Anonymous asked: i need to know the details about you and nad for it breaks my heart.
I’ll be talking about it tonight on my other show Straight Riffin : http://riffin.net at 7pm PST (10pm EST).
Does anyone reading this remember my old show “Aural Salvation”?
I was out to dinner with Nad the other day and, now that we live in separate apartments, our time together is a lot of fun. We riff and roll and get into the craziest conversations, just like old times. He truly is my bittersweet muse. As much as I like to pretend otherwise. And he’s constantly whining that we need to work together on a show again. Sometimes it seems like those were the happiest moments of his life. To a large extent… mine, too.
A thought occurred to me tonight - I actually have all the equipment and tech knowledge to do Aural Salvation right here in my apartment. Two studio-quality mics. Two cameras. Fast internet connection. We could do a live internet TV show and then post the full show as an audio podcast immediately after the show. It would actually be what I always wanted from Aural Salvation back in the day. You’d never miss a show.
Uncensored. Uncut. No commercials. We could smoke, drink, and get high on-cam. We could do it as often or as rarely as we’d like. We’d never have to worry about station politics or another show running into ours.
It could be quite wonderful.
My question is two-fold, and I’d like as many responses as I can get (so send this to any AS fans you know out there) …
1. Would you cum all over yourself to see NEW Aural Salvation, the way I described it?
2. Should we change the name?
Women’s magazines are expensive. In this economy, I can’t just throw 5 dollars out the window to read 8 discreet ways to have sex in public or what Lauren Conrad’s doing with her hair lately. I know you guys get it. Luckily, I’ve read enough of these gems in the past to describe every…
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Assange & Rape
This was too long to post on Twitter, but let me sum it up for you.
MAYBE Assange is wholly a victim of “weird” Swedish laws (despite it being TWO different cases) and is being brought to trial because of what he leaked, and the U.S. et al need any excuse they can to drag the dude in while they build a stronger case.
MAYBE Assange’s leaks aren’t worth a whole hell of a lot, but he likes press and publicity and doesn’t want to be charged with rape when he knows damn well he’s guilty (considering these cases stretch back to before the public announcement of the leaks).
MOST LIKELY.. it’s a combo of both.
Yes, even the most violent of rape cases don’t end up involving multiple nations working together to track down the accused. So, certainly, this isn’t just about the accusations themselves. Someone is using this to their advantage to nail him on something and get him into custody.
But! Are we going to quickly rush to judgment and call both of those women liars over this? Are we going to jump to victim-blaming and push victims of rape FURTHER into the void of shame and guilt because of this?
I think it’s fucked up to immediately come to the defense of Julian Assange (and Polanski before him) based on the merits of their work, and assume any fucked-up actions they may have engaged in to be false accusations.
Considering the statistics of how few rape victims even ADMIT to being raped, not to mention the even smaller percentage of rapists who are punished, I’d sooner side with the victims.
My point is - MAYBE it’s both that he’s a rapist AND a whistleblower. Not everything is black and white. Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil.
Jumping to conclusions, especially when it can keep genuine victims from coming forth out of fear, is where I take issue.
Talk amongst yourselves.
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magalomania asked: Is that a serious question?!
Kinda. I saw it and laughed, cause fakes are funny, but then I thought you should see it as well.
Musings on Turkey Day
It’s always bothered me that Thanksgiving is on a Thursday. Not a specific day, mind you. but Thursday. You’re telling me that the Holiday Folks got together and said “well, we know the year it took place. And we know it was a Thursday but uhh… we lost track of the date itself”?
Moreover, why not Friday? or Sunday? Something where the working person can get away from their shit-job and visit family. Many people still have to work the next day. So, you stuff your face with turkey and guzzle down enough alcohol to deal with your family, and you have to power through 8-9 hours of work in a cubicle the next day? That’s no way to give thanks.
Who do I petition to get that shit moved to a Friday? I think a turkey day that theoretically symbolizes our country’s wonderfulness is best served for a 3-day weekend kinda thing.
