So, here we go again. The death of a show, loss of a friend (Sundays notwithstanding), and the end of an era (again). I don’t know about you guys, but this feels very different to me than the end of MS. It’s less painful, but more sad. I’ve really given up on Air America – that it will ever be what it was, let alone what it had the potential to be – this time. I’ll miss Sam’s show, and I hope he turns up on NovaM or someplace else, but as far as AAR is concerned, I really don’t care what happens to them anymore. That’s why it’s kinda sad. Not that it’s over, but that I just don’t care. Best of luck to Sam and his family, and if there are any Seder fans out there looking for a place to hang out, you’re always welcome here.
from the Rude Pundit: a quote from a commencment address by Kurt Vonnegut in 1999-
“Don’t try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet,” he said. “Get yourself a Harley, and join Hell’s Angels instead.” :gate: :fist: :om:
:alc: bikers!!!!!
K.V.R.I.P. :yippee: 😉 :alc: Cheers :pirate:
Not that the point needed more painful emphasis, but cancelling MS at the same time that Howard Stern was removing himself as competition was stupidity; now Imus is also gone.
Super-collider imbecility.
If AAR was a military battle, it would be Gallipoli. :sammy:
If AAR was a miltary battle, it would be the Alamo. The AAR execs would be the Mexican army, and we would be the loyal fans defending our right to the funny.
I will be cancelling my premium subscription effective next week. Fuck this shit.
:fu:
Looking forward to maybe hearing Maron this morning, though. One last gasp.
:banana:
I took out a six month sub. with AAR when the Maron show started in California; it didn’t last six months, so i didn’t renew.
I got two six month charges from AAR on my next credit card bill, which i disputed and didn’t pay, and another six month charge this month, which i am also disputing and not paying.
Apparently AAR has greater perserverence in stealing my money than they do in retaining talent.
Good luck cancelling there. :sammy:
I cancelled my Premium subscription as well. AAR has a note on their web site that says even if you cancel you are entitled to continue to download the podcasts until the end of the subscription period.
I have tried to make sense of that attitude, and to me it means they are saying: “go ahead and cancel, we won’t lift a finger to do anything about it, not even remove you from the subscriber list”.
Retaining good quality progamming: too much work
Listening to listeners: too much work
Doing intelligent marketing: too much work
Putting any effort into the XM channel: too much work
Web site: too much work
well…farewell to sammy….I so want to see the sammycam but I will be at Will’s school for parent’s visiting day…
This is sad, but in a bigger sense….
I would be thrilled to have Marc and/or Sam on Nova or anywhere…how bout CBS? Any word on who is filling in for Imus?
Of course they are gonna have David Gregory on MSNBC for quite a while…but the radio show is open right now….
have fun guys….
PJ, maybe we can try again later on for the video of the sammycam.
Late for school….ugh!
ASPCA has published an updated list of recalled pet food.
http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/products.asp
As I cannot remember all the brands, I just make sure that anything I buy does not list wheat gluten as one of the ingredients.
My vet says she has seen a lot of animals affected by the food but that the effects have ben mild and all have recovered.
Wolfowitz is in trouble at the World Bank for hiring and overpaying his girlfriend and for being insulated and isolated from Bank employees. The Boston Globe also reports:
Some bank staff members also express concern that Wolfowitz intends to open a World Bank office in Iraq to channel international aid to that country, supplementing US reconstruction aid.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/04/13/patronage_flap_roils_world_bank/
From E.J. Dionne:
What Ailes knows is that the campaign to block Fox from sponsoring Democratic debates is the most effective liberal push-back against the network that stars Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity since its debut on Oct. 7, 1996.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201821.html?referrer=email
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Eya gang!
a good morning to all!
i see sam is leaving on a “Goth Friday”!
Important Notice For Plastic Pink Flamingo Lovers!!!
COLLECTABLE PLASTIC FLAMINGOS – SAY GOODBYE TO A CLASSIC
Union Products, makers of the world’s most famous Plastic Lawn Flamingo, went bankrupt last year bringing an end to the production of an American icon. We were one of their best customers and managed to get the last BOXED flamingos off the line. These are, as far as we know, the last available Featherstone flamingos still in their original boxes. The boxes they’re in are imperfect, Union shipped them to us without packaging, but the flamingos inside are perfect bits of Americana.
