One thing we can demonstrate any time, any place is that sometimes, good guys don't wear white. And this episode demonstrates that at least one guy writer who always wears white isn't ... good.
This time around, we have a howling good time, packed with fun, as we go deep into mirth about Wolfe -- Tom Wolfe -- so spiff up...
2017-08-08 18:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Got your black light shining and your freak flag flying? Come with us if you care! Come with us if you dare! Take a ride to the land inside of your magazine stand, because this episode proves that you can't spell the word "episode" without "dose"..."pie". Yes, we're getting heavy and heavily into one weir...
2017-07-04 22:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It's you, it's you, it's all for you, everything we do...we tell you all the time, heaven is a post right here for you, tell us all the books we should do, I heard that you like the bad books honey, is that true? It's better than we ever even knew, they say that this show was built for two. Only worth reading if some...
2017-06-13 18:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
For our Patreon's one-year anniversary, we break new ground that's sure to sate anybody who's always brought back when they hear the boom-bap: we crank up the beats and get hype for An Actual Book! Sort of.
This time around, we're teaming up with a terrible twosome you may remember lurking around the library to re...
2017-05-09 05:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Our most contentious, controversial friends-only episode E V E R! J. and Clsn come to (verbal) blows and splatter harsh feelings and harsher words across one another in an episode devoted exclusively to aural violence.
Okay, not really.
But, as per usual, this friends-only episode is devoted to someth...
2017-04-10 23:02:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Fasten your safety belts and say goodbye to your rear-view mirror, because what's behind you? is NOT important. The only thing that matters is this full-throttle movie (according to Clsn; J. thinks its a wreck) and its racy look at a version of America dominated by a tiny coterie of psychotic, horny greedheads, systematically lo...
2017-03-14 07:02:39 +0000 UTC View Post
[NOTE: THIS IS OLD! LIKE MONTHS OLD! THE SHOW WILL BE OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE WE HAD TO RE-UPLOAD IT CUZ THE OLD ONE WAS BROKEN! SO IT'S VERY OLD!]
Let's try some Heavy Metal! It is time to rock and roll with the most embarrassing purchase Clsn has had to make in downtown Oakland in quite. Some. Time. Join J., who has li...
2017-03-14 06:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In happier news, it would be difficult to overstate how much fun our First Inaugural Bad Book Party was!
Thanks to everybody who came out, thanks to Casey for helping us surge past a few technical difficulties, thanks to Andrew at Green Apple Books on the Park for getting the event ball rolling, thanks to Green Appl...
2017-02-16 04:22:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, all --
Sorry for the lack of transparency here, but I know that some recent supporters are wondering "hey, where's the merch that comes to somebody at my reward tier? Seems like nothing's been sent out for a bit here..."
Well, it's coming, but our crack merch fulfillment team (Clsn) broke his wris...
Crank the amplifiers beyond endurance as J. and Clsn take a walk through the book that probably did more than anything else to set the course of Clsn's life (sorry, Clsn's mom). Classic rock provides a powerful soundtrack to this exploration of the text that made J. shout "this...this is a pamphlet!" when he first saw it, ...
2017-02-09 04:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael Crichton goes back to the well -- which turns out to be remarkably similar to the bottom of the barrel -- in TIMELINE, a book about harnessing the awesome power of the most cutting-edge science imagineable to ... develop some real estate and open up a theme park. Again.
2017-01-23 08:18:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends! After an extra-long wait, an extra-long episode. Set controls for the heart of the past, and strap on your boots, because you are going to need to wade through one hell of a lot of "holy crap" and you won't want to get any extra schadenfreude on you.
2017-01-16 03:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post
An episode as early as it is burly: please enjoy the potent ensorcelation of this swords/sandals semi-epic, redolent with explaining and ... more explaining.
Hi! You may have noticed that we had no friends-only post this Monday. Sorry about that -- (a) Holidays, (b) we're phasing out the newsletter anyway, and, most excitingly, (c) we're actually sending actual mail to our friends (whose addresses we have) individually and personally and physically!
Above is ...
