DNTO will whack your neighbour for you
DNTO‘s pop culture professor and neurotic jock, Nick Purdon, is working on a brand new radio show — and he needs your help!
But first, some background. The show is called “Hidden City,” and it willl air this summer on CBC Radio One. The idea is to explore the hidden things — unwritten rules, behaviours and activities that most of us don’t notice but are integral to life in the city. It is about exploring the life of that unique human creature known as the “urbanoid.”
One of his episodes is about noise in the city, and he’s interested in exploring it at the micro-level — as in, the noise that drives neighbours crazy. So he and his production team are looking for people who are currently at war with a neighbour about loud music, barking dogs, shrieking kids, or any of the gazillions of noises that drive the modern urban dweller batty. They want people who’ve been feuding for a while. People who’ve tried to reach out to their neighbour, to no avail. People who are at their wit’s end.
Do you know of such a person (or maybe it’s you!)? Email Sara Tate at sara_tate@cbc.ca with the subject line “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!!”
* Note: The term “whack,” of course, coming from the Latin whackus, meaning “to air a radio story about.” Has nothing to do with mobsters.
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There’s a member of a biker gang who lives a couple of trailers down from me (not literally trailers, you get the picture.) He comes home every summer day at 4:30 PM and blasts, I mean BLASTS The Best of Bob Segar (1 CD), and repeats the entire album two to three times before retiring to his couch. I was indifferent to Bob Segar before, but now I loath him.
But what am I going to do, complain?