http://odeo.com/channels/2109411-You-Look-Nice-Today yes A Journal of Emotional Hygiene, staffed by lonelysandwich, scottsimpson, and hotdogsladies. A Journal of Emotional Hygiene, staffed by lonelysandwich, scottsimpson, and hotdogsladies. A Journal of Emotional Hygiene, staffed by lonelysandwich, scottsimpson, and hotdogsladies. en 40 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:21 -0700 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:21 -0700 (c)2008, Trifocal Support Group twitter, california, Parenting, Mann, merlin, sandwich, California, yourmonkeycalled, mann, hot dogs, hijinx, parenting Comedy twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich yourmonkeycalled hot dogs hijinx http://odeo.com/episodes/25266154-In-Congrefs Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes! For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights: Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press. Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador Scott Simpson. Hit the Burlington Coat Factory with your personal shopper for the day, Adam Lisagor. He’ll show you how to cry in the dressing room without leaving unsightly tear stains. After the tour, go with friends old and new to any local Curves™ franchise. Present a copy of this website for 15% off any CurveBurger or Curvey Fries. Seriously. Thanks PHL, you were the hottest one-night stand. Our favorite September 17, 2009 ever. Love, Youse Look Nice Today Photos: Top & ... Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes! For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights: Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press. Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador Scott Simpson. Hit the Burlington Coat Factory with your personal shopper for the day, Adam Lisagor. He’ll show you how to cry in the dressing room without leaving unsightly tear stains. After the tour, go with friends old and new to any local Curves™ franchise. Present a copy of this website for 15% off any CurveBurger or Curvey Fries. Seriously. Thanks PHL, you were the hottest one-night stand. Our favorite September 17, 2009 ever. Love, Youse Look Nice Today Photos: Top & bottom photo by Merlin. All other photos by Scott Troyan. Great work, Scott! Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes! For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights: Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press. Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador Scott Simpson. Hit the Burlington Coat Factory with your personal shopper for the day, Adam Lisagor. He’ll show you how to cry in the dressing room without leaving unsightly tear stains. After the tour, go with friends old and new to any local Curves™ franchise. Present a copy of this website for 15% off any CurveBurger or Curvey Fries. Seriously. Thanks PHL, you were the hottest one-night stand. Our favorite September 17, 2009 ever. Love, Youse Look Nice Today Photos: Top & bottom photo by Merlin. All other photos by Scott Troyan. Great work, Scott! tag:odeo.com,2009-10-08,25266154 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:21 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25256444-In-Congrefs Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes! For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights: Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press. Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador Scott Simpson. Hit the Burlington Coat Factory with your personal shopper for the day, Adam Lisagor. He’ll show you how to cry in the dressing room without leaving unsightly tear stains. After the tour, go with friends old and new to any local Curves™ franchise. Present a copy of this website for 15% off any CurveBurger or Curvey Fries. Seriously. Thanks PHL, you were the hottest one-night stand. Our favorite September 17, 2009 ever. Love, Youse Look Nice Today Photos: Top photo ... Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes! For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights: Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press. Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador Scott Simpson. Hit the Burlington Coat Factory with your personal shopper for the day, Adam Lisagor. He’ll show you how to cry in the dressing room without leaving unsightly tear stains. After the tour, go with friends old and new to any local Curves™ franchise. Present a copy of this website for 15% off any CurveBurger or Curvey Fries. Seriously. Thanks PHL, you were the hottest one-night stand. Our favorite September 17, 2009 ever. Love, Youse Look Nice Today Photos: Top photo by Merlin. All other photos by Scott Troyan. Great work, Scott! Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes! For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights: Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press. Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador Scott Simpson. Hit the Burlington Coat Factory with your personal shopper for the day, Adam Lisagor. He’ll show you how to cry in the dressing room without leaving unsightly tear stains. After the tour, go with friends old and new to any local Curves™ franchise. Present a copy of this website for 15% off any CurveBurger or Curvey Fries. Seriously. Thanks PHL, you were the hottest one-night stand. Our favorite September 17, 2009 ever. Love, Youse Look Nice Today Photos: Top photo by Merlin. All other photos by Scott Troyan. Great work, Scott! tag:odeo.com,2009-10-08,25256444 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:21 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25224248-Breakin-In While under the influence of y, we reveal that Merlin once put x in an envelope. Scott hoped another guy’s x would draw attention away from his own -(x). Adam = 2x. If y = “tequila,” solve for x. Also: Belch alert. Home invasion defense strategies, Breakin’ In to find new friends, the tyranny of drinking glass etiquette, deep in Larry David territory, tip strategies, Adam’s got another ninja sword, Scott’s got a flask, Merlin’s got a cognitive bias. While under the influence of y, we reveal that Merlin once put x in an envelope. Scott hoped another guy’s x would draw attention away from his own -(x). Adam = 2x. If y = “tequila,” solve for x. Also: Belch alert. Home invasion defense strategies, Breakin’ In to find new friends, the tyranny of drinking glass etiquette, deep in Larry David territory, tip strategies, Adam’s got another ninja sword, Scott’s got a flask, Merlin’s got a cognitive bias. While under the influence of y, we reveal that Merlin once put x in an envelope. Scott hoped another guy’s x would draw attention away from his own -(x). Adam = 2x. If y = “tequila,” solve for x. Also: Belch alert. Home invasion defense strategies, Breakin’ In to find new friends, the tyranny of drinking glass etiquette, deep in Larry David territory, tip strategies, Adam’s got another ninja sword, Scott’s got a flask, Merlin’s got a cognitive bias. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-16,25224248 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:29:12 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25136579-Breakin-In While under the influence of y, we reveal that Merlin once put x in an envelope. Scott hoped another guy’s x would draw attention away from his own -(x). Adam = 2x. If y = “tequila,” solve for x. Also: Belch alert. Home invasion defense strategies, Breakin’ In to find new friends, the tyranny of drinking glass etiquette, deep in Larry David territory, tip strategies, Adam’s got another ninja sword, Scott’s got a flask, Merlin’s got a cognitive bias. While under the influence of y, we reveal that Merlin once put x in an envelope. Scott hoped another guy’s x would draw attention away from his own -(x). Adam = 2x. If y = “tequila,” solve for x. Also: Belch alert. Home invasion defense strategies, Breakin’ In to find new friends, the tyranny of drinking glass etiquette, deep in Larry David territory, tip strategies, Adam’s got another ninja sword, Scott’s got a flask, Merlin’s got a cognitive bias. While under the influence of y, we reveal that Merlin once put x in an envelope. Scott hoped another guy’s x would draw attention away from his own -(x). Adam = 2x. If y = “tequila,” solve for x. Also: Belch alert. Home invasion defense strategies, Breakin’ In to find new friends, the tyranny of drinking glass etiquette, deep in Larry David territory, tip strategies, Adam’s got another ninja sword, Scott’s got a flask, Merlin’s got a cognitive bias. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-16,25136579 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:29:12 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25020257-East-Arcadia-State-2009-MindSetter-Sheet At the dawn of each academic year, East Arcadia State University prepares our instructors and staff by curating some facts and observations about the generational differences that are peculiar to our incoming freshman class. By understanding how the world looks to them, we hope to provide the best possible educational experience. In other words: How have things “always been” for East Arcadia’s incoming class of ‘13? First, let’s kick off the ought-niner MindSetter with the hard and painful facts. Folks, there’s no nice way to put this: many of these kids are young and uneducated. Recent data conducted by the prestigous Van Hœt Group suggests that many of the 17- to 20-year-old students who comprise the fattest part of our freshman curve are not yet 21 years old; many are barely older than 16. But, it gets worse. Van Hœt has aggregated, analyzed, and cross-referenced historical data suggesting that as late as September of 1960, at least 40% of the ... At the dawn of each academic year, East Arcadia State University prepares our instructors and staff by curating some facts and observations about the generational differences that are peculiar to our incoming freshman class. By understanding how the world looks to them, we hope to provide the best possible educational experience. In other words: How have things “always been” for East Arcadia’s incoming class of ‘13? First, let’s kick off the ought-niner MindSetter with the hard and painful facts. Folks, there’s no nice way to put this: many of these kids are young and uneducated. Recent data conducted by the prestigous Van Hœt Group suggests that many of the 17- to 20-year-old students who comprise the fattest part of our freshman curve are not yet 21 years old; many are barely older than 16. But, it gets worse. Van Hœt has aggregated, analyzed, and cross-referenced historical data suggesting that as late as September of 1960, at least 40% of the students entering college for the first time did not have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree — let alone the extensive post-doctorate experience we all now understand to be critical for the long-term success of dodging costly loan repayments. Today that number is over 90%. You heard right. That’s “ninety.” With a “b.” So in sum, these kids are mostly under 20, completely hopeless, probably armed, frequently drunk or high on I-don’t-even-want-to-know-what, plus they already can’t afford the education that they haven’t received with the money they haven’t figured out how to not pay back. It’s literally that bad. Today. Here. But we keep our chins up at East Arcadia. It’s one reason everyone loves scarves and complains of chronic neck pain. Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990. Some were born earlier or later than 1990. Our youngest student is a Fulbright Scholar and surprisingly robust preemie who, because he was born last week (36 weeks pre-term), will be our sole tenant in the spanking new Petri Hall. We think the nurturing culture there will suit “Li’l Jacob” well. That said, for all of these students, Thomas Aquinas, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Petrarch have always been dead. Bob Hope and Guy Lombardo have always been assumed to be dead (N.B.: both are, indeed, now dead). Many other people have also been dead, but space and costly mimeograph expenses preclude our typically exhaustive accounting. Thanks in advance for understanding (especially if you’re the obese tenured “atin-lay ofessor-pray” whose entirely avoidable 4th cardiac event singlehandedly sent the entire college’s insurance premiums through the roof. Keep inhaling those pork rinds, Professor. Sic Semper Pork something). Anyway. So, our big, annual question: How’s life always been for this year’s incoming class at East Arcadia? Copper has always expanded when heated. Although, it’s also always been less satisfying as a snack than, say, a Hot Pocket or a slice of cold lamb with a little sea salt and a dash of fresh ground pepper March has never been called “Burkina Faso” which is one possible reason so few of our students choose to attend Spring Break on whatever continent that place is Phones have always had some sort of technical facility for sending and receiving the sound of the human voice while one is nude, dining, or just quietly masturbating to a well-loved 1978 facebook Elephants have always been the one thing most people associate with Hannibal’s famous attack, although almost no one knows why, but they still sing that song “Baby Elephant Walk” and make really obvious Silence of the Lambs jokes until security arrives Golf has always been a costly diversion for tedious white people who dislike their children, but enjoy drinking near sprinklers and pesticides Anilingus has always been something many people of all ages are nervous to ask for (even if it’s for an anniversary or your birthday or because you literally caught your so-called “spouse” doing it to a civil servant like she was eating corn on the cob and Jesus Christ right there in your own goddamned house where your fucking kids sleep at night. Or what have you) Laser bird shoes and the dangerous nesting boxes that are used to store their colorful waste have both always never been invented yet (for now) Tattoos have always been more permanent and cost-effective than an equivalently regrettable t-shirt — especially given the rising popularity of the japanese symbol that someone in rubber gloves whom you just met after Tiffany’s “Sex in the City” themed engagement party while you were admittedly pretty drunk has told you means “Um….’one…ness…of…brave…spirit…woman…hearts…and peace.’ Yeah. It’s Kanji.” Oceans have always been a sloshy, watery, unnavigable presence, teeming with dragons, non-white immigrants, and rich deposits of Lorenzo’s Oil, all floating in completely unknown locations somewhere between the better documented but much smaller big, landy parts of the continent things Jetpacks and moving sidewalks have always been a lazy way to frame false dichotomies about society, technology, and the complex ways that resource scarcity do or do not hew to century-old pulp fiction and coloring books. Related: Steampunk has always been a diverting way to make something pedestrian a little less useful by adding a makebelieve brass thing and some polished wood. (Don’t miss our collection of Jules Verne’s infamous “Felching Jars” and “Walnut Poppers” in the rear of the Lisagor Library, [Wing B]. Ask for “Betty”) Three-card monte has always been a socially acceptable urban application for soiled cards and shoddy, collapsible tables. (FACT: This is why East Arcadia’s marching band still plays Joplin’s popular “Pump the Suckers then Boogie with the Booty Rag” before every football game) For this class, mentioning the music of Mozart has always been a subtle means to evoke sophistication in a way that many people are too polite to call out as proof that the mentioner is so full of shit because did you know that Amadeus actually has enough plot holes and factual errors that it might as well be called Ooooo, Look at Me! I’m Fucking Peter Schaffer, and Apparently I Couldn’t Distinguish Mozart and Salieri from Fucking Simon and Garfunkel Unless I Had a Goddamned Flashlight, Five Viennese Rent Boys, and a Giant Bouquet of Edelweiss Up My Ass. Wheeeeeeeee, Mozart Something Something! Lists have always been a great way to turn a bunch of bullshit into some fast web traffic. So listen to an okay funny podcast called You Look Nice Today (iTunes). As the school year begins, you can start out by learning more about East Arcadia in an episode entitled, “Vachina.” East Arcadia: E Somnus Cholera. (Et Leonem) Photo: Thanks to InsoOutso At the dawn of each academic year, East Arcadia State University prepares our instructors and staff by curating some facts and observations about the generational differences that are peculiar to our incoming freshman class. By understanding how the world looks to them, we hope to provide the best possible educational experience. In other words: How have things “always been” for East Arcadia’s incoming class of ‘13? First, let’s kick off the ought-niner MindSetter with the hard and painful facts. Folks, there’s no nice way to put this: many of these kids are young and uneducated. Recent data conducted by the prestigous Van Hœt Group suggests that many of the 17- to 20-year-old students who comprise the fattest part of our freshman curve are not yet 21 years old; many are barely older than 16. But, it gets worse. Van Hœt has aggregated, analyzed, and cross-referenced historical data suggesting that as late as September of 1960, at least 40% of the students entering college for the first time did not have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree — let alone the extensive post-doctorate experience we all now understand to be critical for the long-term success of dodging costly loan repayments. Today that number is over 90%. You heard right. That’s “ninety.” With a “b.” So in sum, these kids are mostly under 20, completely hopeless, probably armed, frequently drunk or high on I-don’t-even-want-to-know-what, plus they already can’t afford the education that they haven’t received with the money they haven’t figured out how to not pay back. It’s literally that bad. Today. Here. But we keep our chins up at East Arcadia. It’s one reason everyone loves scarves and complains of chronic neck pain. Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990. Some were born earlier or later than 1990. Our youngest student is a Fulbright Scholar and surprisingly robust preemie who, because he was born last week (36 weeks pre-term), will be our sole tenant in the spanking new Petri Hall. We think the nurturing culture there will suit “Li’l Jacob” well. That said, for all of these students, Thomas Aquinas, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Petrarch have always been dead. Bob Hope and Guy Lombardo have always been assumed to be dead (N.B.: both are, indeed, now dead). Many other people have also been dead, but space and costly mimeograph expenses preclude our typically exhaustive accounting. Thanks in advance for understanding (especially if you’re the obese tenured “atin-lay ofessor-pray” whose entirely avoidable 4th cardiac event singlehandedly sent the entire college’s insurance premiums through the roof. Keep inhaling those pork rinds, Professor. Sic Semper Pork something). Anyway. So, our big, annual question: How’s life always been for this year’s incoming class at East Arcadia? Copper has always expanded when heated. Although, it’s also always been less satisfying as a snack than, say, a Hot Pocket or a slice of cold lamb with a little sea salt and a dash of fresh ground pepper March has never been called “Burkina Faso” which is one possible reason so few of our students choose to attend Spring Break on whatever continent that place is Phones have always had some sort of technical facility for sending and receiving the sound of the human voice while one is nude, dining, or just quietly masturbating to a well-loved 1978 facebook Elephants have always been the one thing most people associate with Hannibal’s famous attack, although almost no one knows why, but they still sing that song “Baby Elephant Walk” and make really obvious Silence of the Lambs jokes until security arrives Golf has always been a costly diversion for tedious white people who dislike their children, but enjoy drinking near sprinklers and pesticides Anilingus has always been something many people of all ages are nervous to ask for (even if it’s for an anniversary or your birthday or because you literally caught your so-called “spouse” doing it to a civil servant like she was eating corn on the cob and Jesus Christ right there in your own goddamned house where your fucking kids sleep at night. Or what have you) Laser bird shoes and the dangerous nesting boxes that are used to store their colorful waste have both always never been invented yet (for now) Tattoos have always been more permanent and cost-effective than an equivalently regrettable t-shirt — especially given the rising popularity of the japanese symbol that someone in rubber gloves whom you just met after Tiffany’s “Sex in the City” themed engagement party while you were admittedly pretty drunk has told you means “Um….’one…ness…of…brave…spirit…woman…hearts…and peace.’ Yeah. It’s Kanji.” Oceans have always been a sloshy, watery, unnavigable presence, teeming with dragons, non-white immigrants, and rich deposits of Lorenzo’s Oil, all floating in completely unknown locations somewhere between the better documented but much smaller big, landy parts of the continent things Jetpacks and moving sidewalks have always been a lazy way to frame false dichotomies about society, technology, and the complex ways that resource scarcity do or do not hew to century-old pulp fiction and coloring books. Related: Steampunk has always been a diverting way to make something pedestrian a little less useful by adding a makebelieve brass thing and some polished wood. (Don’t miss our collection of Jules Verne’s infamous “Felching Jars” and “Walnut Poppers” in the rear of the Lisagor Library, [Wing B]. Ask for “Betty”) Three-card monte has always been a socially acceptable urban application for soiled cards and shoddy, collapsible tables. (FACT: This is why East Arcadia’s marching band still plays Joplin’s popular “Pump the Suckers then Boogie with the Booty Rag” before every football game) For this class, mentioning the music of Mozart has always been a subtle means to evoke sophistication in a way that many people are too polite to call out as proof that the mentioner is so full of shit because did you know that Amadeus actually has enough plot holes and factual errors that it might as well be called Ooooo, Look at Me! I’m Fucking Peter Schaffer, and Apparently I Couldn’t Distinguish Mozart and Salieri from Fucking Simon and Garfunkel Unless I Had a Goddamned Flashlight, Five Viennese Rent Boys, and a Giant Bouquet of Edelweiss Up My Ass. Wheeeeeeeee, Mozart Something Something! Lists have always been a great way to turn a bunch of bullshit into some fast web traffic. So listen to an okay funny podcast called You Look Nice Today (iTunes). As the school year begins, you can start out by learning more about East Arcadia in an episode entitled, “Vachina.” East Arcadia: E Somnus Cholera. (Et Leonem) Photo: Thanks to InsoOutso tag:odeo.com,2009-08-25,25020257 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:32:21 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, college, University, academia, sleepy lions, african exchange program twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25089917-East-Arcadia-State-2009-MindSetter-Sheet At the dawn of each academic year, East Arcadia State University prepares our instructors and staff by curating some facts and observations about the generational differences that are peculiar to our incoming freshman class. By understanding how the world looks to them, we hope to provide the best possible educational experience. In other words: How have things “always been” for East Arcadia’s incoming class of ‘13? First, let’s kick off the ought-niner MindSetter with the hard and painful facts. Folks, there’s no nice way to put this: many of these kids are young and uneducated. Recent data conducted by the prestigous Van Hœt Group suggests that many of the 17- to 20-year-old students who comprise the fattest part of our freshman curve are not yet 21 years old; many are barely older than 16. But, it gets worse. Van Hœt has aggregated, analyzed, and cross-referenced historical data suggesting that as late as September of 1960, at least 40% of the ... At the dawn of each academic year, East Arcadia State University prepares our instructors and staff by curating some facts and observations about the generational differences that are peculiar to our incoming freshman class. By understanding how the world looks to them, we hope to provide the best possible educational experience. In other words: How have things “always been” for East Arcadia’s incoming class of ‘13? First, let’s kick off the ought-niner MindSetter with the hard and painful facts. Folks, there’s no nice way to put this: many of these kids are young and uneducated. Recent data conducted by the prestigous Van Hœt Group suggests that many of the 17- to 20-year-old students who comprise the fattest part of our freshman curve are not yet 21 years old; many are barely older than 16. But, it gets worse. Van Hœt has aggregated, analyzed, and cross-referenced historical data suggesting that as late as September of 1960, at least 40% of the students entering college for the first time did not have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree — let alone the extensive post-doctorate experience we all now understand to be critical for the long-term success of dodging costly loan repayments. Today that number is over 90%. You heard right. That’s “ninety.” With a “b.” So in sum, these kids are mostly under 20, completely hopeless, probably armed, frequently drunk or high on I-don’t-even-want-to-know-what, plus they already can’t afford the education that they haven’t received with the money they haven’t figured out how to not pay back. It’s literally that bad. Today. Here. But we keep our chins up at East Arcadia. It’s one reason everyone loves scarves and complains of chronic neck pain. Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990. Some were born earlier or later than 1990. Our youngest student is a Fulbright Scholar and surprisingly robust preemie who, because he was born last week (36 weeks pre-term), will be our sole tenant in the spanking new Petri Hall. We think the nurturing culture there will suit “Li’l Jacob” well. That said, for all of these students, Thomas Aquinas, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Petrarch have always been dead. Bob Hope and Guy Lombardo have always been assumed to be dead (N.B.: both are, indeed, now dead). Many other people have also been dead, but space and costly mimeograph expenses preclude our typically exhaustive accounting. Thanks in advance for understanding (especially if you’re the obese tenured “atin-lay ofessor-pray” whose entirely avoidable 4th cardiac event singlehandedly sent the entire college’s insurance premiums through the roof. Keep inhaling those pork rinds, Professor. Sic Semper Pork something). Anyway. So, our big, annual question: How’s life always been for this year’s incoming class at East Arcadia? Copper has always expanded when heated. Although, it’s also always been less satisfying as a snack than, say, a Hot Pocket or a slice of cold lamb with a little sea salt and a dash of fresh ground pepper March has never been called “Burkina Faso” which is one possible reason so few of our students choose to attend Spring Break on whatever continent that place is Phones have always had some sort of technical facility for sending and receiving the sound of the human voice while one is nude, dining, or just quietly masturbating to a well-loved 1978 facebook Elephants have always been the one thing most people associate with Hannibal’s famous attack, although almost no one knows why, but they still sing that song “Baby Elephant Walk” and make really obvious Silence of the Lambs jokes until security arrives Golf has always been a costly diversion for tedious white people who dislike their children, but enjoy drinking near sprinklers and pesticides Anilingus has always been something many people of all ages are nervous to ask for (even if it’s for an anniversary or your birthday or because you literally caught your so-called “spouse” doing it to a civil servant like she was eating corn on the cob and Jesus Christ right there in your own goddamned house where your fucking kids sleep at night. Or what have you) Laser bird shoes and the dangerous nesting boxes that are used to store their colorful waste have both always never been invented yet (for now) Tattoos have always been more permanent and cost-effective than an equivalently regrettable t-shirt — especially given the rising popularity of the japanese symbol that someone in rubber gloves whom you just met after Tiffany’s “Sex in the City” themed engagement party while you were admittedly pretty drunk has told you means “Um….’one…ness…of…brave…spirit…woman…hearts…and peace.’ Yeah. It’s Kanji.” Oceans have always been a sloshy, watery, unnavigable presence, teeming with dragons, non-white immigrants, and rich deposits of Lorenzo’s Oil, all floating in completely unknown locations somewhere between the better documented but much smaller big, landy parts of the continent things Jetpacks and moving sidewalks have always been a lazy way to frame false dichotomies about society, technology, and the complex ways that resource scarcity do or do not hew to century-old pulp fiction and coloring books. Related: Steampunk has always been a diverting way to make something pedestrian a little less useful by adding a makebelieve brass thing and some polished wood. (Don’t miss our collection of Jules Verne’s infamous “Felching Jars” and “Walnut Poppers” in the rear of the Lisagor Library, [Wing B]. Ask for “Betty”) Three-card monte has always been a socially acceptable urban application for soiled cards and shoddy, collapsible tables. (FACT: This is why East Arcadia’s marching band still plays Joplin’s popular “Pump the Suckers then Boogie with the Booty Rag” before every football game) For this class, mentioning the music of Mozart has always been a subtle means to evoke sophistication in a way that many people are too polite to call out as proof that the mentioner is so full of shit because did you know that Amadeus actually has enough plot holes and factual errors that it might as well be called Ooooo, Look at Me! I’m Fucking Peter Schaffer, and Apparently I Couldn’t Distinguish Mozart and Salieri from Fucking Simon and Garfunkel Unless I Had a Goddamned Flashlight, Five Viennese Rent Boys, and a Giant Bouquet of Edelweiss Up My Ass. Wheeeeeeeee, Mozart Something Something! Lists have always been a great way to turn a bunch of bullshit into some fast web traffic. So listen to an okay funny podcast called You Look Nice Today (iTunes). As the school year begins, you can start out by learning more about East Arcadia in an episode entitled, “Vachina.” East Arcadia: E Somnus Cholera. (Et Leonem) Photo: Thanks to InsoOutso At the dawn of each academic year, East Arcadia State University prepares our instructors and staff by curating some facts and observations about the generational differences that are peculiar to our incoming freshman class. By understanding how the world looks to them, we hope to provide the best possible educational experience. In other words: How have things “always been” for East Arcadia’s incoming class of ‘13? First, let’s kick off the ought-niner MindSetter with the hard and painful facts. Folks, there’s no nice way to put this: many of these kids are young and uneducated. Recent data conducted by the prestigous Van Hœt Group suggests that many of the 17- to 20-year-old students who comprise the fattest part of our freshman curve are not yet 21 years old; many are barely older than 16. But, it gets worse. Van Hœt has aggregated, analyzed, and cross-referenced historical data suggesting that as late as September of 1960, at least 40% of the students entering college for the first time did not have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree — let alone the extensive post-doctorate experience we all now understand to be critical for the long-term success of dodging costly loan repayments. Today that number is over 90%. You heard right. That’s “ninety.” With a “b.” So in sum, these kids are mostly under 20, completely hopeless, probably armed, frequently drunk or high on I-don’t-even-want-to-know-what, plus they already can’t afford the education that they haven’t received with the money they haven’t figured out how to not pay back. It’s literally that bad. Today. Here. But we keep our chins up at East Arcadia. It’s one reason everyone loves scarves and complains of chronic neck pain. Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990. Some were born earlier or later than 1990. Our youngest student is a Fulbright Scholar and surprisingly robust preemie who, because he was born last week (36 weeks pre-term), will be our sole tenant in the spanking new Petri Hall. We think the nurturing culture there will suit “Li’l Jacob” well. That said, for all of these students, Thomas Aquinas, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Petrarch have always been dead. Bob Hope and Guy Lombardo have always been assumed to be dead (N.B.: both are, indeed, now dead). Many other people have also been dead, but space and costly mimeograph expenses preclude our typically exhaustive accounting. Thanks in advance for understanding (especially if you’re the obese tenured “atin-lay ofessor-pray” whose entirely avoidable 4th cardiac event singlehandedly sent the entire college’s insurance premiums through the roof. Keep inhaling those pork rinds, Professor. Sic Semper Pork something). Anyway. So, our big, annual question: How’s life always been for this year’s incoming class at East Arcadia? Copper has always expanded when heated. Although, it’s also always been less satisfying as a snack than, say, a Hot Pocket or a slice of cold lamb with a little sea salt and a dash of fresh ground pepper March has never been called “Burkina Faso” which is one possible reason so few of our students choose to attend Spring Break on whatever continent that place is Phones have always had some sort of technical facility for sending and receiving the sound of the human voice while one is nude, dining, or just quietly masturbating to a well-loved 1978 facebook Elephants have always been the one thing most people associate with Hannibal’s famous attack, although almost no one knows why, but they still sing that song “Baby Elephant Walk” and make really obvious Silence of the Lambs jokes until security arrives Golf has always been a costly diversion for tedious white people who dislike their children, but enjoy drinking near sprinklers and pesticides Anilingus has always been something many people of all ages are nervous to ask for (even if it’s for an anniversary or your birthday or because you literally caught your so-called “spouse” doing it to a civil servant like she was eating corn on the cob and Jesus Christ right there in your own goddamned house where your fucking kids sleep at night. Or what have you) Laser bird shoes and the dangerous nesting boxes that are used to store their colorful waste have both always never been invented yet (for now) Tattoos have always been more permanent and cost-effective than an equivalently regrettable t-shirt — especially given the rising popularity of the japanese symbol that someone in rubber gloves whom you just met after Tiffany’s “Sex in the City” themed engagement party while you were admittedly pretty drunk has told you means “Um….’one…ness…of…brave…spirit…woman…hearts…and peace.’ Yeah. It’s Kanji.” Oceans have always been a sloshy, watery, unnavigable presence, teeming with dragons, non-white immigrants, and rich deposits of Lorenzo’s Oil, all floating in completely unknown locations somewhere between the better documented but much smaller big, landy parts of the continent things Jetpacks and moving sidewalks have always been a lazy way to frame false dichotomies about society, technology, and the complex ways that resource scarcity do or do not hew to century-old pulp fiction and coloring books. Related: Steampunk has always been a diverting way to make something pedestrian a little less useful by adding a makebelieve brass thing and some polished wood. (Don’t miss our collection of Jules Verne’s infamous “Felching Jars” and “Walnut Poppers” in the rear of the Lisagor Library, [Wing B]. Ask for “Betty”) Three-card monte has always been a socially acceptable urban application for soiled cards and shoddy, collapsible tables. (FACT: This is why East Arcadia’s marching band still plays Joplin’s popular “Pump the Suckers then Boogie with the Booty Rag” before every football game) For this class, mentioning the music of Mozart has always been a subtle means to evoke sophistication in a way that many people are too polite to call out as proof that the mentioner is so full of shit because did you know that Amadeus actually has enough plot holes and factual errors that it might as well be called Ooooo, Look at Me! I’m Fucking Peter Schaffer, and Apparently I Couldn’t Distinguish Mozart and Salieri from Fucking Simon and Garfunkel Unless I Had a Goddamned Flashlight, Five Viennese Rent Boys, and a Giant Bouquet of Edelweiss Up My Ass. Wheeeeeeeee, Mozart Something Something! Lists have always been a great way to turn a bunch of bullshit into some fast web traffic. So listen to an okay funny podcast called You Look Nice Today (iTunes). As the school year begins, you can start out by learning more about East Arcadia in an episode entitled, “Vachina.” East Arcadia: E Somnus Cholera. (Et Leonem) Photo: Thanks to InsoOutso tag:odeo.com,2009-08-25,25089917 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:32:21 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, college, University, academia, sleepy lions, african exchange program twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24953406-The-Good-Part You’re gonna love it—the guitar does this “Wheeee!” thing while the drums go all “Chukka chukka booda booda.” OK, here it comes. Shhhh! No wait, that’s not it. Almost there, just after this last chorus. Seriously, I think you’re going to love the song once you’ve heard this part. What’s that, little guy? No, Daddy’s playing his new favorite song for Mommy, so if you could go over there and wait for us. Quietly. Thanks! Huh? Sure, I don’t care what we have for dinner. But wait, you’re gonna miss the— … JESUS. You just made me talk over the good part. GODDAMMIT. No, it’s OK, whatever. I’m not going to rewind. Really, it’s NO BIG DEAL. It’s not a big, no…it’s really not a problem. It’s cool. I’ll play it for you later. Pizza sounds fine. Also covered: the business of High School scared-straight-for-Jesus groups, and our entry into that lucrative space: “Th... You’re gonna love it—the guitar does this “Wheeee!” thing while the drums go all “Chukka chukka booda booda.” OK, here it comes. Shhhh! No wait, that’s not it. Almost there, just after this last chorus. Seriously, I think you’re going to love the song once you’ve heard this part. What’s that, little guy? No, Daddy’s playing his new favorite song for Mommy, so if you could go over there and wait for us. Quietly. Thanks! Huh? Sure, I don’t care what we have for dinner. But wait, you’re gonna miss the— … JESUS. You just made me talk over the good part. GODDAMMIT. No, it’s OK, whatever. I’m not going to rewind. Really, it’s NO BIG DEAL. It’s not a big, no…it’s really not a problem. It’s cool. I’ll play it for you later. Pizza sounds fine. Also covered: the business of High School scared-straight-for-Jesus groups, and our entry into that lucrative space: “The Drain Circlers.” We’re available for all auditorium-based school events. Fees are very, very negotiable. You’re gonna love it—the guitar does this “Wheeee!” thing while the drums go all “Chukka chukka booda booda.” OK, here it comes. Shhhh! No wait, that’s not it. Almost there, just after this last chorus. Seriously, I think you’re going to love the song once you’ve heard this part. What’s that, little guy? No, Daddy’s playing his new favorite song for Mommy, so if you could go over there and wait for us. Quietly. Thanks! Huh? Sure, I don’t care what we have for dinner. But wait, you’re gonna miss the— … JESUS. You just made me talk over the good part. GODDAMMIT. No, it’s OK, whatever. I’m not going to rewind. Really, it’s NO BIG DEAL. It’s not a big, no…it’s really not a problem. It’s cool. I’ll play it for you later. Pizza sounds fine. Also covered: the business of High School scared-straight-for-Jesus groups, and our entry into that lucrative space: “The Drain Circlers.” We’re available for all auditorium-based school events. Fees are very, very negotiable. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-30,24953406 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:24:08 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24888518-The-Good-Part You’re gonna love it—the guitar does this “Wheeee!” thing while the drums go all “Chukka chukka booda booda.” OK, here it comes. Shhhh! No wait, that’s not it. Almost there, just after this last chorus. Seriously, I think you’re going to love the song once you’ve heard this part. What’s that, little guy? No, Daddy’s playing his new favorite song for Mommy, so if you could go over there and wait for us. Quietly. Thanks! Huh? Sure, I don’t care what we have for dinner. But wait, you’re gonna miss the— … JESUS. You just made me talk over the good part. GODDAMMIT. No, it’s OK, whatever. I’m not going to rewind. Really, it’s NO BIG DEAL. It’s not a big, no…it’s really not a problem. It’s cool. I’ll play it for you later. Pizza sounds fine. Also covered: the business of High School scared-straight-for-Jesus groups, and our entry into that lucrative space: “Th... You’re gonna love it—the guitar does this “Wheeee!” thing while the drums go all “Chukka chukka booda booda.” OK, here it comes. Shhhh! No wait, that’s not it. Almost there, just after this last chorus. Seriously, I think you’re going to love the song once you’ve heard this part. What’s that, little guy? No, Daddy’s playing his new favorite song for Mommy, so if you could go over there and wait for us. Quietly. Thanks! Huh? Sure, I don’t care what we have for dinner. But wait, you’re gonna miss the— … JESUS. You just made me talk over the good part. GODDAMMIT. No, it’s OK, whatever. I’m not going to rewind. Really, it’s NO BIG DEAL. It’s not a big, no…it’s really not a problem. It’s cool. I’ll play it for you later. Pizza sounds fine. Also covered: the business of High School scared-straight-for-Jesus groups, and our entry into that lucrative space: “The Drain Circlers.” We’re available for all auditorium-based school events. Fees are very, very negotiable. You’re gonna love it—the guitar does this “Wheeee!” thing while the drums go all “Chukka chukka booda booda.” OK, here it comes. Shhhh! No wait, that’s not it. Almost there, just after this last chorus. Seriously, I think you’re going to love the song once you’ve heard this part. What’s that, little guy? No, Daddy’s playing his new favorite song for Mommy, so if you could go over there and wait for us. Quietly. Thanks! Huh? Sure, I don’t care what we have for dinner. But wait, you’re gonna miss the— … JESUS. You just made me talk over the good part. GODDAMMIT. No, it’s OK, whatever. I’m not going to rewind. Really, it’s NO BIG DEAL. It’s not a big, no…it’s really not a problem. It’s cool. I’ll play it for you later. Pizza sounds fine. Also covered: the business of High School scared-straight-for-Jesus groups, and our entry into that lucrative space: “The Drain Circlers.” We’re available for all auditorium-based school events. Fees are very, very negotiable. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-30,24888518 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:24:08 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24601420-Lonely-Polisher Seattle LIVE!: April 23, 2009 We teamed up with our pals Jordan, Jesse, Go! and took the Monsters of Podcasting on the road. Our Pacific Northwest Megatour kicked off in Seattle on Thursday and finally ended in Portland on Sunday. In between: laughs, tears, exhaustion, roadies, groupies, monkeys…typical superstar stuff. In this episode, we give a little bit back to our listeners. These are tough times. Money is tight. Luckily, we’re here to help. With Adam and Merlin’s antique appraisal expertise, you’ll be digging treasures out of your crawlspace in no time. Check out more photos from the Northwest Megatour here. Photos: Roadmonkey + lonelysandwichjr by twinch, Dymo! by loneysandwich Seattle LIVE!: April 23, 2009 We teamed up with our pals Jordan, Jesse, Go! and took the Monsters of Podcasting on the road. Our Pacific Northwest Megatour kicked off in Seattle on Thursday and finally ended in Portland on Sunday. In between: laughs, tears, exhaustion, roadies, groupies, monkeys…typical superstar stuff. In this episode, we give a little bit back to our listeners. These are tough times. Money is tight. Luckily, we’re here to help. With Adam and Merlin’s antique appraisal expertise, you’ll be digging treasures out of your crawlspace in no time. Check out more photos from the Northwest Megatour here. Photos: Roadmonkey + lonelysandwichjr by twinch, Dymo! by loneysandwich Seattle LIVE!: April 23, 2009 We teamed up with our pals Jordan, Jesse, Go! and took the Monsters of Podcasting on the road. Our Pacific Northwest Megatour kicked off in Seattle on Thursday and finally ended in Portland on Sunday. In between: laughs, tears, exhaustion, roadies, groupies, monkeys…typical superstar stuff. In this episode, we give a little bit back to our listeners. These are tough times. Money is tight. Luckily, we’re here to help. With Adam and Merlin’s antique appraisal expertise, you’ll be digging treasures out of your crawlspace in no time. Check out more photos from the Northwest Megatour here. Photos: Roadmonkey + lonelysandwichjr by twinch, Dymo! by loneysandwich tag:odeo.com,2009-05-22,24601420 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:35:01 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24597427-Lonely-Polisher Seattle LIVE!: April 23, 2009 We teamed up with our pals Jordan, Jesse, Go! and took the Monsters of Podcasting on the road. Our Pacific Northwest Megatour kicked off in Seattle on Thursday and finally ended in Portland on Sunday. In between: laughs, tears, exhaustion, roadies, groupies, monkeys…typical superstar stuff. In this episode, we give a little bit back to our listeners. These are tough times. Money is tight. Luckily, we’re here to help. With Adam and Merlin’s antique appraisal expertise, you’ll be digging treasures out of your crawlspace in no time. Check out more photos from the Northwest Megatour here. Photos: Roadmonkey + lonelysandwichjr by twinch, Dymo! by loneysandwich Seattle LIVE!: April 23, 2009 We teamed up with our pals Jordan, Jesse, Go! and took the Monsters of Podcasting on the road. Our Pacific Northwest Megatour kicked off in Seattle on Thursday and finally ended in Portland on Sunday. In between: laughs, tears, exhaustion, roadies, groupies, monkeys…typical superstar stuff. In this