Volcanicast June 16th, 2009

In this week’s Volcanicast, we discuss Jessicas, real or imaginary; saving the environment by covering Houston with a dome; and various words for the color “yellow,” including - apparently - “pink”

…just to name a few.

SHOW NOTES

• 10.    invisible touch lyrics (BOB)
  - It’s time once again for Don’t Forget to Decant Your Aged Wine
  - - The only volcanic lyric this week is Invisible Touch by Genesis, from the 1986 album of the same name
  - - - How pathetic am I?  I did that from memory.
  - - - - There are better songs on the album, notably Land of Confusion and Domino
  - - - - - But the pop hook is undeniable
  - - Other trending lyrics:
  - - - Rock and Roll All Night by Kiss
  - - - Help Me Rhonda by the Beach Boys
  - - - It’s Not Unusual by Tom Jones
  - - Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any details on the actual show or contestant

• 1.    schroeder s cat (WES) I totally thought this was the cat and toast theary. -Sam 6/15/09 8:46 AM 
  - Schroeder is a Peanuts character.
  - - He’s the one who plays the piano.
  - - He does not own a cat, or at least it was never mentioned in the strips.
  - Erwin Schrödinger is a famous quantum physicist.
  - - He also did not own a cat, or at least it’s not mentioned in any of the articles on Schrödinger that I have ever read.
  - - Schrödinger’s Cat though, is a famous thought experiment by him.
  - - - Erwin, not the piano playing Peanuts character.
  - - - It is also a friend of the show, but I’m not going to copy it.
  - - - In the experiment, a cat is placed in a box with a vial of some deadly substance. A hammer is placed above the vial and hooked somehow to a geiger counter surrounding a single atom of some substance with a very small half-life.
  - - - - Wait the half-life of the substance, and the cat is, according to quantum mathematics, both alive and dead, 50% of each.
  - - - - When you open the box to observe the cat, the 50/50 dead/alive cat collapses into one state or another.
  - - - This thought experiment has several issues, including the definition of “Observation” and the fact that most people who hear about it think it’s horrible that Schrödinger would do such a thing to that poor, imaginary cat.
  - - - - The cat is immaterial. Death is immaterial. It could have been a paint gun shooting a bullet against the wall of the box.
  - - - The critiques of the thought experiment notwithstanding, quantum entanglement is a very real phenomenon and there’s no way around that. Just because we are not smart enough, yet, to figure it all out doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
  - Oh, why now?
  - - I have no clue, but I’m going to guess based on the search term that whatever TV show it was on, it wasn’t written on the screen.

June 7 2009  (SUN)

• NOT VOLCANIC ENOUGH
  19.    shrek the musical (Won a Tony I’ll bet)
  18.    god of carnage (#10)
  17.    alice ripley (Actress, won a Tony)
  16.    thairath carradine photo (From previous week. We’re not doing it again)
  15.    george m cohan (Big musician, probably mentioned at the Tonys)
  14.    hank baskett (Married to Kendra Wilkinson, she’s in a new TV show)
  13.    what i did for love (Song from A chorus Line? At the Tonys?)
  12.    lucy arnaz (Daughter of the famous duo, probably won a Tony)
  11.    rock of ages (Broadway Musical, won a Tony probably)
  10.    yasmina reza (French Playwrite, won a Tony for #18)
  9.    elvis and annabelle (2007 movie, probably won a Tony)
  7.    wwe extreme rules live stream (Yeah like we’re gonna draft this)
  6.    john perry (Rear Admiral, on Dateline NBC)
  5.    next to normal (Won a Tony)
  3.    karen olivo (Won a Tony)
  2.    jerry herman (Won a Tony)

