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dimland radio 5-27-23 show notes

My Tooth Is Still In My Head

Yep. That bad tooth is still there, but it’s days are numbered. As of this writing, the tooth is getting pulled tomorrow at noon. I’m done with the antibiotics and I don’t have as much pain. But, it will be a relief to get it out of there.

My Wife Is Now Bionic

*SKA is the initials of the x-ray tech who made the image. And a fun genre of music.*

The picture is pretty cool!

There’s a plate and several pins in there. Best of all it is healing nicely.

Amy still has some pain and she has plenty of physical therapy to do, but she’s able to work. And before we know it, the broken shoulder will be an interesting anecdote.

What Does GOOCH Mean?!

You know what the “taint” is, right?

It’s the slang term for that bit of the human body between the anus and the genitals. I learned recently that there is also the slang term “gooch” which means the same thing.

We may need to rename the G.O.O.C.H. Squad of the Assault of the 2 Headed Space Mules podcast.

And, now, watch this from Mr. Show.

A Couple Creepy Songs Or Keeping It In The Family

The songs were hits when they were released. The first was a Top 20 hit, the second was a Number 1 hit! Both are love song, just listen to the lyrics.

Donny and Marie (brother and sister!) saw Deep Purple go to #14.

“*Daddy! What do I look like? Ivanka Trump?!”*

Father and daughter, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, had this love song Somethin’ Stupid make it all the way to #1!

So creepy. Still I like both songs.

What’s wrong with me?!

Sigh…

Favorite Pete Townshend Solo

I was asked by a friend what was my favorite solo by rock legend Pete Townshend. I asked for a clarification. Guitar? Song? Album?

My friend meant guitar solo. That’s difficult, because Townshend never was the kind of guitarist known for his solos. He’s a great rhythm guitar player, but not great at lead. I really like his acoustic guitar playing, in which he does do some interesting soloing.

Some examples:

The outro for Sister Disco from The Who album Who Are You.

From Tommy, as the opening track Overture winds down, Pete comes on with his acoustic guitar and sings about Tommy’s father, Captain Walker, apparently being killed in combat. Nice acoustic guitar soloing.

I think my favorite of his acoustic playing is from his solo live performances of Drowned from Quadrophenia. Here’s one from when he was younger. This one is from when he was probably about my age. So, you know, he was old.

On the show, I give a few of my favorites of his solo songs. And I also state my favorite of his solo albums.

You’ll have to listen.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: by Jools And Jim and And I Moved by Pete Townshend

Second ad break bumpers: Brilliant Blues and Let My Love Open The Door by Pete Towenshend

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

That’s it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

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dimland radio 5-13-23 show notes

My Turn!

First, my dad took ill, then my wife fell and broke her shoulder, and, as an extra bit of fun that happened when Amy fell, our dog got her eye scratched. What else could happen?

I’ll tell you.

*That is the big chunk of filling that broke out of my tooth a couple month’s ago.*

I developed a horrible toothache.

I neglected the broken teeth in my mouth long enough for at least one of them to decide to cause me a tremendous amount of pain. When I talked about on the show, the worst hadn’t even happened yet.

Tune in next week to get the rest of the story.

A Little Sportsball

I’ll keep it even more briefer here than I did on the show.

Mine beloved MN Twins won their first season series against the Hated Yankees in more than TWO DECADES!

A (Few) Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment(s): Movie Related Messups

I started with the excellent podcast looking at Hollywood’s history. It’s called You Must Remember This hosted by Karina Longworth.

Katrina inflated the number of thumbs Siskel & Ebert use in their movie rating system.

A new film review podcast co-hosted by my friend Tim has begun dropping. It’s called Film Geek Time Machine.

Tim didn’t let Austin, his friend and host of the show, get away with saying “hung” instead of the proper “hanged” as the past tense of a person dying (or nearly dying) by hanging. But, he totally blew when young Austin butchered the name of John Wayne’s character in the 1973 Western Cahill US Marshal.

