Doomed to Repeat It

MLK

2008-04-04T14:27:00.001-04:00

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago today.

So wrong, but ...

2008-02-27T12:20:00.001-05:00

Hillary vs. Obama

2008-02-27T12:14:00.000-05:00

And the sequel:

Obamanation.

2008-02-24T21:45:00.000-05:00

VIVA!

2008-02-23T17:25:00.001-05:00

p.s.

2008-02-22T22:24:00.001-05:00

The podcast is up.

GIANT MUSIC POST!

2008-02-22T22:19:00.003-05:00

Because I was lazy, here is Last Week's and This Week's music outline!

LAST WEEK:
Death Penalty - Cover(Version)//Belle and Sebastian and Watching Lara//Yann Tiersen
Music Break 1 - Used Car//Bruce Springsteen
Music Break 2 - Hey, Ladies!//Beastie Boys
McCain - Wild Cat//Hot Club of Cowtown
Music Break 3 - Groundhog//Red Allen
Music Break 4 - Johnny B. Goode//Chuck Berry
O Captain - Coma//Yann Tiersen
Ballad of Honest Abe - L'Autre Valse D'Amelie//Yann Tiersen
Music Break 5 - Polythene Pam//The Beatles
Book Review - Lucid//Brad Mehldau Trio
Music Break 6 - Down South Jukin'//Lynyrd Skynyrd

THIS WEEK:
Agent Orange - Sway//Spiritualized
Music Break 1 - Orange Crush//R.E.M
Music Break 2 - Yes, We Can//Will.i.am
Huckabee - The Wild Dog//Hot Club of Cowtown
Music Break 3 - Oh Eh//Gipsy Kings
Music Break 4 - Reminiscing//Buddy Holly
Book Review - Right Here, Right Now//Fatboy Slim
Music Break 5 - U Can't Touch This//MC Hammer
Crazy American - Rhythm and Soul//Spoon

Keep on Rockin'

- Ramona.

Good news all around!

2008-02-19T02:04:00.002-05:00

The new podcast is up up up! Finally! Thanks for your patience, it's been a crazy weekend.

Secondly! Ira Glass has added our facebook group on his website. We are lucky enough to be one of the 92 groups that he (or his web manager) picked for his facebook page with about 500+ people on it. Fingers crossed!

I met Ira not to long ago, on the day we recorded Obama Rama: Episode One. He was really excited for us...

Songs from Last Week's Show...

2008-02-14T01:06:00.003-05:00

Were just amazing, I know:

Fat People Law Story: Solo from Light my Fire//The Doors
Music Break 1: Fat-Bottomed Girls//Queen
Music Break 2: Franco Un-American//NOFX
Hilary Clinton Background Music: Straight, No Chaser//John Coltrane.
Caroline Kennedy Inspiration Music: More Than A Feeling//Boston
Old Time Radio Clip: FDR's Pearl Harbor Fireside Chat
Music Break 3: Radio Nowhere//Bruce Springsteen (aka God.)
FDR Story Music: I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good//Keith Jarrett
Crazy American/Outro: Crazy on You//Heart

Keep on Rockin'!

Nader!

2008-02-13T11:23:00.003-05:00

Who knew Nader was the hotness?

Damn.

Wolf Blitzer

2008-02-07T14:20:00.000-05:00

Dear Isabel,

We're sorry we didn't believe you.

Doonesbury on Obama, continued

2008-02-07T14:03:00.000-05:00

If we were cats...

2008-02-07T01:10:00.000-05:00

We'd watch this news show...

Podcast now linked to iTunes! And new mic!

2008-02-05T12:56:00.000-05:00

Hey, folks.

We know all y'all have iPods, iPhones, and iMacs, so we've helped you out one more step by changing the link over on the right hand side of the page to connect you right to our iTunes store page (it's still free.) If for some reason you don't have iTunes or it screws up your computer, you can still find our regular podcast feed here: http://doomedradio.podshowcreator.com/

Now, without further ado, our new microphone!

Isn't she beautiful? Taking nominations for names!

- Ra-ra-ra-ramona.

TUESDAY!

2008-02-05T09:17:00.001-05:00

Don't forget to vote!

... for Obama!

Doonesbury for Obama?

2008-02-05T09:07:00.001-05:00

Strip from Tuesday, February 5:

Don't forget to vote today! (If you're in, you know, one of the states that are doing that today.)

This Day in History: February 5

2008-02-05T08:58:00.000-05:00

1972: Bob Douglas is the first black person elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1971: Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell land on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
1968: Beginning of the Battle of Khe Sanh.
1919: United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith.
1917: Congress bans the majority of Asian immigration to the U.S.
1900: Treaty for the Panama Canal signed by the U.S. and the U.K.
1778: South Carolina ratifies the Articles of Confederation, the first state to do so.