• 8.    idle hands (WES)
  - 1999 movie starring:
  - - Devon Sawa (Best known for… this movie apparently)
  - - Seth Green (Best known as the voice of Joker in Mass Effect. And you may remember him from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and some Mike Meyers movie. But nothing else. At all. He’s a very obscure actor)
  - - Elden Henson (Best known, by me, as Lenny in the movie Butterfly Effect. He’s the guy who went mental in almost every reality.
  - - Jessica Alba (Best known for being the only reason I took this topic)
  - In the movie, Sawa’s character’s hands become posessed or something, and go on a murderous rampage that continues well past their dismemberment.
  - - The movie is listed as a comedy/horror movie.
  - - I may check it out.
  - Why now?
  - - I’m sure it was playing opposite the Tonys or something, on some channel. Nobody’s fessing up to it though.
  - Picture of Ms Alba in the show notes.
• 4.    ron silver (SAM)
  - Actor and political activist.
  - Born 1946 in Ny Ny.
  - I had never heard of him.
  - But I don’t really remember names…so I don’t count.
  - In many many films as either an actor or producer.
  - None of which I have heard of.
  - Also a broadway star person.
  - I bet that is a surprise.
  - Why now?
  - He passed away from a battle with cancer eariler this year.
  - He was honoured at the tonys.
  - In their memorial service.

• 1.    angela lansbury (BOB)
  - FOTFTWE 3/27/09
  - Disemvoiced Body 2?s favorite actress
  - British actress
  - - Born in 1925
  - - Well known for her work on Stage, Screen, and Idiot Box
  - - - Murder She Wrote
  - - - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  - - - The Manchurian Candidate
  - - - Mame
  - - - Sweeney Todd
  - If the picture to the right is to be believed, she was smoking hot in her youth
  - Why then?
  - - We’ll get to that in a minute
  - Why now?
  - - She won a Tony award
  - - - It’s her fifth at age 83
  - - - Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Play
  - - - - For Blithe Spirit which was the Why Then

June 8 2009 (MON)

• NOT VOLCANIC ENOUGH
  15.    seventeen.com/havaianas (A type of flip-flop. They’re giving them away)
  14.    lark voorhies (Lisa Turtle in Saved by the Bell. Doing a reunion show)
  12.    dry soda (Healthy pop, probably $4 a bottle)
  11.    farm town (Facebook game, it was down and everybody freaked)
  9.    iphone 3g s (New Apple Kool-Ade)
  8.    carradine body pic (STOP IT)
  7.    weeds season 5 episode 1 (Because Pirate Bay sucks, let’s try Google)
  6.    lenawee county (Michigan, a man was found dead there)
  5.    love146 (Non-profit Org trying to end child sex trafficking)
  4.    pine state biscuits (Oregon is the Pine State. You can guess the rest)
  3.    discoverthenetworks.org (Conservative website about liberals)
  2.    david carradine death photo thai (No! Stop it!)

• 13.    velvet ant (BOB)
  - Actually a family of wasps, Mutillidae
  - - Their wingless females do resemble ants
  - - The “velvet” refers to their hair, which may be red, black, white, silvery or golden
  - - Known for an extremely painful sting
  - - - A joke about their venom being strong enough to kill a cow has lead to an alternate common name, Cow Killers
  - - Mostly nocturnal and more common in desert areas
  - Why now?
  - - Not a clue
  - - - One single trend spike at 6pm Google Standard
  - - - Related topics don’t make any sense
• 10.    john kenney (SAM)
  - THe long and short of it is the rock did it.
  - So I totoally thought this was the Kenedy that killed the girl with a golf club in the 70’s…Martha something.
  - It’s totally not.
  - This is a deep sea fisher that was having troubles with his neighbours.
  - After a boundry issue that went thru lawyers back and forth for over a year.
  - Until John decided to dump a 1 tonne bolder mostly on his neighbours property.
  - And when they bitched…he killed them.
  - Well…he Sentenced to 20 years to life.|
  - Why now?
  - The story of this argument aired on Dateline tonight.

• 1.    houston dome (WES)
  - NOT a new sports arena for the Astros or Texans.
  - - This is a proposition to actually dome the city of Houston.
  - - Well, downtown Houston.
  - - The dome will cover 21 million square feet in area.
  - - - About a 3/4 square miles.
  - - - About 2 square kilometers.
  - - - 583,000 square fathoms.
  - - - 6/100ths of a square league.
  - Apparently, the cost to build the dome and maintain it is comparable to the cost to clean up all the environmental garbage the city goes through every year.
  - - And after a few years it will save money.
  - Why now?
  - - It was on an episode of Mega Engineering on the Discovery Channel.
  - - - They made no mention of what it would be like living in a giant greenhouse in Texas would be like.

