busblog: holy crap is this The aaron gleeman?!?!?

Aaron: it might be

busblog: <- tony pierce here Aaron: heh
Aaron: THE tony pierce?

busblog: ahahahah
busblog: yes!

Aaron: I was just about to e-mail you, actually.

busblog: good!
busblog: what was your response going to be?

Aaron: I’m a chicken shit with radio shows, podcasts, phone interviews, etc.

busblog: get out!
busblog: why?!?!

Aaron: Yeah, i think it’s like a phobia.
Aaron: for real

busblog: interesting. ok i can appreciate that. not everyone is meant for everything

Aaron: Yeah, I’m meant for very little.

busblog: so not ture
busblog: do you have a few minutes, can i aol interview you?

Aaron: of course

busblog: right on!
busblog: ok aaron, what a pleasure to chat with you
busblog: you are probably the best baseball blogger out there
busblog: first since youre the guest, lets do some twins talk

Aaron: They stink right now. Despite them finally getting rid of Luis Rivas, I am very depressed about their season.

busblog: whats up with Brett Boone?

Aaron: Bret Boone is done. As Bill Simmons would say, it’s hard to play baseball effectively with a giant fork sticking out of your back.

busblog: why the Twins demise? age? roids?

Aaron: They are almost exactly as good as they’ve been for the past three years, but the other teams in the division (namely the White Sox) are way better. So instead of cruising to the AL Central title, they have to fight with teams like New York and Boston for the Wild Card. And us Minnesotans aren’t meant to be fighting with New Yorkers.

busblog: perhaps
busblog: salary-wise, definately not
busblog: but thats never bothered you guys before

Aaron: Yeah, I think we’re pushing like 1/4 of NY’s salary. It’s never bothered us, but we’ve never had to beat NY or BOS (or Baltimore, whatever) for a playoff spot.

busblog: can the Sox keep that pace?

Aaron: They won’t keep this pace, but short of their team plane crashing they’ll win the division.

busblog: it seems to me that its all due to their pitching noone is hitting over .300 and only two guys have over 15 dingers

Aaron: BTW, if the team plane crashed, how long would I have to pretend like I was sad for? A week?

busblog: as a cub fan id have a party. but itd kill my fantasy teams

Aaron: But yeah, Chicago’s pitching has been sick this year.

busblog: and now el duque is coming back

Aaron: Yeah, he’s going tonight. The funny thing is that they have this rookie McCarthy who is a great prospect, but he’s stunk when called up to fill in.

busblog: still garland, buehrle, garcia, contreras. not bad

Aaron: Yeah, although either Ozzie or the pitching coach deserves some sort of award for turning garland and conteras into something so good

busblog: but again, can they keep the twins at bay without a .300 hitter? has there been such a playoff-bound team before?

Aaron: Sure. The Twins last year had a horrible offense and the top pitching staff in the league, and it worked for them.

busblog: no .300 hitters last year on the twins?

Aaron: I don’t know about .300 hitters, but I’m one of those stat-head geeks who is into more than just batting average. 🙂

busblog: ahahah kids today

Aaron: The White Sox have outscored the Twins by 26 runs this year.

busblog: im old school: ave, sb, hr, era, ks
busblog: ribbies
busblog: explain to the audience why thats flawed

Aaron: Well, I think the White Sox are a good example. You might think they have a bad offense because they don’t have any .300 hitters, but like I said they are actually scoring more runs than the Twins. And in the end, scoring runs is what matters, not batting average. Batting average is just part of scoring runs, you know?

busblog: so their success is due to on base percentage, walks, hitting with men in scoring position?

Aaron: Yeah, they are better at those things than hitting for an average. Take Tampa Bay. They rank fifth in batting average, but they stink because they don’t walk or hit any home runs. All they do is hit singles.

busblog: will they trade away Huff?

Aaron: They should. By the time they have a good team he’ll be as old as you.

busblog: ahahaha

Aaron: 450 or whatever.

busblog: explain the Nationals’ success …changing the subject… 🙂

Aaron: That’s a confusing team. To be honest I’m not sure how they’re doing it. They’ve been outscored this year, yet are 53-39, which is crazy.

busblog: credit has to be given to their closer, right?