episode, we give a little bit back to our listeners. These are tough times. Money is tight. Luckily, we’re here to help. With Adam and Merlin’s antique appraisal expertise, you’ll be digging treasures out of your crawlspace in no time. Check out more photos from the Northwest Megatour here. Photos: Roadmonkey + lonelysandwichjr by twinch, Dymo! by loneysandwich Seattle LIVE!: April 23, 2009 We teamed up with our pals Jordan, Jesse, Go! and took the Monsters of Podcasting on the road. Our Pacific Northwest Megatour kicked off in Seattle on Thursday and finally ended in Portland on Sunday. In between: laughs, tears, exhaustion, roadies, groupies, monkeys…typical superstar stuff. In this episode, we give a little bit back to our listeners. These are tough times. Money is tight. Luckily, we’re here to help. With Adam and Merlin’s antique appraisal expertise, you’ll be digging treasures out of your crawlspace in no time. Check out more photos from the Northwest Megatour here. Photos: Roadmonkey + lonelysandwichjr by twinch, Dymo! by loneysandwich tag:odeo.com,2009-05-22,24597427 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:35:01 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24557369-Angry-Captain INT. DINGY POLICE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE IN THE 80’s - NIGHT The chair behind the captain’s desk is empty. Two men sit, smoking, in folding chairs facing the desk. CABINTIRE (Adam Lisagor) relaxes in one chair; FLEECE (Emmanuel Lewis) fidgets in the other. FLEECE Cabintire, I told you, man! Captain wasn’t gonna be cool with this! CABINTIRE Put your panties back on. (Cabintire hands Fleece a pair of frilly panties.) FLEECE First of all, no, man, that’s nasty. And they ain’t even my size! The door swings open, then slams shut. CAPT RIFFLES (Dennis Franz) stands looking down at the two detectives, shaking his head, chuckling. RIFFLES Detective Cabintire. CABINTIRE (Sneering) Yes … sir. RIFFLES Would you mind telling me what this is? (Riffles holds up a bloodied yoga mat.) CABINTIRE I believe they call that “evidence” in the police business, sir. RIFFLES They might have called it that. Before you took it home and wiped your Downward-facing... INT. DINGY POLICE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE IN THE 80’s - NIGHT The chair behind the captain’s desk is empty. Two men sit, smoking, in folding chairs facing the desk. CABINTIRE (Adam Lisagor) relaxes in one chair; FLEECE (Emmanuel Lewis) fidgets in the other. FLEECE Cabintire, I told you, man! Captain wasn’t gonna be cool with this! CABINTIRE Put your panties back on. (Cabintire hands Fleece a pair of frilly panties.) FLEECE First of all, no, man, that’s nasty. And they ain’t even my size! The door swings open, then slams shut. CAPT RIFFLES (Dennis Franz) stands looking down at the two detectives, shaking his head, chuckling. RIFFLES Detective Cabintire. CABINTIRE (Sneering) Yes … sir. RIFFLES Would you mind telling me what this is? (Riffles holds up a bloodied yoga mat.) CABINTIRE I believe they call that “evidence” in the police business, sir. RIFFLES They might have called it that. Before you took it home and wiped your Downward-facing Dogs all over it for a few weeks. What were you thinking? FLEECE Goddammit, man! You’re crazy! I did NOT leave Langley for this bullshit! CABINTIRE Why let a perfectly good yoga mat go to waste? Keep your panties on, Captain. (Cabintire hands Riffles a pair of lace panties.) FLEECE Where you get all these panties from, man? CABINTIRE Oh, these? They’re a gift from my aunt. My Aunt YOUR MOM. (The phone rings.) RIFFLES Yeah? Oh Jesus. (Hangs up phone.) We got another guy on the roof, over on 72nd & Waldorf. FLEECE Who? A jumper? CABINTIRE No. A fiddler. RIFFLES How’d you know that, Cabintire? CABINTIRE NO TIME. Get in my Vanagon, I’ll explain on the way. ONE MORE THING: In the episode Adam briefly mentions Birdhouse, his new iPhone app. Although YLNT officially endorses BirdBath Pro Lite™ as our Twitter app of choice, we must admit that we greatly prefer Birdhouse. Learn more, watch the video, and buy the thing already: http://birdhouseapp.com/ If you love him you will buy it. Do you hate him? Is that why you’re still reading this? Wow, I’ll let him know. I’ll let him know you made your point, loud and clear, pal. But don’t be surprised if, late tonight, you get a call from Detective Cabintire, wondering where his whiskey money is. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. INT. DINGY POLICE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE IN THE 80’s - NIGHT The chair behind the captain’s desk is empty. Two men sit, smoking, in folding chairs facing the desk. CABINTIRE (Adam Lisagor) relaxes in one chair; FLEECE (Emmanuel Lewis) fidgets in the other. FLEECE Cabintire, I told you, man! Captain wasn’t gonna be cool with this! CABINTIRE Put your panties back on. (Cabintire hands Fleece a pair of frilly panties.) FLEECE First of all, no, man, that’s nasty. And they ain’t even my size! The door swings open, then slams shut. CAPT RIFFLES (Dennis Franz) stands looking down at the two detectives, shaking his head, chuckling. RIFFLES Detective Cabintire. CABINTIRE (Sneering) Yes … sir. RIFFLES Would you mind telling me what this is? (Riffles holds up a bloodied yoga mat.) CABINTIRE I believe they call that “evidence” in the police business, sir. RIFFLES They might have called it that. Before you took it home and wiped your Downward-facing Dogs all over it for a few weeks. What were you thinking? FLEECE Goddammit, man! You’re crazy! I did NOT leave Langley for this bullshit! CABINTIRE Why let a perfectly good yoga mat go to waste? Keep your panties on, Captain. (Cabintire hands Riffles a pair of lace panties.) FLEECE Where you get all these panties from, man? CABINTIRE Oh, these? They’re a gift from my aunt. My Aunt YOUR MOM. (The phone rings.) RIFFLES Yeah? Oh Jesus. (Hangs up phone.) We got another guy on the roof, over on 72nd & Waldorf. FLEECE Who? A jumper? CABINTIRE No. A fiddler. RIFFLES How’d you know that, Cabintire? CABINTIRE NO TIME. Get in my Vanagon, I’ll explain on the way. ONE MORE THING: In the episode Adam briefly mentions Birdhouse, his new iPhone app. Although YLNT officially endorses BirdBath Pro Lite™ as our Twitter app of choice, we must admit that we greatly prefer Birdhouse. Learn more, watch the video, and buy the thing already: http://birdhouseapp.com/ If you love him you will buy it. Do you hate him? Is that why you’re still reading this? Wow, I’ll let him know. I’ll let him know you made your point, loud and clear, pal. But don’t be surprised if, late tonight, you get a call from Detective Cabintire, wondering where his whiskey money is. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-06,24557369 Wed, 06 May 2009 15:28:27 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24601421-Angry-Captain INT. DINGY POLICE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE IN THE 80’s - NIGHT The chair behind the captain’s desk is empty. Two men sit, smoking, in folding chairs facing the desk. CABINTIRE (Adam Lisagor) relaxes in one chair; FLEECE (Emmanuel Lewis) fidgets in the other. FLEECE Cabintire, I told you, man! Captain wasn’t gonna be cool with this! CABINTIRE Put your panties back on. (Cabintire hands Fleece a pair of frilly panties.) FLEECE First of all, no, man, that’s nasty. And they ain’t even my size! The door swings open, then slams shut. CAPT RIFFLES (Dennis Franz) stands looking down at the two detectives, shaking his head, chuckling. RIFFLES Detective Cabintire. CABINTIRE (Sneering) Yes … sir. RIFFLES Would you mind telling me what this is? (Riffles holds up a bloodied yoga mat.) CABINTIRE I believe they call that “evidence” in the police business, sir. RIFFLES They might have called it that. Before you took it home and wiped your Downward-facing... INT. DINGY POLICE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE IN THE 80’s - NIGHT The chair behind the captain’s desk is empty. Two men sit, smoking, in folding chairs facing the desk. CABINTIRE (Adam Lisagor) relaxes in one chair; FLEECE (Emmanuel Lewis) fidgets in the other. FLEECE Cabintire, I told you, man! Captain wasn’t gonna be cool with this! CABINTIRE Put your panties back on. (Cabintire hands Fleece a pair of frilly panties.) FLEECE First of all, no, man, that’s nasty. And they ain’t even my size! The door swings open, then slams shut. CAPT RIFFLES (Dennis Franz) stands looking down at the two detectives, shaking his head, chuckling. RIFFLES Detective Cabintire. CABINTIRE (Sneering) Yes … sir. RIFFLES Would you mind telling me what this is? (Riffles holds up a bloodied yoga mat.) CABINTIRE I believe they call that “evidence” in the police business, sir. RIFFLES They might have called it that. Before you took it home and wiped your Downward-facing Dogs all over it for a few weeks. What were you thinking? FLEECE Goddammit, man! You’re crazy! I did NOT leave Langley for this bullshit! CABINTIRE Why let a perfectly good yoga mat go to waste? Keep your panties on, Captain. (Cabintire hands Riffles a pair of lace panties.) FLEECE Where you get all these panties from, man? CABINTIRE Oh, these? They’re a gift from my aunt. My Aunt YOUR MOM. (The phone rings.) RIFFLES Yeah? Oh Jesus. (Hangs up phone.) We got another guy on the roof, over on 72nd & Waldorf. FLEECE Who? A jumper? CABINTIRE No. A fiddler. RIFFLES How’d you know that, Cabintire? CABINTIRE NO TIME. Get in my Vanagon, I’ll explain on the way. ONE MORE THING: In the episode Adam briefly mentions Birdhouse, his new iPhone app. Although YLNT officially endorses BirdBath Pro Lite™ as our Twitter app of choice, we must admit that we greatly prefer Birdhouse. Learn more, watch the video, and buy the thing already: http://birdhouseapp.com/ If you love him you will buy it. Do you hate him? Is that why you’re still reading this? Wow, I’ll let him know. I’ll let him know you made your point, loud and clear, pal. But don’t be surprised if, late tonight, you get a call from Detective Cabintire, wondering where his whiskey money is. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. INT. DINGY POLICE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE IN THE 80’s - NIGHT The chair behind the captain’s desk is empty. Two men sit, smoking, in folding chairs facing the desk. CABINTIRE (Adam Lisagor) relaxes in one chair; FLEECE (Emmanuel Lewis) fidgets in the other. FLEECE Cabintire, I told you, man! Captain wasn’t gonna be cool with this! CABINTIRE Put your panties back on. (Cabintire hands Fleece a pair of frilly panties.) FLEECE First of all, no, man, that’s nasty. And they ain’t even my size! The door swings open, then slams shut. CAPT RIFFLES (Dennis Franz) stands looking down at the two detectives, shaking his head, chuckling. RIFFLES Detective Cabintire. CABINTIRE (Sneering) Yes … sir. RIFFLES Would you mind telling me what this is? (Riffles holds up a bloodied yoga mat.) CABINTIRE I believe they call that “evidence” in the police business, sir. RIFFLES They might have called it that. Before you took it home and wiped your Downward-facing Dogs all over it for a few weeks. What were you thinking? FLEECE Goddammit, man! You’re crazy! I did NOT leave Langley for this bullshit! CABINTIRE Why let a perfectly good yoga mat go to waste? Keep your panties on, Captain. (Cabintire hands Riffles a pair of lace panties.) FLEECE Where you get all these panties from, man? CABINTIRE Oh, these? They’re a gift from my aunt. My Aunt YOUR MOM. (The phone rings.) RIFFLES Yeah? Oh Jesus. (Hangs up phone.) We got another guy on the roof, over on 72nd & Waldorf. FLEECE Who? A jumper? CABINTIRE No. A fiddler. RIFFLES How’d you know that, Cabintire? CABINTIRE NO TIME. Get in my Vanagon, I’ll explain on the way. ONE MORE THING: In the episode Adam briefly mentions Birdhouse, his new iPhone app. Although YLNT officially endorses BirdBath Pro Lite™ as our Twitter app of choice, we must admit that we greatly prefer Birdhouse. Learn more, watch the video, and buy the thing already: http://birdhouseapp.com/ If you love him you will buy it. Do you hate him? Is that why you’re still reading this? Wow, I’ll let him know. I’ll let him know you made your point, loud and clear, pal. But don’t be surprised if, late tonight, you get a call from Detective Cabintire, wondering where his whiskey money is. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-06,24601421 Wed, 06 May 2009 15:28:27 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25414342-Visit-Hernes The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small pr... The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-19,25414342 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:31:11 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, fellowship, wake up, Yaddo, resident writers, sir!, writers-in-residence twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25344727-Visit-Hernes The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small pr... The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-19,25344727 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:31:11 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, fellowship, wake up, Yaddo, resident writers, sir!, writers-in-residence twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24472230-Visit-Hernes The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small pr... The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-19,24472230 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:31:11 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, fellowship, wake up, Yaddo, resident writers, sir!, writers-in-residence twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24495281-Visit-Hernes The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small pr... The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. The You Look Nice Today Writer’s Retreat is located in the bristly pine hillocks just west of Coalinga, CA, accessible via Interstate 5 or the Pook County Community Airfield. Men and women whose applications have been approved (and checks cleared) are welcome to use the retreat and its 200-acre arboretum for reflection, meditation, and vigorous masturbation. Hernes, the historic mansion where we serve supper and hold readings, towers over the cottages that dot the rest of the property. It was originally built to house a hot spring spa whose radium-based treatments drew convalescents from as far away as Kettleman City. The spa proved too costly—and too carcinogenic—to maintain, and the owners abandoned the property in 1911. We took over the place in 2005, and have kept the fire lit ever since. Come any evening between May and September and you’re sure to find a pot of Adam’s famous beluga lentil stew a-boil on the range. A near-certain bout with cancer is a small price to pay for the quiet, and the camaraderie, of this special place. Selected past Resident Writers and the works they completed at Hernes: Halm Greenbread: The Do-Overs Justice Brie: Who Am I Slash What / A Dialectic Cresstin Keeper: Krishna Steals the Peanut Robert Langdon: Awoke Slowly Stoop Hass: Miracles of Near-Flight Brochures available soon! Estate photographs by Hernes Head Groundskeeper Jason Permenter. See the large version here. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-19,24495281 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:31:11 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, fellowship, wake up, Yaddo, resident writers, sir!, writers-in-residence twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25414343-Monsters We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email... We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure tag:odeo.com,2009-04-03,25414343 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:25:24 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today podcast, News, rider, jordan morris, green m&ms, sound of young america, jesse thorn twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25344728-Monsters We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email... We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure tag:odeo.com,2009-04-03,25344728 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:25:24 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today podcast, News, rider, jordan morris, green m&ms, sound of young america, jesse thorn twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24404016-Monsters We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email... We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure tag:odeo.com,2009-04-03,24404016 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:25:24 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today podcast, News, rider, jordan morris, green m&ms, sound of young america, jesse thorn twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420459-Monsters We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email... We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure We learned that The Smoking Gun was about to publish this, so we decided to get it out there first. Someone, at some venue where we’ve performed in the past, got a hold of our performance contract’s “rider”: the addendum that spells out how we’d like the dressing room to be set up, etc. Background: together with our podcast pals Jordan, Jesse Go!, we occasionally perform live as the Monsters of Podcasting. In fact we’ve got two shows coming up: one in Seattle on April 23 and one in Portland, OR on April 26. We love Jordan and Jesse. We think their show is fabulous. Without them there certainly would be no Monsters of Podcasting. Are they demanding? Sure. Unreasonably so? OK, maybe sometimes—see the rider. But we love them anyway. They’ll be criticized, maybe even vilified, for the contents of this document. But you know what? We’ll stand by them. Well, near them. Kind of close-ish. The same room. Probably. Trancript of the leaked email (or see the original here): From: REDACTED To: REDACTED @ hotmail.com Subject: (! High Priority !) MOPs Appearance Hi Tina— Please find the fellows’ standard dressing room requests below. Note that this was agreed to in the final (signed) version of the contract dated 12/14/08.  [winking emoticon] Thanks— AFF Alan F. Furstwether Manager, MOPs 11 Sunset Pkwy Coalinga, CA 93210 ===================== MONSTERS OF PODCASTING DRESSING ROOM SET-UP YOU LOOK NICE TODAY Please provide: 3 chairs A few Diet Cokes, or whatever you have around, no big deal (Adam gets thirsty) ===================== JORDAN, JESSE GO! Venue has agreed to provide: 2 mahogany and/or teak writing desks 2 Aeron++ chairs, NEVER USED, arranged: Lumbar 14, LB 7, Leg height 2.3, spine angle 79.8º Bow tie steam press Stereo CD player w/ remote, turned on, set to play track #8 of Sade’s Promise on repeat Rand McNally’s Atlas of the United States, pages 45-72 torn out 1:18 scale replica of San Francisco International Airport’s non-denominational prayer chapel 3 heads butter lettuce, buttered 3X5 notecard taped to the mirror, with the name of the venue’s city and area code written on it 1 native Portuguese speaker  That day’s Craigslist W4M “Missed Connections” printed out, all proper names highlighted Vase of white roses smashed on the floor, then glued back together as if nothing ever happened 2 yellow men’s Size L T-Shirts. One says BANANNA, the other says PANTS. Note the misspelling. A treasure map that leads to real treasure tag:odeo.com,2009-04-03,24420459 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:25:24 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today podcast, News, rider, jordan morris, green m&ms, sound of young america, jesse thorn twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25414344-Vachina Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) tag:odeo.com,2009-03-26,25414344 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:44 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25344729-Vachina Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) tag:odeo.com,2009-03-26,25344729 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:44 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420460-Vachina Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) tag:odeo.com,2009-03-26,24420460 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:04:44 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24367808-Vachina Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo. Photo Credit: The Lion sleeps tonight by law_keven (cc by-sa) tag:odeo.com,2009-03-26,24367808 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:04:44 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24157237-OPN-WDE Merlin: Boy Scout Scott: Boy Scout Adam: YMCA Indian Guide Merlin: Boy Scout Scott: Boy Scout Adam: YMCA Indian Guide Merlin: Boy Scout Scott: Boy Scout Adam: YMCA Indian Guide tag:odeo.com,2009-02-18,24157237 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:20:14 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24125569-OPN-WDE Merlin: Boy Scout Scott: Boy Scout Adam: YMCA Indian Guide Merlin: Boy Scout Scott: Boy Scout Adam: YMCA Indian Guide Merlin: Boy Scout Scott: Boy Scout Adam: YMCA Indian Guide tag:odeo.com,2009-02-18,24125569 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:20:14 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24040224-Christmas-Is-Near Listen as we conduct our exclusive pro gift-giving super-session TED Talk master class webinar. Over $600 in essential GiftWisdom™ is yours for FREE. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virtual presents Secret Santa? Secret Sucker! 1978 Holiday photography essentials Lessons from Guantanamo Bay Cinco de Nada A members-only sponsorship opportunity As a special bonus, Adam reveals his secret “Thought That Counts” method: learn how to give gifts without actually giving them! But wait, you say, I’ve already completed my Christmas shopping. Heck, I’ve even given out all the presents already! Whatever, busybody. Luckily, these Power Tip Essentials are just as relevant for anniversaries, birthdays, and any other holiday where gifts are expected. Also Included, Absolutely Free: Holiday letters, a new typeface for a new generation, unnecessary repetition in the 12 Steps, special razors, stoplight entrepreneurs, beard equity, just $250. Listen as we conduct our exclusive pro gift-giving super-session TED Talk master class webinar. Over $600 in essential GiftWisdom™ is yours for FREE. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virtual presents Secret Santa? Secret Sucker! 1978 Holiday photography essentials Lessons from Guantanamo Bay Cinco de Nada A members-only sponsorship opportunity As a special bonus, Adam reveals his secret “Thought That Counts” method: learn how to give gifts without actually giving them! But wait, you say, I’ve already completed my Christmas shopping. Heck, I’ve even given out all the presents already! Whatever, busybody. Luckily, these Power Tip Essentials are just as relevant for anniversaries, birthdays, and any other holiday where gifts are expected. Also Included, Absolutely Free: Holiday letters, a new typeface for a new generation, unnecessary repetition in the 12 Steps, special razors, stoplight entrepreneurs, beard equity, just $250. Listen as we conduct our exclusive pro gift-giving super-session TED Talk master class webinar. Over $600 in essential GiftWisdom™ is yours for FREE. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virtual presents Secret Santa? Secret Sucker! 1978 Holiday photography essentials Lessons from Guantanamo Bay Cinco de Nada A members-only sponsorship opportunity As a special bonus, Adam reveals his secret “Thought That Counts” method: learn how to give gifts without actually giving them! But wait, you say, I’ve already completed my Christmas shopping. Heck, I’ve even given out all the presents already! Whatever, busybody. Luckily, these Power Tip Essentials are just as relevant for anniversaries, birthdays, and any other holiday where gifts are expected. Also Included, Absolutely Free: Holiday letters, a new typeface for a new generation, unnecessary repetition in the 12 Steps, special razors, stoplight entrepreneurs, beard equity, just $250. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-03,24040224 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:28:24 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24028611-Christmas-Is-Near Listen as we conduct our exclusive pro gift-giving super-session TED Talk master class webinar. Over $600 in essential GiftWisdom™ is yours for FREE. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virtual presents Secret Santa? Secret Sucker! 1978 Holiday photography essentials Lessons from Guantanamo Bay Cinco de Nada A members-only sponsorship opportunity As a special bonus, Adam reveals his secret “Thought That Counts” method: learn how to give gifts without actually giving them! But wait, you say, I’ve already completed my Christmas shopping. Heck, I’ve even given out all the presents already! Whatever, busybody. Luckily, these Power Tip Essentials are just as relevant for anniversaries, birthdays, and any other holiday where gifts are expected. Also Included, Absolutely Free: Holiday letters, a new typeface for a new generation, unnecessary repetition in the 12 Steps, special razors, stoplight entrepreneurs, beard equity, just $250. Listen as we conduct our exclusive pro gift-giving super-session TED Talk master class webinar. Over $600 in essential GiftWisdom™ is yours for FREE. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virtual presents Secret Santa? Secret Sucker! 1978 Holiday photography essentials Lessons from Guantanamo Bay Cinco de Nada A members-only sponsorship opportunity As a special bonus, Adam reveals his secret “Thought That Counts” method: learn how to give gifts without actually giving them! But wait, you say, I’ve already completed my Christmas shopping. Heck, I’ve even given out all the presents already! Whatever, busybody. Luckily, these Power Tip Essentials are just as relevant for anniversaries, birthdays, and any other holiday where gifts are expected. Also Included, Absolutely Free: Holiday letters, a new typeface for a new generation, unnecessary repetition in the 12 Steps, special razors, stoplight entrepreneurs, beard equity, just $250. Listen as we conduct our exclusive pro gift-giving super-session TED Talk master class webinar. Over $600 in essential GiftWisdom™ is yours for FREE. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virtual presents Secret Santa? Secret Sucker! 1978 Holiday photography essentials Lessons from Guantanamo Bay Cinco de Nada A members-only sponsorship opportunity As a special bonus, Adam reveals his secret “Thought That Counts” method: learn how to give gifts without actually giving them! But wait, you say, I’ve already completed my Christmas shopping. Heck, I’ve even given out all the presents already! Whatever, busybody. Luckily, these Power Tip Essentials are just as relevant for anniversaries, birthdays, and any other holiday where gifts are expected. Also Included, Absolutely Free: Holiday letters, a new typeface for a new generation, unnecessary repetition in the 12 Steps, special razors, stoplight entrepreneurs, beard equity, just $250. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-03,24028611 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:28:24 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420461-The-Noises-Rest Most people assume that silent films were silent for technological reasons—that there wasn’t a way to capture and reproduce sound along with the moving image in those classic early films. That’s a lie: the technology was never a big deal. Directors at the time simply chose, for aesthetic reasons, to embrace the purity of silence. When the Silent Film Institute* asked us to create something inspired by the era of silent films, we knew we had to honor the early foley artists, those brave sound effects engineers who chose silence over noise. Three of our best pals are foley artists, and by a fantastic coincidence, they’re working right now on a project we simply had to document. We’ll let Evan, Lanolin, and Tiborg tell you the rest of the story. The video also is available in a much prettier HD version. * It was The Museum of Modern Art. We’re assuming the Silent Film Institute does not actually exist. If they do, please note that we are referring to the S... Most people assume that silent films were silent for technological reasons—that there wasn’t a way to capture and reproduce sound along with the moving image in those classic early films. That’s a lie: the technology was never a big deal. Directors at the time simply chose, for aesthetic reasons, to embrace the purity of silence. When the Silent Film Institute* asked us to create something inspired by the era of silent films, we knew we had to honor the early foley artists, those brave sound effects engineers who chose silence over noise. Three of our best pals are foley artists, and by a fantastic coincidence, they’re working right now on a project we simply had to document. We’ll let Evan, Lanolin, and Tiborg tell you the rest of the story. The video also is available in a much prettier HD version. * It was The Museum of Modern Art. We’re assuming the Silent Film Institute does not actually exist. If they do, please note that we are referring to the Silent Film Institute that does not actually exist, not the one that does exist that we didn’t know about when we were making this. Or something. YLNT wrote this. Editing, direction, all other production: Adam. Oh, and here’s a little outtake thingie too. Most people assume that silent films were silent for technological reasons—that there wasn’t a way to capture and reproduce sound along with the moving image in those classic early films. That’s a lie: the technology was never a big deal. Directors at the time simply chose, for aesthetic reasons, to embrace the purity of silence. When the Silent Film Institute* asked us to create something inspired by the era of silent films, we knew we had to honor the early foley artists, those brave sound effects engineers who chose silence over noise. Three of our best pals are foley artists, and by a fantastic coincidence, they’re working right now on a project we simply had to document. We’ll let Evan, Lanolin, and Tiborg tell you the rest of the story. The video also is available in a much prettier HD version. * It was The Museum of Modern Art. We’re assuming the Silent Film Institute does not actually exist. If they do, please note that we are referring to the Silent Film Institute that does not actually exist, not the one that does exist that we didn’t know about when we were making this. Or something. YLNT wrote this. Editing, direction, all other production: Adam. Oh, and here’s a little outtake thingie too. tag:odeo.com,2009-01-07,24420461 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:53:49 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today News, foley, lanolin sparks, evan stephen, tiborg twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24281240-The-Noises-Rest Most people assume that silent films were silent for technological reasons—that there wasn’t a way to capture and reproduce sound along with the moving image in those classic early films. That’s a lie: the technology was never a big deal. Directors at the time simply chose, for aesthetic reasons, to embrace the purity of silence. When the Silent Film Institute* asked us to create something inspired by the era of silent films, we knew we had to honor the early foley artists, those brave sound effects engineers who chose silence over noise. Three