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dimland radio 12-1-18 show notes

I Saw Dana Gould

The fellow in the back and I are stunned into silence by Dana Gould’s amazing ability to sign a poster.

Well, I did. He performed at the Acme Comedy Club. He was very funny.

I (once again) recommended listening to his podcast, The Dana Gould Hour. I gave a few reasons why I enjoy it so much. And I told him that his is the only podcast I listen to in which I never feel compelled to speed through his ad reads. He suggested a possible reason for that…

Oh, Boy. Would you Guys Stop Doing This?

There’s some fakery going on here.

The internet keeps getting filled up with lies about this guy. And I keep having to tell the internet that there’s plenty of actual bad stuff about him that can be used to try to convince others to not re-elect him, you don’t have to make stuff up.

Does the president having improper feelings for his daughter? I don’t know.

The maker of this meme wants us to think he does. Sure, it might just be a joke, but there are some people who will think the middle and lower right photos aren’t fake. They are.

Even the images that haven’t been doctored can look wrong when just the right moment is chosen and the “Trump wants to bang his daughter” text is added.

The images came from the 2016 Republican National Convention. Ivanka Trump gives a speech and introduces her father. Watch the last 30 seconds on this video and the moment looks completely innocent.

It’s All About Timing

It may seem odd but drawing images can be subject to timing and pacing. These three images all have the same problem in that they flow awkwardly and that throws off the timing. The “punchline” comes at the wrong place.

In the comparison of Democrats and Republicans, which I drew because I couldn’t find the original, the punchline comes in too early. In the two Wonder Woman images, the same joke is ruined by the punchline coming in visually before the set-up.

The Democrat should be on the right for this to flow properly.

Hannity should be on the right and Wonder Woman’s image should be flipped.

Ditto.

Don’t you agree? Of course you do.

And Still No Decent Photograph Of Bigfoot

I spotted the above image on the Monster Talk Facebook page. It shows a deer that appears to be fleeing from a flying squirrel. It’s an eerie, yet cool image. And it must be a rare moment and still a photo was captured.

However, to this day there is still no decent photograph of bigfoot. Maybe some day.

Speaking Of Photographs Of Bigfoot

“Stop, Lady! Or I’ll shoot!”

Could this illustration (above) by Mort Kuntsler for an article in a 1960 edition of True Magazine have been the inspiration for the bigfoot costume that was probably used in the Patterson/Gimllin film from 1967? (I heard about this article on the Squaring The Strange Podcast)

We can’t say for certain, but the bigfoots in the two images do share an interesting feature in common: Pendulous breasts.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment And ARGH!: Recycling PSA On The Radio

I didn’t have the audio for this Public Service Announcement for recycling when I recorded the show, but you can listen to it here. I hate these sorts of ads. A repeated phrase, multiple voices, kids’ voices, and the ad doesn’t even tell you what it’s about until three quarters of the way through. I hate that!

And, kids, you ain’t growing up. You are no longer useful in your present state, you will rounded up, destroyed, and made into something else. That’s not growing up.

Three Cool Things

It’s true.

1) Speaking of bigfoot pictures, someone on the internets put the above images of Amelia Earhart and Patterson/Gimlin’s bigfoot together and made a truthful observation. It’s brilliant and funny. And that’s cool.

2) NASA’s Insight lander has successfully landed on Mars. Thus continuing our robot invasion of our red neighbor. COOL!

3) November’s daily drawing challenge of Crystalvember has come to an end. That might not be cool, but helping a Facebook friend have something to look forward to each day while dealing with a serious illness was very cool.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘I Ran (So Far Away)‘ by A Flock Of Seagulls & ‘No Self Control‘ by Peter Gabriel

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Seven Seas‘ by Echo & The Bunnyman & ‘This Is The Day‘ by The The

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 11-24-18 show notes

It Blowed Up Real Good!

Friday morning, as I was brushing my teeth, the house was shook (sort of) by what sounded like something hitting it. Something big. I investigated and found nothing unusual.

Later that day, my wife called me with the news about what it was we heard. Three and a half miles away a house had exploded.

