The past few weeks have introduced yet another flood of email inquiries to PDX.FM from people wanting expecting to be able to instantly come on in and broadcast their big bright ideas. Maybe it's my extremely piss poor marketing skills, or maybe it's because I just don't have the fucking time to write novels to explain every goddamn little thing in my head, but somehow our message got a little lost along the way.

PDX.FM is paid for by me. I pay for it. There are no grants or investors – that's nothing but a headache for what we're trying to do. As such, because the whole damn thing is privately funded (by me, did I mention that?), I don't owe anyone anything and I don't have to broadcast anything that I don't want to.

There, I said it.

PDX.FM is meant to be talk radio for the community of Portland, Oregon. Those of us that are broadcasting our shows love this city and we love living in the Pacific Northwest. That's it. That's the "community" in our brand of "community radio", and because all of this comes out of my pocket, I can keep it that way if I want to.

A local (ahem) businesswoman wrote to me earlier this week and said that I am "abusing the name PDX.FM because you are not allowing fair representation of Portland programming" - in other words she sent a demo that consisted of her talking about how great she is at social media and how she has bitchin' web skillz and I informed her that we weren't interested in giving her a slot. So I'm abusing the name PDX.FM? Really? As if I should immediately disregard the fact that it's my domain that I paid for and instantly let her belch thirty minutes of self-serving dreck at our listeners every week because she feels that makes the whole thing a little more community-oriented?

Fuck you. Try that over at any of the network affiliates and see how far you get. Oh wait, you already did, you told me as much and then told me that they didn't even email you back to tell you "no".

I guess maybe they aren't very community oriented either huh? Welcome to modern media honey, maybe you should get a yellow pages ad or something.