Sunday, September 7, 1986 1:00 AM Back of the Book The
debut of a new, biweekly live radio program with R. Paul Martin,
who insists that it's Monday already.
Sunday, September
21, 1986 1:00 AM Back of the Book Live radio with R. Paul
Martin. This week: "The Autumnal Equinox
Exposed!"
Sunday, October 5
1:00 AM BACK OF THE
BOOK The continuing saga of "Lifestyles of the Poor and
Obscure." Live Radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday,
October 19
1:00 AM BACK OF THE BOOK R. Paul Martin
explores "Autumn in New York".
Sunday, November
2
1:00 AM Back of the Book "Per omnia saecula saeculorum,"
myth or physical fact? Live radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, November 16
1:00 AM Back of the
Book Ranting, raving and generally negative vibrations; live
radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, November
30
1:00 AM Back of the Book This program will feature a
memorial for slain turkeys; presented with the usual solemnity
and respect you've come to expect from R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, December 14,
1:00 AM Back of the
Book The usual Journal of the Decline and Fall of Western
Civilization. Just say "YES" radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, December 28,
1:00 AM Back of the
Book A farewell to 1986, and a Nasty Individual's predictions
for 1987. Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday,
January 11,
1:00 AM Back of the Book Just when you thought
it was safe to turn on the radio we bring you Live Radio with R.
Paul Martin.
Sunday, January 25,
1:00 AM Back of
the Book Keep warm, cuddle up with R. Paul Martin for two hours
of live radio, but watch out, he gets fresh.
Sunday,
February 8,
1:00 AM Back of the Book Valentines for all!
Love, like and lust in spite of the existential void. Live radio
with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, February 22,
1:00 AM
Back of the Book More Valentines! Why is love such a
controversy? Danger Zone live radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, March 8,
1:00 AM Back of the Book
In a live remote broadcast from the state of Altered
Consciousness it's Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, March 22,
1:00 AM Back of the
Book The Vernal Equinox Exposed! Hear about this climatic
scandal! Live Radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, April
5,
1:00 AM Back of the Book This program is actually a
cleverly disguised message to space aliens. Your Invasion
Coordinator is R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, April 19,
1:00 AM Back of the Book On this program R. Paul Martin
announces whether or not he will run for
President.
Sunday, May 3,
1:00 AM Back of the Book
What is so rare as a day in May? How about late night, free form
Live Radio with R. Paul Martin in May?
Sunday, May 17,
1:00 AM Back of the Book This fortnight: Tales of the Evil
Morelab! Live Radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, May
31,
1:00 AM Back of the Book Celebrate Skagerrak! Live
Radio with R. Paul Martin.
June 14, 1987, 1:00 AM to
3:00 AM Back of the Book Medicinal Hostility with R. Paul
Martin.
June 28, 1987, 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM Back of the
Book Coverage, yack and speculation about today's 18th Annual
Christopher St. Liberation Day March. Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin, who will probably call for a gay revolution again, and
make more enemies.
Sunday, July 12, 1:00 AM "Back of
the Book" Free Form Live Radio: a radio sculpture done in real
time using found objects. That's the theory, listen to R. Paul
Martin chisel away.
Sunday, July 26, 1:00 AM "Back of
the Book" A mid-Summer surf party. Come and soak up those moon
rays! Live Radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, August
9, 1:00 AM "Back of the Book" He's hot and fills out a sexy
swimsuit nicely. Actually, each of his thighs fills out a sexy
swimsuit! Listen to the spandex stretch. Live radio with R.
Paul Martin.
Sunday, August 23, 1:00 AM "Back of the
Book" In one week your host turns 40! Find out if he uses the
Jack Benny option. Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, September 6, 1:00 AM Back of the Book
A special "Back to School" message for all the kiddies who are
listening: Turn on, Tune in, Drop out! Free form live radio with
R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, September 20,1:00 AM Back of
the Book Autumn's on its way, thoughts on turning 40. Free form
live radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, October 4,
1:00 AM Back of the Book What is the similarity between a
certain Editor and a healing cut? Profoundly Autumnal questions
by way of free form live radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, October 18,
1:00 AM Back of the Book
Tales of the Rimshot Lifestyle. Free form live radio with R.
Paul
Martin.
