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Off the record, on the Q.T. and very, very hush-hush.</center>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-36875164863138615232013-04-08T02:36:00.001-05:002013-04-08T14:31:48.475-05:00Commander Butthurt retains #1 lulz generator title<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Y</span><span style="font-size: large;">ear in, year out,</span> no one in the shortwave pirate radio hobby generates lulz at his own expense quite like Pat Murphy and his falter ego Commander Bunny of baby monitor radio powerhutch WBNY.</b> <br />
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April Fools Day 2013 was no exception, other than providing an exceptional example of the Lagomurph's knack for snitching dual fail where most fail addicts would be satisfied with one.<br />
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Despite months of slacking off, your friendly neighborhood troll-bloggers here at Radio Paranoia sobered up just long enough last week to slap together a <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2013/04/bidding-war-over-frn-domain-may-be-won.html" target="_blank">transparently obvious April Fools Day prank post</a>. Mostly it was just our way of saying "Yes, we're still alive and occasionally sober." It wasn't <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/05/guise-faux-unmasked.html" target="_blank">our best effort at trolling</a>, and we certainly didn't expect the Lagomurph to swallow like a Thai ladyboy. But ya gotta admire his enthusiasm.<br />
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After swallowing like the AVN for Best Oral was at stake, Commander Butthurt not only hacked up a hareball on his own blarg, he also managed to pull a deuce out of his butt and immediately took a giant "Welcome home, suckers!" dump in the newly revived FRN. Apparently the Lagomurph hadn't taken a crap since the <a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/w/images/thumb/e/e9/FRN_Annual_Domain_Registration_Day.jpg/800px-FRN_Annual_Domain_Registration_Day.jpg" target="_blank">annual Ides of March FRN shutdown</a> and was so full of Murphy he exploded on the FRN. Fortunately the place is a ghost town and nobody got tagged with any spatter.<br />
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Watch your step, kids, it's foul going between the piles of cecotropes under his Murphy <i>nom de guerre</i>, and under his Commander Bunny <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwedOnaVuB8" target="_blank">nom-nom-nom</a> de hare</i>.<br />
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The timing couldn't have been lulzier. The FRN came back online April 2. We thank John Cruzan and hope he had a restful respite in the arms of Eris.<br />
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Screencaps provided so you don't need to visit the WBNY blarg, or the FRN - although the latter is such a ghost town now it's easier to find the few posts from the handful of the faithful, bless 'em (not a dig at you fellows, honest). So far Murphy is using only the CB radio alias and hasn't activated his sock drawer army... yet.<br />
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Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com214tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-56014089365390191182013-04-01T23:13:00.001-05:002013-04-02T03:39:17.353-05:00Bidding war over FRN domain may be won by Family Radio Network<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsV7jPAES_gpaB2gw9M9OZ_gOquHTcMkcpciD5lLQHUh8y2Q7axMvpgkUdDyeHzY5ifFsRHlPiIA1HKn_hwB_ieyWJ0vWEm2EfwveriZ47RKV_W357lQJQm-Ayb_MgDXLQwO3dM-jiHo/s1600/Boxxy-Eris-Golden-Apple.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667036912959917586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsV7jPAES_gpaB2gw9M9OZ_gOquHTcMkcpciD5lLQHUh8y2Q7axMvpgkUdDyeHzY5ifFsRHlPiIA1HKn_hwB_ieyWJ0vWEm2EfwveriZ47RKV_W357lQJQm-Ayb_MgDXLQwO3dM-jiHo/s200/Boxxy-Eris-Golden-Apple.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 138px;" /></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">R</span>adio Paranoia learned late Monday that the apparently abandoned FRN</b> - formerly the Free Radio Network - is the target of a bidding war for the desirable three-letter top level domain. As of last week insiders say the high bid was held by a syndicate formed to pool the resources of the <a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/" target="_blank">HF Underground</a>, <a href="http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/index.php" target="_blank">Free Radio Cafe</a>, and a consortium of shortwave pirate radio operators and fans from Lula, Georgia to Poutine, Canada. The frn.net domain has an estimated market value of $500, but in a bidding war may reach into the thousands of dollars.<br />
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However by Monday a new front runner emerged, indicating the Family Radio organization plans to obtain the domain for an unspecified high-four-figure sum. The goal, according to an anonymous source, is to relaunch the FRN as the Family Radio Network and "purge the domain of the fetid remains of the stinking hutches of hell."<br />
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The FRN has been dormant since the annual Ides of March outage, an esoteric religious ceremony observed by frn.net domain owner John Cruzan. The 2013 domain outage marks the longest recorded continuous period of hermetic worship by the domain owner, reportedly an effort to ward off the too-familiar Spring tornado curse. While the history of the annual ritual is shielded from outsiders, it appears to derive from Discordianism and features sacrifices of mystical butthurt gathered from the shed rabbit fur of <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2012/04/murphy-and-commander-bunny-together.html" target="_blank">Pat Murphy</a>'s annual histrionics and presented as a burnt offering to troll goddess Eris.<br />
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Pirate radio fans who actually give a single dry turd about the history and heritage of the FRN, which was relevant for a few minutes over a decade ago before Pat Murphy socked up it, are urged to support the HF Underground, Free Radio Cafe and <a href="http://www.alfalima.net/" target="_blank">Alfa Lima</a> coalition in a bid to purchase the domain and give it a decent burial. Show your support with PayPal donations, ad click-throughs or, if strapped for cash, just keep doing what you've been doing - positive support for the hobby. In other words, the exact opposite of whatever the hell <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2012/04/commander-bunny-doesnt-see-anything.html" target="_blank">Commander Buttmunch</a> did that killed the FRN.Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-25158878847058685562013-01-28T02:43:00.001-06:002013-01-28T09:47:13.477-06:00Commander Bunny's WBNY Blog Raped By SEO Spammers -- Great Success For The Peoples!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">L</span><span style="font-size: large;">eave it to the former shortwave radio pirate once known as Commander <strike>Bunny</strike> Buttmunch</span></b> of QRP stuporstation WBNY to figure out new, creative and entertaining ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with the same enthusiasm he shows for snacking cecotropes from his butt.<br />
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After a long and much needed break from <strike>blarging</strike> pooping in his Depends, <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pNIoh9jRAAkJ:www.dcrtv.com/mb1207b.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" target="_blank">Pat Murphy, aka J. Michael Graves</a>, aka the Virginia Bunnyman, aka Commander <strike>Bunny</strike> Buttmunch, aka Bob Smith 6955, aka Robert "DCRTV" Smith, aka the sockpuppet quartet of Beans, Thumper, Mosby & Bouncer, aka Ima Snitch, resumed his two favorite occupations in 2013: self pwning and snitching.<br />
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In January 2013 the disgraced former radio personality again made the mistake of pretending to understand the internets and, hypnotized by alpha-numeric characters beyond his ken, smashed his head against the keyboard several times, miraculously producing a few barely intelligible rants that appeared to be self-congratulatory about the WBNY blarg web traffic.<br />
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And how did the WBNY blarg achieve the stats he claims? Because as of January 27, <b>Commander Buttmuncher's WBNY blog is infested with SEO crap! Our Great Peoples crap!</b> Mostly promoting our <b>Great Peoples Viagra</b>. You see, my friends, the Buttmuncher's J-Pole is suffering from too much J and not enough pole.<br />
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According to the <a href="http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/9240c48ab6589b893852358b3494c818-1359327078" target="_blank">Zulu Risk Analyzer</a> and <a href="http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ei=h7AFUYqkPIrPqgGGjYEg&answer=190597&?sa=X&ved=0CDwQpwgwAQ" target="_blank">Google's data</a>, the WBNY blog has achieved the enviable status of "Pretty Fucked Up", usually reserved for Russian <strike>child porn</strike> delicious cake sites and ancient Web 1.0 Geocities sites hosting sparkly animated GIFs of rainbow unicorns and Barry Manilow midi music.<br />
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Murphy has also resumed another of his favorite occupations: Snitching out rival shortwave pirate radio operators. Without provocation (including from our own Radio Paranoia blog, which had been on hiatus since August 2012), Murphy has resumed his longtime hobby of publicly posting names and locations of "enemies", some of whom may be active or occasional ops. <i>(We know of a couple of active or recently active ops among the dozen or so people Murphy has identified by name and location. There may be others - impossible for anyone to know for certain, especially for ops who never used the Belfast mail drop. --GF)</i><br />
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His WBNY blog <i>(on Ragnar's domain, which otherwise seems clear)</i> is so infested with SEO crap, courtesy of Our Great Peoples, this puny, feeble Murphy is suffering from diarrheatic scooties - scooting his butt along the rug to clean off excess cecatropes. Now he leaves a brown trail to find his way back to the nursing home after becoming disoriented by the long journey to the mailbox in fruitless hopes of ever seeing another valid signal report. Other than from himself and the handful of minions still clinging to the corpse of the FRN.<br />
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Great Success for The Peoples! And remember, Confuse-Us say: It is impolite to laugh at the red flag-level fail of Papa Smurphy. So do it often.<br />
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Keep that in mind, folks, should you ever decide to ask for a WBNY QSL. If you're a pirate station op, active or inactive, or a listener who might ever become an op, be sure to put plenty of buffer between your station info and pirate radio alias, your real name, and The Myxomatosis Kid.</div>
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Don't use any email service that shows your IP/location in the headers. Gmail is good <i>(sure, Google can spy on you, but they probably won't rat you out to the FCC or drop dox all over the internuts)</i>. So are a couple others. Don't use Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or most older email services to correspond with the wascally wabbit unless you don't care what he does with your identifying info. When in doubt you can send yourself an email or email a trusted friend and check the headers to see whether it gives away your IP and location.</div>
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Don't access the FRN or WBNY blog without using a proxy. Startpage includes an option to use the Ixquick proxy to view websites, but disables posting on most sites that use Javascript (including Blogger comment sections). Otherwise try Tor. Some freebie proxies work, many don't. When in doubt, use an IP checker to see whether a proxy actually does what it claims.</div>
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Keep in mind this isn't just to protect yourself from the Cecotrope Muncher's proclivity for writing naughty things about you on the interwebs. Sticks and stones, doncha know. But he's also a snitch and has reported pirate ops to the authorities.</div>
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Have a happy, healthy and fun 2013, folks. And by "fun" we mean, of course, ruining pirate radio fun for Commandante Buttmunch.</div>
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Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-63999238900058656872012-08-28T09:34:00.000-05:002012-08-28T10:46:28.024-05:00Top Ten Coolest Pirate Deaths<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-size: large;">n recent weeks</span></b> we've been informed that Commander Murphy or Pat Bunny have/has-been implying he/they possesses deadly <strike>multiple fursonality disorder</strike> sniper powers and his enemies should quake in fear of his <strike>myxomatosis infected spittle</strike> mad skills.<br />
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At least, that's how the Virginia Bunnyman's <strike>aides-de-camp</strike> nuthuggers described it. However, we know the Bunnyman all too well. <i>(For instance, we know what he carried in <a href="http://www.wrovhistory.com/Rovers/jmichaelgraves.htm" target="_blank">that briefcase at WROV</a> - spare bunched panties. He wears 'em all the time, especially while blogging.)</i> After examining the data and video evidence, what we observed more closely resembled an America's Funniest Video segment in which a fat guy trips over his manboobs, looses his balance and flounders along at full gallop for 50 yards, arms flailing wildly, before finally belly-flopping onto a meadow muffin.<br />
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<i>(Presumably the Lagomurph will claim he meant to do that to get steadier aim with his Nerf gun. --GF)</i><br />
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<li>Keelhauling</li>
<li>Flogging</li>
<li>Yardarm lynching</li>
<li>Blunderbussing</li>
<li>Cutlassing</li>
<li>Beard fire burns</li>
<li>Scurvy</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys4V-MSXnAM">Shark</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7u5WzLSo_E">Spear</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Kaito_KA1102">Electrocuted while performing 440v 3-phase mod</a></li>
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Least cool ways for pirates to die:</h4>
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<li>Head shots by Navy SEAL snipers</li>
<li>Poop decked</li>
<li>Myxomatosis</li>
<li>Auto-erotic asphyxiation while wearing bunny suit</li>
<li>Snitching to FCC</li>
<li>Strangling on own sockpuppets</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onINjphTtc4">Giant ghost pirate sock monkeys</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/pentagon-wikiboat-collective-us-936/">h4xx0rd</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbFvAaO9j8M">Tiger. Fucking tiger. Never get outta the boat.</a></li>
<li>And the least cool way of all... <b>Murph-Nerfed</b></li>
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The corpse may continue to show occasional spasms and zombie-like animations, between the annual domain lapses, but the FRN you once knew is defunct. It has ceased to be. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. It ain't pinin' for the fjords. It is an ex-parrot. What you see now is an open grave, a cheap casket with few mourners, and a tombstone etched with a pitiable epitaph: <i>"Herein Lies... lies."</i><br />
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The onetime "Free Radio Network" had been on life support since the late 2010-early 2011 mass exodus toward safer sanctuary on the HFU and FRC. In <a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum20/HTML/000004.html" target="_blank">April 2012 John T. Arthur took the FRN off life support</a> but the brain-dead body clung to a vegetative state of meager existence until <a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum4/HTML/021320.html" target="_blank">July 23, 2012</a> when JTA put a knife through its heart... from behind its back, of course.<br />
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Recently JTA, longtime Belfast, NY mail drop operator and erstwhile FRN cat herder, advocated exposing the identities and locations of shortwave pirate radio operators who'd been "dumb enough to be busted" by the FCC. <br />
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In so doing, JTA surprised some of us who, perhaps naively, had once regarded him as a somewhat uncommon voice of reason and sanity in an undeniably quirky hobby. There was a time, on rare occasions, JTA dared to counter the increasingly insane abuses of Pat Murphy's numerous sockpuppets. That time is no more.<br />
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Specifically he joined "Commander Bunny" of WBNY in repeatedly naming the operator of The Crystal Ship, and, by logical inference, advocating exposing the identities of other pirates who'd met with similar misfortune. By this same logic, any op who'd gotten The Knock, a NOUO, warning or other FCC enforcement action can expect to see their names, addresses and personal information repeatedly posted on the FRN, the WBNY blog and Facebook pages and everywhere the Virginia Bunnyman pauses to munch a load of his own night poops. This should alarm not only every station operator who has been the subject of any FCC action, but also every active station operator who still uses the Belfast mail drop.<br />
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anything but Greg."</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>--John T. Arthur, operator of Belfast, NY, mail drop. <a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum4/HTML/021320.html" target="_blank">"6925 AM Music and Crying"</a> thread, FRN, July 23, 2012</i></span></span></blockquote>
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Aside from willful ignorance of the difference between an alias or pseudonym and a sockpuppet, JTA also demonstrated to countless free/pirate radio operators and listeners, who have entrusted him with their names and addresses, that respect for personal privacy is subject to whim. Those posts underscore the disease of hypocrisy and hubris that quickly decimated the FRN after the 2008 "pirate war" led to Pat Murphy (aka, Jerry Michael Graves) <strike>resigning his position as site administrator</strike> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEKTSO1scaI" target="_blank">taking his toys and stomping off in a huff</a>... or a minute and a huff. Thence he donned full time the bunny garb of Lagomurph & His Sock Puppet Crew of Beans, Mosby, Thumper, Bouncer, et al. This myxomatosis infection spread to full butthurt level by late 2009, by which time his delusional, paranoid hostility, slanderous accusations of enemies as pedophiles and generally questionable closeted aspirations had meta<i>murph</i>osed the FRN into his personal vanity site resulting in a mass exodus to friendlier radio hobbyist websites.<br />
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A few of the faithful cling to the corpse, like <strike>flies on shit</strike> pitiable mourners who can't bring themselves to face reality and bury the body. They're misled pagans and wannabe druids worshiping at the ruins of a Stonehenge, not realizing the structure never was what they'd been led to believe. They thought the FRN was a supportive community for pirate fans to exchange info and tips on neutral ground. Instead it was a temple occupied by an increasingly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGBsaaHtQY&" target="_blank">paranoid, delusional cult leader</a>, his sock drawer acolytes, a minuscule remnant of actual minions and his ever faithful homunculus goon bred from the Lagomurph's sperm and ample supply of bullshit.<br />
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Reviewing the old FRN threads chronologically reveals how the site began dying from Murphy's slow poison. The illness progressed rapidly around 2005 when the toxic effect of his pet homunculus interjected itself. The Lagomurph's sockpuppetry finally choked the spirit of a once lively and generally gregarious site. JTA's comments this year merely nailed the coffin shut on a rotting corpse. All that remains now is to bury or burn the thing.<br />
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Cryptically and somewhat ironically, a reply to JTA's April 2012 thread, seemed to hint - wittingly or not - at the rotten core of the bond between the mail drop operator and the Lagomurph:<br />
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At this point it is difficult to tell whether JTA's recent comments were mere recklessness born of frustration over seeing the once proud FRN deteriorate to the level of a bad joke, or carefully contrived to reassert pirate radio as being only for a select group of bad boys. Either way, he's pandering to the mentality of Murphy and Kracker in advocating an abrasive style that makes the FRN inhospitable to most people who prefer their personal privacy be respected - ops and listeners alike.<br />
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Perhaps most humiliating of all for the Lagomurph and his puny FRN coterie, nobody is intimidated any longer. The Felching Rabbit Nuthuggers have become at best irrelevant and at worst a laughingstock. Several new stations have emerged with solid signals that reach across the continent and even the world, unlike the WBNY signal that entertains only the varmints in his backyard hutch. (I will confess to once having heard an authentic WBNY broadcast via my <i>carradio</i> while I was driving near his hutch.) The hobby continues to draw new listeners.<br />
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The loss of trust in the Belfast mail drop is also a loss to traditional DXers who enjoyed receiving QSL cards. But time marches on and somehow we manage to adapt, even without the Lagomurph's Trojan Bunny gifts festooned with increasingly bizarre symbols that seem to belie a latent obsession with nude men and suicide, even in preference to his former passion for monkey boys.<br />
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For what it's worth, many of us who received QSLs courtesy of JTA's mail drop are - or <i>were</i> - grateful for his efforts. But everything has its limits. A few postcards and postage stamps don't buy the right to slander fans of a niche hobby or abuse access to personal information.<br />
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A comment on Poet's <a href="http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2011/07/commander-bunny-scurries-out-of-hole.html" target="_blank">TCS blog last year</a> seems more appropriate now than ever:<br />
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<cite class="user">Anonymous</cite><br />
<span class="icon user"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text"><a href="http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2011/07/commander-bunny-scurries-out-of-hole.html?showComment=1312668650406#c8343503304922680221" rel="nofollow">August 6, 2011 6:10 PM</a></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b>The fact is CB is only a part of a cancer that has existed in SW Free Radio for many years. </i><br />
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<i>It's very telling seeing which individuals who like poor magicians attempt
sleight of hand deception tricks with their words and deeds in an
attempt to make excuses or suggest doubt about the events that are now
known by the public. It's the same crap that certain career politicians
in Washington use every day. Just say something over and over and
maybe it will trump the actual facts. Maybe people will believe it if
one repeats something enough times. Or maybe people will just forget in
time what happen. </i><br />
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<i>Until the remaining cancer is exposed to the
public for what it is, the community will continue to suffer. The
worst part of the cancer is JTA. And Zeller is no better. They will
cover for each other and watch each other's backs regardless of the
unethical behavior perpetrated by their core individuals. They smile to
your face, but watch out what happens behind your back!</i><br />
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<i>These
individuals will continue to look the other way when wrongs are done by
their friends just as they have countless times in the past. </i><br />
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<i>Their
lack of ethics bonds their members in common cause simply by
association. The result is that no matter what the collective group
does as a result of its aggregate ignorance, loyalty to one another will
always and forever outweigh any evil actions that may be undertaken.
Simply put, for these individuals, truth by association trumps morality.
