Sometimes, disparate elements come together unexpectedly well. In the early '90s, I created the following announcement for my answering machine:
KRJY newscast excerpt: The town of Columbia, Missouri has been ranked number five on Money Magazine's list of the nation's best places to live.
Me (with Art Of Noise's "Close (To The Edit)" in the background:) How about that? We were living right in the lap of luxury, and we didn't even know it. Well, the scholars of room 708 don't take any rash statement at face value, so we've set off to cruise the countryside. We're going to ramble through the amber waves of grain and then come back and tell you where Columbia really stacks up. It'll be a long trip, and we have no idea when we'll return...
Actually, Columbia, Missouri was--and, I'm sure, still is--a nice place to live. Money's fifth place ranking of the town was probably pretty accurate.
