The month that was.

Wait, shhh... Did you hear that sound? Yeah, that sound. That's the sound of another podcast being posted. Praise be.

What's in the program this month? Well.... pretty much anything we could find lying about the Hammer Mill. Bits and bobs, as they say. Is it lame? You be the judge! My lips are sealed on the quality issue. But I will talk about what's in the bulging box that is THIS IS BIG GREEN - OCTOBERCAST 2012. An hour and twenty of sheer audio madness, featuring:

Mr. Ned, Romney's Talking Horse - Episode 3: Ned Trek. The most ambitious in the Mr. Ned series yet, Romney's famous talking dressage horse takes Willard on a journey through a space/time wormhole to an alternative dimension of television mediocrity. Yes, Mitt is made commander of the starship Free Enterprise, and he and his crew of neocons take on an extraterrestrial threat that only a cash-starved special effects department could conjure. Hi-jinx ensue. (Special guest appearance by former president Richard Nixon.)

Song: Paradise. This is a rough mix (basically faders up) of a recording we started a few months ago as part of a long project focused on resurrecting some of our older songs that were never properly recorded or released. Paradise is a song ripped from Matt's back pages. Not sure what it's about - you'd have to ask him - but it's got elements of archeology in it, which is something that has shown up in some of his other songs, like Primitive, Christmas with the Australopithecus, and others. Probably watched too many Dr. Leakey T.V. specials back in the '70s, that's my guess.

Song: Kublai Khan. Another Matt song from about the same period. Actually, this one is loosely themed on the live and exploits of Sun Myung Moon, late founder of the Unification Church and owner of the Washington Times. Given that our podcast is typically focused on this sort (i.e. dead people), I can hardly believe that we neglected to mention the salient fact that Dr. Moon passed away. Next episode!

That's about all for this month. Give it a listen, and then send your complaints to:

Mitt Romney
Governor of Sucktopia
Richy Richland, New Hamphire.

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