OK..I'm "production editor" again.

Is there supposed to be a story with the headline? Or a link?

Cause I DON'T GET IT! IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY??? DO I NEED TO GET ANN COULTER IN HERE?

/usatoday

I suggest "The Citizen Journalist Report".

Where's Joe? with Ace and Karol.

"The Citizen Journalist Report"

A-hem. Well, I do appreciate the sexy, "grabby" nature of that name, but alas it's already taken by a couple of chuckleheads.

Hmmm.

Some suggestions:

1. Happy Hour.
2. Beer Call.
3. Hank's Look-Around Cafe.
4. Right Brothers (it'll help make you sound ethnic, which I hear is "in").
5. Thunderdome.
6. Right On Broadway. (It's got the NYC thing, the political thing, and captures your love of swishy theater types).
7. Debate Society.
8. Information Society. (I want to know what YOU'RE thinking!).
9. The Democrats Are Wrong.
10. The Bullpen.

I considered Happy Hour, before realizing how fuckin' gay it was.

Thunderdome... hmmm...

It's taken? Who knew?

Anyway...what else works?

"Quality Time with Ted McGinley"

"The Allah's too big a wimp to meet me for a beer so I'm on the radio with Karol instead Review"

"Slicin' Hammer Time"

"The Only Important Man on Internet Radio with his token female sidekick Journal"

"The Ace and Karol Fisking Hour"

All Conservative Entertainment Hour with Anonymous and Karol.

All Conservative Entertainment

I like the way you're thinking... getting my name into the title without pissing off Karol.

Robot Sex Dolls

Good news. But whatever you settle on, for God's sake remember to keep the patter going fast and snappy. Zip, zip, zip.

Can't give suggestions without some idea of the direction of the show... what are you two going to be talking about, mainly?

Jack M, the last show when somebody said 'fisking,' people heard 'fisting.'

How about:

-Sound Off

-Afternoon Rant

-Bloggers Die Horribly in a Different Medium Just Like So Many Silent Movie Stars

I like Laura's last one. :)

Allan's Snackbar, but you guy's prolly won't be doing mostly WoT stuff, so it'd be a dumb title.

Well, fine then. Why don't you just choose "Unhappy Hour," and you get the twofer of irony AND accuracy, you grouchy fuckety fuck-fuck.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

On the other hand, "Grouchy Fuckety Fuck Fuck Hour" has a certain ring to it.

Finding a title might be easier if we knew more about the the tone and format of the show.

Vast Right Wing Sex Machine.

N.B. - Whatever it is, you need something that signals 'South Park Republican' or whatever it is we're gonna call the growing non-staid conservative/libertarian, young , ain't afraid of vulgarity/internets group.

I mean, that is your target market, right? Not whoever runs bankrolls Citizen Journalists Report and thinks it hasta be yanked for naughty words on the internet. I mean, if that whole South Park subgroup even exists, they'll be the ones who'll be listening on the internet right? Not staid, oldsmobile, internet-thingy conservatives. Tell me they know that?

me and Karol from Alarming News

I like that you ignore all grammer rules to put yourself first. :-P

Very cool . . . congrats!

I suck at titles, so no help here.

Val-U-Rite Vodka proudly presents:
1. Politics and Porn!
2. Stuffin' Squeakholes
3. Ace's D&D Playhouse
4. Lightning Bolts!
5. Rightwing Dolts! (it just rhymed)
6. The Blow-viators
7. MXC2
8. The losers helpline
9. Gay sex for the straight guy
10. Fast times with Bob Dole's Cock
11. Commentary with Hoke Malokey
12. News in Spades

I kind of like 'News in Spades' because it has both our site names in it but I'm not sure that I see us being a program that really delivers 'news in spades'.

Ummm...

On Topic with Ace and Karol.
Harsh Language with Ace and Karol.
Radio Daze.
Manhattan Transfer.
Black Flag Radio.