The explosion was caught on video. When you watch it, you will be just as amazed as I was to learn that no one was killed. In fact, there was an 80 year-old man in the house when the accident happened. He’s been hospitalized and is in critical condition.

Oh, And There’s Still Some Sports To Talk About

Yes, baseball may be over and we’re still months away from its return, but there’s the lesser game taking its place (for now). It’s football and it’s an entertaining diversion, I suppose.

And last Monday night was quite diverting. I didn’t watch the game as it was played, but I sure wish I had. It was crazy!

It may have been a preview of this season’s Superbowl. It was the LA Rams hosting the Kansas City Chiefs and it was a doozy! The final score was 54-51 with the Rams prevailing.

Watch this highlights reel and I’m sure you’ll agree it was a crazy game.

Wording Is Important

A friend told me he was confused by the written article on a local TV station’s website. They included a video report, but my friend didn’t watch the video, he just read the article.

The story was about a group of young African-American men being told by the manager of a St. Paul Chipotle restaurant that they needed to pay before their food would be prepared. The incident was caught on video, which then went viral and the manager was fired.

She was rehired when it was learned that one of those customers had done a fair amount of bragging online about dining and dashing. The manager had recognized the young men as having grabbed food and run without paying for it before, so she told to pay first.

The confusion my friend had was due to the written article stating “the manager tells the African-American men they need to pay for their food before getting it.” My friend asked, “Doesn’t everybody have to pay before they pick up their food at pretty much every fast food restaurant?”

Yes. Actually at every fast food restaurant.

In the video report, the reporter stated that the men needed “to pay for their food before it was made.”

Wording is important.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Ford Truck Commercial

The longer version of this Ford Truck commercial featuring the Jerry Reed hit East Bound And Down has a curious disclaimer. The ad shows several trucks driving in the same direction along a desert highway. There’s are no stunts being performed, no Rockfords, no driving on two wheels, there aren’t even any lane changes.

And, yet, in the lower right corner (see photo above) at the beginning of the ad is the disclaimer: “Professional drivers on a closed course. Do not attempt.”

Huh? Do not attempt to drive the trucks? Is that what Ford is saying?

Two Movie Recommendations: The Machinist (2004) & Good Time (2017)

I haven’t done a movie recommendation in a while, so on this show I gave two.

We just watched these films this past week.

The first is The Machinist (2004). It stars Christian Bale as Trevor, who has a few problems. We are uncertain as the cause of his troubles, which manifest as insomnia, he hasn’t slept in a year, and a disturbing amount of weight-loss taking place over the same amount of time.

There’s a new employee at the machine shop, who seems a little sinister. Trevor is unsure what to think of the man. There is a tragic accident at the shop and Trevor wonders if the new employee was responsible.

There’s a real Hitchcockian feel to this psychological thriller. Is there a conspiracy against Trevor or is he losing his mind?

Be warned. Bale really did lose an extreme amount of weight and his look is quite jarring.

The second recommendation is Good Time (2017). It stars Robert Pattinson, who also lost weight for the role, just not nearly as much as Bale. Pattinson plays a small time crook who, along with his mentally challenged brother (played by Benny Safdie, who co-directs the film with his brother Josh), rob a bank and get away with a sizable amount of money.

However, things go wrong from there and we follow Connie through the night as he makes one bad decision after another.

Both movies are worth a watch. They are on DVD through Netflix.

Three Cool Things

1) Last week I talked briefly about Marvel Comics’ Stan Lee dying. I mentioned that there was a gathering of the G.O.O.C.H. Squad on Douglas Arthur’s Assault of the 2-Headed Space Mules podcast to discuss The Man’s legacy. The podcast has been posted and it’s awfully cool.

2) Try as he might, my son Hayden just doesn’t have much luck getting me to like the music he likes. I’m just a grump. But the other day he played Gerard Way’s Baby, You’re A Haunted House. (See video above.) I like it! It’s catchy. Hayden was pleased. Maybe Dad can be cool.

3) And, of course, it was Thanksgiving, and that’s always cool.

I hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Tape Your Wife To The Ceiling‘ by The Suburbs & ‘Ace Of Spades‘ by Motorhead

Second ad break bumpers: ‘This Wheel’s On Fire‘ by Siouxsie & The Banshees & ‘Wolves, Lower‘ by REM

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

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dimland radio 11-17-18 show notes

Someone Is Trying To Kill Me

Not literally, of course. Well, hm, maybe.

We received a couple bills in the mail. One that presents its own set of problems, which I won’t get into here, the other was something that nearly did me in. It was a bill for our property taxes from our mortgage company.

“WHAT?! We have an escrow account! Why the hell are we getting a bill?”

It turned out not to be a bill, so I was pulled back from the brink. No far from the brink, though, because there’s still that other bills which presents its own set of problems.

It’s always something.

OK, Let’s Try This Again, Shall We?

Nothing’s wrong. Each state gets two senators. Them’s the rules.

I listened to last week’s show. My Pedantic Moment about the number of senators and representatives per state in America didn’t go quite as smoothly as I intended. It was a math thing that I thought I had worked out earlier. Actually, I had, but I got snagged on a number that I couldn’t pull out of the recesses of my brain and I started stumbling from there. I think I was still able to make my main point in the end though.

Still, the pedant in me just needed to go through it again and do it right. Hey, I need to be able to sleep at night, don’t I?

I’m OK With This

A cousin of mine posted the above image to his Facebook page. My initial reaction was to point out that schools may not close on Veterans Day, but they do on Memorial Day. My cousin claimed that some schools stayed open on that Memorial Day. I suggested that maybe some private schools might, but that I was fairly certain public schools would close to observe the day. And that if there were any public schools that didn’t those would be rare.

He claimed that some schools in California and Pennsylvania didn’t close for Memorial Day. That may be, but I couldn’t find any public school schedules in either state that didn’t show the day America honors the military men and women who gave there lives serving our country as a day off from school.

Look, one day for MLK, one day for the American military. I’m OK with that.

A New Car For Mom And Dad

I hadn’t done an impression of my mom in a while, but this week I had an excellent opportunity to bust it out. My impression of her is a favorite of at least one of my listeners, all twenty of them.

About a year ago, Mom announced to the family that if Dad ever cracked open his wallet and decide to buy a new car she wanted a red one. She had always liked red cars and had never owned one. “I want a red car!”

Well, they got a new car. It’s a 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport. Click here to see the color they got.

FilmStruck Isn’t Dead

Netflix is great. It’s wonderful. I love it. But, its streaming catalog has a decided lack of classics, independent, art, and foreign films. You know, the stuff film snobs like. Their DVD branch does have a pretty deep selection, but you have to wait for it the come in the mail and on those night when you want to watch it now, it would be nice if there was a streaming option other than paying separately to watch through iTunes, Amazon, youTube, etc.

I lamented that fact a couple months ago to my wife and she told me there was subscription streaming service that offer exactly what I was looking for.

“Oh? Tell me more?”

That’s when I found out about FilmStruck, a streaming service that offers the kinds of movies film buffs crave. It sounded perfect and we were considering signing up. Then last month, WarnerMedia announced they were shutting down FilmStruck at the end of this month. The decision was due to lower than hoped for subscriptions.

Well, shit.

However, Hollywood didn’t like this news. Just about every big time filmmaker raised a protest and signed a petition asking WarnerMedia to reconsider. This art needs to be readily available.

Well, good news, FilmStruck (sort of) will back in the spring of 2019 as The Criterion Channel. As I understand it, it will be available as a stand alone service, but also be offered in a streaming package service offered by WarnerMedia. This is good, but even at just 10 bucks a month we might not be able to afford it. Remember, there’s that other bill that is presenting its own set of problems.

But, we’ll see.

The Conspiracy Theorists Are At It Again

There just doesn’t seem to be an event that happens in the world that conspiracy theorist can’t twist into some nefarious plot against humanity. The latest that I’ve seen is the massive wildfires in California aren’t really forest fires. They’re an attack by “them” using directed energy weapons ate select neighborhoods in that west coast state.

Seriously, they think there is some death ray (probably controlled by the evil Dr. X) firing from space. Why? To make way for a high-speed railway?

