Episode 5: Oct. 30, 1938

[teetheyes]

("LA CUMPARSITA" STARTS PLAYING, THEN QUICKLY FADES OUT)

ANNOUNCER TWO:
Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News.

At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity.

Professor Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton confirms Farrell's observation, and describes the phenomenon as, quote, "like a jet of blue flame shot from a gun," unquote.

We now return you to the music of Ramón Raquello, playing for you in the Meridian Room of the Park Plaza Hotel, situated in downtown New York.

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All right, that was expected. I couldn't help coupling nazi propaganda with a little of what went on stateside. Funny story isn't it? H.G. Wells couldn't even begin to imagine how close to home he's hitting right now. If that parallel doesn't grab you, there's always this.

Run to the fucking shelters while you still can and get ready to start pumping canned foods into your diet. It's going to be an ugly fight.

Until then, I've got tunes for you on the chain gang.

Today's Playlist:
"Lili Marleen" Marlene Dietrich
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters
"That'll Be the Day" Buddy Holly
"Working In The Coal Mine" Lee Dorsey
"I Fought the Law" The Bobby Fuller Four
"Die Fahne Hoch" Horst Wessel
"Faust Overture" Richard Wagner

[ooc: Mod-approved! Songs are played between bits of dialogue. As far as the radio host is concerned, Cori's speaking anonymously and that applies to the written transcriptions on his LJ. It's just easier and more efficient to put them here instead of creating a 'ghost' account. So please consider Radio Entries as anonymous and any spam here will be answered by anonymous. Thanks guys ♥]

Comments

[seduced-jehova.livejournal.com]

Cute. I doubt Wells' envisioned something like this in his original story.

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Different times, but the scale fits.

[venomouselle.livejournal.com]

At least you're playing good shit.

[seduced-jehova.livejournal.com]

You think these guys hate germs as much as Martians, or do we have a "When Mars Attacks," thing going on? Either'd be easier to deal with.

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[playstheblues.livejournal.com]

[snoozing in the studio apartment, a rumpled bag of gumdrops on the floor]

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

If it's a Mars Attacks scenario, we sure better hope no one's open to diplomatic negotiations.

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Got a problem with the shit before?

//action//

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

[On his way--lights on.]

...

[Stare.] Hey.

[venomouselle.livejournal.com]

Not completely, Orson Welles.

I don't like being a member of a chain gang.

[seduced-jehova.livejournal.com]

Me thinks you expect too much from what I've seen of our fair City.

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[playstheblues.livejournal.com]

Mrrr....

[blinks]

Cori?

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Haven't followed the warning alerts have you? They're mobilizing faster than expected. I should've bet money on it.

[seduced-jehova.livejournal.com]

A few are mobilizing. The rest are either hiding or don't care enough to help.

Unless I'm mistaken?

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

I have better hair.

I'm not saying you committed a crime.

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[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

[Standing at the bedside, bag of gumdrops in his hand.]

Yeah it's me.

[Toss one into his mouth!]

Got tired huh?

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Or killed. Kind of a sign, that.

[venomouselle.livejournal.com]

But not his baby face back then.

I never said anything like that. The labor, it's insulting to do grunt work.

//action//

[playstheblues.livejournal.com]

[yawwwwwn]

I didn't sleep at all last night. Fly made me promise...and to eat, too.

[seduced-jehova.livejournal.com]

The City revives you after twenty four hours anyway, doesn't it? You'd think that'd put the invaders at a rather large disadvantage.

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[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Considering how you've taken it on yourself to be the hero of the hour? I'm in complete agreement.

[Sitting next to him.]

Did you eat?

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Elaborate. There's nothing like having an interview with someone who's been in the mud.

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[playstheblues.livejournal.com]

[head in Cori's lap]

Do gumdrops count?

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

How nice you're spreading the word.

Good tunes.

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

Not all the time. Were you around for the fight in Xanadu? Aerial dogfight aside, the pilot bit the bullet and we haven't seen him since.

[bitingnightmare.livejournal.com]

I'm not letting E.T. keep me away from my table.

Thanks. Someone appreciates it.