Of course, it should be called That's Just the Fucking Way It Is, with Ace and Karol (or Karol and Ace). But those RighTalk guys are so tight-asssed, they've got squeakholes that only dogs can hear.

Utron's right. That's Just the Fuckin' Way It Is is perfect. Impossible, but perfect.

Utron and Allah - motion thirded! Can't believe I didn't think of that.

That's Just The Fuckin' Way It Is. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

uhhhhh... I've been told, expressly, no f-word, ever. So I don't think it can be in the title.

It's a good title, I grant you. It's just not possible.

Don't make a fucking maniac out of the Talkright censors.

I don't care what title is settled on eventually. I will always refer to Ace and Karol's show by its true name. Always.

That's Just the Fuckin' Way It Is.

Well, you know, I really wanted to play soundbites during the show, and I've been told 1) no soundbites (because the quality of them is too low) and 2) no eff word, so that means very little Paul Anka.

I was really hoping to have some fun with that. Sort of like a Morning Zoo deal, except only half as stupid. And no "Hawaiian Shirt Gonzo Friday."

We'd just have "Gonzo Pantless Tuesdays" or something.

But those RighTalk guys are so tight-asssed, they've got squeakholes that only dogs can hear.

They're not, actually, and they allow Jeff and Bill a bit of latitude (they were given permission to use the word "cock" in its literal sense, which I consider to be more obscene than "fuck" in its non-literal sense), but they have a rule against the f-word, and further, they have a whole range of other programs which are not at all dirty, and they don't want to compromise brand-identity, especially for a new show they have no idea will work or not.

Plus, the dirtier we are, the more limited we will be as regards guests. We can't use profanity a lot and then expect to have, say, William Bennet do a call-in

Like a Hammer

Cowbell

Cussin' Conservatives

The Guys Get Radio

Standing Athwart History, Yelling "F**K!"

You should find a way to goof on their priggishness towards the F-bomb. Ever see the old SNL skit when Tony Danza hosted called "Dem Fonkin' Martians"? It was basically "War of the Worlds" filtered through an Italian Brooklyn sensibility. E.g., "Look--flying fonkin' saucers! They're shooting fonkin' death rays!" Dumb, yet effective. Anyway, food for thought.

Meh, so, other names for the TJTFWII show.

Integrity & Conscious

Full Value on Your Money

You're Getting It Too Good

You'll Think Eight Things Tonight

The "Another Blogger Radio Hour, Only This One Will Probably Run As Scheduled" Show.

Okay, those were jokes. I think the real title should somehow point out that conservatives these days aren't the stuffed shirts that we're portrayed as being. This ain't WFB's party anymore...

How about "The Noise Machine"?

Lefties like to call us that anyway, why not tweak them further with their own words, sort of like the way Wisconsin people adopted the moniker "Cheesehead".

Allah-- that was a classic skit, but IIRC, it was "fookin" Martians in the "De War of da Woilds, presented by da Brooklyn Theater."

And you remember how the fookin; Martians died? Fookin' goims.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

How about “On Deck”? That way you’d have a cards (Death Card?) reference, plus a ship analogy for when the dialogue starts screeching, as you and Karol try to force the program to change course, kinda like the Titanic careening towards the iceberg, throwing it’s engines desperately into reverse and . . . cue the Celine Dion music . . . ? Okay, on second thought, no. Just - no.

Slublog wrote: This ain't WFB's party anymore

And thank goodness for that. Now is there any way we can get him and GFW to stop churning out their pompous, poorly-written columns, too?

I like The Noise Machine (although, like Megan, I might hang onto TJTFWII as the show's true, secret name). Going with Jeff's idea, what about Instant Replay, which they didn't?

Dave--I'm pretty sure there was an "N" in there somewhere; "fookin" is too close to the real deal. (And sounds more Liverpudlian than Brooklynese.)

The transcript says "funkin' ".

It is sad commentary that Dusty (the original) has been left out.

This ain't WFB's party anymore..