Those of us without a conspiratorial mindset can look at this latest conspiracy to see excellent examples of anomaly hunting and the Dunning-Kruger Effect. These people just don’t know that they don’t know enough about wildfires to know they shouldn’t make declarations such as there is a death ray in the sky. They don’t understand why houses made of dry materials would burn, while living trees filled with water wouldn’t. Huh. It’s a head scratcher.

Mick West of Metabunk gives a quick demonstration to explain why houses burned while trees didn’t.

Here are a couple memes created by the anomaly hunters to suggest a great conspiracy:


Just ignore the burnt trees. And do you see the above ground swimming pool (center, lower half of picture)? Why didn’t it burn?

And why didn’t those two houses on the lower left not burn? They most belong to the conspirators!

Three Cool Things

1) Stan “The Man” Lee died this past week. That’s not what’s cool. I blogged about my reaction to the news of his death, touching on how he changed comic books (and the world). Stan’s legacy is very cool.

Crow? Cat? Hmmmm

2) Is it a crow? A cat? It’s a cat. This photo (above) was shared by mentalist/skeptic Mark Edward. I don’t know if he took the picture or just shared it on Facebook, but it certainly looks cool.

3) A friend clued me in on this take by CollegeHumor on the long running TV ad campaign of Chevy. The “real people, not actors” campaign has been running long enough that one would think people would recognize the fellow asking the questions.

“Which truck has the best…”

“Chevy!” It’s Chevy. You’re the guy in the ads that have been running for the last – what? – five years? You guys really need a new ad campaign.”

CollegeHumor has a cool take.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Next Position Please‘ by Cheap Trick & ‘Epic‘ by Faith No More

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Seen And Not Seen‘ by Talking Heads & ‘Only In America‘ by Naked Raygun

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

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dimland radio 11-10-18 show notes

Becoming Aware Of My Denial

I have in the past usually dreaded the coming of winter, but I always knew it would happen. For some odd reason this year I was thinking we wouldn’t have a winter this time around. Tuesday night reminded me that winter is coming, as they say on The Walking Of The Dead or is it House Of The Thrones.

Something like that.

The Blue-ish Wave

Not being all that versed in the world of politics didn’t stop me from attempting to talk somewhat intelligently about the results of Tuesdays mid-term elections. The Democrats did fairly well. Hey, considering all the gerrymandering done be Republicans over the last several years, I’d say they did rather well.

It looks like my family’s health insurance is safe for a couple more years.

Why does it feel like this president is out to get me? I didn’t feel that way when W was president.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: It’s Complicated

I have a couple Facebook friends that were suggesting it’s unfair that California, with 40 million people, has only two senators, while other states with far fewer people also get two. It’s also unfair that Washington DC, with a higher population than Wyoming, doesn’t have any senators.

One was saying California has two senators while 23 other states with a combined population equal to California’s has 46 senators. Well, yes. I guess, but that’s the deal. Each state gets two senators.

Of course, the House of Representatives’ numbers reflect each states population, more or less. Wyoming has one representative, while California has 53. See how that works? But then the number of people represented by each does vary…

Oh, it’s complicated.

However, I noticed something. It seemed my two friends were suggesting DC should have senators and California should have more senators. There has been a proposal to split California into three states. Suppose we do that and give DC senators. Which party do you think would be most likely to benefit? Which party do you think my two friends are more closely aligned with? Hmmmm.

Sometimes Being A Skeptic Is A Drag

There’s always some credulity creeping up wherever I go. Belief in debunked notions: Astrology, psychics, jinxes, curses, the universe caring about us. The list goes on and on and skeptics have to be selective in what they speak out against, to whom and when.

Otherwise, we’d would probably just want to avoid people and stay home and watch TV all day. But that’s no escape, because TV is filled with bullshit. The internet then? Of course not.

The other day a news story popped up about an iceberg that looks to be an almost perfect rectangle. The story was on the morning news. It was shared on the internet. And I must not have been in a receptive mood.

“How do we know it’s rectangular? We’re only seeing that one image. And don’t suggest nature can’t create right angles. It can! And don’t suggest aliens did it. They didn’t!”

