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Friday, March 4, 2011

Frank Nora Show 1661 – Aetherwillow Daytrip (3/4/11)

1:08:44 – A lot of chemtrails, Internet speeds, megabits, run back home because I forgot to drink my coffee, but actually I did drink it before, Mardis Gras, Polish Fat Thursday treats “pounchki”, News 12 New Jersey, Usenet, watched 5 hours of American Idol last night, bus is here, defending American Idol, Twitter trauma, many ideas, The Rampler Associates, pan flute, wanted poster on video billboard, rude people, Wolf People album “Steeple”, 4 buzzes, analog subtone flaw, tow trucks with headlight strobes, Britney Spears, bank rebranding, the visual landscan, thoughts on this week’s American Idol, symbolic sacrifices, The Trend Report, the word “shawty”, J-Lo video, turtle guy glasses, beauty, Mazda spider-based recall, god cars, views on the American Idol Top 13, knee-jerk pop cultural negativity, sirens, hard drive, watching video files, Boxee Box, Star Wars “Death Troopers”, trash compactor bookends, new Thunderbolt port, Trend update, gadget lust, Nintendo 3DS, pondering the channel, frustration, basic communication, style over substance, hype, the Billy Crystal “you look marvelous” character, marketing, the substance of the freeform monologue format, the act of recording a show and releasing it online under a Creative Commons license – an act of substance, the sirens, keeping things organized, and the bookstore.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 7:51 pm filed in Frank,Mar11  

Friday, March 4, 2011

ONSUG – PDF Checklists for Aug 2009 – Feb 2011

ONSUG_Aug09-Feb11_Checklists.pdf

Listing all the shows from the past 19 months, plus more info!

posted by Frank at 3:41 pm filed in News  

Friday, March 4, 2011

Onsug Trends – Past 6 Months

September 2010 – 69 tracks – 57 hours

October 2010 – 63 tracks – 54.5 hours

November 2010 – 69 tracks – 56.5 hours

December 2010 – 65 tracks – 47.3 hours

January 2011 – 84 tracks – 61.9 hours

February 2011 – 85 Tracks – 65.5 hours

posted by Frank at 5:20 am filed in News  

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Frank Nora Show 1660 – In Utero (3/3/11)

55:53 – Zoo Bastards, The Mighty Boosh, 1975 Queen album “A Night At The Opera”, current rock music lacks substance, subway booth singing, 1939-1975-2011, Wayne’s Prepcast, preparing for the crash,personal space weirdness on the subway, coat selections,  theory about the Middle East turmoil, demonetization of the dollar, coffee, very expensive oatmeal, new money, coin questions, New Jersey quarter amero suggestion, salsa commercials, the word “vegetarian”, Hale and Hearty Soups, World Trade Center, Macaroni and Cheese, Penn Station exhibit, demolition of the original Penn Station, portable hard drives, enter the octagonal room, a brown Ford automobile, Listen To A Movie, Mr. Show, The Larry Sanders Show, my Internet’s been so slow with Cablevision I decided to switch to FiOS, NetFlix, DSL, DVR, Usenet, Match Game, demolition, Stok, Schnitzel and Things, expensive lunch, Lady Gaga was in utero when I began my college radio show, psychic wars, coughing, BJD (ball-jointed doll), bright night Times Square, counting paper sheep statues, the soccer player who kicked and killed an owl, V8 rebranding, the corporate overlords, police dogs, and Attack of the Clones.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 5:47 pm filed in Frank,Mar11  

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Frank Nora Show 1659 – Zoo Bastards (3/2/11)

