Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Lazlo you must stop this..I'm talking to myself now...ugh.
I have to admit I'm pissed. I have backed off talking politics since the election. Seemed like we tried our best and America spoke. As I watched the vote count come in I was shocked. I had all the same questions. How could the exit polls be so far off. How could I be so different from most people.
In the last two weeks I have just decided to move on. I have been getting my head around being outside of mainstream America and becoming resigned to the fact that I don't really like mainstream America.
I stopped watching Keith Oberman because all he talks about is a recount. I told myself....Stop dreaming. Stop it Lazlo. Your giving yourself an ulcer. Fuck it. Bush wins. Move on.
Than I start reading shit like this....
"Regardless of the outcome of this election, once all the votes are counted"
That's from an email I got from John Kerry. What the fuck does that mean? That leads me to believe this thing ain't over (STOP IT LAZLO YOUR GOING TO GO CRAZY!!!!!)
What about the Ohio Democratic chair: "As Senator Kerry stated in his concession speech in Boston, we do not necessarily expect the results of the election to change"
Hello!!!!!! I have a bleeding ulcer. My ratings are down because I pissed off Republicans and I haven't had a solid stool since Nov 1 and your saying you don't think shit will change????
Why isn't John Kerry on T.V. saying this shit??? Why is he emailing me? Is this some fucking sick twisted joke to keep me up at night smoking wayyyy toooo mannnny ciiiigggerrreeettttteeeeessssss chatting with conspiracy theory guys? I don't want to be that guy. I want to move on. I want to enjoy 2005. I want to live. I want to be friends with the right. I want to laugh. I dont want to be angry....
I want more links to websites that tell me Kerry is going to win Ohio and shit will get really fucked because Karl Rove stole (STOP IT LAZLO YOUR STOOL WILL NEVER GET SOLID THIS WAY)!!!!!!
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Harry Potter and The Hidden Closet Of Who Gives A Fuck
Lot's of talk around the water cooler about upcoming movies. Star Wars The Return To Geekdom and this Harry Potter And The magical Shit Sandwich!
I don't get it. I really don't fucking get it. Don't get me wrong I went to the theatre and saw the first Harry Potter. It was fine. I liked Star Wars as a kid. Hell I even had that light sword thing. I found it in my parent's basement years later and tried to make a bong out of it. That was the last time I really put any thought into the battle between good and evil.
I have a theory though. It's like ordering an Orange Pop at Mcdonalds. Nobody likes that shit but you hang out with your Dungeons and Dragons friends... Smoke some pot, drink some orange colored piss water, and discover something is amiss at Hogwarts.
I wish I liked it. I wish I liked Orange Pop better than Coke. I wish I smoked cloves.
Ohhhhh how I wish Weasley would be able to stick it to Malfoy!
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Dear God
Hey Jesus,
So maybe you haven't noticed but we had an election and your guy won. Well I don't know if he was your guy but the people down here seem to think so anyway.
They say they voted for him because he had moral clarity. I didn't vote for him. Hope that doesn't piss you off. I guess I just don't have such moral clarity.
My real problem is I need some help with the explanation of "moral clarity". To me it sounds like moral superiority. It seems like a group of people have used your name to make decisions for others. I'm not sure that's fair. I have never been lucky enough to hear your voice as clearly as you speak to others. Things seem a little fuzzy to me. I don't understand why we discriminate. I don't understand why we want to spend money on wars yet want to keep our money when it comes to food and shelter for people. I don't understand why everyone is against health care for all yet insistent that we build a nuclear defense system. Are you actually giving these tips to our President? If so will please have him explain it to me?
See it seems like when anyone uses your name to better the world it gets a little complicated (and a little fucked up).
The last time somebody ran a country based on Christianity and moral superiority things didn't end up all that well.
I guess I'm just a little leery of it all happening again.
Not to insult you but we have a little saying down here...Maybe they have it up there also..It goes like this fool me once. Fool me twice..
Stay Golden,
Lazlo
Monday, November 08, 2004
I'm up.....again
People have always called me weird. I never really noticed it until I spent some time alone. See the election ended and I'm really kind of tired of the news. 4 more years of the same shit seems a little less than interesting. I'm not reading any of my magazines. T.V. Is drivel. I don't drink and that seems like an easy escape. So I spend time up late at night thinking. Nothing will make me more uneasy than late nights left to my own thoughts.
Here are some things I have contemplated lately.
What was on Jack Ruby's mind?
Is Martha Stuart sleeping right now? If she is. Why in the fuck can't I?
Wouldn't it fucking suck to be Scott Peterson? Think how bad it would suck if he didn't do it.
What the fuck happened to the Rubics Cube? Did everyone solve it but me?
How the fuck did I end up in Kansas?
Do these things really cause cancer? C'mon...Really?
Ashlee Simpson.....Explain that shit to me.
Hunter S Thompson...True adventurer or really shitty story teller?
Is Metallica serious? It's a joke right?
Everything I look at has been sold and bought at one time or another.
Mussolini....That story seems so fucking bizarre. I can't get my head around it.
Andy Warhol....Brilliant or Retarded? (I chose brilliant)
Why am I so fond of big breasts? Who the fuck was this Freud guy? Why is Carl Jung so much cooler?
