Our old stove stopped working. We bought a new stove. The new stove has all the mod cons: a central burner, quick boil, slow simmer, a working oven light, and (most importantly for our discussion today) a digitally controlled oven. It's a gas range, so there's a pilot light or whatever, but the oven itself is controlled by the digital button thing; turning on the oven is a lot like setting the clock on a VCR. (Aside: are we at the point where a VCR reference is similar to a CB radio reference or something? Is it outdated? Thoughts?) Anyway. I was making a faux-chicken casserole today and, when I went to turn on the oven, I was met with a horrific beeping and the flashing (and cryptic) message: "F30." What the hell? When did ovens start issuing error messages? When did my oven turn into a laptop? I had to call customer support. For my fucking stove. A very nice Indian woman told me that I had to recalibrate my thermal imaging receptor with a dual-noded flux capacitor (or something). They're sending a technician. To fix my stove. Couldn't I just light a match?
All this to complain about being on hold. I was on the phone with Frigidaire support for thirty something minutes. I'd guesstimate that I was on hold for twenty. I heard a significant portion of the John Tesh back catalog. It's the twenty-first century. Do I really need elevator music to tell me that I'm on hold? Everybody's phone is a damn ipod. Couldn't the customer service people just let me play my own shit? I'm on hold, but I'm grooving on my own tunes. Let's get on this. If we have any readers in call centers, tell your programming dude to make this happen. It's best for all of us.
Today, had I had the choice, I would have played the new Moondoggies track while waiting to hear that my stove required the attention of a cat with a PhD in particle physics. We've been on the Moondoggies bandwagon since 2008's Don't Be a Stranger. We're on the record as endorsing "Changin'" as a pantheon quality old-school jam. This new track is mellow, but with the harmonies and punchy southern kick that we've come to love. Moondoggies are all over the country this summer; we'll assume they're a solid live act. "Fly Mama Fly" comes from a soon to be released five-song EP. We'll be stoked to hear the rest (and the full length sophomore effort in September).