Aaron: Usually comparing a team’s runs scored and runs allowed is a good barometer of how good they are, but not in this case. Yeah, they’ve been very good in 1-run games, which helps a lot.
Aaron: Same with the White Sox, they’ve killed people in 1-run games.

busblog: and guillen is their only guy with more than even 10 homers

Aaron: They’re dead last in runs scored in the NL.

busblog: woah. i did not know that

Aaron: me neither, i just looked it up so i could sound smart

busblog: and yet first place in the east!
busblog: major props to Frank Robinson, obviously

Aaron: Yeah, although I’d bet on them fading down the stretch.
Aaron: It’s tough to keep it up all year when you don’t score more runs than you allow.

busblog: Preston Wilson was a good pickup, no?

Aaron: Fair. They’ve had some injuries, so they could use another bat and another outfielder, but he’s nothing special. He put up some nice numbers because of Coors Field, but he’s not so good at regular altitude.

busblog: ok, new topic… steroids

Aaron: I’m on the juice right now, actually. Helps me type faster.

busblog: its my belief that this crackdown has brutally effected some stars who are trying to learn to play without the juice

Aaron: I think it’s tough to say. Early on homers were down and everyone was saying it was because of the juice crackdown, but now homers are almost back up to “normal” levels. Every guy having a down year gets pointed to as a steroid user, but in reality he might just be having a crappy year.

busblog: is giambi a good example of that?

Aaron: Giambi had all kinds of problems, not the least of which is that he’s 34 years old and sort of husky. But he’s been really good lately.

busblog: were the Cubbies fortune tellers by unloading sammy when they did?

Aaron: Yeah, definitely. He’s a mess now.

busblog: roids? or lack thereof?

Aaron: Baltimore is DHing him and dropping him in the lineup and giving him days off. The end is near.

busblog: so sad

Aaron: Could be, but who knows? He’s also pretty old and was declining before all the steroids crackdown started.

busblog: last year he had his worse year ever and still knocked 35. this year he wont even get 25

Aaron: Yeah, he had the great year in 2001 and has gone down in overall production every year since

busblog: but hes not the reason the O’s keep sinking. is it their pitching? cuz their lineup is amazing

Aaron: They’ve had a ton of injuries. Erik Bedard, Javy Lopez, Melvin Mora, Luis Matos, etc, etc. But yeah, their pitching isn’t great, I don’t think.
Aaron: My Twinkies play them tonight, so I’m sure Baltimore will sweep us.

busblog: i’ll light a candle for you. ok Cubs talk

Aaron: ok

busblog: explain Derek Lee’s triple crown season. there were No signs that would have pointed to this. in fact everyone thought Ramirez would break out this year

Aaron: Right. He’s been very good for the last few years, but this is a whole nother level.

busblog: ive watched closely and bro swings at everything, uses all fields and Everything drops, or goes in the first two rows

Aaron: It’s a shame that they haven’t been able to get that many guys on base in front of him, or he’d have even more RBIs

busblog: was dusty a fool for forcing Patterson to lead off?

Aaron: yeah, and Neifi leading off or batting second was an ever worse idea. but now they’re going with walker and hairston a lot in front of lee, right?

busblog: yeah and it seems to be working now that walker is healthy, but will that get them into the playoffs?

Aaron: i think they have a shot. they arent catching st. louis, but they could definitely win the wild card. i figure washington fades, atlanta takes over atop the NL East, and the Cubs have to beat Washington, philly, florida and the mets for the Wild Card

busblog: im still nervous, when i think of a solid playoff team i dont think of neifi and todd walker at the top of the lineup. and it aint like the bottom of our lineup is much better

Aaron: neifi is horrible. one of the worst hitters in baseball history

busblog: meaning d.lee, ramirez, burnitz and that pitching staff is all we have?

