msb's The Disability Show

Sun, 30 August 2009

msb-0386 High gene, low gene, green gene, blue gene, red gene, dead gene.

msb-0386 High gene, low gene, green gene, blue gene, red gene, dead gene.

YouTube videos:

The Genetic Conspiracy 1 of 3 about Monsanto
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The Genetic Conspiracy 2 of 3 about Monsanto
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The Genetic Conspiracy 3 of 3 about Monsanto
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

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Feedback comes first, so...

I'm sneaking this one in under the radar of talking about personal cleanliness, so here goes.

It is very important and it can be extremely difficult for people with poor coordination to brush their teeth, wash themselves thoroughly and take care of their appearance too.

[ http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1468169771061983546PDHtiw ] I know MSers would all like to have our hygiene taken care of by sitting in a tub of cool water and letting little rasps dispose of the mess we tend to leave behind, and on our behind.

"Reach around" means something different to an MSer.

"Kermit the Frog" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog ] held that "Its not easy being green", but it can also be tough sporting various hues and shades of pinks, yellows or browns.

But I have another topic to cover this episode so you can wait for the thesis, synthesis and conclusion where I will get to it.

And the synthesis and conclusion may be played on WFMU's "The Media squat" of on the last show of August.

Sorry but some things take precedence.

---- "Meat Market" by: "Sunspot" http://www.sunspotmusic.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

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This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Sausage Meat" by: "Reggie s Experience" http://www.reggiesexperience.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

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The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

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The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

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The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

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I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

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My Book is out!

Its got:
• a frontispiece
• a Dedication.
• a Table of Contents
• Some History,
• Some Biography,
• Some Technology,
• Some Evolution,
• Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
• Some Parting Thoughts,
• URLs & references, a list of
• Books and one heck of an
• Index

It comes as a

• 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

• 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

And I've stopped apologizing about the price.

It is what it is and it costs what it costs.

If its not what you want to pay, then its not.

The podcasts are free and if you are getting them through iTunes you can even hang on to them and have all of the links ... forever.

If you want to find out what I'm all about, why I'm doing it and how, you'll pay the price because it'll be worth it to you.

If its not, then you don't pay. Simple enough...

You're already part of an exclusive club, an exclusive tribe.

You're an MSer.

Now go out and spread the word at "your" gathering place.

If "you" don't want to know, maybe someone you know "does" want to know the who, what where, when, why and the how behind niche market communication and MSBPodcast.

Talk with people near you because we're all in some niche of other.

Near might just be a figure of speech because some of the people who I am near, I'll never get to travel to to get some "face time".

That shows the true power of the internet.

---- "Meat Eater" by: "Fang Island" http://myspace.com/fangisland

"Thesis:"

Hygiene is also internal.

Has anyone noticed that their MS symptoms might seem worse after a heavy meal? (It used to be that I felt lousy, and still hungry, after eating a meal.)

After my last attack, my wife and I started paying more attention to what we ate, and not only did I stop feeling like logy crap after eating, but so did she.

Its not just MSers but "everybody."

---- "Brain Food" by: "David Emeny" http://www.davidemeny.com/

"Synthesis:"

vvvv CUT HERE FOR the segment for
"The Media Squat" With "Douglas Rushkoff"
on WFMU ----

The modern industrial processing of food, quite apart from the use of hydrogenated oil, too much salt to make up for the fact that they taste of nothing, aspertame, a witches cauldron of things with hard to pronounce names, like sodium benzoate, mono and di-glycerides, and corn product derivatives, which aren't food in the first place, results in low nutrition products never before seen in nature.

To improve the American diet all they would have to do is stop the corn subsidies.

All of these products would be revealed as costlier processes to produce food substitutes, not food, but food substitutes.

We have corn products in virtually everything.

We eat corn fed beef, chickens, fish and virtually all other food stock, that are so immunocompromised and raised in such unsanitary condition that they are injected with a constant stream of increasingly ineffective antibiotics.

We eat genetically modified crops and we eat more and more of them because we are still hungry after consuming them. We consume more and more sheer bulk but get less and less nutrition.

