April Winchell

47 responses so far ↓

• 1 Doug // Apr 24, 2009 at 7:50 pm

  I’m such a lame, lame dumb-ass. I see the Blogroll, but it’s on the right, not the left. And I certainly don’t see any blogads, any Pink Hat Hell advertisement, or anything that says “Advertise…” But like I said, I’m a dumb-ass, so I’m probably missing the obvious. Damn, it must be time for another shot of Dalwhinnie. Pardon me, my addiction calls.

  Oh, let me say congrats, it’s about time John made an honest woman of April. (grin)

• 2 Doug // Apr 24, 2009 at 7:55 pm

  OK, I understand now. I’m not insane after all (well, that’s up for debate I suppose). I’m just a victim of Firefox.

  April, don’t you have Firefox on your Mac?

• 3 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 24, 2009 at 8:52 pm

  Well. I believe I suggested at some point that I and many others would happily pony up for a weekly podcast. If it was you and Roy, I’d really pay up!

  This is what we want.

  Anyone disagree?

  The excitement from hearing the Chicken Yodel at the beginning- unmatched anywhere!

• 4 dieselbreath // Apr 25, 2009 at 7:18 am

  Dear Ms. Winchell, God just told me that if you start doing a regular podcast with Roy, you will go to heaven.

  Or with anyone else you want. In fact, a podcast of you just talking into a microphone by yourself would be equally awesome. More work and less fun for you, but equally great for mankind.

  Every week that April Winchell doesn’t make a podcast, an angel gets AIDS.

• 5 dieselbreath // Apr 25, 2009 at 7:19 am

  Oh and of course I’d pay for it. Duh.

• 6 goofydes // Apr 25, 2009 at 7:54 am

  I use Firefox and see the Pink Hat Hell with the link…weird.

• 7 Auntie Vera Charles // Apr 25, 2009 at 8:45 am

  Fuck Roy! Do one with Auntie Vera Charles. Even I’D pay for that.

• 8 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 25, 2009 at 9:16 am

  Stephanie Miller makes a good amount of scratch with her $7.95 a month podcast- and that’s a daily program!

  And darling, it isn’t nearly as fabulous as you!

  I think this is a much better way then just advertising.

  PODCAST PODCAST PODCAST PODCAST!!!!

• 9 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 25, 2009 at 9:27 am

  Goodness gracious, Auntie Vera! Such language!

  But yes, I would pay for that too.

  You could say “cocksucker” on Easter Sunday as much as you like with only God to answer to! You could even tell Terri-Rae Elmer to go fuck a guy!

  Win/Win, April.

• 10 EverybodysLittlePony // Apr 25, 2009 at 1:53 pm

  Hey, Auntie Vera may be onto something. If someone ponys up for it, they can be a guest host on April’s podcast.

  “Hi! I’m April Winchell here with my best sponsor Tim!”

  “Um… what?”

  Hmm. Maybe not.

• 11 Speedy Cerviche // Apr 25, 2009 at 3:49 pm

  “[J]ust because you don’t agree with someone’s politics that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are self-loathing. That gets to be a little too convenient.” – John Foley

  April, don’t be talkin smack on my boy Drudge.

• 12 DavidinBerkeley // Apr 25, 2009 at 4:22 pm

  Not that it’s the actual topic she brought up, but because I’m such a sheep sometimes, I’ll add:

  In spite of the floundering economy, the rising cost of food, the bloated price of housing in the SF Bay area and my limited income, I would still pony up a modest amount to have an April Winchell Show again.

• 13 April // Apr 25, 2009 at 4:25 pm

  Speedy, it’s not about politics. My impression is based on personal experience and observation.

• 14 John Foley // Apr 25, 2009 at 4:31 pm

  I never said someone COULDN’T be self-loathing, just that it was a convenient and overused dismissal. Surely some people really ARE self-loathing. I mean, there has to be some explanation for Tammy Bruce.

• 15 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 25, 2009 at 4:43 pm

  Auntie Vera! Auntie Vera! Bea Arthur is dead!!

• 16 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 25, 2009 at 4:53 pm

  Drudge certainly is a good name for him.

• 17 goofydes // Apr 25, 2009 at 7:50 pm

  Bea Arthur should have died before the Mexican swine flu epidemic because that will now overshadow her death. Hmm… maybe she died of it.

• 18 Ojoya // Apr 25, 2009 at 7:57 pm

  I hope I die on a really busy news day…That way I can spend all of eternity feeling sorry for myself that no one noticed when I died…oh wait…I’m not famous. ….carry on!

• 19 Andre // Apr 25, 2009 at 8:51 pm

  re: Bea Arthur

  As always, her timing is impeccable.

• 20 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 25, 2009 at 9:08 pm

  Andre: Thank You.

• 21 Speedy Cerviche // Apr 26, 2009 at 12:09 am

  Personal experience?!? Tease my ass with a feather, why don’t ya? Can we get a little inside Drudge dish?

  And to be perfectly clear, I completely agree with your self-hating closet case comment, I was just trying to be a cock. I didn’t expect to be countered by calm, rational arguments.

