Sorry for the lateness of this week’s episode, and also the lack of extensive show notes. Perhaps someone else will provide the latter (hint, hint). And yes, there is a puzzle embedded in this podcast! Follow the instructions in the…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Nothing Up His Sleeve”
I originally wrote this week’s story for NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest. I didn’t expect to win, and my expectations were met. Fully, and then some. FWIW, I am still working on internalizing the lessons of Henning Nelm’s Magic and Showmanship….
Book Report: The War of Art
I’ll be honest: if I hadn’t been listening to this as an audio book, and if it hadn’t been a day when I was working as an extra, I wouldn’t have finished this book. Not even close. There is some…
Joss Whedon Breaks My Heart Again
Granted, he only directed this week’s episode of Glee, and he’s not the most visual thinker in the world, but this number absolutely killed me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8B56AsKfJs (Note that the video above has been flipped left-to-right and otherwise muddled, presumably to…
SnoutCast #16: “Wordplay”
Spelling counts. [ Download mp3 – 29 MB ] 00:00 – no teaser this week. maybe teaser next week01:12 – many pop culture references are lost on DeeAnn01:37 – This Week: Word Games02:26 – Upwords > Scrabble ?03:50 – DeeAnn…
Comic Book Report: Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore
This collection of Superman comics from the early 1970s epitomizes many of the things that were wrong with the Silver Age (and continues to be wrong with Smallville on TV–but that’s another post). I mean, come on. I’m used to…
A Facebook Conversation
This is actually one of the more coherent threads I’ve seen on FB: Please note that Sean lives in Silicon Valley, has been a professional video game developer for nearly two decades now, and actually hacked MAME source code to…
Friday Flash Fiction: “I Disagree”
Why, yes, I do watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Thanks for asking! Read “I Disagree” at 512 Words or Fewer