It is also available for the Kindle, Nina Kimberly the Merciless: Kindle Edition

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.

• 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

• 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

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)

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.

www.michaelshermer.com

Promo: The Commandline

www.michaelshermer.com

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

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

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

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

• Sweetie
• Tracy Hickman’s thought provoking positions on NaNoWriMo
• It’s not about getting published, it’s about getting read
• The mystical powers of Mur Lafferty (is she the cause of our Skype problems)
• Tracy is a big fan of Mur’s
• Tracy’s segment on NaNoWriMo
• Editors notes
• Nuri joins us for NaDruWriNi (take 1, we’ll try it again at the end of the month)
• NaNoWriMo allows interconnected short stories to be counted
• Nuri is writing about 2 characters in a Steampunk world
• Drinking wine, skype in the ghetto, living in bad neighborhoods
• Table wines as a reference to 7th Son
• Doing laundry in college. Bar and laundromat in one
• Martha reads our script for The Monster Under The Bed
• Nuri reads from her short story
• Nuri loves Balticon
• Artist Alley
• Balticon Podcast

PROMO: Playing for Keeps / 7th Son

PROMO: The Commandline Podcast

MUSIC: Old Lady with a Hammer by Chris Hardy

So we setup our recording gear at Cmdln’s house and did our own Foley recording session.

It’s very silly and we hope you enjoy it.

If you can’t see it here, check it out on Lulu.tv

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

Talking about our trip to Japan

Our house almost got broken into

Security theater at the airport

Strange dreams from Japanese Whiskey

The tribe parties down at Commandline’s house. Andrea made me some kickass allergen free pies. Pie rocks.

Seriously, it only comes from one place. Give it up.

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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

Michelle Malone’s concert at Jammin Java is tomorrow night, Wed 7/11!

Michelle has been submitted for the Grammy Awards and she is hoping that some of the DC area Grammy folks will be out to see the show. She needs you there to help pack the house.

Get stoked and come join us for the concert!

SONG: Traveling And Unraveling

• The Gift
• Man vs. Child 2: The Birthday Party
• Calling out George Hrab
• Paul’s week sucked, but it was nothing compared to Tee’s week
• Michelle Malone is coming to Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA
• SONG: Avalon by Michelle Malone. From the album Home Grown
• PROMO: Give Us A Minute, the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund Podcast
• PROMO: Parsec Awards
• Memories of Farpoint Convention and Balticon
• Memories of the Harve Bennett interview
• Kirk vs Piccard in the movies, or rather Shatner vs Stewart
• Spiderman 3: It doesn’t suck
• Paul’s love of Spiderman 1 & 2
• Martha’s take on Spiderman 3
• PROMO: Crescent
• PROMO: Tag in the Seam
• We’re so unprofessional
• Tee plays with the cart software
• This Week in Drama
• Paul is angry. Personal attacks are dead wrong
• Ask the Magic 8 Ball
• More memories of Balticon 41
• Tee Morris can jump
• Color Paul dumb and dumber
• Carry and the twins
• August Trometer’s interview on Typical Mac User
• Beth Wojiski is awesome
• The coffee war
• Michelle Malone is playing at Jammin Java in Vienna on July 11 – Buy Tickets Here!

Michelle will be playing Jammin Java on July 11, 2007. Tickets Here!

Michelle’s music is featured on our new Podiobook Serve It Cold

Michelle’s experience with podcasters

Michelle’s views on Creative Commons

SONG: Tighten Up The Springs

What do her songs really mean? Personal interpretations vs what Michelle wrote it about

Michelle’s Schedule

Michelle’s music is available on CD BABY and Amazon.com

SONG: Winter Muscadine

• 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

• Nobilis, Dee, and their kids: Anita and William
• Tee Morris

Notes:

