HAPPY BEST DAY
AS YOU PEOPLE ARE INTERNET USERS, perhaps you also enjoy the FULLY WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY KNOWN AS RADIO?
IF SO, then allow me to recommend THE BEST SHOW ON WFMU.
EVERY TUESDAY EVENING, from 8-11, Tom Scharpling is besieged by a rogue’s gallery of strange friends and stranger callers. They try his patience, stoke the embers of his many grudges (DOLENZ!), inspire his equally numerous enthusiasms (ABBA!), and occasionally provoke him to one of his beautifully righteous, hulk-like rage-rants.
IN COLLUSION WITH HIS FREQUENT NEMESIS, Jon Wurster, countless FANCY GUESTS, and all on his own, Scharpling has perfected a new kind of comedy of aggrievement, and THE BEST SHOW is truly one of the most surprising and delightful pieces of culture I have ever ABSORBED THROUGH MY EARS.
I MENTION THIS NOW, because this very night, TWO THINGS ARE HAPPENING that require your kind attention.
FIRST, I will be joining TOM on his program this very evening. It is a special six hour program that you can listen to on the RADIO (91.1 FM in the NY/NJ area) or on the INTERNET.
SECOND, and more important, it is Tom’s birthday today. And as is traditional, he is celebrating his birthday by THREATENING US ALL.
IF TOM “@scharpling” SCHARPLING does not reach the arbitrary benchmark of 10,000 Twitter followers by tonight’s show, he will only play bad experimental music all night.
SO I IMPLORE YOU TO FOLLOW HIM, not only because it will make my evening much more pleasant, but also because I truly believe you will enjoy what he has to say, and also because I can tell you truly: TOM SCHARPLING IS AN INCREDIBLY TALENTED, INSANELY BIG-HEARTED, RIGHTEOUS MAN-MONSTER who deserves your support.
AND IF YOU ARE HOARDING ANY DOUBT in your suspicious heart, I give you this conversation from last July between Scharpling and the famous comedian, Paul F. Tompkins, on the subject of THE GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS.
SORRY, THIRD COAST FESTIVAL, but this is the most important radio of our generation:
That is all.
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Trackback by uberVU - social comments — February 9, 2010 @ 11:31 am
As an Ennio Morricone fan, I don’t know if that threat to play experimental music stirs much fear in my ever-palpitating heart. I’d be more concerned if he threatened to play “Havin’ My Baby” by Paul Anka all night long. Whatever Mr. Scharpling’s grim threats, I will do what I can to listen (6 hours? I can’t even listen to EM for 6 hours straight).
Ruthless Self-Promotion Department: For anyone here who’s even thinking of writing a novel, I’d advise you to stop by the newsletter for the California Writers Club (http://www.scribd.com/doc/26586381/Write-Angles-2-10?secret_password=l0f7ydgbvy3p946dahd) where you will find the first chapter in a series discussing my own experiences in writing a first novel.
Thank you Hodgman for allowing me to annoy in this space.
Thomas Burchfield
Author of “Dragon’s Ark,” “Whackers” and star of the classic 1930s Republic B-serial “Mask of the Plaid Phantom.”
Comment by Thomas Burchfield — February 9, 2010 @ 1:01 pm
THAT WAS FAST!
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Good people of the “Internet,” exercise caution! I have it on good authority that Mister Hodgman is assembling a clay man who he intends to animate using the dark spells of the Captcha Indians. Each time we type two seemingly-harmless words in the fields below, the ancient chains are loosened and this soulless behemoth moves closer to rampaging life. It is not, as he claims, a harmless typing contest between us and a room full of monkeys.
Comment by Aharon — February 10, 2010 @ 12:32 am
Hodgman:
Rest assured that I, for one, do not believe the Scurrilous Accusation posted above. I have very often typed the two words in the field below, even when my efforts ended with my eye being stuck to the computer screen (I always keep a paint scraper handy for such occasions. I must also occasionally replace my screen).
I remain Completely Confidant that any Golem Being created by you (and given life by those of us who seek your your Wisdom in This Hallowed Page) will be a Kindly Being whose Dense Soul brims only with Benevolent Intentions, though my wife, Gladys, says she will not be responsible any oil stains your Clay Man leaves in the upholstery.
Thank you for your help.
PS: I will challenge any roomful of monkeys in a typing contest at any time!
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