Kuh-hill?! Seriously?

Sigh…

And was Geo fucking with us on the Geologic Podcast when giving us examples of The Mandela Effect by getting a couple very simple facts about two film classics wrong?

Darth Vader said, “No, I am your father,” before he cut of Luke’s hand in Empire Strikes Back?

BEFORE??!!

Uh. No!

Geo is correct that Humphrey Bogart did not say, “Play it again, Sam,” in the great film Casablanca. But he couldn’t have been more wrong in what he said Bogie really said (Geo even did an impression of the old movie tough guy) in the film.

Did Rick (Bogie’s character) say, “Play it once, Sam. For old time’s sake. Play ‘As Time Goes by'”?

Uh. No! Not even close!

This Meme Gets It

*This is the best quality image I could find. Sorry.*

Dr. Miranda is right!

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Face Dance Part 2 by Pete Townshend and Natural’s Not In It by Gang Of Four

Second ad break bumpers: Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire by Urban Guerrillas and Bonneville by The dB’s

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 5-6-23 show notes

Thank God It’s Friday?! Pfffft!

My dad is improving, but it’s baby steps right now. He got past the COVID and he became more himself. He can have a conversation. He asks questions. He jokes. And he turned 88.

But he still has a ways to go.

*Yeah, I’m not really a doctor, so it’s difficult to see all the breaks, but it is broken.*

You’d think we could start getting back to a more normal day to day, but on Friday (April 28) we were reminded things can change pretty fast.

My wife, Amy, had a fall and broke her shoulder. I tell the whole harrowing tale (I still get the willies thinking about it) on the show.

AND!

Later that same day, and probably as a result of the same fall, because Amy was carrying our dog when she fell, our little Edna got a scratch on her eye.

TGIF my ass!

A White Nationalist, Racist, Dog-Whistling Asshole Got Fired

Any bigger would be obscene.

Lawrence O’Donnell says it a hell of better than I can, so click here.

I’ll just say, in the most human-like laugh I can muster, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… (catches breath) hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Towed To Autozone?

It’s winter. A lone car in an otherwise empty parking. A young woman just can’t get the car started. She’s understandably frustrated. Next scene the frustrated woman is just outside an Autozone finding out it’s probably just a loose cable. (I think the click click click sound indicates a dead battery, but I’m not a car guy.)

How did she get the car to Autozone? Tow? Who tows their car to an auto parts store?!

I Saw The New Pornographers!

*Is this an indie rock band or staff members at the local high school?*

Amy couldn’t attend (broken shoulder, remember?), but she insisted that I go without her. I did go to see the New Pornographers, a band that I really like.

They were great and the opening band (Wild Pink) was pretty good. The venue was very nice. I got to sit! And the audience was good.

Well, there were the two yahoos who came in late and sat… you guessed it!… right next to me. In fact, yahoo #1 sat in my wife’s seat.

Sigh…

The show was good. I wish Amy could have gone.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Walking & Falling by Laurie Anderson and Take Me Down To The Hospital by The Replacements

Second ad break bumpers: Break My Body by Pixies and Back In Flesh by Wall Of Voodoo

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 4-15-23 show notes

My Heart Works!

*Not mine. Just an example of EKG read out.*

After that big snowfall in January and my worry of having a heart attack (I wasn’t), I finally got in for a stress test of my heart. I walked the treadmill, at increasing speeds and inclines, for 10 minutes and 10 seconds.

I did well at hitting and surpassing the target heart rate (137 bpm). There were no adverse effects. And the doctor says I’m good.

Yay!

Dad Update

My dad was moved from the hospital to a transition care facility last Monday. That night he tested positive for COVID. What next?!

He’s under COVID quarantine now until Thursday. Family can still see him, but we have to gear up with gowns, gloves, and N-95 masks. Not the most comfortable stuff to wear.

Dad still isn’t Dad. I see flashes of him, but his cognitive ability is not good. And the COVID isn’t helping him get better.

One day at a time.

Fan Mail!

*Not exactly this much. Not even close. But one is pretty exciting to me.*

It arrived just past mid-March, but I didn’t see it until Easter Sunday.

There was a congratulations message from a fan in Ohio in my Dimland Radio emailbox. This new fan took the time to say well done on 13 years of Dimland Radio and that they’ve been listening for a year. AND they actually look forward to my show each week.

It’s difficult to oversell how cool this is to me.

You can send me email, too! Send to drdim@dimland.com and I’ll give you a shout out on the show.

The Twins Beat The Hated Yankees!

Former MN Twins manager Tom Kelly, who managed the Twins to two World Series Championships (1987 & 1991), was asked, after the Twins were once again humiliated in the postseason by the Bronx Bastards, how can our boys beat the Pinstripes in the playoffs. TK answered, “Start beating them in the regular season.”

The Twins have been owned by the Hated Yankees since 2000. Their record was a horrible 49-105 before this season! Gah!

Well, we can add two wins for the Twins. As I recorded the show, the two teams were in the middle of a four game series in New York. The Twins won the first two games! One game was a blowout, the other was a come from behind win. Could there be a sweep brewing?

Spoiler… Nope.

The Hated Ones won the next two games in the series, but a series split in New York is pretty good.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: TV Ads Roundup

*“What do you know? I can imagine what would happen without Navy Federal Credit Union.”*

I’ll link to the ads here. You’ll see what it is about each of them that sets off my pedantry.

New Amsterdam Vodka might not raise my pedantry ire much, but their ad sure is annoying.

Lexus electric vehicles are powered by us? How? Exactly?

Navy Federal Credit Union members they say can’t imagine where they would be without Navy Federal, then they immediately imagine it. Gah!

GET VACCINATED! GET BOOSTED! GET BOOSTED AGAIN! And if you have been vaccinated, THANK YOU! It would also be a good idea to get your flu shot, too.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Athena by The Who and And I Moved by Pete Townshend

Second ad break bumpers: Face The Face by Pete Townshend and Daily Records by The Who

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 4-8-23 show notes

A Plethora Of Personal Tales

It snowed again. What pain in the ass winter. Officially, the Twin Cities received 89.7″ of snow this winter season, which, despite what the calendar says, isn’t quite over yet. We can still get snow.

That April Fool’s snow moved this winter into the 3 spot in the most snowiest winters on record.

For the new snow, we were fortunate enough to have my dad’s car with four wheel drive. Ours was getting repaired.

Our son moved out. And he had to do so with all that new snow.

The road trip to Madison, WI to pick up the remains of my wife’s oldest brother, who died back in February didn’t quite go as planned.

And my nearly 88 year old father has taken ill and is in the hospital.

How was your week?

Best News Of The Last Two Weeks

Fearless loser, the man who lost the popular vote for President twice (still became President after first loss due to the stupid electoral system we have), was impeached twice, totally botched the handling of the pandemic, tried to steal an election, attempted a coup, and did a bunch of other unethical and illegal shit was indicted, arrested, and arraigned. He will be put on trial for 34 felony counts related to his attempt to keep his affair with a porn star secret.

The arraignment gave the world what I think will be a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph.

Actually, it produced two!

*This could be a Pulitzer Prize winner.*

The court room photo seems the better choice due to it capturing the historical gravity of the situation. However, the perp walk photo is really good compositionally as well as its use of lighting, which makes it the better photo artistically.

Lock him up! Look him up! Lock him up!

GET VACCINATED! GET BOOSTED! GET BOOSTED AGAIN! And if you have been vaccinated, THANK YOU! It would also be a good idea to get your flu shot, too.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: All Those Years Ago by George Harrison and King Volcano by Bauhaus

Second ad break bumpers: Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat and Don’t Lose Your Temper by XTC

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Just search for Dimland Radio in the podcast section. And if you could leave a good rating and a positive review it would be awesome.

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You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you’d like.