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<i>Pirate operators should be wary! And be careful!<br />
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Snakes cannot be trained!<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b></i></blockquote>
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<i><a href="http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2012/07/screenshots-of-bobsmith6955-snitch.html" target="_blank">See Poet's follow up and additional information on this topic.</a></i>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com242tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-60649162576086352692012-07-21T00:29:00.001-05:002012-07-22T12:50:30.103-05:00Fink Noise Part 2: The "Bob Smith" email<table class="tr_bq" style="width: auto;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>by Guise Faux,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>aka <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/05/guise-faux-unmasked.html" target="_blank">The *Real* Commander Bunny</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="font-size: large;">s Pat Murphy plays another of his endless supply of ass-in-the-hole cards,</span> we see he <strike>rewrote his act</strike> <a href="http://baleeted.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">baleeted</a> his self-incriminating shitpost this week. Now it's even unfunnier. Great success!<br />
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On Wednesday he posted a WBNY blarg aimed at Doc John of Northern Relay Service, in which the Lagomurph again attempted to expose the identity and location of a "rival" free radio operator. Friday, apparently in a panic, he disappeared the incriminating post.*<br />
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Murphy has suffered from dumped girlfriend syndrome ever since late 2010 when several programmers sensibly opted for Northern Relay Service in addition to - or instead of - the mighty 8 watt WBNY "International Relay Service." Since the two stations had entirely different coverage areas there was no overlap and no reason to consider it competition. But that's in the real world. In the Lagomurph's paranoid delusional bunniverse, everything revolves around him. (Hint: Those are just cecotropes revolving around you, bunnyman. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=QBPqpco-3KI" target="_blank">NOM-NOM-NOM!!!</a>)<br />
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Throughout 2009-2010, Murphy morphed the FRN into the For Rabbit Nuthuggers site through relentless pimping of the WBNY relay service, with many hilarious jealous tantrums and self-loggings when other stations were logged more often than his own. Even Andrew Yoder's log of Northern Relay Service on the FRN was disappeared in early 2011. Since then the jilted hare-terror has indulged in a relentless stalking campaign, apparently inspired by Glenn Close's performance in <i>Fatal Attraction</i>, and Sean Young <i><a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119824,00.html" target="_blank">In Real Life</a></i>.<br />
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Coincidentally on Wednesday this week, we learned of the existence of an email confirming Murphy snitched out the Canadian shortwave pirate radio station last year. <i>(See: <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2012/07/fink-noise-connection-confirmed-between.html" target="_blank">Fink Noise: Connection Confirmed Between Pat Murphy and Snitching on "Rival" Pirate Radio Operator</a>)</i> The email echoes some of the same information repeated in Wednesday's WBNY blog rant, strengthening the connection between "bobsmith6955@yahoo.com" and Murphy. In his frenzy of endless vendettas, Murphy apparently forgot he'd used the same email address numerous times under various aliases online - including Usenet and a genealogy site - leaving a trace of IP headers tracing back to the same Newport News, VA, IP connected with his ebay vendor, as well as a listing of her Newport News address in connection with Murphy's regional political activity in Virginia.<br />
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Here is the "Bob Smith" email complaint about Northern Relay Service, to Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society, dated February 8, 2011 (redacted for privacy). Note that the next day "Bob Smith" emailed Doc John in a faux-friendly gesture, urging him to go on-air <i>(See: <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/house-of-games-bob-smith-cons-piracy.html">"House of Games: 'Bob Smith' con's-piracy"</a>)</i>.<br />
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<i>(7/21/12, 2325 UTC update note: Minor format revisions to clarify separations between emails from YARS and Bob Smith. Unfortunately the Blogger platform doesn't easily accommodate multiple nested indents, so horizontal rules have been inserted to clarify separations. Note that Bob Smith appears to be quoting to YARS an email he had *already* sent to the Industry Canada office in Saskatoon, implying that Murphy had indeed already complained about Northern Relay Service to both YARS - an amateur radio club - and to Industry Canada, the Canadian regulatory enforcement agency. Recall that last year Doc John also said he got a call about this from a CBC reporter, indicating that Murphy had also complained to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. When further documentation is available it will be published here. --GF)</i><br />
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From: Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society (email address redacted)<br />
To: (redacted)<br />
Sent: Wed, Jul 18, 2012 5:16 pm<br />
Subject: Re: Fwd: Pirate Radio Yellowknife inquiry<br />
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Hi (name redacted),<br />
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Yes, we got a complaint from “Bob Smith” – see below:<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">From: Bob Smith (mailto:bobsmith6955@yahoo.com)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 5:07 PM</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">To: (Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Subject: Need help catching pirate radio operator</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have sent this to the Saskatoon office but you should be aware of this violator in Ft. Smith. He is disrupting Radio, TV and computers in the Ft. Smith area. Please, PLEASE take action to stop this outlaw.</span><br />
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<i>(Note: Here, "Bob Smith" appears to be quoting a copy of the email he'd already sent to Industry Canada. --GF)
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I wish to report a Pirate radio station in Ft. Smith in the Northwest Territory. It is located near (address redacted) street, right by the Aurora College Campus. He is identifying himself as "Radio Yellowknife" and "Northern Relay Service" and coming in on TV's Radios and computer speakers at the college campus and nearby houses. He is transmitting on 6930 and 6940khz in the shortwave band. He is, I am told by a Ham Radio friend, "running some big power" to be coming in on tv's, Radio's and computer speakers many blocks away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My weekends are a nightmare as this "pirate" is running his big powerful transmitter non-stop for many, many hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You would be doing the good people of Ft. Smith a great service to stop this illegal operation and abuse of the broadcast spectrum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Any help you can provide in helping to stop this pirate broadcaster would be appreciated. He is transmitting anti-Canadian programs and making fun of people in the Northwest Territories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He is on the air Friday nights, Saturdays, Saturday nights and Sundays and Sunday nights. he's on like clockwork.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He comes on usually around 6PM local time and goes off sometimes after midnight, local time. He plays rock and roll music, talks about his love of "pot" and has many anti- Canada statements. He one program, called "Radio Yellowknife" comes on weekly, and then he also has what he calls, "Northern Relay Service" whatever that is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">many thanks, hope you catch this scalliwag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Bob Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ft. Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here is additional information so you can "google earth" this pirates location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">IP address:(redacted)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">country: Canada</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">IP Address state:Northwest Territories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">IP Address city:Fort Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">:NorthwestelOrganization</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">:NorthwestelHost: (redacted)</span></div>
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Other than that, I don’t have much information on this. His name didn’t come up much, and personally I never heard him on the air.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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(YARS, name redacted)
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Did the phrase "the good people of Ft. Smith" ring any bells? If you've read enough of Murphy's rants under his various aliases and sockpuppets, you'll recognize one of his "tells": the dualistic thinking of expressing everything as good vs nasty. In Murphy's cosmology, you're either with him or you're with the terrorists. Pretty much like George W. Bush, only Bush never nom-nom-nom'd his own night poops. While he's not alone in using the term, phrases such as "good pirates" are most often associated with his rants on the FRN.<br />
<a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/004799.html" target="_blank">"IRC the destruction of Pirate Radio"</a><br />
<a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/003078.html" target="_blank">"Mother of Mercy! is this the End of Kracker et al?"</a><br />
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Another classic Murphy "tell": psychological projection or foisting off his offenses onto others. It was actually Murphy, under his "Bob Smith" pseudonym, who introduced the topic of dope humor in his Feb. 9, 2011 emails to NRS, when "Bob" wrote <i>"I may have to take a huge bong hit, and go over to the Mormon Temple and zone out!"</i> It was also Murphy who introduced any "anti-Canadian" issues with his sarcasm toward Mormons in Lethbridge, Industry Canada, etc. Doc John didn't take the bait and, instead, set the bait for Murphy to trap himself by sneaking in a few jabs at Commander Bunny.<br />
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*NOTE: That WBNY shitpost was deleted on Friday. Apparently the Lagomurph realized it echoed too closely the details of his email last year. So in typical rabbit fashion, he ate his own poop. Here's a screencap of that blog entry. Note the specific location references between the February 8, 2011 email and July 18, 2012 WBNY blarg. Murphy has a history of abusing access to IPs of FRN posters to harass his many enemies. And as he does here, he also has a history of being hilariously WRONG in identifying the names and locations of perceived enemies. Well, maybe not so hilarious if you're among the many people he's misidentified and slandered. Fortunately for his lawyers, liability insurance company and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCPjrBbCVWU" target="_blank">psychiatrist</a>, he can always fall back on the myxomatosis-influenced brain damage defense.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">K</span><span style="font-size: large;">arma is a funny thing.</span></b> And it's one of the Lagomurph's favorite and most often abused words - which the poor addled feller conflates with revenge and vendetta driven by his own delusional paranoia. Understandable given his genetic Virginny hillbilly predisposition toward fussin' and a' feudin'. Combine those inbred vulnerabilities with a knock on his noggin from falling off his two-wheeler about 10 years ago and, as Hank Hill often lamented of son Bobby, that boy ain't right.<br />
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But karma is the closest thing we humans get to hipster cosmic irony. It's the inevitable but wholly natural restoration of balance through events that seem spookily coincidental and fuck your shit up just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water.<br />
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So imagine our surprise to find the existence of - mere hours after a Wednesday <a href="http://shortwavepirate.info/WBNY/?p=3768" target="_blank">WBNY blog</a> blurt purporting to expose the identity and location of yet another pirate op on the bunnyman's extensive enemies list - written confirmation that former broadcast radio personality and FRN administrator <b>Pat Murphy</b> <i>(aka "Commander Bunny", aka "The Lagomurph", aka a dozen aliases and sockpuppets documented here before)</i> <b>had, indeed, snitched out Doc John of Northern Relay Service and Radio Yellowknife to Canadian authorities</b>.<br />
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This, via the infamouse "bobsmith6955@yahoo.com" persona documented at tedious length in our very own RP yellow journal last year. (See: <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/house-of-games-bob-smith-cons-piracy.html" target="_blank">"House of Games: 'Bob Smith' con's-piracy"</a>) Copies of those emails were reproduced here, along with definitive IP links tracing back to the Lagomurph's home turf of Hampton Roads, Virginny, as well as to his replies on a genealogy site (known to be one of Murphy's hobbies) and his "Bouncer" alias on Usenet when he posted arrest records for a DXer several years ago during one of Murphy's many vendettas.<br />
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Now, friends, that "Bob Smith ratted out Doc John" rumor had circulated 'round the nether parts of the ether for nigh unto a year plus a blue moon plus a coupla fortnights. And RP has documented before the pathetically inept attempts by the bunnyman to con Doc John, which the crafty Canuck flipped around into one of the internet's all time most hilarious counter-trolls ever.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"We have learned through the high frequency underground that email evidence is in hand linking Pat Murphy to snitching out a pirate radio station operator."</span></blockquote>
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What we lacked was a copy of the actual email proving "bobsmith6955@yahoo.com" did indeed file a complaint against Northern Relay Service in an attempt to silence a rival pirate radio operator. Well, dear readers, we have learned through the HF underground that email evidence is in hand which incontrovertibly links Pat Murphy to snitching out a pirate radio station operator, an action generally regarded as an unpardonable sin amongst the community - according to Murphy himself in many online rants under his own name and his various radio aliases and online sockpuppets. <br />
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Reliable sources tell us the email will be published soon, with a Wikipedia entry cross-linking the evidence. When that becomes available we'll reproduce it here. But we've seen the email and it confirms not only the rumors circulated last year, but is even worse in terms of the Lagomurph's desperation to silence a free radio operator whose only offense was to dare to offer an alternative to the WBNY 8 watt "International Relay Service", and to broadcast a clever parody of the bunnyman's paranoia, the "Paranoia News North".<br />
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In retaliation for this unpardonable offense to the Lagomurph's delicate ego and withered huevos, Murphy abused his access to the FRN via numerous sockpuppets, his WBNY programs and WBNY blog (hosted on Ragnar Daneskjold's domain), and Facebook page to publicly slander another free radio operator as a "pedophile". (Recall that this is not the first time the Lagomurph has resorted to this tactic. Apparently he sees pedophiles under the straw in his hutch in the same way Jerry Sandusky saw them in the mirror.)<br />
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Nevertheless, the former administrator of the FRN (one-time Free Radio Network, later the For Rabbit Nuthuggers only site, now the Forgotten Radio Nothing tumbleweeds and dust bunnies site) remains as an occasional poster - usually logging his own WBNY broadcasts. He also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellatio" target="_blank">heads the board</a> of the North American Shortwave Pirate Radio Hall of Fame, where he can <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anilingus" target="_blank">exert some spin</a> on whatever remains of the rotting remains of his legacy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pat Murphy. <span style="background-color: white;">Respected broadcast radio professional. Creative free radio programmer.</span><br />
Lavish gifter of elaborate QSL packages.<br />
Blog blurting bunnyman.<br />
Leader of the <span style="background-color: white;">Rat Fink Revolution & Host of Fink Noise on WBNY.</span><br />
Petty, vindictive, paranoid multiple-fursonality myxomatosis-infected snitch.<br />
Everything that makes pirate radio the most fun you can have with your<br />
pants around your ankles and your brain on the floor.</td></tr>
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Funniest of all, he continues using his WBNY platform and Commander Bunny persona to hawk his "real" QSL packages. No doubt, those QSL packages are lavish and enticing pogey bait (you ex-Marines like Murphy will recognize the significance of that term**). Just keep in mind <b>he uses those QSL packages to harvest personal information about you</b> - your names, addresses - and history shows he will not hesitate to abuse that information in his on-air and cyberbullying vendettas.<br />
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And while we once were inclined to give John T. Arthur - operator of the longtime Belfast, NY, mail drop - the benefit of the doubt, JTA's comments in April this year defending Murphy's reprehensible actions show, unfortunately, that it's probably unwise to trust the Belfast mail drop (see: <a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum20/HTML/000004.html" target="_blank">"Analysis of an FCC Visit"</a> from April 14, 2012). Also, frankly, JTA's comments read like they were scripted by the bunnyman himself - doesn't really sound like anything the normally levelheaded JTA has said before. We're hoping he was held hostage at carrot-point and forced to write that to offset another of the Lagomurph's bouts of myxomatosis rage. <b>BE WARNED. ALL UR DOX R BELONG TO CRAZY OLD COOT.</b><br />
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If you have any doubts about respect for privacy, just peruse his WBNY blog blurts (hosted on the domain owned by pirate radio observer Ragnar Daneskjold, who might oughta reconsider providing safe hutch-haven for the loose-lipped lunatic Lagomurph - why not kick the critter to the curb and tell him to get his own domain rather than stinking up your house?). Over the past year, hiding behind his bunnyman mask of sooper sekrit invisibility, Murphy has repeatedly slandered and exposed names and locations of at least a dozen different pirate radio operators, listeners and even some innocent bystanders who had absolutely zippo, nada, bupkis, to do with any pirate radio fracas - notably respected radio journalist Gayle Van Horn, to whom Murphy owes a sincere and very public apology. And we're confident that will happen... as soon as Murphy grows a pair. And we don't mean Easter eggs.<br />
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On the other hand, if you're a veteran of the U.S. shortwave pirate radio scene and friendly with these folks, by all means, take advantage of those extravagant WBNY QSL packages. Guise Faux tells me he received his this year, courtesy of an intermediary mail relay, and treasures it in the same way he treasures his reliquary that features Hitler's missing testicle, a braid of Blackbeard's chin whiskers tangled with a bit of slow match, Sarah Palin's ventriloquist dummy (curiously nicknamed "Kracker"), the late Jay Smilkstein's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvPqeotWBhZ5RHpGW0sZPZNpL94v0ka50Y8gZkIgxEjMI9vJKU9Hs2pW3Om0JzK98Re_gqiGqKyokQjNS5ObbW26hBjbp0ZXSFqKKbqLTVpiW5r51yTCqc5x0e10JCePVYHnTYrVXfqI/s1600/Jay-and-Baby-Kracker_02.jpg" target="_blank">homunculus</a> (also curiously named Kracker), and the desiccated husk of Murphy's integrity. However, Guise reports he's puzzled by the appearance of a saliva encrusted oxycontin and anti-dementia medication stuck to the WBNY t-shirt. Presumably the Lagomurph drooled a bit while packaging up the pogey bait.<br />
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Related background info for new readers:<br />
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<li><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2012/07/fink-noise-part-2-bob-smith-email.html" target="_blank">Fink Noise Part 2: The "Bob Smith" email</a></li>
<li><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/05/barefoot-bunny-is-happy-bunny.html">Barefoot bunny is happy bunny!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/07/irony-of-anonymity.html">The Irony of Anonymity</a></li>
<li><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/house-of-games-bob-smith-cons-piracy.html">House of Games: Bob Smith con's-piracy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/myxomatosis-madness-alert-bunny-frames.html">Myxomatosis Madness Alert: Bunny Frames DXer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/10/wbny-changes-format-from-misanthropy-to.html">WBNY Changes Format From Misanthropy To Misogyny, Stalking. Commander Bunny Declares "The Fun Is Back!"</a></li>
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**<i>We received a couple of questions about the term <a href="http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/1918_words/" target="_blank">"pogey bait"</a>. Brown Nose the Pirate chipped in this clarification, courtesy of SSgt M., whom Brownie described as "the sole survivor of an ambush that wiped out his squad. During PT he'd yell 'Pain is beautiful, bud!' He was hard as gravel, twitchy from PTSD and had a big heart. Last time I saw him he was in psych eval after going zombie during night exercises when some blanks and firecrackers were set off to scare the recruits."</i><br />
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"According to SSgt M., whom I trained with in '75 just after he got back from his final tour in Vietnam, it's not geedunk - sweets or treats used to create goodwill with the locals. It's more than mere geedunk. Back then, pogey bait had an underlying implication of something seamy, unsavory, even sexual in nature. It may be contraband, black market goods, booze or drugs used to curry favor with prostitutes or sex with minors and boys - specifically, pogues. Pogue was one of those words with multiple nuanced meanings. Nowadays it mostly refers to the admin and support guys away from the fighting. The original connotations have been lost. It meant trash fish to fishermen. Pogue was fresh girly-boy meat to older guys cruising for a BJ. It was bait to lure the pogues.<br />
"And sometimes the pogues were used as pogey bait to lure the Marines. And sometimes the naive young Marines on guard duty fell for the pogey bait, got sloppy, let their guard down... and people got hurt. They got caught in embarrassing situations and coerced into relaxing security or revealing confidential information.<br />
<b> "So, take my advice," said SSgt M., "be wary of older men pretending to be your friend and trying to soften you up with pogey bait. They're gonna want something in return, and it probably involves a reach around."</b></blockquote>
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Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-40800642304299549842012-04-28T04:14:00.000-05:002012-04-28T04:14:24.718-05:00Video Documentary Project About Community, Free, Pirate Radio<div>
This arrived in our email last week via Andrew Yoder. Many of our readers have already seen it. This post is primarily for those who may not be on those email lists, which may include station operators who have never publicly given any contact information.</div>