When a FB friend and UFO enthusiast posted the story, she didn’t suggest aliens, but the image below shows how it went…

Sometimes being a skeptic is a drag.

More Talk About Homeopathy

I said that TV isn’t an escape from bullshit. Far from it.

The other night I saw an ad for a pain remedy for your dog and/or cat. It’s called Pet Pain Away. As I watched the ad start with it show pet-owners being considered about their pets’ pain, I nailed what the “medicine” was going to be.

I said, “This is going to be homeopathic, ain’t it?”

I was right.

That’s when I reviewed the three silly notions (there are probably more) behind homeopathy. Silly notion number 1) Diluting the “active ingredient” makes it stronger. Silly notion number 2) The water remembers the “active ingredient” had been in it. Silly notion number 3) The Law of Similars, or like cures like. This means that the “active ingredient” needs to, at full strength, cause the problem the homeopathic concoction is meant to relieve.

For example, a homeopathic sleeping pill’s “active ingredient” would need to be a stimulant. That would be diluted to the point where not even a molecule of the stimulant remains, so now it will cause the opposite response and make you very, very sleepy.

See? Silly, ain’t it?

People buy it and someone has figured out how to get those people to buy the snake oil for their pets. The poor pets. They’re just getting water.

Three Cool Things

1) The second Thursday of the month was just this past week and that means I met up with the Minnesota Skeptics. Despite dealing with the traffic, made even worse by winter weather, to get to the meeting place, arriving and commiserating with skeptics is always cool.

2) With the release of the Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, I went on a bit of a Queen kick which included checking out their showstopping performance at Live Aid in 1985. I guess you could say Queen was pretty cool.

3) A friend clued me in on an usual placement of a statue of a famous rumpled, humble, persistent, unassuming TV detective. There’s a statue of Lt. Columbo and his dog Dog in the Hungarian city of Budapest. How cool is that?

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘English Roundabout‘ by XTC & ‘Mad Jack‘ by The Chameleons UK

Second ad break bumpers: ‘I Am An Animal‘ by Pete Townshend & ‘No More Lonely Nights‘ by Paul McCartney

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

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dimland radio 11-3-18 show notes

October, Halloween, And Baseball Are Over

I know! How will we go on?

Somehow we will survive. We must remember there are more important things, many more important things. Though offhand I cannot think of what they are, but I’m sure there must be something.

No baseball… Sigh.

The Moment Of Silence Cough

Have you ever noticed that during a moment of silence there almost always seems to be at least one person who coughs. The further past three seconds the moment of silence lasts the chances of there being a cougher get to be nearly 100%.

What is going on? Sure, a sizeable percentage of the coughs are from people who just have to cough and they can’t help it, but it seems to me there are those who want to be able to say, “Did you hear that cough? That was me!”

I mentioned one cough in particular that came up in one of my favorite TV sit coms: The UK series The Good Life or Good Neighbors, as it is called in the US. Just prior to the end credits there was a bit of silence and there it was – a cough.

Go to the 29:49 mark in the video at this link to hear the cough.

One More Before I Put Baseball Away For The Winter

There was a World Series after all. I had to talk about it. Just a little. Didn’t I?

My Fixation On The Fans Behind Home Plate

I have a weird fixation, obsession even, with what the fans sitting behind home plate are doing during baseball games. There are the people who insist on getting on their phones to talk to someone watching the game on TV and wave to them. “Can you see me?” Yes, we can all see you. Knock it off.

There are those fans who seem to barely watch the game at all. You’re behind home plate. Those tickets are expensive. Watch the game! Check out the following sequence:

The lady in the dark top on the left, front row.

Same lady.

Oh, come on! Watch the game!

If that lady saw a third of the pitches thrown that game I’d be shocked. But, look to the right in the photos. The older fellow sitting in the front row. See how he’s watching each pitch in each pic? That man is Nolan Ryan, the legendary Hall of Fame pitcher. If you are going to a ballgame and you get to sit behind home plate, do me a favor, be like Nolan.

And Then There Were These Two

My nicknames for these two (in center) were half on target.

Also, this post season I noticed a couple of other people sitting back there behind home plate. One was a woman whose cleavage was prominently on display throughout the National League Division Series (NLDS). (Gee, I wonder why I noticed her?) She was keeping track of every pitch as she kept score during the games. I took to calling her Cleavage Lady.

The other person was a fellow dressed in the bright orange gear of the Miami Marlins. This guy was behind home plate for every game of the NLDS, the National League Championship Series, and the World Series. (Must be nice to be rich.) I called him Marlins Man.

Turns out Marlins Man is his nickname. (Kudos me!) However, the woman is better know as Front Row Amy.

These two characters have garnered a bit of fame from their ubiquity. There’s a write-up about Front Row Amy in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from July, 2012. And Marlins Man has is own page on Wikipedia.

Oh! And One More Thing About The World Series

As I did the show, it occurred to me that there wasn’t one instance of the singing of God Bless America during the World Series! At least I didn’t see it and I watched the games. In fact, I didn’t see any instances of that new tradition that Fox Sports and the Hated Yankees were trying to shoehorn into baseball in the wake of 9/11 this postseason.

Hallelujah!

Moving On From Baseball To Movies

I stumbled upon a two part YouTube video series on one man’s hypothesis as to what was really going on in Stanley Kubrick horror classic The Shining (1980). He believes that a major difference on the film from the book is that there are ghosts in the book. He believes the strange happenings in Kubrick’s version are due to psychic projection.

I found the videos to be very interesting and I think he makes some good points. He reaches a little here and there, but I think he might be on to something.

Here is part one and here is part two.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: They Are Not Twins!

Well, they are, but they aren’t, but maybe they are.

While talking about The Shining, I brought up that the two creepy sisters that call for young Danny to play with them are not twins. At least not in the story. The actors who played the sisters, Lisa and Louise Burns, are twins, but during the interview scene Jack’s new boss states their ages were 8 and 10 when their father went crazy and killed them with an axe.

However, Jack’s boss also said the father’s name was Charles Grady, but when Jack is hallucinating (or is he seeing ghosts or is it a psychic projection?) later in the film he meets Grady. And Grady says his first name is Delbert.

“Hang on. Delbert? But my boss said your name was Charles. Now I’m confused!”

So, was it just a slip of the tongue by the boss? Did he also get the ages of the daughters wrong? Maybe they were twins. Dang it, Kubrick! Way to mess up a pedantic moment.

Three Cool Things

1) All through October I and a few friends were posting a daily drawing as part of Drawlloween. Getting back into he drawing thing was very cool.

2) The drawing for the 27th was to be of a witch. I went with the Wicked Witch of the West as played by Margaret Hamilton in the great Wizard Of Oz (1939). It turned out pretty not bad. My wife even exclaimed, “Whoa, Jim! That’s awesome!” And that’s cool.

3) But Drawlloween came to an end and I didn’t want to stop the daily drawing challenge, so to honor a Facebook friend who is going through cancer treatment I decided to declare November to be #crystalvember. Her name is Crystal and in one of her CaringBridge posts she expressed disappointment with some of her friends. She felt they had abandoned her when she became ill.

I reached out to her husband, also a Facebook friend, to see if they would allow me to do a daily drawing challenge as a way to show Crystal she hasn’t been abandoned. (No, I don’t know her any better than being FB friends, but still.) He thought is was a great idea and gave me a few ideas for items to draw that Crystal would like.

A couple of my friends have joined in and a few other people have as well. Including Crystal! (When she feels up to it.) And you know what? You can join in, too!

Here’s what you do: Download the list (above) and each day draw the item on the list whose number coincides with the date. It’s no big deal if you come in late. You can make up the other drawings if you want, when you want. Post the drawing on your Facebook page with the hashtag #crystalvember.

You don’t have to be a great artist. Just have fun.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘One Day In Your Life‘ by 54-40 & ‘Requiem‘ by Killing Joke

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Tantalized‘ by The Church & ‘Here Is The News‘ by ELO

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

Please subscribe on iTunes! 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.

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 like. Find out more here and here.

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