I was listening to the Two Guy Named Chris morning show on the  radio station over in Greensboro the other day when they started talking about John and Lorena Bobbitt. At one point one of them said something like John had “pushed her to it” or something similar.

Here’s the email I wrote:

Hey guys. I pass through the area pretty regularly and catch your show. Much better than anything that’s on in Raleigh. I have a bone to pick with on regarding Monday’s show (5/4). During one part of the show you were discussing John & Lorena Bobbitt on some TV show together. One of you (I don’t remember who) said at one point “he drove her to it” and in general everybody one the show seemed to think what she had done was alright.

I dare you to turn that around and see how it sounds. Find the most heinous, unredeeming  bitch that cheated on her husband  with his best friend. Imagine that she constantly demeaned him and was a controlling nag and then imagine that he beat the piss out of her. Not permanently mutilated her anything… just, say, broke her  nose and blacked her eyes. The roll the phrase “she drove him to it” around in your mouth for a while and see if it feels ok. Even better… come up with whatever back story you like involving a guy beating his wife up, tell it on the air and then say “he drove her to it” . When Biggie stops answering the phones, maybe you’ll see my problem.

For what it’s worth you all aren’t the only one’s that do that. There’s a show on Oxygen called Snapped that from the few minutes I watched appeared to be a show explaining what some no good bastard had done to deserve getting killed by a woman. I’d love to see a show on Spike called Bitch Asked For It and watched the feminists climb out of the woodwork.

Why is it alright for a woman to mutilate a man but the slightest hint of violence toward a women brings instant condemnation? Just something to think about.

Thanks for having a great show.

Chris Demm responded the next day. I won’t quote his email because I didn’t ask him if it was alright. Essentially he said that he didn’t necessarily think it was ok for her to do but that since the jury thought so then it must be. Which wasn’t really my point. What I was getting at was that if the situation had been reversed (ok, I know that it’s unlikely that a woman can force a man to have sex with her, but let’s just go with it ok?) nothing that she did would make mutilating her ok. That’s what law enforcement is supposed to be for.

There’s a post over on Wired about one of the finalists on the latest America’s Next Top Model and how she used to have picturescirculating on 4chan‘s /b/ board in 2005 where she was known as Creepy-chan then she went a little less goth and started being referred to as Cute-chan. Then the pictures stopped and she showed up on ANTM. She needs some piercings and tattoos but otherwise seems like she might be interesting.

I used to have a blog on blogger in 2005. In fact, it’s still there but hasn’t been updated in over 3 years and I don’t know what the retention policy is. So what I’m going to do is post them under the title “18WA-original title-publish date” every few days until I get them all over here because I don’t want to rely on the Internet Archive to get it all for me since it only got part of my first website back in 1996.  That said the first one from 14 June 2005 is coming up next.

I don’t know why but radio ads seem to bother me more than tv commercials do. I can’t recall a time that I thought about changing the channel on the tv because of a commercial but I sometimes do when there’s a really bad radio spot on. Maybe it’s because there’s no visual component to distract me and I can focus completely on how stupid it really is. I’m not sure.

These probably aren’t running everywhere and apparently the one thing the Internet doesn’t have is mp3 files of radio commercials so you’ll just have to take my word for it if you haven’t heard them.

Current contenders, in no particular order,  are:

1. The Burger King “Awesome”. Two stoner/surfer dudes, probably in a basement somewhere, talking about “awesome endsdays at awesome king”. Seriously. There’s more of this goofiness but that’s the best part.
2. Safelite Autoglass. Mark, a technician at Safelite, tells us about his last customer that waited too long to get a chip repaired and it turned into a crack. Which is fine except that he tells the story in exactly the same way you’d read a Winnie the Pooh story to a 3 year old. Safelite, there’s a voicemail on the clue phone. It says to hire professional talent to do your commercials. We don’t need radio drama especially when the storyline pertains to a cracked windshield.
3. Bojangles. A guy orders two sausage biscuits at the drive-thru. The girl on the other end says it’ll be ‘one eighty-nine’. Guy goes non-linear about it being a hundred and eighty-nine dollars. Girl explains that it’s a dollar eighty-nine when what she should do is say, “Please pull out of line you’re too fucking stupid to eat.” I’m willing to suspend disbelief but this has the exact same effect as him screaming “All your base are belong to us” when she tells him the price.

