The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

kinda sick of death right now though


Cancer really still sucks

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Tremendous radio today...lots of great drops, he had a solid sense of humor...and the playlist is top-notch...just don't understand why they can't play this music every day...

regardless, it's solid and genuine


(Personal note, the fact that I spent all day yesterday at an Irish wake for my favorite uncle just saturates the whole damn vibe)

Yeah, I had no idea this guy was St. Lin of Brehmer. It's pretty cool that he left such a giant impression on Chicago.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Listened to tribute today and music was very good. The other thing I noticed is he had not mentioned Mary Dixon since she got fired and she was not mentioned today. Did they have a fallout after she got deservedly canned as I got tired of her liberal biased newscasts. Probably the only person who didnt consider him the best friend in the whole world.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

If you grew up in Chicago and are of a certain age chances are pretty good you listened to him every morning while getting ready for school or work and on the way in. He was a lot of peoples start to the day. I never cared for alarms. I used my radio shack amfm clock radio on the radio function instead of the alarm function, and if I didn't fall asleep listening to a hawks game on the radio, Lin woke me up.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I am not a morning music guy. It was Dahl, then Brandmeier, and then Stern. After that, it was the Score. I've always knew of the guy, just like I knew Sky Daniels.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Tremendous radio today...lots of great drops, he had a solid sense of humor...and the playlist is top-notch...just don't understand why they can't play this music every day...

regardless, it's solid and genuine


(Personal note, the fact that I spent all day yesterday at an Irish wake for my favorite uncle just saturates the whole damn vibe)

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

Yeah, I had no idea this guy was St. Lin of Brehmer. It's pretty cool that he left such a giant impression on Chicago.

Either one of those phonies muster this kind of energy up for Grobber ? A guy they actually worked with?

She was let go in a cost cutting move.

WBEZ host and former on-air partner Mary Dixon: "I worked with Lin for the better part of 28 years. He loved rock and roll, the listeners, and most of all, [wife] Sara and [son] Wilson."

"I learned a lot from Lin: how to connect music with current events, how to treat listeners with kindness, the beauty of a baseball game with an off-speed pitcher on the mound. I taught him how to floss."
"I loved him like a brother you sometimes want to strangle."
"I'm on my first real vacation in four years and will miss a [Sunday] gathering ... to share some drinks, memories and songs in Lin's honor. My request in absentia is Wilco's 'Box Full of Letters.'"

His listeners were mostly educated north-side urbanites (and suburbanites who drink Goose Island and still make it back in to see Wilco at the Vic) and local media members, both of whom seem to have an outsize role in determining who gets to be the Chicagoest Chicagoan. I mean, if we're talking about iconic Chicago morning shows of the '90s and 2000s (and sure, why not, 2010s), the first names that come to mind for most people are going to be, sadly, Eric & Kathy, Eddie & JoBo, and Mancow. But they all sucked. Lin was actually good, one of the best, but if you weren't really keyed into local arts/music/culture or didn't have parents who could've been in The Big Chill, I don't think he really meant much to your conception of Chicago. And even if Eric didn't make the women he worked with blow him in the broom closet, I don't think his death would make the front page of the WBEZ-owned Sun-Times.

She was let go in a cost cutting move.

WBEZ host and former on-air partner Mary Dixon: "I worked with Lin for the better part of 28 years. He loved rock and roll, the listeners, and most of all, [wife] Sara and [son] Wilson."

"I learned a lot from Lin: how to connect music with current events, how to treat listeners with kindness, the beauty of a baseball game with an off-speed pitcher on the mound. I taught him how to floss."
"I loved him like a brother you sometimes want to strangle."
"I'm on my first real vacation in four years and will miss a [Sunday] gathering ... to share some drinks, memories and songs in Lin's honor. My request in absentia is Wilco's 'Box Full of Letters.'"

Seems like, all things considered, as nice remarks as can be expected. I only listened occasionally, but he seemed like a really good guy.

If I worked that closely with someone for 28 years I'd be hoping for a little more than "Hey, I'm on vacation, but do me a favor and play some Wilco."

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

If I worked that closely with someone for 28 years I'd be hoping for a little more than "Hey, I'm on vacation, but do me a favor and play some Wilco."

She did say more, you just chose not to quote it.

MANY big egos in the media. Like MANY in the media, Mary Dixon is her own biggest fan.

And she has her dream job now. So, I think she's good.

I had no beef with him. His show was fine. "Lin's Bin" was usually pretty good and occasionally brilliant.

But, I don't really consider him a "Chicago guy." He's an East Coast dude who came here for work. When he thought he had a better job he moved to Minnesota.

Putting on a Cubs cap and going to FitzGerald's doesn't make you a Chicagoan. That's not a knock on a guy who just died. Not everyone has to be a "Chicago guy."

There is no specific litmus test for being a what I consider a "Chicago guy." You don't have to be born here. You don't even have to be a guy. Terri Hemmert is a "Chicago guy."

It's amazing how much homosexuality can be packed into a single post.

I’m of the opinion that if she’s still bitter, it would’ve been easier to simply state something as empty as “it’s a great loss and he will be sorely missed”. Either way, I don’t remember any other radio guy passing away and such across the board love being so readily expressed.

Judging by her Twitter feed she sure seems to have an inflated opinion of herself and just how important reading news a couple times an hour was. See, Quivers Robin

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

She did say more, you just chose not to quote it.

Prostate too, you usually beat that

Nevertheless, someone on Channel 9 yesterday said he was "a lifelong Cubs fan," and I was like, yeah, that could have been a careless slip of the tongue, but it was more likely just sloppy thinking.

I’m of the opinion that if she’s still bitter, it would’ve been easier to simply state something as empty as “it’s a great loss and he will be sorely missed”.

First, Mary Dixon was shut out of WXRT-FM 93.1′s annual broadcast of the Cubs home opener, even though she had been part of the station’s lineup for years. Then her morning newscasts were reduced by half, a move accompanied by a pay cut of nearly 40%.

Finally, in 2019, she was escorted to her shared office and offered a box for her stuff. She was being laid off.

The Audacy rock station later issued a statement about staffing changes, which also saw Dixon’s longtime morning co-host, Lin Brehmer, move to middays. At the end of the statement was this line: “With these shifts, current morning news anchor Mary Dixon will depart the station.”

“I had been at XRT on and off for 28 years,” Dixon told the Tribune. “And that was what (boss Greg Solk) thought of me, one line at the end of a very long press release.”

. . .

Within a year of Solk’s arrival, Dixon said, she found herself the only woman in the room for meetings. Dixon, who started working for XRT as a reporter in 1991, told the Tribune: “It had been a long time since I had felt that kind of exclusion, and to feel it in 2017, 2018, 2019, it was especially painful. I just thought we had come further than that.”

Dixon said that in 2017 she chose Solk’s pay cut offer instead of a layoff with 12 weeks’ severance because she needed health insurance for herself; her husband, Mark Caro, a former Tribune reporter; and their two daughters. The frequency of her newscasts was cut in half; she was allowed to come to work 15 minutes later; and the pay cut was implemented over six months.

Dixon said she felt frustrated and powerless when, by her account, Solk told her in 2019 not to be in the main studio after 9 a.m. “because he said I was distracting Lin.” Brehmer, her on-air partner for more than two decades, confirmed to the Tribune that Dixon was not allowed in the studio after that time. Dixon said she felt like she was no longer part of the team.

It had become clear “that this was not going to work for me,” Dixon said in a phone interview. “I was walking into the building every day with a boss who did not understand what I was doing there.”

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.