aaron is online

If for some reason you haven’t heard via any of the 37 other ways I’ve been letting people know, grapesofrad.com is in the early stages development.

You know “Zack the Awful Poet,” now meet “Zack the Insanely Great Web Designer.”  Here’s how it went down:

Zack: (Humbly) If you want me to make a site for the show, let me know.

Aaron: Hell and yes.

Zack: Alright. I’m in Wisconsin, so I can’t really do anything until next week.

(about an hour later…)

I put, like, an image on the page, just so there’s something on there. It’s just a temporary thing, so I’ll change it.  It’s probably not very good…

Aaron: This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

Stop by grapesofrad.com, bookmark it, and don’t forget to move your mouse over the kick-ass imagery.  It’ll be our new home for all types of awesome, from streaming the show to a pile of baracus interactive things for us all to grind on.

Thanks for listening & and thanks, Zack!

Ben & I have moved to a more normal recording/publishing schedule for our still not-quite-named podcast.  Hopefully, from now on (although Christmas is Thursday), we will be recording Friday nights, and will have the ‘cast ready for your consumption on Saturday.  As such, p’cast numero dozen is fresh out of the oven and ready for your face.

In this episode, we discuss the winter wonderland that is Seattle (that was sarcastic), listen to some Christmas-themed awful poetry w/ Zack, and have a few holiday drinks with the show’s bartender, and my bestest pal, William.

ALSO, Ben & I announce our Official 2009 Death Pool.  Submit your famous names before Jan 1st, and be entered to win some fabulous prizes.  (Seriously, there will be prizes, we just don’t know what yet…)  Take a look at THE OFFICIAL RULES, and get to steppin’.  We’d love to hear from you before we record our year-end show next week!

Thank you so much for listening; I really mean it.  It’s a crazy time of year, and it’s been tough to get (what we think is) an hour of quality entertainment up every week.  Ben & I are working hard to keep making this thing better, and your support & suggestions are invaluable.

Thanks again!

As I’ve mentioned on this site before, I have some pretty nerdy tendencies, one of which is that I really like “The Lord of the Rings.”  My friend Zack is also a fan of said books & movies, and yesterday we did what could be the coolest/lamest thing I’ve ever done:

Zack and I watched all 3 Extended Edition DVDs of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  All 3 movies.  All 6 discs.  All 682 minutes of film.

In.  A.  Row.

682 minutes, for those who are not so numerically inclined, is roughly 11.4 hours of viewing time, and we made it through the entire series in just about 5 minutes shy of 12 hours.

It was so awesome, you guys.  Seriously.  …Guys?

Sorry about the 2 podcast posts in a row here, but I’ve been busy doing some highly entertaining things (tree cutting, sausage stuffing, concert playing, etc.) which I will tell you about in the near future.  Until then, feel free to give a listen to this week’s episode of “the ben parsons podcast.”

This is episode #11, and I’m pretty psyched about it.  It marks the return of “Bad Poetry w/ Zack,” and he reaffirms my belief that he is the best bad poet I’ve ever heard.  Midwife Mel is absent from this week’s podcast as she was out midwife-ing, but Ben & I work hard to fill the time with high-quality banter, and we hope you smell what we’re stepping in.

Most importantly this week, Ben announces that we’re looking to change the name of the show from it’s current, Ben-centric “the ben parsons podcast” to something more representative of our duo dynamic.  Give us your suggestions right here or on benparsons.com.

Thanks a lot for listening; we really appreciate it!

Edition #10 of the ben parsons podcast is “live” and “on the air.”  This week, Ben felt a little under the weather, but we still managed to deliver a farm-fresh, organic podcast just for you.  This week’s highlight for me was friend-of-the-show Zack Goehner’s segments on bad poetry.  Zack not only manages to find some of the most horrendous poems I’ve ever heard, but he also has written what is easily the best worst poem this side of Kip’s wedding song.

Stay tuned!  Ben and I are working on some pretty significant changes/improvements to this thing, and we both feel like it’s going to get way better in the near future.  Episode 10 marks only our 3rd show together, and we appreciate your patience and enthusiasm as we shape this podcast into something awesome.

Give the show a listen at benparsons.com, and leave us a comment there or here or on iTunes.  Or don’t, whatever. Be that way.