Aaron: right. they really could have used nomar

busblog: they say he’ll be back 8/1 … but of what year
busblog: last cubbie question, is Dusty overrated?

Aaron: yeah, i think he is. he does some things very well, but i dont think he’s strong at filling out a lineup and i think he abuses certain members of the pitching staff and then acts shocked when they come down with arm injuries

busblog: exactly. i worked for the SF Giants in ’97. they had a great young staff. but who really had a good solid career? reuter? no. estes? no ortiz? not really.

Aaron: Yeah, thats always been the knock on dusty. he’s old-school to the tenth power, but sometimes thats uneccessary

busblog: livan was only there for a short time

Aaron: yeah, livan is a freak of nature when it comes to avoiding injuries despite throwing tons of pitches. in fact: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/the-arm-pitch-counts-forgot/

busblog: nice!
busblog: i’ll read it later

busblog: ok so lets finish up with the yanks and the sox. explain to the audience how the Bosox have been able to take care of the yankees despite stienbrenner putting every single dollar in NY into that team. including nabbing leiter who threw great yesterday

Aaron: its kind of funny. the red sox are (or were, at least) seen as sort of the underdog team, but the reality is that they spend more than anyone else besides the yankees

busblog: on who?
busblog: shill… but who else?
busblog: manny?

Aaron: so if you spend 70% of what the yankees do, when other teams are spending 30%, and you make better decisions than NY, you can beat them

busblog: right. didnt they get ortiz for a steal?

Aaron: yeah, from the twins too

busblog: i know, sorry bro

Aaron: i think damon makes like 8 mill
Aaron: renteria, varitek, damon, nixon all make about 6-8 mill a year
Aaron: foulke, clement, ortiz all around 5-7

busblog: i guess that adds up. so what are their “better desicions”?

Aaron: the red sox do a better job building a deep team in case of injuries

busblog: and is that all theo epstein’s brilliance?

Aaron: the yankees seem to find themselves scrambling for retreads like leiter a lot, or calling up rookies who arent ready
Aaron: yeah, i think theo is pretty damn good

busblog: clement was a key pickup. why was it that noone was high on him during the off season?

Aaron: yeah, boston signed clement, whereas the yanks signed pavano and wright, who have both stunk. Clement had a bad record when he was with the Cubs, and a lot of people (like you!) don’t look beyond wins and losses for pitchers. But now that he’s on a team that scores some runs, he can win more games.

busblog: i looked as his K’s which were great. 190 last year

Aaron: yeah, he gets strikeouts and doesnt give up many hits

busblog: so do you play fantasy baseball?

Aaron: nah, i just write about it

busblog: why dont you play? youd seem like a ringer

Aaron: i used to. now i play much more dorky things, like this thing called diamond-mind which is liked a suped up fantasy baseball for uber-nerds

busblog: sheesh
Aaron: we dont look at RBIs and batting averages and all that

busblog: well next year i want you in one of my yahoo leagues

Aaron: i’d probably stink. i barely keep track of RBIs and steals and all that stuff

busblog: steals dont matter?

Aaron: they matter, sure. but not even close to as much as they matter in fantasy baseball

busblog: oh right. so if i were to set up a new league next year what stats should i have?

Aaron: On-base percentage, slugging percentage
Aaron: or you could get really nerdy and go with some of these stats with initials in them … VORP, RCAA and all that

busblog: yeah no thanks
busblog: is bill james in the hall of fame?

Aaron: no, but he should be some day

busblog: is moneyball the best baseball book of all time?

Aaron: not even close. ball four. and a close second is (plug alert!) the hardball times baseball annual

busblog: ahahahaha

Aaron: second edition coming to stores in november!

busblog: lemme know and i will link it
busblog: final final question
busblog: Rafael Palmerio hall of fame?

Aaron: For sure. I am surprised by how many people argue against him, actually.
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/raffy-and-the-hall/

busblog: me too!
busblog: 3000 hits
busblog: total consistancy

Aaron: he’s gonna end up with like 3200 hits 600 homers

busblog: so why are they hatin?
busblog: cuz he was a dh?

