The Overnightscape #749 (Wednesday, October 29, 2008 / 30:00 / 27.6 MB / theovernightscape.com) - Tonight’s subjects include: Convergence point, 855=45*19, beer review (”Landshark Premium Lager - Quality Island Style Lager”), Chevy Chase, skunky smell, Gorilla Glue, used to have a vice, tape review (”Gorilla Tape - Convenient Travel Size”), Neuland, lashing together Captain America and Tic Tacs, rubbing the tape, Luver.com Internet Radio, orange Gorilla Tape, Frank Moore for President, Craig and Al know Frank, credibility, vote for a third party candidate, revolutionary, Club Room belt update, belt problems, vegan shoes and belts, vegetarian cats, awful pet food ingedients, completely random memories (”The Small Ice Cream at Opdike’s”), perfect name for a crappy restaurant, the Internet is so incomplete, an interesting pop culture moment, sock monkey, clip of Chris Elliott And David Letterman in the movie “Cabin Boy”, and The Regulator Guy. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) Podcast RSS Feed: http://theovernightscape.com/rss.xml 749 M3U (useful for streaming in some situations)

The Overnightscape #748 (Tuesday, October 28, 2008 / 30:00 / 27.6 MB / theovernightscape.com) - Tonight’s subjects include: Six weird beers, the end of the “855 Era”, incense review (FloraSense Sensory Therapy - Serenity), Firefly, The Kingdom of Thailand, grandparents’ house, incense is not edible, the studio is a mess, Galactic Heroes - Jar Jar Binks, The Phantom Menace, Gripp II, Madness to the Method, the beers (”Young’s Luxury Double Chocolate Stout”, “Victory Golden Monkey”, “Landshark Premium Lager”, “Founder’s Breakfast Stout”, “Acme California IPA”, “Stone Ruination IPA”), beer review (”Founder’s Breakfast Stout - Double Chocolate Coffee Oatmeal Stout”), nasty bug on the wall, portable paper towels, the Founder’s Brewing philosophy, 5 2/3 years of The Overnightscape, the 855 concept (750 episodes of The Overnightscape, plus 100 episodes of The Rampler, plus 5 Days of The Overnightscape Underground = 855, and amazingly, is going to be 855 hours long!), bringing everything together, end of the “Day” format, “The Hawaiian Phonograph Records and More”, short viral videos, extremely long audio, A Beautiful Mind, and a listener audio comment (PQ Ribber - Jean Shepherd, Andy Kaufman Interview). Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) Podcast RSS Feed: http://theovernightscape.com/rss.xml 748 M3U (useful for streaming in some situations)

CMN Video: Cocktail Hour - Absinthe-Cachaça Cocktai

We are at Rayuela on the Lower East Side, New York City. Junior Merino, The Liquid Chef, shows us how to make a cocktail using both Absinthe and Cachaça.

A production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

I’m very honored that ReMARKable Palate has been nominated for a Podcast People’s Choice Award for the second year in a row!

Over 281,000 individuals nominated a total of 1,874 podcasts for 22 categories in the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Out of those nominated, only 10 podcasts for each category make it to the actual voting round. With 22 categories, this means that of the 1,874 podcasts nominated, only 220 are eligible for this year’s 15 day voting period.

This award has a special process, you actually get to vote once each day during the 15 day voting period, from October 23rd through November 6th.

We are nominated with a number of shows that have HUGE and loyal followers, so we’ll ask you to be equally huge and loyal, and commit to voting once per day during the two week period.

And while you’re there, show some support for our friends nominated podcasts: Grammar Girl, Tips From the Top Floor, The Rest of Everest, Ramble Redhead, Chillcast with Anji Bee, as well as The Full Time Mom, Podcast Answer Man, and 4 other podcasts produced by our friends Cliff and Stephanie at GSPN. Congratulations!

Chef Gabrielle Hamilton’s dishes from the special dinner celebrating Pennsylvania foods and beers:

Fried Sweetbreads with bacon and capers

Radishes with sweet butter
Grilled handmade lamb sausages

Roasted Chicken with shaved raw corn and Hen of the Woods Mushrooms

Grilled Prime rib, dry aged

Jumbo Walleye Pike en papillote with Cabbage and Bacon

Smokey Eggplant with parsley potato chips

Chef Hamilton made this special platter for a vegetarian guest at our table:

Assorted Desserts: Housemade ice cream sandwiches, molten chocolate cake, and mulled stone fruit with crisp and fresh whipped cream

ReMARKable Palate #166: Pennsylvania Oktoberfest

I attended a dinner celebrating Pennsylvania Oktoberfest at Chef Gabrielle Hamilton’s Prune Restaurant in New York. With a rich German heritage, and plenty of great microbrews, PA is a great place to be in the fall for eating and drinking.

