Heard on this week's show:
Crazy Rap - Afroman
The Brothers go to Mothers - Henry Mancini
Balls - Andrew Calhoun
Amsl's Song - Caleb Bullen
The Angina Monologues - I know, it's a really REALLY cheap joke. Get used to it. The show's full of them
John the Regulator - This song has been stuck in my head for a while and I couldn't stop singing it after the debate. But I didn't want to focus the whole show on politics again because I think a lot of people are just sick of politics at this point
Dick Randy - This was the way to change the theme of the show from politics to dirty jokes. This popped into my head as a concept when I watched an old episode of Lou Grant and they had issues with someone trying to censor theatre to adhere to 'Community Standards'. I couldn't help but wonder what the internet community's standard would be
Organ Emporium - If you're going to fill a show with dirty jokes, you can't go wrong with Big Organ jokes.
Pac 10's and 527s - I was talking with Anima Zabaleta about 527's and she looked up 527's on the internet and found that a number of these groups had dirty names.
Beavers - If you're going to make organ jokes, you need to make beaver jokes to keep things fair and balanced.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Come on Get Happy (recap)
Heard on this show:
Happy Town - Jill Sobule
Samba Triste - Charlie Byrd
Money - Gary Pine and Dollarman
Solar - Chet Baker
MyFace - I heard some analyst talking about Social Networking and when they said, "MySpace and Facebook" I thought of MyFace. The jokes are pretty obvious from there
Intro - I seriously do have to apologize to the ghosts of Cheyevsky and Finch. But I didn't want to do another big serious political show and thought at some point we have to just get happy and start enjoying ourselves despite what's going on.
McCain saves the Economy - I'm not sure I made this point that well. The point is that McCain is a known liar so if he tells us things are bad, we'll think they're good. Which would be a huge help to consumer confidence. I might have lost the point somewhat on this one. Sorry.
Only You Can Help - I'm most proud about this one. It really will come down to $10.00 a day for all of us if they take the full 700 billion. But of course that's for each and every one of us. As it is, if you actually pay taxes, your percentage will probably be higher. On the other hand, we might get something back for our sawbuck one of these days... maybe.
Dickipedia - Nixon jokes never seem to get old.
Family Day/Global Warming - Something of a celebration of uh... the WTF nature of modern life. See, it's ironic because I'm pretending it's all happy good news. Eh. I'll admit it, not classic material.
Happy Town - Jill Sobule
Samba Triste - Charlie Byrd
Money - Gary Pine and Dollarman
Solar - Chet Baker
MyFace - I heard some analyst talking about Social Networking and when they said, "MySpace and Facebook" I thought of MyFace. The jokes are pretty obvious from there
Intro - I seriously do have to apologize to the ghosts of Cheyevsky and Finch. But I didn't want to do another big serious political show and thought at some point we have to just get happy and start enjoying ourselves despite what's going on.
McCain saves the Economy - I'm not sure I made this point that well. The point is that McCain is a known liar so if he tells us things are bad, we'll think they're good. Which would be a huge help to consumer confidence. I might have lost the point somewhat on this one. Sorry.
Only You Can Help - I'm most proud about this one. It really will come down to $10.00 a day for all of us if they take the full 700 billion. But of course that's for each and every one of us. As it is, if you actually pay taxes, your percentage will probably be higher. On the other hand, we might get something back for our sawbuck one of these days... maybe.
Dickipedia - Nixon jokes never seem to get old.
Family Day/Global Warming - Something of a celebration of uh... the WTF nature of modern life. See, it's ironic because I'm pretending it's all happy good news. Eh. I'll admit it, not classic material.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I love big dictionaries
Coming up on this weekend's show:
-No fucking clue. Sorry!
I'm a big fan of this koo-koo online world we live in. I podcast, I twitter, I blog (sometimes), I consult Google, Wikipedia and YouPorn several times every single day and feel like I'd be lost without them. So I'm not one of these old timey, internet-hatin' crochety (is chrochety the right word? Where could I find a good synonym for it?) geezers who think everything was better back in once upon a time land.
That said, it did occur to me that one of the great pleasures of my youth - I say 'great pleasures' but I mean 'great time wasters' - was browsing the dictionary. Not reading it cover to cover or looking up one word for one reason but kind of lazily flipping pages looking for words that looked cool or maybe risqué or even words I thought I knew the meaning of but knew I'd be hard pressed to define precisely. (define exactly?) I don't know that it was the most defning activity as far as my education or even vocabulary went but I feel it broadened my palette (wait is it palette that has paints or palate? I better look that up)
I don't even own a dictionary anymore. Not a real one. I own a couple specialized ones for novelty's sake but not the kind of imposing, exciting twenty pounder of a reference book that I grew up in awe of. When I was 18 and living on my own, one of the first things I spent real money on was a cheap websters for myself. You had to have a dictionary even as late as the 90's but now you really don't need one. You have a world of reference at your fingertips if you have a computer and a phone line or even a portable phone with internet access.
