It ain't Larry. Robots can't be eaten.

Copyright 2008 Rev. Damien Darko. All rights protected by law and violence

Continuing from yesterday...

The blonde with the snake was now standing on two chairs with her legs spread apart. She'd been joined on stage by a pair of dwarves in bunny suits jumping up to perform cunnilingus on her, though mostly unsuccessfully. I found the entire scene a bit trite, to be honest. Considering the billing over the front door, I expected something a bit more creative out of "Big Daddy". I slammed down my glass of what may have been whiskey and headed for the men's room.

Inside, I went to a stall and took one of the peyote buttons from my pocket and started chewing on it while I opened the vial of "mystery power" and poured a small pile on the back of my hand.

Your average person would have tasted the powder to see what they had, but I'm a seasoned professional. Even though I'd know bloody clue what it was, I'd never have admitted that in front of my audience (consisting of a half-spooled roll of toilet paper, an odd yellow-green stain on the floor and, apparently, the Hindu god Ganesh, who was standing before the mirror and adjusting his tusks.) Instead, I buried my nose in the pile and sniffed deep.

I sat for a moment or two, dealing with the burning feeling in my nostrils, coupled with the twisting in my guts from the initial button-burn. On the stall door, some brilliant poet-lauriet had inscribed a ditty about rolling their fecal matter into balls and feeding it to someone. Brilliant stuff, there. Still, I had to wait for the right moment.

After what was either a couple of minutes or six months, I hear the blare of trumpets and saw the flash of green lightning telling me it was time to move from there. It never failed. Anytime I combined these two wonderful substances (being I had identified the mystery dust as powdered milk, though I have never figured out WHY I had a small vial of the stuff with me), I was always treated with a brass fanfare and multi-coloured weather patterns.

Went to Target last night, EVRYTHING is made in china. EVERYTHING...

It ain't Larry. Robots can't be eaten.

Posted by LeeAtwater

And it ain't Klifferd. Muslims like to beat the real thing.

Copyright 2008 LeeAtwater. All rights protected by the left.

Jello From the Moon

Oh the sky is purple-green and the birds fly up their noses
Dodging the green Jello that's dripping from the moon
And the sun is small and yellow and it's smelling up the sky
Because the world is sweaty on this day-night of June
Where the hell is my banana? It's flying 'round the room
And the orange rolls up nightly, it's a stupid little guy
Oh my rainbow is a tricycle and rolls me 'round the world
And drops me on my nose 'cause I've fallen from so high
Oh your eyes they do freckle dear, why oh why oh why?
Come here and kiss my elbow before it runs to France
If the warts on frogs and mushrooms were using Oxy 5
Would the world be pink and rosy, if they only had a chance
The paisley and the argyle sing pretty little tunes
About the love of money and the ringlets from the carrots
But the time it writes it's name on tiny little cupcakes
It frosts them with some plaid and throws them to the ferrets
The chalk it rolls, it's smelly too, alas, my socks do cinder
But the bloo is in the toilet and it's winking it's eye still
At the pink strip-teasing trees that fly to the green Jello
Still dripping from the moon and tasting light of dill
"Do you speak in tongues, dear, does your elbow run to France?
Hey, what's your sign, baby? Do you know Marquis De Sade?
Can you fly up to the moon that's dripping with green Jello
And fish around inside it to feed yourself on cod?"
Oh, this is what the dogs say as they run from to and fro
And the moon and sun do wander from the north into the south
But the pigs sit on the checkers and free the knights and lads
And go to Chattanooga to put things in their mouths
The pencil and the pen went bowling in the sunset
Because the Appalachians became a bit too small
And the buildings in them wonder about the iron board
Why does it smell of turpentine, why doesn't it just fall?
Seconds tick and write their names on pizzas large and tiny
Because the frogs all sit on chessboards and wander to the wall
The keyboards only laugh confusedly and drop the black keys to T.V.
But cheese graters all stare blankly at the fireworks in the hall
Venetian blinds sing to Venetia, she's a tiny little god
And the world is a brick building with Venetia on a rafter
She cocks her head, she cocks here eye, she smells around a bit
Picks up a crystal bell and rings the room with laughter
And she digs up some nightly crawlers and she sticks them in her ear
As they wriggle and they giggle and they look up to the moon
Ah yet it drips green Jello that smells a bit of dill
And it falls onto the tile and is ate by a raccoon
The paisley is declared unsafe by the piglets in the sky
Oh they fly up high so high as the stars go flitting by
They give a little sigh even though the tables die
He's a stupid little guy as he waves his hand goodbye
Oh the sky is purple-green and the birds fly up their noses
Dodging the green Jello that's dripping from the moon.

