On The Radio Whoa Oh Oh

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Varg

Humble bloggers Liprap, Adrastos and I will be on Eric Asher’s WIST radio show today extolling the virtues of this weekend’s Rising Tide conference. Tune into 690 on your AM dial to hear us go on about blogging RT and whatever else comes up.

Edit: We will be on the show when the the bottom three dimensions pass through the moment in the fourth known as 1:30 pm. Thanks Pants!

And just for the record, I publicly denounce Michael Weiner for, well, being Michael Savage.

If you aren’t by the radio, they also stream and podcast. So there won’t be a reason not to listen other than general ambivalence! But even if you don’t listen, take heart that the waves carrying our voices will be flowing through your body on their way into deep space!

7 thoughts on “On The Radio Whoa Oh Oh”

jeffrey says:

August 21, 2008 at 10:42 am

Time dammit! You need to tell the people what time!
liprap says:

August 21, 2008 at 4:39 pm

We were on at 1:25-ish in the PM.

Here’s the podcast:

http://www.webwiseforradio.com/site_files/244/File/ino_082108_2.mp3

We get going at approx. 22:00. And I laughed waaay too much in that sound booth.
Karen says:

August 22, 2008 at 8:56 am

I listened to it last night you all sounded great even though it did sound like someone was goosing Leigh.
Varg says:

August 22, 2008 at 9:32 am

That person was interim DA Bobby Freeman.
liprap says:

August 22, 2008 at 10:10 am

Nitrous, y’all. I’m claiming nitrous.
liprap says:

August 22, 2008 at 10:10 am

Nitrous, y’all. I’m claiming nitrous.
Brad V says:

August 24, 2008 at 7:39 am

Hey, Varg – nice to meet you at Rising Tide.

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Rejoice!

I say that a lot. I sign many pieces with it. I do this because I believe our lives are a true happenstance. A brilliant occurence from nothingness. We are so rare. We are so unlikely. And simply being born isn’t enough. From there we must survive, endure. So each morning, after our Sun departs and is reborn again. Please, for the sake of your ancestors and the Universe in general, hoist that cup of joe up and say, “Rejoice.”

Ours is a soulful existence. No matter how many McMansions, polyester fabrics, auto-tunes, modified foods and social networks we surround ourselves with, we are all still native, passionate beings made of ancient matter. We are organic and we have soul.

Wood also has a warm, soulful quality. Wood has a memory. It retains smells, traumas, events. It even has a calendar. This is why I have chosen it as my medium, for its old soul. I like to think the wood in my work is in its third incarnation. First a tree, then a home and now art. If you have a room that needs a little soul, get a piece. A room can never have enough soul.

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I am the son of a sailor and a social worker, the grandson of a gypsy, a dancer and a nurse. I spent my youth moving from port city to port city, watching a lot of road go by and reading World Book Encyclopedia. After my parents settled down on the Gulf Coast, I was a miscreant youth, destroying cars and taking the wrongs things too seriously and the right things not serious enough. Eventually I began replacing my imagination with experience.

I will use any salvaged wood but prefer swamp cypress and longleaf heartwood pine.

I despise waste. Particularly the waste of organic matter. Trees are magnificent. They were here before we arrived and they’ll be around after we are gone. I’m making an effort to save as much wood as possible. Creating art is fun too. But beyond communicating with folks, but beyond making money ad providing for myself, beyond rescuing flooded parts, beyond reveling in the ethereal aroma of heartpine that hasn’t seen the light of day in 400 years, beyond all that, I am trying to make a simple comment on waste.