For the Ladies (recap)

Heard on this show:

• Hey Ladies - Beastie Boys
• She's a Lady - Patricia Barber
• I am Nothing - Nellie McKay

• Enhancitrol: It just struck me that 'intimacy' problems, especially in older people might be more hindered than helped by more sex.
• Intro: I know the harmonies didn't match the Isaac Hayes. What can you do?
• Katy's Blog: It struck me when laurence Simon www.isfullofcrap.com got hit by a motorcycle that it would be amusing if he had had something on the website www.death.isfullofcrap.com and then I thought of what could be there? The rest was just that concept's logical conclusion. Initially I was going to have a female actually record the parts but the person I recruited flaked. Hence the bad female impersonation on my part
• Helen Keller's Helpful Hints: I don't remember why this struck me as such a horribly funny idea.
• CGI The Movie: Came from watching trailers for that 10,000 years BC. which I thought was a Ringo Starr movie but what do I know? I hate when it looks like a movie is all CGI. Never saw 300 because of it, don't like the Lord of the Rings movies because of it. Maybe I'm just an old crank. I like movies to have people in them not computer graphics.
• Perilous Times: I like looking at biblical verse because it's so weird. This is a real biblical verse and obviously when I saw Perilous Times, it seemed like a newspaper to me.
• Vote Mars: This is the start of what I hope will be my crowning acheivement of a running gag

another cheap anti clinton attack so I can seem like I'm MSM

From the NYT:

Her campaign “is just hitting its stride,” Mrs. Clinton said, even though she has been running for well over a year, in a race that has gone on longer than anyone expected. “We’re just beginning to draw those contrasts and those differences and that’s when voters start to zero in,” she said, expressing optimism despite 11 straight losses to Mr. Obama in recent contests.

So if she's just beginning to hit her stride after a year plus, how is this supposed to convince us she'll be ready on day one?

I understand it's still close no matter how you judge, delagates, super delagates, states, popular votes but at what point does it go from Sen. Clinton being a 'fighter' to Sen. Clinton is trying to hand this thing to Sen. McCain?

The odds of her winning by enough to make up for lost ground are not good. It's not impossible but it is increasingly improbable. Unless tonight is an unforseen routing of Sen. Obama, shouldn't she hang it up already?



And yes, In all fairness, I should point out that because of her votes on the war, torture, and the first amendment, I wouldn't vote for Sen. Clinton if she was running against another Bush. So I am not strictly unbiased in my writing. But still, if you are a Clinton supporter and Obama had lost 11 straight and was this far down in delegates this late, wouldn't you want him to hang it up?

a stupid question about pornography

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Market Research!

Coming up on this weekend's show:

• The Muppets Re-Take Manhattan
• Candy!
• The Emperor's New Commercials
• A Brilliant Idea
• MORE SHATNER
• much much more?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast is not as popular as it could be, that is to say it is not as popular as it once was before I switched to Libsyn.

I cannot help but think that if I was giving you a show more to your liking, you, would be compelled to proselytize the show to everyone you knew. Is this not what social media Darwinism is all about?

So in order to better serve you, the listener, I have devised a brief questionnaire which I hope you will answer anonymously.

1. If you do not listen to the show, why not? (if you do, thanks! move on along to the next question)
2. What first made you listen to the show?
3. From the time you first knew about the show, how long did it take for you to try it?
4. What could I do to make the show better for you?
5. What do you think I could do to make the show better for other people?
6. questions, comments, complaints, errata etc.

Don't worry, I'm not going to stop doing the show or sell out in some egregious way. I basically do the show for me, the way I want to hear it. It's just that if I didn't write and produce this show but were just a listener, I'd be going crazy telling everyone how they HAD to listen because it's the coolest thing ever and many of you aren't doing that. Some of you are, and I thank you for it.

Untitled Number Seven (recap)

Playlist:

1. Kerry Dancers - Lenny Dee
2. Sinfonia [Partita No.2 BWV 826] - The Swingle Singers
3. By the time I get to phoenix - Lenny Dee
   
4. Overture for a Fist full of dollars - Ennio Morricone
   
5. What a Difference a Day Makes - Stephane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt
   
6. Barber Shop - Tom Waits

The Bits:

• Haile Selassie Meets Lassie - uh... I have no excuse for this. Obviously the snaps were on there before the music track otherwise it would've matched in some sort of way. But those are real Selassie quotes... so that's got to count for something, no?
• Into - Why would MP3s be on a gold standard? I don't know.
• Infantilism - I've had that in my notebooks for about six months now ever since a disagreement basically devolved into toddler like conflict resolution.
  
• In The Beginning - you know actually, I think some of that was done on a computer simulator. Still it's a super badass experiment.
  
• Shatnerism - This popped out last week one night when I heard an instrumental version of another song and I started reciting the lyrics ala Shatner and I thought, why not do that from time to time?
• Pink Gang - that's excerpted from a BBC story
  
• Romney and his hair - What can I say, hypocrisy cracks me up.
  
• Mobius Sandwich - uh... I was hungry?
  

Brass Ones

Coming up on this weekend's show:

• Real Life Super-Heroes
• Infinity Goes Up on Trial
• A Youth Movement (that isn't political)
• Much Much More?

On Wednesday, Romney said the contest was far from over, by Thursday, he had ceded the race to McCain. Also on Thursday one of the largest international Mafia busts ever went down. Coincidence? Probably

On Wednesday it came out that Clinton had loaned her campaign five million dollars and that many of her staff were going without pay. On Thursday it came out that Barack Obama had made seven million dollars in online contributions in two days.

Here's what I want the future president of these United States to do, Give that seven million to his opponent with a statement to the press about how he 'just wants to keep the campaign interesting'.

You tell me any republican is going to vote for McCain if Obama pulls a bad ass move like that? It can't hurt Obama much with women, he couldn't really do much worse with them anyway but what a message it would send to the world. Here's a guy who is not only charismatic and well spoken with positive ideas, tangible policy plans with a personal history that is the best of what America does but on top of that, he's willing to give someone who's attacked him ruthlessly millions of dollars to keep things more challenging. That's the kind of machismo that terrifies terrorists and our enemies abroad.

I still think if Romney had gone with "Mitt Happens", he'd be the nominee

Pick A Winner (recap)

Heard on this week's show:

• You Can't Fly if You're Too High - The Re Birth Brass Band
• How Sweet to be an idiot - Neil Innes
• For All We Know - Cal Tjader & Stan Getz
  
• War Pigs - Cake with (Steven Drozd)

What the Huckabee - This actually came from the standard warning in front of DVDs about Parental Discretion being advised. The Huckabee thing was just a way to tie that into something that fit the rest of the show

Reductionist Reminders - I have the misfortune of being something of a liberal and so I read the Huffington Post 99% of which is now a reductionist flame war. You are either a bigot or a chauvanist unless you're a republican. I just wanted to take that a little further.

MegaChurch and Casino - For the life of me, I don't remember why I wrote this.

Gambling - This still boggles my mind and is a true story.

Win a Soldier - Every time I listen to some World War Two era radio show, there are always drives to support the war effort. People had to ration meat, sugar and gasoline. They collected cans, rubber and oil. They bought war bonds. The whole nation seemingly went from being fairly isolationist to 100% committed to defeating Tojo and Hitler overnight. I can't help think that if the Bush administration had asked us to sacrifice for the war in Iraq, we would've actually banded together more in support of it as a shared cause.

I do apologize how the last couple Sunday shows have been a little light on content. I've got a lot going on right now and my old routines got all monkeyed with to hell, which is interrupting the creative flow to some degree. Sorry.