Complaining with Kay, Episode 34: Ninja Mouse.

My sympathy for the Obama children, my dad’s brief brush with the conservative media, the ninja-like mice we seem to have attracted, and who I really work for.
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 33: Solving the problem of survival.

A thought experiment.
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 32: Does bubble bees bite?

Here it is.

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 31: Killing the mini-fridge and its consequences.

Killing the mini fridge.
La dolce vita.
My compositional debut.
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 30: Vegetarianism-ism + To Train Up a Child

I go vegetarian, and compare Debi and Michael Pearl’s “child-training” (note: not “child-rearing”) book, “To Train Up a Child” to the work of Cesar Millan, aka The Dog Whisperer.  Also: the difference between puppies and babies, and why eating animals is not NECESSARILY bad.
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 29: The economics of knitting + internet moronicity.

Why you’ll never make a living knitting sweaters, and how some Canadian government entities do. not. get. the. internet.
Apologies for the sound quality – I had to record with the Imac’s internal microphone.
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 28: Fiddling while Rome burns.

Is America becoming fascist?  If so, should I be doing something about it?
Smarter people with better research skills have written about this:
at Orcinus
at Crooks and Liars
on Alternet
and many other places
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 27.5, Literary Supplement: The Reject Cast.

The literary supplement returns with some stuff that either got rejected from other stuff or that Ben rejected as PRO lyrics.  As my friend Alex Eddington says, “Beautiful writing is all very well, but people need to know what the f*ck you’re talking about.”
In this episode:
- “Is it too much to ask?”
- Revenant
- “I was [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 27: Save me from myself.

No, not ME.  This podcast is about those I think need to be saved from THEMselves.  Including:
- the SpokesDouche in the Douchemobile
- Lars Larsen, minor American conservative pundit
- A very sad-looking man in a car at Bloor and Bathurst
…Plus me musing about rival goods and diversity.
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Complaining with Kay, Episode 26: Don’t patronise me!

I had a completely different idea for a podcast today, but it involved me getting hold of a Cesar Millan book and I didn’t manage to do it. Next week. Today instead I talk about the effects of arts funding organizations on art.
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