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The turdblossom special

Dave Ross's old friend, the brilliant Harry Shearer appeared Wednesday on Dave's 30th Anniversary Show hosted by Ron Reagan. Here is Shearer's latest production: The Turdblossom Special, in which he sings and acts the part of Karl Rove. (Reagan, btw, will host KPTK's sold-out forum August 16 with Rachel Maddow, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder, Thom Hartmann, and Mike Malloy).

UPDATED: Weekday has a blog!

UPDATE: We just heard from Weekday host, Steve Scher who writes that the new site will eventually be linked from KUOW.org. Weekday's Blog is sort of a beta version not yet ready for the prime time into which the BlatherWatch exposure plunged it.
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It ain't official, but you know what? It's somethin'!

(Steve Scher wearing his new blogger's hat)

Hidden in plain sight -- it's been there since July 2. There's no link from the KUOW site, but we serendipitously found it today while surfing. it's the new Weekday's Blog, an unofficial site some staffers have put up for the eponymous show (m-f,9-11a) on KUOW, the Seattle public radio station so resistant to new media platforms.

We've been kvetching forever about the lack of blogs (and most anything that interacts with listeners) on the KUOW site.

Celebrity attorney bradley marshall threatens blatherWatch

Bradley Marshall is a celebrity lawyer, sports agent, prominent civil rights attorney and adjunct professor at SPU, and UW.

He was Mike Webb's lawyer before his fateful fraud case.

He's threatening legal action against BlatherWatch for our 2005 post, Mike Webb's Attorney No Stranger to "dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation".

Take it down or else, he says.

UPDATED: Bonneville blows up oldies KBSG to simulcast KIRO- will KIRO go all sports?

This thing of the past -- oldies station B97.3 -- will truly become a thing of the past.

This from Carl Gardner, Bonneville Seattle Market Manager:

Big Pants might buy the rams

Rush Limbaugh played football for one year in high school and lasted just 3 months as a sportscaster.

Now the Big Fat Head might try to buy his way into professional football.

"The Rams would be a great team to have," Limbaugh told the St. Louis Business Journal last week. "I have a lot of friends in ownership in the NFL, and my desire to get involved has not been a secret."

Limbaugh worked on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown in 2003 until he shot his mouth off about some black football guy -- one Donovan McNabb -- and embarrassed the sports network who was unaccustomed to talent on loan from God. Their talent had to follow earthly guidelines, so they canned his broad ass.

But if Big Pants has his own team, he can say anything he wants, and follow his inner racist as he chooses .

Rams owners have said the team is not for sale, but there's speculation they could sell with the right offer. Longtime owner Georgia Frontiere died earlier this year. Her children are majority owners.

Bill o'reilly, michael savage, sean hannity on accused church shooter's reading list

Right wing talk radio is just entertainment, you say? Robust debate? Civil discourse?

Not everyone thinks so: for Jim David Adkisson it gave permission to try to massacre a church full of families.

They weren't worth anything: they were probably liberals.

Knoxville police searched Adkisson's home after he allegedly entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and killed two people and wounded six others with a 12-gauge shotgun during the presentation of a children's musical.

(Photo: Adkisson after church)

Rabbi Lapin endorses obama???

Ultra-conservative Rabbi Daniel Lapin, filling in Monday for Kirby Wilbur (KVI m-f, 5-9a) nearly endorsed Barack Obama, and also shed some fascinating dish on how he checks up on his daughters' (he has seven!) boyfriends.

(The rabbi, under a cloud from the Jack Abramoff scandals, left the Seattle market (KTTH, KVI, KKOL) a couple of years ago for an off and on again Sunday show, The Unraveling Rabbi for San Francisco's KSFO. It's presently on... 1-4p. Read our many posts about Lapin's travails by scrolling down here).

Lapin, though pedantic, didactic, long-winded and as boring as always, surprised us today.

KIRO's Don O'Neill: devil or angel?

 

 

 

Who's the real Don O'Neill? (KIRO m-f, 3-6p)

Answers here and here.

Michael Savage loses in court; cleveland drops him; conservatives hate him; the nation scorns him; but he's still workin'!

"This guy's a knucklehead, and I want to get rid of him," Mark Jaycox, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Knucklehead? Those may be harsh words in Ohio, but they're tame describing Michael Savage, (KTTH m-f, 6-9p) who calls Obama an "Afro-Leninist," and played a Dead Kennedys song while discussing Ted Kennedy's a malignant brain tumor.