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

The Overnightscape #747 (Wednesday, October 22, 2008 / 1:11:00 / 65.1 MB / theovernightscape.com) - Tonight’s subjects include: Frank’s father, Frank Ralph Nora, is back on the show! Cognac, area code 747 (pending in Los Angeles), Repo Man, Boeing 747, numbergossip.com, 209, evil and odious numbers, an update on “Revenge is Sweet” (from 725), fake debt collectors, the Presidential campaign, Federal Reserve, Ron Paul, Frank Moore, third party candidates, The Money Masters, Modern Money Mechanics, inefficiencies of Medicare, wheelchair rental, the medical supply business, global warming, Antarctic exploration, Ernest Shackleton,The Ross Ice  Shelf, the Ice Age in Manhattan, Antarctic Snow Cruiser, being an expert witness at a trial, questioning codes and laws, hearing loss, earwax, judge, looking up laws, covering wet tile surfaces, hiking along the Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park, trail walking anthropology, difficulties in greeting people as they pass by, Chinese elctronics imports, architect hostility, competition among successful men, showrooms, the story of the nightmare tenant Paul Junior, taekwondo, living in an office, teenagers hanging out, music studio, rapping, cops, blunts, pizza delivery, Florida, The Bradley Effect, traditions of greeting, Kill Bill, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, being less wasteful, earclear.com, The Times of London, and “Severe Repair: The Broken Text”. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) Podcast RSS Feed: http://theovernightscape.com/rss.xml 747 M3U (useful for streaming in some situations)

CMN Video: Making a Sicilian Cassata

While in Palermo, Sicily, we were treated to a gala dinner in a medieval palazzo. For dessert, the chef showed us how to make a classic Sicilian dessert, the Cassata.

A production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

I See Your Face
By Bill Popp & The Tapes
Genre: Pop rock
Tags: Bill Popp, Bill Popp & The Tapes, Club Europa, Club Europa recording, Dan Herman, I See Your Face recording, Radio Crystal Blue
Download : MP3 Audio

http://www.billpopp.com 10/17/08
Recorded at Europa, venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. Bill with Mary Noecker, Roger Foster and Gerry Barnas played a tiny raised stage, a 34 minute set of 8 songs. Fire Dean was the opener. The song would segue into an impassioned cover of "Eleanor Rigby". The studio version of this song is one of the standouts of the band's newest release "My Lonely Mind"

The Overnightscape #746 (Tuesday, October 21, 2008 / 37:00 / 34 MB / theovernightscape.com) - Tonight’s subjects include: Recording the show on the porch, testing a new portable recording system - an Acer Aspire One mini-notebook computer with a Blue Snowflake USB microphone sitting on top of it (this is the straight recording - no post-processing used except for normalizing), soy milk stains on the monitor, Audacity, latency, Christian music radio station coffee mug, walking around with it, an evil and mysterious piece of bread on the candle, TV listings from September 25, 1983, Brideshead Revisited, gay sitcom, Cable Health Network, wind chimes, snack review (Keebler Town House Flipsides Pretzel Crackers - Original), neighbor’s TV, the pretzel/potato chip taste sensation, special order status, candy review (”Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls” (previously reviewed on The Overnightscape #578 (2/5/07)), game review (Top Trumps - Star Wars: The Clone Wars), books (”The Mindbody Prescription”, “The Great American Bathroom Book”), economic disasters, the idea of shifting over into another timeline, Cad Bane, TV review (”Star Wars: The Clone Wars”), Luminara Unduli, Jar Jar Binks, Mercury Retrograde, fan works again, a wedding in Kentucky, food review (”Kozy Shack Bananas Foster”), installation of “Saturday Night Slam Masters” at the arcade at the Menlo Park Mall, Montclair, NJ on “Mad Men”, and Nerf armaments. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) Podcast RSS Feed: http://theovernightscape.com/rss.xml 746 M3U (useful for streaming in some situations)