle. They must not have had many people write in because my email was not very good. It was too long, and rambling. No one bothered to edit it before it was read. I cringed, as I heard it come over the airwaves. In this particular email, I was reminiscing about the 90s. Kelly Ryan read it during the afternoon radio program. Maybe it was picked because I mentioned yet another CBC program called Realtime, with Leora Kornfeld.

Realtime was this amazing show from the mid 90s. They would often ask opinions, or have polls, and listeners could call in, or email their answers. This was when all I used was my university email account, before Hotmail and the other web-based email formats. I used to participate quite regularly. It was kind of like posting a comment on someone's Facebook status, or tweeting a reply, but in this case, the question would be asked over the air, via radio, and the comment would be the email. In fact, when I finally called into the show, they recognized my name from my weekly responses.

Once again, 15 years later, I heard my name mentioned on a national CBC radio program. It is fitting because Spark is all about technology, and society, and what's on the cutting edge, and Realtime was a pioneer for using Internet chat, and email to interact with the listeners. Now, I just have to keep up the regular comments to Spark, to continue getting noticed.