In which our illustrious host talks about his poor prognostication skills, apologizes (again), geeks out about a bus, faintly praises Death Race, goes on a rant about movie critics, and tries to play an awesome speech.
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This Week's Schenectady Mailbox Writing Prompt: "Of all the ways he thought he might die..."
Promos:
Geologic Podcast: http://www.geologicpodcast.com
Socergirl Inc.'s 300th Episode: http://www.soccergirlincorporated.com
Mentioned on the Show:
David Ippolito
Joe Biden
The episode of MILF & Cookies with my VP picks
Battle of Long Island
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Petroleum discovered in Titusville, PA
Krakatoa
Florida DOT ceases producing distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields
Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years
C-SPAN
Hallelujah lyrics
Death Race
Cruel Summer lyrics
Playing For Keeps Launch Day results
The Shock Doctrine
The Case of the Pitcher's Pendant
Star Wars Coruscant Nights
Penguins dumping arsenic in Antarctica
First red blood cells grown in the lab
Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found
Monk arrested for giving away cash
Dennis Kucinich: Wake up America!
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27 August 2008
20 August 2008
Geek of all Trades Episode #5: Oh, September, you cruel bitch.
In which our illustrious host talks about his greatest non-corporeal enemy, brings back the Odd News after too long a break, officially (after weeks of yammering about it) includes his newest segment, talks about the new voicemail line, and makes a tough but neccesary decision regarding future episodes.
Contact Me:
Voicemail Line: 206-600-4966
E-Mails: brian.d.webber@gmail.com, or arkle@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723188282
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle
Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com
Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com
Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/
This Week's Schenectady Mailbox Writing Prompt: Months with personalities.
Promos:
Down The Road: http://www.12vtheater.com
Mentioned on the Show:
The Fire Apes
Lois McMaster Bujold
George R.R. Martin
Connie Willis
James Patrick Kelly
David Gerrold
2008 Hugo Award Winners
Star Trek Phase II
Basketball pros read pinkies to call shots
Man has sex with park bench
Groom charged with being too near bride at wedding
Springs to dampen NASA rocket's vibrations
The Weird Show
Parsec Award Nominations
Everybody Knows lyrics
The Verdict at MSNBC: Maddow Gets Own Show
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal
The Nightwatch
Khalid ibn al-Walid
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the American Civil War over
Prague Spring
The Abbey Road LP
Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam
Patrick Sherrill
Retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya & Tanzania
Citytalkers by Mur Lafferty
Scientology comes to Kenya
Contact Me:
Voicemail Line: 206-600-4966
E-Mails: brian.d.webber@gmail.com, or arkle@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723188282
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle
Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com
Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com
Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/
This Week's Schenectady Mailbox Writing Prompt: Months with personalities.
Promos:
Down The Road: http://www.12vtheater.com
Mentioned on the Show:
The Fire Apes
Lois McMaster Bujold
George R.R. Martin
Connie Willis
James Patrick Kelly
David Gerrold
2008 Hugo Award Winners
Star Trek Phase II
Basketball pros read pinkies to call shots
Man has sex with park bench
Groom charged with being too near bride at wedding
Springs to dampen NASA rocket's vibrations
The Weird Show
Parsec Award Nominations
Everybody Knows lyrics
The Verdict at MSNBC: Maddow Gets Own Show
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal
The Nightwatch
Khalid ibn al-Walid
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the American Civil War over
Prague Spring
The Abbey Road LP
Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam
Patrick Sherrill
Retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya & Tanzania
Citytalkers by Mur Lafferty
Scientology comes to Kenya
13 August 2008
05 August 2008
G.O.A.T. Bonus Episode #3
Right Wing History For August 5th.
Promo for Playing For Keeps
Lazy show notes
Bonus: Over at my writing blog, I was bored and had a little fun making up a "cast list" for the non-existent movie version of my book, And Here's To You (October 31st, ding). Feel free to check it out: http://arklewrimo.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-just-for-fun-cast-of-and-heres.html
Promo for Playing For Keeps
Lazy show notes
Bonus: Over at my writing blog, I was bored and had a little fun making up a "cast list" for the non-existent movie version of my book, And Here's To You (October 31st, ding). Feel free to check it out: http://arklewrimo.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-just-for-fun-cast-of-and-heres.html
01 August 2008
A review of my first podcast interview.
