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ADD Cast 064 – Jedi School Dropout

April 14th, 2009 by pfischer

In each community there is a coming of age ritual that marks the change between childhood and adulthood. In our wonderful podcasting tribe, two youngsters turned 14 and created their own podcasts to mark this momentous event. The first of these is a radio play based in the Star Wars universe written and produced by Spinderfly, a.k.a. Lava Spout.

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

Category: Friends, Podcast, sci-fi, Tribe | 3 Comments »

ADD Cast 063 – Christmas 2008

December 27th, 2008 by pfischer

You’re intrepid ADDers, Paul and Martha, get together with Grailwolf’s Geek Life hosts Marc and Heather to geekout over babies, TV, movies, and beer. Lazy show notes. It’s a Merry Christmas geek roundup. We catch up on our lives and the things we’ve been enjoying. Big changes ahead for all four of us.

Category: Beer, BeerCast, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Movie, News, Podcast, sci-fi | 3 Comments »

Free Book: Playing For Keeps full PDF with bonus story- PARASITE AWAKENS

August 22nd, 2008 by pfischer

Mur Lafferty has released her novel Playing for Keeps for free as a PDF. 

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.




 

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ADD Cast 062 – Mighty Mur and Vintage Jim

August 17th, 2008 by pfischer

This week the mighty Mur Lafferty and her beloved vintage Jim Van Verth join us to talk books, writing, publishing, and more.

  • Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA for Paul
  • Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout for Jim
  • Ravenswood Cabernet for Mur
  • Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer’s Guide at Amazon.com
  • It was funnier the first time
  • Mur’s first fiction novel is coming out from Swarm Press on 8/25
  • Playing for Keeps at Amazon.com
  • This week we experiment with asking questions from our followers on Twitter
  • PROMO: Astral Audio Experience
  • Jim’s Essential Math website
  • Favorite TV Shows: for Mur, The Office and for Jim The Closer. Together: Heroes or Battlestar Galactica
  • Heroes, feh
  • Favorite books from childhood
  • Dr. Horrible vs Playing for Keeps
  • The News from Poughkeepsie
  • The Piddler
  • The games Jim would bring back from obscurity if he could: Liubo, Shuanglu, and Magic Realm
  • MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnik Turtle
  • PROMO: Playing For Keeps experience. Join us on 8/25 to help Mur make her run on Amazon.com

Category: Author, Beer, BeerCast, Book, Events, FarPoint Media, Geek, Humor, Interview, Podcast, Wine, WineCast | 3 Comments »

ADD Cast 061 – Double! No Trouble

August 7th, 2008 by pfischer

The force of nature known as Tee Morris and the irrepressible Philippa “The Killer Librarian” Ballantine join us for their last and best Double Trouble interview. Martha and I interview Tee and Pip about writing, life, and all sorts of things.

  • 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

Category: Author, Balticon 43, BeerCast, Book, Erotica, fantasy, FarPoint Media, Friends, Humor, Interview, Music, News, Podcast, sci-fi | Comments Off on ADD Cast 061 – Double! No Trouble

ADDCast 060 – Obsidian Morris

August 2nd, 2008 by pfischer

Tee Morris joins us for snails and and impromptu review of 7th Son Obsidian.

All Books available from Amazon.com


 

Category: Beer, Friends, Geek, Humor, Interview, Music, Podcast, sci-fi | 1 Comment »

Tea and Chat 13 with Dancing Cat Studios

July 28th, 2008 by pfischer

Ronnie Blackwell, Lin Harper, Martha Holloway, and Paul Fischer join Stephen Kilbride on a great episode of Tea and Chat.

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

Spite: By Ronnie Blackwell

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ADD Cast 059 – The Incredible Hulk

June 26th, 2008 by pfischer

We review the new movie, The Incredible Hulk. Not to be confused with lesser movies of a similar title.

Lazy show notes:

John Cmar

Sci-Fi Laura

Commandline

Andrea

Heather Welliver

Marcus Grailwolf Bailey

Greg Wright

Martha Holloway

Paul Fischer

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The Future and A.D.D.

May 19th, 2008 by pfischer

Paul got interviewed on Stephen Euin Cobb’s awesome podcast, The Future and You.

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

Recorded at RavenCon.

Category: Balticon 41, Balticon 42, Friends, Geek, Interview, Podcast, Politics, sci-fi, Science, Social Responsibility | Comments Off on The Future and A.D.D.

Voice of Free Planet A.D.D.

May 15th, 2008 by pfischer

A special appearance on Jared Axelrod’s Voice of Free Planet X podcast. Jared has gone daily now. It blows me away to see how he maintains awesome quality every day. I loves me some Free Planet X.