From Seattles world famous Archie McPhee’s
http://www.mcphee.com/items/M6188.html
The one person most upset over the Imus thing is that right-wing dunce Laura Ingraham. She stormed off the Hannity set over an Imus discussion. If you’ve ever listened to her, she basically steals all of Imus’s mannerisms and clubbiness. It’s really uncanny, a male Imus. I’ll give an example, whenever some musician captures her attention she will grandly exclaim in the plural: “We like Randy Travis”.
I hope she goes next. Fat chance.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine underwent surgery on Thursday night after a car accident in which he broke his left leg, sternum, collarbone, six ribs on each side and a lower vertebra, state police and other government officials said. He was in critical but stable condition at midnight, sedated and on a breathing tube.
Mr. Corzine was in the front passenger seat when his state police vehicle swerved to avoid an apparently out-of-control driver on the Garden State Parkway and hit a guardrail. He was flown by helicopter to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he received seven units of blood and a metal rod in his leg during a two-hour operation that ended about 11:30 p.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/nyregion/13corzine.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1176433142-kiLiOYdapKZK7M4z//GVjA&oref=slogin
and we likes us some Toby Keith.
It’s Sayonara Sammy Time. :sammy: 🙁 Teardrops will fall.
I hope Pashman :reaper: has a great send-off set for him and Sammy Cam is in full effect early and I eventually get hooked up. Maron had better show or I will suspend him for 2 weeks.
Well, I get to hear it at least. Is The Cam up for anyone else?
So far no Sammy Cam.
Hey PJ I had the same optical drive problem with the P3-PH4. Taking off the bezel did the trick for me.
No cam here yet. I am not sure that I have ever had Cam until Conason has left the building.
There we go! Cam! No sound though.
A G’ Bye …… FINALLY appeared on sammy’s blog :yippee:
Well now there’s video but no audio.
Yeah, I was trying to put an old one in that I had sitting around, so I just but the kid a new one (an ASUS one that matched the case, too; very sweet).
Yeah, no Sammy for me (yet).
Whoop, there it is.
Seems to be lacking in the sound department.
Rollins must have pulled the wrong plug again. Can’t musicians do anything without roadies.
Er, don’t answer that. At least I got to see :reaper:
I figured the door on the case covers it so it won’t be seen anyway.
Still no audio on the sammy cam.
I have the sammy cam :yippee: — Sam is selfish with the camera … I want to see his guests…
Saying he was going to fix the “cam” when Marc was on months ago — and he never did? hmmmm
Audio is up.
Yup I’ve got audio now,
Good morning :joe:
Re: #11
I thought Hillary took a bunch of money from Murdoch. Isn’t he gonna be mad? 🙄
Oh, he’s mad. Mad, I tell you.
Hey, nice job of myspace spam:
I hope she won’t be too upset to find out that it’s actually a picture of my dog (he is pretty cute, though), and I’m not quite 97.
Now that was easy enough … Cam now looks exciting …
Sam and Conason, so much better than with Franken.
Damn! I wish I could get the Sammy cam. I just don’t feel like messing with trying again. PJ summed up my feelings about AAR pretty accurately in his opening thread. It amazes me, that AAR, so effectively killed our enthusiasm. We hung on a long time despite all the disappointment. Yanking Sam is definitely the last straw. I am just too disgusted with AAR to care what happens to them anymore. I just hope Sam doesn’t go down with that ship. NovaM is the life preserver now and I have been focusing my attention on them. I am impressed with all the hosts that will be at the NovaM birthday party. Stephanie Miller, Malloy, Hartman etc. I’ll go to the party this Sunday and get pictures.
Kristapea, That sounds great. Don’t forget Bill Press. He’s not a turd but I like him.
The Sammy Cam is working OK for crippled me (knock on wood :fustrate: :doh: ) so you might give it a try with fresh links every now and then. The breaks are worth it if Sammy doesn’t pee.
Yeah, I like Bill Press too, just wasn’t sure he was gonna be there or not.
I downloaded the VLC player but it does not work for me. I think I tried flipformac too.
i get the …due to popular demand the stream you have requested is unavailable…oh well off to work.