We chow down on "Round Up ready" plants with so-called 'terminator technology' that don't reproduce from one season to the next, because they're no longer able to. They're programmed to commit suicide after one season by producing only mules. Their seeds are sterile.

Thousands, thousands, of dirt poor farmers in India, who had taken out loans and bought what they thought were good seeds, committed suicide the following year when the seeds they had collected and reserved for the next year failed to germinate. [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html ]

The G.M. crops failed twice, once by still being liked by the local pests and again by being mules.

The loans were still due and the farmers didn't have "bupkiss" to pay them with.

They "drank" the insecticides that they should and would have been spraying on their crops if they hadn't listened to bull that the sales critters were spewing, because they only saw the sides of the holes they had dug for themselves and couldn't see a ray of hope.

This was a deliberate act of deception by the makers of genetically modified crops.

"Buy our magic seeds and they'll be pest resistant" they said..

They weren't.

Indian bugs weren't on the list of "tested for" pests.

"Hey one bug's pretty much like any other, right?"

Wrong...

The North American pests have learned that the stuff tastes like crap and just leave you feeling empty inside, so they have moved on to other food supplies.

The Indian pests hadn't seen the "Round Up Ready" ads I guess and they were still ignorant.

The seeds just tasted new.

The worst part of this is that these accountants without souls, are willfully, knowingly condemning their own children to a future of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and almost certain servitude simply because they can justify it as "Well maybe, but I have to work."

When the work you do puts thousands of people miserably and prematurely in the ground every year and billions of pounds of undigestible lard on the waists of sheeple, those people you treat like sheep, maybe you should take up a different career.

Someday, you will find out, to your horror, that sometimes "the sheep look up" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up ] and their revenge is as unfeeling, uncaring and exterminative as you were, calculating and wondering how long you thought you could get away with it.

I have an old family friend who "had" diabetes, high blood pressure and all sorts of ailments until she was laid off and decided she couldn't afford processed foods anymore.

Now her diabetes in gone, her blood pressure is normal and she no longer has strange ailments.

She is shedding the pounds of stuff that her body couldn't digest, slowly but she is losing the weight.

Coincidence, I don't think so.

She is full of energy, is feeling good and is sort of sleeping better. (Hey, she lives in Brooklyn, its noisy.)

She's found another job, but she's keeping the change in her diet.

I'm in an activist mood: Lets hear
---- "Foie Gras Violent Food" by: "Maria Daine" http://www.maria-daines.com/

"Conclusion:"

Try eating some organic food for a few weeks and see if it helps you control the food cravings, the eating and eating and still not feeling fed, the bingeing on processed food.

Slap those "Twinkies" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie ] out of your child's hands.

Slap those chips and those corn-syrup sweetened soft-drinks out of there too.

You know your child isn'l supposed to look like that, with those incredibly fat legs, chafing at every labored step, supporting that barrel of lard torso.

Humans weren't meant to look like over stuffed sausage casings, bursting with sweat at every exertion.

"Fat Albert" used to be a joke thought up by "Bill Cosby".

He was a caricature of a child, not a role model to be emulated.

Bill Cosby is still alive, for Christ's sake. But his audiences' children aren't.

A couple of generation of children have been, and are still. chewing their way into an early grave; condemning themselves into a life of struggle with their food, not realizing that that food had become their enemy by the very processes used to get it out the ground, into the feed of the animals, into the processing plants, and ultimately into their mouthes; gathering poisons, becoming more laden with toxins at every step.

The world of their own making, in which North Americans exist, because I can't and won't call this living, is laden with poisons, from the dioxins in their mother's breast milk to the toxic residue of the varnish used on their coffins.

I remember a cartoon appearing in "Mad Magazine", or maybe it was in "Playboy", where a bunch of marketing exec's were sitting at a conference table, smoking cigarettes, contemplating a box of kid's cereal and asking "What the heck? Why don't we just make it addictive?"

I'm worried that that joke was actually played on us, by the same kind of people who were evil enough to say that "we'd never buy collapsable steering columns on our cars because it would make them cost a couple hundred bucks more."

