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Hal Niedzviecki most recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #294. Hal Niedzviecki is most recently the author of The Peep Diaries. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #47. [PROGRAM NOTE: At the 24:03 mark, a woman with a laptop demanded that Our Correspondent talk with less vivacity, suggesting that Our Correspondent was talking in a "disturbing" manner. Never mind that people sitting closer to us did not complain and that someone even approached Mr. Niedzviecki after the interview, wishing to know what the book was all about. Never mind that, prior to Mr. Niedzviecki's arrival at the cafe, Our Correspondent observed said woman needlessly chewing out a happy couple for daring to laugh at a joke. However, in the woman's defense, it is true that Our Correspondent did become quite excited when talking with Mr. Niedzviecki and perhaps raised his voice just a smidgen and perhaps should be pilloried in some form for daring to express considerable enthusiasm about Niedzviecki's book. We are very well aware that, due to the present economy, enthusiasm has worked against us when trying to persuade various editors to hire us. And if this strange prohibition keeps up like this, there won't be any enthusiastic people left working in media. (Indeed, there are some telling signs that the enthusiastic who are gainfully employed are beginning to lose their enthusiasm, and this saddens us.) But we note this incident in the event that listeners are confused as to why Our Correspondent and Mr. Niedzviecki began to talk quieter during the latter half of this program.] Condition of Mr. Segundo: Considering a few definitions of reality. Author: Hal Niedzviecki Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] Correspondent: But you re assuming that the vulnerability is there because you are inadvertently transmitting information. What if you are cognizant of every single thing that you write? Every single tweet that you post? I mean, I don t think you quite understood Twitter. I certainly don t use Twitter in the way that you literally use it in terms of answering the question, What are you doing? A lot of people use Twitter in different ways. I use it to exchange links and to brainstorm with other writers and other thinkers. Oh, well that s an interesting thought that you had on this! And it s a very valuable tool. In fact, I would say that Twitter is probably responsible for fifty 1,000-word pieces I ve written in the last year. Or something like that. So I m saying that it s not necessarily a bad thing. You re assuming that everything you re putting out there is personal. But if you re careful about the personal, if you re cognizant about the personal, this shouldn t even be a problem. Niedzviecki: Oh sure. Absolutely. That s all well and good if you aren t putting personal information online. The fact is that millions of people every day are putting personal information online. And that s probably the #1 primary use of the Internet right now. So okay, your experience is slightly different. Correspondent: But you re saying that personal information is Niedzviecki: But that s not really relevant to the question. Correspondent: I think it is relevant. Is it perhaps a scenario in which you may be, or any of us may be, overstating the importance of our own personal information? Perhaps it really doesn t matter. If I go ahead and type in I had a tuna fish sandwich for lunch, I don t think that it s a betrayal to the corporate empire. You know what I mean? Niedzviecki: Well, I mean, it s all gradations. I mean, again, this is a topic that I m not even that excited about. I m not incredibly hot under the collar. This is just one aspect of the whole phenomena of peep culture. Which is what I call being peeped by the other. We re peeping ourselves. You know, we should just back up to the whole beginning of this thing, really. Can we do that? Correspondent: Yeah. Niedzviecki: Can we back up to this topic? Let s do that. Correspondent: Certainly. But if we want to go to the beginning, I mean, it s not necessarily contingent on the Internet. People were exchanging information and humiliating before the Internet. As you even point out in the book, there was this notion of gossip. There was this notion of spreading rumors about people. We can even talk about the humiliation videos that you mention in this book. Like, for example, the Star Wars kid. Well, is it worse to have the so-called humiliation through a video as opposed to having somebody pilloried in the town square? Hey, you re an adulterer and you re terrible! And having people throw tomatoes at them? That, to me, seems worse. If you have to go ahead and do it, you may as well go ahead and do it in the form of a middleman here with the Internet. Niedzviecki: Well, the Star Wars kid s choice was not being put in stocks in the town square or being forced to wear the dunce cap around the village versus Internet humiliation. It s not like there was a choice he had to make, right? He never had a choice one way or the other. The basic premise of the book is that pop culture is shifting to peep culture, and that peep culture is the process by which we garner entertainment through watching other people s vibes. So in pop culture, we watch celebrities and professional entertainers. And now we have peep culture, where we kind of scroll through other people s lives in the same way we would scroll through TV shows. Correspondent: Everybody? Niedzviecki: Not everybody. But a large majority of people. And we re moving in, you know. Correspondent: Well, a large majority. Are we talking 51% or 90%? Niedzviecki: You know, I couldn t tell you the exact percentage of people. Correspondent: I think it s important to have the exact percentage. Niedzviecki: Well . Correspondent: Just to get a sense of how much of an epidemic this is. Niedzviecki: Uh, I m not an alarmist. I m not calling it an epidemic. It s a cultural shift. What we re doing is okay, we want numbers. Then, we ve got to look at reality television. That s obviously a big part of this, let s say. We know that ten million people watched the debut the series debut of Jon Kate Plus 8 recently. Previous to that, there was a record five straight Us Weekly covers featuring their eight kids and their marital problems. Okay, that s ten million people right there. You ve got in America you have another ten million people on Facebook. You ve got your Twitter users. I don t know how many of those there are. Of course, these categories naturally overlap. You ve got your Flickr, your Twitter, your YouTube, your Google. I would say that that it s hard to imagine too many people whose lives aren t touched in some way by this move to peep culture. The number of people who are actively posting stuff online about their lives and that material is then being used by others for their amusement. It would be hard to give a precise number, but it is certainly I d have to say we re looking at least half the American population who is involved in this. Correspondent: Half the American population? Cause you said ten million. And the American population is actually 300 million. So that is actually one Niedzviecki: I never said ten million. Correspondent: You said ten million, for example, for this reality TV show. Niedzviecki: I said ten million people watch that particular show. Correspondent: Yeah. Ten million. 300 million people. What about the 290 million other people who Niedzviecki: But that s just one show. Then there s Facebook and Twitter and Google and blogging and every other thing I could think about. Correspondent: We re not even in double digits here percentage-wise.

