Unfortunately the laptop screen got broken in an accident a short time later and the machine, while still operational, is anchored to his desktop by a large and clunky monitor. No longer can he create on the go as the universe intended.

So I implore you, please help us get Jared’s laptop fixed. I found a company in California that will repair it for $250. I expect he’ll have to spend between $30 and $50 boxing it up to travel safely as well as for postage and insurance. So I’ve created the ChipIn.com fund for a total of $300 (less PayPal fees). [NOTE: I couldn't figure out how to have Chipin.com show our donation, so I lowered the original amount to reflect our gift.]

Anything you can spare would be a great help. Please consider give a few bucks to help him get his mobile mojo back in gear. Every $5 or $10 you can spare will get him closer to creating more wonderful things without being anchored to a monitor.

The game is addictive. I’ve played it for hours and that’s saying something for Mr. A.D.D. Usually I put iPhone games down after a short time. But not Circuits. Give it a try, I’m sure you’ll love it.

Consider, if you will, what would happen if you had an obnoxiously perky Sith in training.

A free book? There’s no such thing as a free book! What’s the catch?

No catch. It’s free. But, Mur asks that if you like it you purchase it from Amazon.com on August 25. She’s making a run on Amazon and really needs us all to pitch in and help her get noticed. She, like so many others, has a book contract now. But podcasting novels are still a new medium for delivery and we need to show the publishing industry that this makes a difference. 

Martha and I have read the PDF version multiple time. We help Mur by making the PDFs and doing layout and formatting. We also did a little editing. All of this was to help Mur make the best product possible. We bought the first version of Playing for Keeps when it was self-published on Lulu.com. And now we’re joining her for her run on Amazon and we’ll be buying multiple copies of Playing for Keeps as published by Swarm Press.

Mur has delivered countless hours of enjoyment and encouragement to the pod-o-sphere. She has also inspired and rallied people including me. It is not an exaggeration to say that if Mur wasn’t here I wouldn’t be either. I wonder how many other people to whom you listen, read, and watch are here because they were inspired by Mur Lafferty. I’m guessing the number is larger than you think.

So be ready to place your order from Amazon.com for Playing for Keeps on Monday August 25. Be there! Aloha.

• Beverage roundup
• Black Adder
• Quantum Leap
• Don’t mess with the librarians
• PROMO: Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts
• PROMO: I Should Be Writing
• Cataloging duels of librarians
• Fear the weeding policy
• Kitties!
• I AM Survivor Dad!
• “The dark goddess must dine on tears!”
• PROMO: Metamor City
• PROMO: Reality Break
• Tee Morris in a barrel
• Double Trouble (links galore)
• Free PDFs have over 50,000 downloads!
• Why haven’t they been Boing Boing‘d?
• Don’t whine Tee
• If you want me to post your PDFs you have to ask me
• If you’re going to buy, please do so on 8/8/08 on Amazon.com
• Getting voice parts for future podcasts of Digital Magic and Pitcher’s Pendant
• Tee and Pip talk about the plots of their upcoming books
• Pip and Tee trapped in the same body
• Erotica a la Carte
• Tee will be organizing live events at Balticon 43
• MUSIC: Girls, Skirts, Boots, Bikes by The Buck Brothers

Tee Morris is the author of the novels Morevi: The Chronicles of Raif and Askana and The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. He is also the co-author of the non-fiction works Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He has podcasts for the above mention fiction as well as a companion podcast for the Dummies books.

Philippa Ballantine is the author of the novels Weaver’s Web and Chasing the Bard. These novels are also available as podcasts. Her free PDF novel is Digital Magic, the follow up to Chasing the Bard.

Tee’s free PDF novel is The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. If you couldn’t tell by the title this is the second in his Billi Baddings series.

Both authors say that these books can be read and enjoyed without having read the earlier novels. We hope you enjoy them too.

Please join Tee and Philippa as they make their run on the Amazon.com charts on Aug 8, 2008. If you enjoy Pitcher’s Pendant and Digital Magic, please support the authors by buying their books from Amazon.com on 8/8/08. They need your help to show the publishing world that podcast listeners matter. This is your chance to show the world what we can do.

