Obama in stitches over this week's Nostrum!

The latest episode is in the usual sort of place, audio and eyedio.

We almost didn't make it this week. The Nostrumite is in a state of permanent depression over the whole NYC school board business. Good old Mike wanted to hire some magazine babe, and the powers the be sayin' no to Mike said, uh, how about you get us somebody with some experience in education? So Mike crumbled, and now it's a two-person job, held sort of jointly by Magazine Babe and Education Guy. "It's almost like the Roman Empire," the Mite opines. "All they need is one more person for a triumvirate, and we all know how well that worked out." On the other hand, he wouldn't mind getting a publishing magnate to run the Boston schools. "I'd like free magazines in the faculty men's room," he says.

He always was easy to please on the hard stuff, and hard to please on the easy stuff.

The lame duck episode

The latest Nostrum is up and running (audio / pdfio). We almost didn't make it this week. The Nostrumite is in a state of permanent depression over the rise and fall of the Democrats. "They had majorities in both houses and they still couldn't do squat," he moans. He's a big moaner. "Now we've got three parties—Democrats, Republicans and Tea Baggers—and nobody will ever be able to do anything ever again because all they care about is sending Obama back to Kenya where he belongs. Even the Democrats want to send him back to Kenya where he belongs. I'll bet Pelosi is pretty pissed off now about forging that birth certificate for him lo those many years ago..."

Never hold a conversation with the Nostrumite around election time.

Nostrum Series 2, Now in Amazing Nostrumvision! Featuring Real State-of-the Art Monophonic Sound Recording!

Episode 29 of Series 2 is now available at no cost to you either as a pdf or an mp3. What you do with it is up to you.

We almost didn't make it this week. The Nostrumite is in a state of permanent depression over the whole 3D movie thing. "On the one hand, I'm happy that Harry Potter Part Seven (Part One) is missing a D or two, given that the whole 3D thing is enough of a ripoff, much less two Harry Potter movies from the same book that was in fact the dullest of the lot. Why don't they make a weekly series out of it? Harry Potter 5-0 or CSI: Hogwarts if they just want it never to end?" On the other hand, the idea of Tron 2 in 3D has him leaking from every pore. He just sits around all day muttering "Tron," "Tron," "Tron"—one for each D—while the Nostrumate goes about seeing to the children and making sure there's gruel on the table.

Is it any wonder it takes us so long to get to these episodes?