of our best pals are foley artists, and by a fantastic coincidence, they’re working right now on a project we simply had to document. We’ll let Evan, Lanolin, and Tiborg tell you the rest of the story. The video also is available in a much prettier HD version. * It was The Museum of Modern Art. We’re assuming the Silent Film Institute does not actually exist. If they do, please note that we are referring to the S... Most people assume that silent films were silent for technological reasons—that there wasn’t a way to capture and reproduce sound along with the moving image in those classic early films. That’s a lie: the technology was never a big deal. Directors at the time simply chose, for aesthetic reasons, to embrace the purity of silence. When the Silent Film Institute* asked us to create something inspired by the era of silent films, we knew we had to honor the early foley artists, those brave sound effects engineers who chose silence over noise. Three of our best pals are foley artists, and by a fantastic coincidence, they’re working right now on a project we simply had to document. We’ll let Evan, Lanolin, and Tiborg tell you the rest of the story. The video also is available in a much prettier HD version. * It was The Museum of Modern Art. We’re assuming the Silent Film Institute does not actually exist. If they do, please note that we are referring to the Silent Film Institute that does not actually exist, not the one that does exist that we didn’t know about when we were making this. Or something. YLNT wrote this. Editing, direction, all other production: Adam. Oh, and here’s a little outtake thingie too. Most people assume that silent films were silent for technological reasons—that there wasn’t a way to capture and reproduce sound along with the moving image in those classic early films. That’s a lie: the technology was never a big deal. Directors at the time simply chose, for aesthetic reasons, to embrace the purity of silence. When the Silent Film Institute* asked us to create something inspired by the era of silent films, we knew we had to honor the early foley artists, those brave sound effects engineers who chose silence over noise. Three of our best pals are foley artists, and by a fantastic coincidence, they’re working right now on a project we simply had to document. We’ll let Evan, Lanolin, and Tiborg tell you the rest of the story. The video also is available in a much prettier HD version. * It was The Museum of Modern Art. We’re assuming the Silent Film Institute does not actually exist. If they do, please note that we are referring to the Silent Film Institute that does not actually exist, not the one that does exist that we didn’t know about when we were making this. Or something. YLNT wrote this. Editing, direction, all other production: Adam. Oh, and here’s a little outtake thingie too. tag:odeo.com,2009-01-07,24281240 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:53:49 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420462-Our-Theme-Music Many have asked, so here is the full story: Our opening theme music is a track called “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.  The Five Senses finally disbanded when their entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted disc from the flames, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus. That year of labor yielded the song fragment you know as our opening theme. Gal... Many have asked, so here is the full story: Our opening theme music is a track called “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.  The Five Senses finally disbanded when their entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted disc from the flames, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus. That year of labor yielded the song fragment you know as our opening theme. Gallop on, proud ukulelists. Gallop on. YLNT listener Scott heard this story of courage and dedication, and came forward with his own Five Senses artifact. He owns what might be the only physical evidence that the band ever existed: a jewel case from their legendary performance at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. Sadly, the music itself is lost. Download “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise).” Photo: Mixed Spleens, The Five Senses Many have asked, so here is the full story: Our opening theme music is a track called “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.  The Five Senses finally disbanded when their entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted disc from the flames, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus. That year of labor yielded the song fragment you know as our opening theme. Gallop on, proud ukulelists. Gallop on. YLNT listener Scott heard this story of courage and dedication, and came forward with his own Five Senses artifact. He owns what might be the only physical evidence that the band ever existed: a jewel case from their legendary performance at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. Sadly, the music itself is lost. Download “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise).” Photo: Mixed Spleens, The Five Senses tag:odeo.com,2008-12-24,24420462 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:19:40 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today music, News, montreal, adam is the greatest musician ever, theme song twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24281241-Our-Theme-Music Many have asked, so here is the full story: Our opening theme music is a track called “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.  The Five Senses finally disbanded when their entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted disc from the flames, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus. That year of labor yielded the song fragment you know as our opening theme. Gal... Many have asked, so here is the full story: Our opening theme music is a track called “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.  The Five Senses finally disbanded when their entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted disc from the flames, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus. That year of labor yielded the song fragment you know as our opening theme. Gallop on, proud ukulelists. Gallop on. YLNT listener Scott heard this story of courage and dedication, and came forward with his own Five Senses artifact. He owns what might be the only physical evidence that the band ever existed: a jewel case from their legendary performance at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. Sadly, the music itself is lost. Download “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise).” Photo: Mixed Spleens, The Five Senses Many have asked, so here is the full story: Our opening theme music is a track called “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.  The Five Senses finally disbanded when their entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted disc from the flames, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus. That year of labor yielded the song fragment you know as our opening theme. Gallop on, proud ukulelists. Gallop on. YLNT listener Scott heard this story of courage and dedication, and came forward with his own Five Senses artifact. He owns what might be the only physical evidence that the band ever existed: a jewel case from their legendary performance at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. Sadly, the music itself is lost. Download “Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise).” Photo: Mixed Spleens, The Five Senses tag:odeo.com,2008-12-24,24281241 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:19:40 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23736333-Nickelpuss 1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss: Th’ evil alley boys taunted him, But ole’ Young Joe made his way. Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins Th’ sound of a long long day. Rags to riches to rags it went, Th’ boy would rage and cuss. “Mama ain’t mama for me no more,” Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss. We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times. Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall. Photo: Bowling 1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss: Th’ evil alley boys taunted him, But ole’ Young Joe made his way. Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins Th’ sound of a long long day. Rags to riches to rags it went, Th’ boy would rage and cuss. “Mama ain’t mama for me no more,” Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss. We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times. Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall. Photo: Bowling 1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss: Th’ evil alley boys taunted him, But ole’ Young Joe made his way. Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins Th’ sound of a long long day. Rags to riches to rags it went, Th’ boy would rage and cuss. “Mama ain’t mama for me no more,” Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss. We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times. Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall. Photo: Bowling tag:odeo.com,2008-12-10,23736333 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:35:33 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23752740-Nickelpuss 1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss: Th’ evil alley boys taunted him, But ole’ Young Joe made his way. Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins Th’ sound of a long long day. Rags to riches to rags it went, Th’ boy would rage and cuss. “Mama ain’t mama for me no more,” Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss. We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times. Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall. Photo: Bowling 1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss: Th’ evil alley boys taunted him, But ole’ Young Joe made his way. Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins Th’ sound of a long long day. Rags to riches to rags it went, Th’ boy would rage and cuss. “Mama ain’t mama for me no more,” Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss. We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times. Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall. Photo: Bowling 1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss: Th’ evil alley boys taunted him, But ole’ Young Joe made his way. Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins Th’ sound of a long long day. Rags to riches to rags it went, Th’ boy would rage and cuss. “Mama ain’t mama for me no more,” Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss. We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times. Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall. Photo: Bowling tag:odeo.com,2008-12-10,23752740 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:35:33 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420463-VSOP-Roundup We’re basking for one more moment in the afterglow of the past three weeks. YLNT VSOP was pure joy. Future VSOP (YLNT + Hodgman + Coulton) scheduled appearances: Look for the five of us in paper hats, tending the falcons, at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. We’ll be teaching a course entitled “Bacon and Bicycles: Critical Perspectives on Quicksilver” at Deep Springs College in 2010. In December 2011, we hope to sell our predecorated miniature Christmas trees on the corner of 22nd & 9th. Look for the white van. The VSOP Episodes I: Selfish Express II: Faux Tog III: Faire du camping Related Ephemera Session photographs by Ryan Carver “Selfish Express” production journal MN State Fair booth poll Our Guests John Hodgman (buy his book here) Jonathan Coulton (buy his poems set to music here) Photo by Ryan Carver We’re basking for one more moment in the afterglow of the past three weeks. YLNT VSOP was pure joy. Future VSOP (YLNT + Hodgman + Coulton) scheduled appearances: Look for the five of us in paper hats, tending the falcons, at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. We’ll be teaching a course entitled “Bacon and Bicycles: Critical Perspectives on Quicksilver” at Deep Springs College in 2010. In December 2011, we hope to sell our predecorated miniature Christmas trees on the corner of 22nd & 9th. Look for the white van. The VSOP Episodes I: Selfish Express II: Faux Tog III: Faire du camping Related Ephemera Session photographs by Ryan Carver “Selfish Express” production journal MN State Fair booth poll Our Guests John Hodgman (buy his book here) Jonathan Coulton (buy his poems set to music here) Photo by Ryan Carver We’re basking for one more moment in the afterglow of the past three weeks. YLNT VSOP was pure joy. Future VSOP (YLNT + Hodgman + Coulton) scheduled appearances: Look for the five of us in paper hats, tending the falcons, at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. We’ll be teaching a course entitled “Bacon and Bicycles: Critical Perspectives on Quicksilver” at Deep Springs College in 2010. In December 2011, we hope to sell our predecorated miniature Christmas trees on the corner of 22nd & 9th. Look for the white van. The VSOP Episodes I: Selfish Express II: Faux Tog III: Faire du camping Related Ephemera Session photographs by Ryan Carver “Selfish Express” production journal MN State Fair booth poll Our Guests John Hodgman (buy his book here) Jonathan Coulton (buy his poems set to music here) Photo by Ryan Carver tag:odeo.com,2008-12-05,24420463 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:22:10 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today News, coulton, hodgman twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24281242-VSOP-Roundup We’re basking for one more moment in the afterglow of the past three weeks. YLNT VSOP was pure joy. Future VSOP (YLNT + Hodgman + Coulton) scheduled appearances: Look for the five of us in paper hats, tending the falcons, at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. We’ll be teaching a course entitled “Bacon and Bicycles: Critical Perspectives on Quicksilver” at Deep Springs College in 2010. In December 2011, we hope to sell our predecorated miniature Christmas trees on the corner of 22nd & 9th. Look for the white van. The VSOP Episodes I: Selfish Express II: Faux Tog III: Faire du camping Related Ephemera Session photographs by Ryan Carver “Selfish Express” production journal MN State Fair booth poll Our Guests John Hodgman (buy his book here) Jonathan Coulton (buy his poems set to music here) Photo by Ryan Carver We’re basking for one more moment in the afterglow of the past three weeks. YLNT VSOP was pure joy. Future VSOP (YLNT + Hodgman + Coulton) scheduled appearances: Look for the five of us in paper hats, tending the falcons, at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. We’ll be teaching a course entitled “Bacon and Bicycles: Critical Perspectives on Quicksilver” at Deep Springs College in 2010. In December 2011, we hope to sell our predecorated miniature Christmas trees on the corner of 22nd & 9th. Look for the white van. The VSOP Episodes I: Selfish Express II: Faux Tog III: Faire du camping Related Ephemera Session photographs by Ryan Carver “Selfish Express” production journal MN State Fair booth poll Our Guests John Hodgman (buy his book here) Jonathan Coulton (buy his poems set to music here) Photo by Ryan Carver We’re basking for one more moment in the afterglow of the past three weeks. YLNT VSOP was pure joy. Future VSOP (YLNT + Hodgman + Coulton) scheduled appearances: Look for the five of us in paper hats, tending the falcons, at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. We’ll be teaching a course entitled “Bacon and Bicycles: Critical Perspectives on Quicksilver” at Deep Springs College in 2010. In December 2011, we hope to sell our predecorated miniature Christmas trees on the corner of 22nd & 9th. Look for the white van. The VSOP Episodes I: Selfish Express II: Faux Tog III: Faire du camping Related Ephemera Session photographs by Ryan Carver “Selfish Express” production journal MN State Fair booth poll Our Guests John Hodgman (buy his book here) Jonathan Coulton (buy his poems set to music here) Photo by Ryan Carver tag:odeo.com,2008-12-05,24281242 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:22:10 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23698728-Faire-du-camping If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape. This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados. This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs, vegans, and criminals. Original photo by Pete Ryan. (We modified it.) If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape. This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados. This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs, vegans, and criminals. Original photo by Pete Ryan. (We modified it.) If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape. This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados. This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs, vegans, and criminals. Original photo by Pete Ryan. (We modified it.) tag:odeo.com,2008-12-03,23698728 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:30 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23730928-Faire-du-camping If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape. This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados. This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs, vegans, and criminals. Original photo by Pete Ryan. (We modified it.) If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape. This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados. This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs, vegans, and criminals. Original photo by Pete Ryan. (We modified it.) If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape. This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados. This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs, vegans, and criminals. Original photo by Pete Ryan. (We modified it.) tag:odeo.com,2008-12-03,23730928 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:30 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420464-Boothies We’re not very good with money. Our accountants gnash their teeth as each promising opportunity disintegrates into a costly failure. That’s why we’re really excited about the booth we’ve been offered at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. Anyone who’s ever been to a fair knows that you can sell anything to a chunky yokel holding his toddler on a leash. Beer mirror? Check. Giant stuffed Speedy Gonazalez? Check. No seriously, check our basement. It’s full of that crap. In Parts I and II of our VSOP series with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, we asked them to help us come up with a guaranteed moneymaker, something that none of the other booths at the fair would think of. They had some really great ideas. In fact, they had too many great ideas. We’re in love with all of them, so we need you to help us choose. Listen to Selfish Express and Faux Tog to learn more about the proposals, then vote below. Loading… Don’t let us down, people. A... We’re not very good with money. Our accountants gnash their teeth as each promising opportunity disintegrates into a costly failure. That’s why we’re really excited about the booth we’ve been offered at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. Anyone who’s ever been to a fair knows that you can sell anything to a chunky yokel holding his toddler on a leash. Beer mirror? Check. Giant stuffed Speedy Gonazalez? Check. No seriously, check our basement. It’s full of that crap. In Parts I and II of our VSOP series with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, we asked them to help us come up with a guaranteed moneymaker, something that none of the other booths at the fair would think of. They had some really great ideas. In fact, they had too many great ideas. We’re in love with all of them, so we need you to help us choose. Listen to Selfish Express and Faux Tog to learn more about the proposals, then vote below. Loading… Don’t let us down, people. A lot is riding on this. Scott’s gender re-re-assignment surgery isn’t going to pay for itself. Photo by Bala (detail). We’re not very good with money. Our accountants gnash their teeth as each promising opportunity disintegrates into a costly failure. That’s why we’re really excited about the booth we’ve been offered at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. Anyone who’s ever been to a fair knows that you can sell anything to a chunky yokel holding his toddler on a leash. Beer mirror? Check. Giant stuffed Speedy Gonazalez? Check. No seriously, check our basement. It’s full of that crap. In Parts I and II of our VSOP series with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, we asked them to help us come up with a guaranteed moneymaker, something that none of the other booths at the fair would think of. They had some really great ideas. In fact, they had too many great ideas. We’re in love with all of them, so we need you to help us choose. Listen to Selfish Express and Faux Tog to learn more about the proposals, then vote below. Loading… Don’t let us down, people. A lot is riding on this. Scott’s gender re-re-assignment surgery isn’t going to pay for itself. Photo by Bala (detail). tag:odeo.com,2008-11-26,24420464 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:10:59 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today News twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24281243-Boothies We’re not very good with money. Our accountants gnash their teeth as each promising opportunity disintegrates into a costly failure. That’s why we’re really excited about the booth we’ve been offered at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. Anyone who’s ever been to a fair knows that you can sell anything to a chunky yokel holding his toddler on a leash. Beer mirror? Check. Giant stuffed Speedy Gonazalez? Check. No seriously, check our basement. It’s full of that crap. In Parts I and II of our VSOP series with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, we asked them to help us come up with a guaranteed moneymaker, something that none of the other booths at the fair would think of. They had some really great ideas. In fact, they had too many great ideas. We’re in love with all of them, so we need you to help us choose. Listen to Selfish Express and Faux Tog to learn more about the proposals, then vote below. Loading… Don’t let us down, people. A... We’re not very good with money. Our accountants gnash their teeth as each promising opportunity disintegrates into a costly failure. That’s why we’re really excited about the booth we’ve been offered at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. Anyone who’s ever been to a fair knows that you can sell anything to a chunky yokel holding his toddler on a leash. Beer mirror? Check. Giant stuffed Speedy Gonazalez? Check. No seriously, check our basement. It’s full of that crap. In Parts I and II of our VSOP series with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, we asked them to help us come up with a guaranteed moneymaker, something that none of the other booths at the fair would think of. They had some really great ideas. In fact, they had too many great ideas. We’re in love with all of them, so we need you to help us choose. Listen to Selfish Express and Faux Tog to learn more about the proposals, then vote below. Loading… Don’t let us down, people. A lot is riding on this. Scott’s gender re-re-assignment surgery isn’t going to pay for itself. Photo by Bala (detail). We’re not very good with money. Our accountants gnash their teeth as each promising opportunity disintegrates into a costly failure. That’s why we’re really excited about the booth we’ve been offered at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. Anyone who’s ever been to a fair knows that you can sell anything to a chunky yokel holding his toddler on a leash. Beer mirror? Check. Giant stuffed Speedy Gonazalez? Check. No seriously, check our basement. It’s full of that crap. In Parts I and II of our VSOP series with John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, we asked them to help us come up with a guaranteed moneymaker, something that none of the other booths at the fair would think of. They had some really great ideas. In fact, they had too many great ideas. We’re in love with all of them, so we need you to help us choose. Listen to Selfish Express and Faux Tog to learn more about the proposals, then vote below. Loading… Don’t let us down, people. A lot is riding on this. Scott’s gender re-re-assignment surgery isn’t going to pay for itself. Photo by Bala (detail). tag:odeo.com,2008-11-26,24281243 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:10:59 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23690626-Faux-Tog YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so. A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators: “Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene) Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher) Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin) LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court) Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst) Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte) Resuscitation Situation (Jamiroquai) * Imodium, Dermarest Photo by frozenmeat (detail) YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so. A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators: “Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene) Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher) Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin) LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court) Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst) Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte) Resuscitation Situation (Jamiroquai) * Imodium, Dermarest Photo by frozenmeat (detail) YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so. A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators: “Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene) Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher) Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin) LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court) Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst) Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte) Resuscitation Situation (Jamiroquai) * Imodium, Dermarest Photo by frozenmeat (detail) tag:odeo.com,2008-11-24,23690626 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:20:05 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23660518-Faux-Tog YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so. A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators: “Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene) Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher) Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin) LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court) Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst) Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte) Resuscitation Situation (Jamiroquai) * Imodium, Dermarest Photo by frozenmeat (detail) YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so. A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators: “Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene) Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher) Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin) LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court) Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst) Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte) Resuscitation Situation (Jamiroquai) * Imodium, Dermarest Photo by frozenmeat (detail) YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so. A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators: “Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene) Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher) Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin) LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court) Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst) Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte) Resuscitation Situation (Jamiroquai) * Imodium, Dermarest Photo by frozenmeat (detail) tag:odeo.com,2008-11-24,23660518 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:20:05 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420466-Production-Journal-Selfish-Express We’re flattered when listeners tell us how “natural” or “off-the-cuff” we sound. Dozens of men and women on our crew toil for weeks to achieve the ralaxed, conversational tone that characterizes our show. If they’ve done their jobs well, even the close listener should be fooled into thinking we don’t do any preparation at all. But with so many moving parts, things don’t always go smoothly. Here’s a peek at the production journal for our most recent episode, “Selfish Express”: Oct 7: With just a month before we’re set to record, Adam spills Jamba Juice on the only copy of the script, rendering it illegible. Back to square one. Oct 9: Our team of 14 writers quits, citing “creative differences” and “promises to be paid” not being “kept.” Oct 12: Speech experts, whom we hire to remove any trace of regionalism or accent, infuriated Merlin by asking him not to sound so “San Fr... We’re flattered when listeners tell us how “natural” or “off-the-cuff” we sound. Dozens of men and women on our crew toil for weeks to achieve the ralaxed, conversational tone that characterizes our show. If they’ve done their jobs well, even the close listener should be fooled into thinking we don’t do any preparation at all. But with so many moving parts, things don’t always go smoothly. Here’s a peek at the production journal for our most recent episode, “Selfish Express”: Oct 7: With just a month before we’re set to record, Adam spills Jamba Juice on the only copy of the script, rendering it illegible. Back to square one. Oct 9: Our team of 14 writers quits, citing “creative differences” and “promises to be paid” not being “kept.” Oct 12: Speech experts, whom we hire to remove any trace of regionalism or accent, infuriated Merlin by asking him not to sound so “San Francisco.” As revenge, he’s been speaking nothing but fake Spanish. In an Irish brogue. For two weeks. Oct 17: Acoustic modelers survey the recording studio. They recommend the building’s foundation be repoured to correct for the room’s weak sonic profile. Two days lost. Oct 20: Coulton and Hodgman are busy on other projects and cannot attend every rehearsal. The child actors we’ve hired as their stand-ins are pretty darned funny. Conundrum: go with the kids instead? Oct 27: Scott loses his voice at a NASCAR rally. Our insurance company refuses to cover the medical bills, claiming erotic massage is not a valid course of treatment. Oct 29: The Bolivian tin mine, whose output finances our show in lieu of sponsorships, is nationalized. Cash reserves: low. Nov 3: Coulton is refusing to learn Aramaic. Now we have to totally rewrite Act III. Nov 8: Dress rehearsal. We’re forced to abandon the costumes after our designer forgets to FedEx the novelty-sized pince-nez. Nov. 9: Finally! Recording day! Yes, we flub a few lines, forget some facts, and stumble a bit. But it’s no big deal—our impersonators can fix that in post. Photos #3 & #4 by Ryan Carver. See larger versions