• Cat vs Wookie
• Kraken’s Quest
• Le Canard for snails
• Norm’s Beer
• PROMO: Double Share by Nathan Lowell
• PROMO: Pieces podcast anthology
• Catching up on older podcast fiction
• The review of 7th Son Obsidian
• Unicorns
• PROMO: Murder at Avadon Hill by PG Holyfield
• Review of the story’s released as of the date of this recording
• The opening up of an author’s universe to become a shared universe
• New voicemail line is 1-206-666-2843
• The Morevi anthology?
• Soccergirl’s Obsidian video was awesome
• The easter egg we did for Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps based on a real story
• Hating on weathermen
• Aug 25, 2008 Playing for Keeps is being released by Swarm Press
• Aug 8, 2008 Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine and The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant by Tee Morris will be released by Dragon Moon Press
• MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnick Turtle

All Books available from Amazon.com

We discuss writing, podcasting, producing audio books, and Ronnie’s newly released novel Spite.

Lazy show notes:

John Cmar

Sci-Fi Laura

Commandline

Andrea

Heather Welliver

Marcus Grailwolf Bailey

Greg Wright

Martha Holloway

Paul Fischer

We talk about Balticon, public safety, wireless broadband, attention deficit disorder, and much more.

Recorded at RavenCon.

Today: Voices from the Future

*Opening: Tim Robbins Keynote Address Clip
*There’s some sort of election going on, right?
*Headlines!
-Democracy Now
-Mic Check Radio
-AZ Central
-New York Times
*Promo: On The Podcast
*There’s some sort of election going on, right?
*Why should Clinton quit? Well, she shouldn’t.
*Here’s a question for ya.. and yes, it is about gender.
*The big damn gun interview- finally!
*All right, more of a chat, really…
*Paul Fischer visits the spiderhole
*ADD Cast
*Balticon Cast
*Wildlife Photos
*What I’ve Been Listening To:
-Democracy Now on paid military analysts
-CBC Ideas on Excuses
-Metamor City
-Chasing The Bard
-Voicemail(s) from Andy
-enjoy my new outtro- well, it’s the same, but now it has bed music!
-keep listening… you might hear something else!

email: tsdiva@gmail.com
voicemail: 206-337-1026
forum: http://truthseekerscast.ning.com

Guests include Tee Morris, Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey, Heather Welliver, Brand Gamblin and his girlfriend Allison

• Plug galore – It’s so annoying I’m not giving anyone links, so there!
•  I Will Swallow Your Soul
• A little review of Farpoint Convention
• Erin Gray
• Sonic Boom thinks the studio has a revolving door
• Marc’s convenience store sickness
• Burger King chip
• PROMO: Stranger Things
• PROMO: Aliens You Will Meet
• Scott Sigler needs antibiotics: help him with his Infection
• Pimpage/Bell abuse
• More questions for Cthulhu
• Thank you for your service to your country
• Live Calls for Cthulhu at Balticon
• Would you want to see a live Hey! Want To Watch A Movie?
• Stop The Noise!
• Morevi spoiler alert
• Be on the lookout for J.C. Hutchin’s Obsidian

MUSIC: Shoot Him Down by Babylon Bombs

Show notes and original post.

Lazy Show Notes

Music: Shoot Him Down by Jenny Beck (@Music.Podshow.com)

Tee Morris does an improv version of Dennis Leary’s Asshole song.

Heather Welliver sings. We’re glad someone in this group has a real voice.

Spoiler free and Spoiler laden reviews.

PROMO: Fear the Froot

Xmas wrapup

Jared Axelrod’s Avante-Garde Dinner

Slice of Soup

Cocktail of Pot Roast with Cranberry sauce

Recovering from the cookie disaster

Marc and Heather’s Xmas

PROMO: Nocturnal by Scott Sigler

PROMO: Better Late Than Never

We spent several hours with MAinPA over Xmas

MAinPA and Leann Mabry will be doing a panel called, “Don’t be that guy” at Balticon

How to not be creepy, with the hot women of podcasting

What women want from men, by Heather. The 2 minute version.

I will suck the love out of you!