• Tee is out of control
• R.I.P. Carson Beckett
• Paul McGillion
• Balticon was loads of fun
• Reminiscing on our first conventions
• Freaky con attendees
• Promo: Brave Men Run
• It’s time to zap Tee
• Wrangling 11 year old kids
• Aging fandom
• Wen Spencer’s Tinker
• Nobilis’s family doesn’t watch TV
• Animation snobbery
• There were only 3 Star Wars movies
• Blame the director
• Lucas wants wind up actors
• Paul blames Kate Capshaw for turning Lucas into a pussy
• Music: ADD Lover by Beatnik Turtle

• 2 years on the pod
• Just what is sorghum anyway? Library paste?
• Heather has a job interview while Paul talks about his beer
• Phil is sharing a bed with Tee Morris and Jack Mangan at Balticon
• The Balticon Graphic Novel Project based on Comic Life
• PROMO: Ziggurat Con
• More about Ravencon
• Show restart?
• Phil drops hint one about Crescent: Music
• Concervation of Original Thought: The theory from Dave Weinstein (not to be confused with Dave Winer)
• Dave Winer backed out of PodcasterCon 2006 for bizarre reasons
• PROMO: Aliens You Will Meet
• Music for Serve It Cold will likely be from Michelle Malone
• The belly wave
• PROMO: Crescent
• Drive killed after 2 episodes, Nathan Fillion humped again by Fox
• Heather has a man crush on Nathan Fillion
• 3 beers and Phil shamelessly promotes
• Phil: The amazing 5 minute love machine
• 4 beers and Phil…

• RavenCon Report:
• Hanging out with the Geek Label guys, they also have a podcast
• Baen Books and the Baen Barflys
• Bowmore Islay single malt scotch
• Drinks:
• Bonny Doon Muscat Eiswine – vin de glacier
• Stone Brewery Arrogant Bastard Ale and Smoked Porter
• We love Norm’s Wine & Beer
• PROMO: Fear The Boot and Ziggurat Con
• Known supports of Ziggurat Con are Mystic Station Designs makers of Chivalry and Sorcery. Tee is going to try to get them some of his books. He also wants to hook them up with the makers of the game Scallywags.
• PROMO: Failed Cities Monologues
• PROMO: Singularity
• Tee talks about the new 8 core Mac Pro he ordered. It’s screaming! 5 GB RAM and 500 GB drive. Applecare Rules!
• Tee talks about his studio moving to the basement
• Martha has solved the problem of deadening sound in a big empty room with rolling garment racks.
• For twice as much money, you get two. Two is more than one.
• Be on the lookout for Sekret Project First of May!
• Phil Rossi is the man on that
• The Voicemail! from Hugh Bracket
• iTunes is good for Podcasting, but it’s not great.
• MUSIC: George Hrab – Cruel Spines. Geo also has a great podcast.

Quote of the Week: What is it with peeing in the sink this week?

Please bear with me.

But if you click you’ll get a pretty picture

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?

Thomas, The Command Line Podcast
Marc & Heather, GrailWolf Podcast
Hugh, Illudium Podcast
Beth, DancingCat Studios

Special treat coming soon: PDF file of a novel by someone you already know.

Man vs. Child – check it out! We make fun of Bear Grylls’ Man vs. Wild and survive! Tee Morris survives a day alone with his two-year-old daughter. Lions and tigers and toddlers! Oh my! ManVsChild.com

Support lulu.tv. Lulu gives its content providers a better deal than any of the other video host sites.

This is what happens when Paul is off his meds—both for the interview and when he recorded the intro. You can tell, can’t you?

Creative Commons for the show

Promo: Daily Source Code

The ADD cast—tangents allowed—just go with it!
The first time JoCo came to Vienna was bipolar night at Jammin’ Java
Paul and Storm: Progressive folk duo or worth listening to?
Da Vinci’s Notebook on a public stage for the first time in years
Song: Da Vinci’s Notebook “Enormous Penis”
Curious about relative sizes? It’s a Voltron penis—don’t ask
Da Vinci’s Notebook now doing corporate work
Limit supply—demand goes up. One concert every 30 years and make a million bucks. At least that’s the theory.