Sure you can still browse through the random pages of wikipedia just to find out random information like we used to randomly browse through the old Brittanica our grandparents had, and when you need a particular word defined you can get it online faster than your parents can look it up in some old book. But you can't really just browse through an online dictionary to get a sense of how vast your own ignorance is. You can't get the feel of turning ancient impossibly thin paper or feel for the grooves cut into the paper to help you turn to a particular letter. Which is one of those little delights that will be completely lost to future generations.
That said, I'm not suggesting for a second that bound dictionaries are better than online ones or that future generations with access to almost limitless information at their fingertips are going to be any less intelligent or informed than we. If anything they're going to make us look like the provincial rubes we made our parents look like as they did to theirs. But they're liable to miss out on the thrill of cracking those ancient tomes. Plus, it's really hard to use the internet as a step stool.
-No fucking clue. Sorry!
I'm a big fan of this koo-koo online world we live in. I podcast, I twitter, I blog (sometimes), I consult Google, Wikipedia and YouPorn several times every single day and feel like I'd be lost without them. So I'm not one of these old timey, internet-hatin' crochety (is chrochety the right word? Where could I find a good synonym for it?) geezers who think everything was better back in once upon a time land.
That said, it did occur to me that one of the great pleasures of my youth - I say 'great pleasures' but I mean 'great time wasters' - was browsing the dictionary. Not reading it cover to cover or looking up one word for one reason but kind of lazily flipping pages looking for words that looked cool or maybe risqué or even words I thought I knew the meaning of but knew I'd be hard pressed to define precisely. (define exactly?) I don't know that it was the most defning activity as far as my education or even vocabulary went but I feel it broadened my palette (wait is it palette that has paints or palate? I better look that up)
I don't even own a dictionary anymore. Not a real one. I own a couple specialized ones for novelty's sake but not the kind of imposing, exciting twenty pounder of a reference book that I grew up in awe of. When I was 18 and living on my own, one of the first things I spent real money on was a cheap websters for myself. You had to have a dictionary even as late as the 90's but now you really don't need one. You have a world of reference at your fingertips if you have a computer and a phone line or even a portable phone with internet access.
Sure you can still browse through the random pages of wikipedia just to find out random information like we used to randomly browse through the old Brittanica our grandparents had, and when you need a particular word defined you can get it online faster than your parents can look it up in some old book. But you can't really just browse through an online dictionary to get a sense of how vast your own ignorance is. You can't get the feel of turning ancient impossibly thin paper or feel for the grooves cut into the paper to help you turn to a particular letter. Which is one of those little delights that will be completely lost to future generations.
That said, I'm not suggesting for a second that bound dictionaries are better than online ones or that future generations with access to almost limitless information at their fingertips are going to be any less intelligent or informed than we. If anything they're going to make us look like the provincial rubes we made our parents look like as they did to theirs. But they're liable to miss out on the thrill of cracking those ancient tomes. Plus, it's really hard to use the internet as a step stool.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
THINK
Coming up on this weekends show:
A Journey to the Heart of Darkness
That's really all I can say about it except it is going to be my emotional response to the re-fetishizing of war, torture and terrorism. It probably won't be a big hit with the conservative crowd.
By the way, keep an eye on factcheck.org in this campaign. They set the record straight about both candidates on a regular basis but see if you don't notice one side's errors being more like lies and less like exaggerations than the other's.
Both sides stretch the truth and spin, sometimes accidentally I'm sure. But one campaign has had to be seriously smacked down for what appear to be blatant intentional falsehoods, lies, or 'distortions' (to put it mildly).
Also, you should really check out the Daily Show's take on the Gender Card spin put out during the RNC. It's actually some of the best journalism I've seen in a while and it's also funny.
Don't believe either side but don't tune out either and give up. Look into it yourself and find what's true and what isn't. Its easier to do today than it ever has been. To do anything else would be Un-American.
A Journey to the Heart of Darkness
That's really all I can say about it except it is going to be my emotional response to the re-fetishizing of war, torture and terrorism. It probably won't be a big hit with the conservative crowd.
By the way, keep an eye on factcheck.org in this campaign. They set the record straight about both candidates on a regular basis but see if you don't notice one side's errors being more like lies and less like exaggerations than the other's.
Both sides stretch the truth and spin, sometimes accidentally I'm sure. But one campaign has had to be seriously smacked down for what appear to be blatant intentional falsehoods, lies, or 'distortions' (to put it mildly).
Also, you should really check out the Daily Show's take on the Gender Card spin put out during the RNC. It's actually some of the best journalism I've seen in a while and it's also funny.
Don't believe either side but don't tune out either and give up. Look into it yourself and find what's true and what isn't. Its easier to do today than it ever has been. To do anything else would be Un-American.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Mocking the Suburbs (recap)
Heard on this week's show:
BTMC Cigarettes - I heard about some celebrity who died as a result of smoking as I was lighting up. It ocurred to me a little truth in advertising might not be such a bad thing.