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Magna are book length stories told in a comic-book format. This Japanese art-form is rapidly growing among young people in the USA. Chris, a helpful employee at Kinokuniya Bookstore in NYC, gave me a brief tour of the Magna section there during a "Lolita Fashion Shoot" event I was videotaping. He explains a mural actually drawn by renowned Manga artist Inoue Takehiko on the wall of the second floor there & shows me some books those just getting interested in Magna might want to research.

Agressive fem, femmie butch, stud,bisexual, flipfloppers--they all get discussed in an amazing film called "Black Womyn: Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent". Tiona M. (TionaMproductions@yahoo(dot)com) discusses some terms & her film in this final segment of their interview.

How exciting it was to see The Empire Stste Building bathed in lavander light for the first time on Gay Pride Day in NYC many years ago. The "Reigning Queen" of NYC is the first glimpse of the Manhattan skyline one gets from 15 to 17 miles away & it always makes a New Yorker's heart beat a bit faster. This video is only possible in the free world. In the Middle East, homosexuals are put to death publicly and/or slaughtered privately. In Russia & Poland, skinheads beat up those who want to celebrate their community while the police & government officials "look the other way". Read the terrifying comments on my video "gay Russians March Freely in NYC Gay Pride Parade" and you will see HATE is alive & well in many parts of the sworld. But, standing tall over NYC, "the center of the known world" (Quentin Crisp)" the Empire State Building carries messages of celebration & pride for dozens of different ethnic communities. On Gay Pride Day, she stands as a beacon of freedom to LGBT people all over the world. Oh, how I do love her ! !

"Black Womyn: Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent" is a feature-length documentary focusing on the lives and views of lesbians of African descent. It features candid interviews with black lesbian women discussing coming out, sexuality and religion, love and relationships, marriage, patriarchy, visibility in the media, discrimination and homophobia, gender identity, Black lesbian youth and elders, blancing gender/race/sexuality, and, finally, what it means to call oneself a Black lesbian today. Randy Wicker interviews Tiona M. who produced this masterpiece. This is the first 10 minutes of a 16-minute interview. Continued in "BLACK WOMYN - LESBIAN TERMINOLOGY".

1 - Your name in someone's phonebook.2 - While I Was On Hold song.3 - Lying.4 - TomKat PA System.5 - Experimental As Anything.6 - Awkward Horn.7 - Getting one over the boss.8 - Fred Basset.

