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  • Favoriting December 4, 2024: "A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field." (Orwell) | See the playlist (Playlist updated live!)
  • Favoriting November 29, 2023: "Stupid people can create problems, but it often takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe." – Thomas Sowell | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 22, 2023: "Who, if anyone, or what, if anything, is in charge?" (John Carter) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 15, 2023: Hosting a show on WFMU is self-indulgence. Talking about your show is self-absorption. Writing about doing your show is narcissism. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 8, 2023: If anyone has any experience with anything or knows anything about something please let me know. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 1, 2023: "I never felt schadenfreude toward others; nothing less than the complete destruction of their lives would satisfy me." – Gus Bodenheim | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 28, 2022: Just because we’re not looking for them doesn’t mean they’ve gone away. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 21, 2022: Advertisements inserted here at the ordinary rates. Lies, double the price of truth. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 14, 2022: Raise your hand if you've read our terms of service. Raise your hand if you've ever read any terms of service. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 7, 2022: Lately I'm being targeted with online ads aimed at women with large breasts. At least there's one thing Instagram doesn't know about me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting April 12, 2022: There's a genre of songs I call "Uber music," which I've come to realize the rest of the world calls "music." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 26, 2017: I would so love to go to the events like it would probably be a dream to go but I have school that I can not miss in order for me to even have a chance in the radio field in the future. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 19, 2017: Carpe the diem, baby! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 12, 2017: Where Hate Always Has a Home | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 5, 2017: Overheard in Brooklyn bodega, lunch hour: customer points to steam tray buffet, tells friend, "They got Spanish food here." Dominican woman who preps food: "It's not Spanish! We are Latino. Spanish is from Spain. Latino is from the Bronx." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 27, 2016: Our listeners are like lab rats whose brains are wired with electrodes which constantly stimulate the pleasure centers. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 20, 2016: “I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary—the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.” – Leonard Susskind | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 13, 2016: The musical equivalent of the breakfast buffet at an off-ramp hotel — not overly appealing, but there’s bacon in there somewhere. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 6, 2016: A pseudo-aggressive covering cloak for deep masochistic elaboration of a pre-oedipal conflict. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 25, 2016: Can a task be Herculean and Sisyphean at the same time? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 18, 2016: Ira K filled in.
  • Favoriting May 11, 2016: I am great because I did something really great today. It was great. Not that I want to brag about my greatness. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 4, 2016: We are upgrading you to a new dimension! Your current coordinates are unadequate. We can rectiffy your cosmic confinement. Go not to anywhere else, coming forth details. We still twink with transport mechanism. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 24, 2016: Providing the spiritual foundation that best fortifies your intractable prejudices, base desires, and primal instincts. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 17, 2016: It can't be my fault. That's unpossible! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 10, 2016: Breaking the simplistic chains between language and meaning. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 3, 2016: Bordriesling: One was too sweet, the other too dry. Mixed together, just right. When you don't like wine, anything is permissible.
  • Favoriting November 25, 2015: Which of the Three Tenors was John Cage? Was he in the Beatles? Stones? John Cage is dead to me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 18, 2015: Special Guest: David Garland | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 11, 2015: We apologize for any outrageously outrageous outrage this program may trigger in you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 4, 2015: With WFMU's openness to reinterpretation and reinvention, nonmimetic representation promises to promote not an escape from reality, but, rather, a means of promoting and, indeed, ensuring flexibility in its application to each listener's human life. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 27, 2014: Article of faith: Any old LP released on a major label that sold less than 1,000 copies has received heavy airplay on WFMU. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 20, 2014: THE WORLD'S GONNA END AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! But not necessarily in that order. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 13, 2014: Give a man a gun and a barrel of fish, and he'll shoot some and splash water all over the place. But teach a man marksmanship, angling, and cooperage and he'll be overqualified for the US postal service. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 6, 2014: Three Hours of Questionable Aesthetics and Moral Ambiguity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 26, 2011: Disregard previous. Disregard anything I've ever said or sent. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 19, 2011: Today's program will teach total muscle isolation, elegant hand gestures, and intricate body gyrations | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 12, 2011: I'll review the contract tonight to confirm I didn't omit anything or include terms that aren't relevant. I drafted that agreement sober and need to double-check it when I'm shitfaced drunk. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 5, 2011: Stop blaming us for everything that happens to you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 26, 2003: Rounding out your wellness profile | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 12, 2003: Cosmic Cowboy filled in for Irwin this week (no archive available)
  • Favoriting February 5, 2003: Real Fun! Not Fake Fun! (also: Chris Butler & The Cranks - live in studio 1:15-2:00) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 5, 1992: Jeff Buckley Guest DJ (live in studio) | See the playlist (Playlist still being updated)

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