the life and times of a wandering jew

6.09.2006

Restart and the Random Show Radio Update

Tuscon, Arizona ~ Miles Traveled: 4282, or around 600, depending on your definition of when the trip started
I’m on the open road again, and it’s a shame I had to leave L.A. when the weather was so nice. When I arrived on Saturday morning, it was muggy and hot, but for the next few days it cooled down considerably and was even a little chilly at times. Contrast that with the boiling Arizona heat I’m in now, and it makes for one unhappy Jason. I’m a person who HATES the heat; I hate it probably as much as our Presidents hates factual information. It really affects my mood and my desire to be productive, so the timing of this trip probably has me in most parts of the country at the most undesirable time. Unfortunately, though, there is no other time that I could be doing this, so there’s nothing I can do but accept the hand I’ve been dealt and make the most of it. I’ve rigged up a Rube Goldberg type system of fans on bungee cords inside Trudel to try and get the air conditioning from the back of the car up to the front, and it worked rather well today. The only casualty was my gas mileage, which dropped from a decent 20mpg when not running the air conditioning to around 16. It’s a worthy sacrifice, with the added benefit of lining the pockets of big oil. I do what I can.

I slept Wednesday night in the parking lot of Casino Morongo near Palm Springs, Ca. The plan was to leave L.A. around 8pm and drive through the night in order to get as far from L.A. as possible with little traffic or heat as obstacles. I accomplished the leaving by 8 part, however by around 10:00pm I was already sleeping and it became apparent I was on somewhat of a fool’s errand. When I was at KFI, we had done a remote broadcast from Morongo, so I knew the layout and felt comfortable crashing there. I was awoken at 6:45am to do the weekly KSCO segment, which can be heard here (as always, thanks to Robin Goldstein for his work on getting this segment on the web every week, and I finally worked a plug for his website into the show).

And speaking of radio, this week you get an extra special treat – more of me! All of Robin’s guests and co-host abandoned him for this weeks show, and since I’m unemployed and have nothing better to do, I stayed on with him for about an hour. We talked mostly about my favorite subject and the only thing I’d consider myself an expert on – Talk Radio. So take a listen here if you’ve got some time – if you like me and you’re a fan of talk radio, you should really enjoy the show. If you don’t like me and you hate talk radio, then you’re in league with about 99% of the women in this country and screw you.I really don’t have any sort of plan for this part of the trip, but hopefully I’ll come up with some exciting things to blog about. The plan is pretty much to drive in the direction of New Orleans and see if anything interesting happens along the way. My main goal is to get someone in Texas to call me a “Jew” in that derogatory sort of way, and perhaps to see Dick Cheney shoot someone in the face. I haven’t looked on a map where Crawford is, but if it’s anywhere along the way I’ll drive by the President’s ranch (and maybe drive over Cindy Sheehan, if I see her. Just kidding. I’d never run over anyone, but if I were going to maybe just graze someone with my bumper, she’d be on the list. She bugs the hell out of me, and I’m a liberal! I can only imagine what Bush wants to do to her. To be fair, if I ever saw Ann Coulter on the street, she’d be hit by something far more painful than my bumper). Shalom for now...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you are WAY behind the curve on people in Texas using the term Jew derisively. Consider that Kinky Friedman (formerly of the band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys) is running for governor.

Hey, get on down to Tombstone and Bisee! Fun to be had for the taking. Stay out of Douglas. If Arizona needed an enema...

Anonymous said...

Weird! They are posting comments here. That must have been the database problem they were having. Dang those pesky pointers anyway.

Mr. Biggs said...

I raise an icy Arnold Palmer in salute of your trip reboot.

May your dipstick remain firmly lodged in the appropriate hole.

-Biggs

Anonymous said...

When you get to N. O. hang a purple and gold ribbon mash on Trulel and she will fit right in.
Cause everything tahts old is new again in Norleans. UncleJ