1:24:44 – Sudafed blues, Corvette, iPad 2, Queen Horns, Darth Maul, the finite nature of things, beeping, Little Trees, “Seneca Glass” movie on Archive.org, driftwood tumblers, coughing apology, fire engine, Japanese dolls, Soom Cuprit – Black Frost (doll with “Queen Horns”), Robot Chicken Dark Crystal parody, people are honking bastards, cursing, Howard Stern, Kirk Douglas, Harlie Sheen, Alex Jones, Usenet, DVR failure, American Idol, electronic corruption, SiriusXM app, Onsug analysis, Sanrio “Small Gift” set of figurines, updates, slow Internet, insanity, sculptures in Times Square (paper sheep, metal mouse, blue woman, bubbles, etc.), the art world scam, style over substance, fakeness, chaos in the air, Lava stain, carpet removal, Lava Lamp bulb burnout, visual stimulation, rice balls for breakfast, new Boards of Canada album may be coming soon, street calculation error, Nintendo 3DS, overstimulated, lots more Fringe this season, weird clouds this morning, Big Sky Country, zoo analogy, panda chow, Queen song “The Prophet’s Song”, WFMU Marathon, The Overnightscape Underground, the rice balls, obscure Sanrio characters, vagueness of percent, fashion scam, The Mighty Boosh, Old Gregg, online TV confusion, lottery, Chipotle lunch, tortilla failures, the control structures of pop culture, the programming of people, cause and effect, modern art, I love pop culture, difficulties of independent entertainment, the tentacles of management, selling out, Wachovia rebranding to Wells Fargo, the movie Fargo, Orson Welles, the programmed people of the world, and hope.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 5:23 pm filed in Frank,Mar11  

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Frank Nora Show 1658 – Queen Horns (3/1/11)

1:46:46 – Ticket line mysteries, mass demolition, the weekend, comic book store memories, Lady Gaga’s new video “Born This Way”, occult symbolism, early Nirvana resistance, a cornucopia of occult imagery, the future of The Overnightscape Underground, the idea of 4 channels, taxi trouble, SCTV, The Muppet Show, rag wizard hat, Motorhead concert, The Young Ones, Lemmy, alcoholism, your corporate overlords, blast of wind, pocket radio station, levels of presentation, books “You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried” and “Sucker Punch – The Art of the Film”, watched The Academy Awards last night, James Franco, Anne Hathaway, awkward acceptance speeches, Kirk Douglas, The King’s Speech, nearly forgot to get my bus pass, my reactions to the latest Overnightscape Central (The Future of Onsug), teamwork, mailing lists, the post test, conspiracy topics, the goal, the channel as a mini resource-based economy, levels of content, celebrity, a healthy future in entertainment, guidelines, Creative Commons, creator endorsement, hours of content per day, Grammar Girl, lists of episodes, flyers, need for a contextual “hook”, top 10 lists, ritualistic modes, transmissions, podcasting, Charile Sheen on Alex Jones, the news media as a scripted product of the powers that be, analysis of the occult symbolism in the new Lady Gaga video “Born This Way”, the devil, the video itself has horns, unicorns in triangles, Nazis, “as above, so below”, A Clockwork Orange, monarch slave symbols, Janus, butterflies, mirrored images, lack of sensuality, queen horns, reptilians, cloning imagery, well-dressed zombies, G.O.A.T., good and evil, theory that “Lady Gaga” is a set of clones, a crazy woman walks by, pseudoephedrine, drugged once again, Welsh tour group, show naming, I Ching, the palindrome “e-radio do I dare”, forgotten mix CDs, horrible camera software, Picasa, Facebook, wifi cameras, The Rampler, Porno Jim, live shows, Lordi Films, Five Faces of Fear, typecasting, people who the last time you saw them they were a little kid and now they’re an adult, The Dark Crystal (1982), analog texture, more symbolism, “Teenage Riot” on Vice TV, snack review (Kettle Brand Tias! – Salsa Picante), unoriginal slogans, biodiesel, looking for rat statues, giant Norton sphere in Grand Central, NJ Transit “MyBus” service, rogue telephone pole signs, underpaid and disillusioned, Steve Miller Band song “Space Cowboy”, Beatles song “Lady Madonna”, Paul McCartney’s pseudonym “Paul Ramon”, The Ramones, you learn something new every day about rock and roll, Sucker Punch (2011), Boxee Box apps, The Guy Bauer Half Hour, Tom Green, pepper arrogance, and American Idol.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 6:40 pm filed in Frank,Mar11  

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Frank Nora Show 1657 – Somerville (2/26/11)

46:03 – Frank and Peter explore the town of Somerville, NJ. Memories of Somerville, alleyway, Quality Comics, cat, Division Street, the classic shopping center is torn down, The Evil Farm, surprise meeting with Alex at Incogneeto, we talked for a long time, the book “Vintage Fashion Accessories” by Stacy LoAlbo, walking down Main Street, bike rides, luxury apartments, Las Vegas housing market, McMansions, Neet Stuff, Hobnob, gentleman with top hat, fondue, the classic Somerville Circle, Cinema I-II-III, early settlements, dog bakery, the old style of storefronts, Kigali, magic and costume store, record store, wine store, storefront station idea, antiques, grand jury duty, crimes, dinner at Splash of Thai, stir fried wild boar, mee krob, chocolate souffle, Thai iced coffee, super hot green curry, Dunkin Donuts, coconut coffee, Reverse Boston Creme donut, observing some antiques, WWII sonar machine, cymbals, sexuality and beverages, Heathers, as soon as we hit the border the show has to end, parking lot combat, stationery, Summerville, Heat Miser, train station, “take the train to the plane”, After Man, the early days of sushi, criminals, jury duty, closed gas station, and the border.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 8:50 am filed in Feb11,Frank  

