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A more personal & confessional podcast where I chat about the struggles at my work.

Music along the way:
Grizzly Bear – Cheerleader (2009)
Menahan Street Band – Make The Road By Walking (2008)
Miles Davis & Gil Evans – The Pan Piper (1959)
Moby - Shot In The Back Of The Head (2009)

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Teresa Ortega
Tell Tale Thumping
Kentie from The Flatus Show
Ranger John
A Bible story
Marvin Bloom
Zillafag advice
A little Italian
From Dark Forest #69
From Real Time with Bill Maher #162
From Planet Money

Incidental Music:
Florodora Girls
Sugar Man 3 – Promised Land
Los Amigos Invisibles – Ease Your Mind
Marc Almond – Tears Run Rings
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I’m 50 so I’m doing really great show notes.

Contributors (unknown to them):

Leather Bound (Scott Daddy)
The Flatus Show (Kentie)
Teresa
Hello, Waffles (Kalvin)
Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters (Ninja)
Dark Forrest (Ranger John)
The Lesbian Mafia (Sandie)
Zillacast(David Ryan)

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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

The Green Dad (& Spazio: 1999)

Michael Jackson

Dark Forest & The Flatus Show (extra fun – road enraged)

The Bashing Report:
#1 – Seattle gay couple’s home defaced, #2 – young woman mistaken for younger gay man pushed into plate glass window, #3 – trans person shot twice, #4 -  gay man harassed and assaulted in bar, #5 – San Diego activist assaulted at pride rally, #6 – 4 men attacked by gang for being gay and Asian, #7 – gay men targeted for beatings by gang in NYC

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Exciting updates about my health including eye surgery for strabismus!

David Ryan @ Zillacast

Michael Jackson

Death Watch 2009 update (Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett)

Leave me a post or call me (206-350-7630)

NEW NEW NEW: 206-203-1930

Michael Jackson (1958-2009) R.I.P.

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Michael Jackson

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Listener discretion advised (no offense)

A Giant-Sized, double-issue bored beyond belief!

Teresa joins me to wish me warm birthday wishes – I have reached the big 5-0. She offers me useless advice about becoming a “senior”

Her menopause is improved now that she’s on birth control pills  (“ping-ping”) and the regrets of never having an abortion.

Teresa fulminates about the word “senior”. Teresa insists that the phrase “mature adult” is an oxymoron.

Joe G. is in his “golden years”.

What’s new with California besides Miss California. Can you say “insolvency“?

I miss trash piling up in the streets – then I blabber & reminisce about the 1960’s/1970’s.  Teresa asks if my teens were the “best years of [my] life”.

Digital TV and re-seeing the wonders of blaxploitation movies! The wonderful Pam Grier!

What was it like growing up in the 1970’s? Remember trash pick-up strikes?

What was the #1 song was on the day of your birth?

What plans might I have for my 50th birthday?

Groaning about my health issues – I’m a senior now, after all. Would you want to be awake for surgery? My health insurance won’t pay for the less invasive procedure.

The young try to be respectful to seniors like me…

Incidental music:
Kansas City – Wilbert Harrison
Do Wah Diddy – Manfred Mann
Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison (Japanese style)
Ringo - Lorne Greene
Venus – Frankie Avalon
It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore – Morrissey

EXTRA DOUBLE ISSUE BONUS! – the wise words of “Miss California” (thanks to Lisa Nova)

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Vado a festa italiana (I go to an Italian festival)

La descrivo per voi (I describe it for you – and yes, I translate what I say in Italian, too)

Incidental music #1: Quartetto Cetra – Un bacio a mezzanotte

The bashings continue: (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 - had enough yet?)

Incidental music #2: Antony & the Johnsons – Aeon

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A little consciousness chat with Susan Blackmore

A little message from Kentie and his lies

Help me clean the bath whilst I review what’s going on with winter, work, and the U.S. economy

A hymn from the Church of the SubGenius

A little dance mix from Christian Bale

A little message from John of the Deep Forest (and Kentie)

Defending my musical choices and a little mention about Brian

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Teresa Ortega VS. the family

Inspired by Warhol exhibit

The honeymoon is over at the new job.

Still unpacking after more than a year in the new place.

Empty living room…

Economic slowdown

“Roller Coaster” and the scream of death

The “invisible” raise

I miss Richard Nixon

I’m tired of the national elections!

Have you called the new bored beyond belief listeners’ comment line? 206-350-7630

First caller: from Ranger John of the Dark Forest

Second caller: Elizabeth Jeremiah and her ministry. She must be related to this guy.

Third caller: ???

Call me! Write me! Comment!

Incidental music:
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “Answer Me”
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It’s Teresa Ortega’s birthday phone call.

Part 1:
She’s feeling older. She’s entered into the “time of life”.
Teresa’s laments about menopause:

• She’s gotten it earlier than when she thought it would happen.
• Menstruation – It’s more convenient, but not cured.
• Visiting witch doctors for cures.
• She started menstruation at 10 years of age.
• Her girlfriend got started with the menopause later.
• Hysterectomies and her uterus is ours.
• Very tired…The reproductive system is breaking down like a camp site.

Part 2:
Menopause is different for the lesbians.
Get those bits out of there
It feels unfair to go through all of the bleeding if you’re not going to have kids.
Lesbians had children in different ways in the past.
The Family Unit is a source of evil in the world.
Sarah Palin is evidence of how far women have come.
Annoyed how people speak about Palin in the media.
Pet peeve about how the media make Palin out to be sexy.
Betty White + Obama
As long as they can read.

Parts 3:
Teresa’s charitable thoughts about children.
She’s did not come out as a lesbian so that she could go on a cruise with lesbians and their children.
Child hater.

Incidental music.
Peggy Lee – “I Enjoy Being a Girl”

Outro:
I’ve been busy, busy, busy…just like you.
You can now reach me at the bored beyond belief listener’s phone line: 206-350-7630

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Welcome to Apocalypse Day #3

The remnants of hurricane Ike (& Tina Turner) blow through Columbus, OH and we’re all left in the dark for a week or more. So says the AEP, INC.

And thanks to American Electric Power, INC. , our for-profit power provider, for thinking ahead. I mean, after all, it’s so rare for this area to be hit by high winds. Oh, fiddledeedee about all that tornado activity that occurs on a regular basis. We don’t have to worry about high winds in these here parts at all!

Teresa Ortega graciously warned me of the lapses into apocalyptic moments in LA before I had moved there. But, so far Columbus has offered LA stiff competition in that regards.

If you ever have a chance to visit Columbus, OH, don’t. Beg the pilot to fly over it. Really, it’ll only be to your advantage…

Apocalypse Day #4 starts at midnight tonight…

Incidental music:
David Gahan - “Kingdom”

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