Heroes Season One: Major Spoilers

Sylar should have died at least 3 times

Paul doesn’t buy the cheap way they let him live

They work so hard to make all the situations work, except when people leave the bad guy alive

The writers didn’t put enough effort into leaving Sylar alive when the characters in the scene should have killed him

Sylar’s regeneration powers haven’t been completely defined

We think the writers paid too much attention to the fans. Sylar was kept alive because the fans on the ‘net wanted it.

Better ways to handle Sylar’s survival

We’re passionate about wanting to fix it because it’s so good and we love it so much

How Neil Gaiman handled a similar situation in Anansi Boys. Anansi Boys audio book was written for and read by British comedian Lenny Henry.

Sylar needs to die

MUSIC: Coed Naked Drunk Christmas Shopping by Beatnik Turtle

To some the number 99 represents the many names of God. But as a black
snowfall blankets the Failed Cities on Christmas Eve, the arrival of 99
mysterious steel chambers is the catalyst that sets a series of far from
blessed events in motion. From bullets and bata sticks to a life-and-death
hostage situation to high-speed battles up switchback mountain roads, eight
people become links in a deadly chain that will either tether innocent lives
to safety or strangle any hope for their future. And as each part of the
story unfolds, we learn that above all things, Christmas in the Failed
Cities is a feverishly struck balance between the constant threat of
violence and the briefest, most bittersweet moments of joy.

THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS by Matt Wallace is a freely distributed
.PDF produced and illustrated by Rick Stringer, and available exclusively
from Variant Frequencies. We’d like to encourage all our listeners to
download, print, enjoy, and pass along this unique piece of the Failed
Cities universe as a thank you for your continued support and enthusiastic
participation in our podcast.

And don’t forget to revisit THE FAILED CITIES MONOLOGUES, collected in its
entirety on Podiobooks.com

Happy Holidays from the entire crew of Variant Frequencies!

Saint Fu (St. Fu)

Old computer games and beer – Bard’s Tail beer, Pong beer, Mech Warrior beer, 7th Son Beer, ADD Cast Beer

The Dogfish Head Alehouse end of year beer tasting

PROMO: Playing For Keeps

PROMO: Asian Variations, a free downloadable music CD

Fox, Futurama, Bender’s Big Score, Commitment, Avenue Q, Muppet sex, High School reunions, Heather’s new doo

Playing for Keeps from Mur Lafferty

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon

Twitter – Tribe chat room, micro blog, and more

Scott Sigler hasn’t killed me yet!

JR Blackwell has gone indy! She’s quit her pink collar job and she doing some awesome photography.

We’re all just back from seeing Phil Rossi and his family

MUSIC: Black Motorcycle Boots, by Michelle Malone

Junkies – it’s time for a new novel. Not a short story, not a “novella,” but a full-blown, balls-out, tits-swingin’ novel that will have you crying like a little punk every Sunday when the episode finishes. NOCTURNAL is that novel.

And on top of that, I’m running a contest where YOUR NAME can be the name of a victim in NOCTURNAL. All you need to do is go to the brand-new scottsigler.com and register a full profile. Go there, then look on the left-hand side. See where you’d log in? Create a profile. FILL IN ALL THE FIELDS to win! If you don’t want to fill them in, no worries, but only complete profiles are eligible to get ‘dat ass killed and be immortalized in the pages of NOCTURNAL when it’s printed in 2010.

• Yusuf The Wonder Neighbor
• Calls you never want to get when you’re on the other side of the planet
• Our LOL Cats Contest ( link )
• High Fiber Cat
• PROMO: Asian Variations, a free download album
• PROMO: Christian Ellis‘ The Sounds of Awesome
• PROMO: Better Late Than Never Podcast
• We summarize the movie Princess Mononoke
• What’s the hero’s name?
• We talk about how the movie makes us feel and how awesome it is
• FarPoint Media’s big announcement (Special thanks to Summer Brooks, Mike Mennenga, and Jeffery Willerth for their hard work)
  
• MUSIC: Black Heart off Asian Variations by MoShang

First pass through Tokyo. No sign of Godzilla. He must be sleeping. I hope he shows up for the interview or I’m going to be really pissed. I didn’t come all this way not to get 5 minutes with the big man himself.