But WFB is, and remains, hip and edgy, just in a sly and patrician manner.

...

"Sloppy and patronizing," you meant, right?

Allah-- awww, c'mon, who you gonna trust? A "transcript"-- whatever the hell THAT means-- or my half-formed memories from a nearly twenty-year old SNL sketch?

Thanks. Thanks for not picking me.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

We can't use profanity a lot and then expect to have, say, William Bennet do a call-in.

Not looking for you guys to do blue material, but I hope you don't switch up for a new format, don't try to bland things up to 'fit in.' Really, do I wanna hear Bennett reel off some talkin points? More than enough radio shows for that already. Why compete? I wanna hear whether he recommends a hit on a soft 13 when the dealers showing 14.

Again, people talk about the growing 'S.Park' contingency. From my point of view, you've built up an internet brand catering to that mindset. Serious topic stuff, done irreverently w/ insulty stuff, w/ vulgarity. Howard Stern had the nuts to be Howard Stern when no one else was. There was a market for it regardless of the fogeys who worried otherwise. S.Park republicanism tells me there's a market for something similar but republican oriented political. I trust you to know what you're doing, just hope you remember what makes your site enjoyable.

How bout just calling it The F-Bomb?

Ray, WTF? Of course you hit on a soft 13, you f'in pussy.

Ray,

There's a balance between what I might want to do and what they'll let me do. If I do what they want me to do well enough, I may gain the latitude to do what I want to do.

Look, just watch Private Parts. It explains everything.

AK-47 -- Right on Target

A - Ace
K - Karol

47 - you figure it out
Right - as opposed to Moonbat Left
on Target - absolutely!

...47 could be a gratuitous gun reference...

>...I think the real title should somehow point out that conservatives these days aren't the stuffed shirts that we're portrayed as being...This ain't WFB's party anymore...

Unstuffed Shirts
(might add to t-shirt sales)

Definitely not WFB
DNWFB
(blatant ripoff of CBC Radio's "Definitely Not the Opera")
http://www.cbc.ca/dnto/

What are you talking about, Ace? I watched Private Parts dozens of times, and I still can't figure out how to re-grout bathroom tile.

Let's be honest: it doesn't explain *everything*. . . like, where do babies come from?

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I gotcha. And my beef certainly ain't with you, it's with any moron who'd look at this site, recognize something neats happening here, and put you on radio 'now do that, but totally different.'

I mean, this is gonna be heard on the internet for Christ sake. What makes me come to the internet is it's freewheelin, unconstrained nature. Why use the intenet to appeal to the old, staid conservatives? Can't they just fire up the old vacuum tubes and listen to that thing in their 'parlor' for their radio kicks? Just hopin they understand their market here. That not reairing Bill and Jeff stuff they did makes me wonder if they do.

Another good/obvious/impossible one: Loose Shit.

I don't know. I can't get out of Anka mode. Integrity Kick, maybe?

Ray, WTF? Of course you hit on a soft 13, you f'in pussy.

Megan, baby, I know that, you know that. The question is whether William 'O.K, I dropped a couple million in the casions, but really it's no problem... O.k. it might be a problem" Bennett knows that. That's the radio show I wanna hear.

How *could* they reject 'That's Just the Fuckin' Way It Is'?

Echoing both sites -'Alarming BS'

Okay, DNTO's theme music is "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out" by Bentley Rhythm Ace.

That's gotta be a sign.

DNWFB it is.

Ray -

Ah, gotcha. I didn't spot the reference immediately. Sorry. :)

How bout "Ace in the Hole," and then you could ..., nah, nevermind - that'd be a real stretch, anyway.

How about "That's Just the Fisking Way It Is?"
It's Ace's favorite word, a tribute to Anka, a reference to blogger vernacular, and a slogan that fits on a t-shirt.

Panic Attack with Ace and Karol

View from the Clocktower?

I was going to suggest Let's Go Crazy with Ace and Karol, but I'm still laughing at Allah's idea. That may be the best usable suggestion so far.

