Crap, it’s Monday again, and that just pisses me off. I think I’ll head down to the diner and get me a big glass of OJ. You know, I finally figured out Chris Matthews’ problem with orange juice. The Florida Sunshine spokestwit used to be Anita Bryant. And we all know what sorts of folks Anita Bryant had a problem with. We’re also all pretty familiar with the man crushes Tweety gets on people like John McCain, and how Tweety seems to have quite a problem with the female types. He’s either hostile to them, or he fakes sexual attraction and goofily fawns all over them in a rather stupid and embarrassing way (a little overcompensation there, Chris?).
So, I think Matthews is hostile toward orange juice because he subconsciously fears having his oranges squeezed by Anita Bryant. Hey, do yourself a favor Chris. Get outta that closet before you find yourself trading swapping press passes (and precious bodily fluids) with Jeff Guckert.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Was it something I said?
I thought Anita Bryant had passed her expiration date.
What is this “Swift Kids For Truth” thing. Just a younger version of the Swift Boat saboteurs?
Wachovia is lining up a “$7 billion infusion of cash.” In the old days that used to be called an investment. In other words, they are giving ownership to someone else. This time again someone foreign. Slowly but surly we are selling off our businesses and real estate to foreigners. What happens when they foreclose? All that’s left in Antarctica, and its sprung a leak.
Must be Monday. The big yellow-orange thing in the east is blinding me. Someone should fo something about that.
I need a conservative to explain to me how Republicans and the insurance companies are keeping healthcare affordable through managed care.
Co-Payments Go Way Up for Drugs With High Prices
Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases.
One resource the repigs have squandered and let decay is our national park system. We should include the state parks, too. Ever since the Democrats stopped James Watt from selling parks and monuments during the destructive Reagan Occupation the right-wingers have continually slashed budgest and staff for our parks.
Parkway needs funds, staff
Tweety doesn’t hold a candle to Guckert!
On Ring of Fire they were talking about the FDA and how it has lost 600 inspectors and is now basically run by the drug companies.
It’s Monday!
Good morning. :joe: :joe:
Please note, New Domestic (and old) Spy Operation, I drink coffee, I must be OK so all those mythical middle Americans can relate to me.
To: Chris Matthews
MSNBC
Somewhere in the slums of Jersey (sorry, Bruce)
Re: Morning beverage options
I had apple juice with breakfast this morning. Not coffee.
Suck it, Tweety.
Sincerely,
Kevin Hussein “elitist” M
Florida, where juice is made, dammit!
(OK, not apple juice, but still.)
1) I’m thinking about doing this for real. Not the clumsy salutation, just the beverage choice of the day and the sentence thereafter.
2) PJ, great thread open. I felt something running up my leg when I read it. 😀
3) Did anyone else spend an hour reading the piece about Tweety in the NYT Magazine on Sunday? He’s thinking about running for the Senate? Please, there are enough clowns there already. I should know… two of them are from MY state!
:barf:
No, it’s the other way around, actually. And it costs extra.
heh!
monday rants!
it’s all that juice drinking.
screw it all! i have :bee: ‘s for company!
:pirate: :yippee: Well, Just :bee: ‘cuz :reaper: :dancers: A!I!
I did not know this about the smartcar.
It would be cool if they invented a car that would run off the USB port on your laptop.
:rant1: Time. This could be interesting, or not.
Hmm. Seems like NovaM’s web server is a bit on the slow side at the moment.
Well, I can’t get to the NovaM stream. If she says anything interesting, somebody let us know.
PJ, #10 would create a circular dependency.
Which came first, the USB port or the DC plug in the dashboard? I could egg you on but I’m too chicken. After all, it is Monday on this timeline.
Oh, I figured I was running off the laptop battery.
But I always thought you could get free electricity if you invented a power strip with two plugs. Plug one in to the wall, and then the other into the strip. Then you can unplug from the wall, and you’re good to go. Just plug your laptop into the power strip, and your e-Smart Car into the USB port, and you can cruise forever.
I wonder if Laurie David needs an ‘idea’ man?
Randi is back in Florida and seems very happy. She says the speed with which the network (I assume she means the syndicating of her show) was amazing.
Here’s an email I just got from Sam
Sam
Here’s the link for the petition
I’d rather see Sam on NovaM but the line up is pretty much filled except for maybe super late night. He wouldn’t be able to get a good slot there. Better he’s on midday even though he’s competing against Randi.
I signed, but would we hear him in NYC? I’ll have to do a lot of podcasting.
I’m getting through the MvS audio podcasts, is Marc getting suicidal?
If it was in the cards for Sam or Marc to be on Nova M, it should have happened. If they are really paying RR the big $s, I hope they survive. I am pretty sure this is going to put a big strain on them and I think the RR gambit is a lot of hype and hot air.
It would be cool if they invented a car that would run off the USB port on your laptop.
Or how about like Ed Begley’s car that powered by his own sense of self-satisfaction?
If only there was a car that ran on a sense of hopelessness and despair, I’d be all set (at least on Mondays).
So Vernon, you think they gave Randi a huge amount of cash type of contract? I was thinking maybe they’d give her like 100% of whatever they’re charging the affiliates to carry her show and a piece of the NovaM pie. Of course, I don’t actually have a clue as to how these things work. I figure just letting her work from Florida has to be worth a lot of money to her (I don’t know what it was costing her to live in NYC, but I bet it was quite a bit).
