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They're very posh dogz

Am I Milton Berle yet?

hayrolls

(2004) Chuck, Jet and Emerald carp and rant about the latest controversy and generally speaking air their beefs with the city of Fayetteville. We were critiqued in the Fat Cat Award judging forms for over-reliance on the Speech tic, "you know", and....GUILTY. This has been an issue with a fair number of the Lemur Crew and many of us still, you know, struggle with it. But think of it this way, Bocephus: Public Access is supposed to be a forum for regular folks, not restricted to great orators. And as regular folks, we doubled down on that! Happy? No? Oh well.... Not the WORST episode of TAOTL ever produced but emblematic of a lot of what was wrong with the Lemuric Tin Age. We spent overt amounts of time making our case and unloading our baggage for all of Fayetteville to see, and Jet afterwards drew comparisons to the later Lenny Bruce concerts, where he spent much of them going over transcripts from his trial....and he wasn't wrong. I cite the "Tin Age" as running from the second half of '04 to early '06. It's characterized by a lot of these long, rambling shows---the VDA imploded as a movement writ large, Amy McMillan came and went, I focused on local activism for good or ill (usually ill), Shannon decided she wanted to distance herself from TAOTL and focus more on her talk show, Jet left town and the Tin Age slowly sputtered to a close. In 2006 Liz Essex formally became a cast regular, Heather Drain emerged and a whole new "Diamond Age" began for the show. If there's anything I can say now, the City of Fayetteville still values aesthetics over what happens to human beings, so I guess it's still relevant in that sense.

Rock'n'Roll!!!!!!

NOT a final cut but a prelim cut made up of what I have for the next episode of "The Abbey of the Lemur" thus far.

A brief rant about the subtle nuances of Pacifism. LOVE AND LIGHT, PEEPS!!!!!

(2003) Interview with several OTO members about the organization and their central philosophies. This is one of two shows we did where the white balance was really off. I may upload another version in the near future....Adobe Color Correction is still a bit of a cipher to me.

A brief, effusive rant about those criticizing my life choices. Oh, come on---you know I love you, ya knuckleheads!

Another video unpacking stuff around my Mom's funeral....sporadic attacks of agoraphobic anxiety, my struggles with alcoholism, warm, fuzzy memories....but no baggage.

Processing my Mom's death about a month back, dealing with Alzheimer's Disease, saying goodbye, etc.

(2003) Two years after we'd done a gigantic special obliterating him with jokes, production, irreverence and craven disrespect, our old nemesis, Jumpin' Gene Kovach, came roaring back, trying to shut us down and making all the exact same talking points we'd already resoundingly refuted about us. This time out we took a different strategy: Coming out in a very UN-produced setting, talking straight, minus any schtick. This didn't really end up working---he just kept coming back with the same BS and borderline slander, over and over again.

WARNING: THIS IS NOT A TV PROGRAM. THIS IS A RITUAL. Extended sneak peek at our new episode, "Rednu God"

Just a dumb joke

More explorations of the Micro Novel form.C.F. Roberts reads "Bukowski and Alcohol", "Resentment and Lime", "You Can't Catch a Break", "Mr. Compassion"

A brief word about ethics and personal choices.

More Micro Novels? Sure, here you go....this one dovetails into both my forthcoming book, THE EVANGEL, and a future novel, HOME. STAY TUNED!!!!!

On the heels of my Pink Music Note Candy Reading, just random, off-the-cuff musings about the whole Incel phenomenon, and some possible solutions for these poor bastards. All this while a mischeivous cat hassles me.

Short Story, spoken word. My take on the whole "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" cliche. Enjoy.

C.F. Roberts reads an old prose piece from the early 90s. May have been published in FEARLESS way back in the day

Spoken Word Piece. C.F. Roberts discusses the history of the Micro Novel, how he believes it differs from flash fiction, and reads three Micro Novels, "How to Give People Sepsis and Other Party Tricks", "Five StupidTurkeys Drowning in the Rain" and "Existentialists Against Neuropathy".

(2014) This video will make you one with the Abbey of the Lemur. WARNING: HYPNOTIC RAYS. MAY BE HARMFUL. DO NOT JUMP OFF BUILDINGS. DOUBLE WARNING: DO NOT PLAY THIS VIDEO BACKWARDS. CONTAINS HIDDEN MESSAGES. We ae being forced to list this video as "Entertainment". WARNING-WARNING-WARNING-IT IS NOT.

(2009) History takes the spotlight as Shannon looks at the Arkansas Country Doctor Museum

Panda partakes in the Hippie Love at the Woodstock Memorial at Yasgur Farm in 1999 (this is NOT the appalling cashgrab disaster!!!!) features many great genuine counterculture moments and a number of friends who are no longer with us. ENJOY!!!!

The face of things falling apart