:knit2:
Sammie’s last day and he’s having a :omg: REAL BAD hair day :omg:
I think Sammy Cam will only work on Real Player. At least for me. pj will undoubtedly prove me wrong.
yeah…but real player is overloaded
It also works in RealAlternative. Maybe others, too.
Sorry, blue. I guess I got in early and hope I don’t lose the connection. Selfish? Maybe. I would just keep on trying.
That’s right, I heard Janeane long before anyone.
Yeah Sblue, that’s the message I get.
Keep trying. I am pretty sure I will get booted when I want it the most.
Wolfie’s got a GIRL-friend?
Sorry. I have to get to work but wanted to drop in to say hi while I was checking that my paycheck got into the bank. It did. I’m relieved. If only this weren’t the end of Sammy… I hope he continues to be a commentator for Olberman.
The phone line is jammed.
:bow: SBlueHeron and :bow: Kristapea , that is the message I got for past several days. :pirate: Tea :joe: Cheers and I was shown how I MUST close just about DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING. sniff but helped also very much. And Computer Luck :growl: 😉 :fist:
the video is down to about 1 frame every 10 seconds.
The video is streaming OK for me.
hmm. i’m afraid to stop and start it, lest I lose it altogether.
Woo HOO! Maron! :yippee:
Ah, that did the trick.
MARC!!!
Hi everybody! They bought us pizza for lunch today, and I get to blog along with the last half-hour of Sammy.
:sammy:
Yeah yeah yeah! Marc and Sam should do something together!
It’s awesome that Marc is talking about doing sometrhing with Sam. That gives me a lot of hope. :banana:
Hi Krista! :love:
Hey Kevin! How’s that pizza!
hi all:
had to stop by to commiserate on yet another sad day for aar.
last casual friday with marc… boohoo!
pj: i really am addicted to sedition radio. please put it on myspace. remember what future marc said!
Hey Kevin! How’s that pizza!
Comment by Kristapea — April 13, 2007 @ 11:40 am
It’s delicious and it’s free. But it’s laced with the taste of my bitter tears due to Sam going away. :knit2:
And Marc talked about it for several minutes too, he didn’t just mention it in passing. When Janeane came up with that idea when MS was being pulled Marc kind of schluffed it off. Would it be on NovaM or HBO??
Alright Bobby!! He gave Greenberg what for.
ROXIESeattle :yippee:
8) :fist: One For All And All For One :pirate: :love:
roxie!
Thanks.
Stick around.
Bobby Jr.
So great.
The 2 Jews :yippee:
Wings too! Excellent!
:banana:
:love: Bobby Jr. So great. Comment by wvmc3d … :nod: …
Did they turn off audio on anyone’s CAM, as with mine — gosh this is Sooooo busy :tongue:
🙁
btw:
sam sez he plans to blog on https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1260223047421551014&postID=1102018239440112441&isPopup=true
after the show is over.
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must go cry now…
🙁
must go cry now…
Comment by roxieseattle — April 13, 2007 @ 11:57 am
Roxie, save me some tissue.
An era ends. At least for now.
RoxieSeattle, but it was great 🙁 crying with you … C-Ya here :bow: pweeese
But got to hear all the way thru Maron :yippee: :pirate: :cat:
I have the audio :yippee:
I don’t allow myself to go to that place of complete sadness very often about the dark place we’ve been dragged to but sam bringing up the annointment of 2000……………………… 🙁
goddamn the bastards :tommygun: the chimp and all the vampires that surround him :fu: :tommygun:
This was perhaps the last blow.
I really don’t care anymore.
I’ll be around here looking for Maron news and the great people here and sharing crumbs to seek out. AAR is dead in my eyes. I just looked at the whole package and except for the remnant of Maddow, * it. Hartmann is not AAR. OK but not AAR. Ranti, not worth more than a few minutes a day if that.
AAR was a great idea that just got crumbled. Great while it lasted.
Bless those who keep the history and vision alive and archived.
Hey, bloggerati…
Yes, I’m a pathetic moron, but I e-mailed Olbermann and Dan Abrams at MSNBC last night with my idea about the blog-related morning news show with Sam and/or Marc. A rough idea is in a blog post at my blog today. I hope other bloggers pick up on it and make it a blogswarm (*cough* Melina and others *cough*).