Sunday, February 7,
1:00 AM Back of the Book The old Karma Pirate
takes you on a tour of a thought infested mind. Gadzookery with
R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, February, 21,
1:00 AM Back
of the Book The non-fiction novel of the airwaves continues. In
Karma Piracy you have to be careful. You can only guess whose
Karma to pillage; Karma is a black box metaphysics. Free form
live radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, March, 7,
1:00 AM Back of the Book Enemy paranoids are secretly
plotting to beam radio signals into my head! Just goes to show
it's not what you know, but what you can't see that sneaks up
behind you in a dream. Look out! Paranoid, free form live radio
with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, March, 21,
1:00 AM Back
of the Book Spring at last! This program leaves tracks, so get
your mud room ready. Free form live radio with R. Paul
Martin.
NOTICE: This radio program contains no phosphates.
Sunday May 29, Back of the Book The
city gets bigger at night. The whys, wherefores and further
explorations of the night. If you listen to this program, this
program is about you. Free Form Live Radio (or "Opinionated
Blather" in Newspeak) with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday June
26, Back of the Book Through the magic of Leap Year this program
is once again on at the end of Christopher St. Liberation Day
(aka Gay & Lesbian Pride Day). Hear some non-revisionism from an
old radical who's been in this movement for over 18 years. Free
Form Live Radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday July 10,
Back of the Book Heuristic madness as the only plausible
approach to the disintegration of Western Civilization As We Know
it. Or, Introspection as it's own reward. Free Form Live Radio
with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday July 24, Back of the Book
Otiose Avuncularity in the age of the quick buck. Endear thyself
to the madmanism of iniquity. Free Form Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday August 7, Back of the Book James Joyce
(1882 - 1941) calls Back of the Book, "... a creature driven and
derided by vanity ...," and, after listening, "... my eyes burned
with anguish and anger." Come glory in the anguish. Free Form
Live Radio with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday August 21, Back
of the Book Is it hot enough for ya? Nuggets from the central
thought mine. Nuggets of what? Well, you wouldn't want to step
in it. Free Form Live Radio with Unnaturalist R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday September 4, Back of the Book A
National Holiday has been declared for this, the Second
Anniversary of Back of the Book! Now you can all stay up and
listen. Along with the traditional renewal of Franz Kafka's
warning about this program, we'll reminisce about the future.
Karma Piracy, Free Form Live Radio and women's garters with R.
Paul Martin.
Sunday September 18, Back of the Book One
theory holds that there are deep brain structures that give rise
to, and can be accessed by, language. Listen in and stimulate
that soft stuff in your skull. Altered consciousness with a
twist. Free Form Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday October 2, Back of the Book The visual
portions of this program will be supplied by the WBAI Blimp.
Listen to this program and you'll find out why they call the
season Fall! Free Form Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday October 16, Back of the Book The
psychic drifter is back with his trammelled consciousness. Learn
how to build a void negator at home. An altered state of
consciousness called Free Form Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday October 30, Back of the Book Mr. Martin
doesn't like parties - political, Halloween or otherwise. Join
him for a program that settles in your head. And if you're very
good you'll be spanked. Karma piracy and Free Form Live Radio
with R. Paul Martin.
Sunday November 14, Back of the
Book Due to circumstances beyond their control The Little
Program That Could is still here. At least the Presidential
Campaigns are over. Robust, Free Form Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday November 28, Back of the Book The
bodies of dead turkeys litter the land. Unfortunately some
remain, and these, as usual, will be the targets of this exercise
in thought radio. Late Autumn Free Form Live Radio with R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday December 11, Back of the Book Although
thought by some to be a radio rendition of the Classic Comics
version of Finnegan's Wake, this program is really an attempt at
global mind control. Free form Live Radio with the bit in its
teeth, by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday December 25, Back of
the Book Today we celebrate the birth of the man who has
probably done more to shape our world than any other, the man who
is more than mere man: Isaac Newton. Everything closes down on
this day every year in honor of Newton's Birthday. So while
everything else is silent in his honor, this program will loudly
proclaim it. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday
January 8, Back of the Book If it's really 1989, why aren't we
all walking around in silver jumpsuits and working on space
stations? Isn't Tomorrowland here yet? There isn't even a Mars
colony yet! Were those people in the '50s and '60s lying when
they promised us better tomorrows? Yes. Hear about how much
worse it's going to get. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday January 22, Back of the Book Only some
of you is reading this. Did you know there are sub-yous? One
modern theory holds that there is no such thing as an integrated
personality. A human being is sort of a coral reef of
consciousness. So there are various beings in your head, each
doing its own thing. For the most part we're not even conscious
of the pluralism of us. Take a vote and listen to Free Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin, or parts thereof.
