Ray Lytle's Morning Disaster

Recently two friends of mine who were at one time super close, stopped talking. These two were not only friends but neighbors who would spend Sundays watching movies, eating together, helping each other when drunk, walking pets for each other, covering for each other, and helping each other in every way. These two close friends now have strain in their relationship and are currently not speaking because of something that has potential to be the big evil in all our lives. That thing is.... FACEBOOK. That's right it's Facebook. Good ole FB. It seems one of the two friends has bothered the other by incessantly commenting on their posts. The comments are long and drawn out and end up hogging or hijacking the entire comments section. It seems friend A who does the commenting doesn't realize that they are taking over Friend B's page with their comments making the original status seem insignificant compared to the comment. Friend A has always done this though and it's nev...

With the ease of Facebook and twitter I find that I apply most of my thought and humor into 140 words or less. By doing this I have all but forgotten the joy I would get from actually creating Paragraphs of what was considered by me and at least some of you as entertainment. I have found that the thought of sitting down and writing a blog seems more taxing than it used to be. Is it the aforementioned Twitter and Facebook that is causing this? Then I start to think... Does it have anything to do with the downturn in the amount of folks who take the time to read the paper? Everyone seems to think that the ease for finding news on the internet has made people not get the newspaper but maybe it is the inability to understand any form of complex or pseudo complex thought or God forbid, sentence structure. Of course I say that as someone who rarely displays complex thought or proper sentence structure. I wonder if the Twitter and Facebook's are helping to create adults with an even small...

Ray...What is it you really want in life?.... I hear that all the time. Everyone seems to think I am not enjoying my time of just being a husband and father. After waking up at 430 int he morning for 20 years and napping all afternoon and doing remote appearances every weekend I needed this break that I've been on. I know it wont be long before I have to get back into that grind of doing a high profile drive time radio show. But still everyone asks WHAT DO YOU WANT IN LIFE? Now when people have asked me that question I believe they were looking for something more introspective or perhaps they were trying to bring me out my career speed bump and get me back to thinking about going back to work full time or whatever. I however looked at the question and started thinking.... Hmmm What is it I really would want in life. What is it I really want? And then I started compiling this list... THING I WANT NUMBER ONE LARRY SANDERS COMPLETE SERIES DVD SET Garry Shandling to get off his ass and...

My thoughts on Current Rock Radio Mornings from My twitter Ramble this morning.... I'm up early listening to mobile feeds of the employed morning radio jocks on rock radio, so now I know why radio is in the shitter. Radio is the only business where intentionally there are some truly talented individuals that are not allowed to work at entertaining listeners because they dont play the asskiss game. Meanwhile asskissers have risen to the top all at the cost of truly entertaining radio. When it comes to Rock radio, Listeners are leaving in droves because there is no one talented enough to make them want to put down the ipod and listen every morning and that lack of the dedicated fan who listens for more than an hour at a time is hurting radio. But Thank God there are morning guys that attend station functions, play golf with the boss, agree with sales people and still find time to help ruin the industry. The problem however is not with the morning Radio guys. You are who you are. You ...

There they are! The reason I have trouble sleeping sometimes. The reason I am often annoyed when things seem to be going well. The reason I am slowly being driven crazy... My dogs Tongues! That's right.. their tongues. They wont stop. It's unending! They are constantly licking their faces, their paws, their legs, their noses, and eachothers ears, eachother's rear ends (which is totally disgusting). They also lick the floor, the dog beds, the sheets on our bed, the couch, the carpet, their dog dishes, our plates, even the very computer keyboard I am using right now. They just wont stop licking. Try sleeping with the slurp slurp slurp, lop lop lop, They just keep going. Their tongues are like the Energizer bunny (as dated as that now seems). They get in the bed and the licking begins. I have noticed the licking happening even while they seem to be asleep. Licking in your sleep- this just seems so wrong but yet my dogs find a way to do it. Of course the licking is somehow for ...

It is almost the weekend. YAY!!! It feels like I actually worked this week. The new show is a blAST! It is also a lot of work. Dont get me wrong it's fun work. It's kind of like working in a strip club or in the porn industry or being a lifeguard at a pool where rich girls are members. In other words it's a lot of work but you have a good time doing it. I am surprisingly keeeping a pretty good sleep schedule too. It is a little weird going to sleep at 3am but then again I a guy who only needs about 6 hours a sleep..tops. Anything more than that and I feel like crap. In fact I am used to getting about 4 hours a sleep a night so the extra 2 hours is actually kind of cool. I do miss not seeing my wife every morning before she leaves for work and this weird thing has happened where I actually get the chance to dress in the morning with the lights on which is something I could not do for 20 years. SO that's kind of cool. This weekend I am planning on checking out Land of the...