Aaron: because he was never an MVP, never one of the 2-3 best players in baseball
Aaron: but he was always a very, very good player for like 15-18 years running

busblog: but at first base theres so much competition for all star appearances, and MVPs – feh

Aaron: right. first base is tough

busblog: thats the book id like to read: The Fallacy of the MVP

Aaron: yeah, im sick of the people who vote for baseball awards

busblog: Ron Santo… hall of fame?

Aaron: He’s a close call, but I think I’d say yeah
Aaron: plus the guy has no limbs at this point, he needs something to cheer him up

busblog: simply because he played with Diabeties… the bad kind

busblog: well dude this has been an honor
busblog: i think youd do well on the phone
busblog: so think about it

Aaron: ok, i will

busblog: we need to podcast your ass

Aaron: it’s not you, i turn down everyone for phone stuff 🙂

busblog: ahahahah thats ok. we all have our quirks
busblog: i love your blog so this has been a thrill for me

Aaron: if that’s true, you have some problems, but thanks

busblog: get drunk and email me and maybe that will get you on the phone

Aaron: yeah, that might be the best chance for everyone involved

busblog: i’ll send a bottle of rum over to the house

Aaron: im a vodka man 🙂

busblog: done!
busblog: good luck in the second half

Aaron: you too. have fun watching neifi

busblog: ahahah yeah

Aaron: and dont let instapundit make you crazy. because really, who the fuck reads him anyway? not me.

busblog: i think i make him more crazy than he makes me
busblog: and hes got the #2 most read blog in the universe

Aaron: who is #1? sullivan? kos?

busblog: Daily Kos

Aaron: ah yeah, and they’re taking over the baseball world too now

busblog: who>?

Aaron: kos

busblog: really? howso?

Aaron: they have set up a blog for almost every team

busblog: i didnt know that
busblog: i never go to kos

Aaron: like here’s one for the A’s: http://www.athleticsnation.com/

busblog: thats a kos blog?

Aaron: and here’s the main site for the whole baseball group of blogs: http://www.sbnation.com/
Aaron: he doesnt write it, obviously, but he is in charge

busblog: whoah. brilliant! how smart to use your popularity and expand on it
busblog: damn

Aaron: it was even in the NY Times a while ago. They must have a sweet publicist

busblog: 222 comments on that a’s blog~

Aaron: yeah, it’s crazy

busblog: thanks for the tip!
busblog: im out bro
busblog: thanks again

Aaron: see ya
Aaron signed off at 3:39:32 PM.

hewhocannotbenamed + stoner diary + kool keith + dave the pa

we talk about hollywood, among other things

sorta stolen from doc: pussy vs rove + sic transit gloria + dinoblogg (norway)

good cuz here it comes.

tivo stoked my ass today with suggesting two of my secret favorite movies so i had to watch them instead of blogging or doing the hundred page photo essay that im going to bust on your unsuspecting asses this week some time.

why? because i havent done a proper photo essay in a super long time and youve been patient and others have done photo essays and i havent and finally i have a good topic that i think you will all like and soon i will have a new job that will probably be hard and i wont have “time” to bust and i cant really look at my blog and say yeah thats what i did the summer that i had off.

so it would be nice to look at a kickass photo essay and say yeah no way could i have done that if i had had a job.

oh the movies that ive been watching? cant hardly wait, and fifty first dates.

right now im watching fifty first dates again cuz im a sucker. right now drew just found out that it isnt october, a few minutes ago she ran over a penguin. how cant you love that.

ok so the instapundit and i exchanged some nice emails today and that was nice. when you take pot shots at a guy and call him names sometimes they take it the wrong way and sometimes they get it. im not sure he gets it but i have a feeling that he knows i dont hate him. the truth is i like him and i read his blog all the time and i just want him to play this game fair. and anyone who doesnt think that blogging isnt a game is fooling themselves. especially political blogging.