Sunday
February 5, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Artists drift through the
hostile soup of the business world. Money-changer fish eat the
dreamer fish.
A goon who protects drug kingpins is
President. The Vice President is some lobotomized, Pat Sajack
clone who's a Republican war wimp. Thousands of homeless camp
under display windows full of high ticket items. Okay, the world
is sane and I'm nuts.
Scatter-glitter to listen to,
Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday February
19, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Small parts of a small mind leak
out and take over. The central myth of our culture, the
integrated personality, is openly scoffed at on this program.
Radio for the right side of your brain.
There's no
telling which sub-minds will contribute to this program. Some of
them may never have met before. Keep some of your sub-minds up
late tonight and have a Happy Fizzies Party in your head. Free
From Live Radio by that bag of sloppy sub-minds R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday March 5, Back of the Book From the
sidewalks on the slimy side of Winter, pre-Spring comes to the
air. You'd rather it be in your mouth?
You probably
won't listen to this program no matter what I write here. I just
wanted you to know that you could be missing something.
Doubts planted in time for the season, we'll rant and rave
against the Plutocracy, and left brain dominance, as usual. Free
Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday March 19,
Back of the Book Spring is nearly here, and so it's time for the
Back of the Book Swimsuit Issue! In between having his brains
leak out on the air and playing old music, your host, R. Paul
Martin, will model the latest in swimwear for all genders.
Also appearing in the latest swimsuits on this show will be
Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley. So get your gonads out of
hibernation and listen.
Note: due to contractual
obligations to remain legally dead, Mr. The Pelvis must refrain
from use of his voice on the air, and may under no circumstances
appear fully nude. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, April 2, Back of the Book There's no
fool like a late fool. So maybe we'll try to make this one a
very serious show. Yeah. Everything you hear on this show is
serious, that's it.
Foolishness, of course, is in the
mind of the beholder. So if you can just cooperate by getting
your mind, or parts of it, into a foolish state you'll have some
fun listening to this extremely serious radio program.
Turkey bladders vs. water balloons as the currency of
international diplomacy, and other wet matters. Free Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, April 16, Back of the
Book We're pretty well into Spring. By now you should be able
to smell the season when you walk past a patch of greenery.
Inhale it and feel good whether you listen to this late night
program or not.
If you do choose to take a chance and
listen we'll try to change your view of the universe just a tiny
bit. At very least, we'll try to get you to hear something
you've never heard before. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, April 30, Back of the Book Actually,
this program is on on Monday. So it's really May 1, already.
Mayday! Commie Xmas! Go look under the Proletariat tree and see
what old St. Marx left you. Maybe it'll be Lenin's
toupee.
They tell me that Pussifica is 40 years old
this month. I don't know, that's pretty damned old for a pussy
cat. Sometimes I really have to wonder about the things that
they tell me around here.
Come roaring into the Merry
Month with an altered state of consciousness. Free Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, June 11, Back of the
Book Fusion in a jar? Tiger in your tank? Rocket in your
pocket? Glad to see me? These are among the many questions not
addressed on the program that dares to forget what it's talking
about. Join us as we Spring towards Summer, and if you don't
have a radio we'll provide auditory hallucinations. Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, June 25, Back of
the Book Today is Gay and Lesbian Pride Day. Besides spending
more than 19 years in the Gay Liberation Movement your host has
had sex with both gay men and lesbians. Talk about qualified!
We'll yack about today's festivities, the past, and even some of
the usual nuttiness. We may have some tape of the day's events,
but we're certain to say something Politically Incorrect. Join
us in the now traditional end of this Gay Day. Free Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, July 9, Back of the
Book Tonight's program features a movement that's gone beyond
Radical and into Drastic. Leaders from the group Saving
Hemorrhoids In Today's Society discuss the commercial media's
incessant maligning of hemorrhoids. Besides showing examples of
the many hemorrhoids who have gone into careers in politics,
business and radio, members of the group's Red Spaghetti Brigade
discuss genocidal products from Prep H to the Garden Weasel which
they want to see banned. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Merry birthday Uncle Sidney!!
