Wheatley makes the cut

Thanks to you, the listener, and especially to me, the podcast nominator, Dalecast is one of 10 finalists for best Podsafe Music Podcast in The People’s Choice Podcast Awards.

Only a few brief weeks ago, this blog encouraged its vast readership to vote for Dalecast during the fourth annual Podcast Awards. More than 281,000 people responded, according to awards sponsors.

Need I offer any further defense of the power of the Turetzky Syndrome brand? If I did, my argument would fall apart, so I’m not going to. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 10:36 pm Mon, Oct 20, 2008.

Purple asses imperil nation

Big Phil has been taking some hard shots lately at GOP presidential candidate John McCain, in what I view as a noble but naive campaign to avert yet another Republican “victory” during the November “elections.”

Sure, I could have knocked on doors and campaigned for Obama, but I’m hip to the game, and felt my time would be better served in enlightening my very, very good friend Phil per the modern realities of our political system.

Dead fucking serious

So, I took one of Phil’s impassioned rants — creeping fascism bad, Obama the last hope for democracy, blah, blah, blah — and with a few practiced edits, transformed the host of the Love Parade into a voice made for talk radio, a card-carrying white man who’d be welcome at your neighborhood Palin rally. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 11:51 pm Fri, Oct 17, 2008.