• 22 pal Jacky // Apr 26, 2009 at 11:35 am

  a few things.
  numero uno:I’m only fell self loathing when I listen to stephenie miller. Adam carolla wasn’t that great, but shit I just haven’t found anything else. Why the fuck does KUSC think people only want to listen to vivaldi in the morning?I hate vivaldi.
  Numero two-oh: matt drudge had a big hand in turning journalism into the crap it is today. Of course, he was the first to write about monica saving her nasty Hobbyflecken blue dress, but no one remembers his weekly clinton love babies articles during the same era.
  Numero:3-oh: My favorite recording artist died the same day as mother teresa ie.within a week of princess Diana. Talk about being buried. Any art phony out there know who he is? Here’s a hint. He still holds the record for the most grammys won by a single artist and I have at least 75 CD’s of his.

• 23 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 26, 2009 at 11:54 am

  Jacky, are you referring to the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor, Sir Georg Solti?

  Also, how did the subject of Drudge come up?

• 24 Ojoya // Apr 26, 2009 at 12:09 pm

  Ira- Drudge was mentioned in the original post.

  Meanwhile, pal Jacky, why do you feel self-loathing when listening to Stephanie Miller? Just curious.

• 25 Ojoya // Apr 26, 2009 at 12:10 pm

  Oh, and can I say real quick that I just LOVE the new amazon.com widget on the AW front page!?? Did they EVER think it would be used to openly and hilariously mock their products? HAHAHAHAHA

  April’s creative ingenuity kills me on a daily basis, and I love her for it.

• 26 Speedy Cerviche // Apr 26, 2009 at 5:26 pm

  I’m glad April brought back the Amazon gateway. I’m about to purchase some hard drives. Yeah, I’m supporting Project Angelcake, baby.

• 27 Ojoya // Apr 26, 2009 at 5:57 pm

  <> This makes me smile.

• 28 Ojoya // Apr 26, 2009 at 5:58 pm

  Shoot! I am SO not html savvy…. That was supposed to be more like this:

  “Project Angelcake” ….That makes me smile.

• 29 pal Jacky // Apr 26, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  with stepheny miller, it is more ’suicidal’ than ’self loating’, and it is the great george solti who died the same day as mother teresa. But on closer thought , I have well over 100 of his CDs. 35 for the 10 Wagner operas alone. Add in 10 more each for the symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner, 6 for the beethoven, another 3 for ludwig’s Piano concertos with Ashkenazy, 12 for R.Strauss operas and tone poems, 4 bartok discs(including the piano concertos, again with ashkenazy), a 4 disc ‘early’ historical compilation and that’s 84discs just off the top of my head. (elgar 2, brahms 5, stravinsky 2, holst 1, schubert 2, an earlier mahler #2(1), mozart’s ‘don giovanni(3)’ and liszts ‘faust(1) brings 100 dsics off the top of my head.

• 30 Stretch99 // Apr 26, 2009 at 8:14 pm

  BEA: Thank you for being a friend

• 31 John Foley // Apr 26, 2009 at 9:55 pm

  Listening to these old April shows just makes me angrier that Stephanie Miller has a gig at all.

• 32 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 26, 2009 at 10:44 pm

  John- Yes, I have thought the same thing many times. A pale imitation, really. April’s absence allowed SM to happen. It’s ok, but we know the original.

  Jacky, I see the problem now. Wagner. Or should I say Vaagnaah. Nothing good has ever come of listening to that pompous ‘we’re number one’ crap. It’s great for effect, but if I listen to a whole piece I immediately want to annex Poland.

  PS- if you have any paintings for sale, I’m VERY interested.

  Stretch, to me, she was the only Vera Charles. Sigh.

• 33 Ojoya // Apr 26, 2009 at 11:53 pm

  Stephanie Miller and April are nothing alike. Stephanie has a political schtick, and I guess right now, people are willing to pay for and listen to hosts that say the same thing over and over and play to one crowd’s basic political leanings. It is not deep, for sure, but she is a personality, not an analyst.

  Meanwhile, AW is just so friggin’ adorable….I wish she were my best friend. Yup.

• 34 Stretch99 // Apr 27, 2009 at 8:50 am

  Why the Stephanie Miller hating. First Ira Shlamazel Stephanie had a radio show long before April even graduated high school – so April’s absence had nothing to do with it. April purposely stayed away from political topics. So why the comparison. I always saw April more as a Dr. Laura type with a chicken yodel instead of a chicken neck – giving everyones innerchild a SPANKING. (Adult diaper fettish and Fabio sold separately)

• 35 John Foley // Apr 27, 2009 at 9:07 am

  Stephanie Miller is 2 years younger than April, so WOW she got started on that radio career pretty early! Had a show up and running before April graduated high school! Oh wait, I forgot. April graduated high school at the age of 35.

• 36 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 27, 2009 at 11:18 am

  It’s not Stephanie hating, at least from me. I enjoy her show. It’s that I, personally speaking only for me, remain to this day very bitter about the loss of the April Winchell Show. I was very hurt and angry! That show was a big deal for me- no politics, just good silly fun! Like the Jack Benny program, funny for funny’s sake.