"Unsafe At Any Speed" [ http://www.amazon.com/Unsafe-Any-Speed-Ralph-Nader/dp/1561290505 ] by Ralph Nader revealed the math that said that the car companies could afford to pay for the burials of a certain amount of people who died with steering columns sticking into their chests.

Closer to agriculture, look no further than the Tobacco industry [ http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=6718394 ] whose entire production goes up in smoke, polluting on the way and filling graves with loved ones and making orphans of tens of thousands of people every year.

Draw you own conclusions.

Are businesses run by the worthless actuarial mentalities who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, inherently evil, or do you fantasize that some of these sub-human, semi-simian wretches might be salvaged, but only if the cost-benefit analysis shows a protracted positive curve?

I feel the same way about the weight-loss industry as Susan Powter, because these fat farming people would be out of business if their customers were able to climb down off of the consumer treadmill and eat real food, instead of the hydrogenated starch hydrosylate crap, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenated_starch_hydrosylate ] and polysaccharide [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysaccharide ] chemically derived glop.

Do your meals leave you with a bad taste in your mouth and pounds of fat that just stay in your ass?

Then "Stop Eating Crap!"

How about a high colonic that starts in your head?

Change your minds about the beneficence of business people and get a clue as to the "Banality of evil". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil ]

These people will shoot you, point blank in the face, and wonder "What's wrong with you? Why wont you talk to me?"

^^^^ CUT HERE FOR the segment for
"The Media Squat" With "Douglas Rushkoff"
on WFMU ----

---- "Worm food" by: "Ruth Theodore" http://www.ruththeodore.com/

Outro

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"The Genetic Conspiracy" parts 1, 2 & 3

When did this country start having an epidemic of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes?

Can you say "Since Monsanto started screwing around with the seeds we use for growing our food?"

Can you say: "Since they started selling genetically modified, "Round-Up Ready" seeds that commit "sepuku" after one growing season?"

Before then, you had to be a seriously delusional cow killing carnivore-wanna-be to get fat enough to ever contract gout.

Wake the hell up and stop digging your graves with your teeth.

Song list:

"Meat Market"
by: "Sunspot"
http://www.sunspotmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Sausage Meat"
by: "Reggie s Experience"
http://www.reggiesexperience.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Meat Eater"
by: "Fang Island"
http://myspace.com/fangisland
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Brain Food"
by: "David Emeny"
http://www.davidemeny.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Foie Gras Violent Food"
by: "Maria Daine"
http://www.maria-daines.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Worm food"
by: "Ruth Theodore"
http://www.ruththeodore.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

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Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

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Books:

go to my books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

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Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

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You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

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Mon, 24 August 2009

msb-0385 The Glass is Half Full

msb-0385 The Glass is Half Full

YouTube videos:

"Geek NASA" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

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Feedback comes first, so...

Holy smokes, promotion is a face time intensive business. I've got meetings and phone calls scheduled from here to eternity.

I'm having some problems with setting/changing the pricing on the books.

We'll figure something out.

Until then, at $6.25 the ebook is definitely acceptably priced.

The paperback "should" be around $12.95+S&H. Its $19.36.+S&H I know I'm a charity case, but nobody's going to go for it at that price.

I can only hope that book stores are able to buy the book wholesale for about $9.80 and that the book retailer is able to buy enough to sell it for about $12.95. Alright, maybe I don't make any money but at least it out there.

The hardcover "should" be around $25.+S&H. Its $32.10+S&H.

Luckily, the hardcover is a lot better looking. But its still not going to sell unless its competitively priced.

Dang, they look pretty good, but not that good. Somebody would have to really like me and, lets be honest here, I'm not that likable.

I know that there are other authors out there selling their books through Lulu for a lot cheaper than those prices.

Well, I learned a lesson.

You have to get in touch with a real live human being "first". No human, no desire to do business with you.

The options the systems opens to you won't necessarily get you where you want to go and they won't stop you for getting somewhere you didn't want to go.

I'll shop around for somebody else to publish my next book about "The Disability Show."

That one will probably appeal to 15% of the population instead of .0833%. That's a market with almost 200 times the number of people.

I want it to be affordable by handicapped people.