From my Dad:
Please remember I love you when you read what I have to say about the Mur Lafferty interview. I swear I mean this to be helpful.
First of all, while the majority of your audience may know her, Judy and Jenny [my grandmother and aunt respectively] don't, so saying someone needs no introduction and then not actually giving them even a cursory one is not only annoying to the listener, but probably to your guest too.Not knowing her I can't be certain, but there were a few times when it sounded to me like she might be annoyed, and that was one of them.
Secondly, when it is natural in the course of the interview that you interject something about yourself,do it then move on quickly. These were a couple of the other times when she sounded to me like she might be annoyed. You spent too much time on you, when your interview was supposed to be about her. If you and your guest are connecting and there is a great give and take some of this kind of behavior can be excused, but you guys did not connect, and that was another thing that led me to believe that she was not enjoying it. She answered quickly and without much elaboration after each question. That definitely gives the impression she is not
into it or you as the interviewer. Plus, she could have asked a couple of questions of you out of sheer politeness, but she didn't which gives me the impression of a selfish person.
Lest I give you the impression that I hated it, I did not. You were complimentary without going overboard into kiss ass, and you sounded more secure than you
probably felt. But I felt the above things were important enough to bring them up.
-
My response:
Well, you aren't the first to bring up that point about the introduction. Mur herself mentioned it obliquely on Twitter. What didn't make it into the show was the part of our conversation where I told her this was my first interview, and she gave me some encouragement. "Hey, everybody's gotta start somewhere." One of the things she says on her show I Should Be Writing is you're allowed to suck. The more interviews I do the better I'll get and I'll avoid a lot of those mistakes. I just hope I get to do more interviews. ;-)
Also, part of the not connecting may have been that on her end she was getting a bad echo because I didn't have a headset and lost my headphone extension cord so I had my speakers on during the recording. Also, I failed to tell her ahead of time how I was going to be recording it. She said it was distracting to her, and if I could've done something about it at the time I would've.
Like I said, in the future I'll be better, and maybe down the line I'll get a second shot. Season 5 of the Heaven series is coming out soon. But even if I don't, I got a chance to talk to one of my favorite writers, and it was a pleasent experience overall, just like when I met Peter David. It just as easily could've gone the other way, like when Kevin J. Anderson rudely dismissed my question at a ComicCon panel in 2006. See if I ever help him promote anything, the jerk.
Anyway, as per the selfish remark, I also chalk that up to her being distracted by the echo, but to be honest it didn't bother me that she never asked me anything. I've listened to a lot of podcast interviews in the nearly 3 years I've been into podcasting and I don't recall any interviewee doing something like that with an interviewer unless they were already friends, and Mur and I really only don't have anything beyond the "fan/artist" relationship, which is fine by me. I don't have to be friends with everyone in the podcasting community. The fact that I have as many as I do this early in my podcasting "career" frankly is astonishing. Not that I don't appreciate Tosus, and Jack, and Mark mind you. ;-)
So, I guess that's it then. Remember, a G.O.A.T. bonus episode is coming August 5th, and there will be a regular episode on August 13th, but it will be light on content because I'll be at WorldCon all week.
And lastly...
Amazon.com. Buy it.
Please remember I love you when you read what I have to say about the Mur Lafferty interview. I swear I mean this to be helpful.
First of all, while the majority of your audience may know her, Judy and Jenny [my grandmother and aunt respectively] don't, so saying someone needs no introduction and then not actually giving them even a cursory one is not only annoying to the listener, but probably to your guest too.Not knowing her I can't be certain, but there were a few times when it sounded to me like she might be annoyed, and that was one of them.