Integrity Kick... hmmmm... it's good, but it's too inside, I think. Bear in mind, when I start the show, I'm not going to just be communciating with my typical audience of dozens, but rather with several dozens, so....

"Panic Attack." Actually, something with "Attack" could be good.

Anonymous Crank and Friends?

or maybe

The Conservative's Answer to Air America

Utron -- Imagine the intro. Barber's Adagio playing softly in the background as a male voice whispers to himself, "I'm gonna be okay, I'm gonna be okay..." and then starts hyperventilating.

riffing off a few earlier ones:

The Right Wing Attack Machine

Well, that used to be one of the mottos in the upper left-hand corner of the site. It was something like the "Interactive Cybernetic Rightwing Attack Machine."

Is Karol on board with the "attack" thing? Or is she more reserved and scary-quiet-psycho?

...back before blogads, when I had a motto in the upper left hand corner.

I'm going to start doing that again. I can push the ads down a little bit.

Pure Discount Viagro Proudly Presents:

1. Flogging Liberals
2. The Viking's Guide to Life
3. Screwing the News in Spades
4. That Rightwing Talkshow
5. Ah..Screw It!
6. Any which way but sense
7. Vikings on the Hudson
8. Yo Mama wears Combat Boots
9. Not your father's Rightwing Radio
10. Whinning like little girls
11. Laughing at liberals
12. The Aural Experience with Ace and Karol
13. We should stick to blogging
14. Make with the HA-HA blogboys

Any title with Vikings in it can automatically use Led Zep for intro & bumper music.

Right, Allah. Throw in some screechy Hitchcock violins from Psycho just before Ace says, "Good afternoon!..."

Sausage-fest with Karol and her supportive homosexual friend

Alarmingly Conservative Extremists (or Entertainment)

Should appeal to moderates

"Exploring the Studio Space with Karol and Ace"

It rhymes, dammit! And everytime you switch to a new story you can ring a damn cowbell!

It's gold I tell you! Pure, unadulterated INTERNETS RADIO gold!

Web America

Equal Time

Main Stream Backwater Media

The Right Stuff

Web Free America

News Squeezins'

Media Watch

News Grinder: Making News and Sausage

Media Polygraph Report

The Distort Report

actually "Main Stream" was supposed to appear crossed out.

ooops, too late.

from google:

The Attack Machine on News/Talk 97.3 The Sky
... Never predictable and always entertaining, “The Attack Machine” with Chris
... a diverse fan base,whether it be the young, old the left or the right. ...
www.right-wingattackmachine.com/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Or maybe just Hot Links, with Karol and Ace. Go for the subtext.

Seriously, Right Wing Attack Machine is pretty good. If you're looking for something martial and angry, First Strike might work.

Two Words:

Bear Attack

When Bloggers Attack, with Ace and Karol. Go for the Fox tie-in.

I like Allah's, too.

You could call it world view for the Agoraphobic. Those bastards wouldn't know if you were telling the truth, or not. And it would be sort of like a public service - like NPR.

If it were solo ...

Ace of Waves HQ

600 million screaming Chinamen, with Karol and Ace.

How about Illiberal Radio?

Obstinate Hour?

Point Blank Show?

We Don't Do This For a Living

I like Stumbo's.

Fake but Accurate Radio, with Karol and Ace.

(sorta plays on the internet radio aspect too)

Are you sure Hip n' Edgy is the way you want to go here?
Maybe you want to let people down eas... er, I mean, not build such high expectations right off the bat?

Maybe you want to let people down eas... er, I mean, not build such high expectations right off the bat?

Fumbling in the Dark with Ace and Karol

This Is All New to Us.

Exactly.

Like if Mr. Magoo and Gladys Kravitz had a show.

Which is probably what it will sound like anyways.

Nah, then it sounds like they're on the BBC or worse NPR.

Will they let you use the word "hell?"