Well the first one is done. Show number one. Last night I debuted BREAKING CURFEW with Ray Lytle. Its been over 20 years since I did a show that runs overnights. This show is running midnight to 3a on the east coast and it does surprise me that people actually stayed up to listen. I am still trying to figure it all out. When I last did overnight shift in radio I was a single 20 year old punk who would have done anything to be on the radio. Now I am a 42 year old husband and father of a 7 year old daughter. A daughter who's bedroom happens to be right next door to the home studio that I use to do this show that is live when she sleeps. So far she has not woken up by my loud voice. Thank God. I am now trying to figure out things I didnt think about when I decided to do this show. Important things like SEX! That's right SEX. How do I get my USDA reccomended amount when I am in the studio instead of the bedroom. You' d think that would be something we would've worked out be...

There is nothing like having the ability to post to your Blog from your mobile phone. Its one of the reasons Twitter is so popular and now I have ig available on my Blog. For years people have hypothesized that a man does his best thinking while on the toilet. Aweel, you guys who read this blog are going to find out if that's true or not because I like to text while I am doing my business. That is unless the playboy, sporting news. Sports weekly has appeared in the mail. Or if DC comics ever put out part 4 of the Legion mini series that is now 4 months late. Oh well... Got to wipe. Later folks

You know I always tell myself that I have to write a blog. Almost everyday at some point during the day I say " Oh Crap! I forgot to write one." Well, today is the day that I do more than remember. I actually am taking the time to write one. You see I figured out the solution to my "always remembering but never doing" problem. I figured it out by my new way of looking at every problem. The new way is the Ray dissection technique or "RAYSSECTION" as I call it. It turns out that you don't dissect the problem to get to the root of it you dissect the remembering of the problem and that's how you fix it. What I did was I came to the conclusion that I always remembered to write my blog when I was busy playing my video games or watching a movie or hanging out with my daughter or walking the dog. In other words I realized that I was needing to do something that I have to do, while I was doing something I enjoyed. Let's face it nobody likes doing things...

So I know I took a week off from posting any pics or writing anything. I needed a break to get a bunch of stuff done and I didnt want to write anything stupid about my situation until I knew 100 percent what I was planning on doing. I bet you can guess some of the questions that have come my way in the last couple of weeks. I will eventually get around to answering them but my best advice for those of you that need answers is to listen to the daily show on www.chubbyray.com Thats because as much as I say I am not gonna talk about stuff I always end up talking about stuff on the show. It is just sometimes easier to let my emotions flow in the moment than it is to write them down. The bottom line is I AM HAPPY. I mean seriously people I pride myself on being a professional but I think as much as I tried my hardest to conceal my unhappiness in my last job I think most people could tell that it wasnt working out. I dont want to get into all of it but to make a long story short.... I ...

I told my wife good news and bad news tonight. The bad news is I am no where near ready to work. The good news is I did actually start on my demo tape. That's right. I have been using a half ass demo tape that took only a couple of hours to put together. It was the tape that I used to get the Miami interview on the job I was eventually fucked out of. This current demo I am working on is actually more of what I am about. I am not going to get into the demo and the process or even what it features that's not the point. The point is that I am actually ready to start putting it together. That means I am getting closer to doing a show again.. as least I think thats what it means. I havent even made it over to the unemployment office yet. I would really like to get some unemployment. I have never gotten it before. It seems like something that is so "only American" that we should all experience it. It is funny though that I have been too lazy to actually apply for the free m...

Can you imagine? You get on the road in your car to escape the hurricane. You think you are home free and then...the road breaks apart. No sandbag is gonna keep that water from destroying your home. This is a fine idea until you have to piss. Try balancing yourself on that styrofoam buddy. Better to just risk the rash and warm the pants. This is why I have vowed to lose weight if I move to an area in any kind of potential flooding area. I want to make sure that the helicopter can lift my fat ass off of my house just in case. Seriously though. This is a horrible tragedy. These people who were just trying to live their lives are now dying by the hundreds simply because of a really bad storm. Why in the fuck did the people running this city not realize that this could happen? It is shaped like a bowl for Gods sake. it has no flood wall. The saddest part is the people who cant afford to live north of the city (the nice part) are the ones who couldnt get out and are dying. Very Sad. I did ...

I was out running around today and the same question seems to keep coming up. "where you going?" the answer is I DONT KNOW . I keep telling myself and everyone around me that I will get serious about the job search soon but to be honest I am having too much fun doing nothing. This is amazing! I am having the time of my life. I have been on a couple of job interviews since my last show on WQLZ and they went okay but to be honest if either place would have thrown a contract down on the table and asked me to sign and start next week I would have to say NO. I am just not ready to go back to work. I told myself that I will come back when I miss it and to be honest right now I just dont miss it. I was really burnt out from the last few years and I think taking a break is a smart thing to do. Besides I still havent decided where I want to live. I was blaming the size of Springfield for all of my unhappiness but I think it was a lot of other factors that made me unhappy. In the last ...