Episode 19 (January 23, 1950. Starring Bob Bailey’s best friend. Distributed by the Mutual Universal American Radio Relay Network.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

I find this fascinating. I have discovered an early post-War paper tape (!) - pre-dating magnetic plastic tape — on which is preserved a rare specimen of the East Ruritanian State Radio Overseas Service. As you can plainly hear from the sample, The Great Leader’s Happiness Corps leads the villagers and factory workers in a “Song of Utter Contentment,” in praise of the prune rations distributed to all party members. Certainly historical and perhaps meant to be hysterical. We have no written records, sadly, to indicate the names of the speakers or if they survived the program.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

This is the audio version of the essay, first published on The Birth of Venus (birthofvenus.substack.com).

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

Gellette Burgess and his Purple Cow poem.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

Poetry requires musicality.  What many pass off as poetry is not poetry, but something else, because its writer has evaded his poetic duty by eliding at least one of its requirements -- form, meter and rhyme; but every example lacks musicality.   

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

Click here to view the image that inspired this essay and to read the Chinese couplet upon which it is based. https://birthofvenus.substack.com/p/chinese-style-censorship-and-the

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

Read along and watch the videos I refer to here: birthofvenus.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

Three recommendations for writers on the Substack platform.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com

What is passed off as comedy these days is anything but comedy. A critique of the American TV show, The Office, comparing it to the comedy of Laurel and Hardy.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit birthofvenus.substack.com