Amusing, in a disappointing sort of way

[altivo]

The replay-video.com website has listed Altivo's Fabulous Furry Tales podcasts. They put them under the subject heading "Talk - Political". Not a very serious or helpful effort on their part. Nothing in the descriptions or the content is particularly political, and they are obviously labeled as book reviews or literary criticism. ;P

[Edit: I filed a suggestion that they change it. They moved it to "Talk - Books" which I think is much better.]

Comments

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Replay-video.com has seen through the façade and identified the Furry global plot to take over the world via literature and the Internet. That's why it got put under "political." You can't fool everyone, bucko. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

My politics may be radical but I still don't like being dumped in with the likes of Al Franken or Rush Limbaugh fans, let alone the middle eastern radicals who are included in that list. ;p

I e-mailed them with a complaint about it.

[calydor.livejournal.com]

Most likely they sampled them all with the one about Black Beauty, which is, technically, political in nature due to the *PCA aspect of the story.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LOL. I suppose you could be right, though the podcast itself was hardly political. I thought perhaps they took it from the most recent one, where the book really was political. But even then, my commentary was not.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Is that how the Great Plot works? I thought we were trying to take over the world by living in the forest, digging holes and eating berries. My, how things change.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

It could be that I got the wrong copy of the memo, and what I described was some other group's plot to take over the world. My filing system isn't the best.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, if you listen to some of the hysterical right wing, yes, literature is a plot to alter society.

The latest example is a cute picture book with the title And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson. Based on a real life situation at New York's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins start a family on their own by adopting and hatching an abandoned egg.

The screaming match over this book is just starting to heat up, but several libraries have already been forced to remove it from the shelf or hide it under the counter. Narrow minded people are insisting that it is a subliminal message in support of that infamous "gay agenda" that the right loves to screech about.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Odd, I didn't think any of them particularly political.

Hell, I love to read Ann Coulter...your stuff doesn't
belong in the politics catagory.

*facepaws*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Eeew. I definitely wouldn't even want to be put on the shelf near Coulter.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on getting replay-video.com to move AFFT to Talk-Books, which seems very appropriate.

I was just wondering -- you didn't ask them to add your podcast to their list, right? Your podcasts are over at archive.org, if I recall... so does replay-video.com have some sort of arangement with archive.org or something? Replay-video.com seems like a nice convenient site to navigate, but there's no indication where the podcast really comes from. I'm just curious, more than anything.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nope. I haven't asked anyone to add my podcast to their index. I'm aware of four sites that list it now, though. I suspect many of them scan through each others' listings in some automated way, much like the search engines "spidering" web pages. The archive.org/ourmedia.org sites are major providers of storage and download space for podcasts and such, so of course they would be one of the places checked regularly.

(And thank goodness for archive.org. No way could I provide the online storage and download bandwidth needed, even though a typical 'cast of mine only gets about 100 listeners max.)