TSF12: Quality Otter Haircuts and the Pirated Music of Bjorkestra (not necessarily in that order) – NOW ONLINE!
Posted on June 29, 2010 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 12: Quality Otter Haircuts and the Pirated Music of Bjorkestra (not necessarily in that order)
Tune in to see just how the words in the title actually combine to form a coherent episode of The Slacker Factor.
Links:
Meandering Rant: Business and Competition by Christian
Book Report: Music Piracy by Rob
Music Segment: Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra
TSF11: Crazy like Patty (or Snooki) – NOW ONLINE!
Posted on June 13, 2010 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 11: Crazy like Patty (or Snooki)
Your crack team of Slackers explores what’s real and what’s faux and Patty decides she’s cooler than Snooki in her “Reality is
Overrated” rant. Christian ponders the future of the suprising long-time coming electric car. And we feast our ears on the alt-pop of Draz. Now that’s a show! (or is it?)
Links:
Meandering Rant: Reality Is Overrated by Patty
Book Report: Electric Cars by Christian
Music Segment: Sunday Rain by Draz
Wired on Chris Hardwick Joke Analysis
Posted on June 4, 2010 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
- Stagetime matters big time.
A long time ago, when Madonna didn’t speak with a British accent and the US was actually cleaning up oil spilled from that Exxon DUI in Alaska, I climbed onstage in front of a bar full of strangers and attempted to make them laugh. I succeeded, and those few minutes in a red-velvet-decorated strip mall comedy club changed my life. I could write a joke.
Before and since that night, I have enjoyed and analyzed comedy. (Admittedly, I analyze everything I enjoy.) How psyched was I, then, when the May 2010 issue of WIRED magazine featured comedian and Web Soup host Chris Hardwick’s article Crafting a Joke: The Arc of an Act? Completely, and I was completely impressed. Many, many comedy professionals and feigned comedic personalities have attempted to describe their joke processes, but Hardwick, in sharing his approach and the perspective of others, boils it down to the essentials.
Want people to laugh with you instead of just at you? Read Hardwick’s advice, start thinking funny, right it down, and go.
~pp
TSF10: Green Fairy Drink Drink – NOW ONLINE!
Posted on May 22, 2010 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 10: Green Fairy Drink Drink
Absinthe, three ways. Oh, yeah, and there was also some ranting about something..um… Rob invents an economic theory on the fly and some music by Zero 7…the rest remains a bleary, blurred whirl.
Links:
Meandering Rant:
Rob invents a new economic theory on the fly (slackernomics?)
Book Report:
Absinthe Tasting – the crew downs three different Absinthes: Lucid, Absente, and La Fee, and barely makes it through the rest of the episode.
The Little Green Book of Absinthe by Paul Owens and Paul Nathan
Music Segment: Zero 7
Negative? Who? Me???
Posted on May 19, 2010 | By Christian | 1 Comment
Borrowed from BT Internet Rangers
I was talking with a buddy of mine who reads the Slacker Factor and he commented that he enjoys the blog and podcast, but he said he thought I was a bit negative at times. Maybe even bordering on angry on occasion. I certainly don’t view myself as angry. In fact I know for certain that today the sun came up, a puppy was born, and a baby took his first steps. So, life is great!
Unfortunately, Glenn Beck still sucks.
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