---- "Glass of Tea feat Dan Leeds, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Victoria Lavington" by: "1918 A House Divided Original Cast Recording" http://myspace.com/1918themusical

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

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This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Stained Glass Hammers" by: "3jane" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3jane

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have "three" sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

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The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up on the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the b oulevard around the corner from my apartment.

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The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

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The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

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I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

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Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg a couple of weeks ago.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

Its got:
• a frontispiece
• a Dedication.
• a Table of Contents
• Some History,
• Some Biography,
• Some Technology,
• Some Evolution,
• Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
• Some Parting Thoughts,
• URLs & references, a list of
• Books and one heck of an
• Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

• 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

• 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

---- "Glass Elevator" by: "The Coloured Lights" http://www.thecolouredlights.com/

"Thesis:"

This week, "the glass is half-full" and my plate is definitely full.

I'm hunting down school books (Finally! The shipment came into the book store,) paper and pens which I no longer have the coordination to use legibly, a new power converter for my old PowerBook G4 (its an old Mac but it was built like a tank,) and starting to ramp up for my shows for WSPC.

Like a boy scout, I believe in "being prepared."

---- "Empty Glass" by: "Manny" http://sideshowmanny.com/

"Synthesis:"

Preparation is what makes the difference between success and failure in everything in life.

Failing to plan is planning to fail, at anything and everything.

Life hits you with things from all sides and its never what you expect.

As we are definitely aware, life consists of the crap that happens to you while you were waiting for something else.

In the case of this show's intended audience, that crap was MS.

Now I've talked about my cane, which is how I manage to get around and its about all I use. The rest of me is relatively unaffected.

My sensory nerves are blessedly not giving me any real, or "phantom" pain.

My effector nerves aren't too shaky with spasticity either, (though I occasionally suffer from a kind of "physical Tourettes" which makes picking up a glass or a cup a real bitch sometimes.)

I am just real slow to get moving and grooving. (I live my life like I was in a "AquaFit" class, walking around the bottom of a pool with the weight of the water resisting my every motion, but without the cooling effect of a pool. [As you can imagine, that makes getting around in the summertime heat and sunshine a really sweaty bit of work.])

Man, I could use a heat vest or some of that hurricane that's hanging 'round offshore just south of here.

Well, I've done enough editorializing, (or is that pontificating?), for one day.

---- "Under The Glass" by: "The Rhodes" http://www.myspace.com/therhodeseddierhodes

Noise or the utter absence of noise (like living in the neurological equivalent of an anechoic chamber,) can really mess you up, disorient you and in general make you a miserable person.

Well, at least, my glasses aren't too thick.

---- "(My Glasses Are) Too Thick" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks" http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/

"Conclusion:"

Its not so much a question of planning as it is one of readiness. You should be in a position to recover quickly when life swings that shovel at your face.

With apologies to the "Firesign Theatre" for providing me with the next meme, "When life slips you a mickey, you should be prepared to upend your life, head down the freeway of your choice to ..." Somewhere you didn't plan on being. Nobody does man."

Like Tom Lehrer sang: "Be prepared. That's a boy scout sacred creed."

---- "Be Prepared" by: "Tom Lehrer" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=305884605&s=143441

Outro

The next show will be on a topic dear to my heart and olfactory sense: "Personal Hygiene".

The one after that concerns some feed back and feed forward I recently received.

After that, I'll review (quite favorably,) "The Chaos Scenario" by "Bob Garfiel" of "On The Media" fame. [ http://thechaosscenario.net/blog/ ].

(And I'm going to find out how he published his book. At $13.95 its priced for success.)

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Geek NASA" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"

Song list:

"Glass of Tea feat Dan Leeds, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Victoria Lavington"
by: "1918 A House Divided Original Cast Recording"
http://myspace.com/1918themusical
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Stained Glass Hammers"
by: "3jane"
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3jane
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Glass Elevator"
by: "The Coloured Lights"
http://www.thecolouredlights.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Empty Glass"
by: "Manny"
http://sideshowmanny.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Under The Glass"
by: "The Rhodes"
http://www.myspace.com/therhodeseddierhodes
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"(My Glasses Are) Too Thick"
by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"
http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Be Prepared"
by: "Tom Lehrer"
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=305884605&s=143441
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

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Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to my books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

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Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

Direct download: msb-0385_The_Glass_is_Half_Full.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Mon, 17 August 2009

msb-0384 School's Almost Here

msb-0384 School's Almost Here

YouTube videos:

"School's Out" by: "Alice Cooper & The Muppets"

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Alice Cooper Staples Commercial
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

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Feedback comes first, so...