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My initial reaction was skeptical - but not toward Andrew or Professor Hepler, in the slightest. I'm confident that Andrew is as fair, neutral and objective an observer as you'll find anywhere in the shortwave pirate radio scene - certainly far more so than I am.</div>
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Personally I'm looking forward to Professor Hepler's documentary and sincerely wish him well in that pursuit. There's no lack of colorful characters and anecdotes in the North American shortwave pirate radio scene.<br />
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Note that I added the "free" and "pirate" radio descriptions to this post's headline due to the nature of the readership of <i>Tales of Radio Paranoia</i>. As the professor's letter explains, he prefers the less pejorative term community broadcaster.</div>
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In a rare break from this blog's usual snarky tone, I'll reserve further comment for a later blog post.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dear community broadcaster,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I write asking for your help, but I don't call you "pirate" because I believe that miscommunicates what I'm finding to be your motivation and purpose--and I'm just back from meeting the original offshore broadcasters of Holland and England who similarly broke barriers in the English Channel in the 1960s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am a college professor doing a video documentary on both causes: yours and the historic broadcasters of the 1960s. I am very aware of the persecution going on among you U.S. broadcasters and your need for confidentiality. Toward that end, I interviewed a community broadcaster at Winter Fest outside Philly a few weeks ago--in silhouette--and that interview should be attached with Andy's email for you to see. The interview brings good news and good news--no kidding--in that the guest got to express his views and our silhouette completely protected his identity. This is what I offer you: a chance to express your views at no risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have already been asked to present this finished documentary at Winter Fest next year, though I await an official invitation. I will present it to a national conference of educational colleagues in April 2013, and perhaps to the professional broadcasters' conference (the NAB) if they'll have me. After that, I suppose any further distribution would be up to Europeans or other interested parties, should such interest come about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I leave for a 5-week trip across the U.S. around May 1. With your say, I'd like to give you a chance to be a part of this work if you're anywhere near my route. Your confidentiality--and message--are everything to my documentary. With your approval, I will honor both. Thanks for your consideration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Wayne Hepler<br />
Professor<br />
Baltiimore, MD<br />
(4*1*0) 6*8*8-3*9*0*0<br />
whepler@harford.edu</span><br />
<br />Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com134tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-70379045382935705102012-04-26T12:16:00.000-05:002012-04-26T13:03:59.720-05:00HERETIC DENIES EXISTENCE OF COMMANDER BUNNY: Murphy thanks JTA "for taking out the trash"<table style="width: auto;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">Commander Bunny is not real,"</span> declared Belfast, NY, mail drop manager John T. Arthur, a veteran of the U.S. shortwave pirate radio scene. This astonishing news, posted in a recent commentary (<i><a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum20/HTML/000004.html">Analysis of an FCC Visit</a></i>) on the Former Rabbit Nuthugger's website, shocked his disciples and confounded DXers.<br />
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But, he warned, "The bad attitude is still out there," gesturing toward the ramshackle hutches and festering mounds of cecotropes surrounding the FRN, a potential breeding ground for myxomatosis reinfection.<br />
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"Thanks for taking out the trash, JTA," said FRN propaganda minister Pat Murphy, as the last vestige of the Lagomurphic infestation was eradicated. "Needed to be done for a long time."<br />
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We interviewed several sage observers of the tumultuous radio hobby for their reactions:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>Thank God, maybe now JTA will stop mailing those WBNY fridge magnets with gay porn on them.<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></h4>
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Matt Purphy<br />
<i>Burger King Rabbit Griller</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>No, no, no, Commander Bunny is only <i>mostly</i> unreal.<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></h4>
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Miracle Max<br />
<i>Wizard</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>Oh, great, what the hell am I going to do with all these <i>'Commander Bunny: FCC Snitch'</i> bumper stinkers? Oh, well, if he isn't real then it isn't possible to expose him, insult him or destroy pirate radio. So that's a good thing.<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></h4>
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Stop Sign<br />
<i>Unemployed</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>He must be real. I just slept with him last night!<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></h4>
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Coney Twentytwelve<br />
<i>Nude QSL Model</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>Commander Bunny is as real as that Alaska bridge. My dummy Kracker and I can see him from my house!<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></h4>
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Sarah Palin<br />
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</div>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-15923155282369384762012-04-08T21:59:00.008-05:002012-04-09T03:34:58.016-05:00Man In Bunny Suit On Cross Would Like To Come Down Now<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >GOLGOTHA, Easter, 8 April 2012</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> -</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">A Hampton Roads, VA/OBX, NC, man in a bunny suit who spent the better part of Easter Sunday transmitting secret messages while hanging from a crucifix to which he nailed himself on Friday would like you to know that he's only going to put up with your lack of fealty and shenanigans for another hour or two before he has a good mind to come down and not send you any gifts.</span><br /><hr /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTPSfh4K4lydjiqjVj1Tv9Oc3lcOygK6VkGTfSUMyZq62xPqYSCwtZFPWL5_k7qFQUPaW-_89YV5ZFHIeztfdCaHrOBRe6Sjq5VDBuvEC4Pe8igOFJGRLzG_PtPrO7iR7H7yS53z40pw/s1600/Commander-Bunny-crucified_03.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 425px; height: 500px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTPSfh4K4lydjiqjVj1Tv9Oc3lcOygK6VkGTfSUMyZq62xPqYSCwtZFPWL5_k7qFQUPaW-_89YV5ZFHIeztfdCaHrOBRe6Sjq5VDBuvEC4Pe8igOFJGRLzG_PtPrO7iR7H7yS53z40pw/s1600/Commander-Bunny-crucified_03.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729230705829871410" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-family: courier new;">"The Passion of the Lagomurph" by Thomas Kinkade, his final painting</span></span><br /></div><hr /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"I spent the better part of March tweaking my Grenade transmitter, mounting my Super Loop antenna atop this crucifix, dying eggs, weaving baskets, hand-crafting grass from organic materials," said the clearly peevish man in the tattered pink fuzzy costume, "not to mention countless hours browsing gay porn sites and printing photos of nude men on refrigerator magnets... and the best you can do is </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >'</span><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman,Times;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Decent signal into WNY for a change.'</span>?"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">"I must say, this is going to put a serious damper on my enthusiasm for some of you after I'm resurrected," the man intoned carefully and deliberately, wanting you to understand the full extent of his disappointment with your failure to log his Easter weekend shortwave pirate radio broadcasts. "Ppbbbt! Ppbbtt!" he added, trying to use his tongue to dislodge a bit of pink fuzz that had fallen onto his lip.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Meanwhile, Thomas Kinkade, famed 'Painter of Light' and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=thomas+kinkade+winnie+the+pooh&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&gs_l=firefox-hp.3...195700l203060l0l203160l28l15l0l5l0l1l1530l11730l2-1j6-1j7j1l10l0.frgbld.&oq=thomas+kinkade+pooh&aq=0b&aqi=g-b1&aql=">'Pisser of Pooh'</a>, was resurrected Sunday after his unexpected death Saturday, April 7.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">"It's a family tradition," explained Jesus. "Every year we have the pick of two assholes, one of whom gets the Paradise ticket with me."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Said the Risen Son of God, "It was an easy choice this year. Kinkade made a lot of grandmothers and great aunts happy."<br /><br />The Messiah added, "We received lots of affidavits extolling the virtues of the fellow in the bunny suit, but upon investigation they all turned out to be his own sockpuppets. Besides, my Father, The Holy One, Blessed Be He, takes a dim view of fellows who fondle <a href="http://www.landoverbaptist.org/eastereggs.html">Lucifer's Testicles</a>. His ticket is for the southbound train."</span>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-42652791505159243352012-04-07T15:43:00.006-05:002012-04-07T20:40:42.595-05:00THOMAS KINKADE, 'PAINTER OF POO', HAD BAD FRIDAY, WILL BE BACK SUNDAY. COMMANDER BUNNY INVESTIGATED IN CONNECTION WITH SUSPICIOUS EASTER DEATH<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">by Pheme Ossa</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">Senior Discordian Correspondent</span><br /></div><hr /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">K</span><span style="font-size:130%;">itsch artist and self-described "Painter of Poo"</span> Thomas Kinkade</span>, 54, died Easter weekend just as detectives were investigating his connection to shortwave pirate radio slandercaster Commander Bunny of WBNY. The notorious Virginia Bunnyman has been under investigation for distributing obscene and libelous materials through the U.S. Postal System.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Kinkade's final diary entry, in a lovingly hand-crafted traditionally bound journal, revealed the artist may have been ill. "Bad Friday. Hope to bounce back Sunday," read the cryptic Easter eve entry written in fountain pen and India ink, $127.99 at any authorized Kinkade gallery, on artisan crafted watermarked paper, $19.99.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Pressured by accusations of fraud, facing bankruptcy and mounting legal bills, Kinkade's most recent commission was Photoshopping heads of "enemies" onto nude male bodies for Commander Bunny, which sources say revealed the Lagomurph's secret gay porn obsession. The Virginia Bunnyman covered his tracks by claiming these were for <a href="http://shortwavepirate.info/WBNY/?p=3380">QSL packages</a>, which sources confirm were mailed to puzzled radio listeners. "I didn't ask for this shit," exclaimed an Ohio DXer. "I've never even heard Commander Bunny's baby monitor broadcasts. Nobody has beyond his own backyard hutch." Added the baffled pirate radio fan, "I"m burning this crap before I get arrested."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">"Commander Bunny apparently thought I did pervy porn because he misspelled my name 'Kink Aid'," the self-described 'Painter of Poo' told investigators recently. "Commander Bunny had discussed a commission painting him as a nude crucified messiah of pirate radio," Kinkade revealed in affidavits. "He seemed to want to emphasize these would be nudes because he capitalized and underlined the words 'Commander Bunny', 'Nude', 'Messiah' and '<a href="http://www.landoverbaptist.org/lt2.jpg">Lucifer's Testicles</a>'."<br /><hr /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzLcm-JCBwU5g6rRNvMCPML1Evds7hyphenhyphen2mTba2tz0qZa3d6FHcCEYDn943nMI17hYUKLC9Mfon0sFsjesbl4P_7H0EvPP62t6j6fcnifWYwWqHqVfMRV2StIXiBAsC5wt0FKMN4Rf8xSsM/s1600/Thomas+Kinkade+-+Painter+of+Poo+-+ComBun+-+Wikipedia+-+4-7-12.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzLcm-JCBwU5g6rRNvMCPML1Evds7hyphenhyphen2mTba2tz0qZa3d6FHcCEYDn943nMI17hYUKLC9Mfon0sFsjesbl4P_7H0EvPP62t6j6fcnifWYwWqHqVfMRV2StIXiBAsC5wt0FKMN4Rf8xSsM/s1600/Thomas+Kinkade+-+Painter+of+Poo+-+ComBun+-+Wikipedia+-+4-7-12.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728838085743430962" /></a><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Wikipedia entry for Thomas Kinkade, 'Painter of Poo', April 7, 2012</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><hr /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">K</span><span style="font-size:130%;">inkade died during a peaceful slumber</span></span>, a single perfect aromatic candle burning nearby and casting a warm orange glow through his mountain cottage window, where the light glistened across a snow covered garden 'neath a crystal clear sheltering sky bathed in full moonlight on a beautiful Easter eve.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The angelic ghost of Bob Ross paused a moment from painting happy trees to welcome Kinkade to his heavenly reward. Grandmothers and great aunts across the nation joined in mutual mourning.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">In a darker side to this story, police speculated Kinkade may have been murdered. His body was covered in Peeps marshmallow residue and traces of Easter basket grass were found in his nostrils. Authorities suspect he may have been murdered to prevent him from revealing the Bunnyman's plot to hide his gay porn distribution and blackmail business under the guise of mailing QSL packages. Documents - written in flowing calligraphy on finest parchment ($17.99 per 10 sheets) - seized by police from a lovely oaken rolltop desk ($1,449.99) in Kinkade's cottage, indicate the painter had discovered the Lagomurph planned to use his QSL porn distribution to blackmail recipients into revealing the names and locations of all shortwave pirate radio operators and listeners.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Unavailable for coherent comment at press time, Commander Bunny recently admitted in a work request found in the artist's home that he had become obsessed with what he described as "the chiseled abs, well toned calves and shapely buttocks of a certain Michigan pirate and West Virginia scofflaw." Sources who are uncomfortably close to the Lagomurph say he had apparently become conflicted due to his simultaneous infatuation and revulsion over finding himself attracted to fearless outlaws and men who flout the petty laws of polite society.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Investigators say they have found evidence that Kinkade's death might be linked to an attempt by the notorious Virginia Bunnyman to cover his tracks. As of press time, investigators were searching through closets throughout the Hampton Roads, VA, and North Carolina Outer Banks region. "We've found evidence of the Bunnyman's presence in several closets," said a detective, holding up baskets full of <a href="http://www.landoverbaptist.org/eastereggs.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Lucifer's Testicles</span></a>, known to be one of Commander Bunny's addictions. Attendees to the 2010 SWL Winterfest reported seeing the lonely Lagomurph sitting at a table hawking t-shirts, refrigerator magnets and bumper stickers, and asking male DXers to pose for Polaroids.<br /><br />Web traffic patterns indicate The Furry Rabbit Nuthugger's website, formerly known as the Free Radio Network, experienced a sharp increase in hits from Russian porn mob sites, the FCC and a number of Westboro Baptist Church Castrato Choir members in response to Commander Bunny's use of the FRN to solicit trafficking of his obscene and libelous "Easter QSL packages".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCG4gWFjwCe1ZTcKJxvSOg0mqxyqt99O8fdODSCby55g2Qkh21P_vrcbsEuoGhmmo31ignOD6y7xmjquA9XaKaEI3Nn2VhjVe8WeTzdGvput4CRt59i4Vx6wI0VVqdTy38grdGdXO_x1U/s1600/WBNY+Easter+QSL+-+Alex+V+-+FRN+-+4-7-12.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCG4gWFjwCe1ZTcKJxvSOg0mqxyqt99O8fdODSCby55g2Qkh21P_vrcbsEuoGhmmo31ignOD6y7xmjquA9XaKaEI3Nn2VhjVe8WeTzdGvput4CRt59i4Vx6wI0VVqdTy38grdGdXO_x1U/s400/WBNY+Easter+QSL+-+Alex+V+-+FRN+-+4-7-12.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728783878068728418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Commander Bunny of WBNY trafficking in obscene and libelous materials on the FRN,<br />described by sources as his "Furry Rabbit Nuthugger" porn site.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><hr /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;">Details and photos will be added to this story as they become available.</span></span>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-62211537229655852252012-04-06T10:18:00.004-05:002012-04-06T11:39:13.586-05:00Commander Bunny Doesn't See Anything Good This Friday, May Pass Over This Easter<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"> Iconography by Dea Fauxnette</span><br /></div><hr /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">S</span>urveying the wreckage of his once formidable following of sockpuppet disciples</span>, now tattered and scattered by heavy losses over a yearlong series of skirmishes, shortwave slandercaster Commander Bunny of WBNY pawed sadly through his empty drawers, two days before Easter, and moaned "This is not a very Good Friday."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">"Eagerly have I desired to eat this Passover with you," he mumbled, munching on cecotropes while dispiritedly kicking the frayed remains of Beans, Mosby, Thumper, Bouncer and a pile of unrecognizable fragments of fabric, stiffened by repeated dousings with what the Bunnyman calls "Holy Water" sprinkled from his "Peter Cottontail".<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">When last seen the Lagomurph was building a cross made from leftover unclaimed QSL packages, stuck together with bumper stickers.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">"My socks! My socks!" he sobbed, "Why have you forsaken me!"</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcE23n2fuRfbeT-5zVl-O-3stvkErNci77VcNYdKwaC07qCh35ee2RS6RcJn5A5sZqhGvtgd8pJWi_kM_qISqBAY7yx9zSYOm1n942qQEnz8aO6PGguyUgeXJblBKau0vO2C6DzQZbsY/s1600/last-sockpuppet-supper-2_bad-friday.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 392px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcE23n2fuRfbeT-5zVl-O-3stvkErNci77VcNYdKwaC07qCh35ee2RS6RcJn5A5sZqhGvtgd8pJWi_kM_qISqBAY7yx9zSYOm1n942qQEnz8aO6PGguyUgeXJblBKau0vO2C6DzQZbsY/s1600/last-sockpuppet-supper-2_bad-friday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728314801757117042" border="0" /></a><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/04/pretty-good-friday.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >NEVER FORGET</span></a><br /></div><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: courier new;">Right click to save this full sized 1532 x 1000 Holy Relic for your desktop wallpaper.</span></span>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-27687912806007044552012-04-01T18:59:00.018-05:002012-04-04T01:27:27.705-05:00Murphy and Commander Bunny, together again for the worst time!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png" style="font-style: normal; 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"The show is named 'Commander Bunny and the Double-Faced Dipshit Who's Been Riding My Coat Tails For a Decade', the Lagomurph insisted.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Commenting on the merging of Murphy's primary strength as a Goebbels-style communications adviser and the Bunnyman's fecundity in producing sockpuppets to support his internet celebrity, Murphy said:</span><br /><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal; font-size: medium;"><span></span></div><blockquote style="font-family: courier new;"><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal;"><span><b>"<a href="http://patmurphy.from-va.com/">Any fool can buy a computer and put up a website</a>. My new partner Commander Bunny is proof of that. And there is no standard of truthfulness, to keep people from not only telling lies, but passing them along, as CB has demonstrated week after week on his blog. Lot of completely false information that is passed along as truth. I, for two, am really excited about this opportunity to join my better half in making ourselves famouse."</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span><i>--Pat Murphy, FRN, "Internet? Good thing? Or the devils phone booth?" March 24, 2012</i></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal; font-size: medium;"><span></span></div></div><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The tentative show format will consist of:</span><div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: arial;"><ul><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Rehashed monkey jokes and South Park audio clips, making Rich Koz's 'Svengoolie' shtick seem witty in comparison.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Bribing listeners with refrigerator magnet and bumper sticker tracking devices.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Munching cecotropes (known as "brown M&M's")</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Accusing rival morning radio teams of being pedophiles.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>A fake suicide prevention hotline where they encourage callers to commit suicide.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;">Bitching about lawyers and the cost of liability insurance after the above.</li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Debating the differences between <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/225214/rush-limbaugh-vs-sandra-fluke-a-timeline">sluts</a> and trust fund bitches.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span><a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/house-of-games-bob-smith-cons-piracy.html">Filing complaints to the FCC and Industry Canada about pirate radio operators</a>.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Darning socks while reminiscing about the good ol' days when you were lucky to hear a pirate once a year and used spark gap telegraph to notify friends about pirate broadcasts.</span></li><li><span>Whining about <a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,6695.0.html">Undercover Radio being <i>clearly</i> heard worldwide</a> by real listeners rather than resorting to FRN sockpuppets to log WBNY baby monitor transmitter shows nobody actually heard beyond the Lagomurph's backyard polk salad garden.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Arguing over whether the internuts is a series of tubes or a big truck.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Giving each other back rubs.</span></li><li style="font-style: normal;"><span>Picking up their final paychecks after a week of the above.</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: arial;"><br /></div><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: arial;">"Group hug!" enthused Murphy to his new partner, as he bundled together half a dozen socks and stuffed them into his <a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php">underpants</a>.</div><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: arial;"><br /></div><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: arial;">"I'm really looking forward to working with these guys," declared Commander Bunny, as he patted the sock bulge in his new co-host's trousers. "They have a proven track record of worshiping me and reassuring me that I am the greatest shortwave pirate ever," the Lagomurph panted as he continued to lovingly stroke the bulge.</div>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-73190799421034848672012-02-14T09:13:00.007-06:002012-02-15T01:37:27.046-06:00RADIO MISSES YOU, WANTS YOU BACK, WILL CUT HERSELF IF SHE HAS TO<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8gLtwDJTuqJPzUTNy5IRl9ZeXm5NbfOD4LweB-SaYIXdSFfjk22mGcPcMplgXXVGqxcskEt2eFOSTTv9tLfcAG69VDMayMVyxObs4cPxYzTXKavx4Egbb1KwpaiF8jaVEz3ItLPvUUs/s1600/Radio-Valentines-Day-dedication.