"Went to Target last night, EVRYTHING is made in china. EVERYTHING..."

Posted by 08r4ever

Well you better run along back to your Rethug Heaven Walmart, then.

Don't let the door hit you enormous ass on the way out.

"No country for old men" fucking blew. I want my rental fee back. I also want that silencer that dude had for the shotty.


Axe shops at Lane Bryant.

"Went to Target last night, EVRYTHING is made in china. EVERYTHING..."


The best news conference Lil Bush ever gave was the one where he announced his "manufacturing czar" in front of all the boxes that had to have "Made in China" painted over with "Made in the USA".

Even Lil Bush's props are made in China. I wonder if the codpiece was as well.

No Country for Old Men was good in book form. The movie was disappointing. The villain looked like a woman and did not scare anyone.

I wonder if the codpiece was as well.

Posted by 726 at 2008-03-26 12:20 PM | Reply |

I'm sure you do.

The fascination with Bush's crotch on that day is pretty amazing, until of course you realize all liberal males are homosexuals.

Gay pot calling the kettle a fag again. Congrats, HellBound.

Still copryrighted, so don't even bloody think of it.

I returned to the main floor of Big Daddy's to find that the dwarves were now in the process of some deranged version of the "chicken dance", possibly trying to seduce the bottle-blonde. She seemed to be going through the motions of masturbating with a jalepeno pepper and the cheap-suited men wear starting to howl like monkeys over it.

At the end of the bar, there was a short red-headed bloke. He seemed tired or depressed. He wasn't drinking much and he kept reaching into his pocket, but never pulled anything out of it. Like me, he was completely bored by the spectacle on stage. I wondered over.

The bloke looked at me nervously, but didn't say too much. That was understandable, as, upon approach, I saw he had three inch-high ninjas on his left shoulder, all trying to stab his ear.

Eventually, I had to break the silence.

"What's going on, Mate?" I asked abscent-mindedly.

He looked at me and opened his mouth as to speak two or three times before anything came out.

"My partner was just grabbed by the pigs, man. Now I've got an appointment to keep in Brockton, Mass, and I can't get there. I've got two fuckin' weeks and no transport and if I'm late, they're going to fucking kill me."

"Appointment?"

"Yeah, man. I've got ... you a cop? You've got to tell me if you're a cop, otherwise it's entrapment, man."

Even through the orange-haze settling nicely over my brain, and the obnoxious thumbing of rap and the site of ninjas trying to pierce this bloke's ear, I knew he had no bloody clue about law enforcement. Fortunately for him, I wasn't a cop.

"Naw, mate. I'm a fuckin' PREACHER! Man of the cloth, I am. Whatever you tell me is like confession. Cops can't even get it out of me with fuckin' truth-serum."

"A preacher, man? No shit?"

"No shit."

"Okay, man. I've got connections, right? But I can't travel on my own. No car and I'm not going by fuckin' bus. So I hooked up with this asshole with wheels. He was going to take me up to Brockton, man, but he got nailed. I've got his fuckin' keys, man, but I can't ride the fuckin' thing."

"What've you got, mate?"

"Twenty ounces of grass and about half a key of coke and some acid."

"Sounds like a party. Lead the way, I'll get you where you're going."

By now, I was surrounded by huge crowds of various gods from all types of religions. Impressive, huge things with eighty-seven arms and eyes of fire. I almost lost this bloke in the crowd, but I managed to follow him out the back door to a parked Harley fat-boy with two huge saddle-bags and a side car.

Half a key? A KEY? For chrissakes, who'd you're editor?

Or mine, for that matter!?!

Just created a thread on the back page for that Gallup poll.

If it shows up that is.

Half a key? A KEY? For chrissakes, who'd you're editor?

Just writing it how I remember it, Jo.

Not everything is made in China.

I was made in Billings, Montana on a rather brisk January 15, 1952. Don't know about wine but a great time for me to be born.