I'm too busy this week to reply to any feedback that's not related to my book.

I'm trying to do some promotion and its turning out to be quite a chore.

I may be coming to a book store in or near your town soon.

I'll be the exhausted George Carlin look-alike long-haired dude with a red cane sitting at a table at the back of the Borders or the Barnes & Nobles near you.

I'll post up the dates and the locations as I book them.

In the meantime, I am trying out the new schedule and stuff I thought was only going to happen next year I'm trying out today, Sunday, August 16, 2009.

This will be the new regular schedule for MSB's Podcast.

The WSPC Disability Show will be happening on Mondays at 17:00 (5PM).

The WSPC ThymeWarp will be happening on Wednesday's at 17:00 (5PM).

---- "Dead Bodies in the Schoolyard" by: "Thin Acid Angel" http://www.thinacidangel.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

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This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Cigarette Schoolgirl" by: "Nino Tirez" http://www.myspace.com/ninotirez

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

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The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

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The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

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The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

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I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

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Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg a couple of weeks ago.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

Its got:
• a frontispiece
• a Dedication.
• a Table of Contents
• Some History,
• Some Biography,
• Some Technology,
• Some Evolution,
• Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
• Some Parting Thoughts,
• URLs & references, a list of
• Books and one heck of an
• Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

• 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

• 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The trade price, which Amazon would pay for ordering large quantities, goes down to about half of that but I'm practically eating my own shorts at that kind of ROI.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

Oh and thanks for asking JP.

The cover image was shot during the run of the "Christo and Jeanne-Claude" project called "The Gates" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates ] in Central Park, New York, on February 26th, 2005.

Yes, that is me, and that is my red cane.

It was cold that day which explains the black things on my hands. They're called winter gloves and, man, I needed them.

It wasn't very windy but the air was very damp and threatening with snow. That's the kind of weather that chills you to the bones.

I've been in Ottawa in sunny -40° weather and it wasn't that cold.

---- "Schools Out" by: "Fire Underground" http://www.fireunderground.com/

"Thesis:"

I've been reading the book "Animal Spirits" by "George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller" (ISBN 978-0-691-14233-3 ) and its, uh, quite interesting.

There is a behavior which I haven't seen mentioned yet (it IS mentioned later in chapter 10, but I'm not there yet [okay, I have done a quick scan and the mention that I was hoping I would see ... I'm not seeing.])

Hmm... Could it be I made an original observation?

---- "Peaked in Highschool" by: "Jeff Mallon" http://www.jeffmallon.com/

"Synthesis:"

The savings rate in the United States is frankly pathetic and I think this may be another "animal spirit" as exemplified by "La Cigale" the "Grasshopper" in "Les Fables De LaFontaine" known to my Anglophone audience as "Aesop's Fables" [ http://aesopfables.com/ ]

There seems to be a natural "animus" that we humans tend to be profligate in good times and to crash and die along with our economies when times are lean, and right now, times are lean.

Almost every species does this, so we're hardly unique in this respect.

But we're supposed to be better at planning than an elk or a tiger or every other species out there (well "almost" every other species out there, insects have us beat. :-)

Millions of people are out of work and most of them are crashing right along with the economy.

With unwilling and unprepared for unemployment over 10%, the toll on citizens of this country is truly savage and getting desperate.

After 9/11 I was one of the "Gold Card Homeless" and was able to buy some shelter while my home, across the street from the World Trade center, was unreachable and the air around there was unbreathable.

Unlike a lot of my neighbors, I paid for my shelter out of my savings because I "had" some.

When I was able to return to work, I did, but not before.

That's the luxury of having squirreled away some savings.

Granted they were just about exhausted by then, but I'd had some, instead of coming back too soon, being a head-case and suffering from PTSD.

