KCSB, in many ways, is like the land of misfit toys when it comes to the folks on our air waves. I’ll often look around during our staff meetings and wonder how such different personality types ended up in the same room. And I take great pride in working at a place with such personalities - most of the time, anyway. Tom “Gene Pool” Borghi fit in perfectly. One of KCSB’s dearest programmers, he passed away from lung cancer last week. The Daily Nexus ran a nice article on his passing.
Tom was a really great guy, and while it’s common to say all sorts of nice things about someone after they’re gone, nice things really did apply to the Tom Borghi I knew.
I tried to talk Tom into writing a book on music. I was sure the rest of the world would appreciate his take as much as the folks at KCSB did - but he constantly respond with, “Who would care to read anything I wrote?”. Insecurity, humility - may be both and much more prevented him from taking it seriously. I just wished it would have happened. There was just too much knowledge and unique perspective - and the driest of wits - to not share with the rest of the world. Save for the recordings of his radio show, all of that is now lost.
At least I have the memory of a truely great and amazing individual. Goodbye, Tom. I’ll miss you.
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