Still copyrighted by putting it on a plank and banging a few nails through it

Love

By LeeAtwater

Love Hate
Squirrel
Mouse Mouse Red Hat
Berry!
Berry Football

Egg!
Black Pin, Pink Hat
Green Green Grass
Spleen Coleslaw
Spleen Coleslaw
Spleen Coleslaw
Cheesecake!
Oh, Love, Shag
Swim, Rock, Tree,
Plane, Bird

Love, Spleen,
Love...

Gay pot calling the kettle a fag again. Congrats, HellBound.

Posted by Billy "Jomama" Wolfe

Typical White Fact-Based Reasoning (updated)
By Randall Hoven
Senator Barack Obama said in his memoir, The Audacity of Hope, "The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact." Yet he also claimed that to fear a black person on the street more than a white person is a racial "stereotype", "bred" into us.

To the contrary, such a fear is actually "grounded in reason and fact." When the numbers are crunched, a black person is almost six times more likely than a white person to be a murderer.Senator Barack Obama in his Race Speech said his white grandmother "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street". In a follow-up interview he clarified that remark by saying,

"She is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there is a reaction. That has been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way." He described such feelings as, "racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

It is true that Jesse Jackson confessed to the same fear . More importantly, that fear is a rational one, borne out by "reason and fact". The data are available.

The U.S. Justice Department provides a breakdown of homicides by the race of both the victim and offender. Looking at the data for 2005 (the latest year available), we find that whites committed 48.0% of all murders and blacks committed 51.2% of all murders.

However, whites outnumber blacks in the population. In fact, non-Hispanic whites are about 69% of the population and blacks are about 13% .

These statistics alone, that blacks are 13% of the population but commit 51.2% of the murders, indicate that blacks commit a seriously disproportionate number of murders.

wow those are disturbing numbers, i mean i know it is the USKKKA'S fault but geez what is the problem here. any thoughts?

...until of course you realize all liberal males are homosexuals.

the party of unity huh?

There's no way you old queens will vote for that cunt.

Obama's Problem with White Voters
The racial dimension of Barack Obama's electability problem is now apparent, but no prominent Democrat dares discuss it openly. Similarly expect no discussion of the subject in the major media.

The white working class vote

Consistently, and by large margins, Obama has lost the white working class vote to Clinton in all states critical to the Democratic ticket this November. The lurking suspicion -- impossible to verify or refute -- is that much of Clinton's handsome portion of this demographic will not go to Obama in the November election.

The salient fact is this: in settings where the two races deal more directly with each other, and get to know each other better, through shared public schools, workplaces, public conveyances, universities, etc., they seem to like each other less, not more.

This fact is laid bare, at least for anyone willing to see it, by the Democratic primary results thus far.


The widely disparate residential patterns of the races is obvious: in Wisconsin, the vast majority of whites live, work, shop, and send their children to school in a world that includes few if any blacks; in Ohio the reverse is true, and the races regularly brush up against each other in all these categories of daily life. Judging from how well Obama did among white voters in these states (satisfactorily in Wisconsin, abysmally in Ohio) increased racial familiarity is not a boon to the Illinois Senator.

The sad truth about racial interaction

Simpy put, blacks and whites are not doing well together in America, circa 2008. Obama's battle with Clinton, all the pretty rhetoric notwithstanding, is remorselessly exposing that undiscussed fact. Obama is hurt by this -- severely it would appear -- in states where the races interact extensively, particularly at the working class level; while, in states with few blacks, the lamentable state of America's race relations is masked and Obama does reasonably well among white Democrats.

Michelle Obama attended Princeton and the Harvard Law School. Taking her at her word, interacting with whites in these rarified settings did little to improve her feelings about her country, including, presumably, the whites who made up the majority of her classmates. Given America's current rules of racial engagement -- which allow negative views of whites by blacks to be expressed but forbid the reverse - Mrs. Obama felt free to express herself publicly (though now, no doubt, wishes she had been less candid).

Whether this voting pattern will persist is a matter on which no guess is ventured. Whether the Wright fiasco will worsen it for Obama is unknowable. That the pattern does exist is an indisputable fact.

ie; they ain't votein' for no nigger.

Axe shops at Lane Bryant.

Posted by 101Chairborne at 2008-03-26 12:20 PM |


The Chairpoodle must have run into him in the dressing room area.