I now, except since no longer Seder, Do mostly Nova M — but they do not have on any longer Bill Press …I then go through LTR.. Thom I am getting through Nova M. Randi — whatever 🙄 then a touch of Rachel for exercise. … But there is so many other things & work.and even listening to a few shows on NPR — only a few — I must be doing. 🙄 .
druid:
off to bed…no msg from sam yet on blog, but acouple of serious maron fans – check this out
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http://mysite.verizon.net/eieio/campbutch/index.html
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and from someone called “marcmaronrules” re above: “thank you!Your site looks cool.I bookmarked it.Anything with Maron in it Cracks me up.I love the guy.(Saw him first on Letterman&Conan years ago).That’s how I found my way to Sammy.I’ve been listening off and on to all 3: Marc,Jeanane and Sammy for a couple years.But,I worked nights so is tuff keeping up.And,I just started blogin the last couple of months.I love to read blogs though.I’m just abit shy on the blog…”
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the person responsible for camp butch, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” said, ” I haven’t updated it since MS got cancelled. I forgot it existed, actually.
The Sedition Radio thing is news to me–just saw the banner when I hunted down the clip site–but if PJ’s got anything to do with it, I’m intrigued. That dude’s like a mystical warrior sent from another dimension to give MS the respect it deserved…”
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i don’t know about all that, but (i repeat myself), i really wish the mystical warrior would put seditionist radio on myspace, with a donation button like patrick has on snotgreensea to fund bandwidth.
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nighty night. thanks for the welcome back.
Karl! You bad boy! Stop deleting those e-mails NOW! Or Mommy RNC will send you to bed without dinner. You know how you HATE missing dinner.
http://tinyurl.com/yqnyp8
Sounds like subpoena time to me!
:banana:
Hi Roxie, it’s nice to see you. You mean, make a myspace page for Sedition Radio? I could do that, I suppose. I started working on a front end for it a while ago, but got bogged down. As for bandwidth, it’s running on a computer at my house (just built a new home for it a few weeks back, in fact), and I have it capped at 25 simultaneous listeners at the moment. That seems to be sufficient (it was full when Marc first sent out the e-mail about it, but we peak out at around ten these days). I’d be pretty reluctant to try and get donations for it, since Marc and the MS crew are the ones who did all the work in writing, producing, and performing everything, and of course Patrick over at thesnotgreensea.com did all the hard work of collecting and archiving everything.
It’s also been suggested that I run another stream of full shows, which I’ll have to see about doing.
Bullshit. I guarantee you they at least have backup tapes of these things, and if the admins didn’t do a full backup before converting, then they’re even more incompetent than the rest of the administration.
Man, that Shaha Riza is one hot World Bank babe. Looks like she’s been licking Paul Wolfowitz’s comb for him.
This story has me hysterical. How is it possible to fuck up a job as World Bank President? Wolfy’s doing a heckova job, in the kind of position that you dump an aging hack in just to get him out of the way. The word “incompetent” is too feeble a concept to reflect the all-encompassing devastation that these scumbags have inflicted on the world — all of it.
My personal impeachment odds making has moved from 9-1 down to 6-1 this week. Where’s that Johnny KStreet guy? :sammy:
I swore I would not be so sad when Sam went off the air, but I am. I feel as if I have lost something important.
I met Mark Green several years ago, when he was Public Advocate in NYC. Red Hook was engaged in a fight over something noxious, garbage dumps, I believe. Ol’ Rudy thought that taking all noxious fac ilities from rich white neighborhoods and putting them in poor minority ones was the plan of the hour and we went to see Green about it. He was very nice, said all the right things and then didn’t do a thing.
We won, anyway, but Green was useless.
Wolfowitz has a girlfriend??? He is such a freak, I can’t imagine what woman in her right mind would date him, but there’s no accounting for taste (‘specially when $$’s involved, eh?).
Hello one and all :yippee: , I’m visiting again, real quick, whilst I slave away in my cubicle. wbai.org is playing an excellent tune right now, it’s Friday night kick-back music there in NY (I’m on the left coast, thank goodness for radio stream).