of #1 & #2 here. We’re flattered when listeners tell us how “natural” or “off-the-cuff” we sound. Dozens of men and women on our crew toil for weeks to achieve the ralaxed, conversational tone that characterizes our show. If they’ve done their jobs well, even the close listener should be fooled into thinking we don’t do any preparation at all. But with so many moving parts, things don’t always go smoothly. Here’s a peek at the production journal for our most recent episode, “Selfish Express”: Oct 7: With just a month before we’re set to record, Adam spills Jamba Juice on the only copy of the script, rendering it illegible. Back to square one. Oct 9: Our team of 14 writers quits, citing “creative differences” and “promises to be paid” not being “kept.” Oct 12: Speech experts, whom we hire to remove any trace of regionalism or accent, infuriated Merlin by asking him not to sound so “San Francisco.” As revenge, he’s been speaking nothing but fake Spanish. In an Irish brogue. For two weeks. Oct 17: Acoustic modelers survey the recording studio. They recommend the building’s foundation be repoured to correct for the room’s weak sonic profile. Two days lost. Oct 20: Coulton and Hodgman are busy on other projects and cannot attend every rehearsal. The child actors we’ve hired as their stand-ins are pretty darned funny. Conundrum: go with the kids instead? Oct 27: Scott loses his voice at a NASCAR rally. Our insurance company refuses to cover the medical bills, claiming erotic massage is not a valid course of treatment. Oct 29: The Bolivian tin mine, whose output finances our show in lieu of sponsorships, is nationalized. Cash reserves: low. Nov 3: Coulton is refusing to learn Aramaic. Now we have to totally rewrite Act III. Nov 8: Dress rehearsal. We’re forced to abandon the costumes after our designer forgets to FedEx the novelty-sized pince-nez. Nov. 9: Finally! Recording day! Yes, we flub a few lines, forget some facts, and stumble a bit. But it’s no big deal—our impersonators can fix that in post. Photos #3 & #4 by Ryan Carver. See larger versions of #1 & #2 here. tag:odeo.com,2008-11-16,24420466 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:17:07 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today News, production, PostProduction, monkeys on parade, iloveucharliekaufman twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24281244-Production-Journal-Selfish-Express We’re flattered when listeners tell us how “natural” or “off-the-cuff” we sound. Dozens of men and women on our crew toil for weeks to achieve the ralaxed, conversational tone that characterizes our show. If they’ve done their jobs well, even the close listener should be fooled into thinking we don’t do any preparation at all. But with so many moving parts, things don’t always go smoothly. Here’s a peek at the production journal for our most recent episode, “Selfish Express”: Oct 7: With just a month before we’re set to record, Adam spills Jamba Juice on the only copy of the script, rendering it illegible. Back to square one. Oct 9: Our team of 14 writers quits, citing “creative differences” and “promises to be paid” not being “kept.” Oct 12: Speech experts, whom we hire to remove any trace of regionalism or accent, infuriated Merlin by asking him not to sound so “San Fr... We’re flattered when listeners tell us how “natural” or “off-the-cuff” we sound. Dozens of men and women on our crew toil for weeks to achieve the ralaxed, conversational tone that characterizes our show. If they’ve done their jobs well, even the close listener should be fooled into thinking we don’t do any preparation at all. But with so many moving parts, things don’t always go smoothly. Here’s a peek at the production journal for our most recent episode, “Selfish Express”: Oct 7: With just a month before we’re set to record, Adam spills Jamba Juice on the only copy of the script, rendering it illegible. Back to square one. Oct 9: Our team of 14 writers quits, citing “creative differences” and “promises to be paid” not being “kept.” Oct 12: Speech experts, whom we hire to remove any trace of regionalism or accent, infuriated Merlin by asking him not to sound so “San Francisco.” As revenge, he’s been speaking nothing but fake Spanish. In an Irish brogue. For two weeks. Oct 17: Acoustic modelers survey the recording studio. They recommend the building’s foundation be repoured to correct for the room’s weak sonic profile. Two days lost. Oct 20: Coulton and Hodgman are busy on other projects and cannot attend every rehearsal. The child actors we’ve hired as their stand-ins are pretty darned funny. Conundrum: go with the kids instead? Oct 27: Scott loses his voice at a NASCAR rally. Our insurance company refuses to cover the medical bills, claiming erotic massage is not a valid course of treatment. Oct 29: The Bolivian tin mine, whose output finances our show in lieu of sponsorships, is nationalized. Cash reserves: low. Nov 3: Coulton is refusing to learn Aramaic. Now we have to totally rewrite Act III. Nov 8: Dress rehearsal. We’re forced to abandon the costumes after our designer forgets to FedEx the novelty-sized pince-nez. Nov. 9: Finally! Recording day! Yes, we flub a few lines, forget some facts, and stumble a bit. But it’s no big deal—our impersonators can fix that in post. Photos #3 & #4 by Ryan Carver. See larger versions of #1 & #2 here. We’re flattered when listeners tell us how “natural” or “off-the-cuff” we sound. Dozens of men and women on our crew toil for weeks to achieve the ralaxed, conversational tone that characterizes our show. If they’ve done their jobs well, even the close listener should be fooled into thinking we don’t do any preparation at all. But with so many moving parts, things don’t always go smoothly. Here’s a peek at the production journal for our most recent episode, “Selfish Express”: Oct 7: With just a month before we’re set to record, Adam spills Jamba Juice on the only copy of the script, rendering it illegible. Back to square one. Oct 9: Our team of 14 writers quits, citing “creative differences” and “promises to be paid” not being “kept.” Oct 12: Speech experts, whom we hire to remove any trace of regionalism or accent, infuriated Merlin by asking him not to sound so “San Francisco.” As revenge, he’s been speaking nothing but fake Spanish. In an Irish brogue. For two weeks. Oct 17: Acoustic modelers survey the recording studio. They recommend the building’s foundation be repoured to correct for the room’s weak sonic profile. Two days lost. Oct 20: Coulton and Hodgman are busy on other projects and cannot attend every rehearsal. The child actors we’ve hired as their stand-ins are pretty darned funny. Conundrum: go with the kids instead? Oct 27: Scott loses his voice at a NASCAR rally. Our insurance company refuses to cover the medical bills, claiming erotic massage is not a valid course of treatment. Oct 29: The Bolivian tin mine, whose output finances our show in lieu of sponsorships, is nationalized. Cash reserves: low. Nov 3: Coulton is refusing to learn Aramaic. Now we have to totally rewrite Act III. Nov 8: Dress rehearsal. We’re forced to abandon the costumes after our designer forgets to FedEx the novelty-sized pince-nez. Nov. 9: Finally! Recording day! Yes, we flub a few lines, forget some facts, and stumble a bit. But it’s no big deal—our impersonators can fix that in post. Photos #3 & #4 by Ryan Carver. See larger versions of #1 & #2 here. tag:odeo.com,2008-11-16,24281244 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:17:07 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23616529-Selfish-Express It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions: Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines? How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes? What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques? Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa? Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance? What food is best eaten deep-fried? …and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require . The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much. Photo by Ryan Carver (detail). Check out his other great photos from that day here. It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions: Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines? How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes? What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques? Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa? Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance? What food is best eaten deep-fried? …and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require . The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much. Photo by Ryan Carver (detail). Check out his other great photos from that day here. It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions: Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines? How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes? What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques? Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa? Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance? What food is best eaten deep-fried? …and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require . The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much. Photo by Ryan Carver (detail). Check out his other great photos from that day here. tag:odeo.com,2008-11-13,23616529 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:16:33 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/23690627-Selfish-Express It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions: Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines? How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes? What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques? Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa? Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance? What food is best eaten deep-fried? …and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require . The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much. UPDATE: If you enjoyed this episode, you might like to learn more about how we made it. Check out the production journal. Photo by Ryan ... It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions: Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines? How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes? What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques? Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa? Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance? What food is best eaten deep-fried? …and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require . The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much. UPDATE: If you enjoyed this episode, you might like to learn more about how we made it. Check out the production journal. Photo by Ryan Carver (detail). Check out his other great photos from that day here. It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions: Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines? How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes? What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques? Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa? Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance? What food is best eaten deep-fried? …and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require . The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much. UPDATE: If you enjoyed this episode, you might like to learn more about how we made it. Check out the production journal. Photo by Ryan Carver (detail). Check out his other great photos from that day here. tag:odeo.com,2008-11-13,23690627 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:16:33 -0800 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25414345-Satisfaction-Island-YLNT-Forum In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought abou... In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. tag:odeo.com,2008-10-31,25414345 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:04:31 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, lost, fantasy, island twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/25344730-Satisfaction-Island-YLNT-Forum In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought abou... In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. tag:odeo.com,2008-10-31,25344730 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:04:31 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, lost, fantasy, island twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24420467-Satisfaction-Island-YLNT-Forum In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought abou... In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. tag:odeo.com,2008-10-31,24420467 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:31 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today News, lost, fantasy, island twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting http://odeo.com/episodes/24281245-Satisfaction-Island-YLNT-Forum In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought abou... In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. In Who Voted?, we discussed the problem of Excessive Realism in Sexual Fantasies: the growing compulsion for our Fantasy Lives to have to conform to the boring strictures of our Regular Lives. A few listeners sympathized, but one brave soul took us on an immersive tour of one of his go-to fantasy scenarios: Satisfaction Island. Sadly, due to a crippling case of ERSF, the island has lost its magic: For years I’ve had a nighttime fantasy where I’m stranded on an island with an attractive woman. We fill our days with the only activity not requiring a whole lot of equipment and learning. The sex, that is. I revisited recently, after a long time away from Satisfaction Island. Everything went well, except I felt I had to introduce the situation by first explaining how we ended up on the island, where the others were, and how we got past the initial shock. I had to establish reliable sources of food and water, and explain why the weather is always excellent. Then I thought about this woman. She would obviously need to give full consent—nay, approach me first—and while I can believe that she would reach out for me the very first night, looking for some comfort, I knew that this would probably make for a rocky long-term relationship. So I had her wait a few weeks and get to know and like me first. Then there was the matter of my being married. I couldn’t just jump into this with my wife out there, worrying about me. But I figured we were reasonable people, and eventually she’d move on and I’d realize I would spend the rest of my life on the island. Seeing how this was a fantasy, I allowed about six months for these wounds to heal. Then there’s the matter of birth control. It was getting late in the fantasy so I just made my island-partner infertile. That made me sad for her, though, so I tweaked it a bit; she had also come from a large family and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. Good, good. At this point I was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the casual way in which I assumed that our food and shelter were accounted for, so I spent some time justifying how we found ourselves in a worry-free situation. The show Lost was very helpful here. Between the fruit-gathering and the water-getting, I don’t think I fantasized about any actual sex. Maybe once or twice we tried, but there was sand everywhere, and it just kept getting in the way. Image by Island-Life. tag:odeo.com,2008-10-31,24281245 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:31 -0700 yes You Look Nice Today twitter california Parenting Mann merlin sandwich California yourmonkeycalled mann hot dogs hijinx parenting