Ben Cohen on Enemies - This is inspired in part by good ole Daphne Abernathy who really did have a fight with her condo board about pink flamingos on the patio. The rest is just mindless drivel
Dr. Doomsday - This sketch was initially written by Laurence Simon as an ensemble piece inspired in part by Will Ross's Doomsday Cannon in Second Life. But they decided not to do the ensemble piece and I always thought it would be better as a Bob Newhart style telephone conversation so I reworked it a little bit into what it is now. I do have to say, I was SORELY tempted to play "What's He Building In There" by Tom Waits but that seemed a little on the nose.
The Perfect Murder - Was this too subtle, I can never tell. You see the funny part is, he claims to not want to murder his wife but then goes through all this work to do it and then can't be bothered to make egg salad. I originally wrote this as a 100 Word Story but couldn't help but extend it out a bit. Again, "Franks Wild Years" by Tom Waits would've been very appropriate here as it is about a guy named Frank who kills his wife but again it seemed too on the nose.
Cost of the War - I try not to be too polemical when it comes to partisan politics. I know it might not seem like that but you wouldn't believe the things I don't say on the show. I do think this is a question that needs to be raised and I'm starting to think I'm going to need to put together a special Red Meat political podcast as a mid-week special. I'm trying not too, I really am.
The Cliches - Both a tribute to the late great Don LaFontaine and a testament to the godawful movie and tv trailers I've seen in the last week or two.
- Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
- Vacation Time - The Metro Strings
- Hungry Freaks Daddy - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Enough) - Thelonious Monk
BTMC Cigarettes - I heard about some celebrity who died as a result of smoking as I was lighting up. It ocurred to me a little truth in advertising might not be such a bad thing.
Ben Cohen on Enemies - This is inspired in part by good ole Daphne Abernathy who really did have a fight with her condo board about pink flamingos on the patio. The rest is just mindless drivel
Dr. Doomsday - This sketch was initially written by Laurence Simon as an ensemble piece inspired in part by Will Ross's Doomsday Cannon in Second Life. But they decided not to do the ensemble piece and I always thought it would be better as a Bob Newhart style telephone conversation so I reworked it a little bit into what it is now. I do have to say, I was SORELY tempted to play "What's He Building In There" by Tom Waits but that seemed a little on the nose.
The Perfect Murder - Was this too subtle, I can never tell. You see the funny part is, he claims to not want to murder his wife but then goes through all this work to do it and then can't be bothered to make egg salad. I originally wrote this as a 100 Word Story but couldn't help but extend it out a bit. Again, "Franks Wild Years" by Tom Waits would've been very appropriate here as it is about a guy named Frank who kills his wife but again it seemed too on the nose.
Cost of the War - I try not to be too polemical when it comes to partisan politics. I know it might not seem like that but you wouldn't believe the things I don't say on the show. I do think this is a question that needs to be raised and I'm starting to think I'm going to need to put together a special Red Meat political podcast as a mid-week special. I'm trying not too, I really am.
The Cliches - Both a tribute to the late great Don LaFontaine and a testament to the godawful movie and tv trailers I've seen in the last week or two.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Hot Air (recap)
(sorry about the delay folks, it's been a long crazy week)
Heard on this week's show:
Mass Transit - I take public transportation every day. It's amazing this idea hasn't popped up sooner.
Capital Punishment - Somebody had been discussing political scandals including the one where Stephen Milligan British MP got found that way and it did hit me as not the worst way to go as far as death.
What is a Conservative - I still haven't gotten any real answer to this one. Maybe it's not a question anybody else much cares about.
One Afternoon in Iraq - Some news story about iraq where they described the urban fighting just sort of reminded me of our own urban fighting here at home.
Ass Platinum Card - Seriously, when the ass credit market crashes, I'm fucked!
Cover Up - I think this one speaks for itself.
Dove Bars - is anyone else continually confused by the fact that there are two kinds of dove bars that target the same demographic?
Heard on this week's show:
- Mystery Train - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra
- My Death - David Bowie
- Cotton to the Bell - The High Llamas
- What up dog - Was (not Was)
- St. Germain - Le Cinq Modern
- Zilch - The Monkees
Mass Transit - I take public transportation every day. It's amazing this idea hasn't popped up sooner.
Capital Punishment - Somebody had been discussing political scandals including the one where Stephen Milligan British MP got found that way and it did hit me as not the worst way to go as far as death.
What is a Conservative - I still haven't gotten any real answer to this one. Maybe it's not a question anybody else much cares about.
One Afternoon in Iraq - Some news story about iraq where they described the urban fighting just sort of reminded me of our own urban fighting here at home.
Ass Platinum Card - Seriously, when the ass credit market crashes, I'm fucked!
Cover Up - I think this one speaks for itself.
Dove Bars - is anyone else continually confused by the fact that there are two kinds of dove bars that target the same demographic?
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