Episode 16: The RaspberryPassionCast

Yes, finally. Hear about the Harry Potter ditch day, Netflix, Veronica Mars, Top Model, and oh yeah... a little thing we like to call "Ten Questions With Eti's Mom." Fun guaranteed.

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Happy Tofurkey Day in advance

Enjoy your Thanksgivings, readers and listeners. I'll be off in colder climes eating non-turkey with my family, while Eti will remain here in Hell-Lay to also not eat turkey with hers. Since we're the type who do not partake of the flesh (of animals, that is), feel free to consume a couple legs in our honor.

The good news is that we did get a spanking new podcast recorded last night, and it contains a new (hopefully semi-regular) Pop Whore feature. I'll try to get it online from Boston, assuming the weather doesn't freeze the cable modem lines. (Here's what I have to look forward to, temperature-wise.)

Anyway, enjoy your stuffing.

Crap, where'd we go?

You turn away from the computer for five seconds and all of a sudden it's almost 2 weeks since you posted. Isn't that nuts? I'm speaking hypothetically here. Not that this kind of thing would ever happen to us. We're way more conscientious than that.

What do we have coming down the pike, you ask? Funny you should use an expression like that, but we won't judge. Anyway, well, obviously, we're overdue for another podcast. Hopefully the fates will align for us to do one Monday or Tuesday, since after that I'm off to Boston to celebrate the day when the Indians finally realized that the Pilgrims weren't getting the point of the universal "talk to the hand" gesture and sat down to break bread with them in an effort to shut them up. They also taught them a simple game of chance using tree bark and pieces of dried corn; over time, this evolved into Foxwoods. But this really isn't the time for historical anecdotes.

Stay tuned. We haven't forgotten that we're here to entertain you.

Show shopping

First we had 99 cent songs from the iTunes Music Store. That was a good idea, right? It's a fair price, you can play the song forever, burn it, copy it to your iPod, blah blah blah. Nice and simple. I'm fine with that. I don't blow as much coin on it as I used to, but it's nice to know it's there. Music isn't really given away free unless you listen to the radio or watch MTV for the 8.23 seconds per day that they spend playing songs, so paying less money for less music isn't exactly a bizarre or revolutionary idea.

So now NBC wants all us DirecTV users to buy fancy new Tivo-ish boxes on which we'll be able to "download" episodes of NBC shows from the past few weeks, for 99 cents a show. I think this is kind of funny, because paying for a single episode of a show sort of is a revolutionary idea, but not in the way that NBC thinks it is. It's revolutionary because the 99 cents is basically a punishment. You forgot to set the Tivo to record Law & Order, so you can still watch it, but it's going to cost you. It's the monetary equivalent of a quick punch in the arm, the kind you'd get from your roommate for deleting The Apprentice before he had a chance to watch it. Perhaps they'll extend the fee for longer shows or miniseries, which might reach the financial equivalent of a purple nurple. Then again, if your roommate is actually watching NBC miniseries, I suspect there are larger problems afoot.

Quadra Clarkson

It’s an age old question that’s been ruminated over time and time again through the years, but I’ll pose it again to get this Tuesday morning started:

If Eti watches Laguna Beach in the forest and no one is around to hear it, will a new Kelly Clarkson song still be featured in every single episode?

The answer, sadly, is yes.

Thus, I have written a haiku in honor of last night’s installment:

Watching Laguna
I cannot escape you now
Kelly, it’s SO on

The Trailer Is Magic

There’s not much more I can say about Sarah Silverman’s upcoming “Jesus Is Magic” other than the fact that the girl actually makes out with herself in the mirror.

Seriously, it’s going to be awesome. If you don’t believe me, watch the trailer...genius.

Darwinism 2005

From evolution to devolution...

Great.



Even greater.



Hateful. So hateful.



Sorry, Joe.