i mean yeah we can all talk about cat food and pajamas but bloggers dont have any real power and if anyone thinks that the election was won or lost by bloggers is silly. michael moore had far more influence on americans and they still didnt give a fuck. so bloggers are just delusional if they think that they have any true effect on the big picture. yes we are all part of the game but individually we’re a tiny part. a speck. a voice in the chorus. a huge chorus.

laaaaaa

see.

so after some quick emailing of me telling him that he was linking something innacurrate he told me that as soon as he got home hed investigate my last post and true to his word he updated his post and then linked to it in a new post.

on top of that he linked to my post where i talked about him being wrong and where i called him names. you gotta admit thats mighty classy.

the way i see it this whole thing is just one big swimming pool and it should be treated as a huge splash fight.

laugh as you call someone fat. giggle as they call you a dumbass. duck when someone does a cannonball from the high dive. say poo-poo when someone calls marco.

none of it makes any difference and if someone can get laid off their blog, or some bills can get paid, or if they can score a job off their shit then good, but for the most part all of this is just zeros and ones spinning through the ether, voices in the wilderness, signifying nothing.

the music is great in this movie.

of course the instapundit is dead wrong when he called joe wilsons correction “useless“, and i find it crazy that a respected law professor cant see the difference between wilson saying “My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity” and meaning “My wife’s job as a clandestine officer was fucked over and her career as a spy was ruined when Bob Novak that piece of shit outted her as part of payback from the whitehouse,” and a dumbass like me in my pajama bottoms can see it clearly.

on friday when the mr reynolds linked to the quote and said that wilson was letting the air out of his story, even he had to believe that the former ambassador probably didnt mean it that way, because if joe wilson meant it that way it would mean that there was no crime since she wasnt undercover, and this two year investigation would be over deserving of far more than an aside buried into his post.

when wilson corrected himself the quote stood as more of an attack on novak as opposed to an admission. huge huge difference.

huge.

theres a woman in jail right now. a white woman! reporters are yelling at the white house press secretary. karl roves big fat mouth is shut right now, all because an investigator is trying to find out if plame was covert and if she was who was responsible for her cover being blown.

if joe wilson, her husband, all of a sudden says “oh yeah she wasnt a spy when novak wrote his piece” then it would be the biggest story of the day, not the fourth link of a post on a blog that last summer was devoted to nailing wilson against the wall.

therefore how could his correction be useless?

stil unconvinced that theres no way plame was still undercover? heres an exchange between lawrence o’donnell and tony blankley on kcrw on friday

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL:
Here’s what I think is definitive on this question. Patrick Fitzgerald has represented to the courts that he is pursuing a serious, national security, criminal violation. It seems to me in this grand jury, witness number one — and Tony you’ve been a prosecutor, you know how they assemble cases — witness number one would have been a CIA administrator who comes in and testifies about how Valerie Plame does indeed fit the law’s requirements. Because if witness number one doesn’t do that successfully for the prosecutor, there is absolutely no reason to call witness number two, because there is no crime to investigate.

Tony?

TONY BLANKLEY:
Yeah–well–I mean–that’s one way to approach it.

– via crooks and liars who also has audio

this is where i wish i had a radio show on sirius satelite radio called Bloggers cuz i would have the good professor on each friday the same way al franken has joe conasan on his show every friday. because obviously at the end of the week i have lots of questions to ask my favorite blogger.

who linked me today for the first time in over two years.

which was nice.

i could go on but our time is done.

and tomorrow you will hear at least one new podcast, and maybe four depending on how the quality of what i recorded turned out.

i took the best shower tonight.

its four am so i guess i should bid you good nite.

congratulations zulieka! + i shoulda interned at brooks’s this summer + sk smith + hell to the no, y’all

today

jamie says that sometimes the comments are the best part.

and of course he’s right.

#7 Jul 16 2003, 06:47 pm

Please don’t have children.

