David Boles: Human Meme
739 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis Human Meme podcast is the inflection point for what it means to live a life of knowing. We are in the critical moment of human induction. David Boles is a writer, publisher, teacher, lyricist and author living and working in New York City. He has dedicated his life to founding the irrevocable aesthetic. Be a Human Meme!
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Episodes
Becoming a Boss Radio Jock!
February 08, 2017 15:00 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MBBoss Radio was a wonder of the 1960s! We take you on a tutorial tour of the history of Boss radio -- and we also teach you, as we were taught, how to become a Boss Jock today! Compression! Reverb! Shouting! Kissing and Telling!
PoetPourri: Marshall Jamison Poetry
February 07, 2017 20:03 - 12 minutes - 16.6 MBEven more Marshall Jamison poetry! We share the third, and final, installment of Marshall Jamison's most memorable poems!
FAT GIRL
February 01, 2017 15:00 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MBThe power of a woman shall not be moved! In this original, short form, screenplay -- you meet FAT GIRL, a 600-lb woman who has powers beyond the supernatural! Join her, as her world explodes, and unwinds, in a final stand against regressive evil!
The Infinite Infant: Baby Selling and Human Trafficking
January 25, 2017 15:00 - 14 minutes - 20 MBThe market for selling babies, is booming! We reveal thoughts on selling infants for profit. Human trafficking is a sketchy scheme that demands the light of your attention!
MORE Cat Heads in Space!
January 18, 2017 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.91 MBWhen we last left you, our Galaxy Kitten was lost -- without her body!
Promise Kept: Marshall Jamison Poetry
January 10, 2017 15:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBMore Marshall Jamison poems!
Scenes from an American Monarchy
January 09, 2017 15:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBWe have democratically elected a King! Now what? We imagine what the world would be like under the tiny thumb of a ruler who believes only might makes right.
Cat Heads in Space!
January 06, 2017 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.45 MBWhen we last left you, our Galaxy Kitten was lost without her mittens!
Three Daughters and the Train to Busan
January 05, 2017 15:00 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBMovies are a great hiding place from the unholy reality that has become our lives! We shudder in the flickering danger of three terror films: The Train to Busan, The Eyes of My Mother, and -- The Witch! Know the horror of unrepentant evil tasked in our daughters!
Kagemusha and the Rashomon Effect
January 04, 2017 15:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBAkira Kurosawa is a genius director of all cinema! We celebrate the movies Kagemusha and Rashomon! Plus, we share an examination of -- "The Rashomon Effect" -- to reveal unwitting, but human, embarrassments!
How to Take a Righteous Photograph
January 03, 2017 15:00 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBThe historic moment of imaging is yours to own, with a twitch, of a shaky finger! We step you through some basics of shaping a photographic image to match your practiced aesthetic!
Sex: Ten Sentence Stories
January 02, 2017 15:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBThe Sex of us is the being of us! We dive into the surreal world of Sex as we share three, original, Ten Sentence Stories.
Internecine Antiquity
December 30, 2016 15:00 - 12 minutes - 17 MBThe world has always been on fire! We were born into the slaughterhouse, and tempered by ash. We look for a way out of the need for nations to constantly been in conflict -- seeking only resolutions in bloodletting.
Valuing Faith and Trust
December 29, 2016 15:00 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MBWe seek definition in the confirmation of others. We pry apart the confirmations and meanings -- of Trust and Faith -- to get at the white-hot underbellies of their salty cores!
The Failure of Advertising and Marketing…
December 28, 2016 15:00 - 11 minutes - 16 MBOwn your own promotional core! We wonder with you about the benefits of advertising and marketing. Are you able to use your own Horse Sense to defeat those who wish to decay your original intention? Sublimate yourself!
How to Write a Novel
December 27, 2016 15:00 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBWhen you write, you create the world! We share our experience writing 50 books -- and we describe our role in helping other authors write their first, big, break! Avoid the pitfalls! Hit the pinnacles!
