Joseph P. Farrell

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    This was my fault… I forgot I had scheduled one for today, and it’s been a problem because it’s impossible for me to plan my own schedule with constantly shifting dates from the organ builders… I am at my wits’ end with them.

  • FOlks there will be NO vidchat today… It was my mistake in that I thought I had scheduled for next week. My own schedule has been played for havoc by circumstances beyond my control and I hope there will be an end to the chaos SOON

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    And it will definitely be worth bearing in mind if I can ever get this new book done…

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    And they had real talent, too… (cough)… did I say that?

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    It is a STRANGE thing… why make the announcement now? As far as I understand it, the satellites that have been flying by Jupiter should have been able to detect these things…

    • And why is one of them flying in an opposite direction? One thing I will keep repeating.. Intersteller flight will require hollowed out asteroids or… moons.. Otherwise we will have to freeze everyone in in vitro mode to be grown automatically on arrival (the tech exists already today.. I was scared when I heard about babies being grown in…[Read more]

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    Actually, it looks like Fat Boy, the plutonium-implosion bomb they dropped on Nagasaki. But as for the “artifact” I’ll be skeptical until I learn more…

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    PDQ Bach is the quintessential musical parody, satire, and comedy.

    • It’s SO bad and SO skewed .. you can’t help but laugh .. And what kind of symphony would have a kazoo? ..
      I mean SERIOUSLY .. a kazoo!! .. I find it HYSTERICAL

    • I have always adored Peter Schikele and his PDQ Bach “works”. A Victor Borge of the composer milieu.

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    Oh my…. ROF!!!

  • And for the hardcore PDQ Bach fan, let us not forget the world premier of The Abduction of Figaro (I was at this performance and you can hear me laughing in the first act)… fortunately, opera, as an art form, survived this disastrous assault, as did Hee Haw and ballet…

  • … and while we’re talking about PDQ Bach, who can forget the Grand Oratorio, the Seasonings? To quote Professor Schikele, “His plagiarism was limited only by his faulty technique…”

  • Happy Birthday to Peter Schikele, dogged discoverer of the “musical” works of PDQ Bach, the worst composer who ever lived:

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    Ha! Not a rant, just a “sort of full disclosure” of just how “out there” my high octane speculations can be….

    • pre 2016 it would have been classified a ‘rant’ and a ‘conspiracy theory’…. Nowadays.. HOS(tm) seems to be quite Down to Earth Speculation..pretty much EVERY SINGLE conspiracy theory from the last 60 years… appears to have been true.. Im just waiting for Lizardmen to come out of the Moon to land on Flat Earth…(Im joking. I dont believe…[Read more]

  • Finally chapter seven is done…a very dark chapter, but one that, I think, readers will resonate with, especially as we’ve discussed a certain subject contained within it quite often in the vidchats. Two more chapters, and a wild, wacky, nutty and thoroughly personal appendix to go…

    • Wild and wacky huh, sounds like some high octane speculation coming down the pike.
      Or maybe it could be a RANT, yeah a RANT…………………oh goodie !!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • Ha! Not a rant, just a “sort of full disclosure” of just how “out there” my high octane speculations can be….

        • pre 2016 it would have been classified a ‘rant’ and a ‘conspiracy theory’…. Nowadays.. HOS(tm) seems to be quite Down to Earth Speculation..pretty much EVERY SINGLE conspiracy theory from the last 60 years… appears to have been true.. Im just waiting for Lizardmen to come out of the Moon to land on Flat Earth…(Im joking. I dont believe…[Read more]

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    Yes.

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    I know… and that too is sad… Africa is still being used in all this nasty business…

    • Anyway your sentiments do you credit, and the apparently “hard line rhetoric” is not just what a lot of Italians want to hear but also, or perhaps mainly a way of sending a message to the various powerful parties running this new form of slavery.

      • Its ironic… The roman Empire was built on the backs of slaves.. What’s the problem now…? (waiting for another Sparticus to arrive.. but it didnt finish well for those slaves either…..)

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    This will sound strange, because I have certainly been sympathetic to European countries that are trying to defend their borders and culture, but I also worry about ugly backlashes too. One thing has been a part of our culture and that is to try to help the poor and defenseless.

    • The idea is to stop human trafficking at the place of origin, currently mainly Africa.

      • I know… and that too is sad… Africa is still being used in all this nasty business…

        • Anyway your sentiments do you credit, and the apparently “hard line rhetoric” is not just what a lot of Italians want to hear but also, or perhaps mainly a way of sending a message to the various powerful parties running this new form of slavery.

          • Its ironic… The roman Empire was built on the backs of slaves.. What’s the problem now…? (waiting for another Sparticus to arrive.. but it didnt finish well for those slaves either…..)

      • Can this be achieved in a month or two? This will be hard if just one or two countries are contrasting a system that gives so many “dividends” in monetary and political terms. The idea is to put the word out in “the heart of Africa” so that people don’t end up paying their family savings to traffickers and so that a certain portion of them will no…[Read more]

  • Well folks, chapter seven is ALMOST done (a very DARK chapter), and I can see the end in site, only three more to go!!

    • Dr F.. you’re literally writing them faster than I can read them….. give us a chance to catch up 🙂 So…. DARK as in Dark Ages… or DARK as in… heavy hitting? (I’m still trying to guess the topic of the new book :))

    • No matter how high my reading pile gets, your books jump the line and get read as quickly as I get them in my hands. That’s doubly true now that you’ve repeatedly been saying…. “it’s in the book” God Speed Dr. Farrell.

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    I’m just glad Catherine remembered his name. He used to put me in stitches on the Smothers Brothers show, along with Pat Paulsen.

  • Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago

    Well, if we were playing “hot and cold”, you’d be lukewarm, or perhaps, room temperature.

  • Well!!!! Thanks to Catherine Fitts who found out the name of that old comic who played a professor that babbled endless pseudo-academic nonsense! His name was Professor Irwin Corey, the “World’s Foremost Authority”, and here’s a clip:

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