America, Hell Yeah

60 Minutemen

Am I On? With Ace and Karol

Pretentious Pandering?

Patronizing patriots?

News for Mind-Numbed Robots

Self-hating Heterosexuals

Oh wait

Heteronormative with Carol and Ace

Sorry on the misspell Karol

>Am I On? With Ace and Karol

Hahahaha

Rush: EIB

Ace & Karol: AIO

Coffee's for Closers, with Karol and Ace.

Not oblique enough?

'Eldorados and Steak Knives.'

Flop Sweat with Ace and Karol.

Maybe too much like Panic Attack?

Karol and her Drooling Retard

How about "The Shit, with Ace & The Clit"?

Too gritty? Yeah, guess so...

But it's got a rhythm all its own, still.

Ace and Karol's Summertime Smile Factory.

How about:

Live From Witch Mountain

Awkward Pauses with Ace and Karol

Ace, Allah's got a great name there.

"awkward pauses"

perfect. Self-depricating (but only a bit so) and perfectly suited to your shall we say, undead delivery style.

Uuuhhhhhhhhhh.

Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh.

Brrraaaaaains

Some others:

More Cowbell with Ace and Carol
The Only Important People on the Internet
The Show That'll Get More Listeners than Air America
Funnier than Margaret Cho with Ace and Karol
Aural Spam
We Thought Eight Things Today

Slooow Talkin' with Ace and Karol

Hellacious Abortion with Karol and Ace of Spades

Ace, are we the only retards you could have asked for help?

Radio Free Jesusland

The "How Do You Call It? Uhhhhh...yes...ummm....uhhh.....um......Show" with Ace and Karol

Mind Control with Karol and Ace

Permanent Vegetative State with Ace and Karol

The 25 Minutes of Talking Hour with Ace and Karol

How Much Time Is Left? with Ace and Karol

Mr. Blogers Neighborhood

Radio Free Blogville

"The Only Thing Sadder than Broadcasting on Internet Radio is Listening to Internet Radio Hour with Ace and Karol".

The Allah's Dying of Jealousy hour

Thunder on the Right

The Cedarford Report

Blue State Report

$3million loft report

Can't you use a euphemism for "fuckin'"?

Minimum Risk Radio

Your old motto is good: Your Cybernetic
Interactive Two-Minute Hate

72 Virgins

and, of course,

About to be Cancelled

Bob Dole's Cock (insert rooster noise)

F-Bomb with Ace & Karol

Joking Commandos

The Allah's Dying of Jealousy hour

Heh. It's more like "The Allah Would Never, In a Million Years, Have the Balls to Try Radio hour."

Just freewheelin' here.

The Panic Room
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Empire State Conspiracy
Empire State Death Machine
The Meat Grinder
+5 Saving Throw
The Dungeon
The Vault
PowerPlay
The Penalty Box
Double Down with Karol and Ace
New York State Smackdown
Short Circuit
The Arena
CyberSmash
White Noise
Wrong Side of the Tracks
Back Alley Politics
Right Wing Insurgency
CyberRadio60
All Hands on Deck

I can't believe I don't see this mentioned but "Let's be honest" has a nice ring to it.

Since the left thinks we all get our orders from Karl Rove, you should mention his name in the title.

"The Rovians," maybe?

I got nuthin'.

The Empire State Strikes Back, because it's geographically accurate.

Momma's Rancid Oatmeal, because that was the name of my radio show in college, and I hated giving up the name when they threw us off the air for foul language.

Spy Radio, just because it sounds so damn cool and stylish.

Pure Discount Enzyte is proud to Present
That's what we call pillow talk baby!

Daisy Cutters
Ass Backwards
I still get paid for this, right?
Where good ideas go to die
Fartline
Loose Stool
We'll think of a name later
Slackmasters
Slackmiesters
Aural Intruders
Multiple Inputs
Spambot's Revenge
Audio Spam
Spam Radio

How about "THE HAMMER"

More Cowbell with Ace and Karol

"Red Alert"

What could be more obvious?