Idyl in a Willys-Knight: Joseph Baldwin Poetry
December 26, 2016 15:00 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBWelcome to the Joseph Baldwin poetry slam!
Asynchronicity and the Internet Archive
December 23, 2016 15:00 - 15 minutes - 20.6 MBOur lives synch across different timelines. We asynchronously search the Wayback Machine, and the Internet Archive, to find synchronous timing and self-satisfying returns about Black Measles. Together, we are unbound!
Power: Ten Sentence Stories
December 22, 2016 15:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBWho wins the struggle for Power? We share three of his original Ten Sentence Stories that reveal the structures of Power condemning us while condoning us.
An Enemy of the People and The Poisoned Land
December 21, 2016 15:00 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBThe enemy of the people, is the truth teller! We unearth the truths of Henrik Ibsen's classic 1882 play -- AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE -- to discover universal truths about the human condition. We cover up lies! We willfully poison the land! We blame the accuser! How did Ibsen know, 164 years ago, that today, we would be dealing with Fracking, and purposefully poisoned water supplies in Flint, Michigan -- and beyond -- as well as the Lakota Sioux Pipeline? Ibsen knew, because, he understood -- the...
Problem with Predestiny
December 20, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MBThe will you seek is not your own. We examine problems with the notion of being predestined in a life that no longer belongs to you.
On Being Painfully Shy
December 19, 2016 15:00 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MBShyness recompresses the you of you. We explore the meaning, causation, and recitation, of shyness. It isn't enough to tell someone not to be shy, we have to help each other become our own expectation.
Crime Story: The Peril of Caril Ann
December 16, 2016 15:18 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MBCaril Ann Fugate was kidnapped by Charles Starkweather. We re-examine the 1958 case of Caril Ann, and her Starkweather captor. Charlie Starkweather murdered 11 people, including members of Caril Ann's family. Caril Ann Fugate was implicated in the killings -- by her kidnapper! -- and she was given a life sentence. This is her story. This is the exoneration of Caril Ann Fugate.
Outlier Anarchy
December 15, 2016 15:00 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MBWe fight the middle Right through an assault from the edge! We sound the fife and bangs the drum: Now is the time to stand and fight! Now is the time to not be moved! Now is the time for Anarchy from our Outliers!
Waking Up Dead: Marshall Jamison Poetry
December 14, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBWe celebrate the life and writing of Marshall Jamison!
Kremlin West, Moscow West, and Russia West
December 13, 2016 15:00 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBWhy is Russia snuggling in our White House? We take apart the 2016 election -- and what it means for American and Russian relations with Donald Trump as president. We are in for a woeful world of hurt!
Renewal, Starting Over, Forgiveness
December 12, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MBHow do we negotiate coping with each other? We share stories of viral internet memes, and stories about Marshall Jamison, Burgess Meredith and, "Anyone for Tennyson?"
Master’s Thesis Interview
December 09, 2016 15:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBHere are some views on Deaf Culture. We reveal answers to questions posed by a Master's Thesis student researching Deaf Culture, professional Broadway interpreting programs, and the merits of regional theatre performance interpretations.
Finality of Loss
December 08, 2016 15:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBWe covet what we lose. We wonder why we value loss more than inclusion. We venerate the dead, but ignore the living. Is it because we cannot stand to bear the unrecoverable?
Leda and the Swan
December 07, 2016 15:00 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBThe story of Leda is harrowing. We investigate the myth of Leda. Was she too beautiful for a mortal life? Was she abused without warning in the name of predestiny? Did the violence struck upon her, foreshadow the lives of her unborn children?
Friends on the Streets
December 05, 2016 15:00 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBThe streets have no name -- but they do have your number! We take to the streets to learn about friendship and Ethics and Envy and Enforcers! A Walking City always takes the first step up by creeping from the gutter!
Bludgeon of Anonymization
December 02, 2016 15:00 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBA free society requires public atonement. We argue against anonymity in the community of the world -- where only the nefarious, and the unseemly, hide in the depths to mercilessly troll the best of us.