Secondly, when it is natural in the course of the interview that you interject something about yourself,do it then move on quickly. These were a couple of the other times when she sounded to me like she might be annoyed. You spent too much time on you, when your interview was supposed to be about her. If you and your guest are connecting and there is a great give and take some of this kind of behavior can be excused, but you guys did not connect, and that was another thing that led me to believe that she was not enjoying it. She answered quickly and without much elaboration after each question. That definitely gives the impression she is not
into it or you as the interviewer. Plus, she could have asked a couple of questions of you out of sheer politeness, but she didn't which gives me the impression of a selfish person.
Lest I give you the impression that I hated it, I did not. You were complimentary without going overboard into kiss ass, and you sounded more secure than you
probably felt. But I felt the above things were important enough to bring them up.
-
My response:
Well, you aren't the first to bring up that point about the introduction. Mur herself mentioned it obliquely on Twitter. What didn't make it into the show was the part of our conversation where I told her this was my first interview, and she gave me some encouragement. "Hey, everybody's gotta start somewhere." One of the things she says on her show I Should Be Writing is you're allowed to suck. The more interviews I do the better I'll get and I'll avoid a lot of those mistakes. I just hope I get to do more interviews. ;-)
Also, part of the not connecting may have been that on her end she was getting a bad echo because I didn't have a headset and lost my headphone extension cord so I had my speakers on during the recording. Also, I failed to tell her ahead of time how I was going to be recording it. She said it was distracting to her, and if I could've done something about it at the time I would've.
Like I said, in the future I'll be better, and maybe down the line I'll get a second shot. Season 5 of the Heaven series is coming out soon. But even if I don't, I got a chance to talk to one of my favorite writers, and it was a pleasent experience overall, just like when I met Peter David. It just as easily could've gone the other way, like when Kevin J. Anderson rudely dismissed my question at a ComicCon panel in 2006. See if I ever help him promote anything, the jerk.
Anyway, as per the selfish remark, I also chalk that up to her being distracted by the echo, but to be honest it didn't bother me that she never asked me anything. I've listened to a lot of podcast interviews in the nearly 3 years I've been into podcasting and I don't recall any interviewee doing something like that with an interviewer unless they were already friends, and Mur and I really only don't have anything beyond the "fan/artist" relationship, which is fine by me. I don't have to be friends with everyone in the podcasting community. The fact that I have as many as I do this early in my podcasting "career" frankly is astonishing. Not that I don't appreciate Tosus, and Jack, and Mark mind you. ;-)
So, I guess that's it then. Remember, a G.O.A.T. bonus episode is coming August 5th, and there will be a regular episode on August 13th, but it will be light on content because I'll be at WorldCon all week.
And lastly...
Amazon.com. Buy it.
30 July 2008
Geek of all Trades Episode #3: I finally get some Pod-cred.
In which our illustrious host interviews his podcasting idol, finally makes his Schenectady Mailbox an official segment, announces a new one even though he doesn't have an intro for it yet, insists people go see The Dark Knight, and gives a postive review of the new X-Files movie. Oh BTW, no Odd News segment this week folks. Sorry.
Contact Me:
E-Mails: brian.d.webber@gmail.com, or arkle@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723188282
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle
Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com
Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com
Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/
This Week's Schenectady Mailbox Writing Prompt: The Shift Change Harrasment Squad.
Promos:
Buy Playing For Keeps August 25th: http://www.murverse.com
Mentioned on the Show:
The Dark Knight
Neo Cartoon Lover
The X-Files I Want To Believe
Mur Lafferty
Interview With A (Losing) Candidate
The official Watchmen trailer
J.R. Blackwell
Columbus's 4th voyage
Disney's Flowers and Trees
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Elvis Presley
"In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto
the Social Security Act of 1965
The Apollo 15 Mission
Jimmy Hoffa disappears
The Takeover
The News From Poughkeepsie
'Body Of Christ" Returned To Church After Student Receives Email Threats
N.J. Student Speaks Out Against Biased Textbook That Pushes Prayer Myths
William Shatner
Leonard Cohen
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Lone Gunmen
Law & Order SVU
Contact Me:
E-Mails: brian.d.webber@gmail.com, or arkle@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723188282
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle
Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com
Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com
Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/
This Week's Schenectady Mailbox Writing Prompt: The Shift Change Harrasment Squad.