WHK, the only Cleveland station carrying Michael Savage is breaking its contract with Savage's syndicator, Talk Radio Network. Jaycox manages Salem Communications' Cleveland cluster.

(photo: Savage used to sell herbal extracts and supplements)

Savage had a bad week. His idiotic, racketeering nuisance suit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, was thrown out of court; and a predictable firestorm from parents, medical experts and disabilities advocates broke out after he called autism a “fraud” during his July 16 show, saying that “in 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.”

BlatherMunchems2: a peck of poison peppers; the styrofoam evil, the favas of summer; olde john cuts the cheese; mint-flavored spaghetti, and a nice chianti

(BlatherMunch is our weekly, foodish respite from biase, intenuendo, and liberal glee. For more essays on food and dining click here) or under BlatherMunch in Categories).

~~ Jalepeños of death. Peppers used to be known for the delightful petite mort caused by a concentration of capsicum. But now, jalapeños from Mexico are suspected of having a concentration of

(Angel of Meat, Mark Ryden) 

salmonella which produces a much grander mort -- the kind that can roll you up like a taco. It seems, however, that salmonella has hurt business more than it has people. During the salmonella-tainted tomatoes scare, tomato sellers were ruined, despite no evidence tomatoes were the culprit. Now that the suspicion has shifted to jalapeños, importers are cooked. Biggest problem: the required testing process takes too long, and the peppers spoil in warehouses while waiting for the green light. The testing takes several days, importers wait as long as ten days for test results, and have had to destroy the stock because it was rotten. No tainted tomatoes, jalapeños or any other vegetables have been found in Mexico so far.

Killer styrofoam. A sign of the times in Seattle. Anticipating Seattle's ban on styrofoam take-out containers , Alcatraz, the hot new Mexican joint (7300 Rainier S.) give you 50 centavos (US) off your order if you bring your own leftover or take out containers.

~~ The silence of the fava bean. Why can't I resist the favas of summer at the Farmers' Market? I bitch about them every week. They cost $4 a lb. and about 90% goes to the compost. They're a pain in the ass to deal with -- shell, blanch, shell. They're slightly bitter. On the positive side: they go well with liver; they're nutty and fresh-tasting; and are shell-beans ready to eat before other beans are even big enough to be green beans. Shelling them give my hands something not to strangle while listening to Dori Monson.

(photo: fava bean)

~~ Cut the cheese, you olde fart. In one of the most punch-line rich political moves in modern history, Olde John McCain had a presser and made a speech before the Kraft American Slices in a Pennsylvania supermarket (now known as his "Dairy Case Address"). Merriment ensued after he made an uncomfortable grocery shopping foray with a handpicked housewife during which the rye olde warmonger never flinched during a dangerous applesauce avalanche. Meanwhile, Barack Obama was talking to the world's premier cheese-eater, French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. We think this anti-elitism business of Olde John's is being taken too far. You know that the wealthy son of admirals married to an heiress hasn't eaten processed cheese since those cocktail affairs in the Hanoi Hilton.

~~ Frozen juice, pops. A taste of Mexico can be had at Full Tilt Ice cream in the heart of White Center (9629 16th ave. SW). I'm happy about the homemade paletas, those fresh juice-sicles which take me back to my wasted (!) youth South of the border. They've got such flavors as mint chocolate chip; mango chile; pina colata; blueberries & cream; blackberry cinnamon; strawberry; and coconut. There's a bunch of cool ice cream flavors like Mexican chocolate; mango chile; mint chocolate chip; Thai tea; wedding cake; marion berry; lavender blueberry; rocky road overload; Mandarin orange sorbet. As everyone, they've got a MYspace page. (Even my cat Butterdish has one, although he originally did it because he thought I said he should have a "Mice Space" page)

~~ Chocolate goes with anything is the rule that The Chocolate People live by, but maybe they'd better leave it at hazelnuts or cayenne pepper. At the famed Weird Chocolate Cakes competition at the Ozark Empire Fair in Springfield, Missouri produced the usual number of scary ideas baked into prize winners.  First place ($10) this year was taken by Beth Bruner for her Nutty-Fruity Mix Up cake with chocolate and mayonnaise, mint-flavored spaghetti, crushed pineapple and orange rind. Dry spaghetti decorated the top like candles. Second place went to Jenny Rogers' Guaca-Chocolate cake served with tortilla chips. Third place went a chocolate spinach cake make by Wendy Craighead who claimed this was how she got her kids to eat their vegetables. 

~~ Is the" Mitt is my home boy" apron the new trucker hat?