June 9 2009 (TUE)

• NOT VOLCANIC ENOUGH
  12.    mlb draft tracker (#10)
  11.    jason trawick (Dating Britney Spears)
  10.    mlb draft 2009 tracker (It was draft day)
  9.    freeourhealthcarenow.com (More people mad that Obama is destroying our country)
  8.    david carradine death photo thai newspaper (Hurry, think of something else to search for tomorrow so this STAYS IN THE SEARCH TERMS FOREVER)
  5.    i do now i don t (Website for a pawn broker. For your old wedding crap)
  4.    raymond fuentes (First draft by the Red Sox)
  2.    jon voight (Actor, at RNC. You should listen to him because he’s an actor)
  1.    slade heathcott (First draft by the Yankees)
• 7.    dota 6.60 changelog (BOB)
  - DotA in this case stands for Defense of the Ancients
  - - It’s a custom add-on scenario for the RTS game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
  - - - In particular, this is an adaptation of the original called DotA Allstars
  - - - - Current lead developer goes by the name of IceFrog
  - - - It’s been called the most popular free, non-supported game mod in the world
  - - - - I’m assuming that means that Counter-Strike is supported
  - - - - - Regardless, it has become a staple of the RTS world, earning a place in tournaments and influencing subsequent studio-developed games
  - Why now?
  - - Version 6.60 was released
  - - - And there’s, coincidentally, a list of changes; a log, if you will, that accompanies it
  - - Looks like the maintainers brought in a trend blitz to draw attention to it

• 6.    megan fox black dress (WES)
  - American actress and hottie.
  - - With a horribly disfigured thumb.
  - - - If you call “Slightly different than typical” “horribly disfigured”
  - Why now?
  - - At the premiere of Transformers 2: The Electric Ooo-Aah-Ooo, she wore a slinky black dress.
  - - - Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?
  - - If you think there won’t be a picture in the show notes, you have never listened to this show. Um, make with the picture posting -Bob 6/15/09 5:14 PM 
• 3.    north brother island (SAM)
  - In the opposite direction from South Sister Island.
  - I tried to find it on Wes’ shower curtain…but couldn’t.
  - Ok. So my joke just got a little funnier.
  - It is north of South Brother Island.
  - Both are located in the East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island.
  - We all know from Law and Order that Rikers Island is a bad prison to be in.
  - I love the fact that when we don’t want to deal with people we exile them…ie to North Brother Island when Small pox broke out in the 1850s.
  - Was home to Typhoid Mary for 20 years until she died there in 1938.
  - Turned into a rehab house in the 1950s and closed in the 1960 due to staff corruption et.
  - Why now?
  - History Channel is doing a series on Life after People.
  - In this one armed and defenseless, one of the topics is the mysterious uninhabited island just outside of Ney York.
  - That’s prim realistate right there people.
  - rats and all!

June 10 2009 (WED)