Promos:
Buy Playing For Keeps August 25th: http://www.murverse.com
Mentioned on the Show:
The Dark Knight
Neo Cartoon Lover
The X-Files I Want To Believe
Mur Lafferty
Interview With A (Losing) Candidate
The official Watchmen trailer
J.R. Blackwell
Columbus's 4th voyage
Disney's Flowers and Trees
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Elvis Presley
"In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto
the Social Security Act of 1965
The Apollo 15 Mission
Jimmy Hoffa disappears
The Takeover
The News From Poughkeepsie
'Body Of Christ" Returned To Church After Student Receives Email Threats
N.J. Student Speaks Out Against Biased Textbook That Pushes Prayer Myths
William Shatner
Leonard Cohen
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Lone Gunmen
Law & Order SVU
G.O.A.T. Bonus Episode #2
It's late, I know. Sorry 'bout that. To make up for it, I'm including a bonus from the Goddess of Radio, Randi Rhodes.
16 July 2008
Geek of all Trades Episode # 2: I do in fact "got chills" and they are indeed "multiplyin'."
In which our illustrious host loses control, cause the power you're supplying, is electrifying. Also, he re-tells the origins of his nickname, reviews a movie (or perhaps 3), gives an update on a couple of his writing projects, announces a new segment, teases another new segment, and shows off the brand new show notes format.
Contact Me:
E-Mails: brian.d.webber@gmail.com, or arkle@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723188282
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle
Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com
Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com
Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/
Promos:
Jody Whitesides: http://www.jodywhitesides.com
Pieces: http://pieces.libsyn.com
Mentioned on the Show:
The View Askew Message Boards
The Great Green Arkleseizure
Star Trek New Frontier
Arkle, the horse
Amelia
Grease: You're The One That I Want
The Balticon Ep of the Geologic Podcast
Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'
Do octopuses have a favourite tentacle?
Socks-obsessed schoolboys
Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness
Separation of Church and the DMV
Hellboy II The Golden Army
Wall-E
War, Inc.
The Shock Doctrine
The Weird Show
The Islamic calendar
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe
The Trinity nuclear tests
Disneyland
Alexander P. Butterfield
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
Directive on Superpowers (DC Universe RPG by West End Games)
The Elevator Pitch
The News From Poughkeepsie
Creative Commons
The video of the closing sound
Contact Me:
E-Mails: brian.d.webber@gmail.com, or arkle@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723188282
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle
Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com
Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com
Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/
Promos:
Jody Whitesides: http://www.jodywhitesides.com
Pieces: http://pieces.libsyn.com
Mentioned on the Show:
The View Askew Message Boards
The Great Green Arkleseizure
Star Trek New Frontier
Arkle, the horse
Amelia
Grease: You're The One That I Want
The Balticon Ep of the Geologic Podcast
Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'
Do octopuses have a favourite tentacle?
Socks-obsessed schoolboys
Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness
Separation of Church and the DMV
Hellboy II The Golden Army
Wall-E
War, Inc.
The Shock Doctrine
The Weird Show
The Islamic calendar
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe
The Trinity nuclear tests
Disneyland
Alexander P. Butterfield
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
Directive on Superpowers (DC Universe RPG by West End Games)
The Elevator Pitch
The News From Poughkeepsie
Creative Commons
The video of the closing sound
08 July 2008
G.O.A.T. Bonus Episode #1
This Day in History from the Point of View of a Right Winger for July 9th:
The Braddock expedition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braddock_Expedition
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_French_Empire
The 14th Amendment: http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/documents/amend14.htm
Great train wreck of 1918: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_train_wreck_of_1918
Donald Rumsfeld: http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/
Saipan: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/28/111729/353
New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_Law_Reform_Act_1986
The Braddock expedition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braddock_Expedition
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_French_Empire
The 14th Amendment: http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/documents/amend14.htm
Great train wreck of 1918: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_train_wreck_of_1918
Donald Rumsfeld: http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/
Saipan: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/28/111729/353
New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_Law_Reform_Act_1986
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