The Future Mr. Ace

Ok, that title is much funnier when I say it with my real name. But I don't want to. So there.

Anyways, here's a news story that another site (link below) had that celebrates the wonder that is Don Geronimo (whom I love):

"DCRTV's Person Of The Year: Don Geronimo - 12/27 - At the end of each year, DCRTV picks one or several folks to be our "Person/People Of The Year." Someone who's had a big impact - for better or worse - on the local media scene. This year, the choice was easy. Probably the most illuminatingly "truthful" voice on the radio dial - WJFK-FM's Don Geronimo (aka Michael Sorce). We've heard he's painfully shy in private life, but get him behind a microphone and he opens up and lets it flow. For 20 years, with his radio partner Mike O'Meara, Geronimo has shared with DC area radio listeners just about everything - from the pet peeves of day-to-day life to the raging, somewhat petty wrath for his mortal enemies in the radio biz. And he has let us all share in his family life, including his marriage to Freda and the raising of their son, Bart, now a college student. Freda's death last summer in a car accident caused many to speculate that it would also be the end of Geronimo's radio career. How could he ever come back to do his show again - at least like it was, we wondered. But Geronimo did. No, it wasn't easy. For him or his listeners. Hearing about his trip to the Baltimore ER to see Freda's still life-supported body. Or his tales about run-ins with telemarketers who still call Don's house and ask for Freda. But it was "real" radio. Especially on August 1, 2005 when Geronimo delivered a stunningly heartfelt monologue on his first day back after Freda's death. Yeah, it's no secret that not everyone likes Don Geronimo. We hear the criticism. He's a blowhard, a pompous gasbag, he's over-the-hill, he's a hack. Yet, too much of radio these days is pre-fab, consultant-driven crap. Boring and bland. Corporate. But, Don Geromino lets it all hang loose - heart and soul, flesh and blood, the current WJFK program director be damned. Geronimo, whose head contains an encyclopedia-like history of the past three-plus decades of DC area TV and radio, brings to our radio airwaves a refreshing, powerful, brutal honesty. Yeah, perhaps he'll never be a big nationally-known superstar, but when it comes to DC area radio - it doesn't get any bigger and brighter than Don Geronimo."

For those who want to hear the August 1 show--ok, for maybe the two of you who want to--go to this site. You have to scroll down, but it is well worth it. Have the tissues ready. Unless you're all manly and stuff. Oh, and before you get to the sad part, look at the pictures that Keith has up of baby porcupines and try not to laugh. Two words: Im and possible.