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Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
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Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
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Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
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Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
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Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
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E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
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St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
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Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
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Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
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Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
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Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
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Anthony Holden - Big Deal
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Miles run year to date: 21
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Comments (38)
Are you taking requests? I'd like to request the Oregon Revised Statutes.
Posted by Mr. Magoo | April 7, 2006 5:59 AM
He he! That would be a good one, too. But I'm sticking with the IRC.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 7, 2006 6:01 AM
What about the regs?
Posted by Allan L. | April 7, 2006 6:47 AM
What about the regs? That's where all the real fun is ;-)
Posted by Doug | April 7, 2006 6:48 AM
I'm sorry, but it is against federal law and several U.S. tax treaties for anyone to podcast the 704(b) regs. To me it's not worth the risk.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 7, 2006 6:53 AM
I can't believe you are playing this one straight. Someday, Jack, you will be recognized worldwide for the astonishing performance artist you are. Brilliant!
Posted by Josh | April 7, 2006 7:15 AM
Jack, your voice is better than Garrison Keillor's.
I can't wait for the next podcast.
Posted by Rob Kremer | April 7, 2006 8:17 AM
Did they bump April Fools' Day to the 7th this year? The whole code? Won't great scads of it be obsolete, repealed, or amended before you've even gotten to the cafeteria plans of sec. 125?
Posted by nader | April 7, 2006 9:39 AM
Problem is, you'd need the 60GB iPod to get the entire code.
Posted by Don Smith | April 7, 2006 10:01 AM
That's fabulous. Why don't you just record your tax lectures and post those, as well? Although you might put those commercial study tape folks out of business. Hell, Office for the Mac records mp4 audio, as does OneNote for the PC. Some folks out there might already have the audio of your lectures.
Posted by Jud | April 7, 2006 10:25 AM
I'm looking forward to the musical version.
Posted by Cynthia | April 7, 2006 10:56 AM
Wait, is this reading from the '54 Code, or the '86 Code? Your 'podcast project' link says '54, but that's a bit outdated, n'est-ce pas?
Posted by eWeasel | April 7, 2006 11:03 AM
This is great. You should put it under a Creative Commons License so others can take it and run with it.
Question: What about updates? Maybe you should release a PocketPod for that? :-)
Posted by Jason | April 7, 2006 12:00 PM
Been here, doing this, speaking in the sleepless frustrated nightwatch this time of year with a Lic.Tax.Cons. who pillowtalks in her sleep.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | April 7, 2006 12:07 PM
I'm not sure which is worse: that you actually spent the time to do this, or that I actually spent any time listening to it. How did you keep from laughing?
Posted by andy | April 7, 2006 12:36 PM
This is my job. This is my life.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 7, 2006 1:24 PM
Wait, is this reading from the '54 Code, or the '86 Code? Your 'podcast project' link says '54, but that's a bit outdated, n'est-ce pas?
Oops. I'm still living in 1982.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 7, 2006 1:41 PM
So what drove you over the edge -- the Tram [rim shot] or VOE? Or are you just trying to establish the need for a year-long paid sabbatical?
Posted by Sam | April 7, 2006 2:25 PM
Gee, Jack, I never realized that you had a sadistic streak. (Or is it masochistic?)
Posted by John Dunshee | April 7, 2006 8:31 PM
Oh my god. You are such a nerd.
Posted by Kari Chisholm | April 7, 2006 10:04 PM
Hey, I've got some friends who want to get in on this. You need help? I am an Interpretative Speech major, so if you need help on a few...
Posted by Bubba | April 7, 2006 10:40 PM
The IRS makes a habit out of hiring blind people so this might be more useful and worthwhile than you think.
Posted by Antonio | April 7, 2006 11:15 PM
This is a great idea! If you need help with the recordings, let me know. I'd love to pitch in.
Posted by DeAnna Spencer | April 8, 2006 4:42 AM
Guess I'll trash my audio of Clinton reading his bio for this. Maybe CCH will hire you to be the voice of Federal Standard Tax ...
Posted by Joe Hodnicki | April 8, 2006 7:34 AM
If he's looking for help, dibs on depreciation rules and fuel excise taxes!
Posted by Fmischler | April 8, 2006 10:54 AM
Will there be an interpretative dance video podcast along with this? Because really, how else to know what Congress was thinking?
Posted by Gwynne | April 8, 2006 3:06 PM
Justices Thomas and Scalia are on record as saying that they will only listen to the audio podcast -- they will not watch the video.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 9, 2006 12:58 AM
And when is the 50TB iPod coming out?
Posted by Cynicus Prime | April 9, 2006 12:16 PM
What happened to section four? I can't believe you're still keeping this up!
Posted by no one in particular | April 10, 2006 2:42 AM
Section 4 has been repealed. I have decided not to podcast repealed provisions, despite requests that I have received for some of the old favorites.
After Section 5, the next section is 11.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 10, 2006 3:54 AM
Nice! By my count, then (according to this page and a quick little script: http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/www/contents.html) there are 1692 sections, enough for over 4.5 years of tax podcasting fun!
Posted by no one in particular | April 10, 2006 8:05 AM
In response to Jason. Isn't the Tax Code public domain? If that's the case wouldn't a pod-cast also be in the public domain or is there something about the expression of reading this aloud that makes it copyrightable.
Perhaps if it is read by James Earl Jones or Kermit the Frog, it'll be more clearly a copyrightable expression.
Posted by Eric | April 10, 2006 12:42 PM
On a more serious note: why not do a hardware hack and have the entire text displayed on the screen? Even with the text version you may still need a couple of extra Terabytes.
Posted by Bored law student | April 10, 2006 7:31 PM
is there something about the expression of reading this aloud that makes it copyrightable.
As I understand it (and copyright lawyers always tell me I don't), the sound recording has its own copyright, different from any right in the words being "performed." Here the words are in the public domain, but my reading is not.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 11, 2006 1:40 AM
Cool!
As I understand it (and copyright lawyers always tell me I don't), the sound recording has its own copyright, different from any right in the words being "performed." Here the words are in the public domain, but my reading is not.
Then by all means license this with a Creative Commons license! You may want to select one that has the "share-alike" term, since then all the derivative works will carry the same license. That means your podcast and everything based on it will spread virally through out the globe!
The implications boggle the mind.
Posted by Eric | April 11, 2006 9:34 AM
OMG! Thank you Jack!
Your Tax Code podcast has helped me kick my sleeping pill habit.
I was asleep before you turned the first page.
So, how does it end?
Posted by Daphne | April 12, 2006 4:47 PM
Do you take requests? As a former revenue agent, I would like to request Section 61 as a priority reading. If you have to go look it up you've already missed the joke!
Will you have a Top 10 or Top 100 list? I would vote for skipping the pension and profit sharing areas. I think there should be some limits.
As for the remark about blind IRS personnel, I read that and feel sad. Furthermore, I am not vindictive and you are going to regret saying that.
Posted by Jazz | April 12, 2006 7:50 PM
Would have been handy last semester -- easier to carry my ipod than the code book :-) ...
Posted by DanB | April 13, 2006 4:44 PM