Behind the Curtain, Episode 5
I had a great fifth episode – well technically sixth. I covered the
following articles:
- No Evidence Of Assassination Plot Barack Obama ‘Assassination Plot’ | World News | Sky News
- ABC News: Obama Speech Stage Resembles Ancient Greek Temple
- Comcast to make monthly Internet use cap official: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
- Comcast: Users Who Exceed 250GB Cap Twice Face Service “Termination”: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
- Bloomberg.com: News
- McCain’s veep choice is historic and hardly known – Yahoo! News
- Analysis: Palin’s age, inexperience rival Obama’s – Yahoo! News
- Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
- MTV Newsroom ยป Sarah Palin, Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee, Plugs Romney, Paul — But Not McCain — In MTV Interview
- My Way News – New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation
I also played a funny song given to me by my friend Bec!
Take The Tuss Challenge! I played lots of Aphex Twin to prepare to see if The Tuss just represents yet another of Richard D James’ whacky aliases, then I
played The Tuss to prove the point. Some REALLY weird music
again by the Aphex Twin followed as I made the most important
announcement I have ever made on my show: that I have decided with
Goddess’s help to extend it to a third hour! In the fifth episode, it
went from two to three hours. Kallisti! I wound things down with some
nice ambient music, then ended it with some Rush as I read the
announcement of the evacuation.
Our New Address!
The other night, Goddess Herself inspired me to move my blog to a new domain. I got tired of saying “sunbeem dot net slash Austin, and SunbEEm has two E’s.” After considering my available options, I quickly settled on behindthecurtain.us. In this case, the .us top level domain seems very appropriate. Because I like to go that extra step, I made sure that the old sunbeem.net/austin address will work. This includes any articles or tags anyone may have saved. I believe in backward compatibility, and in not breaking things. I just wrote that whacky letter to Denis Kucinich! We can’t have him not finding the proper page! Let me know if anything still seems broken. I still have a little work to do.
My Detailed Summary of Obama’s Nomination Speech
Firstly, I meant to write two days ago, but have had a headache. I had to yet again resolve a billing issue with my ISP. They forgot to cancel my web hosting service with them, and kept charging me for it. I had all the dates and everything in front of me, and got my credit. I said to my Mom, that between dealing with Dad and dealing with my ISP, I feel like I’ve gotten an associate law degree or something. “Maybe you should get an associate law degree. You’d make a good lawyer.” She always told me that as a kid. Later, on the Simpsons, they showed the one where Bart gets hit by a car driven by Mr. Burns. The SImpsons get Linell Huts. He shows Bart how to fake injuries. “I don’t mind you boys doing this in the living room, but in a court of law, don’t you have to tell the truth?” asked Marge. “Yes,” replied Linell quickly, “But what is truth – if you follow.” Then later in the courtroom: “Now that’s what I call believable testimony!” awesome. It just seemed funny and
synchronistic.
Yesterday, they preempted my shows for stupid baseball. Whenever this happens, I sadly think back to when WPHT preempted Terence McKenna’s last interview on Coast to Coast A.M. with a baseball game. I had to listen to a long distance station to hear his dying words.
Tonight, when I turned on the Simpsons, I saw an extended news break about Obama’s big speech tonight. It seemed funny and genuine to compare last night with tonight. One has a commentator yammering in the background, the other has Hillary Clinton yammering in the background! The Simpsons showed the one where Homer and Marge meet in highschool. “Is that a bong?” They wrote Homer’s part well in this episode, showing the interplay between guys and girls, and how they think differently and their intentions get all misconstrued. In the end everything works out of course. I wish it would in real life. They followed that with the one where Santa’s Little Helper needs obedience training. The lady misreads his name as “Satan’s Little Helper” which sent me thinking along some odd lines involving neurolinguistic programming. Did they do that on purpose, revealing the awful thing hidden in plain view to program the masses? Who knows. Then, they showed the Seinfeld where Elaine’s nemesis wears a bra as a top, and they
get their own fast-talking lawyer. Another weird synchronicity.
I figured I should buckle down and watch the stupid Obama speech. I turned on CNN which just played it live, without stupid pundits talking. I heard a song: “Get out of your head, and into your heart. Brothers of Abraham, get out of your head, and into your heart.” Now, if you want to talk about NLP and mind control, there you go! I couldn’t believe it. I had to go upstairs to get ready properly for this ordeal.
I decided to take a power nap, since I didn’t get much sleep last night because of my headache. I lay down….. and awoke around eleven! I lay in bed for another half hour. When I finally came down, I heard a commercial instead of the speech. I guess my subconscious really didn’t want me to see it! I did read three sentences of a summary online. It went something like this: Change change change we can do better than the last eight years, change. Change change change McCain means more Bush, change change change. Change change come together for change and unity change. Stalin brought change too!