(signed,)

al3x

now its true i do take requests, and al3x was polite enough to say please, so i might have to give the man what he wants purely on principle.

not that it would be hard.

im not the most lovable man.

i sweat when i sleep.

i enjoy the bible.

and pornography.

i really know way too much about sports, and most women find that annoying.

and then theres this blog, and the website, and the busriding. those three things dont usually add up to a lot of fornication, i dont care how big your dick is.

i dont like to read very many books, i hate dancing, and i like to do it three times a day.

who’s gonna want that from their man, al3x?

im not handy, i dont like salads, im messy, i dont cook, id rather not go out on friday nights, im a terrible dresser, im not interested in money, i like hip hop metal and punk, and im always changing my mind.

girls dont like to lose at scrabble.

i fucking whip their asses at scrabble.

girls dont like being called girls.

girls dont like it when i call the united states america. they tell me that america includes north south and central america, not just the usa.

and then theres the problem about the fact that on the rare occasions that i do get a little action, i always wear condoms.

always.

how am i gonna have any children doing that, my man?

so worry not, old chap, if your fear of a hundred little tonys running around this fine world in a few years has you losing sleep, rest your pretty little head.

besides

your momma swallows everything i got.

tao of poker’s pauly totally kicked ass this week + moxie + jennifer good

and i know that he’s still linking to an inaccurate CNN “transcript” that claims that ucsb alumn joe wilson said that his wife “was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity”.

and even though im still up to my elbows in alligators trying to get this podcast nonesense together, and i know that Kos, MediaMatters, and Metafilter were all over this earlier in the day,

and i know that AP via Yahoo have fixed the error that’s still in USA Today,

he obviously doesnt see his error. maybe he doesnt read any of those sites – or hasnt all afternoon. maybe it was pretty on campus and he was taking pics, or he was with his family. some people have lives you know.

but i agree it’s not cool that when CNN fixed their version they didnt add any comment saying that they goofed the first time. particularily since it was their fuckup that started the domino effect.

but why are you telling me?

shouldnt you be telling the blogfather?

he’s the one who still hasnt done an Update on his post, hes the one who’s still linking to the archived f’ed up transcript, and maybe he’ll write a big rant about how dishonest cnn was today in changing something that made everyone who linked to it look bad. he bitched about the BBC on tuesday for “airbrushing”, im sure he’ll give this equal time. and maybe while he’s at it he’ll ask wtf is up with their transcript archives.

i havent said shit about Rove today and not because i dont have anything to say, hell ive got plenty. including a response to some questions by a commentor from my rove roundup post of a few days ago.

i havent written hardly anything today because i’m trying to do my stupid ass podcast which i may think twice about because not only is the RSS bullshit a pain in the ass but this ebay-ed recorder might be a POS after all.

anyways, thanks for the heads up, but the professor has an email box too.

tell him.

if what you were doing was playing Gotcha so that id go off on some rant about how the good professor aint so good, thats not how we do it here. bro is finally doing what we as his loyal readers have been waiting for him to do: talk about Rove. yes he flipped it around to talk about Wilson, but baby steps, friends, baby steps.

i do not think that he is intentionally trying to mislead his gazillion readers. i do noth think that he is intentionally waiting for the end of the day to correct his error, i do not think that he would sit on his hands and intentionally try to keep a lie alive.

he and i might disagree with how to do things on blogs but i sincerely do not think that he would resort to flat out cheating to discredit joe wilson. if anyone knows that wilson does a fine job of discrediting himself its glenn. my question is, if we all agree that what comes out of wilsons mouth is suspect, why would the instapundit jump on that false line? the worlds most popular blogger established last summer that wilson’s words are curious at best, so why would glenn cherry-pick yesterdays alleged line? thats the only thing i have problems with.

but please, if you see that a blogger has linked an inaccurate article, or a story that ended up being changed, tell him, not me. i know it would be easier if he had comments, but not everyone wants to put up with commentors.

ten bucks says glenn will go through his email at some point tonight and see the correction that is due to his readers and he will fix it.

just because he’s dishonest about not being a republican doesnt mean that hes a dishonest blogger. everyone has funky lil quirks.

and by the way, if you want me to pat you on the head for something, stick to porn recommendations, tips on texas hold em, or find me a solution to my podcasting/RSS issue.

currently i have MP3s and im trying to figure out how to turn that into a podcast. my email addy is dumbfuck at tonypierce.com

gracias

[Update: a reader informs me that Drudge still has the innacurate headline, but its linked to a corrected Newsday AP story. but friends, i implore you, why are you emailing me tell drudge and insty!]

