Your body is taken over by stress hormones. Alert tunnel vision. Time passage feels different. You shut down pain perception. Pain is a subjective state. Guys in battle, lose a leg and feel nary a tingle in the stump. Or, if you’re harder core than that like I am, you twist your ankle in a soccer game and don’t even notice. I have some bad news, guys. My Aunt Pauline died and I need to be with my family this weekend so I won’t be able to make it to Balticon. I also might not be able to post a new Ask Soccergirl this coming Monday. I’ll be back for sure later next week.
I have a knee-pea and for some reason I’m feeling anxious about it. The placebo effect is powerful. Could I inadvertently create knee-peas everywhere? I need a prophylactic psychotropic. A discussion about libertarianism and how it doesn’t make sense to me or in general. Our friend Matt stops by to discuss Albany’s Tulip Festival, among other things which include the poor old failure of a tae kwon do guy who didn’t break his boards and THIRD EYE BLIND! Some audio comments on the new line. Leave one of your own: 206-203-4920. There’s still time for you to tell me what the fuck that spells.
Shout Outs, Show Notes, Ephemera:
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
What do these numbers stand for letterwise: 206-203-4920? Discuss it on the forums!
A short radiolet about my childhood and soccer. An audio piece idea about movie narration. Duchamp’s readymades. Ryan’s radishy ingrown toenail. Some original music: “Goodbye to the Animals” and “Neo-Nazi Baby Shower.” Information Age Prayer dot com: It gives you the satisfaction of knowing your prayers will always be read even if you wake up late or forget.
“‘But he’s mounted on wheels, isn’t he?’ Kenneth persists.
‘On treads,’ replies the rabbi, giving Kenneth a fiery, devastating look. ‘Treads, like a tractor has. But I don’t think treads are spriritually inferior to feet, or, for that matter, to wheels…’
‘Every era gets the Pope it deserves,’ Bishop Fitzpatrick observed somewhat gloomily today at breakfast. ‘The proper Pope for our times is a robot, certainly…’”
- From the awesome short story, “Good News From the Vatican,” by Robert Silverberg (1971)
Robert Silverberg
“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder… Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”
- From Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
This episode also includes Ryan’s abortion joke. There’s a new reality television series coming up entitled, “Runnin’ Wild… From Ted Nugent.” Obama’s latest side-splitting gaffe. Shockingly, our long-standing audio line number has been snatched away from us! So, sadly, we have a new audio comment line number which is: 206-203-4920. For your homework assignment, see below. I’ve set up a new system whereby you can choose to pay a fee of $2 a month for Soccergirl, Incorporated (see above, right). It’s a social experiment. Finally, a compelling argument for why you should participate.
Shout Outs, Show Notes, Ephemera:
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
What do these numbers stand for letterwise: 206-203-4920? Discuss it on the forums!
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