That's what my savings bought me, the time to work through it.

When most of my fellow workers who consult for the banking industry are wishing they could find employment flipping burgers, I am able to spend my time now going to school and bettering myself by returning to college while I am currently unemployed, because I managed my savings wisely the last time I *was* employed.

I wrote my book, and I will flog it, because I was able to write it and because I am able to do the promotion.

My savings gave me the option of doing so.

Unlike the guys out there at the end of their rope, thinking about suckin' on the business-end of a magnum, I "will" survive.

I will outlast this recession, and probably the next one too, because investors are idiots and I don't see the FTC having the balls to bitch-slap the weak-minded vulture capitalists out there at any time soon.

The United States is NO place to be if you're "sans le sou", "without two cents to rub together."

But seriously, if buy the book and you'll keep me traveling to a book fair near you, (or should that read FAR from you. :-)

I'm already thinking about the next book on podcasting and the disabled and other minority groups.

---- "Residential School" by: "SOL 3" http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada

"Conclusion:"

I've been told that being unnaturally cheerful and optimistic is a symptom of MS.

But I keep going back to "La Cigalle et la Fourmie".

I'm no economist, (or is that behaviorist?) but it seems that the necessary instinct to thrift is exactly backward in humans and other mammals.

We spend freely when times are good and we "tighten up the money supply" when times are bad, when that is 180° from the way we "should" be doing it.

The profligate way leads to cycles of glut and privation, booms and crashes.

The thrifty way leads to the smoothing out of the road.

The crashes of the 1890, the 1930s, the 1970s, the 2000s, the minor recessions in between and this current crisis all show the same pattern.

The triggers for the recessions-slash-depressions may all be different but the cause for the crashes are all the same, people don't save any money when they have it, to serve as a buffer when its not coming in.

I'm sorry but I 'm just a man who thinks that its not a good idea to let greedy children run with scissors, specially when the children have a demonstrated and well documented history of self-inflicted economic injuries to themselves and to everyone else with their irrational exuberance [ ] ...

We must enforce thrift, not just encourage it, so this kind of crap doesn't cover the landscape again, like feces spraying around from the back end of a hippopotamus, wagging its short, fat tail furiously to aid in ensuring its wide messy and smelly dispersal.

As it is, I'm only asking that my listeners buy my book, a real object, not a bunch of empty promises, some hand-waving, smoke and mirrors.

---- "Charity Case" by: "MC Frontalot" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=80895957&s=143441

Outro

The difference between Lamborghini or Ferrari and Chrysler or GM is that, wait for it, the luxury car companies didn't over-extend themselves.

The recession just lopped off some of the waiting list. The factories are as busy as ever.

This seems to be a generalized malaise endemic of the atitude that kills car companies or wipes out entire populations, and causes extinctions of both corporations and fauna.

Lets hope we grow at least as smart as other nations' governments, like Argentina's which mandated that everybody "must" be saving for their retirement, and as a result, is weathering the financial crisis far better than us.

In several countries, there is a mandatory percentage of your salary that must be saved for your retirement.

Those are the countries who loaned the US Government the nearly one trillion dollars that the US Government now finds itself on the hook for. (And it may be the US Government that took out the loan but its the U.S. Citizens who have to pay every cent of it back.)

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"School's Out"
by: "Alice Cooper & The Muppets"

Alice Cooper Staples Commercial

Song list:

"Dead Bodies in the Schoolyard"
by: "Thin Acid Angel"
http://www.thinacidangel.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Cigarette Schoolgirl"
by: "Nino Tirez"
http://www.myspace.com/ninotirez
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Schools Out"
by: "Fire Underground"
http://www.fireunderground.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Peaked in Highschool"
by: "Jeff Mallon"
http://www.jeffmallon.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Residential School"
by: "SOL 3"
http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Charity Case"
by: "MC Frontalot"
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=80895957&s=143441
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to my books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

Direct download: msb-0384_Schools_Almost_Here.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Wed, 12 August 2009

msb-0383 Tertiary pain

msb-0383 Tertiary pain

YouTube videos:

Color Wheel for Kids: Demonstrations and Projects : Mixing Tertiary Colors for Kids
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