  So while I enjoy Mama & the Mooks, I still can’t help but feel that that it sucks that she can have a show and April doesn’t. I know that’s unreasonable and I’m OK with that.

  Steph was only brought up as an example of monetizing a podcast. That’s all. I pay $7.95 a month for it because it is funny.

  Perhaps saying April paved the way was a bit much, but I am talking about the current incarnation of the SM show, that only started in 2004. I see elements of the AW show in the SM show. I’m sorry, but I do!

  If April’s site is going to get millions of hits, then it’s time to for April to make her own damn show again, but we can’t expect it for free. I would be so very happy to see April make an ass-load of cash from it!

  31 million! Wow. (687,264 of those hit’s were from me.)

• 37 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 27, 2009 at 11:31 am

  Oh, I just caught that- “I always saw April more as a Dr. Laura type”

  Are you mad?? Dr. Laura? The pompous, ego maniacal bigot FAKE doctor with nude pictures floating around the web all while judging MY morality??

  Seriously? I see now why you are called Stretch.

  If you see April as even remotely like that then you need new eyeballs!

  Good lord, the things people say.

• 38 pal Jacky // Apr 27, 2009 at 12:13 pm

  dr. laura is also a home wrecker. she started screwing her husband when he was still living with his first wife. Yeah, I’m taking moral advice from that one.
  Ira, have you been reading Leonard bernsteins writings on Wagner. Talk about a self loathing jew. On the other hand, George solti was a Jew who missed getting gassed because he was in england on an audition when Hungary fell. Most of his family wasn’t so lucky. He was the greatest wagner conductor since furtwangler( who spent wwII conducting with a swastika on). Solti aalso pioneered recording of the operas. He has a long spiel is in autobiography about how wagner was misunderstood.
  Wagner’s influence shaped every piece of music that came after him. Granted some were reactions against his music, nonetheless. only beethoven had more of influence overall. ‘tristan and Isolde’ takes 4 hours to resolve its opening dissonance. ‘the ring’ is 15 hours or so and it all springs from a single chord.
  Compare the prelude to ‘parsifal’ and then a ‘reaction’ against it, debussy’s ‘afternoon of the faun’ and one will really begin to understand the impact of wagner.

• 39 Stretch99 // Apr 27, 2009 at 12:40 pm

  I only bring Dr Laura into this because I still have fantasies of April (in a no nonsense Dr Laura “Go – on take on the day” manner) giving my inner child a spanking. That and the chicken yodel/chicken neck joke…

• 40 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 27, 2009 at 1:14 pm

  Jacky, I know Wagner was a great composer, however I really can’t appreciate the music because it is not in my taste. The fact that he was a douche takes nothing away from his talent. There is so much to mock.

  Stretch- all that for a neck joke? Sweetie, please! Nothing good can come from invoking the Beast’s name. Perhaps the gods will overlook this one time.

  Heed this: there will be no mercy if you do it again.

  Do you feel better now about the SM comments?

• 41 Stretch99 // Apr 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm

  Ira – lets have a “Hart to Hart” I think the people who frequent this website are more familiar with the works of Robert Wagner then Richard Wagner. The Wagner is a bit over most Winchell-file heads. BUT if you would like to hear me performing Mozart Requiem click this link:
  http://www.burbankchorale.org/listen.html

• 42 Stretch99 // Apr 27, 2009 at 1:45 pm

  Spanking is technically S & M

• 43 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 27, 2009 at 2:12 pm

  I wouldn’t say over our heads. Take pal Jacky for instance.

  Lovely recording, though! Which voice is yours?

  I would like to hear you perform the Chicken Yodel. Can you get them to do that?

  I don’t understand why you want to throw a yule log on Uncle John, it just seems cruel and felonious.

• 44 Stretch99 // Apr 27, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  you haven’t met Uncle John…
  I sing baritone – starts right out with the booming R-E-Q-UIEM!! AT TER NAM !

  stretch does not yodel (and no comments from Andre!)

• 45 Ira Shlamazel // Apr 27, 2009 at 6:45 pm

  Andre-

  Please divulge the tragic yodeling incident leaving Stretchy traumatized and unable to yodel.

  Let the healing begin.

• 46 mkf // Apr 30, 2009 at 2:07 am

  you know, after reading this post i couldn’t understand why there weren’t more new ads in the sidebar–i mean, twenty lousy bucks to be featured for a week here on april? fuck, i was in.

  until i actually tried to post an ad myself, at which point i realized that the fact that you’re not getting ads has far less to do with your draw than with the fact that blogads makes posting an ad such a goddam motherfucking pain in the ass it probably defeats most weaker souls.

  me, i persevered–i’m nothing if not a patron of the arts.

  [oh, and sincere, heartfelt congratulations on your engagement--don't let happiness neuter you, ok?]

• 47 Andre // Apr 30, 2009 at 2:36 pm

  Now let’s not any of us get our lederhosen in a bundle here. The reasons why Stretch doesn’t yodel are entirely his own. I have nothing more to say for fear of getting whacked by Stretch…and not in a good way.

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