Got to the Intercontinental Grand Yokohama this afternoon. Wicked cool place. Massive. I think the restaurants are all 5 star gourmet or something. $100/person for a meal. We went a la cart to save a little money. I don’t mind paying for a good meal, but I couldn’t enjoy it as tired as I am.

Mur Lafferty’s ears are burning.

Had dinner in the Italian place. They were very accommodating to the fact that I can barely digest anything anymore. Great roast pork and veggies. Martha had a pizza. Great food, but very expensive. Thankfully snacks and drinks aren’t that outrageous.

Got Martha settled in the Newsletter staff room with Matsushita-san. Met some of the staff. Sean, who we met last year, is here and he’s translating again. He’s a life saver. I actually managed to translate some japanese into english for someone contributing to the news letters. But then there was nothing else to do, so I abandoned Martha and Matsushita-san in favor of a chat with Nobilis and sleep.

Need to hunt up some public domain footage and audio of Godzilla and the signing of the documents that ended WWII. Need background material for my interview with Big-G.

The Beast is being held captive by Japanese Customs. They want money. Hopefully I can get a translator to help me in the morning. I really need The Beast back on my shoulder.

We had an awesome time with Mark Forman and his family. We owe him a lot.

Made up two quick videos in our spacious hotel suite.

Video 1 (6 MB)- My entry in the coolest 7th Son T-Shirt location ever

Video 2 (29 MB)- Our upgraded suite at the China Trust

More on Taichung, Forman, and stuff later this week as I have face time with the Mac to create. Until then, I’m counting the days until The Beast and I are reunited.

I forgot to mention in the video. This hotel room comes with it’s own fish!

[Editors Note - iTunes is pulling video 1, so I'm putting it in the feed so I can track it. I wanted to make it optional. ]

The cab showed up 15 minutes early and I wasn’t able to have my normal fried egg breakfast. I rattled me so much that I forgot to grab my big camera. I didn’t realize until I got through security at National that I missed it. I am a seasoned traveler. I always use 3 bins when I go through the x-ray machine. This time I only needed two, which worried me, but I didn’t figure it out until I got to the other side.

I need to pay better attention to some things. I really do. Who goes on a birding trip and forgets their birding camera? Yours truly, that who.

As soon as I figured it out I jumped on the Coconut Telegraph and started beating the jungle drums. The tribe woke up on Tweeter and Skype and came to my rescue. Marc, a.k.a. Grailwolf, offered to pick the camera up from home and ship it to me in Asia. Marc is a brave man, and is now learning how far down the rabbit hole you go when engaging in international shipping.

The hope is that the camera will meet me in Japan. It’s an expensive mistake, but not as bad as if I had to buy a whole new one. We’ll be bringing home a nice gift for Marc and his new bride Heather. They asked for a Japanese school girl. I don’t know what the limit is on those, we’ve got 3 requests now. I wonder if I can get them in the duty free shop.

Got to Japan and was able to get free Internet from the ANA airlines lounge which I think was a level below where I was charging my laptop. Not great throughput, but enough to get email and see that Mark and Marc had been in contact and all was being taken care of.

Martha and I had sushi in Narita Airport in Japan. Oh man, it was awesome. It was fresh and flavorful, and very close to the best I’ve ever had. I can’t wait to taste it outside the airport. My assumption is that airport sushi should be a 6-8 on a scale of 1-10. Which means it can be a whole lot better outside the airport.

The trip to Taiwan was a lot shorter than I thought it would be. Didn’t realize Taiwan is 1 hour behind Japan. So our 3.5 hour trip became 2.5 hours. We caught a gypsy cab to the hotel. For a while I thought we were being taken for a ride, but the cost was reasonable and even though I thought we were going in circles, we weren’t. The hotel was nice, and we dealt with the first leg of adjusting to the new time zone.

OK. The hotel was better than nice. It was actually pretty cool. And fried eggs on the American Breakfast side of the buffet were a delight. The hotel staff were amazing. They got us a cab to the bullet train to Taichung and let us pre-pay. The train hit a top speed around 300 Kph. That’s about 186 Mph! It was so smooth and fast it was awesome and very very clean.

