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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: on air
vinylcast #32: Blonde Redhead’s Fake Can Be Just as Good
I got this vinyl delivered to Italy recently, I had god memories of it when I owned it on CD, and I have been in a 90s state-of-mind… Continue reading
vinylcast #31: Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars, and Sitars
Earlier this week I played Kruder & Dorfmeister’s K&D Sessions which was an album I picked up in the late 90s, and at the same time I got… Continue reading
vinylcast #29: Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express
At the top of the hour I will be doing a #vinylcast on #ds106radio and #ds106tv of Kraftwerk’s seminal Trans Europe Express pic.twitter.com/8px6x9NpMg — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May… Continue reading
vinylcast #29: Kruder & Dorfmeister’s K&D Sessions
Coming up on an hour of Kruder and Dorfmeister’s K&D Sessions on the #ds106radio. That means we have an hour an 10 minutes left, so plenty of time… Continue reading
vinylcast #28: Galaxie 500’s On Fire
Ok, I am about to try cross-casting a #vinylcast of Galaxie 500’s Fire on #ds106radio to #ds106tv with a special #vinylcam I made this morning. You should check… Continue reading
vinylcast #27: Yo La Tengo’s I can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Today was a bit overcast and melancholic, so I wanted to set the sountrack right with Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. It… Continue reading
vinylcast #26: Yaz’s Upstairs at Eric’s
Did some blogging in the morning about some of the experimentation I did over the weekend getting my classic gaming streaming rig in order, and figured it would… Continue reading
vinylcast #25: Depeche Mode’s Master & Servant (U.S. Black & Blue Version)
Rowan Peter came on the radio blasting some Depeche Mode through the microphone lo-fi style, so I offered to play him some vinyl. He obliged, but he is… Continue reading
vinylcast #24: Violent Femmes
Antonella told a great story of her calling Gordon Gano’s house in the mid-80s on the Jim & Anto show so I took that as the cue for… Continue reading
vinylcast #23: The Psychedelic Furs’s World Outside
I picked this album up in Galway while attending OER19 at Bell, Book, & Candle. It was an awesome little shop, and I bought a few albums, but… Continue reading