Sunday, July 23, Back of
the Book Shimmering chimeras of Summer twist before our eyes
above blazing sidewalks. Is it just heat haze or are the secret
space aliens among us finally becoming partially visible? Also
featured will be the recipe for everyone's Summertime favorite:
the meringue enema. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday, August 6, Back of the Book Conformity:
social disease or government plot? We'd tell you more, but there
are probably rules against that now. So instead we'll just
suggest that you all engage in unnatural sex acts with furry
animals. Also featured: commentators Hector and Anvil give a
dialectical analysis of the Political Correctness of last week's
weather. Win an altered state of consciousness for one simply by
committing this program to memory. Free Form Live Radio by R.
Paul Martin.
Sunday, August 20, Back of the Book
What'd you do on your Summer vacation? You probably didn't
listen to this program even once! Go ahead, be a stinking
normal! But if you don't listen to this program you'll just go
back to school or work and not be able to tell anyone about it.
Go ahead, don't listen, stay normal. Featured: the Eye of
Chthoth vs. the Toenail of Nyarlathotep, best two falls out of
three. Also, a panel of experts will discuss the topic "J.
Danforth Quayle, vegetable or mineral? " Warning - placebos will
not be in effect during this program. Free Form Live Radio by R.
Paul Martin.
Sunday September 3, 1:00 AM Back of the
Book Due to circumstances beyond their control this is the THIRD
anniversary of Back of the Book! We'll do some meta-radio and,
just to satisfy our lizard brains, read "Before the Law" by Franz
Kafka. Now, I realize that most of you who read these Folio
blurbs never listen to this program, but for this 3rd anniversary
celebration I've bribed various high government officials and
tomorrow has been declared a national holiday! So stay up and
listen, the experience may make my Folio copy understandable.
Anniversary Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday September 17, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Ol' xylophone eyes will once again try to translate some id images into audio for your listening pleasure. As Summer prepares to leave us, and we all start to grow our thick, Winter coats, some of us prepare to hibernate. During this program we'll pause and take this opportunity to curse our fortunes in life. Then we'll think of all those who've wronged us over the Summer, and we'll take time out to really despise them, and plot revenge. Hector and Anvil will give you tips on how to fully prepare an interactive enemies list, and then they'll tell you how to take this Summer's marinated merengue and drink it as a toast. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday October 1, 1:00 AM Back of the Book
Fall? What fell? Are we fallen? Is this something Satanic?
Luciferic? Ah, let's just say early Autumn. The leaves are
turning, you can smell the scent of asbestos from Con Ed pipes in
the air - Autumn in New York! Amid the toxic waste, and the dead
leaves scattered as if they were merely unwanted children, we
present the usual compendium of right hemisphere, non-linear
connections. I guess it's last Autumn we call Fell. Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday October 15, 1:00
AM Back of the Book Look at it this way, at least we don't
have a stinking heatwave. That is, unless the Greenhouse effect
has been invoked. The Greenhouse Effect: only after you've tried
to throw a stone and had it slip from your fingers do you realize
that you live in a glass house. Fragile impacts, liquids brittle
- and splintered ecologies fly in every direction. On this
program Hector and Anvil will make a kaleidoscope from the pretty
fragments of ecosphere. What else is the biota for? Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday October 29, 1:00
AM Back of the Book Spittle pumpkins decorate the halls in
anticipation of Halloween. More people than usual are dressed as
hemorrhoids. Autumn's scary holiday prepares to descend. On
this program we'll mind our minds, I know I'll mine mine. So
stay up late and see if we can make something happen that isn't
supposed to. It takes a diseased mind to make a tender
accusation. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday November 12, 1:00 AM Back of the Book
Mid-Autumn, a wonderful time for those who love to watch
everything die! The Electronic Journal of Unauthorized Thought
once again assaults the Plutocracy. Oh boy, I betcha they're
really scared now. Also, in back to back discussions Hector and
Anvil review the latest in double header dildoes. Free Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday November 26, 1:00 AM
Back of the Book As turkey bones scatter through our lives we
should all pause a moment and reflect on the fact that at least
turkeys are considerate enough to not construct cemetaries.
