Please stand by

In deference to finals week and the massive amount of writing I have to do, there shan't be a podcast this week.

I'll be back next Friday, and thank you for your support.

Oh, and furthermore, balls.

Pod-SPAN

This is what I need.

A C-SPAN podcast.

You would think that a nice, money-losing public service network like that would invest about $17 more dollars a month into podcasting its shit. Talk about the public good. That would be such a ridiculously useful service, it might actually make our democracy FUNCTION. I just enjoyed a lovely almost-nap, a half of an hour I really should have spent in damn BED at freakin' midnight, listening to the Senate Armed Services Comittee grill Rumsfeld and Myers about...bulletproof shorts. And the Joint something Missile. I stayed up half an hour too late (and another 10 minutes now blogging about it) when, really, I have half an hour a day to kill riding my bike to and from work, just dying to hear some news like that.

There are two C-SPAN channels on the boob tube, covering all kinds of Congressional hearings, book signings, live legislating, and then of course the painfully retarded call-in shows where the inbred and unemployed tell us how to run the country and a dork in a suit reads the paper to us.

But we wouldn't have to listen to all of that on the podcasts! I don't know how Doppler works, but I know the latest version of iPodderX has a preference setting on it that allows me to screen my subscriptions for certain keywords. So, let's say I subscribe to Whole Wheat Radio's Rant-n-Ravin Muffin News, but I'm tired of their random Alaska shit so I only want to actually download the show if they actually mention "tits" in the RSS feed (which Jim usually fills with plenty of descriptive words, phrases, and sentences, something I wish more dumbass podcasters would do). I just put "tits" in the "keyword" filter setting for that feed in iPodderX, and it'll only download the relevant episodes and leave the rest on some server in the middle of nowhere.

So, obviously, C-SPAN could put out everything it recorded in MP3 format, and I could subscribe to the "C-SPAN All Content" RSS but throw "Rumsfeld OR Iran OR Nuclear OR Condoleezza" in the filter and I'd could skip over the author of "Higher than Mine: Lincoln's Testicles and the Civil War" talking to the Society of Unfucked White Men and the Dulles Airport Holiday Inn, for instance.

Dear C-SPAN: please, please, PLEASE put out some podcasts?

Finger lickin' politickin'

A bit of a variation this week from the usual rant, as I take you on an audio expedition to the annual convention of a political activism organization in Savannah, GA. I bet you've always wanted to know what it was like to go to a political convention, didn't you? I knew it! Well then this IS your lucky day. Come listen along as we drink some beer, discuss Nixon & necromancy, make fun of various hair problems, drink more beer, sing karaoke... Oh, and uh, vote on some amendments and elect some people to stuff.

Rip roarin' good time. Edited for political sensitivity!

Be sure to drop me a note if you think the notion of an audio expedition is either brilliant or suckass, as I'm pondering some financial investment into better remote recording equipment. s*at*wtfbarbecue.com.

Download (20:56 / 14.7MB)

Bleeding

Still trying to claw out from under a blanket of botanical bukkake, this Tax Day episode features two locals coming up:

Groupie (played "Dinosaur Dust" and "Spike"), playing at Ten High next Friday the 22nd.

Y-O-U ("Good Intentions" and "Shadows on the Page"), doing a CD release tour via Smith's Olde Bar, as well as Tasty World in Athens.

Other tracks ganked:
The Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini (iTunes)
Money - Pink Floyd (iTunes)
...and a travesty I thought I'd never play...
Hurt - Johnny Cash (iTunes)

And I did a little begging for attention. I don't give a shit if anyone votes for this show anywhere, but if you're listening and you have an opintion, drop it in the email or a comment. C'mon, participate!

Download (24:17 / 17.3MB)

Tree Sex

Trees are attempting to fornicate up my nostrils, and I'm not happy. Liz Phair tells us a thing or two about jism (after we hear about it from Jimbob).

The Foreigner, a great play by Larry Shue, is playing at the Balzer Theater through most of April. And next weekend, Moonshine Still is at Smith's Olde Bar on their CD release tour.

Download (20:20, 14MB) (Recently re-compressed at higher quality -- sorry about the shitty sound on the first release.)

And I am SO fucking late leaving for Savannah. Again.

Looks like I was wrong

See, the blogosphere™ IS the ultimate power structure in the world. The Iranian blogger ripple reached all the way up to the top of Mt. Aconcagua.



Although I think there's something fishy about that image...methinks it might have been Photoshopped! (There's no way that guy made it up a mountain.)

Listener submissions, people! Keep 'em comin'!

Elvis has left the building

No podcast today. Or ever. The flurry of attention from WWR was great, but then it brought with it so much pressure to live up to expectations. I just don't think I'm cut out for this project; it was great while it lasted.

Buh-bye.

-s