The Icarian Syndrome: Heat Rises, Smoke Falls
December 01, 2016 15:00 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBIcarus leaves behind a lousy legacy. We fly around the myth of Icarus and Daedalus -- and discovers that heros die with a forgotten honor while fools have islands and seas named after them. As we step out of the primordial brine, our only hope is for escape.
Brutalism Re-Bruted
November 30, 2016 15:00 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MBBrutalism is back is a big way! We decline the rise of the re-booting of the Brutalist movement! We are surrounded by the relics of a Brutal ideal in designed living in architecture -- and beyond our common culture -- and we cannot escape its scowl on our cities.
First Rule of Stupid People
November 28, 2016 15:00 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBStupidity has nothing to do with education. We wrestle with the management, and enlightening of, Stupid People! We listen. We question. We ask. Always in that order -- so we may know.
Ideas Are Not Scary: GE Advertising for Idiots!
November 25, 2016 15:00 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBWhat happened to GE television advertising? We vivisect GE Ad campaigns over the last 30 years. Why did GE move the idea of them -- and of us! -- from warm and bright to forlorn and stupid?
Social Justice
November 24, 2016 15:00 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBWhere do we go to get Social Justice? We examine the nature of Social Justice in the wake of the competing anarchical memes of Black Lives Matter and the White Supremacist Movement. Are there similar desires at stake in the streets? Are there equal ends on opposite ends of a piece of string? How do we get along with each other, if not, by social transposition?
Circles in Circles
November 22, 2016 15:00 - 6 minutes - 9.05 MBOur lives are circles generating circles. To unwind us, is to disassemble what makes us whole. We discuss the Art of Closing Circles -- and of finding meaning in the moment of silence before the second closes.
Hillary Clinton Finally Gave My Millennials Speech!
November 21, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBWe learn as we listen. We celebrate the fact that Hillary Clinton actually gave the bones and ribs of the Millennials speech we wrote for her -- when she addressed the Children's Defense Fund!
Manipulative Immortality in the Word
November 18, 2016 15:00 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBWe write for us, not them. We argue against the reckless notion that authors should write books for generations 100 years out while not allowing the now of us to read the work today.
The Mirth of Sisyphus
November 17, 2016 15:00 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBCamus' Sisyphus was against suicide, but did Sisyphus really take his punishment from the Gods? We contemplate the MIRTH in the Sisyphus myth, and we recall Sartre and Camus to help us existentialize the ratty rationalizations of the despicable rock roller!
Rule of Suing
November 16, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MBHow do you prevent someone from dishonoring a contract? We help you figure out how to get the best contract terms and how to deal with the inevitable boor of a business person who refuses to honor a done deal.
Race Traitor
November 15, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBOver the past week, our beloved host was accused of three things. First, he was accused of being a Traitor to His Own Race. Next, he was accused of being a Genderist because he thinks women can be "stolen." Finally, he was accused of being a Big Baby in need of diapering. In this episode, we respond to our accusers!
Outlier Offensive
November 14, 2016 15:00 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBThe risk of your life is to become an Outlier and stay one. We explain the value of an authentic Outlier -- one who leaves society to become an extra thinker beyond the common core.
No Right to Be Forgotten
November 11, 2016 15:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBYou cannot make us forget you! We flay the European Union notion that anyone in the world has the "Right to Be Forgotten" in today's digital evolution! It is nigh impossible to erase footfalls that have already been suspended in amber.
What a Ghoul Believes
November 10, 2016 15:00 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBWhat happens when a Ghoul unexpectedly wins an election? We interview, for a second time, a conquering Ghoul who will set world expectation for the undead in the next generation!
Glom Research
November 09, 2016 15:00 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBDon't ask for it if you didn't write it! We take on the glommers who want to "borrow" your research, or "take a look at" your Powerpoint presentation, or "grab a copy of" your syllabus. Write your own stuff! Stop stealing content from the rest of us!