Though if you go with the name, and the show is a huge success, I'm gonna want a shirt at some point.

Kim Richards Fan Club

But really, this

+5 Saving Throw

The Red Kryptonite Radio Hour

Red kryptonite inflicts bizarre and unpredictable - albeit temporary and nonfatal - symptoms, as when it divides Superman into twins or transforms him into an infant or a giant ant.

http://theages.superman.ws/Encyclopaedia/kryptonite.php

Dead Air

A take off on a previous entry:

This Is All News to Us.

Though I did like:
Am I On?
Panic Attack
Any which way but sense

Going on the microphone/"is this on?" kick, how about Uncontrollable Feedback?

60 minutes of amateur radio by everyone's favorite comatose interviewee? How about you call it A Small Eternity of Boredom with Ace and Karol?

Aural Sex

"The Dorian Davis Republican Spectacular"

Enter The Wildlife
Loudspeaker
The Wild Bunch
Do It Again
Traditions At Their Wildest
An Afternoon of Pure Wildness
The Wild Symposium

Grin and Bear It

Flamethrower Society
Wild Political Action
Expanding Horizons
Flamethrowers Go Ramblin' On
Wild Wipeouts
Showed Potential

A previous commentor stated: "Finding a title might be easier if we knew more about the tone and format ..."

The Hell with that: Call it "Hoist the Black Flag"

And that's.That.

Pajama Rama!

But semi-seriously, if you can't use the f-bomb, then go with Just The Way It Is.

Later,
bbeck

Point - Counterpunch

The Dorquemada

I've got nothin'.
Drawin' a blank.

Who are you guys again?

All Your News Are Belong To Us

Lightning Bolt

Further Proof That No Blogger Is Talented Enough To Carry A Full Hour Solo

Okay kids, there can only be one name for the show. "ANGRY HOUR", with your host Ace. The announcer should use command voice.

The "What the f-ck do you mean I just said f*ck?" Show

Truth Pimp with Ace and Karol

The "Jesus! Not my real name, you stupid twit! CUT!" Show

A Killing Word (yeah, it's an obscure "Dune" reference, but what the hell)

How about--"I stole Allah's Radio Show"

The Smitty Show (with special guest star Geoffrey the Duck)

Public Delinkers

Ace & Karol & Ted & Alice

Will Shill For Airtime

Blue State Conservatives

If You Call In, You Have To Pay Attention To Betsy

.... I also like "Thunderdome" but on doing a google, it brought me to a porn site .. heh heh!

I also like "The Hammer"

I'd lose any reference to NYC ... without knowing it was Ace and Karol, the name would have out me off ... ya need more universal appeal imho.

Congratulations Ace!!

uhhh that would be "put me off" not

"out me off"

Truth Pimp?

Hah! See-Dubya, you pitched that to me as the name of, uhhhh, a different show, and I said I didn't like it.

But now... for MY show... hmm....

Some ideas. You guys tell me how lame they are. I know some of you don't want NY in the name; I don't know if I do either, but I think Karol does.

Gotham Confidential
The Gothamite Heresy

Yeah, that last one is a little obscure, but it sort of has a DaVinci Code thing going.

"The Dorian Davis Republican Spectacular"

Ummmm... gee, Dorian, I admit that sounds catchy, but...

Ace, not to splash cold water on your ideas, but I've always thought that calling NYC "Gotham" sounded pretentious. But you know, you're not going to please everybody, and whatever you call it I'll listen when I can.

How about Bright Rights, Big City? lol

Later,
bbeck

How about "no"?

But thanks for trying.

I don't think Gotham is pretentious. Is Batman pretentious? No, he's not. He kicks ass.

Is Batman pretentious? No, he's not. He kicks ass.

No, but assuming your city is good enough to be named after Batman's hangout is just WRONG.

Hmm, I'm sounding like quite the comic book snob.

Con Airwaves? lol

I sure hope you realize I'm busting yer chops for fun. I kid because I love.

