We resume our series discussing our crappy WLBOTT “Bronze” medical insurance. To save costs, medical professional we visit must be dual-certified. Psychotherapy / HVAC This Temperature Setting – How Does It Make You Feel? Red Flags: Office Disorderly, Tools Scattered on the Couch We can not fully enumerate the red flags when entering into a […]
Category: Curated Absurdity
So…. a fellow elder suggested that I seek professional help. It was said in a kind, loving, bellow; a sort of barking bay. The best of intentions, etc. We must assume he/she meant some sort of medical intervention. Unfortunately, due to our crappy WLBOTT “Bronze” medical insurance, any medical professional we visit must be dual-certified. […]
Great staffing is critical to the success of any well run organization. This does not apply to Radio Free WLBOTT. However, Elder JA has enthusiastically offered his services. WLBOTT HQ Responds We’ve also located some black and white archival photos of Elder JA’s time at Canadian radio station CHEC. Based on these photos alone, we’d […]
Due to popular demand, film critic Clementine DuCinema has added a Soviet-era children’s matinee to the upcoming WLBOTT film festival. Plow Now, Red Cow Plow Now, Red Cow is exactly the kind of film that leaves children teary-eyed, confused, and deeply committed to collectivist agriculture. Elder G 
Children’s Matinee Feature Plow Now, Red Cow […]
Clementine DuCinema received her MFA and PhD in filmology from the University of Petrochemical Fumes and Fine Arts in Baytown, Texas. She specialized in Soviet-era cinema, and her dissertation was titled “Boy Meets Tractor: Boy meets tractor. Boy falls in love with tractor. Tractor represents collective hope.” Today, she brings her razor-sharp wit and velvet-gloved […]
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The Weight, Part II
Yesterday we looked at the 1968 song The Weight, by The Band. We learned that the song’s author, Robbie Robertson, was influenced by surrealist director Luis Buñuel. Luis Buñuel’s best know film is L’Age d’Or (Age of Gold, or Golden Age), released in 1930. L’Age d’Or (French: L’Âge d’Or, pronounced [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as […]
In Argentina, today is the national holiday “Día de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia” or “Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice”. It is a solemn holiday that commemorates the fall of the democratic government on March 24, 1976 to the military dictatorship that ruled until 1983. You can read more about […]
Following yesterday’s detasseling BLOTT, we would be remiss if we failed to relay the tassel confusion that occurred at Texas A&M University several years ago. As the official Event Coordinator for Texas A&M‘s commencement, Callahan ‘Cactus Jack’ Kleberg had one job: order tassels. Being an agricultural school, Cactus Jack thought they were corn tassels. You […]
Dear Tess, I write to you from the edge of my sanity—and the edge of our cornfield. My name is Mabel H., and I am the wife of a third-generation corn farmer here in northwest Iowa. My husband, Virgil, is a man of few words but many routines. Every summer, like clockwork, he begins what […]
From Elder JJZ: On a more serious note[1], really interesting connection between Japan and the establishment of the rice industry in Texas. We know many of the people or descendants mentioned in this article . They put up with a lot of bad stuff in the 1900’s but aren’t bitter, made a good life for […]