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[prog]

I'm in the Diesel working on the more boring side of business-related krep. Therefore I will procrastinate with unrelated blogging!

Actually I would like to tell you about a couple of podcasts that I have started listening to since I last listed podcasts.

Some Things Matt Likes Aren't Very Good: A music review podcast by mrmorse, whom you my recognize as my Gameshelf co-host (when he isn't being eaten by grues (or singing tenor in Titipu)). I have been listening to this for a while and am moved to mention it now because I finally bought an album as a direct result of Matt reviewing it. (This would be Imogen Heap's Speak for Yourself, which I do rather like, and purchased as soon as I learned that it combines electronic blurpiness with wispy female vocals, both of which I am often a sucker for.)

(Also I like the name Imogen(e). Among my stock of long-neglected cartoon characters is one named Imogene, who was based on the hippy girls who hung out in front of the UMaine student union. I'm sure they'd still be there if I went back. My heart still melts for this particular type of hippy girl that seems to grow only in Maine, too... a year or so ago I was in bleak, barren Waterville, and as I cross Main Street to get to Jorgy's one of these creatures happened to be crossing the opposite way. She was singing to herself, and despite the fact that I held my usual ignore-all-strangers stance, as we met she smiled at me and said hello. Total Amelie moment. Made my whole trip worthwhile.)

(I digress.)

Escape Pod: A podcast-shaped SF short-story magazine. It calls itself a magazine, anyway, and I will call it that too since it actually pays its writers for their stories, and is rightly proud of this fact. Most of the stories take the form of "$GENRE_CONVENTION -- with a twist!", and therefore more the sort of thing that appeals to SF fans per se than SF readers in general. This makes me groan a lot (I have actually taken the trouble to groan at the host via email and he responded chivalrously enough) but the stories are nonetheless clever with sufficient frequency to keep me subscribed.

Spaceship Radio: Rebroadcasts of mid-20th Century SF radio shows, particularly X Minus One, a short-story show of varying quality (sometimes it's very good!) that NBC aired in the 1950s. The host seems young and a tad overexcited about his own show, which I will not hold against him. Though I just reminded myself that I need to suggest that he narrow his advertising standards; I cringed when he gleefully read ad copy from a professional psychic.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I've been looking for some good podcasts for gym-related listening.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

when were you at the diesel? i was just at macintyre and moore.

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the plug!

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

X Minus One is one of the few old time radio shows I actively seek to listen to. Some of the stories are just wonderful. I would like the group to perform one at some point. In fact, I have a script for "Junkyard", which is one of the creepier episodes of the series.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Cool... I was thinking about mailing you or the whole gang about it, actually. Thank you for stumbling into my blog and saving me the trouble. :)

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[shibusashirazu.livejournal.com]

Among my stock of long-neglected cartoon characters is one named Imogene, who was based on the hippy girls who hung out in front of the UMaine student union. I'm sure they'd still be there if I went back.

Since the steps to the Union were removed in the Great Renovation and the entrance 'narrowed' the hippy congregation has largely moved on, at least in my experience traveling in that part of campus. Basically that entrance has been much more of a traffic thruway than a pleasant place to loiter. Like much of the Great Renovation it's a dirty rotten shame.

Sadly, some have forsaken their outdoorsy ways for lounging outside the food court, others must be elsewhere.

Thanks from Spaceship Radio

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad that you like my show and I thank you for the plug. Sorry about the "professional" psychic ad. Could you forgive me if I promise not to sell space to them anymore?