Sunday, February 27, 2011

American Girls Americast #12 (2/24/11)

3:19 – Is it wrong to write “HO” on your friend’s back?

Ohmygod, it’s so freaking WARM here, lovers! I have no idea where I am, and I am about to go back to sleep. Feel free to enjoy our brilliance, and we promise to dream about you while we nap! TTFN

http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
http://AliciaAmerican.com
http://DebbieAmerican.com

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Attribution: by Those American Girls and Peter Bernard – more info at aliciaamerican.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 8:41 am filed in Americast,Feb11  

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Frank Nora Show 1656 – Not Yet Fording (2/25/11)

2:27:50 – Commuting delays, lasagna breakfast, famous palindromes, accident in the Lincoln Tunnel, futuristic soldiers, protests in The Middle East, scripted events, Libya, Gaddafi, Reagan, Pan Am, Bob Grant, doom hype, dwelling on the crash, using time travel to find crashless timeline, the higher self, the I Ching hexagram of a fox carefully crossing a frozen river, liking doom, conspiracy theories becoming mainstream, simulation, creativity, culture, creation and distribution of works, AR, media history, dawn of the Internet, Creative Commons, Creator Endorsement, hippie communes, heading over to Broadway, Five Guys fries for dinner, the upcoming 25th anniversary of Zope, musicals, compostable bowls, recyclable food, Belgian fries (pommes frites) places that used to be in NYC, Le Frite Kot, had too many french fries, hydration, Green Day, Beyond Onsug, forum mortality, the accident in th Lincoln Tunnel this morning, Thai food, remembered the name of the little caffeine boosts – “Stok”, email, the beautiful rainy Times Square at night, newspaper machins, weird high (Alka-Seltzer Plus, french fries, cigars), St. James Theater, the balcony level, seating, Broadway musical review (“American Idiot”), the squealing crowd, lack of grooviness, weird and perverted, bad poetry, humorless and bland, prepackaged rebelliousness, posing, U2, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, sexual music, lighting, the late bus, the vile chant, drug addicts, Repo Man, ordinary people, the next day with pouring rain, umbella, the 25th anniversary of Zope, the history of my comic strip character Zope, space madness, your characters are like alive in your mind, co-ed bathrooms, won the 1986 worst minicomic of the year award, Nixie 59, created the new Zope website and drew the anniversary comic last night, ComicCMS, out in the rain, Hard Rain screensaver in After Dark, the old Macintosh computing culture, Flying Toaster, theories, Todd Rundgren, OvalTune, Green Day song “Basket Case”, new Smurfs Mega Bloks, the plans for tonight and tomorrow, put my very first website from 1995 online at franknora.com/obliviana1, falafel burger, 3rd Avenue tour with J. Wiz and M. Wiz, crutches in the garbage, dinner at Menchanko, sumo wrestler food, potato starch, Philadelphia, Camden, checking out the hippie architecture, statues of rats, reading the plaque, smoke breaks by the loading dock, arrows, listening to the archives, cyclical obsessions, stagecoach, chessboard, senator offices, office building criminals, red metal art swing, cursed building, Corridor of Losers, PiranhaKid, Ess-a-Bagel, bagels in Tokyo, Charlie Sheen, Conran Shop, food court, building security, Lipstick Building, touch an Oscar, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Citigroup Center, Piada, socializing, disappearingspoons.com, melting gallium spoons in hot water, Zombie Stormtrooper Bobblehead, subway opera singer, Overnightscape Central, the future of Onsug, Somerville, NJ, and whispers.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

posted by Frank at 9:28 am filed in Feb11,Frank,Uncategorized  

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Zope’s 25th Anniversary

25 years a today I created my comic strip character Zope. I just drew a new comic for the occasion.

posted by Frank at 9:46 pm filed in News  
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