BTW, you never really explained how this whole radio deal came about. I mean, why team you up with Karol? Do you know her? And is Right Talk looking for bloggers to fill their airspace? Or did you go to them?

Just curious.

Later,
bbeck

Liz, a producer at Rightalk, came over to say hello to me at CPAC and said she was a fan of the site and that we should get a drink. (An innocent drink, by the way; get that out of your head.) I ended up hanging out with her and her friends, some of whom work at Talkright, quite a bit.

We got along and occasionally emailed until at one point she said I was funny, so I said, "Since you brought it up -- well, okay, you didn't bring it up but close enough -- why do you have those two chuckleheads on your station and not me?"

And so then she asked if I was serious, which I guess I was, and she began to try pitching me to the other people at Talkright.

They suggested I needed a co-host -- they don't think bloggers can carry a show alone, I guess -- and I pitched Karol, who Liz had met (she was at CPAC too) and whom I knew personally anyway, and who's pretty smart and hardline Republican, and who got me into blogging in the first place and who has a lot of cool political connections, and who laughs at most of my jokes. (This last bit was one of the bigger selling points.)

I had thought about maybe asking Allah, but the two male voices thing is kind of a tough one (Jeff and Bill have that problem, as they mentioned on their last show), and besides, Allah wouldn't do it anyhow.

At any rate, Liz told me she needed the other name in order to pitch further, so I said "Okay, it's set, tell them it's Karol," and then a few weeks later we heard we were getting the show.

I think this is the only instance where schmoozing has ever actually paid off for me. Usually people just think I'm a dick and walk away from me.

I really, really like Con Air, which bbeck sorta suggested. Is that taken already too?

Or Neocon Air?

Batman -is- pretentious. Well, Frank Miller's, anyway.

But the real problem is that "Gotham" doesn't just say "New York City", it says "hardcore New York City", like you're going to be talking about sewage contracts or something. Not great for that national audience.

I think this is the only instance where schmoozing has ever actually paid off for me. Usually people just think I'm a dick and walk away from me.

Well, she WAS drinking...:)

Thanks for telling the tale. And all this time I thought it was a casting couch thing...

Later,
bbeck

Laura, I thought about the Neocon Air, too, but I'm not sure if Ace falls into that category.

Later,
bbeck

Neocon Air? Hmmmm.... kind of cutesy, but at this point we're straining for anything, so it's a possibility.

As a general rule I don't like cutesy-poo puns. But we're beginning to get desperate.

But the real problem is that "Gotham" doesn't just say "New York City", it says "hardcore New York City"...

Hmmm... well, I guess. But we're not going to be doing that of course.

Karol wanted to know why I didn't put up a link to a NY blogger party a couple of weeks ago, and, only half-jokingly, I said, "Because I'm national, baby. I can't be bothered with that."

See, that's why schmoozing usually doesn't work for me.

Karol wanted to know why I didn't put up a link to a NY blogger party a couple of weeks ago

No, she asked about this before DL began "calling me out."

Another knock on 'Gotham' here.

But I'm 100% blue-collar suburbanite, so what do I know about anything?
All the really hip people are in NYC.
*snicker*

well, it's true. We're hip enough to spend $3.00 on an f'n' cup of coffee.

Because, really, it's so much better than the stuff you get from 7-11.

I got nothing constructive here, just a couple of observations:

1) I don't think "Gotham" and other such names sound pretentious, but they do sound local. Back when Lettermen was in NYC, it was always mentioned in the intro, but they didn't call the show "Manhattan after Hours."

2) Of course you don't want anything wildly offensive, but the name should have some whimsy, or humor, or cutesiness. One thing I like about "Citizen Journalist Report"--the name, not the show--is that it sounds reasonably serious but still winks in the direction of Jeff's blogging audience. Neither you nor Karol are hosting the Belmont Club, and there's no reason why the show should sound serious and deadly dull.

Anyways, something to think about.