Featured: life isn't just about buying food, it's also about
buying toilet paper. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
(Lucidity content less than 1/10 of 1%.)
Sunday
December 10, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Mix'n'match audio thought
provocations for internal use only. We may even mention pickles
and female deer on the show: dill and does, these and those. On
the air we can even say them together. Asterisk fans will like
our message for all censors: F*C* IT! Hector and Anvil organize
their proletariat struggle around efforts to make holiday
shopping a captal offense. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
Sunday December 24, 1:00 AM Back of the Book
Bah! Let's gun down Santa as he flies over the rooftops! Hell,
maybe he's a listener. Maybe he's really tranced out up in that
sleigh of his. It's actually Xmas as you listen to this program;
so if you're feeling particularly miserable, as your host plans
to, count on this show to counter "Seasonality." Just don't
count too high or you'll fall of the edge. At least after today
you won't have to hear all of that cheery crap! Free Form Live
Radio, and Humbuggery, by R. Paul
Martin.
Back of
the Book Sunday January 7, 1:00 AM If you forgot something in
the '80s, it's too late to go back for it now. A new decade! Now
we can make even more mistakes when we write the date down.
Making no mistakes will be our guest Pussifica T. Catt, WBAI's
Chairpuss of Meowist Studies. Ol' Puss will give us his
explanation of the '80s, and his insights into the '90s. Furballs
ain't the half of it. Merry New year! Free Form Live Radio by R.
Paul Martin.
Back of the Book Sunday January 21, 1:00
AM. Impressionistic live radio production slips you a peek at
its version of an odalisque. At least we'll try to slip it past
Madame Expurgatrix Major. Other slippery matters will include J.
Danforth Quayle III's affair with the Blessed Virgin Mary abouard
a U.F.O. In our cultural segment Hector and Anvil interview The
Backlash of Jabberwocky. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
February 4, For the video portion of this
morning's extravaganza we'll be showing Robert Mapplethorp's nude
photographs of Pussifica T. Catt. Caution: some of these photos
are considered homoerotic by Senator Jesse Helms, who is not
himself considered erotic, but who knows Tipper Gore whose name
is. In the audio portion of our program we'll disclose plans for
a portable reality dissolver that you can make out of chicken
tenders. Also: how to break the id-ice at your Valentine's Day
party. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
February
18, Valentine's day being over, your rejected host will scrub up
with some Self surfactant preparatory to jettisoning his
Weltanschauung and imploding. Featured: Hector and Anvil inter
J. Danforth Quayle III's internal head lice. Nature abhors a
vacuum. Bye Bye to Madame Expurgatrix Major. We predict
somnolence in her wake. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
March 4, 1:00 AM Pussifica T. Catt menaces
innocent bystanders from a hot air balloon while Mr. Greenjeans
robs them of their innocence. French chef V. Zut will prepare
puree de Meadow Muffin for the world's only mail order radio
program. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
March
18, 1:00 AM It's almost Spring! In honor of the almost season
this program will bounce around a lot. Revealed: J. Danforth
"Squeaky" Quayle III's plans to have his father make him
President by buying George Bush. In an investigative feature
Hector and Anvil interview bookmaker Mickey the Gorb who says
that the collapse of Communism is the result of a sinister plot
by the forces of Infotainment. Late Winter Free Form Live Radio
by R. Paul Martin.
April 1, 1:00 AM Nebuchadnezzar and
Hammurabi babble on in Babylon / Out of necessity / Fresh out.
Also, Pussifica T. Catt discusses his treatment for catnip abuse
which caused him to miss part of the '89, season. No foolin',
serious type biz Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin (Who has
neither memory nor desire). April 15, 1:00 AM The only two
things that are certain are death and Texas! In mere hours we
will be required to become impoverished by the I.R.S. so that
Jesse Helms and J. Danforth "Squeaky" Quayle III can continue to
wallow naked together in the world's most expensive hog slop: the
U.S. Senate. Hector and Anvil beg for coins in the street to pay
their tacks is. Senator Helms (talk about dull roots) appears
courtesy of the Anti Sex League. Free (tacks less) Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin.