[Midnight Update: Drudge has taken down the inaccurate link and wording, Reynolds has not. Developing…]

[Final Update – 3pm PT: The instapundit updated his post, after we exchanged a few friendly emails and calls it a “non-error” correction. i suppose we will agree to disagree as context is everything and Wilson, obviously has been saying all along that his wife was covert… and what he meant was *once* Novak wrote his piece, Plame instantly stopped being covert. I cannot get into the head of Prof. Reynolds, but I imagine that the reason that he put the link and quote up there originally wasnt because he thought that Wilson was slamming Novak, but because Glenn though that Wilson was admitting that his wife wasnt covert at the time of the article. Kudos for Glenn for acknowledging Wilson’s context. see… told ya he wasnt so bad.]

maybe this is a job for the buzzmachine + sex and hockey + ciavarro + fc bearded

it’s dont make promises about deadlines.

yes i promised that today id have a podcast for your asses. in fact i promised an interview with miss karisa j. hotshot.

i did get that interview and the sound quality was no good. so now i am using Audacity to try to clean it up because i know many of you have not heard a podcast before and i wouldnt want to give you the wrong impression that podcasts sound like podshit.

so all yesterday i was trying to polish the turd to no avail.

so what i did was i just spoke into my digital recorder and did a little 5-minute segment which i followed up with two 20+ minute jobbers.

and of course now im having technical difficulties beyond my control.

as radiohead said, this is what you get.

i dont mind deadlines when it comes to writing shit down because im in complete control of something that i know about. but this podcasting crap is new to me too.

so what i did because i like to be a man of my word, was i made a new blog just for my podcasting rants and interviews

its called tonyspodcasts.blogspot.com

you can right click > save the mp3s and listen to it on your various mp3-listening devices.

i realize that this is not how one typically listens to podcasts, but it’s a temporary work-around so that 1) those of you who want a taste of what this podcast show is going to be like will be satisfied 2) i can wipe a little egg off my face 3) you can laugh at me for being a fool and not a liar.

i know that nothing in here is true, but we’ve come this far i dont think its fair to go back on promises because of “technical difficulties”.

so hopefully next week or sooner this problem can be resolved and i can get on to what ive been so excited about this last week.

a thousand apologies.

the quick fix

via mlah + via falafelsex + grow a brain + sk smith

so lets get this party started

so last night i did that karnival of karl and i gotta say it wasnt as easy as it looks. im not saying this so that you kiss my ass, im saying it so that if you try it you know what youre getting yourself into.

if youre going to do it properly you a) need to find a topic of a shitload of sources b) have to have a shitload of time on your hands (that one took me 5 hours), c)dont have to get up in the damn morning d)dont mind editing like crazy e)dont mind reading everything that youre going to be linking to find the juicy bits f) have to be truly interested in the topic at hand.

with that said, im proud of that rundown. i did my best to show both sides, you had wonkette saying rove didnt do anything illegal, you had a link to blogs for bush, just one minute, and two links to the wall street journal calling bullshit on it all. see, insty, the world doesnt explode when you show both sides.

yes the majority of links are from people rubbing their hands in anticipation of rove getting his just deserts, but you go to technorati and type in “karl rove” and see what you get. unless you want to say that the technorati spiders are liberal…

if i ever do a carnival of [insert name here] again its definately going to be regarding something easier to look at than our beloved turd blossom. even the annoying paperclip from Word and Excel popped up on me last night to ask wtf.

with that said it worries me that people like Wonkette are saying that Rove didnt do anything wrong “by washington standards”. well then red, then whaddup with the double secret you didnt hear this from me whisperings and whaddup with scotty mcclennon suddenly asking the press to ixnay on the overay questions? are they faking us all out? are you faking us all out? and i love how on msnbc the host asked “so youre saying that this isnt something that people in california would care about?” baby people in california have to talk about something inbetewen earthquakes and fires and mudslides and bites of sushi.