Born this Day: February 5

2008-02-05T08:47:00.000-05:00

1964: Laura Linney, actress.
1963: Steven Shainberg, director.
1959: Jennifer Granholm, politician.
1954: Cliff Martinez, musician.
1953: John Beilein, basketball coach.
1948: Barbara Hershey, actress.
1948: Christopher Guest, actor.
1944: Al Kooper, musician.

1943: Michael Mann, director.
1943: Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer.
1941: David Selby, actor.
1941: Jane Bryant Quinn, journalist.
1930: John A. Gambling, radio show host.
1928: Andrew Greeley, priest and novelist.
1927: Ruth Fertel, entrepreneur.
1923: Claude King, musician.
1919: Tim Holt, actor.
1919: Red Buttons, actor.
1915: Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate.
1914: william S. Burroughs, author.
1906: John Carradine, actor.
1900: Adlai Stevenson, politician.

1848: Belle Starr, outlaw.

1840: Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor.
1837: Dwight L. Moody, evangelist.
1725: James Otis, lawyer and patriot.

Born this Day: February 4

2008-02-04T19:00:00.000-05:00

A bit late! But here you go.

1957: Evan Wolfson, attorney and activist.
1957: Don Davis, composer.
1952: Lisa Eichhorn, actress.
1951: Stan Papi, baseball player.
1951: Phil Ehart, musician.
1949: Michael Beck, actor.
1948: Alice Cooper, musician.
1947: Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President.
1944: Florence LaRue, singer, The Fifth Dimension.
1943: Ken Thompson, computer scientist.
1929: Jerry Adler, actor.
1925: Russell Hoban, writer.
1921: Betty Friedan, feminist.

1918: Janet Waldo, actress.
1915: William Talman, actor.
1915: Ray Evans, songwriter.
1913: Rosa Parks, civil rights activist.

1906: Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer.
1902: Charles Lindbergh, pilot.

Missed this week's show?

2008-02-03T20:53:00.000-05:00

Listen to the podcast here!

This Day in History: February 3

2008-02-03T12:33:00.000-05:00

1988: Iran-Contra Affair.
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. "The Big Bopper") are killed in a plane crash in Iowa.
1945: B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin as part of Operation Thunderclap in WWII.
1945: The Soviet Union declares war against Japan.
1944: U.S. Troops capture the Marshall Islands in WWII.
1917: In response to Germany's announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare, the U.S. breaks off all diplomatic relations with Germany.
1913: Sixteenth Amendment ratified, creating a federal income tax.
1870: Fifteenth Amendment ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1809: Illinois Territory created.
1787: Shays' Rebellion crushed.

1690: The first paper money in America is issued, by the colony of Massachusetts.

Born this Day: February 3

2008-02-03T12:18:00.000-05:00

1956: Nathan Lane, actor.
1950: Morgan Fairchild, actress.
1947: Melanie Safka, singer-songwriter.
1943: Shawn Phillips, singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
1943: Blythe Danner, actress.
1939: Michael Cimino, film director.
1938: Victor Buono, actor.
1933: Paul Sarbanes, politician.
1927: Kenneth Anger, filmmaker.
1927: Joan Lowery Nixon, writer.
1920: Henry Heimlich, physician.

1918: Joey Bishop, member of the Rat Pack.
1905: Arne Beurling, mathematician.
1904: Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster.
1894: Norman Rockwell, artist.

1874: Gertrude Stein, writer.
1862: James Clark McReynolds, Supreme Court Justice.
1842: Sidney Lanier, writer.
1821: Elizabeth Blackwell, physician.

1811: Horace Greeley, journalist, editor, and publisher.
1807: Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general.

Awesome Music on the Show

2008-02-02T18:19:00.000-05:00

You know you had a few moments during this week's show that were sort of like, "What is that awesome song and how can I get it?"

And yeah, it was a little too loud...