“I Am Not My Hair”, Inida Irie (sp?), was the tune playing at bai in my hometown ny. Cool music! DJ giving “feedblack” and props to Imus and the Rutgers basketball gals…
For once I agree with Randi wholeheartedly – ain’t nothin’ Imus did that remotely touches what the other theo-con re-thug tv and radio blockheads spout. Can’t remember all the names and clips Randi’s been reeling off, but I’m persuaded that imus is small fry.
:jason: Take that all theo-con sexist, racist, homophobic a-holes :tommygun:
Sam Seder is off the air too? Geez. Hey all, is anyone here subscribing to Nova M network? I emailed Marc asking if he’s going to be on there (hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained). But no answer (sum total gained – nothing). I might consider subscribing if I knew who else was going to be on there besides Malloy. While SF’s Quake radio continues to run Malloy every weeknight, it’s not worth it to me to fork over $100 for the Nova M membership.
Any Sammycam archived? *any* of today’s show archived? Anyone?
Aw, for cryin’outloud, just like the old days, noone’s answering here by the time I get here, what gives? Where’dja all go to??
I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO >>>>> DITTO NOW from an ex-SF’er to ex-NY’er :yippee: :pirate: :dancers: :yippee:
I “stream”. That is $$$ eek …. STREAM and use use LTR :fist: :pirate: :dancers: :cat: :pup: :fist: …..
…when the Lights go down in MY CITY and the Sun Shines on the Bayyyy ay ay ay, Oh I want to be there ye eh eh eh in My City By The Bay Yay ohhhh ohhhhh ohhh ahhhhh …. etc sigh
Hi Druid! Are you an ex-SF’er now?
(one moment while I close browser to install update of realaudio…) :joe: :joe:
I WAS JUST TALKING ‘Bout YA and POOF ….. You Appear :pup: :banana: :cat: :dancers: :nana:
It’s all true, all of it, Druid :dancers:
Gotta go get ready to leave work now…
Ok Druid, I guess it’s you and me, I’ll say g’night then. G’night then. I’ll try to check in again sooner. Keep it lit. :tinfoil:
I tis toooo weird, I very seldom say ex’SF since no matter where I will Be 😉 I am born and raised CA :yippee: and kiss the ground when I return’d and live on California Street 😮 :smack: so
8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ….. 😉 I was first in My City is when I lived there when 5 yrs. :yippee: :pirate: 😉
…The Loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay,
The glory that was Rome was of another day,
I feel terribly alone forgotten in Manhattan — (I said…. I feel terribly alone and forotten in L.A.)
I’m going home to My City by the Bayayayayayay,
I Left My :love: Heart in ……… sighhhhhhhhhhh
Candle In The (PC) Window 😉 till we talk again, be well AND C-Ya XOXOXO 😉
Hey ex-ny’er, I just got in nut nice to see you again.
So, wasn’t Maron spose to sit in for Malloy tonight? Jeff Farias is filling in here but is it Maron on other stations?
I guess its Jeff. Who said Maron was filling in?
I’d heard that myself Krista but I can’t remember where.
Oh so, I went to the station to get my tickets for the NovaM birthday bash on Sunday and I asked if I was gonna be able to bring my camera into the place and someone said I couldn’t but then he said, “you know what, go ahead and bring your camera and I’ll beat them up if they give you shit” So, I’m gonna try to get pictures of me with Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Mike Malloy and Thom Hartman. I talked to Jeff Farias for a bit and asked him the possibilities of getting Sam and Marc doing a show together now that they are both AAR rejects and he said maybe and shuffled around a bit. Maybe they are still talking! :banana: Jeff also said that there were plenty of people flying out here for the party from all over the country and some are notable, hmmmmm. It would be so cool if Marc showed up but I would think he would give us a heads up with an email.
Sounds like fun Krista. I didn’t know Miller was on NovaM.
Hi and Tea Cheers (I’,m so :yawn: boring — at times :hubba: ), :yippee: Kristapea and Andy aka Aquaman :yippee:
I want to go sniff but really cool 8) — :pirate: :yippee:
a.i.v. Snow (Hey Oh) … I wonder who? :rofl2:
Red :hot: C. P.
Hi Druid, I was away from the computer watching the latest Korean drama “Dae Joyoung”.
:nod: