slappy gets RAW

by slappy on August 23rd, 2007

dear friends,

we here present a special memorial episode of the Odd Preoccupation, honoring the work of novelist, philosopher, and cosmic prankster Robert Anton Wilson, who died this past January. Wilson was a tremendous influence on yours truly, and his books have saved my brain from implosion on numerous occasions. also, he was funny as hell. LITERALLY.

see you there, Bob!

love,
slappy

here’s the filez:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

ps: the following Preoccupied Players appear in this episode, and we thank them muchly for their lovely work: narrator, tenorune, scotto, majcher, omgoleus, and svann.

the secret is out

by slappy on August 9th, 2007

dear friends,

if you, like me, are a nosy parker, this is the episode for you. the theme is secrets, and many are revealed during the course of the program, including two by Simic and Bukowski. listeners call in with secrets that range from amusing to truly unfortunate, and we present secrets from certain other secret compendiums (#4).

Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for August 9, 2007:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

shhh….don’t tell anyone, but we’ll see you here again next week for another Odd Preoccupation.

in hidden shame and broken trust, i remain,

slappy

all slappy, all the time

by slappy on August 2nd, 2007

dear friends,

this week’s show has the distinction of being the first entirely slappy-produced episode of the Odd Preoccupation. all our performers this week are members of the Preoccupied Players, though some may not know it. those performers include: narrator, tenorune, hankston, berrylicious, scotto, jenmoon, and free agent rez, along with KOOP apprentice justin and his pal brandon. let their laryngeal stylings caress your tympani and you WON’T be sorry — changed perhaps, but not sorry.

part 1 this week features a slappyrant about the impending Singularity, and whether Google can save us from nuclear holocaust. we then present a dialogue between two ghosts in the machine, ghosts named Alice and Jabberwacky. in part 2 we chat a bit about Ray Kurzweil, and then delve into a braided collage of short pieces designed as a vehicle to facilitate swift passage to the hypnagogic realms. part 3 consists of a description of a number of highlights from the game of Blank White Cards, which is interrupted by a special news briefing and farewell address from the President, who resigned during the course of this episode of Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation. (i’m not saying the two phenomena are related, though they ARE.) part 4 rounds up the show with the usual painfully droll interstitial banter between the Odd Preoccupation and the Elk Mating Ritual.

here’s the filez, do with them what you will.

Slappy Pinchbottom’s Odd Preoccupation for August 2, 2007:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

see you next week, wherein we’ll take up once more with Moon Over Morocco,

le slap