The Morning Mixtape: Roller Derby

Letter Havoc, Em Munition and Zombabe talk about two upcoming roller derby events: The Happy Valley Dolls vs The Pennsylvania All-Squares on 9/23, and the State College Area Roller Derby recruitment event on 9/24. Find out more at http://scarderby.com.

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Jason Crane Jason Crane is the host of The Morning Mixtape on 98.7 The FREQ (http://987thefreq.com/), a music and interview show on a radio station in State College, PA. He also produces The Jazz Session podcast (http://thejazzsession.com/) and the First Laughs podcast (http://firstlaughs.com/); works as a saxophonist and a stand-up comedian; and helps to raise two sons. In 2011, the Los Angeles Times named Jason one of 25 arts and culture people to follow on Twitter (http://twitter.com/jasondcrane). Jason’s first collection of poems, Unexpected Sunlight (FootHills Publishing), was published in 2010 and is available at http://jasoncrane.org/store. His work has been published in many places, including Blue Collar Review, qarrtsiluni , Meat For Tea, State of Emergency: Chicago Poets Address The Gulf Crisis, and Poets For Living Waters. Over the years, Jason has worked as a grocery stock clerk, cashier, bank teller, waiter, professional musician, radio announcer, television/radio script writer, Web site editor, newspaper and wire-service copy editor, radio reporter, newspaper page designer, union organizer, nonprofit development director, radio station manager, talk show host, stay-at-home dad, union organizing director, union representative, communications/public relations specialist, bookstore manager, and podcast producer/host. Jason has moved more than 30 times to lots of different places, including Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Alabama and Japan. More posts by this author