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Roderick on the Line, Ep. 46 Trailer: “Esquivalience”
Our new episode of Roderick on the Line goes live tomorrow morning.
In advance of same, here’s a quick trailer to help you prepare—both for the episode itself, and, more importantly, we want to help you begin to absorb John’s indispensable advice for (maybe, maybe) earning a seat on Super Train.
You just better hope to Christ you bring everything you’ll need.
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Boom.
Excited to have @johnroderick, @jonathancoulton, @hodgman, @hotdogsladies and @scottsimpson presenting and performing at SIC in Oct #SIC2012
— Seattle Interactive (@seattleinteract) September 7, 2012Now, just wait until you hear about the other thing that’s happening that day. Ellllllipppppppsisssss…
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As You Do
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Important Artifacts
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And, the rest.
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For serious scholarship only.
Two hundred eighty-eight index cards from Roderick on the Line.
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rotl:
For serious scholarship only.
Two hundred eighty-eight index cards from Roderick on the Line.
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Per Roderick on the Line e41. You can’t make this shit up, folks.
Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Backyard Furnaces)
With no personal knowledge of metallurgy, Mao encouraged the establishment of small backyard steel furnaces in every commune and in each urban neighborhood. Mao was shown an example of a backyard furnace in Hefei, Anhui in September 1958 by provincial first secretary Zeng Xisheng. The unit was claimed to be manufacturing high quality steel (though in fact the finished steel had probably been manufactured elsewhere).
Huge efforts on the part of peasants and other workers were made to produce steel out of scrap metal. To fuel the furnaces the local environment was denuded of trees and wood taken from the doors and furniture of peasants’ houses. Pots, pans, and other metal artifacts were requisitioned to supply the “scrap” for the furnaces so that the wildly optimistic production targets could be met. Many of the male agricultural workers were diverted from the harvest to help the iron production as were the workers at many factories, schools and even hospitals. Although the output consisted of low quality lumps of pig iron which was of negligible economic worth, Mao had a deep distrust of intellectuals and faith in the power of the mass mobilization of the peasants.
Moreover, the experience of the intellectual classes following the Hundred Flowers Campaign silenced those aware of the folly of such a plan. According to his private doctor, Li Zhisui, Mao and his entourage visited traditional steel works in Manchuria in January 1959 where he found out that high quality steel could only be produced in large-scale factories using reliable fuel such as coal. However, he decided not to order a halt to the backyard steel furnaces so as not to dampen the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses. The program was only quietly abandoned much later in that year. -
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As mentioned a few months back on the fantastic Roderick On The Line podcast, John Roderick plays Bass guitar through an amplifier for the first time ever whilst performing with Harvey Danger live on national television! I think he does a rather good job personally!
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John Roderick: My problem, in this instance, was you called, and I was looking at something else, and I reached for my headphones and I grabbed my coffee cup instead. And I almost poured it on top of my head. I almost put my coffee cup on my head like it was my headphones.
Merlin Mann: I don’t wanna go meta but could we please have a little bit of fan art of that? Maybe as a small animated GIF?This just won everything.
My God. So great.
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My Hotrod and Thy Staff
Swoon.
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I believe that we are all, human beings, waiting for the opportunity to become monsters. It is in us.
John Roderick, Ep. 40: “Status Butter” (via roderickin)
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“HERE’S THE THING”
Thanks, SheriffofTwisp!
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yhf:
In episode 26 of Roderick on the Line, John Roderick related a tale from the wee hours of a recent morning, wherein he awoke briefly to discover that the pillows on his bed had transformed, in situ, into owls. As he was asleep when this occurred, he had no idea of the transformation as it took place and therefore could not witness it.
My artistic rendering of the events directly preceding takes some liberties, primarily when it comes to the owl speaking (“Owls can’t talk, dummy.”). I also made this owl a brown one rather than the white owls related in the original story because I cannot draw owls and thought this would help identify what I was going for. (As if “OWL” over the image wasn’t enough to indicate.)
NOTE: Bridget has already artistically observed this occasion, with IMO quite a bit more polish and subtlety.