"The Chairpoodle must have run into him in the dressing room area.

Posted by itsme at 2008-03-26 02:18 PM"

From behind.

"The Chairpoodle must have run into him in the dressing room area.

Posted by itsme at 2008-03-26 02:18 PM"

From behind.

As opposed to Itsme, who's only there to shop for his wife.

No country for old men" fucking blew.

I finally saw it last week. It was OK, not great, not bad.

Plano has no sheriffs, BTW.

As opposed to Itsme, who's only there to shop for his wife.

Posted by JOE

He found out he can shop online for her at www.petco.com

101 and Joe both didn't like "No Country For Old Men"?

Ha! That movie rawked out loud with bells on.

Was it the lack of a feel-good Hollywood ending that you didn't like?

Spud thought it was the best thing the Coens have done ever and Spud's seen all their flicks multiple times. Takes them right back to Blood Simple and shows you how far they have advanced since then.

Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin were awesome and Javier Bardem totally deserved his Best Actor Oscar. Best Film for 2007 and deservedly so.

Spud likes films that don't neccessarily have happy endings.

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means"

~Oscar Wilde.

"No Country For Old Men" [last lines]

Loretta Bell: How'd you sleep?
Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Had dreams.
Loretta Bell: Well you got time for 'em now. Anythin' interesting?
Ed Tom Bell: They always is to the party concerned.
Loretta Bell: Ed Tom, I'll be polite.
Ed Tom Bell: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember to well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

Be Well.

Spud-

Did you read the book? As often occurs, I thought the book was great and that the movie was slightly disappointing. That's all I was saying. Had I not read the book I might have thought better of the movie. I did not find Chigurh's look or demeanor to be what the book portrayed.

Wis...God has punished me for gloating over our weather. Mon and Tues were around 28 in the a.m. only hitting mid fifties and windy.




But... hot damn we are going to hit 77 Fri!

But... hot damn we are going to hit 77 Fri!

Posted by kerrin57

14" of freaking snow last Friday. Another 6-8" forecasted for Thursday night. I'm ready to start packing....

On August 8, 2003, your president and (alas) mine told reporters in Crawford, TX:

"The vice president and I went fishing. We threw our first lure at about 6:20 a.m. this morning. Looks like - turns out the fish like cooler weather than hot weather. Probably the press corps feels the same way. Turns out this is our hundredth day since major operations have ended, ended in Iraq."

See Mark Morford this morning? I never use this phrase lightly, but it should be required reading around America: "(T)he past seven years of the inept Bush regime have been miserable and shameful, sure we've been humiliated, mortified a thousand ways from Sunday by an administration that would yank the legs off a dog if it meant a thank you note from Dubai."

That's the gentle part. See it on sfgate.com. herm

"I search for Zoltan, a great martial artist". An interesting but not "A" movie.

For those that saw it but forgot, Zoltan is the guardian of "THE Book". The book of knowledge. Our hero (forget his name) makes the arduous trek and gets to look at "THE Book". He was asked by Caradine (yes, of Kung Foo) "did you look at the Book?" Yes! "And what did you see?" "Everything"!

Question of the day-From a martial artist point of view, What did the book contain? Or maybe better way to say it, What did he see?

I really liked No Country for Old Men.

My wife thinks that Chigurh did not kill the woman at the end.

I can't convince her that he did.

Copyright 2008 Rev. Damien Darko. All rights protected by law and violence

Posted by RevDarko at 2008-03-26 12:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

.....and who says my EXCELLENT advice isn't taken? (for those who read yesterday's nooner)...lol

I'm not sure what Lane Bryan is but assuming its a high end clothing retailer, there's no way they have anything made in the USA for sale. Nearly all those shops use southeast asia sweatshops to make their $2000 dresses and $5000 suits.

The only 'high end' clothing I own is an expensive tweed cap my wife insisted I purchase in Galway, Ireland last year. I bought it in the shop where they made it, I saw the loom the material was made on but I did not meet the sheep that grew the wool. With my luck they were probably Chinese sheep.

Lane Bryan is but assuming its a high end clothing retailer
AXE...midrange for big&fat chicks. Somebody shot up one of their stores last month.

