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9ES172: Praying The Post Ecocide Apocalypse Needs Buffoonery

by on December 6, 2018 at 8:00 am
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Wherein is explained the nature of the simulation.

 

 

 

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The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

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9ES171: Giggling About Junk Since 1978

by on November 22, 2018 at 8:00 am
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9ES170: Courting Disaster With The BCLTA

by on November 8, 2018 at 8:00 am
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Boy I get so excited talking about Dune I forget what I wanted to say and run over my own ideas.

It’s rare that an art enters your life at a critical period, is in fact widely regarded as great, and then grows with age, so that one doesn’t have to regret the nostalgia tainted love.  Like, I was way into Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: it was my first CD; it got a lot of rotation, but listening back to Billy Corgan’s whines as an adult I cannot but be certain: there is the music of a teenage boy.  Sorry Billy.

Not so with Dune.  On this last reread I think I have absorbed some of the more structural aspects of the work.  Where before the complexity overwhelmed maybe now I see the basic scaffold the sci-fi is clinging to.  I use basic here not in the pejorative sense, but more to imply the fundamental Vonnegut-“all stories follow the same basic shape” shape.  This isn’t a bad thing, more of a broadening sense of appreciation for the storytelling devices.  Like I failed to clearly say in the podcast there’s a core story that’s approachable and recognizable hiding behind the sandworms and witches and time piercing space Jesus.  Rare that a book still presents undiscovered country after a half-dozen rereads.

I hope that wasn’t too pretentious.

Anyway, maybe there will come a time when I will look back on the titanic cynicism of the book, the venom directed at the modern institutions of governance (and messiahs!), and remind myself that cynicism is an expression of naivete and I will be past it like the Litany says.  Or maybe I’ll actually enjoy the 3rd book?

Probably not on both counts.

 

 

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The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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9ES169: Froot Broot

by on October 25, 2018 at 8:00 am
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The question, Scott, is which one of us made it out?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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9ES168: Thankfully We’ve No Conversational Road Rage

by on October 11, 2018 at 8:00 am
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The really awful part is that I don’t think any of them were phoning it in, either.  They were trying.  Many, many people worked really, really hard on this thing, and it was just a nightmare.

Dark Shadows [2012] was based on a TV show that ran from 1966 until 1971.  This is the piece that I was missing on the podcast.  It had 1225 episodes.  Breathe that right on in.  Twelve hundred episodes.  It was a daytime TV soap opera kind of thing but kind of Addams Familyeqsque with vampires and werewolves and melodrama and whatnot.  So saying that this thing came from the imagination of Tim Burton is hardly fair.

In fact, playing Barnabas Collins was a dream of Johnny Depp’s, him being a massive fan of the original show.  He worked for a decade to get this thing made.  Roped Burton and Elfman (haha he did score it I just blocked it out) into making it with him.  So this thing is all on Depp.

I honestly feel bad for him.

 

 

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The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

 

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9ES167: Thanos Can Fix Hollywood

by on September 27, 2018 at 8:00 am
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As long as he kills the half who pee on unwilling people and not by making another movie.

Think about what a nice trade that would be.  The end of Infinity War would forever remain a mystery, unless you wanted to read the books or more likely don’t care, and in exchange the bad half of Hollywood is gone.  Not too shabby.  Unless of course being a sexual predator is somehow linked to the quality of your artistic output.  I doubt it, but I guess I only ever listened to like 3 of the trapped in the closet jibberjabbers.

There’s a temptation there, treading into the genius->madness Rubicon, where you might imagine that the tides of suffering vomited by the villains of the world has a net positive impact.  A unified Europe without Hitler?  Somewhere Over The Rainbow without barbiturates and amphetamines?

Yeah fuck that.  All that is nonsense.  We never see what could have been.

 

 

 

The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!

The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

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9ES166: Hockey Season Already Then

by on September 13, 2018 at 8:00 am
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This one makes me think of Justice for some reason.  Maybe with a hint of Battlestar Galactaca.  Like a French new wave synth sci fi epic.  The original one, though.  Where the future looks an awful lot like the 70s.

Years ago I noticed a button that said “album cover” in our .mp3 compressing software and I thought to myself, hey, if we get ole Scotto to format the file right maybe people will get his art delivered to them on their iPhones.  Tragically, this has never actually worked.  I do fill that box in though, so somewhere in the tubes there’s the unique podcast cover page.  Invisible to you.  Visible to the AlphaBet.

Really though, it’s out there hundreds of times.  Possibly thousands.  I mean, just getting these letters typed on the screen the actual data has been copied into 6 or 7 separate physical locations just on my PC.  Getting this text then into the cloud will take a dozen separate machines each with its own network card/network cache/ram/cache/register/hd ritual of processing before the data has been manipulated and passed on to the next spot in the chain.  Then it’s in the cloud.  It’s be copied over and over into who knows how many boxes out there.  Again, remember, each time there are multiple separate physical locations with a new logical arrangement.

If I was the sort of person for whom the notion of cosmic mantra held any weight, this all might concern me.  I mean, I’m about to do it, holy shit, here we go:

Hastur

If you’re reading this, it’s happened already.  I typed the word, it was copied 6 times to get onto my screen and another 60 to get to the cloud, and then 600 more to all the people who download this text.  Him Who Is Not To Be Named has just been.

Anyway, AlphaBet is getting that cosmic ripple injection but of Scott’s episode covers that nobody else ever sees.  Probably will have somewhat less influence than technocthulic ritual mind you.

 

 

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The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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9ES165: Literally Just Strings Of Letters And Numbers

by on August 30, 2018 at 8:00 am
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You work from home long enough you have to start amusing yourself in novel ways.  I watch the squirrels who hang out in my backyard.  There was this one squirrel, he’d hang out in the Y of a branch that kind of stuck out in space.  Maybe he was cooling his balls.  I called him David Bowie because he’d hang out in space.

David Bowie disappeared.  Cat or truck or bird, probably.

I liked to imagine that he’d think of us, sitting on his branch.  I’m not sure such a thing is possible.  Squirrels have black eyes.  They don’t communicate intention with their eyes.  You look at a squirrel’s eyes trying to get into understanding his motivation and he is completely incapable of communicating on that level.  From the squirrel’s perspective we are Lovecraftian Gods, obviously.

I really miss that squirrel.  No other squirrel has moved into his territory so the backyard is kind of boring these days.

 

 

 

The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!

The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

 

 

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9ES164: Finding The Light In The Dark

by on August 16, 2018 at 12:39 pm
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Well this one is late so I won’t digress here.  Turns out someone actually read one of these!

 

 

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9ES163: Summer Festival Recap

by on August 2, 2018 at 8:00 am
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I rewatched The Raid.  Haha that baby-faced dude kicks the hell out of so many guys.  There’s a certain amount of theatricality that is easy to appreciate in a foreign film.  I think the medium is unique in that by not understanding the words they say, we apply to the tone quality delivery of the lines we read.  A linguistic get out of jail free card.  What a relentless movie.

Anyway, action movies are best for working out.  Something about having random violence on the screen while on my bike keeps me energized in a way that no other genre can.  It’s like the action triggers a threat mechanism somehow.  Real talk try working out to Haute Tension.

Wait don’t that might be a bit much.

 

 

 

The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!

The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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