• NOT VOLCANIC ENOUGH
  20.    joe montana (I said Joe Montanya! His son is playing for the Washington Huskies now)
  19.    china brezner (Used to date Shia The Beef)
  18.    nick brown real world (Person from the show, now a “big” “star”)
  17.    mlb draft 2009 results (They happened)
  16.    kate cooper (Singer for the band An Horse, Unknown why now)
  15.    johnny palermo (Actor, died in car accident)
  14.    john w gates (Industrialist, promoted barbed wire at the turn of the last century)
  13.    el salvador vs honduras en vivo (#7)
  11.    contessa brewer (#4)
  10.    duke bainum (Honolulu city council member, died at 56)
  7.    honduras vs el salvador en vivo (goooooooooooooal!)
  5.    sidney greenbush (Star of Little House, may have murdered her husband?)
  4.    john ziegler (Pundit, got in big on-air fight with #11)
• 12.    macao (BOB)
  - One of two “Special Administrative Regions” of the People’s Republic of China
  - - Hong Kong is the other
  - - It’s an area on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bording Guangdong province on the north and the South China Sea in the east and south
  - - It was both the first and last European colony in China
  - - - Portuguese traders first settled in the region in the 16th century
  - - - - And it was turned over to China on December 20, 1999
  - - - - - It currently operates with a high degree of autonomy and has assurances that that will continue until at least 2049
  - Why now?
  - - The government of Macao ordered one million doses of vaccine for the Swine Flu
• 6.    carrie prejean playboy (WES)
  - Pre- or Post-jeans is fine. Thank you.
  - - Actually, she’s about the opposite of my type.
  - - Including her human rights views.
  - - Such as the right to be married even if it’s not with someone of the opposite sex.
  - Why in the past?
  - - She said gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry.
  - - People said she should step down or be kicked out.
  - - The Donald, who owns the company that runs the event, said that she could keep her crown.
  - Why now?
  - - The Donald fired her.
  - - - Not for her comments.
  - - - She’s become such a proponent for limiting the rights of people she doesn’t understand, she’s been shirking her duties as a walking sexual innuendo.
  - No picture in the show notes. Just imagine a totally vanilla bleach blonde California girl, and make her a little skinnier and dumber looking.
• 1.    james von brunn (SAM)
  Related Terms: 9.william cohen; 8.janet langhart cohen; 3.holy western empire; 2.holocaust museum shooting
  - an 88 yr old neonatzi coward.
  - According to his family.
  - White sepremist that has enforced his views on his family for years by violence.
  - Now moved onto new people to enforce his views on.
  - Went to a holicost museum in Washington DC.
  - And just walked in and shot a 36 yr old guard.
  - Unfortunatly Stephen Johns died at the sceen.
  - THe other guard on juty critically shot Von Brunn in the face.
  - He remains hospitalized, but will be getting life in prison if he makes it out.
  - Why now?
  - THe shooting was today.

June 11 2009 (THU)

• NOT VOLCANIC ENOUGH
  16.    megan fox thumbs (They’re unusually large. So is her penis)
  15.    mac clause (It’s a banking term of some sort, BofA is hoping it will save them)
  14.    carrie prejean playboy (From previous day)
  13.    lakers vs magic game 4 (Someone won)
  12.    virtual globetrotting (#6)
  11.    irving plaza (The Jonas Brothers are playing a free show there)
  10.    b girl (woman hired by a bar to get patrons to drink more. On “Mean Girls”)
  9.    nivea hamilton (R&B singer, pregnant with a lil’ Lil’ Wayne)
  8.    jillian barberie (”Good Day LA” host, on Howard Stern)
  7.    chastity bono (Sonny and Cher’s daughter, wants to be their son)
  3.    johnny palermo photo (Actor, died in an 8-car crash)
  2.    david carradine death scene photo (I give up)
  1.    demi moore bush (Apparently mentioned on tosh.o)
• 6.    tiger woods hawaii house (WES)
  - This is one of those topics that I picked because the rest of the topics were worse.
  - - Tiger woods has a house.
  - - - In Hawaii
  - - - - Someone took pictures of the house and put them online.
  - - - - - That’s IT.
  - - In more interesting news, Tiger Woods 2010 has just been released.
  - - - I don’t know if I’ll buy it right away, but I suspect I will eventually.

• 5.    prickly shark (BOB)
  - A rarely seen, bottom-dwelling shark in the Pacific Ocean
  - - Distinguished by a small second dorsal fin and thorn-like scales
  - - Lives at depths of 11 to 425 meters (That’s 35-1500 feet) and can be found in submarine canyons
  - - Its usual food is bony fish and other sharks
  - - - But will also eat octopus, squid, and mermaid’s purses
  - - - - Which are the egg cases of cat sharks
  - Why now?
  - - One was captured and held briefly in captivity
  - - - Only the second time one has been held in captivity and the first it was exhibited
  - - - - If you were at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the span of a few hours, you might have been able to get a glimpse
  - - - - - It was not faring well in the tank, so it was released back into the Pacific
  - - The captured animal was male, 6′8″ long, and 189 pounds
• 4.    jamie czerniawski (SAM)
  - WOOT.
  - yet another name I have absoutly no idea how to pronounce.
  - Former Miss Teen New Jersey.
  - And reality star of wife swap in 2006.
  - Why now?
  - OUt on bond after slashing her hubby with a kitchen knife.
  - In apparent self defence.
  - Wonder if the tattooed freak show stand in wife looks better now?

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