Did you read the book? As often occurs, I thought the book was great and that the movie was slightly disappointing. That's all I was saying. Had I not read the book I might have thought better of the movie. I did not find Chigurh's look or demeanor to be what the book portrayed.

Yup. Great book but you really can't compare a book to it's filmed version fer a variety of reasons. A book is a medium in which more details are to be found than a movie and internal dialougue a major componenet. A film is more of a puzzle with clues scattered throughout to reward the diligent viewer who really pay attention.

Spud found that the Chigurh of the book to be more classicly a villain than the portrayal of same in the film. It was the fact that he was able to seem so menacing despite a truly tragic haircut and a low key demeanour that made him such an effective screen villain to Spud.

In their entire distinguished film career the Coens have written all their movies themselves. Only twice have they delved into other writers works for their inspiration. The first time was when they transplanted Homer's "The Odyssey" into a rural southern setting replete with real life historical characters (John Goodman rawked as the Cyclops). The second time was with Cormac MacCarthy's "No Country For Old Men". It was inevitable that they would take the material and work their own perspectives into it. From Spud's perspective it was a totally fresh and highly effective reworking of someone elses material.

Spud ire was more directed at the impossible POS that is 101 rather than yer own rather mild criticisms, Joe.

My wife thinks that Chigurh did not kill the woman at the end.

I can't convince her that he did

~2112

He killed her all right.

A "promise made is a promise kept" with that psycho.

The only chance she had was with the coin toss and she rejected it.

Be Well.

What's the great thing about zombie strippers?














They leave you tips.

While I agree that you can't really compare the two, reading the book beforehand can ruin a movie for you regardless. I almost laughed when I saw Chigurh in the movie and couldn't get over that.

I'll leave you all today with another quote about the internet from Senator Ted Stevens:

"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

"It's a series of tubes."

Some are in parallel.
Especially KT-88's.

From the Morford article:

America is apparently still being run by inbred white collar thugs who would blind their own mothers for an uptick in Exxon share prices.

By the way, it has also come to pass that this same president, amid an appalling laundry list of scientific and environmental abuses, has actually worked firsthand to worsen the quality of the very air itself.

It's as true as it is disgusting. It turns out that Bush himself stepped in to force the already troubled Environmental Protection Agency to defy its own mandate, its own scientific recommendations, ordering it to raise the limits for allowable ozone (it was about to recommend the exact opposite), all for the benefit of his pals in Big Energy.

No president ever dared such a move before. In fact, Bush's action was so unprecedented, so galling, so against the very structure of government itself that an army of White House lawyers had to scramble to rewrite the legal justifications for the lower air standard. Do you smell that? That's the scent of the most shamelessly foul leader of the free world. Breathe deeply, because it ain't over yet.

So then, torture, pollution, more war, Wall Street megalomania, incompetence like some sort of satanic mantra. If you had any lingering doubt that Bush was an arrogant and petulant man-child with the mind of a violently overpampered 10-year-old, please abolish it now.

"But I'm more with those who say, no, the truth is we will never truly recover, that America's former ranking as Gilded and Irreproachable Empire No. 1 is dead and gone. India and China are dramatically changing the game, peak oil is nigh, fresh water is the new gold, the planet itself is in paroxysm, Mother Nature is quickly revealing her hand -- or rather, maybe just that one big, stormy middle finger.

But maybe this is the best news of all. Because the sort of gluttonous empire Bush so disgustingly represented was doomed to failure. The center could not hold. Dubya may not have hastened the apocalypse like the evangelicals desperately prayed he would, but he certainly is hastening the end of the bloviated American ego.

So maybe the real question is not can we return to our former ill-gotten superpower glory, insular and unparalleled and reckless and arrogant, or even peaceful and defensive and ironclad. The true question is, do we have the slightest clue what we want to become instead? "

Clinton Thinks I'm to Stupid to take care of myself.

Obama Thinks I'm Racist.

And McCain doesnt even realize I may exist.


Whats a voter to do?

My wife thinks that Chigurh did not kill the woman at the end.


OK--Hubby picked up a copy of this from someone at 7-11. The guy burned it to a CD and it had the picture of the movie poster on the disc.

So we thought this was a pirate copy--per the seller.

And at the end of the movie--it cut out when the bad guy --the crazy killer was talking with the wife of the cowboy who got killed--right...?

