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You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll take your Baby Robots out of their hermetically sealed, lead-lined vaults and give them a hug. This week on Monkey Vortex Radio Theater: “I, Baby Robot,” written by, er, um, me. And starring the likes of Jeff Green, Heather Gottschalk, Christian Crumlish, EB, Hans van Boetzelaerlaan, and M. Smith. Now playing right here.

After nine months in the cooler, those nefarious Monkey Vortex Radio Theater-types are back with The Phone Call, Part I arguably their most sinister free-audio-download yet. Now available for your easy downloading good-times right here.

So let’s see: Iran has a new democractically elected leader that, well, he’s not nice. Iraq is in the process of putting together a new government that’s likely to end up far more pro-Iran and pro-fundamentalism than the Bathists, and now Gaza and the West Bank have elected Hamas as their majority party.
I can just hear Brer Osama Bin Laden saying to Brer George W. Bush: “wow, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s your democratic way of life. Please, Brer Mr. President, whatever you do, don’t throw me into that democracy patch.”
For more reactionary mutterings, click your Brer-self on over to Edgewise….

The thing about Fox is, they’re not subtle. And neither is this micro-rant.

Don’t look now — Monkey Vortex Radio Theater is back with an all-new featurette. This time out, it’s Quiet and Comfortable, a short short story, with words and music by, well, me. And starring Robert Birnbach. Enjoy! -CV.

I recently got to add some keys to a lovely country trance number by Yaniv Soha (formerly of “Yaniv Soha and the Bear”). The resulting tune — The Hillside — is now live and available for free and easy downloading in the popular MP3 format over on Yaniv Soha.com.

All this prurient Pynchon appears to have nudged me into a reactionary dander. Read the results (“The Mainstreaming of Vice“) over on the mighty, the mighty, the mighty Edgewise. Unless you’re intimidated by my clear-thinking, straight-shooting, uninhibited sense of moral superiority. In which case, you know. It’s cool.

After a longish, hard-drive induced hiatus, Monkey Vortex Radio Theater is back with our first new piece in about a month. This week: it’s a Koeneke/Soha transcontinental guitar/poem spectacular. I love it. My four-year-old loves it. And if you’re still the way I remember you being, and I’m pretty sure you are, you’ll love it too. Bop over and check it out: Poem with Its Second Line by Nada Gordon.

We’re getting back into the weekly swing of things over on Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. This Monkey Vortex Monday, it’s Letters, an insta-parody produced by our rapid reponse team, and featuring Eileen Dahl, Bleu Smith, K. Smith, and yers truly.

After nearly a month on hiatus, Monkey Vortex Radio Theater is back with Bobba Bebba, our most ambitious piece involving an alien watching earth TV from their spaceship yet! With script by yers truly…. Give it a listen and let us know whatcha think.