Episode #160: 500 Channels Of Crap
First Broadcast: 10/5/98. Repeated: 10/12/98
Which is probably what
Al
Gore's "information superhighway"
would have ended up being if nobody had discovered the fact
that
The Internet already existed. Oh, by the way: if you're
a sick passenger aboard a subway train: forget about getting
an ambulance to drag your sorry ass to a hospital in anything
resembling a reasonable amount of time, since I was on a train
this past week where just such a thing happened and no less
than 20 minutes elapsed before some
NYFD paramedics
showed up on the scene to help out this poor
collapsed bastard in a suit. TWENTY MINUTES! Did you know the
human body can
bleed
to death in three minutes or less?
Fuckin' train. Good thing I didn't have to go anywhere
important like WORK or anything--ha-ha. Guess they just
put another train on the other track without opening it up
or sending it anywhere just so they could remind us passengers
that we really had no business expecting trains to go places
in the first place now, did we? I wonder what would have
happened if I didn't have one of those unlimited passes?
You think they would have reimbursed me for the $1.50 I paid
them for not taking me anywhere if I had bothered to speak up
about it? You think any of those conductors on a train
know what the hell to do if any life-threatening emergency
happens? Damned if I know, but if this past incident is any
indication, then we're in deep shit, folks.
Episode #161: Rudy Giuliani: Pet Killer
First Broadcast: 10/19/98.
The title this time is based on an article in (shudder) The New York
Press ("Best Indication That Rudy Giuliani's A Vicious Swine: Killing
the Pets at 172 Stanton St.": NYPress Best Of Manhattan, Manhattan Living,
Sept. 23-29, 1998, p. 34), one of the many things I touch on in yet
another eclectic episode. Other topics include
the New York Public
Library (specifically,
the new business branch),
The Post Office,
and
the
many candidates running for governor
here (though I'll save the rest of that discussion for another episode).
Episode #162: Temas Electorales
First Broadcast: 10/26/98.
Referring to
the questions which
may or may not be on the ballot in
the
upcoming election here in New York City. Not to mention the lack of
candidates in this
year's guide, a few memories of
Penn
Station,
the LIRR,
and other nonsense.
Episode #163: A Whole Bunch Of Others
First Broadcast: 11/2/98.
If you vote for the
Marijuana Reform Party on
Tuesday, that's great. If you
vote for the
Green Party (even though they tried to throw the Marijuana
Reform Party off the ballot earlier in the year), that's not so bad. Even
if you vote
Socialist,
it's not the worst thing in the world. Just as long
as you vote so that you're
part of the solution instead of
the problem.
Episode #164: Third Place
First Broadcast: 11/9/98.
Which is where the
Marijuana Reform
Party candidate ended up in the
Senate race for New York State--but you'd never know it if you watched
election coverage around here. At least the
New York Times had the
decency to give the party their own abbreviation ("MRP"), as opposed
to the "Oth." (for "Other") the Times had used in the past--and at the
very start of election coverage this past Tuesday. Of course, that
didn't stop other sites like
ABC.com from just listing them as "Ind" for "Independent"--
as if changing the label would change the fact that people actually belong
to and voted for a party that had
"marijuana" in its name!
Hell,
CNN didn't list any minor party candidates at all--as if they
didn't even exist!
Not to mention the way
Al Lewis was ridiculed at almost every turn for
his candidacy for Governor. Sheesh, if Jesse Ventura was a member of
the
Green Party, everyone would be laughing
out of the other sides of their mouths now, wouldn't they?
Episode #165: All The Trailers You Can Eat
First Broadcast: 11/23/98.
Referring to the trailer
for
the new Star Wars movie due out in 1999. Also
discussed: the latest effort by the US to bomb
Iraq, and
other stuff.
Episode #166: Low Uranium Content
First Broadcast: 12/7/98.
Where I compare the apparent bias of
a Reuters news article with
a more
enlightening article from The Nation re:
depleted uranium ammunition
used in the Gulf War.
Oh, and
Drew Barrymore and
David Letterman got a mention also.
Episode #167: Twist, Santa, Twist
First Broadcast: 12/14/98.
Yet another salute to the
Christmas
season, featuring a whole bunch of
Christmas clip-art, and a bunch of
Christmas tunes. What else do you want? It gets busy for us during the
holidays.