And then it cut out! Without the end of the movie or the credits--that's what he gets for spending 3.00 for a CD!

So now I'm reading here that the ending was not known? That we don't know if the guy killed the wife?

Now I want to go kick the butts of the writers!

Murphy

"Now I want to go kick the butts of the writers!

Murphy"

Now the writers want to kick YOUR butt for fleecing them, and the FBI wants to arrest your butt. (Better bring a paddy wagon.)

Read the book, it's way better.

I'm about halfway through the book (short book, started it yesterday) and I'm having a problem with lack of proper punctuation. I need quotation marks! Damn, that makes it hard to read! Kind of like reading Sarge's Capitalize Of Every Word or Celisary's excessive CAPITIALIZATION and !!!!!!!????????

But once you get past that, it seems to be a good book.

"(Better bring a paddy wagon.)"

That's racist. Me bucko.

No it ain't Jomama. I just said that because Kerrin has more junk in her trunk than two Aunt Jemimas.

Dude, you need to seek a lesser influx of gravity.

Goat: Most of his books are that way, when I first started to read him it took awhile to get used to it.

Where's TADOWE? I haven't seen him around lately nor has he made any comments. Is he okay?

"Where's TADOWE? I haven't seen him around lately nor has he made any comments. Is he okay?"

Is he okay?

That would indicate a "cure."

Hans

Goat: Most of his books are that way, when I first started to read him it took awhile to get used to it

I guess I'm just too old-fashioned. Can't teach an old goat new tricks and all that. But it is a good book and worth struggling through the odd style of writing. If it was any longer, I'd have given up on it. I'll probably finish it on the plane tomorrrow.

His book The Road was good too.

Posted by nullifidian at 2008-03-26 05:44 PM

Morford column
www.sfgate.com

Monte--

To be fair--We don't know if it was a pirate copy--it had the picture of the movie poster on the disc.

It likely was--and I told hubby to stay away from crap.

But you should see what he brings home from the swap meet. OMG! The garage is great yard sale fodder and he thinks it's all wonderful.

I gotta say though--he bought two pictures and one is worth $268.00 on ebay and the other he has to take down to La Jolla to check out (she wants to open the back up) as the price was $2447.00--each bought for about $3.00 each.

Murphy

Hubby is a picture freakoid. There are like 20 framed pictures--IN THE GARAGE!! Scarface, Pirates of the Carrabean, Marilyn, Liv Tyler from the Hobbit, Rolling Stones, Palm trees--good grief--NYC--WTC pictures--Everywhere!

Murphy

Captain: "Charlotte Tower, US Airways 1536 is with you on ten mile
final, passing 8000 for 5000."
ATC: "US Airways 1536, Charlotte Tower, radar contact, ten miles,
cleared to land, number two behind company traffic five miles at your
eleven oclock, altimeter thirty point one one, winds two five zero at
five, traffic three oclock, experimental Bede Jet, one mile, no
factor."

=BANG!=

Captain: What the hell was that?!?!
First Officer: Oh, man, sorry about that, I was doing my NRA-mandated
prelanding checklist on the Smith and Wesson pocket cockpit protector.
Captain: Are you out of your damn mind???
First Officer: Get off my back or I'll report you to Mr. Heston.
Captain: Are you retarded? You put a damn hole through the plane!
First Officer: So what? We'll write it up as a micrometeor strike.
Captain: From the inside? Put that damn thing away!

ATC: "US Airways 1536, Charlotte Tower, that traffic at your three
oclock is reporting gunfire coming from your direction, said the
tracer damn near creased his hairline. What's going on over there?"

First Officer: Tell them it was a bird strike or I'll shoot you.
Captain: Shut your piehole, idiot.

Captain: "Tower, US Airways 1536 is declaring an emergency."

=CLICK!=

First Officer: (Damn. Forgot to reload.)

=ZAP!=

First Officer: AIEEE!!!!
Captain: (Thank goodness for pocket tasers.)

=DING!=

Captain: "Flight attendants and Ms. Clinton, prepare for sniper
fire... Oops, I mean, prepare for landing."

cage fighting is on now tune in to the versus network

Hans, you may want to consider rescheduling "Situation Awareness" A repeat of the Magic Bullet Infomercial is airing at the same time.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali ...a courageous woman.

This Sunday's broadcast of Shakedown Street (4:00pm Pacific Time) should be one of our best.