Mark Forman met us at the station and took us to our hotel. Then we toured a city south of Taichung where they do a lot of fishing. That’s were the current batch of Flickr Photos were taken. Today we’re supposed to hit the electronics markets. Mark and I are going to see if maybe we can’t think of doing some things to introduce some products into the US market. Who knows, maybe we’ll find the next Tickle Me Elmo.

Flickr Link

Marc and Heather from Grail Wolf’s Geek Life join us

We review a TV show we’ve never seen: Flash Gordon on Sci-Fi

Paul’s audio of Ming the Feckless, Tour Guide of Mongo

Marc and Heather bring booze and candy

PROMO: Weaver’s Web on Podiobooks.com

A real review of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust (the movie)

PROMO: Nobilis Erotica

PROMO: Singularity on Podiobooks.com

Welcome to the world, Baby Rossi! Congrats to Phil and Jen.

Marc and Heather’s plugs! Myspace: Shillas, Heather.Welliver, and Singing Gypsy Girl

Contest! Caption the Kitty, LOL Cats Style

Winners of the caption contest will receive a CD of Serve It Cold in PDF format and the first 5 epsiodes of the podiobook. Just add a comment to this post to enter the contest. The best 5 entries will be contacted by email in early Nov. Contest closes on Nov 1 at 12:01 am. Timezone in effect is the timezone of our server (wherever that is), leave a comment and check the time stamp.

Martha and Paul are your usual hosts

Transformer’s movie review

Lazy show notes

Lots of laughs from right field.

• Martha & Paul
• Command Line and Andrea
• The Pod Doctor, John Cmar

Drinkinging a moderate amount of liquor makes you smarter [link]

• The season opener for Eureka!
• Spoiler Alert, watch before you listen
• Season 3 of Doctor Who

• The economics and machinery of making world wide releases of DVDs
• PROMO: Serve It Cold available at Dancing Cat Studios and Podiobooks.com
• PROMO: Brave Men Run
• Happy Birthday to Matthew Wayne Selznick
• Videos: The Writer Stalking, This Day in Alternate History, and Zombies in the Workplace available at Lulu.tv
• All hail the giant heads of Jason and Mur
• Zombies!
• Can’t talk about Zombies without talking about Patrick McLean
• The oblique Leann wiener dog reference
• When Rupert Murdock dies and angel will get its wings
• No else saw Charlie Jade, if you haven’t seen it, download it and watch it! 100% geeky goodness
• The evolution of the care package
• How’s the chinese food in China? It’s full of penis
• The obligatory Tee Morris reference
• Oh! BTW, we’re talking about Cmar’s wife, Sci-Fi Laura
• South of the Border! We love Pedro
• The best use of an M-80 firecracker vs. shovel full of fire ant nest
• Here comes the statute of limitations
• Begging for nominations and votes: Darn! It’s too late.

Nat’s trip to France

Tee keeps pointing at the ceiling

Serena licks the pop filter. I wonder how it tastes

France Telecom spares no expense. Really. They don’t spend much.

Nat’s flight to France

Mrs. Pillows

Toilets in France

Larry Niven and Laura’s breasts

Promo: Serve It Cold

Promo: Nina Kimberly the Merciless

The Transformers Movie! Paul gives it a 9 out of 10

Serena does a Number 3. A foul odor permeates the studio

Paul hates stupd movies

Morris family genetics vs Morris family dynamics

Obligatory Leann Mabry comment

• Sheila Unwin and Evo Terra (The Swiss Family Unwin)
• Grailwolf and Heather
• Mr. & Mrs (Andrea) Commandline
• Bouncing in and out: Tee and Serena Morris

Topics:

• Balticon
• East coast people aren’t assholes
• The beers we love
• We want to be the East Coast Winging It
• Remove deck, replace, add hot tub! Tub Party!
• Northern Virginia Bamboo has rat DNA in it
• Sensibility = Wife
• Bring me the head of Mur Lafferty and Jason Adams (son of Grizzly Adams)
• The EvoTerra WoW character
• Favorite Balticon event: The Michael and Evo Roast
• Christiana Ellis kicked ass at the roast
• George Hrab ain’t coming back down without his pants
• Promo: Heaven by Mur Lafferty
• Promo: Tag in the Seam
• Long promos so people can pay the rent on beer
• The vertical DMZ. Adults upstair, children downstairs
• Evo and Sheila see dead people: Bodies
• Organ Donor: Check!
• Nasty Beer smells like …
• 60+ podcasters at Balticon
• Signs
• Music: Black Motor Cycle Boots by Michelle Malone

Please visit http://www.joemurphymemorialfund.com/ to find out more about Leiomyosarcoma and to help.