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 456px; height: 328px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8gLtwDJTuqJPzUTNy5IRl9ZeXm5NbfOD4LweB-SaYIXdSFfjk22mGcPcMplgXXVGqxcskEt2eFOSTTv9tLfcAG69VDMayMVyxObs4cPxYzTXKavx4Egbb1KwpaiF8jaVEz3ItLPvUUs/s500/Radio-Valentines-Day-dedication.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709056165960161154" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A Valentine's Day Plea<br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">by guest correspondent Lana Del Radio</span><br /></div><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"H</span><span style="font-size:130%;">i, baby, it's me. Happy Valentine's Day!</span></span> Have you missed me? Oh, baby, don't be that way... it's me, your radio bunny, Miss Radio! You know, as in 'Do you or don't you Miss Radio?' And I'd be like, 'Oh, what <span style="font-style: italic;">don't</span> I do!' You used to love that joke. Okay, okay, please don't hang up. I know, I know, you got that restraining order and I'm not gonna talk long, I just wanted to say..."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Did he hang up on me? He did NOT hang up on me! I'll cut myself, I swear I will...</span><br /><br />"Hi, baby, me again. I think we got disconnected. Okay, I know sometimes I get crazy. My shortwave signal is kinda fickle, and sometimes I get drunk and behave like a myxomatosis infected rabbit on krack. My FM is mostly same ol', same ol' Classic Rock. Remember that Meat Loaf song we made out to, "Paradise By the Dashboard Light"? Yeah, great song. I don't play that anymore, it's too long. Mostly my FM plays the same Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top songs I've been playing for 30 years. And my AM is like, all, 'Nyah-nyah-nyah, Obama stinks.' 'Yakkity-yakkity-yakkity, liberals are dumb.' 'Weep-weep-weep, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQc_TH4iVV8">ah jus' luv mah country an' ah fearz fer it</a>!' 'Nanny-nanny-boo-boo, Occupiers are just spoiled trust fund bitches.'<br /><br />"But I can change, lover, just take me back, I can..."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Did he hang up on me again? He's in there with his fancy web radio bitch, I just know it. I will kill them both! No-no-no, I want to cut myself...</span><br /><br />"Do not hang up on me, you bastard! Okay, wait, I didn't mean for it to come out that way, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, you know how kooky I get sometimes, you used to love that about me. Just wait-wait-wait... hey, baby, lover, let me play my new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23KL9BuJNk">radio theme song</a> for you. Do you like it? It's a big hit... well, on the internet, anyway. I think maybe a local college station played it once. Then they went back to playing that edgy Tom Petty and Springsteen stuff."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Okay, you're rambling, girl, get it together, focus... okay, I'll cut myself just a little... ooohhh... okay, that's better.</span><br /><br />"I was just a little hurt that you didn't call me on my special day. <a href="http://www.worldradioday.org/">World Radio Day</a>, silly! Oh, you never heard about it? What about the <a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/free-access-without-app-or-web-its-called-radio">Radio Netherlands article</a>? Oh, you didn't hear it because RNW discontinued their broadcasts to North America. Well, what about this <a href="http://shortwaveamerica.blogspot.com/2012/02/celebrating-world-radio-day.html">Shortwave America blog post</a>? Or this <a href="http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2012/02/world-radio-day/">Engineering Radio blog post</a>? Oh, you don't even read articles about radio anymore? What about the e-mail reminder I sent you? My Facebook and Myspace posts? Oh, you're on Google+ now, okay. Or my IM? Oh, you didn't see it? You're on Twitter now, oh... well, what about my post on Google Groups? Oh, you wouldn't go near Uselessnet unless you were behind seven proxies, okay."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Think, radio, think... I've got to win him back. I need him to need me! Without his fawning adoration, and indulgence of my occasional... okay, frequent, temper tantrums, I'm nothing. Oh, I know what'll work...</span><br /><br />"That blood on my wrist? Oh, that's nothing - just some routine staff cuts. Hey, did you like that huge unsolicited QSL package I sent, with the t-shirt, ball cap with the LED doodad on the visor, refrigerator magnet and bumper stickers? You like the 'Property of Radio Bunny Dominatrix' logo? See, I posed for you wearing the bunny ears and leather bikini and coax tail sticking out of my...<br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">"D</span>oes she let you tickle her rectifier with a cat's whisker? Does she let you shove your big, hot 6L6GC in her socket?"</blockquote></span></span><br /><hr /><br /><br />"Oh, you didn't receive it? Well, okay, I'm just gonna stick them in your mail slot now. Well, yeah, silly, I'm right outside your door now! Okay, the package won't fit. I guess you'll have to open the door. No, no, no, I know, the restraining order... just open the door a crack and I'll slip the package inside. No, no, I won't come in, I'll just, y'know, wait here. I'm good, I'm calm."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Don't screw this up, Miss Radiopants, be cool, be cool...</span><br /><br />"Okay, thanks. See, I can be reasonable! Here's the package and... what's that in your hand? Is that an iPhone? Is that the Pandora app?!!? YOU BASTARD, I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU BOTH!!! YOU'RE MINE, DAMMIT, MINE!!!"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oh, that was stupid-stupid-stupid. Okay, okay, deep breath, Miss Radiopants, you can handle this.</span><br /><br />"Baby, wait-wait-wait, don't close the door... this Pandora... she's cute, okay, if you like that boring, predictable high quality audio without the broadcast radio compression and limiting that interferes with the full dynamic range of the original recordings. But does she take requests and dedications? Does she let you tickle her rectifier with a cat's whisker? Does she let you shove your big, hot 6L6GC in her socket? Does she cut her entire staff and replace them with automation, like Jackshit FM? Because I do, baby, I do... all for you. Oh, come on! Work with me here! I'm doing the best I can, what with corporate domination of AM and FM, and poor propagation on shortwave!"Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-26860994062364087852012-01-24T11:00:00.011-06:002012-01-26T05:54:52.003-06:00Radio Paranoia's Best & Worst of 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">"...anybody can do one of these lists. There's no objective standard as to what the 10 best are."</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" >--</span><a style="font-family: courier new; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/29/144442112/the-logic-or-lack-thereof-behind-top-10-lists">NPR's wimpy way of saying top 10 lists suck</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" >.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">"Top Ten Lists Suck. A Lot."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" >--Michael Hodson, </span><a style="font-family: courier new; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.goseewrite.com/2011/02/top-10-lists-suck/">Go, See, Write</a></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">by Guise Faux<br />Illustrations by Dea Fauxnette<br /></span></div><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">W</span><span style="font-size:130%;">e already knew we sucked</span> and we're ruining pirate radio.</span> That was our driving force throughout 2011. Just ask Commander Bunny.<br /><br />But when National Public Radio told us at the end of December, just as we were drafting our Top Ten list for 2011, that our Top Ten list for 2011 already sucked even before we'd published the damned thing, well... it just gave us the excuse we needed to take a few weeks off. After all, if you can't do a thing well, do it late.<br /><br />Pheme Ossa took an indefinite leave of absence to work the Ron Paul campaign. We suspect she's doing it ironically, especially since she's wearing her Goldwater '64 campaign t-shirt. Last I looked, I spotted at least three of her sockpuppets on the comments sections on the Ron Paul and Alex Jones sites. She claims it's necessary to defend against the NSA and Mosaad sockpuppets. And I thought I was paranoid.<br /><br />To cover the Consumer Electronics Show, Brown Nose the Pirate requisitioned an El Dorado convertible and a pint of raw ether "for the Caddy's carburetor". On Friday the 13th he Tweeted: <span style="font-style: italic;">"You know what's great about CES? No, seriously, do you? Because I can't remember a thing."</span><br /><br />Last we heard from him was a voice message late Saturday night: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Turn it up!" he screamed. "Just as high as the fucker can go! And when it comes to that fantastic bit where <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_%28novel%29#7._Paranoid_Terror...and_the_Awful_Specter_of_Sodomy...A_flashing_of_Knives_and_Green_Water">the rabbit bites its own head off</a>, I want you to throw that fuckin' radio into the tub with me!"</span><br /><br />We hope he has a good attorney. We also hope Vegas hotels all have GFCI's in the bathrooms.<br /><br />Before we headed off for Umbrage Island for a sanity break, Dea whipped out the <a href="http://obeygiant.com/">"obey"</a> poster for Commander Bunny in the now-classic <del>Shepard Fairey</del> Roddy Piper style. And if you don't grok the original reference (nope, not Obama, although he clearly is a reptilian), then you've never been forced to kick ass because of an unexpected <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso">shortage of bubblegum</a>.<br /><br />Now that we're back and caught up on comments since the December 25th blog, we surmise that you bastards really love gossip, rumors and scandals. And we love our readers for that.<br /><br />Rather than a Top Ten list - mostly because we can't think of 10 really significant events from 2011 that are relevant to pirate radio - we're going with a Best & Worst list. In the end, most events were both the best and the worst of 2011.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">#1 Best & Worst </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8gCZ7zpsQ">of allll tiiime!</a><br />Was there any doubt? The manic meltdown of WBNY's Commander Bunny dominated the North American shortwave pirate scene throughout 2011. To steal a phrase from the late, lamented <span style="font-style: italic;">Passport to World Band</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmC6l2NxCyrAhvDd1Iynom8oYNZohQJWrNFgeY2-FvuEj4JRnusUQ6li9sI0lqiaG7AV5CTDlJyBC4ODeuRrsDomLl6iMUNlmcxaVsEesTDbr_dBR8kUzauhRDE5cXKivBICTAyJ9AV8/s1600/Commander-Bunny_HOP_01.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmC6l2NxCyrAhvDd1Iynom8oYNZohQJWrNFgeY2-FvuEj4JRnusUQ6li9sI0lqiaG7AV5CTDlJyBC4ODeuRrsDomLl6iMUNlmcxaVsEesTDbr_dBR8kUzauhRDE5cXKivBICTAyJ9AV8/s400/Commander-Bunny_HOP_01.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695376280906330610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> Radio</span>, nothing has provided hour after hour of amusement like the Bunnyman's 2011 antics. Commander Coney & His Lost Planet Sockpuppets earn the Tales of Radio Paranoia top spot for being, simultaneously, the best and worst of 2011.<br /><br />Rampant <a href="http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2012/01/ive-got-rotating-isp-so-it-never-shows.html">sockpuppetry</a>. Forgetting which alias said what to whom, followed by frantic revisions on the FRN. <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/myxomatosis-madness-alert-bunny-frames.html">Lying</a> about perceived enemies. Fantasizing about pedophiles under every Canadian woodpile like he'd barely escaped the clutches of some bizarre fantasy cult. Manic blurt-blogging with increasingly frantic incoherence (at one point hitting a record high four paranoid blog posts in a single day). <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/10/wbny-changes-format-from-misanthropy-to.html">Misogynistic</a> cyber-stalking. <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/house-of-games-bob-smith-cons-piracy.html">Harassing</a> and repeatedly <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/07/irony-of-anonymity.html">dropping dox</a> on "enemy" ops and listeners alike.<br /><br />Throughout 2011, it wasn't a question of what the Lagomurph would do next; it was what <span style="font-style: italic;">wouldn't</span> he do next? Whether under his two best known pirate radio pseudonyms or his best known "real" name, he left no stone unturned and no bridge unburned in his desperate pursuit of enemies, real or imagined.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst of the Worst - Tales of Radio Paranoia</span><br />...for noticing #1, and blogging about it.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Waste of Tax Dollars - FCC targets HF pirates again</span><br />Confirmed knocks and/or written or oral warnings included WEAK and The Crystal Ship. That follows on the heels of at least three warnings in 2010 (<a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Weather_Radio">one confirmed</a> by the station operator, two unconfirmed).<br /><br />Actual impact on shortwave pirate radio activity? Hard to estimate. Available data is biased, although not necessarily deliberately. The traditional bastions for North American pirate radio logs - the FRN and Free Radio Weekly e-mail newsletter - tend to be dominated by ops and listeners from a smallish geographic region. If you stick a compass on the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and draw a 500 mile diameter circle, you've probably encompassed 85% of the pirate stations and listener logs reflected in the FRN and FRW. But does that mean 85% of all N. American ops are within that circle? Don't bet on it.<br /><br />Reference: DIYmedia: <a href="http://diymedia.net/archive/0112.htm#010512">Anti-Pirate Enforcement Plummets in 2011</a><br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Toadying to Media Tyrants - Anti-Pirate Legislation</span><br />Nope, not anti-pirate radio. But the misguided, corporate-schlong-sucking SOPA/PIPA legislation (temporarily allayed last week) threatened to be even more menacing than anything the FCC might cook up. Because media megaliths have the lawyers and clout to arm-twist the courts into actually prosecuting and penalizing people for pirated media-ware.<br /><br />SOPA/PIPA and related efforts may rank even higher than renewed FCC enforcement because it potentially affects not only broadcasters but programmers, bloggers and anyone actively involved in free radio. So far FCC penalties are a pittance compared with the potential fines for pirating intellectual property - music, movies, etc.<br /><br />Relevant references:<br /><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/">Positions of US Representatives (SOPA) and Senators (PIPA)</a>:<br />Senate: PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)<br />House: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.ohinternet.com/10610/the-death-of-megaupload-the-beginning-of-web-3-0/">Oh Internet: The Death of Megaupload, The Beginning of Web 3.0</a><br /><blockquote>"Frightening is the fact that Megaupload was hosted in Hong Kong- how did the US government manage to black out a site based in the other side of the planet? Perhaps even more frightening is that the take-down was performed without the help of the SOPA or PIPA bills written specifically for this purpose. It seems that the United States government already has the tools to impose its will upon foreign websites."</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/two_lessons_from_the_megaupload_seizure/singleton/">Salon.com: Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure</a><br /><blockquote>"Less than 24 hours after the SOPA victory, the Government seizes one of the world's largest websites with no trial"</blockquote><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/anonymous-bit-dimnet-tries-to-be-a-hedge-against-dns-censorship.ars">Dimnet Tries To Be A Hedge Against DNS Censorship</a><br /><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technocracy/2011/12/stop_online_piracy_act_and_protect_ip_act_a_pair_of_bills_that_threaten_internet_freedom_.html">Slate: Stop SOPA/PIPA</a><br /><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works">Motherboard: Dear Congress - It's Not OK to Be Stupid About the Internet</a><br /><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/15/break-in-case-of-censorship-what-are-our-free-speech-fail-safes-if-sopa-passes">Motherboard: Break in Case of Censorship</a><br /><br />Also see stories linked to: “Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking”.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best & Worst Cruise on de Nile - The FRN Capsizes</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, Travels Backward in Time.<br /><br />And nothing of value was lost.<br /><br /></span>The <a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/FRN">Free Radio Network</a>, with online roots dating back to the pre-web BBS era, missed opportunities to relaunch and reinvent itself at critical times during 2011. Numerous outages throughout the year could have been taken advantage of to rebuild the venerable site on a more robust platform and more stable servers. Instead the site followed Pat Murphy's lead in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Opportunities were squandered and longtime participants were alienated as Murphy seldom missed a chance to underscore perceptions that the FRN had become little more than his personal vanity site and a roost for the two dominant cliques.<br /><br />Those perceptions were reinforced in December 2011 when the FRN faithful relocated to <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/free-radio-north-america">Free Radio North America</a> on Google Groups. A quick peek at the group stats told the tale: early membership was mostly the Bowling League, Pat Murphy and a few veteran listeners who'd managed to remain neutral throughout the previous years of nearly continuous bunny-driven drama.<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><blockquote><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">"They've actually sent the FRN further back in time. I honestly had no idea that was possible,"</span></span><span style="font-family:courier new;"> quipped a waggish veteran of the US shortwave pirate scene, on the FRN cabal's abandoning ship for the Uselessnet reefs.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><br /><br />Google Groups, for those who haven't visited, is little more than tarted up usenet, one of the oldest and lamest incarnations of the interbutt. Throughout the previous decade uselessnet degenerated from merely a pile of fresh shit that was usually burning due to continuous flame wars, to fossilized dinosaur scat. No topical subdivisions within a group. No way to attach images, let alone the multi-media goodies available with newer implementation of phpBB like the Free Radio Cafe.<br /><hr /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipG5RNGM0zzgTGZDjG6wq-hDAC0EB8U3hgoD5D140CoLDIK2SUSFpfuGmN0O_8aSw790OOMl5TdXoGRq54Dxg2uVuAsmZ0VG4AIdmBv1TQqlhICUV0INRbnfTocEXIKGP-dNn3VYPScxc/s1600/Tardis-Dr-Who-Murphy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 418px; height: 622px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipG5RNGM0zzgTGZDjG6wq-hDAC0EB8U3hgoD5D140CoLDIK2SUSFpfuGmN0O_8aSw790OOMl5TdXoGRq54Dxg2uVuAsmZ0VG4AIdmBv1TQqlhICUV0INRbnfTocEXIKGP-dNn3VYPScxc/s700/Tardis-Dr-Who-Murphy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701266630971364434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Dr. Who-Me? invites you and your socks to board the Fucktardis</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">for a journey back in time to the ass end of the interbutt.</span></span><br /></div><hr /><br />Usenet manages to be even less secure than the FRN in terms of member privacy, although the Free Radio North America group does seem to manage to mask member IPs. That, at least, is a small improvement over most radio related uselessnet groups. But member e-mails are easily visible (click on the highlighted ellipses, or three dots in the partially masked e-mail addresses). And if those members are using the same nicks or e-mails they've used elsewhere on uselessnet, chances are their IPs have been recorded in the headers on rec.radio.whatever.<br /><br />If you subscribe to the theory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_determinism">Environmental Determinism</a>, you know where this is heading. If it looks like uselessnet, farts like uselessnet and talks like uselessnet, eventually it'll degenerate into just another uselessnet pile of poop. For a peek at the fun times ahead, just Google the hilariously rabid-rabbit frothing from Murphy's various aliases back around 2006 - particularly "Bouncer" (bobsmith6955@yahoo.com) from Newport News, VA.<br /><br />With a little luck, the FRN might be able to offer a work-release parole deal for Italian cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino. Reportedly he's now negotiating for the role of Quint in a remake of <span style="font-style: italic;">Jaws</span>.<br /><br />How did the FRN become a salvage case? The short version:<br /><ul><li>Failure to upgrade to a more reliable, contemporary platform.<br /></li><li>Slowpoke servers.</li><li>Annual outage as domain registration lapsed.</li><li>Rampant, abusive sockpuppetry by former admin Pat Murphy.</li><li>Murphy's repeated misuse of access to personal information to harass perceived enemies.</li><li>Murphy's censorship of unapproved logs.<br /></li></ul>Meanwhile the HF Underground has offered a genuine sanctuary for free and generally friendly loggings and exchanges of information and opinion since 2008, on a more contemporary and stable platform with reliable servers. Ironically, the single notable flame war on the HFU, a couple of years ago, turned out to have been instigated by Murphy under one of his many sockpuppets.<br /><br />And John Poet of The Crystal Ship stepped up the game by launching the Free Radio Cafe in the spring of 2011, offering an even more advanced phpBB platform that accommodates Flash videos and larger file sizes for direct uploads of graphics such as SSTV and QSLs. If there's been any rivalry at all between the HFU and FRC, it's been of only the friendliest sort. And Poet launched with a <a href="http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3">written commitment to respect member privacy</a>, ops and listeners alike - something Murphy repeatedly demonstrated he would never actually do, regardless of his claims on the FRN.<br /><br />While Cosmikdebris, on the Free Radio North America Google group's "What is this and should we care?" introductory statement seemed to extend an olive branch, he didn't make a convincing case for any real reconciliation. In fact, an objective, detached reader might be tempted to ask why any reconciliation would even be desirable, let alone necessary?<br /><br />But we're not detached. Unless a detached brainstem counts.<br /><br />At the risk of seeming to nitpick his good intentions, statements such as<br /><blockquote>"It's become increasingly evident to me that there are distinct disadvantages associated with the message board mode of operation for a community like shortwave free radio."</blockquote>and<br /><br /><blockquote>"Some people need to have their own board and their own <a href="http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Hugbox">hugbox</a>. I don't have any problem with this. The three message boards have all been to various extents poisoned by the actions of one or more of their members or admins."</blockquote><br />indicate there's little common ground. It would require quite a stretch to compare the occasional snarky remarks on the HFU and FRC with the years of abusive tirades and slanders perpetrated by Commander Coney & His Lost Planet Sockpuppets, as well as by the perpetual presidential wannabe's thuggish veep candidate.<br /><br />So when Cos sez<br /><br /><blockquote>"...I would love to see some kind of magic software be created that actually linked up the loggings sections of each of these three boards..."