Hans

Posted by Hans at 2008-03-27 10:50 AM | Reply


Unfortunately, nobody will know.

"Unfortunately, nobody will know."

BlogTalkRadio places paid advertisements at the beginning of our archived broadcasts.

Since they're in the business to make money such a move is based on a dollars-and-cents decision, the best bang-for-the-advertiser's- buck, as it were.

BlogTalkRadio apparently sees that the traffic to the Free World Radio Network's broadcasts on their network warrants such a decision.

Capitalism at work.

Hans

More like the ads are placed free of charge and then somebody gets paid "per click".

"More like the ads are placed free of charge and then somebody gets paid "per click"."

Would be true if every single BlogTalkRadio archived broadcast had such ads.

They don't.

Hans

Would be true if every single BlogTalkRadio archived broadcast had such ads.

They don't.

Hans

Posted by Hans at 2008-03-27 11:07 AM | Reply |


Who said "every single"...Oh, you.

Chair.

Please explain how one would "click" from an audio stream.

"Who said "every single"..."

BlogTalkRadio places paid advertisements at the beginning of our archived broadcasts.

Since they're in the business to make money such a move is based on a dollars-and-cents decision, the best bang-for-the-advertiser's- buck, as it were.

If other broadcasts had such traffic BlogTalkRadio would place ads on their archived broadcasts.

If, as some claim ("More like the ads are placed free of charge and then somebody gets paid "per click".) then every single BlogTalkRadio archived program would have such ads.

They don't.

Capitalism at work.

Hans

Postscript - Might want to check out the advertising rates for, say, the Drudge Retort. They aren't "placed free of charge and then somebody gets paid "per click".

"Please explain how one would "click" from an audio stream."

Exactly.

Hans

Depending on the ad, it's called a "per inquiry", I called it a "per click" because we were talking web based.
That being said, in order to get to the streaming audio, doesn't somebody need to go to a web page?...

Postscript - Might want to check out the advertising rates for, say, the Drudge Retort. They aren't "placed free of charge and then somebody gets paid "per click".

Posted by Hans at 2008-03-27 11:15 AM | Reply


No shit sherlock, but then again, people actually come to the retort in measurable numbers.
You may want to ask rogers about what he was "charging" before Boyd and his multiple handles brought the numbers up.

"That being said, in order to get to the streaming audio, doesn't somebody need to go to a web page?..."

Sometimes:

Tell me about the advertising jugernauts that blogtalkradio has...
Surely you have some hard hitters that want a lot of bang for their buck.
McDonalds? Pepsi?
Or perhaps not.

"You may want to ask rogers about what he was "charging" ..."

Don't need to.

I was a paying advertiser here on the Drudge, much like... no, exactly like the paying advertisers on BlogTalkRadio.

Hans

You may want to get yourself an agency (or ask anyone that has ever had anything to do with advertising) if you actually paid anything for the net (especially this site) when the numbers were low.

Either Rogers is one hell of a salesman, or you have plenty of money to give away.

Following this thread, Hans implies they make money from their radio shows.

This brings up a question: Does rcade have rules prohibiting anyone from hawking their own wares on his blog? I've never been on a blog or listserve that did allow this (other than ones set up for that express purpose, of course) I assumed it was allowed here since the free world radio network did not make money.

Hans hawks his radio show all the time. To a much lesser extent, so do rev and briwo. He implies he makes money. Can any of the other DR posters who are in business for themselves advertise themselves here, too? Or will you prohibit that, rcade?

Just wondering.

Goat,
Using the radio shows as a cheapshot and taunt is one thing. We all play the gotcha game, but where you are taking it is where I'll bail out.
It's the nooner, and these guys I presume were members to the retort before they were radio kats. It's not as if they spam the site.

Let's not resort to the Retort Leftwing Loon tactic of "flagging" things we find odd/offensive/disturbing. That would make us crybabies just like "them".

Following this thread, Hans implies they make money from their radio shows.

Actually, Hans implies that our shows have sponsors, which is true. The money paid goes mostly to BTR for their overhead. We receive a small percentage of it.

However, if Rogers has a problem with my promoting my show here because of that, I will, obviously, abide by his decision on that.

At the same time, though, I do promote the Retort on air quite often, so it is a bit of a two-way street in the regard.

