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Radio Free Dogpatch
Patrick O'Grady was bad enough with pen and ink. He got worse with a keyboard. Now he has a microphone. God help us all.
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Burning Down the House
You think we’re shipping the wrong people to Guantanamo?
I’m old enough to remember a time when, if some civilian loudmouth waltzed through your...
On Thin ICE
The ICE boyos have brought a chill to Chicago, Aurora, and even the desert Southwest as Jesus Hitler starts making good on his promise of mass deporta...
Howling at an Orange Moon
Blame the Wolf Moon. A vacationing wife. An acid flashback. Whatever.
But when I blinked myself awake in the dark on Tuesday morning I had no id...
Highway 666 Revisited
Another Jan. 6 has come and gone.
This time we managed to skip the armed-insurrection part of the program, so yay for us. Turns out that when th...
Doing It Old School, or 'Yeah! Science (Fiction)!'
I always liked science fiction. Science, not so much.
Science always seemed rigid and impersonal. But science fiction, or speculative fiction, i...
The Nanofesto: Writing a Wrong
When the John Laws collared their suspect in the CEO assassination he was said to have had in his possession a ghost gun, some fake I.D., and a 262-wo...
The Winter of Our Dissed Content
At The Atlantic magazine, Noah "Fargo" Hawley says too many reporters are writing fiction these days.
Meanwhile, in a fund-raising email from...
Bigger Even Than I Had Feared
The headline is an inside joke among family and friends, a line of dialogue lifted from the 1978 novel "Panama," by Thomas McGuane.
And now it'...
Orange Julius Seizure
Wherever shalt thou see a man on horseback, there also shalt thou see a horse's ass. And sometimes more than one of them, too. That's Scripture, son!<...
Infected, Neglected and Elected
There's nothing like getting the old one-two, a bacterial sock to the snotlocker followed by an electoral blow to the breadbasket.
For treatment...
Running on Empty
I'm not running away to Canada. I'm just running away from the news.
There's lots of bad noise out there on the day after Election Day 2024. So...
Balloons and Gasbags
The Not-So-Great Pumpkin is floating into Albuquerque this morning, a bit late for the International Balloon Fiesta, but just in time for Halloween.
Not Dead Yet
"He is risen" is not a phrase we associate with Halloween. More of an Easter thing, actually.
Unless we're discussing this podcast, which was la...
Easter Service: Making a Joyful Noise
Spring isn't a date on the calendar. It's more of a feeling. A warm one, if you're lucky.
For me, the vernal equinox is rarely the starter's pis...
Marching Forward, Looking Backward: Happy Birthday to Who?
Birthdays. Some of us get overserved, others get 86'd with the cork barely out of the bottle.
Whoever's in charge of this party seems a bit rand...
Welcome to the Feed Zone: TANSTAAFL, Tifosi
The bitter economic headwinds prove too much for some in the peloton of cycling journalism.
It's a rough old road, especially when you ride it o...
Sounding it Out: The Air's Not Dead, It's Just Not At All Well
The Voices and I have been having a meeting of the minds as to exactly why we want to belly-flop back into this sonic kiddie pool, a shallow backwater...
Truly Awful Ain't So bad
The zombie podcast Radio Free Dogpatch awakens after a two-year dirt nap, scuttles out from beneath its filthy blanket of mulch, litter, and snow, and...
Spring Broken
Patrick O'Grady used to wheelsuck the bike magazines to spring break in Arizona or California. Then the biz wised up and he had to stick his own snoot...
Warmed Twice
When Texas sank back into the Ice Age, Patrick O'Grady was reminded of the good old days on a wind-scoured rockpile outside Weirdcliffe, Colorado, whe...
Road Hard
Trucks with beds and friends with couches saw Patrick O'Grady through his rambling, gambling years, as he rolled the dice with one newspaper after ano...
Have Mercy, Been Waitin' on the E-Bus All Day
There's something about February that's guaranteed to set a Mad Dog to howling. This time it's Impeachy the Clown as the opening act for our local boz...
Up in the Air or Down in the Dumps?
Lockup got you down? Fortress of Solitude starting to smell like feet, fast food, and farts? Well, Clark, turn off that Zoom cam, take off the glasses...
Bleach Blankety-Blanket Bingo
Being on lockdown is like watching a bad movie. Sure, it sucks, but if you bail early, you might miss something. Or catch something.
Why not jus...
The New Abnormal
Patience, like yeast, beans, and toilet paper, is just one more thing that people are running short of as the lockdown drags on. Patrick O'Grady tappe...
Hello In There
It's tough to take baby steps with 66-year-old feet. Especially when one of ’em doesn't work all that well. But jolly old Doc O'Grady feels it's prude...
Doing Time
Staying at home, social distancing — these practices aren't jailin', but they're not exactly living' large, either. Sure, your cell is a little bigger...
Beans, Buttwipe and Bullets
Anyone who says "three's a crowd" didn't see the antisocially undistant hordes infesting some Duke City's trailheads on Sunday, a day before New Mexic...
Antisocial Distancing
Working from home isn't for everyone. But weirdos like Patrick O'Grady wouldn't be remotely employable if they couldn't be employed remotely. Sure, he...
We're In the Soup
The Plague is upon us, we're quaking under the comforter, and someone is bringing us a plastic bowl of industrial soup and some dried-up old white cra...
Requiescat in Pace
Nursing a broken ankle and crazed on antihistamines, Patrick O'Grady tries to make sense of Super Tuesday a day late and a peso short, and as usual, f...
Rolled Another One
Patrick O'Grady has a bad habit of rolling ... ankles. He gave up rolling the other stuff ages ago. Which is too bad, really, because if he'd been rol...
Random Acts of Radio
You got your AM, and over here, you also got your FM. And over there, you got your fat boys wanting to take it away from you. Longtime listener-member...
The Monitor in the Merrimack
A discussion at maddogmedia.com about distraction-packed land yachts causes Patrick O'Grady to recall (and resurrect) a 2014 Bicycle Retailer and Indu...
The Royal Flush
Republicans want a king. Democrats want a messiah. And Patrick O'Grady just wants to get through his 30th podcast without being struck by lightning (o...
Happy Trails
Riding trails when they're muddy, like encountering an unguided SUV drifting into the bike lane, is gonna leave a mark. Just ask Patrick O'Grady, who...
Peach Mint Lollipop
"Comparisons are odorous," as Dogberry declares in "Much Ado About Nothing." Small wonder, then, that a Mad Dog is stinking up the Innertubes with his...
Riding On the Rims
For a cyclist, fixing a flat is part of the price of admission to the game. And a garrulous potato-eater like Patrick O'Grady occasionally finds a tal...
Dear Diary
Patrick O'Grady still keeps a training diary, though he's not training for anything other than being Patrick O'Grady. You'd think he'd have that down...
The Mad Dog in Winter
Winter seems colder than usual this year. We've already seen a White Walker in Albuquerque, and he's looking for his Social Security check.