Ron Solo (joke based on the Ron & Fez radio show)

Ronny B quotes: NCAA

Ronny B Quotes: Car Trip

Second in a series of some of my favorite nuggets of Ron Bennnington wisdom. (Photo source)

Ronny B Quotes: Waitress

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Ron & Fez: Trapped on a bus

I finally sent a cartoon to the Ron & Fez show on Sirius that got talked about on the air. They also tweeted to their fans, jokingly referring to it as a "political cartoon". Of course I managed to miss hearing them talking about it, and also forgot to sign the drawing.

Baby Snoots

Ron Bennington's ultra-un-PC concept for a single-panel comic strip, Baby Snoots the drunk baby. It's hilarious as an off-the-cuff radio bit, maybe not so much as an actual comic strip, but I wanted to give it a shot.

Pepper Hicks A.K.A. Chris Tanley

The producer of my current "go-to" radio program, The Ron & Fez Show on Sirius.

Ron and Fez discuss St. Patrick's Day

The Ron & Fez Show, XM Radio, 3/18/09:

RON: "Isn't it sad we have to go so far to another St. Pat's Day? Which means at least a year until Fez suffers from alcohol-related Bell's palsy again. I'll tell you something else, too, Fezzy, when you drink, uh,--what am I trying to say?--it's hard not to smother you. It's hard not to."

FEZ: "Just to put me out of my misery, or the annoyance factor?"

RON: "It isn't so much to put you out of your misery, it's a Natasha Richardson thing of, does this make sense to go on anymore. We get e-mails here: 'It sounds like Fez does not enjoy life, why don't you do him a favor and end it for him?'"

FEZ: "Well that would be murder. That would be murder in the first degree, because I'm sure it would be premeditated, it would be planned out."

RON: "Yes, it is."

Bush's legacy: two views

"Though a smaller band, Bush's defenders parry that he will look to history more like Harry Truman, a president whose achievements took decades to appreciate."

-Jonathan Rauch

"Even if you're a Republican, at this point you gotta admit, for eight goddamn years we've been watching a monkey fuck a football."

-Ron Bennington

Sleeves

I stumbled across the most marvelous podcast the other day.

Somewhere in the woods of New Hampshire, an elderly gentleman named Sherwin Sleeves sits in a log cabin, murmuring ghost stories in a profoundly resonant, English-accented rumble. Sherwin himself may only be a story--or a ghost, of a kind. But after listening to his work you may find your notions of identity to be... temporarily more fluid.

Since joining the mp3 generation, I've never come across an audio download that held me so spellbound. You have to give Sherwin a little time to work his magic, but trust me, he delivers.

"Atoms, Motion & the Void" episode archive

The Economic Crisis: Two Views

"Mr. Paulson argues that the approach [to the bailouts] combines pragmatism with an intense focus on moral hazard, or letting people pay for failure. 'I don't believe in raw capitalism without regulation. There's got to be a balance between market discipline, allowing people to take losses, and protecting the system,' he says."

The Economist, Sept. 20th 2008

"Why aren't we acting like those Wall Street guys are just out-of-their-minds addicts? I feel like the brother with the straight job, and you're a guy who hangs out at the track. I just wanna know this, of the 700 Billion we gotta chip in, how much is going to hookers?"

Ron Bennington