2016-12-29 23:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
PLEASE VOTE
If you haven't already, please do write us in here!
https://onion.typeform.com/to/FVMFu3
And if you would like to read something about in, say, Splitsider, why not throw them an email and tell them so? 2016-12-20 08:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, Friends!
A few quick updates.
1. The next book is picked, and hoo BOY is it a ... treat. Without spoiling things, it: (a) continues our tradition of using an Xmas-adjacent episode to take on a Very Big Book, and; (b) answers the question "why don't women pass tests to get into the Army?" with the answer "evo...
2016-12-16 17:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Big day! Rich, loamy, potent day. Two episodes blasted from our fervid brains into Online, ready to be caught by technology and laced into your ears, as is, naturally, your wont slash firm preference. AND a friends-only email!? We can only hope your loins were sufficiently girded this morning, such that y...
2016-12-13 05:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we sit down with ROBOT OVERLORDS, a hopeful vision of an idyllic future where the human race is ruled by a hive-mind network of giant robots who vaporize people for breaking one rule, and one rule only: DON'T GO OUTSIDE.
Unfortunately, this delightful utopia is quickly ruined by a Bunch of Meddling Kids(TM) who com...
2016-12-12 22:03:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all --
Due to life stuff, the friends-only episode will be a little late this month. We apologize. We're working to get everything recorded and out to you! We feel very bad that we couldn't avoid the delay and we thank you for your support and we ask you for your patience.
-Clsn for IDEOTVPOD
2016-12-05 01:16:44 +0000 UTC View PostGOING OFF THE RAILS
You heard the episode a-comin'
It was rolling 'round the pods
And we ain't seen a good book
Since the Night of them Crobs
We're stuck in bad book prison
WHERE THE WILD WORDS ARE
A fun, somewhat frightening facet of being alive is the phenomenon wherein, once you learn about a thing, you suddenly see it everywhere. It's as though your awareness conjures it into being -- but, haha, that couldn't possibly be right...could it?
THE SHORT FUNNY BIT
Oh, friends. Going backwards, I think it's safe to say that early Futurama was about as good a four seasons of television as I ever saw. Some of this is likely because, as a deeply doofy redhead, I don't see myself in the media that often, but in series protagonist Fr...
2016-11-15 08:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostBE KIND -- REWIND!
Hello and welcome to a new electronic mail! The topic this time around is the off-putting, somewhat bizarre project COOL CAT SAVES THE KIDS. An insight (?) I had rather late in the process was that the reason this movie felt so familiar was that it bore serious tonal similarities to some of the (...
2016-11-07 07:37:57 +0000 UTC View Post
From the deepest heart of the Uncanny Valley comes Cool Cat Saves the Kids, a movie with the best of intentions and botch-est of execution. No matter what you've seen in your life, you really have not seen anything like this. Come for the terrible music video -- but STAY for the SECOND terrible music video and the total inabil...
2016-11-07 01:17:36 +0000 UTC View PostTOURING TORI
Well, it's been out for more than a day now, so I think it's safe to speculate that, if you're reading this, you've likely enjoyed the HALLOWEENEST EPISODE EVER of IDEOTVPOD, wherein Lauren Parker joined us to put some serious quanti...
Hey, all -- just a quick heads-up: the donor episode will be coming out next Monday, the 7th.
Why?
Because: episodes come out on alternate Mondays; we try to get the bonus episode out ASAP after the first, but no later than the first Monday of the Month; if these conflict, we have to do something, becaus...
2016-10-30 23:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/10/30/067-tori-amos-piece-by-piece-w-lauren-parker/
COME, FRIENDS
Come ... inside. Welcome to another edition of IDEOTVPOD After Dark! I'm your host, the Man Who Made the Mediocre Marinara, the Man Who's Quaffing the Lime La Croix, the Little Man with the (USB) Mic in His Hand -- t...
AW, RATS
A lot of years ago, I lived in a basement apartment -- really, the basement of the house of my friends, a married couple. The basement had been walled off, down the middle, and then that walled-off half halved again, so there were two rooms behind doors, separated by a wall, then the rest of the basement....
http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/10/16/066-the-rats/
Now here is a tail you wouldn't expect! A RAT TALE AWAITS!
2016-10-17 06:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post