This song is:
Written and originally released by Jonathan Coulton
The brain child of Paul Fischer
Audio mix by Phil Rossi

The P-Cast Allstars are:
Heather Welliver
Phil Rossi
Martha Holloway
Debbie from Mesa
Barb Fischer
Bill Shunn
Rich Sigfrit (impressions)
Jared Axelrod
Tim Callender
Jack Mangan
Mathew Wayne Selznick
Command Line
Chuck Tomasi

If I missed anyone email me at addcast@gmail.com and I’ll fix this. Or leave a comment here.

Paul’s drinking Chaucer’s Raspberry wine.
Heather and Phil are drinking Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre

We’ve been singing about fucking all day. Secret Projekt “First of May” is revealed. Many people will be singing about fucking to bring you our secret project.

• Are we the Winging It of the east coast?
• Stereo Bronchitis
• The secret Vienna, VA glaciers
• Long Island was made out of all the crap that couldn’t hold on to the ground in Connecticut. But we have great beaches. Big hair sucks.
• Yoklahanky – WTF?
• Promo: Crescent Station (Phil’s creepy Promo)
• Promo: Billibub Baddings
• PSA: Tequila
• Phil gave someone the Heimlich maneuver.
• The PMS escape route.
• Phil’s Minstrel Cycle pops the cherry on our studio as he treats us to the first live music ever in studio. Phil is such a cunning linguist. He wrote it himself.
• My clever thong is riding up.
• Leave us a voicemail. Send us an email.
• Heather can’t get that Enormous Penis out of her head.
• MUSIC: The Shillas, Don’t Even Care
• Plug: Phil will be disemboweling puppies on May 3, 2007.

The Balticon Lineup:
We will all be at Balticon 41, so will
Mike and Evo
Mur Lafferty
Steve Eley
Jack Mangan
Rich Sigfrit
Tee Morris
Bill Shunn
Bill DeSmedt
Matthew Wayne Selznick
Christiana Ellis (click on pool rules button half way down right side)
We’ll mention everyone else who’s coming next time.

A tribute to Joe hosted by Michael, Evo, Mur, Charlie the Beer Guy, Chris the Wingin’ It Chef, Debbie from East Mesa, Brian, Tim, Sheila, and Lorrie, featuring clips from “Wingin’ It” episodes gone by.

Raise a root beer in memory of Randy Innuendo.

Song: “Mason Rocket” by Beatnik Turtle

Joe was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He was practically weaned on science fiction, watching reruns of the original Star Trek and Lost in Space with his mother.

After high school, Joe went to college and jumped around from studying computer science, to education for the hearing impaired, to finally landing on a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Illinois State University. Three years later, he earned with his Master’s in Audiology from Western Illinois University.

Science fiction and (especially) fantasy have always been a part of Joe’s life, whether in movies, TV, or books. After writing a review of Lisa Lee’s and Tee Morris’s Morevi on the original Dragon Page forum, Michael and Evo made Joe the “official” book reviewer for The Dragon Page Radio Talk Show. Later, after moving to Arizona, he became a frequent contributor to Cover to Cover, Wingin’ It, Slice of SciFi and co-host of Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas.

He will be missed.