April 29, 1:00 AM Pyschosis:
mental illness or the ultimate in boroque moodiness? This and
other topics will not be covered on this bric-a-brac broadcast in
audio braille. Breeding patients etherized upon tables stir
lilacs out of the dead land with teaspoons. Also, Hector and
Anvil descend 666 feet into an attitude mine and examine some
chi-chi ore that will later be refined and sold to the trendy.
Free Form Live Radio by the Cruellest R. Paul Martin in
April.
Sunday May 13, Back of the Book In a Back of
the Book exclusive The Evil Morelab interviews Comet Austin, who
is currently on a whirlwind tour of the inner Solar System in
order to promote his new tail. This portion of the program will
be visible to those of you who are outside tonight. Chef
Pussifica T. Catt reveals his secret recipe for Fur Ball Gumbo,
and The Dormouse kibitzes. Free Form Fee Fie Foe Fum Live Radio
by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday May 27, Back of the Book The
Evil Morelab concludes her interview with Comet Austin. Dreamily
awake, we pursue the state of consciousness when patterns reveal
themselves, and then defend the moment and the consciousness from
the temporal onslaughts that would dissolve the pattern and
collapse the moment. Due to the penetrating effect of radio
waves those not listening will nonetheless have us in their
heads, they just won't know what's going on. Hector and Anvil
recount the sworn testimony of people who claim to have seen the
Shimmerbeast. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
June 10, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Master
Delusionist Pussifica T. Catt puts the questions, "Do you know
the difference between reality and unreality? Which do you live
in? Have you a loyalty to one of these, or do you flit between
them at you convenience?" In an artistical segment Hector and
Anvil interview Sir Real about his famous Dada. For those tender
moments when the drip pan of life overflows Free Form Live Radio
by R. Paul Martin.
June 24, 1:00 AM Back of the Book
All right, since your host is gay this is the annual Christopher
St. Liberation Day program, where we commemorate the Stonewall
Riots of 1969. Besides coverage of recent events you'll hear
some personal reminiscences of your host's 20 years in the Gay
Liberation movement. (And if you're straight don't worry, you
can listen to this program too.) Collect 'em, smoke 'em, trade
'em with your friends, sew 'em on your underwear Free Form Live
Radio by R. Paul Martin, who is both politically incorrect and
bisexual, which is the same thing to some people.
July
8, 1:00 AM Back of the Book The video portion of tonight's
program will consist exclusively of Annette Funicello beach
movies. In the audio portion: Pussifica T. Catt makes a four
point landing in George Bush's id. The olfactory portion of
tonight's program will be brought to you via your host's socks.
The tactile portion of this program will be provided by The Evil
Morelab (Oh, the silken pain!). Temperature Rising Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin (condemned in
private).
July 22, 1:00 AM Back of the Book A
mid-Summer Night's Radio Program. Included in the karma piracy:
a report on this Summer's crop of Farm Fresh MSG by the National
Society For Real Bad Headaches. Also, a mental agility
competition between J. Danforth "Squeaky" Quayle III and a bushel
basket of broccoli (the White House has a favorite, but it's not
saying which). Hector and Anvil interview a man with no past who
is raising an army of cootie bugs in an effort to change
absolutely everything. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin
(Condemned by the NYC Board of Health).
August 5, 1:00
AM Back of the Book Slanting rays, sunburns, beach sand in your
bathing suit, mosquitoes (not nearly as bad as those cootie
bugs), all the signs of mid-Summer! Pussifica T. Catt does a
family portrait of Farmer Highnote, a third generation castralto
with The WBAI Singers. In a job skills segment your host gives
instruction on foaming at the mouth as a profession. If your
heat rash could talk it would recommend Free Form Live Radio by
R. Paul Martin (condemned by 9 out of 10 dead
Popes).
August 19, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Let your
psyche cool down and consider the quidditas of a moment, of time
itself. Epiphanies of paraphrase coil around grenades of left
hemisphere precision: any sacrifice is too much. When the
quotidian genius swings upon the gibbet of conformity The Trendy
Get Going. In a parallel universe Hector and Anvil pay their
pendulum tax in an effort to keep Mr. Greenjeans out of the claws
of The Vatican. Every fact in this program is true. Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin (just condemned in
general).
