Check Yer Head...Comix, Episode 1

Over the lips, and past the gums.  Look out stomach, here it comes!

   Originally posted on Friday, September 19, 2008, the text intro written by the CBH crew was surprisingly good, and even a little flattering (oh, STOP, you...call me!).  This was the first time I went a full half-hour, and it was pretty easy, if I remember correctly.  Well, I don't, because I was pretty blasted.  Good thing I recorded it, or I wouldn't believe you today (I said WHAT?  I did WHAT???).  If you want to choose your own format, or just stream it, go here.  I post all my shows, buried in this little corner of the Internet Archive.
   This was a nice, heartfelt show, with little or no "angry" going on.  It's also one of the LEAST downloaded shows (73 by time of this post!).  I have no idea why.  I really got kinda paranoid when these shows started going over 300 downloads.  Some have gone close to 1000! That seems like a lot to me, and makes me a bit exposed.  The video, episode 9, doesn't count in my book.  People are MUCH more likely to watch a 3 minute video than download a 30 minute audio-only show.  Especially one about comic books...by someone they've never heard of.  Need I go on?
   When did numbers start to matter?  Somewhere around episode 11...more on that later.  MUCH later.
   The best thing about this show is that I really, REALLY talk about what underground comix are, and how to get them.  The background music is ultrasweet, and from the time period.  I'm just totally astounded that, even after some people started following me, only 73 downloads...goddamn it, at least 10 of those are me, drunk on a friday night, listening to myself talk.  No, that's not sad, trust me.
  
   The main book I did the Funnybook Flashback on, Jeff Jones' (whom has a woefully tiny Wikipedia entry, by the way) "Idyll", was one that made me want to break all kinds of copyright laws, just to show other people something they would otherwise never see; However, and lucky for me, the damn book is just too large to scan on my little lightbox.  Hell, I could probably disassemble it, and scan it on the big rigs at work, but...are you fucking KIDDING ME??? TEAR THIS BOOK APART, JUST SO SOME SHITHEAD CAN DOWNLOAD IT, SAY "it's crap" AND DELETE IT?  Never.  The people that would REALLY want to read this book probably don't illegally download shit off the internet...or at least wouldn't be looking for it.  Well, come to think about it, after listening to this show, you may just want to download it.  Sorry.  If it's out there for free, I wouldn't know.  All's I know is, my big-ass, paper book AIN'T gettin' dismantled...so, you'll just have to listen to me describe it, press the button, and do yer OWN search.

   Right now, I'm serchin' for a lighter...