We're enjoying JGM's podcast episode Disco Africa, from nearly six years ago. I the Mentor admire Cez's online humility in today's age of put-your-kids'-pics-on-your-Facebook-profile-so-weird-people-can-see-them. Cez has never shown his face or volunteered personal information. He figures, it seems, that the music is bigger than all of us. For the Heir's part, the Heir keeps wondering over and over again, dang who is Cez? Who is Cez?

Heir has revised his audio set ideal once again.  This time its a combo of a Sony AM/FM pocket radio (the kind that drug stores sell), a midland weather radio with a search feature, and a scaled down mp3 player whose display is below the radio slide rule.  There's a silver one and a brown one.  And there's the horizontal variety, and the vertical.  The silver form looks just like the Sony, and the brown one looks like the early aughties kaito and sangean ones.  Heir sees the brown one with a yellow backgrounded slide rule and LCD for the mp3 portion.  Overall, Heir's musings serve two purposes.  First, he drives home the point that mp3 functioning is more appropriate on a radio than a mainstream smartphone, because you can get your information on the radio, before listening to the music via mp3, a fitting duology.  Second, it's a welcome daydream for the Heir in contrast to all the constant tragedies the past six months.  Sandy, Newtown and now Boston.  Heir thinks we need a break, and goodness knows we deserve one.

OK all you smarty pants at the FBI watching this insurgent announcements list, you might have gotten a ping from the Heir's tablet as he was researching the exact distance between the cathedral where the interfaith gathering took place, and the location at MIT where the first shootout took place.  It's 2.6 miles driving distance.  Not *even* as the crow flies.  So the Heir wasn't exaggerating when he estimated 3 miles.  Heir wanted to supply a query style web address for the benefit of all, but he's not sure Google supports such a feature, maybe if you have a premium account.

Now that they got their guy, there are some questions the Heir thinks should be investigated.  The most burning one is, why did the Secret Service clear Funny Named Skinny Kid's appearance at the interfaith gathering 12 hours before the suspects' shootout with the cops and roughly 3 miles away from the shootout?  Another question the Heir has is how and where did the suspects get the explosives they used against the cops, including explosives that CBS news radio said the investigators found in the suspects' house?  Third question: should the suspects have appeared on watch lists or communiqués that they haven't?  After the Heir asked these questions while burning novelty incense with Carmen and me the Mentor, he got a cell call from Richard Clarke who said, these are very important questions, and we as a nation hope to get some very important answers.

OK, update on that situation at the neighboring beach at http://naturistaction.org/AlertsAdvisoriesUpdates/ALERTS/NY_2013_Fire_Island_04-12-13/ny_2013_fire_island_04-12-13.html (this is linked from their page at http://naturistaction.org/AlertsAdvisoriesUpdates/Current/current.html).  In addition to NAC's talking points, the Bachelor in their emails also contrasted the phrase "politics as usual" with "refreshing sense of statesmanship," as per the Heir's experience having once had an alliance with the vanilla progressives 2004-2006.  But even reading between the lines with the talking points, the Bachelor still believes what's happening at that beach is decidedly anti-gay, though the players are using code words.  Also, if the NAC loses this one, it will have a severe impact on the Bachelor's desire to speculate on essentials economics, since it will seem borne of a live-by-bread-alone spartan puritanicalism.  We're saying that this early out, so once we throw essential economics under the bus, no-one should be surprised.

Really bad what happened in Boston.  Hope all of you are okay!

OK people.  With Letitia, she had moved to Las Vegas back in early December to further her career, shortly after we put out our first post-Sandy episode.  She and we wished each other a good holiday online and a Happy New Year after.  But it was after that that we lost touch.  Our messages, including from Leeanna and Lucinda, both online and phone/text went unanswered.  We got worried about it, until Lucinda showed us updates on Letitia's web site that were definitely new.  So Letitia's OK but it seems as though she had moved on.  And I the Mentor told the Heir that we also have to move on accordingly.

The devil's whorehouse is made up of idle you-know-what's!

Mentor: "I suppose the Heir's always concerned about something. Today he heard on Bloomberg Radio that Al of News Core is considering moving entirely to cable and away from the airwaves. Heir's hoping it won't prompt everyone else to follow suit, and then radio will be abandoned next. He believes that everything we're for in the Bachelor the rest of the world is against: sex, classiness, music, food and getting your information through audio. He's calling for a shifting of mental gears here, and I will offer him audience accordingly."

The Bachelor Prevents Qattwoemyn's Voice Eraser From Falling Into The Hands Of Extremists From Mali. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

As the Bachelor embroils with Oliver Stone over assertions he and his historian made on the CIS, the Heir believes that Chuck Hagel's decision to stand down testing of ABMs in the South Korean seas is problematic, and will only serve to muddy the waters of the debate the Bachelor is in.  What the Bachelor has to respond with is likely to appear on audio about 2-3 episodes from now (unfortunately that could be in June or even July).  But the ABM stand down could either elicit a "See I told you so" (not from the Bachelor side of the debate), or it could conversely take the wind out of assertions made about the US-South Korean joint exercises.  Either way it's going to make the Heir nostalgic about North Korea's over-the-top threats just a week ago.  At least there's no mistaking those.

We may not be posting here as much for the next couple of weeks, because the stuff we want to talk about right about now will mostly go into an episode, on audio.  Tentatively once that episode comes put, we'll want to rip on Oliver Stone, and then go to gays, guns and grape soda.  We're concerned about the grape soda bit in particular.

Heir thought it was a real nice day today.  Even though it'll be dastardly cold tomorrow, it seems a real upper today.  That and the fact that the Heir sidestepped all attempts thus far at his being the butt of someone's April Fool's joke.  Attempts coming from Smug Gloater, Luscious Fishborne, Blynn Zimmerman, and possibly many many more.  This time they were the April Fools, not him.