Outside of people trampling other people to death to save a few bucks, I hope you are finding your Holiday enjoyable. At the very least, some of you might get a frikin' day or two off from work and gods permitting, with pay! I'm regrouping a bit for the New Year. Exploring podcasting and radio. Also looking to highlight Civics in my segments... ya know, how governmental stuff works and how it's supposed to work? Yeah, that stuff.
I thought I'd repost this Holiday message from last year seein' as how I didn't do a proper one this year. That's my boy "Biggie" with me. A year later and O'Reilly is still cryin' about Christmas. What a putz! Happy Holidays all.
As you may know, I've been added to play rotation on In Your Face and Progressive Blend Radio with a one minute commentary/promo. The In Your Face Radio crew are a great bunch and they have been awarded the special privilege of being granted a seat on Radio Row at the Barack Obama Presidential Inauguration. No small feat for an Internet radio station.
I've been talking with JD and Kai at In Your Face Radio about a possible thirty minute show and I think it's a go. This format will give me some more time to connect with you all and add a broader amount of content and discussion. Additionally, the broadcasts would be available for downloading and pod catching with your favorite RSS podcast aggregation program so you can take me with you in your mp3 player in the car and elsewhere. I may continue YouTube videos as a sort of Special Comment segment and may even mirror the podcasts on YouTube too.
A very interesting exchange between Richard Dawkins and Derren Brown concerning cold reading. I embarrassingly admit, I was taken in by John Edwards for a bit. He's very good at what he does whereas James Van Praagh is terrible. Like a terrible actor, the suspension of reality is destroyed.
I still have my eleventh grade American history book. I'm not really sure why. I hated history. As a kid I just couldn't be convinced there was any merit in rehashing what a bunch of old dead guys did. Just absolutely didn't get it. It's a complete turnaround that I devote most of my time now studying American history and government. I suppose if you think about it, it's not inconceivable that a kid, barely into his teens, didn't see the point of it.
In this interview Barack Obama gives some insight into the issues that many of us on the Left who support him have been having reservations about. Each video links to the next section.