The Johnny Fucknuts Show

Too Ugly for TV

What I like about Neocon Air is that the word 'neocon' causes instant foaming at the mouth and guttural shrieks from certain subsets of the population.

As you know, any publicity is good publicity. Except the kind that precedes jail time. But you should be OK.

Got it:

The Sound and the Fury.

Or, less formal, "Sound and Fury." The idiot's tale. References Shakespeare, the Bible, and Faulkner. Here's the full Shakespeare quote, Macbeth, act five, scene five:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Hey, she can be "Sound" and you can be "Fury," you know, like Starsky and Hutch.

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Or Sound, Fury, Idiot.

Check out these cool Bible passages from Isaiah:

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

Sound and Fury might be near the top of the list.

But Karol will hate it. She's like Mikey. She hates everything.

Who's gonna drive the Torino?

Oooh. Harken uponeth this man-stuff porn idea. I see a picture... a picture of a red Torino with a big white stripe... trailed by a white cloud of vaporized rubber.

"Sound and Fury" is very good. Seems like something your partner would like, since it makes her sound, well, "sound." In the "sensible" sense. Gad, this is repetitive.

KACE IN POINT

AMERICA'S NEW MAP - KACE IN POINT

KILL A HOAGIE HOUR

Yeah #2's a total rip off. Tom's reaction? Never know but probably have to be me connecting those dots. Second thought, that Crits a tad slippery too.

Traffic's picked up considerably here - you're to be congratulated.

Couple of questions. Was that a Monday morning or Tuesday night at " Drinker's" when that pic was taken? Who's the guy with the "butt" stuck on his lip? How much was that wager, $7US and some dinars? Qt. of Miller High Life is a nice touch. Could be that's not you though, then again. Avram f'kin' rules!

Not that it matters(which became obvious), I'm laughing but still a little gassed that your web folks wouldn't honor my request to pull the name. Yeah, I know, you have nothing or little to do with it - MR. ANONYMOUS. Funny now, at the time ............

Good luck with the radio endeavor, much promise in the future.

Ummmm.. what?

I always wanted to host a show called "Taking Liberties with our Guests" in homage to Otter.

Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about.

That's Just the Fuckin' Way It Is is the perfect name for the show. But like bbeck said, if you can't say fuck, shorten it.

That's Just the Way It Is
Just the Way It Is
The Way It Is

We'll all know what the title should be, but it won't twist up the suits. It's too perfect NOT to.

Or hell, call it That's Just the ......... Way It Is and actually leave the pause in there when you say it.

Any other name is gonna be so much lamer.

Hmm. I was looking at Macbeth. Birnam Wood would be a good name too.

As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move.

How about That's Just the Ineffable Way It Is?

The WIFI Hour (pronounced "wiffy")

The Way It Freaking Is

"wiffy" would become a important new word in the English lexicon

wiffyisms etc.

>well, it's true. We're hip enough to spend $3.00 on an f'n' cup of coffee.

Three Dollar Coffee

Alarming Ace HQ

Gothamania

Mencken's Progeny

Beauty and the Beast

Don't be nasty. Karol is quite lovely.

Oh, wait a minute-- You're saying I'M the beast, aren't you?

Huh! You WISH you could have some of this fine shit!

Birnam Wood. Innocuous. Ostensibly. But there's nothing more dangerous than an army. In a way, you guys represent an army of both bloggers and conservative thinkers heretofore pretty much ignored--camouflaged with boughs as it were. Jeez, I get asswipe pedantic sometimes. Yeah, the name, Birnam Wood, is camouflaged. It sounds sweet and gentle, like a high culture literary love fest on a college NPR station.

But I still think Sound and Fury is better. And if you can get permission to use that sweet Starsky ride -- with its AceofSpadesHQ color scheme, btw --you could write Sound and Fury on the side. Or, same idea with the last of the interceptors. Let Bill and Jeff have their pie. We eat pie for lunch. Well, we do eat pie for luch.