</blockquote><br />it begs the question "Why?" The web is huge and diverse. For every hobby there are many completely independent and unaffiliated websites and blogs. There are plenty of good networking options for those who want them. But there's usually a very good reason why most participants on hobbyist and niche websites and forums prefer one over another, and may not want to be associated in any way with other sites despite sharing common interests. Murphy demonstrated that by trying to fuck up the HFU with his "RF Burnz" and "lovemyradios" sockmonsters. Same way he alienated virtually the entire European pirate scene.<br /><br />Fact is, some twains don't need to meet. Rivers run just fine without having to hold hands or cooperate.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Diagnosis - Damn You, Xenu!</span><br />The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/views/30mind.html">DSM eliminated Narcissistic Personality Disorder</a>:<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/views/30mind.html<br /><br />Crap. There goes another perfectly useful disorder. Maybe L Ron Hubbard was right about psychiatrists.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Goodfella News - Ragnar Bounces Back</span><br />Downside: In 2011 Ragnar put the popular Pirates Week podcast on hiatus while he recovered from carp 'n' grumble syndrome. I have long personal experience with that malady and sympathize completely.<br /><br />Upside: In December 2011 Ragnar announced the launch of his new show, spotlighting classic pirate radio. So far I've listened to the first two Hall of Fame Spotlights. While I enjoyed hearing those classic shows, I'd like to hear more of Ragnar's narrative, perhaps some documentary style commentary to put the era into context. If he has time, editing some historical narrative into the existing HOF Spotlight shows would make 'em even better. He has a knack for it, a cheerful, friendly voice and an admirable ability to navigate the treacherous pirate waters and tempestuous personalities. In other words, the antithesis of <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span>.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Use of Radio</span><br />How important is radio? Important enough even the well financed drug cartels use radio.<br /><a href="http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/2011/12/mexico-drug-cartel-zetas-have-their-own.html">"Mexico drug cartel Zetas have their own radio system"</a><br /><br />Meanwhile, the murders and mutilations of Mexican journalists and bloggers at the hands of drug cartels should serve as a reminder that internet "anonymity" is not as safe as some may believe. This reinforces the concept of compact low power radio as a tool for regional communication in waging news, views and propaganda wars. In other words, true clandestine radio, not the entertainment oriented pirate radio we can afford to indulge ourselves in throughout N. America... at least until the drug war crosses our borders.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mexico-drug-cartel-zetas-radio-system-article-1.997041#ixzz1i1ACsNkz">Related NY Daily News story on drug cartels using radio.</a><br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Occupation of Free Radio?</span><br />Unfortunately I was unable to find any specific documentation or names to quote. But reportedly low power FM was used at some "Occupy" movement locations. Besides supporting non-violent anarchy, occupiers also helped contribute to the reminder that radio remains an essential tool of free speech. Whatever your thoughts about the Occupy movement - especially some of the wannabe hippie goofiness and disjointedness - it was a good thing if only because it provided an excellent example of exercising the First Amendment "right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."<br /><br />Update 1/26/12 - found a few references for LPFM at "Occupy" events:<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Occupy.Fayetteville.Arkansas/posts/305160199519349?_fb_noscript=1">Occupy Fayetteville Facebook page</a><br /><a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35233">"Madison community groups find a voice in low-power FM radio"</a><br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Best Move</span><br />WBCQ moved from 7415 to 7490, reportedly to avoid QRMing official comms on 7416. On the downside, WBCQ is barely audible now on 7490. On the upside, some pirates are making noises about reclaiming 7415, which has a legacy as a pirate freq predating WBCQ. I still have some old copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">Passport</span> from that era.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Worst Prophecy</span><br />WYFR and Harold Camping, May 21 and October 21. The world didn't end - OR DID IT? 'nuff said. For reasons I cannot fathom, I just can't bring myself to a proper sense of ire over harmless old Brother Sominex. Besides, his Open Forum provided plenty of fodder for pirate spoofs.<br /><br />Note: Jennifer Waits of <a href="http://www.radiosurvivor.com/tag/wyfr">Radio Survivor</a> wrote the most balanced articles on this issue. Read 'em if you're actually interested in the WYFR saga.<br /><br />Now, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, thank you for calling and sharing, and shall we take our next call?<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Ruiner of Pirate Radio</span><br />Propagation. Or, rather, lack thereof. Once again, <a href="http://climatedepot.com/a/12210/Gore-Unhinged-Loses-it-on-skeptical-claims-It-may-be-volcanoes-Bullshit-It-may-be-sun-spots-Bullshit-Its-not-getting-warmer-Bullshit--Climate-Depot-Responds">ManBearPig</a> failed to produce sunspots. I'm super serial. And the year was riddled with Coronary Mess Ejaculations or "solar farts" as the phenomenon are known in the scientific community.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Retrospective on Curmudgeonly Radio Personality</span><br />Okay, it's actually a rerun of a Slate article from 2009. But it's damned good reading. Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen's excellent retrospective about <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/2009/12/the_man_who_told_a_christmas_story.html">radio legend Jean Shepherd</a> resonates both humorously and poignantly now in context of a certain US shortwave pirate radio personality.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">"Like a lot of fine-tuned performing artists, Shepherd increasingly exhibited the whole range of symptoms common to the aging diva. He became paranoid and resentful of imagined rivals..."<br /><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/2009/12/the_man_who_told_a_christmas_story.html"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">--Donald Fagen, for Slate</span></span></a><br /></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span>***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best Creative Radio Paranoia</span><br />Just barely edging out Commander Bunny's WBNY "Three Ring Blogger Circus" production for 2011, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/gabriellechana1">Gabrielle Chana</a> (aka Gail Chord Schuler), wants you to know that radio is being used to harass and destroy her, and the obscure objects of her desire: Brent Spiner, Hugh Jackman, Matthew McConaughy, Gerard Butler, Judge Terrance Jenkins and Vladimir Putin.<br /><br />Be warned - <a href="http://www.orderofthejesuits.com/targets.htm">the Jesuits</a> have already destroyed Michael Jackson, Billy Mays and Princess Diana; possibly Kim Jong Il as well. <span style="font-style: italic;">(Note: Substitute "the gray aliens" or "the Communists" or "trust-fund bitches" for "the Jesuits" and you'll have a summary of her manifesto, as well as Commander Bunny's.)</span><br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Worst Omission - Who The Hell Do I Have To Piss Off To Make This List?</span><br />Finally, we are disappointed that neither <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span> nor WBNY's blog made <a href="http://www.salon.com/topic/salon_hack_list_2011/">Salon's 2011 hack blogger list</a>. Alas, Katie Roiphe edged us out with a year-end blitz of boorish blarging. She even managed to surpass Commander Bunny in misogyny, if not in self-parody.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Okay, your turn. What's your Best/Worst or Top Ten list for 2011?</span></span>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-11779367700157533402011-12-25T13:33:00.009-06:002011-12-26T22:48:11.972-06:00Merry Trollmas & May Your Stockings Be Full of Personalities<div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nTUETTCAOvk331tiyxmPVXkW-9e2ZI_pkeER3supUGjQ96iB-ZTAnxeV91_tNE_4JPDkUD2v3K8JDGS8UzqqVZPP8ru0mGC_gr0uy6ws0C7k9CAImHA4xwMA2L2jX9wRifMl8TCgPdQ/s1600/Grinch-Faux-Xmas.png"> <img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 443px; height: 522px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nTUETTCAOvk331tiyxmPVXkW-9e2ZI_pkeER3supUGjQ96iB-ZTAnxeV91_tNE_4JPDkUD2v3K8JDGS8UzqqVZPP8ru0mGC_gr0uy6ws0C7k9CAImHA4xwMA2L2jX9wRifMl8TCgPdQ/s800/Grinch-Faux-Xmas.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690158727200403970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">Doggerel by Grinch Faux<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Illustration by Dea Fauxnette Who</span><br /></div><hr /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb_W_JP5kgc"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span><span style="font-size:130%;">eck the FRN with stockings</span></span></a>,<br />Thumper and Beans and Mosby too!<br />Commander Bunny starts his stalkings,<br />Fiddle-faddle, piddle-paddle, Bouncer too.<br /><br />The Bunnyman, t-shirts he's hawking,<br />Fridge magnets, bumper stickers, pogie bait too!<br />Soon Doc John begins the mockings,<br />"Kiddie-mauler!" Bob Smith hollers, but it ain't true!<br /><br />Now the rumours start a-swirling,<br />Snitchy-bitchy, tattle-rattle, gossipy goo!<br />Accusations are a-twirling,<br />Poet gets a visit from the FCC too!<br /><br />Sock puppets do all the logging,<br />Multi-fursonality impressions too.<br />Soon Guise Faux begins a-blogging,<br />Posters on the trollercoasters, laughing at you!<br /><br />Hare-y flame wars for no reason,<br />Folderollin', bunny trollin', blames it on you.<br />Scampers back to call it treason,<br />M&Ms, cecotropes, eat your own poo.<br /><br />Empty out the stocking drawer,<br />Hunny bunny, nose is runny, big boo-hoo!<br />Who's the cute attention whore?<br />Gotta luv it, everybody's looking at you!<br /><br />Lagomurph sez just ignore us,<br />then they'll go away like they always do.<br />"Not this time!" sings A Nonny Mouse chorus,<br />Nibble-cheezin', bunny-teasin', makin' him blue.<br /><br />"All my funs they are a-stealing,"<br />Funny bunny blog-flogging blame it on you.<br />"eQSLs are not appealing."<br />Ruin brewin', boo-hoo'in', melodrama-fu.<br /><br />This is how we'll make amends,<br />spin doctor, whopper-popper, propagandoo.<br />Different lies for different friends,<br />whiffle waffle something awful make it seem true.<br /><br />Troll we now in endless measure,<br />Jibber-jabber, blibber-blabber, ho-ho-ho!<br />But we do it for your pleasure,<br />Trollo-lo-lo-lo, lo-lo-lo-lo!<br /><br />This doggerel goes on forever,<br />Guise wheezin', what's the reason? Too much beer!<br />Better end it now or never,<br />Merry Christmas, Better DX, Happy New Year!<br /><br /><hr /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46u50qJY0GM"><span style="font-style: italic;">With apologies to "Pogo" cartoonist Walt Kelly.</span></a>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-76353625550845575902011-12-17T21:30:00.000-06:002011-12-17T21:31:59.821-06:00PREMIUM CONTENT - SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: A Grinch Faux News Alert<div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkk8K1-_ckVTMSC8obzXdK4c3kNf364bPtnabcPaIhESSbvtqOmG2UfoE099tlQaGjiHpAmuug4sSYeQd8lTrPqUxrEsbnM_48uqqPA9AqZ6HVG6fpfMju32FM2obmXbQ_EWXK-l86AfE/s1600/Grinch-Faux_02_border.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkk8K1-_ckVTMSC8obzXdK4c3kNf364bPtnabcPaIhESSbvtqOmG2UfoE099tlQaGjiHpAmuug4sSYeQd8lTrPqUxrEsbnM_48uqqPA9AqZ6HVG6fpfMju32FM2obmXbQ_EWXK-l86AfE/s200/Grinch-Faux_02_border.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686874852143532930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">"Only pretentious annoying hacks like Stephen King would resort to meta-epigraphs."<br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;">--Guise Faux</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">by Grinch Faux<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" >Official Pirate Radio Fun Thief</span><br /></div><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">FCC</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">documents received today</span> by the <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span> publishing empire, per Freedom Of Information Act request, clearly indicate "Com...</span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 2px;"><div style="margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><input onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Show'; }" value="Show" style="margin-top: 5px; width: 60px; font-size: 10px;" type="button"> </div><br /><div style="border: 1px inset ; padding: 6px;"><div style="display: none;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">...plicity in failure to have a healthy sense of humour," said a cowardly anonymous FCC spokesperson, who agreed to this fake interview only under condition of cowardly anonymity.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">FULL PREMIUM CONTENT ARTICLE AVAILABLE ONLY TO GOLD MEMBER SUBSCRIBERS.</span></div></div></div><br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />From now on, or until we've <a href="http://unfunnythings.tumblr.com/">driven the wheels off</a> this <a href="http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-physics-of-clown-cars-feature">clown car</a>, access to Premium Content <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span> articles will be restricted to Gold Member subscribers only.<br /><br />We can already hear you clamoring "Geez, Guise, how do I become a Gold Member so that I, too, may enjoy the benefits of <a href="http://images.encyclopediadramatica.ch/0/03/Give_a_fuck.gif">Premium Content</a> on pirate radio's finest penny dreadful, yellow journal and dregs-drenched scandal sheet?"<br /><br />It's simple, Scarlet Pimple! <span style="font-weight: bold;">In the comment section below</span>, describe in lurid detail how you have contributed to the destruction of pirate radio! Be sure to list:<br /><ul><li>Fun stolen.</li><li>Sockpuppets wielded.</li><li>Buttocks millinery worn.<br /></li><li>Enemies exposed.</li><li>Dox dropped.</li><li>Stations QRM'd.</li><li>Nasty stations logged in violation of orders.</li><li>Consorting with <a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php">Underpants Gnomes</a>.<br /></li><li>Logging to the <a href="http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/index.php">wrong website</a>.</li><li>eQSLs sent via snail mail.</li><li>Snails sent in lieu of QSLs.<br /></li><li>Innocents falsely implicated.</li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">>Implications implied without green text.</span><br /></li><li>Voyages on de Nile.</li><li>Screeds scanned.</li><li>Trollercoasters ridden.</li><li>Angst, ire and U MAD? provoked.</li><li>Blarg rants per day.</li><li>Quotes from scripture or Eastern mystics, philosophers, serial killers or Shakespeare hilariously misapplied to blarg rants.</li><li>Complaints sent to FCC, Industry Canada, Ofcom or RA/AT to silence rival pirate stations.</li><li>Any other details which might qualify you as an elite pirate radio fun stealer.</li><li>Number of times you've made scowly-face whilst reading <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span>. (You know your face will get stuck that way.)<br /></li><li>Preferred brand of tissue boxes worn on feet whilst engaged in above activities.<br /></li></ul>To be eligible for <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span> Premium Content, be sure to include your full <a href="http://www.piratequiz.com/">pirate name</a>, secret location to booty (clearly marked with X), peg leg length, eyepatch size and location (left, right, middle, all three), and name of the parrot or monkey that sits on your shoulder (which will also be your password).<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJefJOU5OE"><span>Click here to access your Gold Member Premium Content</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">!</span></span>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-19096541957693404562011-12-12T18:00:00.005-06:002011-12-13T03:30:19.749-06:00GlobalTuners Pokemon Challenge: 99.99% friendly DXers, 0.01% rabid Krackwhore<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woySeSNBL3o"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >"</span><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" ><span>I didn't invent the internet for this nonsense."</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >--ManBearPig</span></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHFTEwqQYvgH7dq0VTbAHvE8Crfxy4VszP89w05vZRz8zK-4bMVFyK-nmESy_T4hDLKVum61us8QqvFZuRhFiEqdjMSmhk17insBSuDbX6KVcYAD6RxQHct1WLIJXxDUPeIkGslXDGHw/s1600/Dea-visor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 129px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHFTEwqQYvgH7dq0VTbAHvE8Crfxy4VszP89w05vZRz8zK-4bMVFyK-nmESy_T4hDLKVum61us8QqvFZuRhFiEqdjMSmhk17insBSuDbX6KVcYAD6RxQHct1WLIJXxDUPeIkGslXDGHw/s150/Dea-visor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685540221544759170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Illustrations by Dea Fauxnette</span></span><br /></div><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">We</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">received the following</span> from sources who requested anonymity.</span> As we have no personal experience with GlobalTuners (although we were registered on the old DX Tuners site, and now have alternative accesses to various web controlled receivers) we can say only that we are informed by reliable sources that it is an excellent site for DXers and that, with the apparent exception of a particular Cxxxxxxxx, NC, node, the site offers wholesome family entertainment and a welcoming environment for radio listening enthusiasts.<br /><br />However, judging from the following documented encounter with pirate radio's own beloved Kracker, we would advise that only Pokemon masters age 6 or older risk an encounter with that particular receiver.<br /><br /><hr /><br /><blockquote>>W. Di L., M.D.<br />>SS F******<br />>Port.<br />>30 Nov 2011<br />><br />>Hallo my freind<br />><br />>I hope is no trouble you that I have this question of GlobalTuners.<br />>I am member on GlobalTuners many months and I enjoy very much.<br />>Is help when I travel my cruise ship and do not have my protable rado<br />>with me.<br />><br />>I think I am respect and polite to every body. So. I am confuse<br />>with some thing that happens on other day. On 18 Nov 2011<br />><br />>When visit C******** NC rado and has very good recepton. Many<br />>others people there before me so I wait and only listening. After is<br />>two hour most peoples leave and rado is 6930 AM is narrow filter.<br />>It sound not so good so I wait but I am only member their who is "normal user"<br />>can tune rado. So. I adjust wide filter to better sound. And try the<br />>ECSS tuning you see because is better when the weak signals?<br />><br />>So. This "[kracker]" he make some things say seem not so nice. You see<br />>in chat log. I can not repeat him words they seem insult?<br />><br />>I do Google of this his name and I see to your blog site are many of<br />>mentions his name this "kracker" so maybe I think you might help to me?<br />><br />>I think I not do this wrong but am confuse. This not happen any time before.<br />>Is problem? Do RF rado tuner is not for me to use? Is private?<br />><br />>Thanks you my freind and I can help you any things please tell me.<br />>W. Di L.<br />>********@*****.it<br /><br />Dear Dr. Di L.<br /><br />We regret that we did not hear from you under more pleasant circumstances.<br /><br />Indeed, we have heard of this "Kracker" of whom you speak and with whom you experienced a most unfortunate encounter.<br /><br />Fortunately, after consulting with experts, we are pleased to assure you that there is no risk of contagion from this encounter. The most sensible remedy is to avoid that particular node on GlobalTuners where you encountered a creature that is generally regarded as less dangerous than a Wild Snorlax in a Pokemon match. Please study the enclosed illustrated guide for doing battle with this lightly regarded and undocumented Pokemon known, unofficially, as the Krackwhore. If you have children or grandchildren between the ages of 3 and 6 they can easily help you defeat this not-particularly-noteworthy opponent, which was once regarded as suitable only for practice by complete novices until it was decided that the Krackwhore offered almost no challenge.<br /><br />Please feel free to write us anytime. We wish you smooth sailing and good DX, wherever your journeys make take you.<br /><br />Guise Faux</blockquote><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR DEFEATING THE WILD KRACKWHORE<br /></span><span>FROM POKEMON MANUAL 2001<br />DELETED 2002 AS BORING AND UNWORTHY OF EFFORT</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK-XP17ctuA8OHXx1ZA_quoilGRP_pxe_hL0FvmjGpV54uSErt7JmSt8Q13g2M5vsxw8lHscVJDI6Z-zXwPTruwlO9px-lcHoOLIX2EOEAlr2-ZXALUtaFSkw9bKVAck-l5m4Naj0Lt80/s1600/DX+wizard+troll.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 362px;" 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/><br />[01:22] * Receiver has been locked by RF<br /><br />[01:26] * jax700 (Denver, US) has joined<br /><br />[01:26] * jax700 has left<br /><br />[01:28] * nmoreno94 (Montevideo, UY) has joined<br /><br />[01:33] * Radionuts (Ballinamult, IE) has joined<br /><br />[01:33] * nmoreno94 has left<br /><br />[01:35] * Receiver locked to Normal users.<br /><br />[01:35] * RF has left<br /><br />[01:36] * Radionuts has left<br /><br />[01:37] * zorg: 6.92532MHz, USB, 6kHz<br /><br />[01:37] * zorg: 6.92532MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:37] * zorg: 6.92522MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:37] * zorg: 6.92512MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:37] * zorg: 6.9251MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:37] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:39] * zorg: 6.9251MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:39] * zorg: 6.925MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg: 6.9251MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg: 6.925MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 1.5kHz<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg sets AGC: On<br /><br />[01:40] * zorg sets AGC: Off<br /><br />[01:43] * nmoreno94 (Montevideo, UY) has joined<br /><br />[01:44] * zorg: 6.9248MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:44] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:44] [nmoreno94] what they are listening on this frequency?<br /><br />[01:46] * zorg: 6.9248MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:46] [zorg] strange things<br /><br />[01:46] [nmoreno94] ok<br /><br />[01:46] [zorg] how is the weather in montevideo<br /><br />[01:47] * JerryS (Holland, MI, US) has joined<br /><br />[01:47] [nmoreno94] good, temperature 18 and the skies are clear<br /><br />[01:48] * JerryS has left<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9249MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.925MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.925MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9251MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * nickstr1 has left<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:48] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, AM, 6kHz<br /><br />[01:49] * zorg sets AGC: On<br /><br />[01:49] * zorg sets AGC: Off<br /><br />[01:52] * RF (NC, US) has joined<br /><br />[01:52] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, USB, 6kHz<br /><br />[01:52] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:53] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:54] * zorg: 6.9251MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:54] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:54] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, USB, 1.5kHz<br /><br />[01:54] * ww511usa (Empire State Ny, US) has joined<br /><br />[01:54] * ww511usa has left<br /><br />[01:54] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, AM, 1.5kHz<br /><br />[01:54] * N9KX (Stillman Valley, US) has joined<br /><br />[01:54] * zorg: 6.9252MHz, AM, 6kHz<br /><br />[01:54] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, AM, 6kHz<br /><br />[01:55] * N9KX has left<br /><br />[01:55] * nmoreno94 has left<br /><br />[01:56] * ww511usa (Empire State Ny, US) has joined<br /><br />[01:56] * RF sets AGC: On<br /><br />[01:56] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, USB, 6kHz<br /><br />[01:56] * zorg: 6.9253MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[01:57] * ww511usa has left<br /><br />[01:58] * Inchon9151950 has left<br /><br />[02:02] * RF sets AGC: Off<br /><br />[02:07] [RF] damn, i better go buy some anti-freeze and add a little.. later. hold 'er down<br /><br />[02:07] * RF has left<br /><br />[02:07] * kb3kjs (, ) has joined<br /><br />[02:08] * kb3kjs has left<br /><br />[02:16] [kracker] ATTENTION:- kracker has Requested To Tune<br /><br />[02:16] [kracker] put it on am<br /><br />[02:18] [kracker] jesus man<br /><br />[02:18] [kracker] everyone friggin fall asleep?