THIS IS NOT A TEST (2 Viewers)

Yes, they had a smoke alarm or some kind of alarm that needed a new battery, so it would chirp every 15 seconds. They just ignored that. Then once a day the alarm would go off, and they'd reset it and keep listening to the the chirp. Every 15 seconds. Then after a while there were two alarms doing it. We could hear a loud chirp and a more faint chirp from the other side of the house.

That went on for a couple of years. And is probably still going on now and for all time.
 
This whole thing is plain embarrassing.
How can they do this to you? (or to anyone for the matter of equality and justice) !

Well, okay, yes - that was a rethorical question.
And people at a Bukowski-forum are the last to wonder about bad human behaviour anyway.
Still ....
 
How to hypnotize a lizard

https://thisisnotatest.com/how-to-hypnotize-a-lizard/

In which and wherein I proceed to speak on subjects as confounding and diverse as particles, time, unemployment, maximizing one's potential, training chickens, meaning and purpose, milk trucks, the pervasive mystery of Atlassian Confluence, rhythm, mojo, management philosophies, buying and selling, Joe Strummer, Lake Woebegone and the End of the Road in Homer Alaska, Craigslist, fear and loathing in the grocery store, yard sales, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, the dark apocalypse, seven-and-a-half billion handbags, and Hootie and the Blowfish.


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Let us rave today, about things that are raveworthy

https://thisisnotatest.com/let-us-rave-today-about-things-that-are-raveworthy/

Here, how about some Jade Bird, some signs of life, some Bob Dylan, some...country music? No. Some Shakespeare, Jimmy Fallon, Arrow de Wilde, cesspools, how art and culture are really life itself, Stephen Hines' "the late season" book, undercurrents and undercutting, Jackson Pollock, Prince, 5 Hour Energy Drink, Western society, Victorian days, Leaving Las Vegas, Oxycodone and Fentanyl lollipops, the devil and the lord, Joe Strummer, male groupies, reminiscing, and sky cars.


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I must have enjoyed this episode because I listened yesterday, then listened to something else this morning and let it loop back to TINAT and left it on. I've listened to it 1 & 3/4ths times. Lucky me.

Prince was a slob? I knew it.
 
Love is at the root of our resistance

https://thisisnotatest.com/love-is-at-the-root-of-our-resistance/

What the hell, let's take a chainsaw to royalty, the desert, aliens with oversized heads, crazy glue, usenet, Airstream trailers, diplomas, fat and lazy cover bands, crushing and demoralizing your enemy, pig flesh, pigskin, loving it or leaving it, Amnesty International, smokescreens and the rise of the machines. We'll talk about 14 of those 15 things, see if you can guess which ones.


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Interview with artist and writer Carol Es

https://thisisnotatest.com/interview-with-artist-and-writer-carol-es/

Tune in to our interview with artist and author Carol Es and hear what she has to say about her recently completed memoir, "Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley," and turn on to a strongbox full of gold, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the Kardashians, hyphens and en dashes, the evils of Scientology, bad luck and stupid mistakes, survival, triumph and getting the first slice of the pie.


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Festering Pools Of Indignation And Blurry Righteousness

https://thisisnotatest.com/festering-pools-of-indignation-and-blurry-righteousness/

Okay, this one is all over the place, but that has its own charm, doesn't it? I mean, don't you want to talk about dogs, crushing heat, megastorms, science (and the ignorance thereof), Gwyneth Paltrow, Jesus, geniuses, the home schooled, Lil Wayne, AA meetings, limp escapism, rock stars, resistance, complacency, Sam Kinnison, Roseanne, Woody Allen, Ariana Grande and GG Allin, marching, Anubis, Siddhartha, John Updike, James Baldwin, Frank Herbert, printing presses and Walmart? Sure you do.


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Fear and Loathing Beneath a Tranquil Malibu Sunset

https://thisisnotatest.com/fear-and-loathing-beneath-a-tranquil-malibu-sunset/

And a one and a two and a here we go, off into the wild blue yonder of the Malibu coastline, with wine, exes, freeway traffic, sophistication, $10 couches, real money, dog catchers, Thomas Brothers maps, helicopters, Elizabeth Shue in a leather skirt, bacterial infections, hard boiled eggs, sweat, darkness, garbage, shrubbery, pregnancy, hospitality, Cheech and Chong, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, pop life, and a friendly admonition to keep on truckin'.


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My Bike Trip Across America

https://thisisnotatest.com/my-bike-trip-across-america/

Join me, won't you, on an action-packed cross country bicycle trip that I undertook a few short decades ago, in the America of the late 1980s. Weren't those glorious times? What with the Cold War, the Reagan presidency gracefully pirouetting into the Bush presidency, Iran-Contra, Oliver North, revered statesman Dan Quayle, precious baby Jessica falling into that darn well, the "War on Drugs," Exxon Valdez, Lyle and Erik Menendez, that kooky Berlin Wall. We'll talk about none of that, but perhaps we'll see what we're made of, all of us. Or, you know, not. Anything can happen.


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You Know, That Stuff Will Kill You

https://thisisnotatest.com/you-know-that-stuff-will-kill-you/

What is it about beer, or any alcohol, really, that makes us so...I don't know, wonderful? Okay, it doesn't make all of us wonderful, I'll give you that. Some people shouldn't be allowed to drink. I certainly shouldn't have been allowed to drink when I was a young man, but no one stopped me, so some things happened, as they will. Here is the story of one (or two) of those things. Also, don't forget to vote! I'm supposed to say that, right?


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For a while you sounded like a famous judge, describing your love for beer. Then, I followed you to the top of the bridge and fell into Orpheus’arms. Woke up 10 minutes later to go back to ‘this is not a test’ when you meet the gear master. Unlike the beer loving judge, heard your added confession . That was fun!
 
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Rain, Coffee, Facebook, and Conspiracy, Coming Straight at You in Startling New Sensurround

https://thisisnotatest.com/rain-cof...straight-at-you-in-startling-new-sensurround/

It's raining in Los Angeles, so we may as well talk about formative years, Bangladesh, mittens, waterlogged La-Z-Boys, Blue Mountain coffee, English muffins, Bordeaux, procrastination, what it means to be human, Facebook and other modern afflictions, Alex Jones, conspiracy, shirtless weeping, the Roman Empire, truth and science, Jesus himself, Nixon himself, Woodrow Wilson, selling candles door to door, and pear trees.


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