Behind the Curtain, Episode 17
Filed under: Behind the Curtain, Politics, Technology
We had a nice show tonight. I had two weeks of news and events to catch up on. I tried to give a nice end of the year summary at the beginning and at the end. I played some great tunes as always, and covered a bunch of news articles. The music started a little loudly, but chilled out as I got settled.
- Retail Sales Plummet
- My Way News – Retail gasoline prices drift to 58-month low
- FT.com / MARKETS / Commodities – Cocoa hits 23-year high on supply fears
- Internet sites could be given ‘cinema-style age ratings’, Culture Secretary says – Telegraph
- Obama bristles as the bubble closes in
- Blagojevich Impeachment Panel Split on Subpoena for Obama Aides
- My Way News – Attorney: Ill. governor won’t fill Senate vacancy
- Illinois court rejects attempt to remove governor
- Washington Times – EXCLUSIVE: Obama wants Bush war team to stay
- Ted Turner Says there’s too many of us
- Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN): Obama Backing North American Union Agenda
- spp.gov
- My Way News – Chaos in Gaza as Israel’s strikes continue
- Obama: No Comment on Gaza Slaughter
- Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto 12/22/2008: Where’s The Bailout Money
After getting talked out, I had some fun in the third hour chilling out with some wonderful music. I also went on a nice Lord of the Rings
inspired rant. I also gave shout outs to my friends at Break the Matrix, and a special shout out to my friend Elissa.
A Quick Update
I just wanted to give a quick update. I will do my show tonight. I’ve had a lot going on with the holidays, etc. I had a great Solstice celebration, watching the Lord of the Rings with my girlfriend.
The vibe abruptly switched to the stressful brutality of Christmas Eve dinner with my Dad. After wandering aimlessly through Philadelphia at his consternation that restaurants actually closed on Christmas eve, we ended up at Ted’s Montana Grill, the perfect place for a New World Order-hating vegetarian! Oh well, I got a gardenburger and fries, another surreal dinner with Dad.
Christmas went well enough though, and we really pulled it together by the end and I felt some of the good vibes again on that special day. I still prefer the Solstice!
Anyways, another year will soon begin in the Gregorian and Discordian calendar, so we shall see what happens.
Legend.
Something rather weird happened to me this morning. In the past, I’ve received an occasional call asking for Legend. Perhaps they call him that because of his legendary crack dealing abilities. The whole thing had a weird vibe to me – an unusual name, with rather strange sounding people, definitely not from this area. One day, it got out of hand when this one stupid woman called at least twenty times in a day. That past, and I sort of forgot about it.
Today, I got an automated call, telling me I had a collect call from Northampton Prison. “Call from… It’s Legend. Pick up.” Needless to say, I blocked all calls from the facility, as provided in the options. The guy sounded like the guy who called here FOR Legend. Why would people call here for someone, then the alleged person call here? It just makes no sense, and the more I try to think about it, the more that it seems like it aught to make some kind of sense, but the more it doesn’t.
Have I simply become the victim of a misunderstanding, or perhaps something more sinister? Have some people harassed me for some reason on purpose? Maybe I’ve uncovered Philadelphia’s major crack-dealing gang or something. It has that kind of feeling. Clearly, these people do not represent the cream of the crop so to speak. Actually, it reminds me of something straight out of the movie Idiocracy. These two people go into the future- an average white guy and a black prostitute. She feels worried about her pimp, named Upgrayedd. In the future, she attempts to place a call to him. The computer tells her to state the name of the person she wants to call. “Upgrayedd.” she says with her accent. “There are eight thousand listings for…. Upgrayedd.” the computer replies, mimicking her accent in a funny way. You have to hear it to get it, but it sounded exactly like that. And what of Legend? Did he waste his only call on a wrong number? Bummer for him! Now will a bunch of guys beat him to death with a bar of soap
wrapped in a sock? Perhaps the name Legend just means a gang code for crack dealer or something.
These remain unsolved mysteries, and I just wanted to blog it for a public record, and just to get it down, because the whole thing seems very weird. My Mom suggested I call the phone company, and I may if I continue to feel creped out, or if a van of armed black men pulls up at my house. Good Goddess protect us! Hopefully, it’ll just blow over. I suspect it will. Stay away from crack!
Behind the Curtain, Episode 16
We had a weird but to the point show, with a touch of Hunter Thompsonesque brutality. Sorry that some of the music came through a bit loudly. After some initial weirdness, I got into the news.
- The Main Street Economic Effect: 10 Reasons why This Recession will feel like a Minor Depression.
- FT.com / Global Economy – Oil ministers say Opec needs big cut
- Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at ‘dog’ Bush
- Senate Republicans want Bill Clinton to testify at
- Illinois governor ignores Obama’s call to resign – Yahoo! News
- $50 billion at stake after Wall St broker Bernard Madoff is arrested over `world’s biggest swindle’ – Times Online
I then went nuts, and played a sleazy story by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, detailing how the rich on Palm Beach truly live. I mixed music behind it, in a strange controlled accident. It went pretty well for a first attempt. I then continued with the technology portion of the show.
- MyFox Washington DC | McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry to FOX 5 Reporter
- Google cranks up the Consensus Engine o The Register
I then went on a whole rant about how I will stop using Windows entirely, and the virtues of Linux and open-source software. I used Google as an example, of course. I then chilled things out with some ambient music, and closed with some Rush. All and all, a very weird
show, with slightly too loud music, but still enjoyable.
Tweet Tweet
I have integrated my blog with my twitter account. Usually I disdain such public services, but a lot of people use it, and it does have interesting social networking potential, not to mention potential for the NSA to filter your tweets through keyword algorithms, but I digress. Anyway, welcome, Twitter friends! Twitter Tools will also post my twitter updates here. Wordpress rocks! So does Bash Loves Twitter, which allows me to submit tweets via the Linux commandline. No monkeying around with web pages for me!
Update: Twitter Tools dumped a bunch of posts with old updates, weird! I disabled that part. I wonder…..