<br /><br />[02:18] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:18] [pizzadxer] i can't set it here either<br /><br />[02:19] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:19] [kracker] i got it<br /><br />[02:19] [pizzadxer] now i can<br /><br />[02:19] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:19] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:19] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:20] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:20] * kracker: 6.9253MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:20] [kracker] devinatly am<br /><br />[02:20] [kracker] the music<br /><br />[02:20] [kracker] someone jamming too<br /><br />[02:20] [pizzadxer] yip<br /><br />[02:22] [kracker] xp thump u hear that?<br /><br />[02:23] [pizzadxer] lol<br /><br />[02:23] [kracker] someone playing with a tone genny<br /><br />[02:24] [kracker] hear their computer again?<br /><br />[02:24] [kracker] somone being maliciouse<br /><br />[02:24] [kracker] seriouse<br /><br />[02:25] [pizzadxer] yep<br /><br />[02:25] [kracker] it is vista i think judging from the pc generated sounds<br /><br />[02:25] [kracker] poet uses vista<br /><br />[02:25] [kracker] i know this to be a fact<br /><br />[02:25] [kracker] not too many morons use vista<br /><br />[02:26] [kracker] most ppl realise it is a bloated piece of schit<br /><br />[02:37] * kracker: 6.9276MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:38] * kracker: 6.9285MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:40] * kracker: 6.93MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[02:44] * RF (NC, US) has joined<br /><br />[02:44] [RF] man i'm tired<br /><br />[02:45] [pizzadxer] tired here too<br /><br />[02:46] [RF] filppin anti freeze is now half water for the same price<br /><br />[02:47] [pizzadxer] man<br /><br />[02:47] [RF] as it was full strength<br /><br />[02:48] [pizzadxer] thats outrageous<br /><br />[02:49] * Receiver has been locked by RF<br /><br />[02:50] [RF] lemme know if ya wanna tne<br /><br />[02:50] [pizzadxer] ok<br /><br />[02:54] [kracker] anyone get an id yet?<br /><br />[02:55] * RF sets AGC: On<br /><br />[02:57] [kracker] thats splatter from like 69285<br /><br />[02:57] [kracker] how teh hell r u r**<br /><br />[02:57] [kracker] hope all is well<br /><br />[02:59] [RF] talk later... got a bj in progress<br /><br />[03:05] * Receiver locked to Normal users.<br /><br />[03:05] * RF has left<br /><br />[03:13] * Inchon9151950 (Ohio , US) has joined<br /><br />[03:14] * zorg has left<br /><br />[03:14] * Inchon9151950 has left<br /><br />[03:14] [kracker] aww<br /><br />[03:14] [kracker] no tune 4u<br /><br />[03:14] * rmarte (castleton on hudson ny, US) has joined<br /><br />[03:14] [kracker] next<br /><br />[03:14] * rmarte has left<br /><br />[03:14] [kracker] pmlol<br /><br />[03:14] [kracker] aww<br /><br />[03:15] [kracker] owner locked the tuner so sad too bad here have a cookie.. next<br /><br />[03:16] * (name red.): 6.93MHz, AM, 6kHz<br /><br />[03:17] [kracker] band opened up<br /><br />[03:17] [kracker] not just the 3kc adjustment<br /><br />[03:19] * Inchon9151950 (Ohio , US) has joined<br /><br />[03:20] * Inchon9151950 has left<br /><br />[03:20] * johnlock has left<br /><br />[03:28] * pizzadxer has left<br /><br />[03:31] * Inchon9151950 (Ohio , US) has joined<br /><br />[03:31] * Inchon9151950 has left<br /><br />[03:38] * RF (NC, US) has joined<br /><br />[03:39] [RF] get an ID?<br /><br />[03:39] [kracker] wake up r**<br /><br />[03:39] [RF] lol<br /><br />[03:39] [kracker] did she swallow?<br /><br />[03:39] [RF] like a champ<br /><br />[03:39] [kracker] enquiring minds wanna know<br /><br />[03:39] [RF] haha<br /><br />[03:39] [kracker] good 4 u<br /><br />[03:40] [kracker] u know where chat i<br /><br />[03:40] [kracker] s<br /><br />[03:40] [RF] ya<br /><br />[03:43] [kracker] hey r**?<br /><br />[03:43] [RF] yea<br /><br />[03:43] [kracker] poet is a punk ass beioch<br /><br />[03:43] [RF] is this him?<br /><br />[03:44] [kracker] thinkin it is northern relay<br /><br />[03:44] [kracker] poet friendly<br /><br />[03:44] [RF] kk<br /><br />[03:44] [kracker] no matter<br /><br />[03:44] [kracker] i got their ass kicked at will<br /><br />[03:45] [RF] did he get the bust? you mentioned or someone did bcasting<br /><br />[03:47] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, AM, 6kHz<br /><br />[03:47] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, USB, 6kHz<br /><br />[03:47] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[03:48] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, LSB, 3kHz<br /><br />[03:48] [kracker] wow you totaly fucked that up<br /><br />[03:48] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, USB, 3kHz<br /><br />[03:48] [kracker] congrats<br /><br />[03:48] [(name red.)] que?<br /><br />[03:48] [kracker] got any other tricks up your sleve?<br /><br />[03:49] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, AM, 3kHz<br /><br />[03:49] * (name red.): 6.9302MHz, AM, 5.1kHz<br /><br />[03:49] * (name red.): 6.93MHz, AM, 5.1kHz<br /><br />[03:49] [kracker] wow your amazingly retared<br /><br />[03:49] * Receiver has been locked by RF<br /><br />[03:49] [(name red.)] is you rado?<br /><br />[03:49] [kracker] retarded<br /><br />[03:49] [(name red.)] que?<br /><br />[03:49] [RF] no but it IS mine<br /><br />[03:49] [kracker] no your just a friggin moron<br /><br />[03:49] [kracker] fucktard<br /><br />[03:49] [(name red.)] ok RF thanks you my freind<br /><br />[03:50] [kracker] get fuckin lost dumb ass<br /><br />[03:50] [(name red.)] is good rado is fast<br /><br />[03:50] [RF] whats the freq K?<br /><br />[03:50] [(name red.)] I thanks you adeus<br /><br />[03:50] [kracker] your still a fuckin moron you stupid piece of schit<br /><br />[03:51] [(name red.)] que?<br /><br />[03:51] [kracker] take a long walk off a short pier<br /><br />[03:51] [kracker] fuck you asshat<br /><br />[03:51] [kracker] your the result of a gang rape on a pool table<br /><br />[03:51] [(name red.)] I sorry my english no so good<br /><br />[03:51] [kracker] like i could give a fuck<br /><br />[03:52] [kracker] go some where they speak your language cockwad<br /><br />[03:52] [kracker] like the land of brown eye<br /><br />[03:53] [(name red.)] you speak what?<br /><br />[03:57] * Inchon9151950 (Ohio , US) has joined<br /><br />[03:57] * Inchon9151950 has left<br /><br />[03:58] [(name red.)] ok I thanks you my freinds adeus good dx<br /><br /></span></span>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com99tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-66825256780232016962011-12-04T05:24:00.004-06:002011-12-09T19:32:05.395-06:00Name That Tune: Song recognition software for radio listeners and DXers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsV7jPAES_gpaB2gw9M9OZ_gOquHTcMkcpciD5lLQHUh8y2Q7axMvpgkUdDyeHzY5ifFsRHlPiIA1HKn_hwB_ieyWJ0vWEm2EfwveriZ47RKV_W357lQJQm-Ayb_MgDXLQwO3dM-jiHo/s1600/Boxxy-Eris-Golden-Apple.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsV7jPAES_gpaB2gw9M9OZ_gOquHTcMkcpciD5lLQHUh8y2Q7axMvpgkUdDyeHzY5ifFsRHlPiIA1HKn_hwB_ieyWJ0vWEm2EfwveriZ47RKV_W357lQJQm-Ayb_MgDXLQwO3dM-jiHo/s200/Boxxy-Eris-Golden-Apple.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667036912959917586" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">"Girls have got balls.<br />They're just a little higher up that's all."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">--<span style="font-style: italic;">Joan Jett</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><br />Musings by Pheme Ossa<br /></span></div><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span><span style="font-size:130%;">mong the great joys of free, pirate and indie radio is hearing non-mainstream music.</span></span> And among the frustrations is being unable to identify a song or artist to find more of their music. It's particularly difficult with instrumental music or vocals for which you can't hear the lyrics clearly enough to Google, or the lyrics are in another language.<br /><br />Even some licensed radio stations are too damned hip to identify songs and artists. Despite complaints from listeners, some stations have adhered to the "no back announcing" policy that is just as stupid now as it was decades ago when some boneheaded consultants decided that somehow identifying songs already played would slow down the momentum, or would cut into advertising time, or would spoil the station's carefully cultivated hipper-than-thou mystique, or would require actual live human beings to identify songs.<br /><br />There's probably a way to automate song IDs as well, using ID3 metadata to provide info for a computer voice to read. That'd be a great way to make Jack FM even less interesting.<br /><br /><br />Every few years the same story is recycled in some major news outlet.<blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;">"It just makes sense to do it (identify songs played)," said Dan Mason, the president and chief executive of CBS Radio. "(We) probably underestimated at the time how much people really wanted that information," he said of the no-clutter trend of the 1980s that eliminated most DJ breaks to identify songs. <span style="font-size:85%;"><br />--(The New York Times, </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/business/media/30radio.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">CBS Radio Reminds D.J.'s to Identify Songs: 'When You Play It, Say It'</span></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">, May 29, 2011)</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;">"When you work in a record store and someone comes in and starts humming something and you're supposed to guess what it is, that's frustrating," said Carl Rosenbaum, president of Flip Side Records, which operates 17 retail outlets in the Chicago area. <span style="font-size:85%;"><br />--(From the Los Angeles Times, </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1989-04-11/entertainment/ca-1874_1_wmms-fm-songs-los-angeles-radio-station"><span style="font-style: italic;">'What Was That Last Song?' : Record Industry, Radio Deejays at Odds Over Song IDs</span></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">, April 11, 1989)</span></span></blockquote><br />Opinions vary, natch:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;">"Don't know about you, but I get irritated when you hear presenters tell you what an obvious song was, for example "That was Meatloaf and I'll do Anything for Love" ... I remember John Myers once say if he ever heard a presenter say 'and that was The Beatles with Hey Jude" he'd fire them!"</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">--</span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1590201"><span style="font-style: italic;">Some bloke on some other naff site</span></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">.</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">With record stores mostly part of ancient history, to whom does one hum to name that tune?</span><br /><br />How 'bout Tunatic, Midomi or Shazam?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(Update 12/10/11: Forgot to include the smart phone app </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.soundhound.com/">SoundHound</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, about which <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5525816/why-ive-replaced-my-iphones-music-app-with-soundhound">Gizmodo sez</a> "Unlike Shazam, it will hazard a guess at just about any tune thrown at it, whether it human or speaker-created, and it'll succeed </span><em style="font-style: italic;">most</em><span style="font-style: italic;"> of the time.")</span><br /><br />A couple of years ago Evil Elvis tipped us to Tunatic, a music recognition program that users reported worked surprisingly well, <span style="font-weight: bold;">even for identifying songs off scratchy shortwave reception</span>. Since then, <a href="http://www.midomi.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Midomi</span></a>, a comparable web-based music recognition utility, has appeared. We finally gave it a go recently.<br /><br />Another recommended music recognition tool is <a href="http://www.shazam.com/">Shazam</a>, which appears to be available only as an app for mobile devices. Those of you who are less paranoid than we are may wish to try the Shazam or Midomi mobile versions for your personal entertainment/tracking devices.<br /><br />The web-based version of Midomi uses a familiar Flash interface. It seems to assume users will hum or sing into their computer's microphone. If you record music off-air using a mic this would work, but not as well as a direct connection (see our experiences in the off-air recordings notes below). However you can easily set it to recognize music played from your own collection, or from YouTube or any other web source by setting your audio controls appropriately. For example, with a typical Windows PC, pull up the Recording Control and choose Mixer Balance (rather than the Line In option you'd use to record directly from your shortwave receiver). After Midomi suggests matches, many of the suggested songs are available in 30 second streams for immediate comparison and confirmation.<br /><br />After a trial run with a few YouTube videos and mp3's off my computer, I began to be skeptical that Midomi was cheating and peeking at my mp3 metadata so I tried a few songs with no ID3 data, but it worked anyway. It appears to rely heavily on comparisons with an existing database of songs. That database already includes a large collection of familiar and eclectic music and it was surprisingly easy to identify music I'd never heard before.<br /><br />First, the easy stuff:<br /><ul><li>Pavarotti's "Nessun Dorma" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! But that's an easy one.</li><li>Liz Phair "Fuck and Run" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>Black Eyed Peas "Pump It" = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span> on the first try. I'd have scored the original "Misirlou" as a winner, but "Chain Reaction" by Young Divas? Drop and gimme 20, Midomi.</li><li>Second try for "Pump It" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! But I had to play it from 30 seconds into the song for Midomi to recognize it.</li><li>Geto Boys "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>Dead Kennedys "Too Drunk To Fuck" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>Nouvelle Vague version of "Too Drunk To Fuck" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>NON "Total War" = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. Close, but Midomi picked the somewhat similar "Phoenix" by NON. To be fair, the versions of those songs in Midomi's database aren't very good, mushy without much bass so the rat-a-tat drums in "Total War" were buried in a fog of white noise.</li><li>"Do You Want Total Queer" = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. A little surprising it didn't default to the NON original for this obscure but brilliant spoof of "Total War".</li><li>"Dirge" Death in Vegas = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>"I Walk On Gilded Splinters" Dr. John = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>"Dus Bahane (Karke Legaye Dil)" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! We dig the Hindi-pop and so does Midomi.</li><li>"Do You Fear Sleep?" The Moscow Coup Attempt = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. Tried twice at different points in the song. Great song but probably too obscure so there's no copy in the Midomi database.</li><li>"Radio Junk" Yellow Magic Orchestra, from Radio Junk programme #1 = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>"Once In A Lifetime" cover by P.M. Dawn, also from Radio Junk #1 = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>"Streets of Calcutta" Ananda Shankar, from Radio Junk programme #2 = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!<br /></li></ul><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvvdW5AvQfmbLgwYsbjh-oqqRaeGnJilo0D2U4Y4u835TrjyjB0UFDk6pMJturMZctREK8xfSxw-tF2tIYcZy7RQk2jLJPFAt9rdHXLpGAqy6qfI2WV0zC2iRL70I75Yque6L8f-6tA8/s1600/Midomi-wireless-listeners_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvvdW5AvQfmbLgwYsbjh-oqqRaeGnJilo0D2U4Y4u835TrjyjB0UFDk6pMJturMZctREK8xfSxw-tF2tIYcZy7RQk2jLJPFAt9rdHXLpGAqy6qfI2WV0zC2iRL70I75Yque6L8f-6tA8/s400/Midomi-wireless-listeners_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682235073556369986" border="0" /></a><br />Okay, enough easy stuff. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Let's try some off-air recordings</span>, including some songs I didn't recognize. Starting with the best signals and working downward toward the weaker, noisier signals and those for which my receiver wasn't tuned quite on frequency for sideband broadcasts.<br /><br /><ul><li>"Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" Santana = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! From Radio Waves International Nov 13, 2011 show on 7415 with an excellent AM signal.</li></ul><br />Wolverine Radio's Nov 13, 2011, train theme show, with strong signal peaks but fadey:<br /><ul><li>"Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Knight & the Pips = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! Pretty impressive for single sideband audio with static, fades and some distortion due to my noise reduction software, applied after recording to cut down the heavy fog of white noise.</li><li>"Love Train" O'Jays = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! Again, same Wolverine show, even worse static and fading.</li></ul><br />From XFM off-air recordings:<br /><ul><li>Tesla "Call It What You Want" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! From XFM July 4, 2011 show, fair to good conditions.</li><li>Alice in Chains "Would" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! Same XFM show.</li><li>"Valley Girl" Moon Unit = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! XFM July 5, 2011, again, fair to good conditions.<br /></li><li>Right after "Valley Girl", Professional Murder Music "Slow" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! I'd never heard of this one before, couldn't even copy it well enough to Google the lyrics.</li><li>"Too Drunk To Fuck" Dead Kennedys = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! Not the most familiar version but Midomi nailed it.</li></ul>Various other off-air recordings:<br /><ul><li>"The Red Weed" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! From unid relay of Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" musical, Feb 2011. This was an excellent AM signal and audio.</li><li>"I Love It When You Call Me Names" Joan Armatrading, from High Plains Relay Service, Dec 2011 = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>"Cotton Eye Joe" Rednex = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! From Feb 2011 Bust-a-Nut Radio show, with very muddy copy on my end.</li><li>"You Keep Me Hanging On" Vanilla Fudge = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! From Dec 2010 relay of Radio First Termer. Impressive because my recording was so weak I can't even ID the station broadcasting this relay.</li><li>"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. From unid station, Dec 2010, this was as near impossible as it gets, what I'd call an overall signal (on SIO or SINPO scale) of 2, just barely audible occasionally and able to copy only familiar songs. Only the "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" chorus was audible through static, and the pitch was off because the receiver was mistuned on a USB signal. This appears to be the practical limit for Midomi.</li><li>"Antenna" Sonic Youth = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. From my own poor recording of our very own KBOX Radio Paranoia relay by WEAK, late 2010 or early 2011. Another overall 2 signal.</li><li>Primitive Radio Gods "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" and "Fading Out" = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. Very poor recording with mic up to speaker, barely audible.</li></ul>From my own recent recording of our very own Gumby Radio relay by High Plains Relay Service, Nov 26, 2011. This programme had some fairly obscure music:<br /><ul><li>"Cruisin'" Mike Nesmith = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>, on second try! My recording, good signal strength but a lot of RFI. From Nov 26, 2011, High Plains Relay Service show just before relay of Gumby Radio. I didn't recognize this song myself. All I was able to copy was something about Lucy and Ramona, so Midomi helped.</li><li>Gumby theme song = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. From my own recording of Gumby Radio, good copy but possibly not in Midomi database. No luck with my studio quality recording either.</li><li>"Bend Me Shape Me" Hello = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! From my Nov 26, 2011 recording of Gumby Radio.</li><li>"Gumby Is Dead" Jeff Capo = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>ed on off-air recording. But <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">score</span>d, sort of, on studio recording. Midomi suggested The Sunbeat Revival - "When I Think Of You(I Smile Neon Light)". Sure enough, the intro is virtually identical. Jeff Capo's version came out first, so perhaps Sunbeat Revival sampled the intro. To be fair, this is a fairly obscure song.</li><li>"Blockhead" Devo = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>!</li><li>Fiona Apple live with audience sing-along of Gumby (Gunji) theme = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. No surprise, too obscure.</li><li>"Bend Me Shape Me" by The Models = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span> on second try! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>ed on instrumental intro, but scored on opening lyrics. Very impressive. An obscure version, in nearly atonal singing style with mistuned audio from my receiver. (See: Girls in the Garage, Vol. 1)</li><li>"Twist and Shout" Beatles = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! Easy peasy.</li><li>"Bend Me Shape Me" by the Rubinoos = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fail</span>. Very similar to familiar and popular American Breed version, but no joy, including with studio recording.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now the really tough test - humming</span>. Would Midomi be able to make sense of my tuneless efforts and not confuse my version of Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" with "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"?<br /><ul><li>First up, I tried scatting a Muppet's style version of "Mahna Mahna". Midomi came close. Among the seven suggestions was a salsa styled "Mana Mana" by Ismael Rivera, which was pretty close. "Made In Japan" by Pato Fu? Not bad, it does indeed incorporate the "Mahna Mahna" bit. Gloria Estefan's "Conga"? Nah. And Phil Collins "You Can't Hurry Love?" Gimme a break. But let's blame my horrible humming. Let's call it <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">score</span>.<br /></li><li>Next, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! I wonder if it can do that alphabet song?</li><li>First try at "Daisy, Daisy" = I'm sorry, Dave, it's going to go 100% <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">failure</span>. Midomi suggested "Iris" by Biagio Antonacci, "Yo Quisiera" by Reik, and "With You" by Chris Brown. Midomi doesnt' seem to like tuneless lower register voices.</li><li>Second try at "Daisy, Daisy" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! Midomi seems to prefer the upper register.</li><li>"Guantanamera" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! I actually sang "One ton tomato, oh he's a one ton tomato".</li><li>Lady Gaga "Paparazzi" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! And I'm pretty sure Gaga would get a restraining order against my singing voice.