Episodes
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
211: Just One More Thing
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
I have questions about immigration and the current state of our policies as a nation. I don't profess to have a lot of answers, but I will admit that some of the possibilities seem both obvious and disturbing. For example, what have we become?
Different Drummer: Peter Falk
One question I don't ask directly: Am I becoming increasingly self-referential?
Allow me to answer with links.
188: Constitutional Crisis
42: "The Morning After" for classic Made-for-TV Movies
187: Television Debut (1972-73)
15: Declaring War on "Just Say No"
195: Telling Your Stories (Before It's Too Late)
59: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 1
Tuesday May 29, 2018
209: Taking Sides
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Far too often, discussions about politics and religion (or even popular culture) are being compromised if not thwarted by blind devotion to entrenched positions. We are becoming more segregated than at any point in my lifetime, not just along arbitrary divisions of race. It's two kinds of news, or even in the minds of some people two kinds of bakeries. Tragically, we are watching an "us versus them" siege play out before our eyes and ears. I've no doubt that I have been impacted, too. Potential listeners of Inappropriate Conversations have, for want of a better phrase, weeded themselves out on shaky religious grounds. And, perhaps, my personal policies like never "un-friending" anyone might make those suspicions seem legitimate. If we can't remain in dialogue, though, then how will we have any real conversations -- inappropriate or otherwise?
Different Drummer: Mel Blanc
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
208: 'A Simple Yes Or No'
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Who could resist the combination of April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday? Not me. "A Simple Yes Or No" was originally published in The Juke Joint Journal, 1986.
Different Drummer: Animal
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
207: 8 Years of #IC
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Highlights, poetry/prose, essays, and Different Drummers from the first 8 years of Inappropriate Conversations, which started on March 7, 2010.
Different Drummer: Derek Jarman
Highlights
195: Telling Your Stories (Before It's Too Late)
Poetry and Prose
93: Poetry Providing Perspective
Essays
29: My Prayer for a Football Game
59: 10 Areas of Agreement about Abortion, part 1
60: 10 Areas of Agreement about Abortion, part 2
Different Drummers
22: Art and the Strange Bedfellows
50: The Most Significant Art Form
87: Used Record Stores and a Healthy Aquarium
Also:
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
206: Minding Your P's and Q's, part 6
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Your points and questions #6 covers a couple of years of feedback, with nods to Nancy, Nicole, Shane, Chris, and others.
Different Drummer: Maria McKee
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
204: Revolution As Dissent
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
Thursday Dec 07, 2017
If we don't speak up now, raising our voices in dissent, then when will we? An argument could be made that the powers-that-be are striving to stifle the means by which those voices may be heard.
Now is the time to speak in favor of Net Neutrality.
Now is the time to note that we will never be able to return to this moment in history.
Now is the time to insist the our leaders put nation ahead of party, the intent of our so-called "founding fathers" above self-interest.
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country.
Reds (1981)
Different Drummer: Diane Keaton
Monday Jun 05, 2017
200: The Sound of Dissent
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Religion.
Different Drummer: Larry Kirwan
T Bone Burnett - "I Can Explain Everything"
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - "Tell It All, Brother"
Roger Waters - "What God Wants Part 1"
Jethro Tull - "My God"
Jethro Tull - "Hymn 43"
Jethry Tull - "Wind Up"
Laurie Anderson - "Beautiful Red Dress"
Joni Mitchell - "The Magdelene Laundries"
Tori Amos - "Leather" (live)
No Doubt - "Just A Girl"
Black 47 - "Black 47"
Black 47 - "James Connolly"
Flogging Molly - "What's Left of the Flag"
XTC - "Dear God"
XTC - "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"
DC Talk - "Jesus Freak"
Ministry - "Psalm 69"
Tim Dorsey - "Tiger Shrimp Tango"
Nuclear Assault - "Preaching to the Deaf"
Nuclear Assault - "Hypocrisy"
Todd Snider - "Somebody's Coming"
Todd Snider - "Conservative, Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males"
Todd Snider - "Alot More"
T Bone Burnett - "I Can Explain Everything (Reprise)"