speaking of sushi. blogging.la invited me to their sushi meetup last week and im always honored to be invited to things and im doing my best to break out of my hermit status but sushi isnt gonna do it. make the next meetup at a strip club or at the pantry and you’ll have better luck getting my ass there. but dont go changing on my account.

ads. people are always sending me emails asking me questions and thats nice. i feel honored about that too. but just because i play a guru on tv doesnt mean that im actually one. people ask me how to register their domains people ask me how to get their blogger blogs on their domains people ask me how to do photo essays. all excellent questions and maybe if i get this weed out of my system soon i will be motivated to write a real How To Blog that will include all those things but for right now lets talk about something super easy. ads.

i dont like ads on blogs. i dont think al gore invented the interweb so that pauly shore could hype his new tv show next to someone pouring their heart out. however some people are unemployed, and other people just need money. me, i am unemployed and i have bills bills bills that dont give a fuck about my ideals. and also, i like the weasel and if he wants to give me a hundred bucks to take up some space on my sidebar then fine.

i have been using blogads since the day i was laid off and last month, full disclosure, i made $420. its not a lot but it was exactly how much the dentist charged me yesterday to do some serious work on me. and to rewind a little in the story, whats funny is nearly the second that blogads paypalled me the moola (so smart that they use paypal) the dentist office called me to see if i wanted to get my teeth worked on.

the beauty of having a paypal debit card is tuesday i was paypalled the cash from blog ads and wednesday i paid the dentist with the paypal debit card. my real bank stash was never touched and career builder and those indie movies basically paid for my dental work. the perfect circle.

speaking of which (and this is a free plug) if youre in the beverly hills area and you want a great dentist, dr. engel is the man. he takes insurance, he has nitrous, and theres a nice tony romas next door to reward yourself for when hes done. i always love going there because the people are great and the doctor really is quite good.

before i went to dr. engel i bopped around between three different dentists and bailed out super fast. the first was karisas dentist and then i had some dude who had a great view, and then i had some other dude. none of them satisfied my needs or listened to me when i said ow ow ow. the theory at my beverly hills dentist is “nothing needs to hurt”.

i hope he starts blogging again.

ok how are we on time. five minutes. so the first podcast show will be with the lovely karisa. it will be about 40 minutes long. im editing the sound (not the content) using Audacity. i picked up this digital recorder off ebay for $99. its the diasonic ddr 1232. which is so small its like being a real reporter. how small? it says its 6″, but if thats the case then i need to go into porn cuz that aint… well, fine, if thats six inches then lets stop this blog post while im ahead. i have the feeling that its probably closer to 4″ but theres nothing in this bachelor pad four inches.

anyway i love it, it works great, its easy to use and not only does it hook up to the phone easilly but it hooks up to the computer even easier. id tell you about the software that it comes with but i lost it, which is why im using audacity.

in the coming weeks expect podcast interviews with all your favorites from the busblog including matt good raymi some of my ex gfs and some special guests who will blow your mind. im very excited about all of this because i love new things and most of the podcasts that ive heard have done nothing for me. so i hope to improve that area of blogging.

for those of you who are assuming that im going to just rant into a mic, thats not my vision for the podcast show. when i rant i like to do it via the typer. dont get me wrong, i can go off over the phone – especially now that im off the weed – but i am so fortunate to know so many extremely cool people that i want to share that with you in a way that AOL IM chats cant.

plus dont you want to hear karisas voice?

ps special thanks to ev for getting back to me personally regarding my Odeo account, theres no way i would be doing this if ev and noah werent involved. i have mad respect for both of them. they are the christopher columbi of new media and even though these worlds have already been discovered, nobody gives a shit until theyve conquered it. watch as i bring the malaria to the natives.

be a witness (its not gory) via matt good + reverse vampyr has mariahs nipple slip + click here if you want blogads on your blog