</li><li>"Blue Christmas" = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! But Midomi suggested the Celine Dion version rather than the Elvis via Andy Kaufman version I thought I was singing.</li><li>"Feliz Navidada" by Jose Feliciano = <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Score</span>! It even recognized the ever popular "Fleas on my dog" variant.</li></ul>Judging from most of the user submitted voice samples, Midomi likes upper register voices - women and kids. Some of those voice samples weren't horrible. No way in hell was I gonna submit my own voice samples.<br /><br />Also, with almost every hummed, scatted and tortured sprechgesang version I tried, Midomi suggested around half a dozen possibilities. The one exception was "Feliz Navidad", which Midomi nailed without alternative suggestions. So if you go that route for an unknown song, plan on sorting through a few possibilities before finding your song.<br /><br />Overall, definitely the hot tip for identifying those songs we hear on the funny bands, or even for you better-behaved SWLs who prefer to avoid the oh-so-melodramatic pirate frequencies and may want to send a detailed reception report to snag a QSL from Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Australia or other shortwave broadcasters featuring music programmes.Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com76tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-84333012477962014412011-12-01T03:11:00.012-06:002011-12-01T08:35:01.919-06:00TWIRP: The Lagomurph Blinks<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQE8s_w3aJ7FkXSnqhhv7rWsRbfBMnvUgGWM1F5jlHt6N82SjRTzCN2JXvN507YjP3JPLX75ka8YPB4CcwhiiXOPNP3A8ITR2tbXK6k_QEQI1B7s2qzkFJre1YQikTpu2et0MmVw3xQH0/s1600/Grinch-Faux_border.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQE8s_w3aJ7FkXSnqhhv7rWsRbfBMnvUgGWM1F5jlHt6N82SjRTzCN2JXvN507YjP3JPLX75ka8YPB4CcwhiiXOPNP3A8ITR2tbXK6k_QEQI1B7s2qzkFJre1YQikTpu2et0MmVw3xQH0/s320/Grinch-Faux_border.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681117138187216610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">T</span>he mighty blargers</span> stood virtual face to virtual face across the pitiless expanse of the interweb.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">Grinch Faux, he stared with a baleful glare<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">a stare as bare as any may dare...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br />...and the Lagomurph blinked.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">by Grinch Faux</span><br /></div><hr /><br /><blockquote style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span>he Lagomurph blinked and blinked and blinked<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">And off he'd slink in a terrible stink<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">to scribble some more of his stinkety ink.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Some stinkety ink about horrible Pinks<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">who dare to speak up whenever he finks.</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span>his Week In Radio Paranoia:</span></span> Mark it on your calendars, dear readers. Blarg date 29 November 2011, Commander Bunny begs for surrender in the pirate war that exists only in his imagination.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"><blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;">"</span>YOU STOP – get your asshat monkey friends (Corq, aka: Guise Faux, HF Underground, Bxxxxxx Jxxxxx, Txxxx Txxxx, Kxxxx Mxxxxx & posts on FRC) to stop and then we’ll stop. How does that sound for a Peace Treaty? REMOVE ALL OFFENDING ATTACKS against Commander Bunny, Kracker and his friends…OR NO TREATY!"<br /><br />"...you don’t want your full name and public address being posted on the WBNY website? Then you stop doing the same thing to other people in Pirate Radio, and have your nasty little monkey friends stop it! Corq aka: Guise(honestly its not a secret anymore), HF Underpants, FRC etc. You stop it or it I will keep it visible and public until the end of time! Think I’m fooling? Try me! Here is your chance to END IT"<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">--<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WjJdQfLtTk">Commander Bunny, WBNY blog</a>, "WBNY WEBSITE: 28,933 Visitors EVERY SINGLE DAY!", November 29, 2011</span></blockquote></span><br />Yes, it's a ranty rabid rabbit sort of huffy puffy threatening sort of surrender, but the real message is clear when you read betwixt the <del>lines</del> lyings.<br /><br />Whilst we appreciate the Lagomurph's conciliatory gesture and tacit admission of guilt in prosecuting an imaginary war, it's completely unnecessary. The war, if one exists, is totally within his paranoid imagination. Just as it has been for over a decade.<br /><br />Take the cure for myxomatosis, dear fellow. Relieve yourself of the obviously heavy burden of guilt you're experiencing for having dragged so many innocent peripheral bystanders into your bizarro world orbit. No need for unseemly public atonement. Just start privately...<br /><br />...with "Spore", whom you publicly slandered whilst exposing the names addresses and amateur radio call signs of an entire family, without even knowing for certain that you'd targeted the correct person in your tantrum.<br /><br />...with Radio Ga-Ga, whom you needlessly baited into an argument, with your Beans and Official Press Release sockpuppets, over a minor allegation of QRM that could easily have been resolved less melodramatically - and certainly without your publicly identifying his city.<br /><br />...with Doc John for attempting to entrap him and silence his station, again using a sockpuppet, followed by your hysterical spectacle of slanders and pleading tantrums on the FRN, on your blog, your Facebook account, on the Free Radio Weekly and by e-mail to dozens of people.<br /><br />...finally, with the many innocent individuals whom you have targeted in your misguided rage, in particular Gayle Van Horn who did absolutely nothing to you other than to pop up as some sort of apparition in your fevered imaginings.<br /><br />Don't apologize because we've suggested it. Do it for you own peace of mind.<br /><br />We are not warriors. We are historians to your hysterias. All we've done here is to document what we've observed. We are but attentive scribes, jotting down the lyrics sung by a tragi-comic tenor, transcribing the notes to this humoresque as best we can whilst attempting, in our ever so 'umble way, to convey the full scope of emotion, intrigue and brilliant irony in your personal opera.<br /><br />And in that pursuit of yeomanlike documentary of your adventures through free radio and the blargosphere, we shall on occasion challenge, correct and refute your more incredible calumnies, defamations and dissemblings, in the pursuit of noble truth.<br /><br />Such truth will on occasion, as appropriate, make reference to your true identity. Not out of any sense of malice, but in the pursuit of accuracy. As you well know from your long career, you are, after all, a public figure - or, at the very least, a limited public figure - within the standard definitions of journalism practice in North America. Your distinguished career in licensed commercial broadcasting and various endeavors in regional politics and commentaries on regional issues ranging from politics to the media clearly qualify you for such consideration and we would be remiss in failing to note that distinction. But you already know this. We've listened to your talk radio shows. We've read your commentaries on regional issues.<br /><br />And none of your thrashings over the situation with Poet and TCS will distract us from the attentions you have earned the <del>hard</del> harebrained way. Sputter "But-but-but, Poet! But-but-but, a$$hat$! But-but-but, ruining our fun!" all you like until your overgrown incisors need a veterinarian's attentions. Nothing in the Tales of Radio Paranoia blarg will be deleted. Because we are confident you understand free speech, parody and satire. You used to have an admirable station by the name of Radio Free Speech that employed those very same techniques in pursuit of a greater truth.<br /><br />Meanwhile, virtually none of the persons you have targeted for your... attentions... shall we say, scurrilous diatribes?... would qualify as even limited public figures. The lone possible exception might be Mrs. Van Horn,<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgrY56YaWH3QDCJfyKAV36fPZpnTnWghCgYsCommDeFQ708nkpXKzPxKBtMZWvm03Xd5hpSjNB6p2dkXhiIf3Ip-g7oJQeTI49jMsxCjyMEzkJb2IqtN0kVGt6-dpn-yg7Mad0Pu-4tE/s1600/Behind+7+Boxxies.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgrY56YaWH3QDCJfyKAV36fPZpnTnWghCgYsCommDeFQ708nkpXKzPxKBtMZWvm03Xd5hpSjNB6p2dkXhiIf3Ip-g7oJQeTI49jMsxCjyMEzkJb2IqtN0kVGt6-dpn-yg7Mad0Pu-4tE/s400/Behind+7+Boxxies.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681134709750807794" border="0" /></a> but as we have attempted to assure you and Kracker repeatedly, she has had naught to do with Tales of Radio Paranoia.<br /><br />By the by, dear fellow, we noticed your recent frantic revisions to the above cited WBNY blarg now include some new names. You should be aware that there is a strong possibility that one or more of those persons are free radio operators and have done absolutely nothing to merit your peculiarly expressed affections. We mention this only in the interest of helping you to avoid yet another embarrassing situation in which you have once again dropped dox and exposed others to the attentions of regulatory enforcement officers.<br /><br />And, dear readers, we strongly suggest that in order to avoid such uninvited attentions from the Lagomurph, you may wish to join us in chanting... Good luck, buddy, I'm behind seven <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhiXz9SBb2s">Boxxies</a>!<br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;">News of the Now - for real</span><br />Still feeling a bit misogynistic?<br /><a href="http://www.ifex.org/international/2011/11/30/violence_against_women/">International Freedom of Expression - IFEX</a> members highlight risks faced by female journalists on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video of the Now</span><br />Still feeling like dropping dox and exposing real names, addresses and personal information about people who've done nothing to merit your angst?<br />StealthBadger soberly explains <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mqLmjsbh0">"Why You Don't Drop Dox"</a>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-85354220225586887722011-11-24T05:54:00.006-06:002011-11-25T02:07:37.622-06:00Happy Thanksgiving from Anarchy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9z7HCIrfBdzVxiE4Wv9efHNRTYE1J2FgwmjbwzHEgh-D9g1M5YP5scco4UdR3H8PpWMxkrnGdYglKvodX61IF88oUFxfCD7vllLCUM3qZ1o4ujS-LmLB_ZIef-ljED38ao7J4wNR888/s1600/EFG+Mehitabel+Happy+Thanksgiving.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9z7HCIrfBdzVxiE4Wv9efHNRTYE1J2FgwmjbwzHEgh-D9g1M5YP5scco4UdR3H8PpWMxkrnGdYglKvodX61IF88oUFxfCD7vllLCUM3qZ1o4ujS-LmLB_ZIef-ljED38ao7J4wNR888/s400/EFG+Mehitabel+Happy+Thanksgiving.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678531109025062642" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" ><span style="font-size:180%;">W</span><span style="font-size:130%;">e are thankful</span> for all our fellow trolls, anarchists, friends, wise counselors, mentors and relay stations who take all the risk.</span><span style="font-family:courier new;"> Even if we infuriate some of you. And especially if you infuriate us. Because you helped motivate us to find, claim and fight our own artistic space in this lunatic asylum. Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving all you Guys and Guise.</span><br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />Recommended reading: <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/are-you-an-anarchist/">Are You An Anarchist?</a>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-37382776526377528162011-11-19T04:14:00.005-06:002011-11-25T01:14:24.813-06:00TWIRP: Racism, in MY pirate radio? It's more or less ambiguous than you may or may not think<hr /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZo7ueIQ06DjlTSZa9QuUjziO795fdh-yElM-KOvYzPxHBT7DQWuImHFso26EPP7drx1B2pi-4x_2SXGdzDdeOUNC-rvQ-w76jKvhyphenhyphenwfrXpYlIiMdt2OIJeNvdNVL6vg42tZnAD4zo2gg/s1600/Negra%252C+por+favor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZo7ueIQ06DjlTSZa9QuUjziO795fdh-yElM-KOvYzPxHBT7DQWuImHFso26EPP7drx1B2pi-4x_2SXGdzDdeOUNC-rvQ-w76jKvhyphenhyphenwfrXpYlIiMdt2OIJeNvdNVL6vg42tZnAD4zo2gg/s400/Negra%252C+por+favor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676709456744181282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >"</span>We would call this movie an example of reverse racism at its finest, but that would imply that we condone a certain type of racism, and frankly, it's all the same to us. So when the youngest Wayans brothers donned whiteface to crack some jokes at the expense of white people, we laughed. And laughed again when they sang some Vanessa Carlton. But that doesn't make it right. No, not in the least."</span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">--<span style="font-style: italic;">From Complex Magazine's oh-so-PC course in pop culture apologetics,</span> "</span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2010/01/The-50-Most-Racist-Movies/white-chicks"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The 50 Most Racist Movies</span></a><span style="font-family:courier new;"> (You Didn't Think Were Racist)" <span style="font-style: italic;">on the Wayans brothers movie, "White Chicks"</span></span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Oh, yeah... that review included an amazon.com click to buy link. Nothing says "We may feel guilty for laughing at vaguely racist humor, but not too guilty to miss an opportunity at a marketing tie-in" like an amazon.com link.</span><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span><span style="font-size:130%;">his Week In Radio Paranoia...</span> a mixed message bag of racist humour! </span>Marshall McLuhan said "The medium is the message." A corollary may be "Context is everything." So it is with humour that touches on race, religion and similarly sensitive issues. Let's see if you agree in regard to these very recent examples in the shortwave pirate radio medium.<br /><br /><ul><li>Fake TCS = lol Bonehead League in ur radio makin' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt">FUD</a>.</li><li>KBLK = lol white boy in ur radio gettin' his black on to editorialize, yeeaaoww.</li></ul><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He who smelt it, dealt it</span></span><br />November 13, 2011, 2200 UTC, 6950 AM<br />Some unidentified station <span style="font-weight: bold;">faked a program</span> and broadcast by The Crystal Ship, playing racist music with TCS ID's clumsily spliced between songs. It apparently was a failed attempt to smear the reputation of John Poet of TCS. Anyone who has heard genuine broadcasts by TCS would know he would never play this type of material. The worst anyone can say of the Poet is he is an idealistic progressive in the mold of the great American upper midwestern socialism. It may also be the best you can say of him, if you happen to share that idealism. GF prefers anarchy.<br /><br />The station ID's were obviously faked, cut from real TCS programs. Poet's familiar opening monologue, consisting of a reading of the opening lyrics to the song "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors, was placed uncharacteristically in the middle of the hoaxed program and repeated. The other ID, in John Poet's voice, was repeated two or three times, also uncharacteristic. Poet usually mixes up pre-recorded ID's and includes those by Juliana Montana.<br /><br />Rather than the familiar National Anthem of the Soviet Union which begins most genuine TCS broadcasts, the<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2S03RUJPqrqUaNQeaHNTffEXXQPthOce9dR7cOLbzf5ea-Qf6Suu4p7V3DcvLQTZq8EDirShZewcibFPyThkjPVuL-BZLGfroXV2KWqE_Lm58EorygD4K58wm-b82MVlZDa800CE1snc/s1600/6950+am+ummmmmm+-racist+music+-+FRN+-+11-13-11f.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2S03RUJPqrqUaNQeaHNTffEXXQPthOce9dR7cOLbzf5ea-Qf6Suu4p7V3DcvLQTZq8EDirShZewcibFPyThkjPVuL-BZLGfroXV2KWqE_Lm58EorygD4K58wm-b82MVlZDa800CE1snc/s400/6950+am+ummmmmm+-racist+music+-+FRN+-+11-13-11f.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676712985972723650" border="0" /></a> faked program began with dialog from the 1941 Disney movie "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lu9MsQ1yM">The Reluctant Dragon</a>", which contains the "punk poet" audio segment Kracker has used in recent Radio Jamba International shows targeting Poet. A copy of the movie may be found on YouTube, where the uploader described the dragon as "extremely faggalicious". This, presumably, drew Kracker's attention whilst he was Googling <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201106/homophobic-men-most-aroused-gay-male-porn">his favourite topic</a>.<br /><br />Who was first to sense the scent of this stinker? Interestingly, only a handful of listeners and/or sockpuppets reported hearing this broadcast, all on the <a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum4/HTML/020619.html">Frolicsome Rabbit Nuthugger's haunt</a>. 't' blames Kracker. Bad Andy sez "No this could only be Commander Bunny he is way more evil than Kracker." Krackwhore McIdiot and the Virginia Bunnyman plead innocence... or ignorance... probably both. Most of that thread smells trollish, other than comments by Boomer, and, perhaps, John Galt and JTA. And believe me, I know what troll smells like... takes one to know one.<br /><br />Since Poet's FCC bust was announced in July - accompanied by an oh-so-eager announcement on the FRN by probable Pat Murphy sockpuppet "MIB" - the only pirate radio operators to continually take jabs at Poet, including repeatedly specifying his real name and complete address, are Murphy, under his Commander Bunny persona on his WBNY blog, and Paul McElligott, aka "Kracker" of Radio Jamba International. Both have professed their innocence. The ladies doth protest too much, methinks.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;"><blockquote>We say "He who smelt it,<br />dealt it."</blockquote></span></span><br /><br />Streaming audio of an <a href="http://ia700607.us.archive.org/14/items/TalesOfRadioParanoia/Unid-fake-tcs-racist-music_6950am_nov132011_2200utc_edited.mp3">edited version of the faked TCS broadcast</a>, with the offensive racist music deleted. You may, if you choose, download the <a href="http://ia700607.us.archive.org/14/items/TalesOfRadioParanoia/Unid-fake-tcs-racist-music_6950am_nov132011_2200utc.mp3">unedited version here</a>. The lyrics for these songs may be found <a href="http://niggermania.com/afnfaq/pg/NigSongs.html#Top">here</a>. Don't say we didn't warn you.<br /><hr /><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="26" width="640"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param value="high" name="quality"><param value="true" name="cachebusting"><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf"><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'Unid-fake-tcs-racist-music_6950am_nov132011_2200utc_edited.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/TalesOfRadioParanoia/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{'Listen+to+TalesOfRadioParanoia+at+archive.org':null},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'Unid-fake-tcs-racist-music_6950am_nov132011_2200utc_edited.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/TalesOfRadioParanoia/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':true,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{'Listen+to+TalesOfRadioParanoia+at+archive.org':null},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" height="26" width="640"></embed> </object><br /><hr /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Can We All Just Get Along?</span></span></a><br />A few people may have been puzzled at my comment on the HF Underground that I found the KBLK show hilarious. I did, and still do. But not necessarily for the obvious reasons.<br /><br />The attempt at appeasement by KBLK might have been more persuasive, if not for the unfortunate timing of coinciding with the overtly offensive racist faked TCS broadcast.<br /><br />HFU logs for KBLK<br /><a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,5541.0.html">12 Nov 2011 - 6925 AM 2220 UTC</a><br /><a href="http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,5552.0.html">14 Nov 2011 - 6925 AM 0010 UTC</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TalesOfRadioParanoia">Audio stream for 32 minute KBLK program here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">W</span>hile some may take offence</span> at the presumed use of a "black" voice by a presumably white man, I found it generally funny for the barbed wit aimed at this year's "pirate war". I really did laugh aloud when he named Guise Faux among the combatants. As the announcer, "Straight G", observed, most of the "war" has been waged online - including with the <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">ToRP</span> blog</a> - in a hobby dominated by a demographic of mostly middle aged white men.<br /><br />I would take exception only at the implied presumption that few women are interested in the shortwave listening hobby, or specifically in pirate radio broadcasting. However I would say - considering the misogynistic abuse Pat Murphy and Paul McElligott have directed toward two notable women SWLs, Gayle Van Horn and Lori Easterly - it's not surprising that most women in the SWL, amateur radio and pirate radio hobbies prefer to keep a low profile.<br /><br />First, however, the entire KBLK show is a mixed message. On the one hand, it begins with "Cheri Love Affair" by punk performance artist <a href="http://www.stuffyouwillhate.com/2011/09/do-u-remember-gg-allin/">G.G. Allin</a>, before segueing into the dark side. The only possible relevance we can see is some vague nod toward wannabe punk Kracker, who may have pretensions toward Allin's reputation for being hardcore, but lacks the minerals to follow through to the inevitable conclusion. But we wish him all the best in that pursuit.<br /><br />The DJ's pseudo-black patois puts a modestly edgy veneer on the humour. Then somehow it segues into what amounts to a Rodney King style "can't we all just get along" plea for a return to fun, safe, non-threatening hobbyist pirate radio. In the end, it sounds like a plea to <span style="font-style: italic;">do it, people, do it for the sake of comfortable, white, middle class pirate radio</span>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbp5Wc6HEuxbFFC5rhWcn_xK0LdVutlKxSc2NGcOAAN6xadXkSWagd6nAlFbsQ7IdvqkzFz_BvNkvY4Mv8TxqJP-TyOLzYxMXo_DAdOunhe0RxsBvmb43TFdoxGGa3OumUbhkcru-vgA/s1600/Al+Jolson+-+dude%252C+seriously.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbp5Wc6HEuxbFFC5rhWcn_xK0LdVutlKxSc2NGcOAAN6xadXkSWagd6nAlFbsQ7IdvqkzFz_BvNkvY4Mv8TxqJP-TyOLzYxMXo_DAdOunhe0RxsBvmb43TFdoxGGa3OumUbhkcru-vgA/s400/Al+Jolson+-+dude%252C+seriously.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676707196680444674" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The gangsta patois shouldn't bother anyone who's hip to trashy pop culture. If it's distasteful, someone needs to tell Quentin Tarantino to delete his scenes (Jimmie Dimmick - The Bonnie Situation) from "Pulp Fiction". Or Gary Oldman's scenes from "True Romance". Or Robert Downey, Jr. in "Tropic Thunder". Or Darrell Hammond's Jesse Jackson impressions from Saturday Night Live. Or... just get the fuck over it.<br /><br />Beastie Boys? Vanilla Ice? Eminem? Mimicking a stereotypical Jewish, Mexican, Asian or black gangsta voice and style isn't even edgy anymore, let alone racist. Not any more than mocking the foibles of pirate radio in this blog is killing pirate radio.<br /><br />But if you object to this blog about pirate radio while you've voiced no objections to the misogynistic cyber-harassment of Mrs. Van Horn and Ms. Easterly by McElligott and Murphy, which includes besmirching their professional reputations, then pardon my yawning at your mild discomfort over not hearing more Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead on shortwave rather than a spat that would barely ruffle your mom's feathers compared with the typical YouTube comment sections.<br /><br />Besides, for all we know, the KBLK DJ really is black. Hard to tell since his voice covered every accent from Chris Rock to Wolfman Jack. Better dig up the Wolfman and warn him someone's mocking wolfmen... or corpses.<br /><br />Now, one thing that's funny - besides the pretty good voice work - is that he's right about most of us being white, middle aged, and with way too much time on our hands if we can find the time and energy to poke each other online or on the air.