If you’d like to help increase awareness about this cancer, an aggressive strain that’s also resistant to both radiation and chemo treatments, please visit The Joe Murphy Memorial Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to help in the fight against Leiomyosarcoma.

image by Cheyenne Wright

• Back at Tee Morris’s Place
• Get the firewire mixer
• Back to the beer. I didn’t have problems with Kirin. Tee’s drinking Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout. Martha is sick, so she’s being quite. No beer for the sick.
• Tea is from Teavana (We love Teavana)
• Tee’s trip out to Phoenix to visit Joe Murphy. Joe was having a good run, but this morning’s news from AZ says he’s only got a little time left. Tee was Joe’s cancer bitch.
• Donate to Joe Murphy, please. Even if all you can give is $1.
• Promo: Balticon and the Balticon Podcast
• Promo: Podiobook, Tee Morris’s Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword
• Shameless plugs for our spoof video, Man vs. Child
• Hosted at Lulu TV
• It all begins with You Spoof Discovery
• Tee did most of the post production
• This is a spoof of Man vs Wild and the awesome host Bear Grylls
• The secrets to making a great spoof video: the dirty diaper
• We grossed out Scott Sigler
• We’re being featured on the Lulu TV video cast for our work on Man vs. Child
• We want the Discovery Channel to pay attention to it
• Video still isn’t a one-button technology
• The Enormous Penis comes out
• Paul is the Podcasting Diva
• The Abbot and Costello joke
• Someone please take the mic away from Tee!
• Exactly what is my tag line again?

Be on the lookout for toxins in your McNuggets. Maybe you won’t want to put that “Nugget Man” song on your next album.

link

Most certainly, it’s 100% true.

Podiobook author, and friend of the show, Scott Sigler is giving away his print novel Ancestor. It is free to download now. Just click on the picture below. We’ve all thrilled to Scott’s podiobook novels, Earthcore, Ancestor, Infection, and The Rookie. Now you get to have this one for free.

All Scott asks, is that if you like the book, you buy it. He’s taking a cue from author and free culture advocate Cory Doctorow and hoping when more people read the book more people will buy it.

Ancestor is going on sale April 1. Scott wants everyone to jump on Amazon.com at Noon Pacific time and order their copy. He’s hoping to make it to Amazon’s #1 book, if everyone buys at once.

Click on the picture below and read Ancestor at home.

• Heather Welliver and Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey
• It’s Marc’s birthday and Superbowl Sunday
• Wine: Drinking German wine today – Dr. M. Brun riesling
• No possum in the wine today
• Drunk animals
• Grailwolf is either a lazy bastard or a busy bastard, either way he’s still a bastard.
• NoVAPod! – The Northern Virginia Podcasters Meetup Group
• Promo Party at Paul and Martha’s!
• You look like the piss boy…
• Our NoVAPod.org site. The Meetup.com site for NoVAPod.
• Why are podcaster’s always showing their oats?
  
• PSMN, PiSMaN, or Pod Safe Music Network
• The Shillas available on The PMN
• Sound Scientist by bill
• Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut (1961). A story where everyone is given handicaps to make them equal.
• Local radio sucks, but local music rocks. We have Jammin’ Java.
• PROMO: Balticon Podcast
• PROMO: Singularity – Book – Podiobook
• PROMO: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword – Book – Podiobook
• Jonathan Coulton is coming back to Jammin’ Java on March 11! With Paul and Storm, a.k.a. The Creepy Dolls
• Re-Wine: Eisswein from Keffir in Munich Germany, sweet like honey and amber
• Ice Wine – real vs. manufactured. Costs. This is what mead should be.
• Bargetto’s dessert wines – Raspberry wine, Mead, Raspberry Mead Combo
• Duckboy Bottomfeeder on the rise
• Saving money vs. the effort to make. A.k.a. the journey vs. the destination.
• L.E.D. replacements for incandescent light bulbs
• PSA: Tequila
• What does that finger mean?
• The math on making your own L.E.D. light bulbs
• Ass load vs. Butt load vs. Metric Butt load
• Secret Project Alert
• Geek Widow Podcast – Heather and Martha or Heather and Paul. Who is the geek Widow?
• Must avoid the whiney aspects of it.
• How to get your geek off the computer.
• SONG: Faithfull by The Shillas (Heather sings lead)

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Check out the video of what Tee really did with that beer bottle here.

No notes today. No time.