TV Torture
Welcome to today’s episode of Zen TV. First, they showed a classic Simpsons, the one where Marge tries to censor Itchy and Scratchy. “I guess I learned that one person can change the world, but probably shouldn’t.” I hope that doesn’t apply to Impeachmint! Next, they showed the one where Homer goes on “Frame Up” the new reality show from Fox. Again, we see the theme of extreme misuse of television. “In four days…” begins a commercial for a movie. They actually had one recorded for each day up to the arrival of this movie. Does that mean that “In four days…” we won’t have to deal with these commercials anymore? I doubt it. They also seemed to show a lot of cereal ads for 07:00 PM. I hadn’t eaten, usually I do beforehand, so this time I noticed the food ads a little more.
As a vegetarian, the ad for the Beef and Bacon something or other somewhat bothers me. The inane chorus of “Bacon bacon beef bacon bacon beef” seems fitting. Note the magickal 2-3 rhythm. Perhaps the masses do deserve a meal made from cows and pigs, comments a brutal part of myself, then I remember the reason for doing these active meditations, and return to the sensible present.
I had more work to do during Seinfeld. Ten years ago, I didn’t want a partner, so didn’t really care, but now I do want one, and not having one bothers me. Not only that, but I analyze these things for propaganda value. Speaking of, I challenge anyone reading this to find me a commercial featuring an exchange between a man and a woman where the man wins. You can’t, because you won’t find one. A Cheerios commercial brought this to mind. Men suck, women rule, shut up and take it. Women who fall for this propaganda should research its origins (hint: CIA). Anyways, one of the subplots in this episode revolved around the female sponge becoming unavailable. This dates it in a rather interesting way. I can remember sleeping through Sex Ed class and them presenting sponges, then learning that they no longer sold them. Watching shows from this era of the mid nineties kind of freaks me out, because things have changed so much since then. Cell phones and the Internet have changed everything. Some quick Internet
searching even turned up the fact that sponges have returned… Not that it matters!
The second later episode had far fewer sexual overtones, and concentrated on George wanting a Frogger machine with his initials “GLC” as the high score. This also dates things, them “remembering that night” would put them in their twenties. I enjoyed that one. At the end, I saw a commercial. “Meet great single women in your area.” I had a bad feeling. “Call and you’ll be chatting with exciting women.” Goddess does this to mess with my head. She knows what I really mean, and that I want a REAL woman. “You don’t even need a credit card.” Warning! warning! “Call 215-936-LINK. Only fifty cents a minute.” Fifty cents? What could you say in a minute? Somehow I don’t think these people want to have deep intellectual conversations. It blew me away. Fifty cents? Good Goddess! I don’t feel THAT desperate! Wow! Now I feel better. I also feel better because I don’t have a computer from Best Buy.
And now today’s paradox: Communication can only occur between equals. No two people share all traits, making them unequal. How can communication occur?
My letter to Congressman Kucinich
Dear Congressman Kucinich:
As you know, we live in a critical time, and impeaching the Bush administration plays a crucial part in the fight to reclaim this great country. I became involved in Ron Paul’s grass roots campaign as soon as he announced, and supported him all through his campaign. I helped run an Internet radio station to that effect, and have done other Internet-related efforts as well. Although the two of you ran in separate parties, the two of you have much in common, and I know a lot of Ron Paul supporters hold you in a positive regard. Most recently, you scored big points in the freedom movement by beginning an inquiry to begin an inquiry to begin a trial to begin impeachment of these war criminals. During the initial hearing, I felt particularly annoyed by the Bush apologist who claimed that America “does not live in the same bubble” and does not favor impeachment. I wished for a way to let the grass roots which have spoken so powerfully to show this support for this critical procedure.
Later that night, it hit me like a bolt of lightning: a simple and fun way that people could easily show their support. I invented a new icecream flavor called Impeachmint Icecream – the first ever peach-flavored icecream with a light mint frosting to show support for impeachment of the Bush administration for committing war crimes. I composed a little slogan in my head, and have written several blog entries about it.
I prototyped the flavor as detailed there, with delicious results. At first I didn’t know how the flavors would taste, but they go together quite well. I sent a suggestion to Ben and Jerry’s, but to no avail. While thinking what else I could do, I had the idea to at least make you aware of it. I don’t know what you could do, but I really like the idea, and thought at the least you would enjoy it and it would give you a little laugh, and at the most we could really pull it off and do it! Ron Paul’s campaign showed the potential untapped power of the grass roots, and this idea taps into that potential. People across the political board favor impeachment, and a simple icecream flavor one could buy to register their vote in essence would send a powerful and tasty message. They could no longer say that the public doesn’t favor impeachment when Impeachmint sells in surprisingly large numbers, which it would. If you favor impeachment, then flavor Impeachmint!
I know you have a lot to do, but if you would like to contact me, feel free:
Austin Seraphin
au@sunbeem.net
xxx-xxx-xxxx
http://sunbeem.net/austin/tag/impeachmint
Best of luck. The American people support you!