If only there was a car that ran on a sense of hopelessness and despair, I’d be all set pj- that’s a good one. You should be writing for marc :rofl2: 🙁
Has anyone had any trouble downloading Randi from Nova M? When I go to the podcast page….bupkus. I’ve been downloading Malloy since he came there. :tap:
I am guessing she drained them. She only cares about herself. Sorry, if you are in radio and have been hooked up with AAR, it is understandable. I figure she had other options like Jones and Premiere. I doubt if it is a good deal for anyone save her and will not help the cause of progressive radio. I don’t think she is acting in the interest of the cause. Who can blame her?
If only there was a car that ran on a sense of hopelessness and despair,””
the Awfulomobile!
Nova M must draw a certain kind of crowd- Malloy seems to be thriving. Let’s face it- all these progrsseive networks are play-things for rich dems- not that there’s anything wrong with that.
art, how do you really gauge that? How many stations does he have? I don’t think they are reaching their subscription objectives. Of course, I disagree with that business model anyway.
Malloy is on 14 stations, not counting the two satellite networks.
Rhodes takes Nova M from 14 to 30 (with more in the works, they say – again, only counting terrestrial).
Speaking of the show, I dropped it in the second hour after the suckfest became unbearable. Now I hear she took several shots at Seder so I my have to listen to the rest to hear for myself. It sound like she was upset because he did not think her stand up was not funny. Actually, it wasn’t so much.
Belzer was not so bad.
To my knowledge, Drobny is trying to buy stations who will carry the whole Nova package. I think Malloy is carried on 14 stations. AAR has a bigger list of stations that carry bits of AAR talent but they carry a lot of Shultz, Colmes etc. I think the NOVA listeners are a more focused group for Malloy than AAR which had no apparent focus except if you’ve got a small d after your name.
The allure of Randi eludes me but I think Nova will be a better place for her. Does AAR own even ONE station?
You’re right, I don’t think Nova has met it’s subscription goals. (But I think it’s a better buisness model- I hope Drobny can wait it out)
I hope Randi brings enough bodies over that they could get Seder, maybe Marc- who know’s? I only pay for Rachel from AAR and I don’t expect her to stick to radio forever. If they get rid of Seder, I’m out of there.
If Randi really took serious pokes at Seder :fu: He said he’d talked to Randi to get her blessing about possibly taking over her slot. In his sweet humility, he knows he’d never take her audience straight-up.
I hope station ownership is part of the plan. If you don’t want to pay AAR anymore, Seder is a free download anyway and you can get free Maddow at Green 960.
Personally, I prefer Farias to both Malloy and Rhodes. Mike is pretty funny sometimes, though. I just have a hard time listening to him at work ‘cuz he’ll shout out some stuff that comes out of nowhere, and is not workplace appropriate when out of context.
I don’t listen to much of anything AAR has these days. Seder is about it. I’ll download Hartmann as a background noise kinda thing, but he can drive me nuts sometimes.
Really, there isn’t much left (so to speak) anymore.
Now this is just freakin’ sad:
Richard Belzer gets a call from Lawton Smalls.
😡 🙁 :slap: :rant1:
Lawton, you traitor! :spank:
Say it ain’t so Kent…..say it ain’t so!
Wonder what that is all about? WOW! And how unfunny is Randi and any ‘humor’ bits on her show?!
Lawton Smalls to be a regular 😮
Maybe the loss of Randi has opened up AAR management to the cold cold reality that they’re truly in the :crap:
In my heart of hearts maybe they’re trying to pave the way to entice Marc back. He’d KILL in that time slot :banana:
In any case, I hope AAR is showing Kent some love. Belzer isn’t much as a straight man.
Hmmm :tap:
Lawton all week according to Maddow. RR gone? Maybe some salary room there at AAR?
Hmmm :tap:
Man, Lawton was in great form but Belzer wasn’t reacting to him at all. Not like Marc would!
I don’t think Marc would go back to AAR unless he had a really really tight contract and plenty of money. He’s been burned twice by them. They don’t know how to develop talent so they go with people like Springer and maybe now Rosie O’Donnell. They’re stupid and uncreative.
If Lawton is going to be on all week, I may have to listen. Nothing else to listen to.
The key to Lawton is to break him down…make him cry…only Marc can do that…
It didn’t work for me. Beltzer sounded befuddled by him.
:knit2:
The only thing AAR can do to show good faith to its audience is to give Sam a daily show. I’m sure they’re getting lots of pressure but if past performance is a guide they’ll ignore it and hire Jerry Springer or Alan Colmes. :fustrate:
Maybe they give Brush Lintball a spot.
Yeah, Lawton is a bully. But, a bully created by cruelty and abuse. You gotta stand up to him. Maybe Belzer should have listened to some old Lawton and got a clue about his psychology. I bet Lawton misses Marc something awful. 🙁
Woah! The Mike Condello Combo and Hub Cap and the Wheels playing at 7th st and Bethany Home Rd RIGHT HERE IN PHOENIX! Look for the flaming tiki torches! Probably in 1967, so, I’m a little late. Just heard it on Tech Web Sound. Mike Condello was a big local band and they were on The Wallace and Ladmo Show, the longest running kids show in teevee history I think. I moved here as I turned 16 so, I didn’t care about The Wallace and Ladmo Show but many of my friends either have or have coveted a “Ladmo Bag” 😯
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia
Prognosis: They will rename the network “Law & Order: BH4J (Bong Hitz 4 Jayzus)”
KP,
On our local community radio station we’ve got a show every Friday night called Radio Rumpus Room. Jean and Ron split that era into HotRod music, Surf music, Psychedelic, and Garage, with some Rockabilly country thrown in.
http://www.myspace.com/radiorumpusroom
TechWebSound is like 24 hours of this show so I appreciate the link
Woah! Bob Seger doing an Air Force commercial. He sounds like a kid!
Jefferson Airplane doing a Levi’s commercial ca 1967
“Right now with your white Leeeeevi’s”