No radio

derspatchel wins the cookie of the day award. I have some great ideas for City of Heroes dudes and even started to enact them after daerr installed all the MMOs on the Volity office PC last spring, but I haven't done much with the game since. So Olympia Snowe and the Papa Hemingway Action Force will have to wait.

Speaking of (sorta), it is with regret that I announce that I ain't even trying to get into audioboy's Halloween show this year, much like I had to pass on metahacker's audio production earlier this summer. It is a casualty of this impending job thing, I fear. As much fun as Chicken Heart was last year it still took a lot of my time, event though I only had some piddling roles in it. The schedule I'm setting up for myself over the rest of 2006 just doesn't cotton to this sort of thing. I'll be in the audience, though, and will try to drag y'all along when it's time.

I feel I can get away with The Gameshelf because I get to control its schedule, and I'm firm in my utter lack of commitment to timeliness in producing it. Oh, and speaking of that, the existing shows are now live on Google video.

I have been having fun browsing GV. Here is an amazing collection of stock footage that just cries out for gratuitous misuse. I am actually surprised that Getty seems to have made a good chunk of their catalog freely downloadable via GV. Each clip's detail page has an invitation to license a high-quality version for $150 or whatever, but does this imply that you can go nuts with the lossy versions on GV?

Eternal September

I would like to randomly note that I am really pleased and impressed with the davis_square community.

* Compared to certain 0ther c0mmunities I could name, this one has remained relatively free of fotoshop-fratboy snarkery. (Though to be fair I just peeked in on that other one and it doesn't look as obviously dopey as it has in the past. Dunno if that's a trend or not.)

* When trolls do attack, they catch like wet matches on damp wood.

* It's all-around drama-resistant. It did have a blowout a few months ago, but came out of it wiser, and maybe even improved.

There's no magic; it's the people in it that are great, and who have set down a culture that inspires continued coolness. As another school year starts and I see another round of young newcomers phasing themselves in fairly smoothly, I have to smile.