Posts from — March 2008

It is with great pleasure and a considerable amount of joy that I am writing today to you to let you know of a couple of things going on here at the Dark Comedy Hour.

Eugene Sounds has been reflecting upon his love-life full of strange meanderings and stranger characters still.

Soon (after or during the weekend), there will be new podcasts with those promised poems and audio pieces. New introductions and new sounds as well.

Check out the Records page for some aural mayhem.

Enjoy your Friday!

Look out, ladies and gentleman, its a veritable barrage of words from here at the Dark Comedy Hour!

Please pay mind and turn your notice and attention to the exciting and insightful analysis and examination of the visual arts happening at Patronizing the Arts. Stay tuned!

Welcome all our new bloggers! We hope your endeavors are as fruitful as they are verbose!

Everyone keep an eye on the bloggers page to see who is new, what is going on and why!

Enjoy each other!

It looks like we’re in for a good week or so of sun, (relative) warmth, and, in a word, Spring. Enjoy!

So LOTS of news today: Aunt Emma got around to recording an update for us which is at the podcast page.

The East Village Republican has reports from his (non East-Village) home town, a little closer to the heartland.

New Songs at the Records page and, soon, a whole design overhaul for that section of the site.

A couple of new pages attached to the site… just keep an eye out for those.

Come back for new updates by week’s end! There are sure to be developments here at the Dark Comedy Hour.

Stay tuned!

but the skies are blue.

We continue to follow the Democratic party’s dilemma with the East Village Republican at DC’s Mac Daddy as we enjoy Rox Sirando’s impressions at Alivealivealive.

Theres always more, so stay tuned to the Dark Comedy Hour.

Notably, and most excitingly, Rox Sirando has begun to share his examination of modernity and linguistic musings; an existential romp (I’ve always wanted to say that) through an American landscape, dirty, still unsettled and unsettling, the new on the cusp of the old, imbued with wisdom and a worldly voice, fraught with tensions, soothing and human.

The East Village Republican maintains his position, writes for the future, awaits the election.

Eugene Sounds rolls along finding the right words to say, the right stories to tell.

Seen on a cart selling calenders by Madison Square Garden: A picture of Jesus with the words : “Jesus is coming… look busy”

Enjoy reading, work hard, and stay tuned for a new podcast.

-Site Admin.

Good afternoon all,

Newest news first: The Neo-Deal has, as of this morning, weighed in on the issues! The incoming AND outgoing polls are in; the numbers indicate… a dead heat!.. Or someone’s reading them wrong. Find out more here!

This post is for the bankers of the world, without whose hours of overtime, hard-work, deceit, and commitment, none of this comfort, coziness, and torpor would be possible. I’ll try to keep it ebullient, toasty, and mellifluous.

The Site Director is currently “on leave” though that doesn’t mean that the Dark Comedy Hour stops production. No, we here produce well into the leader-less night, the lights from our tallow lanterns shining dim upon our worn and weary hands, scrawling wrought language, black smoke filling the room and staining the walls: be it prosaic, moribund, desultory, inquisitive, insightful, or hilarious, the Dark Comedy Hour seeks to make most of this fleeting eve with its Wall Street woes and petty Capital crookery. And since the internet is accessible anywhere, its not like ‘on leave’ is really that far away.

Our new blogger Eugene Sounds is hard at work indulging in his broad and sweeping hindsight; gesturing about a life of movement, fancies, and drugs. Stay Tuned!

And always at DC’s Mac Daddy, the East Village Republican strikes the hearts’ of men, women, and children alike. Is it the caustic vitriol or the sweet political overtures? Is it the astute observance or the humorous and bold candor that keeps ‘em coming back for more? Either way, its worth the read for sure! Read what its about!

Keep that honey handy ’cause the milks startin’ to sour…

-Site Administrator

See, we told you so!

Let’s all welcome Eugene Sounds to the blog train. He is taking this opportunity to assess, progress, digest, and move along… move along.

Entertaining stuff!

Dear reader,

We’ve made it to yet another Thursday; a fine day to be a fan of prime time evening television, coffee, legal pads, public transportation, and the internal combustion engine.

There is, of course, news here at the Dark Comedy Hour. Behind the scenes, the Site Director and Administrator have been (hard) at work contacting, thinking, talking, coding, planning, photographing… On stage right and left, you will find the ever active and prolific East Village Republican, the wild imagination and vivid sarcasm of the Neo-Deal, and a host of other both boastful and mild, humble and strong, strings, stories, samples, slides, and songs.

Here are several exhilarating possibilities: a new blog. A new podcast. New Contributions. New site design and layout! New Photographs!!

Stay attuned!

We here at the Dark Comedy Hour are mostly a peaceful people, and so it is with a great stretch of imagination and pathos that I have come-to-terms with the recent threats this website has been recieving… Ok. It was only one threat… and it was fairly innocuous. But let this be a reminder to you that danger lurks around every corner in this unbalanced world.

This reminds me of a trilogy of movies: Koyanisqaatsii, Nagoyanisqaatsi, and Powaqaatsii. I may have mis-spelled these movie titles… I feel I am missing several “a”‘s but I am too anguished, too distraught to guide my mouse pointer to the google search text box at the top right hand side of my screen… bereft, I am, amidst a sea of turbulent IP traffic, oh wretched Bandwidth, why? Why do you taunt me with streams… of information, directories… of files, LAN networks… of users?! Whence? and who hither?!

Anyway, this reminds me to remind you, faithful reader, arduous do-gooder, conniving cackler, that the Dark Comedy Hour is being revamped! Re-style-ized! Refashioned! Remade into a sleeker more formidable Dark Comedy Hour with much better gas mileage.

I’d like to welcome Casey back to Brooklyn.

And, finally, if anyone can tell me which 2-and-a-half-hour long pinnacle of early 90′s American Action, an Arnold apotheosis (hint!), movies the title of this posting is from, you will receive… a song. Yes, I will write you a song… I wouldn’t flatter myself and think this a good gift, but I am of meager means and have only the sweet, dulcet tones of my lyre and pan flute with which to reward s/he with the greater cultural knowledge.

Come one, come all!

At the multi-ring  extravaganza that is the Dark Comedy Hour, we have for your reading pleasure, in ring Number 1, the technical mastery and the magical wizardry of the East Village Republican, taming with ease the wild beasts of this most formidable and hostile political landscape. And adjacently, the undeniable, the unbelievable, the unflappable alchemy of the Neo-Dealer, conjuring witty rabbits from proverbial hats, transforming colorful cloth into soaring rhetorical fowl, and sending sequined assistants into thin air.

Keep your eyes on these two mavericks as they write their perspicacious prose, keen and wry.

The poetry pieces are coming soon and other blogs too.

As this train rolls through your town, the children and adults are getting excited, the high-schoolers are getting disillusioned, and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are gearing up for what they bill as the saddest show on earth! Stay tuned!