March 19, 2006: 2:28 am: acedtecteastmeetswest
Listening to this episode will get you up to speed on V for Vendetta as wella s athe history of dictatorship and revolutions both slow-working and abrupt. Tom and Roger also read feedback on Ep 13, the evil episode, whihc a surprising number of people listened to.
March 19th, 2006 at 3:01 am
it was definately evil(ep13) , i thought my ipod was dead for a monent , it was sometimes hard to make out the dialog coz of the evil sounds. V for Vadetta kicks ass and i love the show . i wonder though why the episode was early ?. i thought my machine was participating in DOS attack coz i wasen’t antisipating any download yet the network icon was blinking . is the a big game on Sunday ?
March 19th, 2006 at 4:20 am
I can’t believe, with all the 1984 references, nobody (not just you guys, but even in all the reviews I’ve read) points out the fact that John Hurt (Sutler) played the protagonist in the film version of ’84, an irony that I truly hope was not lost on the “V†production staff.
ORWELL WAS A PROPHET!!!!!
Keep up the great podcast!!
March 19th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
We recorded on Saturday because Roger wasn’t goin to be around on Sunday. EMW is catch as catch can. I can’t believe we’ve been as regular as we have been up until now!
March 20th, 2006 at 12:38 am
keep on rocking the dialogic. pod-geist reminded me of a poem i ran across during a poetry project last year. fear of the “other”…
—
Nellie Wong (b. 1934)
Can’t Tell [1977]
When World War II was declared
on the morning radio,
we glued our ears, widened our eyes.
Our bodies shivered.
A voice said
Japan was the enemy,
Pearl Harbor a shambles
and in our grocery store
in Berkeley, we were suspended
next to the meat market
where voices hummed,
valises, pots and pans packed,
no more hot dogs, baloney,
pork kidneys.
We children huddled on wooden planks
and my parents whispered:
We are Chinese, we are Chinese.
Safety pins anchored,
our loins ached.
Shortly our Japanese neighbors vanished
and my parents continued to whisper:
We are Chinese, we are Chinese.
We wore black arm bands,
put up a sign
in bold letters.
—
Wong, Nellie. “Can’t Tell.â€
The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America.
Ed. Garrett Hongo.
New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1993. 270.
March 20th, 2006 at 2:30 am
YES!!! Chelsea finally lost another game and most importantly got nil. MANU only 12 pts back, game in hand and nine games to go. ahhh, hope.
March 20th, 2006 at 9:07 am
I haven’t seen V for Vendetta yet, but plan to soon, but the chat on the episode (BTW, solid episode guys) and what I’ve seen of previews and reviews of the movie, reminded me of a Ben Franklin quote:
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” (The exact wording is somewhat in dispute, and I found multiple listings online, but that’s the jist of it)
Kind of makes you think . . .
March 20th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
hey guys i come from Zimbabwe , Yea you guys were right
March 20th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
back again , Tom you were kind of wrong , the reason why Mugabe didn’t kick out white people is that they were protected in the constitution and he had to wait ten years . Mugabe is kind of smart coz everything he does is constitutinal, he does it my manipulating the law
March 20th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Hey guys, great episode. I don’t have a lot to say this time, because I gotta do a triple DOD wipe of my hard drive, that ghost from the last episode infected my computer and the windows started flying..everywhere..literally! I moved the window to one side of the screen and it went back, I moved the window in a cirle and it kept going!!! Ok, gonna go do the exorcism!
March 20th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
The constitution of Zimbabwe protected white seats in the parliament for 10 years. You can manipulate any government action and say it is lawful. The NSA monitoring communications involving citizens or those located in the U.S. is a great example. The Bush administration is arguing it is lawful and others disagree. What is lawful is usually up to those in charge, but the Declaration of Independence is a great treatise on how breaking the law is justified.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:16 pm
I was wrong, it was a law granting whites 20 seats in parliament that was rescinded in 1988.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Hey Tom and Roger, another great podcast. Tom I was surprized you knew what STL stood for, most people would of been confused by it. By the way have you guys seen the new bush stadium for the cardinals. It is almost done for the new season. Best place to see pictures of it is http://www.kmov.com a local news website. Can’t wait to see if we can make it to the world series again. Also thanks for the heads up on V, hopefully I will get a chance to see it this weekend.
March 25th, 2006 at 12:48 am
ahhh, i’m sipping on a beer while i decompress from winter term finals. actually this is the first time trying Full Sail Pale Ale. another great beer in the Oregon tradition. it’s very clean and light with a good hint of citrus flavor. it’s a small independent brewery based out of Hood River, OR. i love the description on the bottle of which it explains “…ridiculously tasty American pale ale…”
not sure if they have this distro’d down in the Bay Area but try it out if you guys ever come across it. i think this will be my new “daily drinker.” in the figurative-descriptive sense of course.
March 25th, 2006 at 12:53 am
oh forgot to ask, is there a local brewery/label you guys would recommend i try next time i’m lucky enough to be back in Frisco?
March 26th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Speaking of issues in Zimbabwe, Coca-Coca supplies have dried up in the country. This is a sure sign of economic distress in a country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4836378.stm