The Overnightscape #708 (Monday, June 9, 2008 / 59:00 / 27.2 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Burned and drunk, Skechers “Stout” shoes (#60726), flea market, the Chicago metropolitan area, The Great Lakes, ignorant of Chicago, Chicago is the home of pinball, CB from Chicago, controversy on the Underground, brief encounters with Chicago, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, “The Blues Brothers”, Pinball Expo, sunblock, Nutley, NJ, Annie Oakley, Martha Stewart, pooper scooper laws, driving to Chicago, getting old, Visual PinMAME, No. 209 Gin, flea market finds, old magazines, rouing, candy review (“Zot Chewy Licorice Rope”), two issues of TV Guide from 1983, “Three’s Company”, “AfterMASH”, what was on TV on Sunday, Sep. 25, 1983 at 6 PM, Atari Service, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, oldest bush, Willie Nelson and Anne Murray, Newsweek Magazine from Dec. 1972, running back Larry Brown, Maker’s Mark, People Magazine from Feb. 1984, John Lennon, 11 issues of “Launch” CD-ROM magazine from 1998-2000, checking out Launch #36 from 2000, pre-rendered virtual town, “Supernova”, Robin Tunney, different kinds of interactivity, Winona Ryder, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Momus, Grateful Dead, The Hang, Phish, Raekwan, Indiana Jones, the year 2000, Alanis Morissette, “The New York 1939 Official World’s Fair Pictorial Map”, time travel, more naked statues, old bookstore smell, The Inferno Over The Lake, The Cavalcade of Centaurs, and 500 Gorgeous Aquabelles. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com)
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June 9th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Frank,
It is strange. I bet your show is a cosmic collection of people with similar habits. I discovered the magic of old magazines in the periodical section of our local public library as a kid, in college at Auburn’s great huge library i spent many geeky nights “time traveling” with the bound books of LIFE, LOOK, Popular Mechanics, etc. I have found so many amazing things. Pump toothpastes from the ’60’s, radios’s that would last for 200 hours on a couple of D cells from the early days of transistors. If anyone doubts that at least some conspiracies are currently afoot. The internet is far too easy to control, in the past when something was printed and distributed one would have to find every last copy of something to remove it, or change it. I fear that 50 years from now we will regret the concept of centralized knowledge sources such as wikipedia. Think about it. With one keystroke, some powerful person could literally rewrite history. Millions of individual books were not nearly as vulnerable. It is all about control, in the future no one will even own songs, or television, much less news and real information. Perhaps we should all be burying encyclopedias for the safety of the future. Maybe we will need to place with them an instruction manual for how to operate a book.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
A buzzed FEN- very entertaining! You need to do that more often, methinks.
PS. It’s pronounced Lake H-you-ron. And the Great Lakes are easy to remember with the acronym H.O.M.E.S.
–Lisa, transplant from the East Coast to the Mitten State of Michigan