Episode #184: "The Cheap Place To Go"
First Broadcast: 7/5/99
I guess that doesn't mean
lofts in New York City, or anywhere
in SoHo, or
any apartment in Manhattan for that matter. But
I talked about those things anyway. That and
gentrification.
And money
for education. And the
bible. And other stuff.
Episode #185: "Vatican II: The Sequel"
Episode #186: "Rub The Buddha"
Episode #187: "Breaking News"
Episode #188: "Skin Of A Drum"
Episode #189: "The Laws Of Nature
Don't Exist"
Episode #190: "Murder or Dogslaughter?"
Episode #191: "License To Kill"
First Broadcast: 7/12/99
Mentioning
the bible two weeks in a row? Yeah, it's odd, but stranger
things have happened. And, by a strange coincidence, we found a verse
that directly relates to
a Beastie Boys song. Or, is it a
conspiracy . . . ?
P.S.: Here's
that South Park review I was talking about. WARNING:
CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!
First Broadcast: 7/19/99
Buddha was only
a small part of the conversation this week. Mostly,
me and Kim talked about Con Ed,
and our
illustrious mayor's efforts
to sue them for
the blackouts which happened in Washington Heights
in the beginning of July.
First Broadcast: 8/2/99
A discussion about--among other things--
the obsessive nature of the media's
treatment of
John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s death,
the China-Taiwan crisis
which got eclipsed in the process, and the double-standards used
to cover
the brokerage murders in Atlanta
versus
the shootings in
Littleton,
Colorado.
First Broadcast: 8/9/99
This week, my opening remarks about
Queen Elizabeth II
were cut off (by us;
you didn't miss anything) in favor of an expanded review of
The Blair Witch Project,
which I think is probably the best horror film ever made, right next to
Psycho and closely followed by
Night Of The Living Dead,
though I never had trouble getting to sleep after seeing the
Hitchcock and
Romero movies.
Blair Witch,
on the other hand, continues to creep
around in your head long after you've left the theater, with its images
popping up at the most inopportune times--like late at night just as you're
about to fall asleep in a pitch-black room and hear some strange noise
coming from around the corner--or was it outside? Anyway, it was well-done,
no matter
what Amy Taubin says. Anyone who sees this movie as embodying
an anti-female-filmmaker bias is--I think--projecting their own experience
onto the text (as if that needs to be said, but I guess it does) and missing
the point that the male and female characters in the movie
all met their demise in an equally horriffic way. Death (or a
fate beyond death?), in this case, did not discriminate.
First Broadcast: 8/16/99
Where this week we talk mostly about
the recent decision by
the
Board of Education of Kansas to no longer advocate the teaching
of
Darwin's theory of
Evolution in its schools, because they feel that sort of science
conflicts with
the beliefs
of the local Christians there. Can you
imagine if people from some other religion or some other country
made a decision like that, or if some non-Christian group tried
to do that in New York State? They'd be laughed out of town!
Oh, but when
Creationists do this,
it's serious business. Is it
any wonder that I'm not Christian?
First Broadcast: 8/30/99
Are the recent incidents of cruelty towards 3 dogs by
the N.Y.P.D.
(2 dead,
1 with four
teeth kicked in) merely signs of incompetence on the part of the police,
or are they symptoms of a much greater contempt and homicidal attitudes
towards people, as
torturing animals is a sign
of such
attitudes in serial
killers according to the F.B.I.? And if so, does this mean the police
are hiring people without checking to see if these sort of traits already
exist? Or does it mean the police are encouraging these traits to develop
where they haven't existed before? I don't think there's a good answer
here, no matter what it is.
First Broadcast: 9/6/99 Episode was started too early (at about
4 in the countdown, showing off our "tone here" message") and
cut off our end credits. Repeated: 7/31/00
What does the rash of
recent
killings
by cops say about
the New York City Police Department?
What does it say about
their
attitudes towards human life?
What does it say about the Mayor?
What does it say about the rest of the country?
Be prepared.
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