JoCo: Learning to play Thing a week songs
Song: Jonathan Coulton “Mr. Fancy Pants”

Promo: Ubercon Great Lakes
Jonathan Coulton & The Creepy Dolls
Writing? Learning to play live and be a live performer
No pressure, no pressure
The JoCo Internet video phenomenon
If you could ask one thing of your fans, e.g., underwear outside pants? Please don’t ask Jonathan how to get to the venue
Venue: When a musician and audience love each other very much sometimes they get together and hug….
JoCo is not polyamorous—please stop asking. The last monamorous person in the country.
Opening Band—The opening band doesn’t get any respect. The great throwing of panties—the dream of most musicians. 8-9 pairs have been thrown so far. 6 pairs, disappointingly enough, have been thrown by guys and have not been alluring at all. Please: sexy ladies panties/sexy mens panties even. Fortunately for all concerned, Paul Fischer couldn’t find his thong that night.

Song: Paul & Storm “Opening Band”
We don’t know where Storm was going halfway through the live version when Paul was heading for the bridge….The panties must have been a little too distracting.

All music from Paul & Storm is Creative Commons.
The website has been retooled to be more Coultonic.
Popsci.com podcast.
If P&S did a magazine podcast, who would they do it for: Omni Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Cracked podcast.

Song: Jonathan Coulton “Feel Fantastic”

Thanks for listening!
Show Notes by Martha

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Coming Soon!

• 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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Segment 1
• from Raleigh, NC Friday morning
• Pressing breasts against Paul’s head
• Dinner with Mur, Jim, and Fiona Wed night
• Norovirus attack Thursday morning
• Martha is flying down Friday night
• The folks in NC are really excellent
• Joe Murphy is in surgery as I’m recording
• Call Joe and wish him well. The number is 206-202-5179. It will only take you a few minutes.
  
• PROMO: TD-0013 MS Walk
• PROMO: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing SwordSegment 2
• Interview with author J.R. Blackwell (The naughty bits)
• Press your breasts against my face
• Geek women kick ass, they already have the costumes
• REJOINER: Mark Forman
• PROMO: Spherical TomiSegment 3
• from NYC 1/30/07
• Paul’s bad rendition of Hall and Oats, Adult Education
• Essay: Friends, Changing, and Time
• Arkham Horror
• Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit
• Christiana Ellis
• Jason and Ren
• Why are Paul’s private parts part of every gaming event?
• Paul’s bad imitation of the Queen
• Mur and Jim’s neurotic dog
• I bet the Navy wishes they had dinosaurs on their aircraft carriers
• I was supposed to see Jonathan Coulton with Jack Mangan
• The Norovirus rant – wash your damn hands! CDC Link 1. CDC Link 2.
• End Music by George Hrab, Brains Body Both

I really want to try out one of these to see how good the pre-amps are.

http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/2007/01/ipod-becomes-4-track.html

Check out the pics!

• Recording from my hotel room. Laptop mic on my Macbook Pro
• Exposing some of the bullshit that is “The War on Christmas” or TWoC
• CLIP: Dave Slusher from The Evil Genius Chronicles gives his take on TWoC
• SONG: Jesus was a Dreidel Spinner by Jill Sobule
• Voice Mail
• CLIP: Conestoga Podcast interview with author James P. Hogan talking about religious persecution in science.
  
• CLIP: Paul reads part of an article “The ‘War on Christmas’ is surprisingly lucrative” from The Carpet Bagger Report
• CLIP: Paul talks about a new podcast for 2007 during the Northern Virginia Podcasters Group holiday party
• Find out more about the Northern Virginia Podcasters at Meetup.com
• The new podcast will be a one to two minute weekly podcast by Paul’s alter ego, Duckboy Bottomfeeder. The focus will be how to save money and have less commercialism in your life.
• Paul hints at another new podcast for 2007. This one is still top secret but will be co-hosted by Martha.

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

No notes today. No time.