Intro - I'm Afraid of Americans//David Bowie
Hurricane Katrina Background Music - Star Dust//Hot Club of Cowtown
Famous Dead Guy Who Died This Week of The Week - Chopin Sonata, Funeral March, Op. 35
Music Break 1 - North Americay//The Chieftains
Barack Obama background - Like Sonny//John Coltrane
Barack Obama Campaign song - Better Way//Ben Harper
History Book Review Music - La Redecouverte//Yann Tiersen
Music Break 2 - Blackbird//Brad Mehldau Trio
Outro - American Girl//Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

This Day in History: February 2

2008-02-02T11:54:00.000-05:00

1976: Date of the Groundhog Day gale, which affects the Northeast U.S. and Southeast Canada.
1976: American Basketball Association formed.
1943: German forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
1940: Frank Sinatra makes his debut, with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.
1935: The polygraph machine, invented by Leonard Keeler, is tested for the first time.
1925: Dog sleds carrying the badly-needed diptheria serum make it to Nome, Alaska. Their run inspires the Iditarod race.
1887: First Groundhog Day observed in Punxatawney, PA.

1880: In Wabash, Indiana, the first electric streetlight is installed.
1876: Formation of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball.
1848: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ends the Mexican-American War.

1653: New Amsterdam incorporated.

Born this Day: February 2

2008-02-02T11:45:00.001-05:00

It's Groundhog Day! But more importantly, it's Brigid, which is an ancient Pagan holiday that is way more cool than Groundhog Day, but that nobody remembers anymore. A looot of people were born on February 2, so bear with me. I've cut out most of the boring ones.

1963: Eva Cassidy, singer.
1948: Al McKay, guitarist and songwriter, Earth, Wind & Fire.
1947: Farrah Fawcett, actress.
1923: Bonita Granville, actress.
1912: Burton Lane, composer and lyricist.
1905: Ayn Rand (okay, so she was born in Russia, but she came to the U.S. pretty early).

1890: Charles Correll, actor.
1882: James Joyce (okay, so he wasn't American at all. But it's JAMES JOYCE).
1861: Solomon R. Guggenheim, philanthropist.

Source: Wikipedia.

History in Pictures

2008-02-01T16:55:00.001-05:00

If you've been hypnotized by the slideshow on the right, which I spent a lot of time putting together, then why don't you go ahead and click on it, or click here, to see where I've organized a crapload of different United States history pictures in rough chronological order. (Note: the slideshow to the right is not in chronological order, but the Flickr album should be.)

This Day in History: February 1

2008-02-01T12:34:00.001-05:00

What the hell, why not do a "This Day in History" feature as well? Maybe in the future the two features ("This Day" and "Born this Day") will be combined, but we'll see.

1996: U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act regulating pornography on the internet.
1994: Portland: Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his attack on Nancy Kerrigan along with Tonya Harding.
1979: After Jimmy Carter commutes her sentence, convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison.
1968: Penn Central Transportation is formed by the merging of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads.
1968: Eddie Adams photographs and videotapes the execution of Nguyen Van Lem, Viet Cong oicer, by Nguyen Ngoc Loan.
1960: The first of the Greensboro sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, is begun by four black students.
1913: Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City, the world's largest train station.

1893: The first motion picture studio, dubbed the Black Maria, is created by Thomas Edison in West Orange, New Jersey.
1884: The first Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1862: Julia Ward Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the Atlantic Monthly.

1861: Texas secedes from the United States.

Born this Day: February 1

2008-02-01T12:16:00.000-05:00

Perhaps this will become a regular feature - a person in American history who was born on a certain day? Maybe. Do you like it? Anyway, here's a list of historical American people who were born on February 1. What qualifies a person a a "historical American"? Well, I suppose they have to be famous - and dead - or maybe, if they're really famous, they don't have to be dead. I'll get the kinks worked out after a while.

1939: Joe Sample, jazz pianist.
1937: Ray Sawyer, lead vocalist, "Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show."

1937: Garrett Morris, comedian.
1936: Azie Taylor Morton, first and only black Treasurer of the United States.
1934: Bob Shane, singer, The Kingston Trio.
1901: Clark Gable, actor.
1851: Durham Stevens, diplomat.

1844: G. Stanley Hall, psychologist, first President of the American Psychological Association.

Source: Wikipedia.

First Show: Saturday, February 2, 2008

2008-02-01T10:59:00.000-05:00

First post, people! Hi. This is Madeline ... writing. Here. To tell you ... that yesterday Ramona and I did our first recording for our first show, and now Ramona is furiously editing it while I am furiously making this blog and our Facebook page, complete with picture of John Brown, who is a scary-looking person but not nearly as scary-looking as Henry Clay (Google him yourself; I'm not putting myself through that again). Anyway, tune in this Saturday to hear us - I'm not exactly sure when. Ramona will tell me, hopefully. I don't think we "officially" have a time slot despite the fact that we've been harrassing WSLC since September or so, but we'll figure things out.

This is a really awkward first post, I guess. Oh well; just go Google Henry Clay and see for yourself how right I am, and then maybe when you come back after that I'll have posted something a little more eloquent and interesting. Or not.