September 2, 1:00 AM Back of the Book To the
disappointment of some, they know who they are, this program will
celebrate its fourth anniversary tonight. That's only a second
anniversary in bi-weekly years. In true meta-radio style we'll
do the required reading of Kafka's "Before the Law." Filling in
for Pussifica T. Catt, who is away on assignment, will be Itchy
T. Echidna who will tell us the harrowing tale of a man who was
forced to leave his homeland for having committed shameful
offenses with an underage platypus, mate. Celebratory Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
September 16, 1:00 AM
Back of the Book The video portion of this program will feature
views through an endoscope. Tune in and find out who the special
guest endo is. In a back to school segment J. Danforth "Squeaky"
Quayle III teaches kids how to get their rich fathers to buy them
good marks. Also, coverage of the preliminary rounds of the
annual New York City High School Quick Draw and Shoot a Teacher
competition. Unschooled Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
September 30, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Our
first program of the new Autumn season. Autumn: the season that
kills. Slumnoodle the Bacterium gives all the kiddies helpful
hints on growing their own germs at home. Hector and Anvil
interview toe jam on the subject of why it's so much more
intelligent than Senator Jesse Helms. For his part, Senator
Helms clings to the bottom of people's shoes and stinks up the
place until he's scraped off. Extremely Respectful Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, October 14, 1:00
AM Back of the Book Archimedes said one day, while taking a
break from drawing erotic geometries in the sand, "I suppose that
in the cotton patch that is WBAI the Program Director is a
necessary weevil." Itchy T. Echidna says, "Quick, Henry, the
Flit!" In the annual football classic The Choirgirls from St.
Mary's by the Sewer collide with the Gowanus Canal Psychopathic
Flesh Eaters in finer salons near you. By popular demand eye
gouging and kneeing will be permitted this season. Crop Dusting
Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
Sunday, October
28, 1:00 AM Back of the Book In honor of Halloween this is the
only program which will be broadcast from the inside of a
chambered nautilus. Pussifica T. Catt interviews Information
Theory expert Phineas Fistula who claims, "Complexity is the
mother of distortion!" The video portion of this program will
consist of Mr. Martin's collection of erotic Bazooka Joe
etchings. In a cooking segment illustrating new uses of hot
turkey fat Hector and Anvil are severely punished by Sister
Immaculata Virginus Hellhole of the Sisters of Blissful
Suffering. Masked Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
November 12, Back of the Book Rendering the
merely mundane incomprehensible, the radio equivalent of nose
hair continues. Pussifica T. Catt interviews that Presidential
boy, Kneel Bush, whose latest scam is a lint mine in his
bellybutton. In the olfactory portion of our program Mr.
Greenjeans goes bottomless after the Pope shows him the letter
from Our Lady of Lourdes. Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
November 25, Back of the Book Our annual
salute to turkey flesh conversion units across the domain will
include Itchy T. Echidna's interview with several members of
Congress who are glad to have escaped the maws of the people yet
another year. Hector and Anvil bugger a member of the Plutocracy
over the dustbin that is history. Our resident French chef's
sister Merde Zut prepares gastro-intestinal bacteria for those
whose realities are blurred by orthodoxy. In a sports segment
Professional football players tease Senator Jesse Helms about the
homoerotic basis of their game. Free Form live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
December 9, 1:00 AM Back of the Book Warning!
Trace amounts of this radio program are detectable in urine
samples up to 48 hours after broadcast. Pussifica T. Catt
interviews the Existential Void about its policy of not answering
prayers. Itchy T. Echidna begins a series on why placental
mammals (created by a crazed marsupial scientist 6,000 years ago
in a tragic, failed experiment) are oppressors and should be made
to compensate non- mammalians everywhere for the hardships
they've caused. The video portion of this program will consist
of a non-verbal lecture illustrating obscene gestures by the head
of the WBAI Etiquette Dept., Felicia Feculent. Passively
Unseasonal Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul
Martin.
December 23, Back of the Book Tonight's
weather: origami skies. J. Danforth "Squeaky" Quayle III's daddy
buys George Bush a trip to the Persian Gulf. How nice. Jesse
Helms gets pre-burned books. Congress gets its money back from
the laundry. Hector and Anvil interview the Slimy End of the
Stick about what it's like to be so in demand, and the
responsibilities of playing such a pivotal role in human
relations. Your host, having offed and buggered Santa on the air
last year, doesn't expect any presence. It's a good thing he
doesn't have a social life or he'd never get anything done. Bah!
Humbugger! Free Form Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
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