Like I said, there are plenty of TV ads that are really bad. I’m not sure why they don’t bother me as much. There are fewer different commercials on radio so maybe it’s just that you reach some sort of tolerance limit or something.

As ashamed as I am to admit it,   I was listening to WBBB the other day (it was only for a minute and I didn’t enjoy it) and Taylor Zard (who as near as I can tell from their website, doesn’t even exist),  the sports guy, was rambling about baseball never being the same because Manny Ramirez got suspended for 50 games for failing a drug test for performance enhancing drugs. He was going on and on about how these guys had betrayed the game and all their records should be deleted and baseball will never be the same and  blah, blah, blah…. He ended his little pussy style bitchfest with an “it’s ok because we’ve got hockey”

Here’s the thing, dude. If your salary can be significantly affected by things like batting averages, home runs, division championships or whatever you’re going to do whatever to make that happen. For instance, when A-Rod re-signed with the Yankees in 2007 his contract included a $30 million bonus if he set a new home run record. If you say that you wouldn’t do whatever it takes, including shooting yourself up with questionable stuff,  you’re either full of shit or don’t have a competitive bone in your body.

Baseball hasn’t been the same since they let the Dodgers leave Brooklyn. Baseball definitely hasn’t been the same since Free Agency. The funniest part to me is that we’re drawing this kind of weird artificial line.  Performance enhancing drugs are not ok but better understanding of nutrition and training are ok.  I just think the whole thing is goofy.  If you really want to fix things, limit total player compensation (including bonuses and endorsements) to, say, $200,000.  It’s a fucking game. Paying people to $50 million a year to play a game is insane. That’s the main reason I prefer minor league baseball anyway. Anybody that juices to make $200,000 year is welcome to it as far as I’m concerned.

As far as hockey goes, I still don’t get it. It would be fine with me if the yankees take hockey back and give us back NASCAR in exchange.

Last night nothing else came up and I was kind of Jonesing for some live music so I went to the show at the Lincoln Theatre and caught Brad Benson, Barbarella, Eulogy & Guerilla Radio.

Brad Benson is out of Cary and did an acoustic set with another guitar player whose name I didn’t catch. He was supposed to have somebody on the Congo drum (I think, I wasn’t really paying attention while they were getting ready) but there was a busted head or something so they played without. I thought it was really outstanding. The thing about acoustic sets is that you can’t cover up bad playing or fuck-ups like you can with an electric.

Next up was Barbarella out of Chapel Hill. I’m not sure how to describe them. Kind of a bluesy rock vibe with healthy doses of Lenny Kravitz. Hugh Swaso’s guitar playing was masterful.

Then Eulogy took the stage.  Eulogy is a Tool tribute band. I have mixed feelings about tribute bands. One the one hand I think musicians should be oriented toward creating music or at least “re-imagining” (I hate that term but it fits). On the other hand, I’ll never get to see Tool in the Lincon Theatre. That said I thought Eulogy did a really excellent job. I would have liked for them to have played more off of Lateralus but that’s just because it’s my favorite album.

Last up was Guerilla Radio, a Rage Against the Machine tribute band.  The mosh pit went nuts while these guys were on stage. Several times during their set the lead singer had to tell people to chill. There were a couple of bleeding head cuts that I saw and the bouncers had to take one (really big) guy (who didn’t leave without a fight) down. It took a couple of them to beat the crap out of him bad enough to get him to walk out on his own. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t as active as the pit during the Fuel show at Lake Boone Country Club but there weren’t as many people there last night. It’s hard for me to say who was better (because everything’s got to be a competition, right?). Tool is probably my favorite band and I really have to be in the mood to listen to RATM so I’ll just call it a toss-up.

Hard to argue with 4 bands over the course of 4 hours for $10. Oh, and, Lincoln’s beer price went up $0.25 for domestics to $3.25 since last time I was there. My only bitch about the night was that it seemed to take extra long for the tear down/set up between sets.  My regret is that I couldn’t make my way over to the really cute scene girl on the left side of the stage. She had the most fetch septum and would have been perfect with a couple of cheek piercings  a layer of black hair and maybe a raccoon tail. But anytime you can come home with your ears ringing and your music bits all smiling and happy for $10,  you’ve got to call it a win.

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