And don’t tell me you can’t run some basic math to figure out what day Thanksgiving originally should’ve been.
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This is a preview of the upcoming podcast I’m doing w/my father. The actual show will be a bit more structured, have actual topics, and you’ll know a bit more about the background of both of us.
For now, we just wanted to test it out and see how everything sounds and how it all works. Hopefully, it’s entertaining enough to keep you enticed for follow-up episodes.
P.S. - we’re still unsure of a name, so I’m taking suggestions. You can send them via Twitter, Facebook or Email
magalomania asked: WAH WHY DOESN'T ANYONE WANT TO TAKE A BUBBLE BATH WITH ME?
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll go eat worms!
We’ve been over this time and time again, Magalicious. You require relationships for some arbitrary reason, and I disagree w/that notion. This, of course, assumes there’d be a chance outside of that basic incompatibility but I’d like to state for the record : I’d be all about bubble bath time, damnit.
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This is a video from my “audition” set at Flapper’s last night. I had 3 minutes, and a new bit I’d written that morning. I intentionally ended it abruptly, cause.. really, where else can I go in 3 minutes?
Anyway, I’m posting this here instead of YouTube cause them people is crazy and this is just fucking around. Something that people who read this Tumblr can appreciate a bit more than the YouTubers.
Glimmer of Hope
Y’know, it’s funny to me (not “ha ha”, but more “jesus, how fuckin’ dumb is this shit?”) that from 2000-2008, the government was more involved than ever they’ve been in a very long time - yet I didn’t hear Republicans whining about “Big Government” back then.
Cause it was about “safety and protectin’ our freedom”, right?
What about the freedom to, say, marry the person you love regardless of their gender? Oh, I guess that doesn’t count.
What about the freedom to say “I’m gay, proud, and I wanna fight alongside my fellow Americans”? Hmm.. yeah, I guess we can’t count that either.
Freedom from wiretapping phonelines, unnecessary searches, violation of nearly all personal rights in airports? Let’s pretend that didn’t happen, either, I guess.
Freedom to get birth control, RU-486, or any number of medications and medical procedures that didn’t agree w/the religious affiliation of the person handing out said medication? Another convenient side-effect, brushed under the rug.
Freedom from Enron creating a false energy crisis to drive up false profits to real shareholders? Oh. We’re supposed to forget THAT, too?
Suddenly, a glimmer of hope appeared on the horizon and this country came together in a way I’ve not seen in my (admittedly short) lifetime. The people cried out “enough! the shit is FUCKED!”.
Now, a scant TWO FUCKING YEARS later, despite ALL the warnings that this shit was SO fucked that it wasn’t gonna be easy and it was gonna take a while and g’damnit we’ll get through this together, and this country says “ya know, let’s bring back those assholes who let this fuckin’ mess happen — and contributed heavily to ensure it would happen”? All because some g’damn TAXES got in the way? Taxes for the filthy stinkin’ rich - of which only comprise about 2% of this country? Seriously?
Shame on you. Shame on every one of you greedy motherfuckers.
But there is a glimmer of hope
The glimmer of hope is this - if the angry, huddled, greedy, scared masses who want these soul-raping fucktwats back in control can be appeased…. maybe they’ll shut the fuck up long enough for shit to get done.
Sure, the Republicans will pat themselves on the back and say “you see? we helped! we got it done!”, but hopefully some of us will remember that Daddy can’t work while Baby is whining for his little bottle.
Take that bottle and suck it, pigs.
But, hey, blue-collar worker who’s job has been sent overseas? You wanna know who did that to you? And you know who’s been encouraging them with laws that have been getting pushed through under the seemingly innocuous banner of a “free market”?
Greedy little fuck-pigs.
The same greedy little fuck-pigs who don’t give half a shit about you, the environment, the country you so claim to love, or anything else outside of the fancy new toys they’re buying with all that money they’re not spending on keeping you employed.
Sleep well, America. I hope you find what you’re lookin’ for.