<br /><br />It's also funny that he thinks we're all white, middle aged men. Because depending on the moon phase, Commander Bunny can't seem to decide whether I'm him, or I'm Tennessee troll Evil Elvis, or I'm Corq, or I'm just a sockpuppet for Poet. Eventually he'll get around to all of you other white, middle aged guys, so just wait your turns. The Lagomurph may not know whodunnit, but he knows one of you done it.<br /><br />Another amusing bit is that Mr. DJ thinks the problem can be solved by ignoring Murphy and his sockpuppets. Well, that's been tried, hasn't it? Back in 2001. Back in 2008. Again in early 2011. Look how well that worked out. Where was your angst then? Or were you a mite too cautious to take on the lumbering Lagomurph and his sock drawer army?<br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><blockquote>"I can promise you that not once will you ever read on this blog that pirate radio is destroying blogging."</blockquote></span></span><br /><br />But the funniest thing of all? The notion that exercising free speech by blogging about the wonderfully diverse quirks and foibles of the pirate radio scene is somehow destroying pirate radio. Meanwhile, pirate radio is "free speech", but... I can promise you that not once will you ever read on this blog that pirate radio is destroying blogging.<br /><br />With over 31,000 page views since March 2011, astonishing growth for any blog, let alone a niche hobbyist blog, the readership speaks for itself. Not once has this blog pimped itself via sockpuppets on every radio related website. We leave that to the Virginia Bunnyman. Not once have we sent out QSL cards, refrigerator magnets or bumper stickers ridiculing innocent people who are only peripherally involved in the SWL hobby. We leave that to Murphy and McElligott.<br /><br />But we do extend our deepest appreciation to the Lagomurph for going to such expense to publicize our blog. It's that kind of genuine grassroots, word of mouth, supportive fanbase that's proven how Radio Free Speech really works.<br /><br />In the end, the message from the KBLK narrator - which we believe to have been genuinely intended to reduce the tension - resulted in a misfire due to occurring the same weekend as the faked racist TCS broadcasts. In the end, the entire mixed message basically sounded like the <span style="font-style: italic;">"Mars Attacks!"</span> Martians: "ACK! ACK!"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVY1V8fXBmY">Can't we all just get a LOL</a>?<br /><br />Oh, by the way... remember what happened after that stirring speech by the President? Yeah, the Martians vaporized him. Blessed are the peacemakers.<br /><br /><hr /><br />Finally, if you're finding it difficult to grok how fucked up it is to find some types of racial or ethnic humor funny - even if you feel a little guilty about it - and other types not funny by any standards, imagine growing up with <a href="http://sixcharacters.wordpress.com/category/santa-and-his-posse/">Zwarte Piet and Sinterclaas, or Krampus</a> as part of your winter holiday festivities.Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-70283575635910226022011-11-11T07:36:00.020-06:002011-11-12T20:07:46.847-06:00Poppy music<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">F</span><span style="font-size:130%;">rom last week's</span> "Remember, remember" to this week's Remembrance Day...</span><br /><br />We don't have any particularly insightful message for this Veteran's Day, Remembrance Day... just another of those annoyingly pretentious bits of ironic juxtaposition, whilst pondering the traditional poppy, its symbolic use in the Wizard of Oz, and the traps our leaders set for us in recklessly interventionist global policy.<br /><br />Of course, we salute Guy Fawkes, who fought in the service of His Majesty King Philip II of Spain against the wooden-clog-wearing hash-smokers, and later for Catesby's mercenaries, until rather suddenly reaching the end of his rope in January 1606.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgx9loMwTEiUG7dTGzbpoeSsLh5QUF6sunLmxH2pCJr3EecpiBEV6AGzDcgiXhwHlSpGbRlSp_teISx7mnJy4MMCT-xcjYPGeNpG-Ukx03xTn-Cve320OC5RptPzByhU8NjBpkWwBOX8/s1600/flanders-field.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgx9loMwTEiUG7dTGzbpoeSsLh5QUF6sunLmxH2pCJr3EecpiBEV6AGzDcgiXhwHlSpGbRlSp_teISx7mnJy4MMCT-xcjYPGeNpG-Ukx03xTn-Cve320OC5RptPzByhU8NjBpkWwBOX8/s400/flanders-field.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673763688086593778" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span>Look here, upon this picture...</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" ></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5hU1OauLmyMi8HhgXe3Zo1oO3K7Ys-nhMEqKbOTkDErbQ-7wxBbvQ2XZiV7-y4sBZUUqlPHNuhXqx3ti_Ch0pNQ7zGznprl9X_Ky8gbP_8q0pu6xatRj4i1ke-4nSo5k90iZvkORe9s/s1600/poppy-field-in-Afghanistan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5hU1OauLmyMi8HhgXe3Zo1oO3K7Ys-nhMEqKbOTkDErbQ-7wxBbvQ2XZiV7-y4sBZUUqlPHNuhXqx3ti_Ch0pNQ7zGznprl9X_Ky8gbP_8q0pu6xatRj4i1ke-4nSo5k90iZvkORe9s/s400/poppy-field-in-Afghanistan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673764188716583858" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" ></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >and on this,</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" > The counterfeit present- ment...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGLS2XpLduyrvWhSnSR1vYcNdOW6Ag4oLauM6nBaHXQ9hczd1oigi56CDQiwftiYsxyZ2otKqWFQvgj-ntqmWalKDCdV20eq5DzRktCgrmiBM0ZxLsbBSALhz33J_Qy9kru6EoM0ip-KA/s1600/Tinman-poppy-field_sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGLS2XpLduyrvWhSnSR1vYcNdOW6Ag4oLauM6nBaHXQ9hczd1oigi56CDQiwftiYsxyZ2otKqWFQvgj-ntqmWalKDCdV20eq5DzRktCgrmiBM0ZxLsbBSALhz33J_Qy9kru6EoM0ip-KA/s400/Tinman-poppy-field_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673764923688991586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;" ></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >...and what judgment</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" > Would step from this...</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-8BiccPcQ-1Bz7NhaIjosMZOWXSwBTiKGQxnOIv6CL2VwsmLC9BG7sWgZEvzKdjhd2E9BkFvtVTBFIucH6juIar0Kao3z4U_UtS4D5oKIMyjyuwP6NB-DWMRwbsono5shi0YlbjICSI/s1600/Gaddafi-poppyized.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-8BiccPcQ-1Bz7NhaIjosMZOWXSwBTiKGQxnOIv6CL2VwsmLC9BG7sWgZEvzKdjhd2E9BkFvtVTBFIucH6juIar0Kao3z4U_UtS4D5oKIMyjyuwP6NB-DWMRwbsono5shi0YlbjICSI/s400/Gaddafi-poppyized.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673769639590743906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >...to this?<span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >--Hamlet, III.iv</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Muammar Gaddafi being poppyized. With the clownish Libyan strongman out of the way, the borders are now wide open for U.S.-sponsored drug trafficking.<br /><hr /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;">"In Afghan Fields did the USA</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;">Guard poppy fields where terrorists play.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;">And with no sense of irony,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;">A 'War on Drugs' for us, you see.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;">With prisons to fill, what better way?"</span><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><hr /><br /><a href="http://www.orwelltoday.com/afghanfields.shtml">Jackie Jura</a> did a better job revising the classic "In Flanders Fields" poem.<br /><br />Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqIrDKnNE8">U.S. Marines Guard Afghanistan Poppy Fields</a>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717728101026075063.post-33273494848464819282011-11-05T20:25:00.013-05:002011-11-11T05:38:48.585-06:00Remember, remember...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeiUuHzE8xvk1TBlPobXBRtGXcfafDZlNPQNM-WwHyQDlOUUEHmZcRdkVSlDNzjwuHwCYnwWuiXTz1QYi5QReFuJS3sc-ac_5mheSLvpoYjmWzaYTkc8DOcnHXafg0VQm719bMYDK8dc/s1600/GF-anarchy_sm.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >Evey: <span>"Are you like a crazy person?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >V: <span>"I am quite sure they will say so."</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >--V for Vendetta</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">R</span>emember, remember...</span></span><br /><br />...the Fourth of July, 2008.<br /><br />No, it doesn't rhyme with "Fifth of November". But it has everything to do with anarchy, and nothing to do with gunpowder, treason and plot.<br /><br />Well... not unless you embrace any hierarchical system that is antithetical to anarchy. In which case, you may prefer to join with Pat Murphy who, in his <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/myxomatosis-madness-alert-bunny-frames.html">fraudulent e-mail</a> purportedly sent to the FCC, described John Poet of The Crystal Ship thusly:<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">"<a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/08/myxomatosis-madness-alert-bunny-frames.html">He is a treasonous voice of dissent and needs to be silenced</a>."</span></blockquote><br />Doesn't quite sound like the voice of a true anarchist, does it?<br /><br />Rather than any concise or even particularly coherent theme for Guy Fawkes Night, these are just some musings on the nature of anarchy related to, and the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/04/what_happened_to_irony/">ironic</a> juxtaposition of opinions about, anarchy within the pirate/free radio scene.<br /><br />Besides, everything else about Guy Fawkes has been written better than I could manage. Musing about his reemergence in pop culture and role as an icon of Anonymous would require either a treatise on semiotics or a significant dedication of time and energy immersed in the quirky quasi-collective anarchistic sub-culture of the interbutt. And unless you're familiar with <span style="font-style: italic;">V for Vendetta</span>, either the graphic novel - with its greater emphasis on anarchy - or the movie, delving into the tropes inspired by that contemporary personification of Guy Fawkes would be pointless. Suffice it to say, there's more to it than the mainstream media-coined descriptions of Anonymous as <span style="font-style: italic;">hacktivists</span> or trolls.<br /><br />Let's take a look at a few comments on anarchy within the U.S. shortwave pirate radio scene over the past few years:<br /><hr /><blockquote face="courier new"><a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/002642.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"LISTENING to pirate radio is illeagle? (sic)"</span></a><br />http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/002642.html<br />March 03, 2007<br /><br />Rockin' Rick<br />March 09, 2007 02:28<br />"Why are people so afraid of anarchy? It is not chaos."<br /><br />Bill O. Rights<br />March 09, 2007 10:41<br />"The anarchy point was well put, but I'm afraid lost on this group..."</blockquote><br /><hr /><blockquote face="courier new"><a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/002945.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Pirate Radio NET ??"</span></a><br />http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/002945.html<br /><br />Bill O. Rights<br />October 26, 2007 23:21<br />"I have also observed, over the years, many well intentioned efforts to "organize" pirates to do one thing or another. These too end in disaster, as pirates don't like to be told what to do, even if its done nicely. They are anarchists of the truest form and aren't people who join or like to be in groups."</blockquote><br /><hr /><blockquote face="courier new"><a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/004705.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Seriously, thank you everyone and Merry Christmas!"</span></a><br />http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/004705.html<br /><br />Pat Murphy said...<br />December 27, 2010 12:22<br />"For a bunch of anarchist who can't stand to be grouped or told what to do, the Pirate Radio bunch has come a long way."</blockquote><br /><hr /><br />Those are some mighty fine pretty words about anarchy, Mr. Murphy.<br /><br />But, oh, those nights of July 4th and 5th, 2008, and the subsequent "pirate war"... <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">that was real anarchy!<br /><br /><br /></span><hr /><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="26" width="640"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param value="high" name="quality"><param value="true" name="cachebusting"><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf"><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'UNID_computer-voice-rant-about-Pat-Murphy_July_4-5_2008.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/TalesOfRadioParanoia/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{'Listen+to+TalesOfRadioParanoia+at+archive.org':null},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'UNID_computer-voice-rant-about-Pat-Murphy_July_4-5_2008.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/TalesOfRadioParanoia/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':true,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{'Listen+to+TalesOfRadioParanoia+at+archive.org':null},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" height="26" width="600"></embed> </object><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TalesOfRadioParanoia">Off-air recording</a> of computer voice rant from July 4-5, 2008, accusing then-Free Radio Network administrator Pat Murphy of rampant sockpuppetry, multiple personality disorder and other abuses.<br /><br />The first 30 seconds are from a 2006 WBNY "feud" show, which featured a backward recording. In this case the recording was corrected including the pitch shift used for the Commander Bunny voice. This in part contributed to Murphy's dislike for European pirates, since Alfred (former owner of the Alfa Lima site) was blamed for correcting the recording. In Alfred's defense, he was only responding to a challenge from Commander Bunny to solve the hidden message. Since that recording was publicly available online for a couple of years, it could have been downloaded and reused by anyone, so this should in no way be interpreted to implicate Alfred for the computer voice rant.<br /><br />The computer voice rant begins at around the 30 second mark. Toward the end is heard audio from Brother Stair for reasons unknown, perhaps for dramatic effect. The source of this broadcast remains unknown, although Murphy and Kracker variously accused at least three different people, in their typical "fling enough poop, maybe something will stick" fashion. (Note: One of the persons named as a Murphy sockpuppet was very definitely incorrect - DB is <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> a Murphy sockpuppet. He's a DXer, a good fellow and lives nowhere near Murphy.)<hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />T</span>hat was the overture to this comic opera</span> which we, merely your Shakespearean Chorus, endeavor to describe in a fashion that may amuse, bemuse and confuse. Since then we've enjoyed the arias during the 2009-2010 era, a time when several new and independent minded operators joined the fray with numerous quality shows that could be heard loud and clear - all minus the ego driven melodrama that characterizes Murphy's influence.<br /><br />This year we've heard a sort of post-modern deconstruction, a cacophony of echoes melding a reprise of the 2008 overture mixed with offstage noises by rebellious players, and improvisations by various and sundry passersby. Will the entire theatrical set collapse before the final act? Who cares? It's a comic opera. Catastrophe could only make it more entertaining.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH47TjD9syCDlW2BsNwKoqMnoTcvvhPBamtuc88vul3Eq1QW3lirlkboKxBwnfAYuiSUhL2I3PgXB5GzEkvIkl_A_vuEkzw6NOxGGGX9HRI8-mOVYG_oxkC12j8k26p2-USsL8YEb85OA/s1600/Guy+Fawkes+forgot+the+matches.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 384px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH47TjD9syCDlW2BsNwKoqMnoTcvvhPBamtuc88vul3Eq1QW3lirlkboKxBwnfAYuiSUhL2I3PgXB5GzEkvIkl_A_vuEkzw6NOxGGGX9HRI8-mOVYG_oxkC12j8k26p2-USsL8YEb85OA/s400/Guy+Fawkes+forgot+the+matches.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671853407224610178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"> WHAT! NO MATCHES? NO BLOWING UP PARLIAMENT<br />AND </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">NO INDEPENDENCE DAY 2008 ANARCHY<br />FOR YOU, MR. FAWKES!</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />But, in summary... a computer voice broadcast played two or more times beginning July 4, 2008, accused Pat Murphy of abusive sockpuppetry; interviewing himself (by staging "interviews" with Commander Bunny of WBNY and Bill O. Rights of Radio Free Speech); and permitting, even encouraging, Kracker to repeatedly post abusive rants targeting other FRN participants, including exposing real names and addresses. In his frenzied retaliation against the still-unknown perpetrator of that anonymous computer voice broadcast, Kracker lived up to the accusations by threatening stalking and physical violence against at least two former participants on the FRN.<br /><br />In the process <a href="http://whisperinyourfear.blogspot.com/2011/07/ha-ha-only-kracker-ha-ha-only-snitching.html">Kracker also exposed the real identity and location of another pirate radio operator</a>, screeching over the airwaves "...you traitorous fucking piece of shit!" and "... I've got your fucking address! You ordered a fucking t-shirt!"<br /><br />Somehow, the concept of "traitorous" and anarchy don't quite seem to mesh. But no matter in the Bunnyman's through-the-looking-glass and down-the-rabbit-hole funhouse.<br /><br />So, why were these abuses - purportedly violations of some nebulous "pirate code" - tolerated and even given tacit approval?<br /><br />Anarchy. <span style="font-style: italic;">Real anarchy</span>, not gentlemen's agreement, Marquis of Queensbury, bourgeois weekend hobbyist anarchy.<br /><br />It is the type of anarchy preached and practiced only by the hapless zealot Lucian Gregory of G.K. Chesterton's classic allegorical novel <span style="font-style: italic;">The Man Who Was Thursday</span>, in which it was revealed that of the council of seven anarchists, all but one turned out to be police detectives who not only had infiltrated the council but actually led the band of so-called anarchists.<br /><br />As fantastic and improbable as that quaint novel seemed (and which apparently inspired Gabriel Syme's imaginative and very entertaining <a href="http://voiceofnextthursday.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Voice of Next Thursday</span></a> programmes), the U.S. pirate radio scene under Pat Murphy's influence far surpassed Chesterton's imaginings in duplicity, conniving and cunning. To this day, Murphy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQadSjBmujDhYOFUwcK50lb5Lxw18GWGrYQJU9wAyFVpKRKLSoxLjLluH4pneQ9Nb6EKzYdU_Z8czkRV7vrh8Hu3I1OSVSJFu-olvlTHW2bnhQZH5SwikAPqP7Ud1LO-Md24bMA1yVuOg/s1600/Cutest+little+anarchist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQadSjBmujDhYOFUwcK50lb5Lxw18GWGrYQJU9wAyFVpKRKLSoxLjLluH4pneQ9Nb6EKzYdU_Z8czkRV7vrh8Hu3I1OSVSJFu-olvlTHW2bnhQZH5SwikAPqP7Ud1LO-Md24bMA1yVuOg/s320/Cutest+little+anarchist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671854790046769330" border="0" /></a> still seems to believe that the faithful will trust him when he claims to support anarchists in pirate radio. And he does, in the same condescending way the owner of a doberman might assure you that your yappy little chihuahua is just as good a watchdog. In practice, however, he and his sycophantic Krackwhore do as they please, including exposing identities of pirates they consider rivals or slandering and defaming anyone they consider enemies.<br /><br />Because that is precisely what a genuine, diehard anarchist would do.<br /><br />So Murphy and Kracker are the genuine anarchists whilst those of you who try to obey the "rules" they've concocted are closer to amateur radio operators licensed by the FCC or Industry Canada. Murphy is counting on you to play by a set of rules he prescribes, but which he has no intention of heeding. As he wrote in 2007 under his "Beans" sockpuppet: <a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/002765.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"I don't get it!"</span></a> And he probably never will.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><blockquote>"Murphy is counting on you to play by a set of rules he prescribes, but which he has no intention of heeding."</blockquote></span></span><br /><br />That's why Murphy - under his Commander Bunny persona - can continue to repeatedly publish on his WBNY blog Poet's full real name and address, even though the street address was never specified on the FCC notice. Because the "pirate's code" applies only to you, not to him.<br /><br />That's why Murphy and Paul McElligott - Kracker's real name according to <a href="http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/ohlsen-v-hollenbeck">publicly available court documents</a> - can repeatedly slander, defame, cyber-stalk and harass women shortwave listeners like Gayle Van Horn and Lori Easterly - corq to her friends - despite having absolutely no evidence that either woman has had anything to do with the <span style="font-style: italic;">Tales of Radio Paranoia</span> blog, other than to read it. Because the "pirate's code" applies only to you, not to Murphy and Kracker.<br /><br />And that's why, as with this entire weekend, they can QRM the broadcasts of rivals without fear, whilst claiming that the station who was on first was actually to blame for the interference. Because the rules only apply to you, not to them.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I</span>s this hypocritical? No!</span> Because, again, that is precisely what a real anarchist would do. Anything goes. In the absence of any sort of codified order what emerges is any interpretation anyone wishes to apply to the like of the Golden Rule of the Judeo-Christian concept, the Thelemic "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law", or karma, which Murphy seems to equate with revenge or vendetta.<br /><br />The problem with anarchy is that few have the stomach for total anarchy. Most of us believe we want anarchy in certain areas of our lives - typically, free speech, if you're a pirate radio hobbyist or practitioner - but if pressed would probably admit we'd be more comfortable with order even if it meant certain limitations on liberties.<br /><br />Despite his proclamations supporting anarchy in pirate radio, particularly under his Bill O. Rights persona (not a mere sycophantic sockpuppet like his Beans, Mosby, Thumper and Bouncer characters), Pat Murphy seemed to be drawn toward imposing *his* order rather than trusting true anarchy. But like any good totalitarian propagandist who's counting on climbing the corpses of other anarchists who led the charge, Murphy is counting on you to swallow his pablum about supporting free radio anarchists. Because under his exemplary leadership, in anarchy all things are permissible, nothing is forbidden... to him, or to his sycophants. But for you, well... some anarchists are more equal than others.<br /><br />As with the hamster cannibal radio wars on the 20 meter band the past decade (14275 and 14313), the strongest signal and clearest message wins. The messenger, and his or her character, or lack thereof, hardly matter.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">John Poet of The Crystal Ship may have summed it up best in an unintentionally prescient post on the FRN in 2007:</span><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family: courier new;"><a href="http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/002945.html">October 27, 2007 16:54</a><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgki7Duz-TfYAyMTjXYh9Gj2_sH5l63n9imrbCrxtrfrtUU6WL8sslaI8aOv3FfDYD8EphXhezJ30N9w8uFbosyoXxRY57qItDbnV4TFEsqnDqL-pRp32rTJn_sTA2ploN1toenr429Gxc/s1600/Anarchist_logo_red.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgki7Duz-TfYAyMTjXYh9Gj2_sH5l63n9imrbCrxtrfrtUU6WL8sslaI8aOv3FfDYD8EphXhezJ30N9w8uFbosyoXxRY57qItDbnV4TFEsqnDqL-pRp32rTJn_sTA2ploN1toenr429Gxc/s200/Anarchist_logo_red.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672570360428081826" border="0" /></a></p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >"The war is over. The anarchists have won. God Save The country and Free Radio."</span><br />--The Poet</blockquote><br /><p>So, remember, remember...</p>Guise Fauxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050226560945328352noreply@blogger.com39