Episode #78: Right, Bonzo?
First Broadcast: 4/8/96
The topics ranged from
Ron Brown's plane crash to Ronald Reagan's movie career, (can't ever forget
"Bedtime For Bonzo," you know) to a fictional Twilight Zone
episode starring the 41st President. By the way, here's an episode
guide to the Twilight Zone if you want it--but be careful!
It's 69K!
Other movie info can be found at the
Internet Movie Database, which has a constantly-growing guide to almost
every movie ever made (though, they didn't have Mothlight (1963,
Stan Brakhage) when I went to look it up, so they still have some work to do.
Episode #79: The Better Business Banquet
First Broadcast: 4/22/96
I mentioned some
of the difficulties I had with my bad hard drive, and how I found out that
the company who sold it to me (Micromax--which sucks!) is
now bankrupt! I got a lot of help from the Better Business Bureau
of Virginia Beach, and I also found a
web site for the national BBB that's informative as well. It's not
linked to all the local BBB's yet, but it's a start. ConsumerWorld also has some interesting links.
Episode #80: Shelling The Capitol Building
First Broadcast: 4/29/96
Well, at least
that's what the title was supposed to say. Kim apologizes for the
gremlins that invaded the chyron this week. For more info on the latest in
Chechnya, and other places around the world, visit
The Nando Times Global section,
or CNN (which is where I got the map
I used for this episode. Yeah, I know I've probably said a few things about
CNN here and there, but they are good for some things. After all, they were
the first ones who had the cameras on the shelling of the Russian Parliament
in the first place . . .
Episode #81: Bypass Corporate Media
First Broadcast: 5/6/96. Repeated: 10/7/96, 12/6/99
. . . Which is exactly what
me & Kim did when we covered the Annual MAY DAY Concert in Tompkins Square
Park. We ran into our favorite editor of
The Shadow, the local Anarchist newspaper; and we also got some info on
the Legalize Marijuana
March on Fifth Avenue which occured a few days later.
It was a nice day to get outside, to say the least.
Episode #82:
A Piece of the Action
First Broadcast: 5/20/96. Repeated: 10/14/96, 6/30/97
--which is, by the way,
the only Free New York Episode that has the same title as an episode of
Star Trek. I guess
it was bound to happen sometime. :) This week, I asked people on the street
what they thought about
human rights abuses in China, and
President Clinton's misguided China
policy, re: China's Most Favored Nation Trading Status.
Wanna get involved? Georgia Tech has a kick-ass
Amnesty International
web page that has lots of links to human rights organizations, and such.
Episode #83: Move It Over, Ho-Dad
First Broadcast: 5/27/96 Repeated: 9/29/97
In case you couldn't tell
by the soundtrack, our show this week was dedicated to surfing, both musically
and on the web. For more surf music info, check out
this site
for the exact definition, or
Phil Dirt's home page
for more about surf music than you ever wanted to know.
This store sells
surf music and other surf stuff over the 'net (as if you couldn't find it
in Manhattan!). I've never bought anything from them, so I can't
recommend them or anything, but they have free .WAV samples you can download,
so it's worth a look. They also have other surf links for those who
actually own a board. As far as web-surfing goes, there's always
Yahoo! --have they been around forever
yet? Lycos is a pretty good search
engine as well, and so is Excite, this
relatively new search which worked ok when I tried it out.
There's probably 20 more engines I overlooked; you can find most
of them here.
Enjoy!
Episode #84: A Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox:
First Broadcast: 6/10/96
A slightly
rambling rant on Clinton's new $1500 scholarship idea, which devolved into
a dissection of that mute marine
Ollie North's politics.
Episode #85: Last Best Hope For Democracy
First Broadcast: 6/17/96
We celebrated the 3-0 decision which
overturning of the so-called "Communications
Decency Act" by joining a rally which was held at the offices of
bway.net a local Internet Service
Provider. The
rally was sponsored by Voters
Telecom Watch, and also included speakers from
Representative Jerrold Nadler's
office, authors of
"Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace,"
Echo (another local ISP), and
Panix (yet another local ISP). A special APOLOGY
to Echo, because
we showed the wrong web site for them in this episode. This will be
corrected the next time we show it. Again, we apologize.
(Hey, even we're not perfect; at least we admit it.)
Episode #86: A T-Shirt and A Rolex
First Broadcast: 6/24/96
A debate over Time magazine's choices for the most "influential"
people in the United States today. As you can expect, I had more
than a few problems with their selection.