• Bed music? (Paul threw in some bed music from Rodger Johnson as an experiment. Martha’s not sure if she likes it. The debate rages.)
• A good pair of headphones will open your eyes to unwanted noise
• Tee recommends ATH-D40FS Studio Audio Technica
• Sky Captain, Hells Angels, babies, trucks and computer fan noise–
• One of these can be controlled. Can you guess which one?
• Dogfish Head Raison d’Etre & Pumpkin Ale
• Podcasting with wee folk
• Netcast vs Podcast debate
• Rob Walsh Podcast 411 Apple trademark brouhaha
  
• Where you should go to promote your podcast:
• Balticon
• Dragon*Con
• Portable Media Expo (a.k.a. The Podcast MindControl Experiment)
• PME WrapUp for the Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy
• Victor ? Typical MacUser Podcast

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• Rebeer
• PROMO: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword http://www.teemorris.com/billi/
• Cleanliness is next to having an organized studio
• Puck (Tee’s cat) puts in an appearance
• Sometimes self censorship can be good for you because shooting yourself in the foot is reeeeally painful.
• John Ringo’s rant against all Virginia Science Fiction Cons
• Mount TBR – at the summit: Rob Sawyer
• RavenCon
• Astronomicon Tonight – “So Mr Morris, tell me about your book More VI….”
• PROMO: Balticon 41 in Hawaii!
• Next Up: “War on Christmas”
• Building Our Own Future by Howard Jones (podsafe music network)

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No Show Notes. Running to Dragon*Con

My Dragon*Con Schedule
Friday
08:30 PM Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman!
From the book written by Nelson Bond and adapted by Mur Laffery Full Cast of Spaceman
Paul Fischer, Martha Holloway, Stephen Eley, Tee Morris, Rich Sigfrit, Jason Adams, Jim Van Verth, Mur Lafferty, and Patrick McLean

Saturday
10:00 AM Podcasting 201: Technical Foundations of Podcasting
Have something to say? Here how to say it! He fundamentals of creating and and setting your solid podcast up and running from the tech side!
Michael R. Mennenga, Tee Morris, Evo Terra. Farpoint, Paul Fischer

02:30 PM Interviews: Getting and Doing
Getting and Doing, How to do get them, prepare meaningful questions, and conduct and edit the oft rambling and disjointed audio into something good.
Paul Fischer, Stephen Euien Cobb, Summer Brooks, Swoopy

Sunday
04:00 PM Audio Fiction: From Podcast to Print and Back Again
Meet the pioneers of podcasting fiction! Learn from their mistakes, what they did right, and what went wrong. Get hints and tips and learn the different paths you can go down for your own creation. Use them to make your own serialized fictioin podcast!

Stephen Eley, Tee Morris. Ben Phillips, J.C. Hutchins, Paul Fischer, PodioBooks, Scott Sigler

What? I hear you say, “Don’t be a pussy, you could have been doing real work.”

Well it doesn’t stack up to picking fruit, mining, or other real work, but having your ass in a car 8 hours a day to do coverage tests is real work. Just ask a trucker. Maybe I’m not driving on highways, but then, he’s not dodging every little kid on summer vacation who wants to make it into the newspapers by being run over.

I shit you not, I dodged 10 kids today who came right at me. Well over 100 heard the big rental car coming and got off the street. But these 10 just came right at me.

Here’s an idea of the ground I’ve covered in the last 3 days. You can see where I give you a 1 mile scale in purple. Now realize I’ve probably drive most streets more than once, just to double back and get the little dead ends and finish the grid pattern. I’m not saying where the picture is, because the work folks might have a cow. The resolution has been cut down, and the data isn’t what you would really see on our plots, I fudged a bit of it. But I wanted you to all see the sheer mileage I’ve been driving.

The good part was the podcasts. I listened to everything I could think of, and then some. I even went back to some I’ve cancelled to give them another try. They still suck, so I’m staying away from them. Such is life.

I also took time to check in on my beer auction. Over 7500 bottles of beer and another 3500 bottles of wine went on the block in DC. If it wasn’t for Saturday pickup, I would have stayed away. I got some great bargains, so long as the stock was not too old and well maintained.

Overall, I think I got 1 case of booze, and probably 12 cases of beer. The stuff I got is all imported. Most costs $3 to $10 a bottle. I got some of it for $5 a case! I guess I won’t be buying beer from Norm’s for a while.

I want to thank Charlie The Beer Guy for his advice. Without him, I wouldn’t have clue number 1 on which beers to pick. I’m sure you’ll be hearing the beer burps on future ADD Cast episodes.