Do people really think comedians are funny? Carlin? Cosby? I don't get it. Why can't people who are paid to me make me laugh so uncomical to me?
Is uncomical a word?
Why are STD's only transmitted through your privates? I mean I know they are Sexually Transmitted but how the fuck does that work? Why don't you get them from holding hands? What makes our sex organs havens for dripping ooze?
Why the fuck can't I sleep?
Thursday, November 04, 2004
A time to unite?
I saw this on another blog site.
Check it out at
http://politicket.blogspot.com/
Nov 3
Kerry lost the election. Edwards lost the Veep. Jeanne Patterson lost over $3 million. But I lost much more my friends...... I lost my radio station.
For the past years and a half, my daily routine was simple. I work in a really cool place, the kind of place that all of us would love to be at. Laid back people, great atmosphere. Each afternoon, at about 3:00, I would turn to the Church of Lazlo on 96.5 The Buzz, to get my music fix for the day. Lazlo is your typical abrasive alternative D.J., but I was drawn to the fact that he was able to put all of the crap aside and really connect with the people. Somehow, you felt like you were on his team. When 96.5 The Buzz almost went off the air, people like me all over the city did all we could, in the "Save The Buzz" campaign. Hell, I signed the online petition twice.
But see, I guess I was only on his team when he needed me. See for the past two or so months, Lazlo has shown his true colors. Lazlo is a Liberal Democrat. And theres nothing wrong with that. But Lazlo is the type of Liberal Democrat that hates all that aren't in his camp. And every day as I would turn on the radio one last time in hopes that he would get the memo that he was (as the election results showed) alienating at least 40% of his audience, he spewed more propaganda. And more, and more, until finally I has to turn the station. For good.
But follow me here, this is what I don't understand. When I turn on Rush Limbaugh, or Hannity and Combes, I know what I'm getting. When I go to Fahrenheit 9-11, or Move On.Org I know what I'm getting. Most of us, even conservatives know that the items contained in that type of programming is more for entertainment that for truth. And if you don't get that, you deserve the propaganda, hype and distortions.
But what about the music Lazlo? One of your plugs says "We may not respect authority, but we do respect the music". What about respecting those in your faithful audience that don't tune in to hear "Bush is the Devil" every 7 seconds. What about us that love "Lazlo's Harddrive", because we know that is where we can hear songs that aren't in heavy rotation?
Lazlo's campaign was aimed at getting the young voter to the polls. Which I believe is an admirable goal, as long as you are educating people on the issues that face them. But what Lazlo doesn't get is that people like me, your average 25 year old, stayed away from the political world for a long time because it was too seperatist, and too abusive. But those are the exact characteristics that he displayed throughout his campaign.
In the end, I have one question for you, and I hope you can provide at least some semblance of an answer for all of us (believe me, the number would be staggering to you):
Are all welcome in your Church, or just those like you?
And now my response....
You were my boy Red!
I was sent to your website through an email. I read your blog and it really made me think. Did I turn off a ton of people? Perhaps. Did I gain new listeners? Perhaps. The real issue here is you. Why did I lose you? Did I stop playing music? Did I stop having fun? Did I take it to far? I say no to the first two and perhaps in the third
My question to you is the same as yours to me. Were you only on my team when you needed me? When you needed a break from boring regular radio? As long as I didn't offend your sensibilities? You liked me when I was rude and abrasive just not when it got personal for you.
Me and you disagree and thats o.k.
In life we make choices. i made a choice and so did you. If your memo is right and I lose 40 percent of my listeners than I'm gone. I will be terminated and probable won't make till the end of the year. I hope that doesn't happen but it's possible.
In my heart I felt I had to speak out against something I saw as wrong. I will always do that. Regardless of the outcome. I will not be quiet when I feel I should speak just to garner ratings.
Would you be so mad if I were a Bush supporter? Don't answer right away. Think about it.
The real question is. Did I leave you or did you leave me? Maybe we just grew apart.
If we listen to our President maybe we can still be united. You know where I am. When and if you decide to come back. Hopefully I will still be there.
Stay Golden,
Lazlo
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
My Values
Watching the news I see John Kerry has conceded the election to President Bush. I take away some very insightful things from this election.
48% of people think this country is headed in the wrong direction yet they still voted for George Bush.
The majority of people disagree with his handling of the Iraq war. Yet they still vote for George Bush.
The majority of people think the economy is bad yet they still voted for George Bush.
What did most people agree with George Bush on? Morals.
That means the majority of people showed up to the polls to vote against gay rights and to over turn Roe V Wade.
I find it shocking. In eight states gay couples have no relationship rights at all. Their legal ability to visit a "spouse" in hospital has been removed.
Congrats to George Bush. He won the election. It was close but he won.
I have to admit that my values of freedom for everyone and a women's right to chose our outside of mainstream America.
That perhaps is the most depressing thing this morning.
The youth vote was up by three percent in the Kansas City area. John Kerry won our pocket of the country by..........3%.
If you voted yesterday feel good about yourself. We may have lost the election but in our small part of the world we made a stand.
In the end we can be sad but we can not be discouraged. We must continue to fight for what we feel is right and just. No matter where I am or where you are in 4 years. I expect us all to vote.
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