Today: Voices from the Future

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ADD Cast 058 – Bleeping Baby Names

April 5th, 2008 by pfischer

This episode stars Sonic Boom, who’s real name has been bleeped many times because her father was too drunk to remember not to say her real name.

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

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I Remember Joe – A Joe Murphy Memorial Fund Tribute

April 1st, 2008 by pfischer

Joe Murphy touched our lives. We remember him on this, the one year anniversary of his death.

Show notes and original post.

UPDATE: [1/8/2011] The original file is gone. I’m sad. I’ll try to track it down later. We still miss you Joe.

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ADD Cast 057 – Open (Con) Season

March 30th, 2008 by pfischer

This week I am joined by Podcast fans Meagan and Scott Breakall, Chooch from the podcasts Into The Blender & City of Heroes, and Paulette Jaxton. We discuss the impending launch of Scott Sigler’s novel Infected and the opening of Con Season 2008.

Lazy Show Notes

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

Scott Sigler Donuts

Category: BeerCast, Friends, Geek, Humor, Podcast, sci-fi | 1 Comment »

Scott Sigler’s Infected – Free eBook

March 29th, 2008 by pfischer

<The free download period has expired. Get your copy of Scott Sigler’s Infected on line or at your local bookstore. Thank you!>

We did it before and we are doing it again.

Scott Sigler’s new print version of Infected gets released on April 1st, 2008. Over the next few days, his publisher has allowed him to give away copies of the PDF version of the book for free.

We are helping him do just that.

For more information on Scott and Infected, visit www.scottsigler.com

If you want share the file with friends, get them to download it from this page or from:

randomhouse.com/crown/infected/downloads/infected_novel.pdf

By getting the file from that link, it’s proving to the big publishers that we podcasters have a clue about what we are doing.

This file will only be active for a few days, at which time the link will become inactive and you’ll have to go to the bookstore to read the story. Which you should do anyway.

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ADD Cast 056 – Dr. Michael Shermer Part 2

February 10th, 2008 by pfischer

Part 2 – Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.

Dr. Michael Shermer
www.michaelshermer.com
Those of you familiar with the Skeptics movement may know Mr. Shermer as a founder of the Skeptics Society, a frequent guest on Skepticality, and the author of other non-fiction works including: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, and Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown as well as many more titles.This Podcast recorded live at the National Science Foundation at an event hosted by the National Capitol Area Skeptics (NCAS).Dr. Shermer’s Books Available at Amazon.comMusic: Evolution by Nick Murray ( @Music.Podshow.com, @MySpace, Website )Promo: Metamor City

Promo: The Commandline

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ADD Cast 055 – Dr. Michael Shermer Part 1

February 2nd, 2008 by pfischer

Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.

Dr. Michael Shermer
www.michaelshermer.com
Those of you familiar with the Skeptics movement may know Mr. Shermer as a founder of the Skeptics Society, a frequent guest on Skepticality, and the author of other non-fiction works including: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, and Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown as well as many more titles.This Podcast recorded live at the National Science Foundation at an event hosted by the National Capitol Area Skeptics (NCAS).

Dr. Shermer’s Books Available at Amazon.com

Music: Think For Yourself by George Hrab ( music, podcast, concerts in your home, Balticon )

Promo: Morevi Remastered

Promo: Stranger Things

Category: Author Reading, Podcast, Science, Skeptic | 1 Comment »

ADD Cast 054 – Cloverfield

January 21st, 2008 by pfischer

We review the new J.J. Abrams movie, Cloverfield.

Spoiler free and Spoiler laden reviews.

PROMO: Fear the Froot

Category: BeerCast, Friends, Geek, Humor, Movie, Podcast, Review, sci-fi, Wine | 1 Comment »

ADD Cast 053 – Xmas Past

January 3rd, 2008 by pfischer

Martha & Paul, Heather & Marc

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

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ADD Cast 052 – NaNoWriMo Fin

December 18th, 2007 by pfischer

Our Last word on NaNoWriMo.

Interview with Joe Mieczkowski

Story segment from Joe Mieczkowski

Story Segment from Jayanth “Jay” Paraki, his movie, his bio

Commentary from Tracy Hickman

PROMO: I Should Be Writing

PROMO: Killer Breakfast

PROMO: Playing for Keeps

MUSIC: Write About Me, by Jeff Coffey

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THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS . . .

December 17th, 2007 by pfischer

In addition to offering its listeners their regular story for the month of
December, Variant Frequencies has prepared a special holiday surprise for
fans of the two-time Parsec-nominated FAILED CITIES MONOLOGUES, as well as
all those who’ve supported the podcast in the past year. We are proud to
present THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS, an exclusive 10,000-word
eChapbook written by Matt Wallace and produced by Variant Frequencies.

Failed Cities Book Cover

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