Folio Archives 1986 to 1990

These are the archives of the Folio copy for Back of the Book compiled between the beginning of the program in 1986, and the time when I first compiled it all for on-line use on a local (NYC) BBS in 1990. It starts with the oldest copy and goes down to the most recent copy.

1986


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.

1987



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.

1988



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.

1989



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.

1990



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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