Season 2 Episode 17: Snarf, Sugar Rush and Stack O Napkins, wonder the reprecussions of accidentally mispronouncing Fuddruckers, then stumble over: - three fall movies named nine - Why are aliens always nudists? - Beeing a monacled male bee is the life - David Fincher directs Facebook movie - no joke necessary - Daybreakers movie makes everyone a vampire and doesn't take the local economy into account - shame. - The intern who knows what the kids are into - The monster trend order: Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, Snarf's back hair. - Emmerich's 2012 movie spoiler: the world undegoes a disaster. - Stacks sits behind Reba McIntyre and it's a good thing she didnt turn around - Expensive movies should look expensive damnit - Bad Feeling: An American Werewolf in London remake - Tv Tidbit: TrueBlood - the ultimate in pale boobage - Good Movie/Bad Movie: The Appalachian undead lead by Charlie Daniels! and sooooo much more! Remember, GeekDroppings encourages, nay, adores listener feedback and participation. Send any questions, comments or segment contributions to geekdroppings@gmail.com. Join our Facebook Fan page! - Later Geeks (NSFW)

This week's rounds are Music (Backbeat), Surfing, Latin Names for Pets, and Food and Drink. The music is Soul Surfer, with Cuttin' the Mustard.

1. Sullys Easy Joke 2. Talented Pets 3. Migaloo Jackson 4. Lane Beachley Dancing With The Stars 5. Peter Fitzimmons Interview

Professor Branda Van der Weil discusses the movie.

The latest adventure boasts control improvements over the last outing, but does it come at the cost of watering down the sandbox experience?

Beneath its strange title and candy-colored veneer lies a legitimate threat to Street Fighter's crown.

What with Gay Pride weekend just a few days past, we've had no time to put together something of substance for you viewing pleasure. Don't fret though, we won't let that stop us from posting something; and something it is! This is probably the worst video we've ever put up here at the OccasionalFag. These are sounds and images from our recent trip to Six Flags New England - one of the better Six Flags Parks. The oft repeated and incredibly annoying theme music is from a travel show for the Gays that must have been made in hell - gay hell. It all adds up to a bitter and biting time to be had by all. If only we really had more fags. Six Flags is only made palletable on Gay Days. Again, more fags, more fun... Enjoy! (or at least try...)

Does the spirit of the Wild West live on in this grim FPS?

1 - Small jobs made bigger.2 - Haggling challenge.3 - Alter something to make it legal.4 - Shane Warne.5 - Following through on a promise.6 - Dictation software.

1. Sullys Easy Joke 2. Mingaloo The Whale 3. Alex Perry Interview 4. The Ten Tennors Sing A Cold Chisel Classic For The Cage.

Several states are struggling to find solutions for deep budget gaps as a new fiscal year begins. Jeffrey Brown examines the budget picture across the country.

music supplied by IodaPromonet Artist - Andi Neate Track 1 - Six Week Itch Track 2 - Tails from the Circus Track 3 - Storm Crow MainSite MySpace Get the Cd here Andi Neate Six Week Itch (mp3) from Icarus (Blue Elf Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Puretracks Buy at appliedSB / Groupietunes Buy at mTraks More On This Album Andi Neate Tails from the Circus (mp3) from Crows Rooks and Ravens (Blue Elf Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album Andi Neate Storm Crow (mp3) from Crows Rooks and Ravens (Blue Elf Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album Info Andi Neate is a singer/songwriter of exceptional talent, with a powerful voice, a gift for melody and a memorably quirky turn of phrase. She is a compelling live performer, who has been compared with Suzanne Vega, Ani Difranco and Tori Amos. Andi does not easily fit into established categories, but draws on a wide range of influences from folk to rock to jazz. She has recorded with the Bhundu Boys and Irelandâs chart topping Mickey Harte and supported Rab Noakes, John Renbourne, Grammy nominee Eliza Gilkyson, Wolfstone and Horse MacDonald and shared a stage with KT Tunstall. She appears regularly at UK festivals, including Glastonbury, Cambridge Fringe Festival, Wickerman, Solfest and The Famous Spiegeltent. Her music has taken her as far afield as Canada, Sicily, Prague and the Falkland Islands. Andi has released four solo albums, including her most recent, Lion Taming for Astronauts (2007). Recorded live at Edinburghâs Bongo Club, it features four brand new songs â Rocketship, Love As If, Home and Tales from the Circus - and a selection of favourites from her three previous recordings. Expect musical sparks and powerful soaring vocals when you jump aboard the rocket ship with this star in the making! Irish language social network - AnLionra