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In the wake of an assassination attempt, Conspiracy Theories are hot, hip and happenin' again! Let's discuss!!!!

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(2024) from the forthcoming episode, "Inside the Guts of the Dream Machine" Poem written and performed by Shannon X, video purportedly shot and edited by Andros P. Rex and the Right Rev. Rubberducky Kreamspinach. And if you believe that, have we got a bridge for you!!!!!

(2024) from the forthcoming episode, "Inside the Guts of the Dream Machine". Poem written and performed by Shannon X. Caine, shot & edited by Andrew Lucariello and C.F. Roberts

Toys, Doodads. and whatnot

Comics and my sporadic relationship with the medium

Tonight a pathological, genocidal, warmongering liar is going to have a stage managed "debate" with another pathological, genocidal, warmongering liar to see which one gets to run roughshod over everyone for four years! What's the difference between 'em? Well, one has alzheimer's, I guess....who'll be the winner? Check out my prediction!!!!

Snafu

Imitating my favorite character in "Eraserhead"

Spoken word poetry album by Kevin M. Hibshman and C.F. Roberts C.F. ROBERTS-Dead Guy’s Socks Heaven Cicero 2 Disembodied Tirade 2 The Walk: Grace and Vulgarity Cityscape Ghetto Head 1991 Zen Carousel 2 AM Disembodied Tirade 4 The Walk: One More Stab of Entropy Scorched (Fragment) Dead Guy’s Socks Disembodied Tirade 5 Notes x my Suicide Trip pt.1 Simple Blues Decline In Hate Pug Hates his Nakedness The Pink Music Note Candy The Walk (Epilogue) Burnt Sunflower KEVIN M. HIBSHMAN-Dog Eared Saints Amnesia Somber Red To Die by Someone After Reading Rimbaud Crestfallen Angel Riot Worship Afterbirth Scab Acid…Yes? Psycho/Splat Pig Dialect Sloth The Dog-Eared Saint If Only A.D. ‘92: Pray for Survival Derelict Monastery Chrome Melting Talk Stop (Fire is the Question of our Time) Where Murder Lives The Bullshit Age Adrenaline Frostbit Lizard Kiss Grace Me Give me Language, Language! The Fire Poem The Dream had Died… Earth Returns Palm the Dark Mandala Ten per Cent Angel We produced this cassette-only album (quit laughing—they were sort of a thing at this time!) in 1993—-I think—-I’m pretty sure…we still had a booklet that had all the pertinent info back then—-hell if I can find that now! I recorded my half with help from Mike McAdam, my bud and SE Apocalypse Krew collaborator. I can’t speak as to Kevin’s process except that it was much cleaner than mine….you can hear a bunch of weird audio snafus on my end, little glitches where you hear between takes chatter or bits we edited out. I was fuzzy as to what, exactly, was on this….you only get a few short excerpts from the lengthy prose piece, “The Walk”, and you all need to be thanking your lucky stars for that, as I’m pretty sure we taped the whole ungodly thing!!! “Cicero 2” is a very old piece that opened my very first chapbook, 1991’s MASSACRE ANNEX—it fell by the wayside in the ensuing years (as did most of that chappie)---I now regard it as bald-faced misogyny and more or less disown it. The Disembodied Tirades were excerpts from a now-lost manuscript called RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE, which I wouldn’t mind revisiting, but as the years progress my hopes for that are just growing dim….”Scorched” is a prose piece that was partially lost and it was part of a collaborative maxi-chap I did with Alred Vitale called FAIRYTALES FROM THE URBAN HOLOCAUST, for his Yorkville Press—”Ghetto Head” is another from MASSACRE ANNEX—in fact I think it’s the only one off that collection to survive, later appearing in my one full lengther, THE MEAT FACTORY. The “title track”, “Dead Guy’s Socks”. was one that had gotten me some recognition at local slams, and was about me receiving hand-me-downs from a literal dead man. Other poems here, like “In Hate”, “Zen Carousel”, and “Notes x my Suicide Trip Part 1”, have not surfaced in years or possibly decades at this point. There’s this concussive noise at the very end of “Burnt Sunflower” that sounds like some heavy object (a door? A ceiling? Goes with the poem…) being brought down and some tinkling background noise that could be glass breaking…neither Mike nor I have any idea how it got there, nor do we know what it is. Whatever the case, it’s an excellent ending to my segment, so—-we’ll call it a fortuitous accident. I’m less qualified to comment at length on Kevin’s portions, but I’ll relay my notes such as they are. He is, of course, welcome to chip in on the comments however he would like. I was a big fan of Kevin, his poetry and his spoken readings since I first checked out his great zine, DISTURBING DREAMS AND DRIED BLOOD (later rechristened FEARLESS)...personal favorites I requested here were “The Dog Eared Saint” and “Chrome Melting” (with its ominous refrain of “Aught 6…August 6….August 6…” “Riot worship” (the title of a one-off zine we would later collaborate on) was relatively new at the time….other favorites of mine are “Earth Returns”, “Monastery”, “If Only”, “Palm the Dark Mandela”, “Where Murder Lives”, “Amnesia”, “Give me Language, Language!”, “Crestfallen Angel”, “After Reading Rimbaud” and many others….finding these and hearing them again is like returning to old friends. And now, dear, put-upon listener, the journey becomes yours as well.

(2004) New re-edit of one of our most popular episodes....Shannon and the renowned author discuss Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, the famous Thoth Tarot and much more.

(2024) A quickie addition to the TAOTL Retirement Run---the basis of this show was an interview with Hair Metal/Intergender Wrestling Sensations One Night Stand. This is politically incorrect even by my standards, so enjoy, if you're able. Much of it is improv'ed (in other words, it's a shoot, not a work!)---we worked out the ending where the camera focuses in on Johnny Cock's package----I ask if it's real and I get beaten down for my troubles----just to give the whole thing a framework. My favorite part is at the end where Johnny cracks, "you know the funniest part of all this is that everyone in this room is over THIRTY!" LOVE AND LIGHT!!!!

Teasing Brodie with one of his favorite toys

New (ish) poem. Surviving trauma plus a Dementia Callback.

Reading a poem from the early 90s. Pretty sure it was published somewhere at some point....

Lil' tribute to Groucho

Accidentally dropped this on the main channel, meant to put it here. What's a Conspiracy Theory? Let's talk about splitting hairs, shall we?

This week in the news

Arch censorship knob Joseph Lieberman just kicked the bucket and I'm here to send him off in style!

Trying to calibrate my sleep-deprived brain, babbling about life as a Post-Duopolist in a lil' informal chat.

(2024) Yeah, it's 15 extra seconds but whaddya want? This is the complete cut---it's done----EMBRACE THE CURSE.

No

It was a bloodbath!!!

It's important to be able to draw that line

In case we get off on the wrong foot