Untitled Number Twenty Six (recap)

Heard on this weeks show:

• It's Summertime - The Flaming Lips
• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus
• Tim Russert in the wind - Caleb Bullen
• The Glory of Love - Lenny Dee
• Kiss Me On My Neck - Erykah Badu

Treyf Bagels - For some reason in the cafeteria where I used to work, the bagels tasted like bacon half the time. Always struck me as odd.

Philosophy Corps - This one just kind of popped out of my head. Not sure why.

Candle in the Wind - I'm sorry if this is offensive. I admit it is ironic that I start the show with "don't be a dick" and then have this but its really about the media orgy not about the guy himself who seemed okay.

Coitus System - I saw Coitus as a last name... actually it might have been something similar like Coilus or Cortus and it hit me like it would be a fabulously bad name for Abstinence Only Education. Add that to some Benny Hill rip off double entendre, and you have yourself a bit. WHOO!

Porn, free speech, the law, and religion.

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Computer Blues (recap)

Heard on this show:

• Paris Texas - Ry Cooder

• Travelling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson

• Too Young To Know - Muddy Waters

I'm sorry but I don't have any really interesting stories about how any of these things came about. Except that Bill Appleton, I think, is the real name of a consultant. I could be wrong.

Love Fest (recap)

Heard on this week's show:

• Thank You (falletinme be mice elf) - Sly and the Family Stone
• Pennies From Heaven - Oscar Peterson
• For a Few Dollars More - Ennio Morricone
• You've Got a Friend in Me - Randy Newman
• Darn That Dream - Thelonious Monk
• The End Of The World - Caleb Bullen

Brisman and Moyle - this just came from seeing an ad about creditor harassment which is technically the opposite of what it sounds like. I suppose the other approach would've been stop child abuse and have a child beating the hell out of a parent

Chew Bubblegum - I think this one speaks for itself no?

Rapture - this one does too. I just think the end of the world is funny

Economixxx - because "stimulus package" sounds dirty.

How old is he?

Coming up on this weekend's show:

• That dirty economy
• Credit
• Much Much More?

Ladies and gentlemen can I ask a favor of you in the general election? Don't mock John McCain for being old. I know, we've all got a million old jokes that we're tempted to dust off and fling at him but his age isn't the bad part about him.

Go after him for not knowing the Shia from Shinola. Go after him for thinking women aren't to be trusted with decisions about their own bodies. Go after him for the savings and loan scandal, fighting against following the terrorist's money trail, or his role in the current economic problems. Go after him for reversing his position on torture.

There's no need to impugn the man for such a silly thing as growing older than the rest of us when there's so much in his record to impugn him on.

The Nicest Rooms In Hell (recap)

What? A return to blogging? Hell, I'm unemployed. I can't say I don't have time for it.

I think this show mostly comes from an idea I think I had when I heard an episode of This American Life about the Christians who were trying to breed a pure red(?) calf or bull or something. Anyway, it's one of the things that is required to bring about the second coming.

I started thinking about how that would go and came up with this basic plot but it had a million other little side plots that would all converge into the rapture and all that. It's such a weird part of organized religion, I'm always fascinated by that.

A few weeks ago I heard that song 'Hoedown' and thought it was perfect hold music and started talking over it, and suddenly running the story through the filter of explaining that history over the phone. The older I get the more I get the message that a ton of the story can be left untold. When you cut out all those extraneous details, it gets better. The part that's rough is a lot of the time you do have to have the details in your mind to make the other bits work.

Anyway big props to Daphne Abernathy www.daphneabernathy.com and Laurence Simon www.podcasting.isfullofcrap.com and Anima Zabaleta for taking part!