We all play the gotcha game, but where you are taking it is where I'll bail out.

I'm just wondering if anyone is allowed to hawk there wares here (on the nooner, of course) I have a very small enterprise that puts a couple of extra bucks in my pocket a month. Am I allowed to advertise it here?

It was an innocent question from a capitalist, 101.

Oh, so ads are not "placed free of charge and then somebody gets paid "per click"?

Exactly.

Hans

Posted by Hans at 2008-03-27 11:36 AM | Reply


You seem to be arguing with yourself here. You're the one that said "every", not me.
Look, if you were dumb enough to pay for the net then that's on you. If the advertisers you mentioned have ads then chances are they're pay per click. The ones on "audio" have a phone number or some other identifier that tells them where the interest or inquiry came from.

If you are naive enough to believe that shows like Rome, Rush, Stephanie Miller, and Ed Shultz have to do per inquiries but BlogTalkRadio does not then there's no helping you.

"Hans implies they make money from their radio shows."

BlogTalkRadio is in the business to make money from our radio shows. That's how they offer the service for free. If it exceeds a certain amount, the broadcasters themselves receive a portion.

"Hans hawks his radio show all the time. To a much lesser extent, so do rev and briwo."

Besides the couple of mentions today (thanks to cookfish), care to reference where I "hawk" my particular broadcast "all the time"?

Here's a hint: You can't.

But then again, you are known for *ahem* exaggeration ("goatman leaves" sound familiar) from time-to-time.

Hans

("goatman leaves"

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-03-18 11:07 AM

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-20 09:00 PM

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-20 08:44 PM

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-05 07:28 PM

Live in the now:
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Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-05 06:34 PM

Live in the now:
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Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-02 10:47 PM


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We limit our discussions of our network to the nooner and a single thread at most per week for each show (and we don't always do that).

I understand all that and I'm cool with it. However, some seem to think my question is about content. It's not. It's about money. I want to know if I can exploit the DR to put a couple of extra dollars in my pocket, too.

I hope rcade sees this and answers.

"We limit our discussions of our network to the nooner and a single thread at most per week for each show (and we don't always do that)."

Agreed. And when I personally bring up our network it is usually to "hawk" something exciting about my colleagues' shows, like Briwo's broadcast this weekend.

"Actually, lately, The Free World Radio Network is more often brought up by right wing detractors around here to try and down-play us.

"I find that funny, since it actually winds up giving us a lot more publicity."

Sort of the "any publicity is good publicity" concept.

Hans

Postscript (to 101) - Thanks for your 11:38am post.

I hope rcade sees this and answers.

I'm about to send him an e-mail regarding this question, in the interest of full disclosure.

Hans won't live in the now, as he'd have to acknowledge that his hair declared Mutiny on the Baldy.

Oh - and Listen to Free Radio Network. Where's my check?

Actually, lately, The Free World Radio Network is more often brought up by right wing detractors around here to try and down-play us.

YEah, I see them linking to it all the time.

We limit our discussions of our network to the nooner

oops

Video: Clinton Dodges Sniper Fire

"Hey - maybe you should try internet radio! Briwo and The Baldy Show!

I appreciate the opportunity you've so graciously provided:

On Situation Awareness my topic is The Carnival of the Liberals, with founder Leo Lincourt.

But the really exciting news this week is on Shakedown Street. Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Briwo, welcomes one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2005, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (press release).

Complete details on all of the Free World Radio Network schedule, programs, and hosts can be found on our home page.

Thank you again, cookfish, for giving me that perfect segue to introduce some of our upcoming programming!

Hans

Posted by Hans at 2008-03-27 10:12 AM

Goat, notice that Cookfish brought it up.

"And needless to say, this isn't the only time hans has gone outside the nooner to hawk his show."

Apparently, some here have a real reading comprehension problem:

("goatman leaves"

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-03-18 11:07 AM

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-20 09:00 PM

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-20 08:44 PM

Live in the now.

Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-05 07:28 PM

Live in the now:
...
Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-05 06:34 PM

Live in the now:
...
Hans
Posted by Hans at 2008-02-02 10:47 PM

Besides the couple of mentions today (thanks to cookfish), care to reference where I "hawk" my particular broadcast "all the time"?

Here's a hint: You can't.

au contraire, mon ami