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EGC Introduction and Disclaimer

dave — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:42:08 +0000

A welcome to this podcast and an introduction to what this is all about

EGC Clambake for August 19, 2008 - “Fourth Anniversary, Big Whoop”

dave — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:17:14 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 19, 2008. I play a song from Rocket City Riot and then try and fail to read some user mail; I play a song by the Harvey Girls; I discuss this being the fourth anniversary of this podcast, why I started doing this show and why I continue and how I feel about the state of our medium; I mention New Media Expo and Michael Geoghegan and the “death of podcasting”; I play a song by Glass Eye and then groove my way on into the night.

This turns out to have been an unusually foul-mouthed episode. I guess it happens when you wind the monkey up. That’s why I disclaim this up front, kids.

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Rocket City Riot
The Harvey Girls
New Media Expo
Michael Geoghegan’s presentation on the death of podcasting
Nicola Griffith
Kelley Eskridge
Glass Eye
The Gentle Readers
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EGC Clambake for August 4, 2008 - “Vacate”

dave — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:31:20 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 4, 2008. It’s a short show, as I talk about going on vacation and play some Amy Ray. See you on the flipside, tanned and relaxed like Richard Nixon.

Links mentioned in this episode:

EGC Clambake for June 29, 2008 - “Reality Break Lives”

dave — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:38:43 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 29, 2008. I play a song from Chris Christensen and Mark Schultz; I talk about the Reality Break podcast and tell some tales from the radio show that preceded it; I mention a little bit about the class I taught and what the proceeds are going to buy; I play a song from the incredible Gentle Readers and then gamble into the sunset.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Super Secret Project X is Live!

dave — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:28:57 +0000

So I’ve been hinting about Super Secret Project X for a very long time. At this point it has been over a year. The delays were many and for reasons too boring to think about but now everything is straightened out and ready to be revealed. SSPX is actually the return in podcast form of my radio show Reality Break. In order to make kind of a splash and get some attention here at the beginning, I opted to go straight for a big guest for the first episode so I am starting off with my 1998 interview with Will Eisner. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Rather than the freeform chaos of EGC, the whole Reality Break program is designed to run like a machine. Every two weeks on Saturday night I will post new episodes, beginning on June 29th. It is more sponsorship friendly than EGC, so if you want to sponsor the show or may know someone that does, drop me a line. This should be a lot of fun. I have over 200 interviews on tape from the 1992 - 1998 time frame with science fiction writers, fantasy writers, comic book writers and artists and more. My plan is to alternate newly produced episodes with ones from the archives although that may not be a hard and fast rule. The mix may change but there is a huge boatload of material I want to get back in the public sphere.

Many thanks to a few people behind the scenes who helped out. One is actor, writer and musician Bill Mumy, who was kind enough to license me the Reality Break theme music. That’s another reason to sponsor the show - Bill has a piece of the action too so help some brothers out! Bill is a great musician and songwriter, and from the first moment I heard the Reality Break song at the Heroes Convention in 1991 where Seduction of the Innocent played, I knew I one day wanted that as a theme for a show. It sets a fun happy tone that just makes everything great.

Another person I must thank is my long time friend Mike Fisher, who did the CGI logo. I’ve known Mike since I was a teenager working in a comic shop in Augusta GA. Mike did the original Reality Break logo and as the state of the art advances, he did another fantastic updated one for this incarnation of the show. Mike does great videos so I really encourage you to go to his site and get his comics or his DVD. I have it and it is a real hoot, fun for the whole family.

I’m very excited and very nervous to finally unveil this project. Everything is not perfect yet and the timing could be better but I’ve been delaying so long for so many different details that I just opted to go with it. It’s now or never, so let’s make it now! I have an audio promo available for the show, and I’d really appreciate if you would play it in your programs. Whatever karma I may have built up in this world so far, I need to draw on some of it now. I’ve been involved in this project in one way or another for the last 15 years and I’m delighted to be able to give this material a new airing and to get back in the studio and do new interviews with my favorite people. As I always said on the show, “Who can’t use a Reality Break now and then?” Come take one with me.

Listen to Me on Good Clean Fun

dave — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:05:43 +0000

I very seldom put external files in the feed here. In fact I’m not sure if I’ve ever done it before. I want to for this one. As far as I’m concerned this was part of the EGC canon. I really enjoyed being on Good Clean Fun with Butler and Jasper. Balls were busted, jokes told, people were ragged on and we discussed how none of us were excited by Blood Feast.

Here is the link to the MP3 file itself. If all works as it should, this will show up in the RSS feed and with a little player in this post just like any episode of my show. Thanks again to Michael and Jasper for letting me play in their sandbox. I’ll do it at least one more time, when I come back on to discuss my favorite film of all time,

George A. Romero’s Knightriders. I can’t wait! Let me know what you thought of the episode, and if you are a Butler or Jasper fan following me back to here, welcome.

EGC Clambake for May 31, 2008 - “Listening and Puking”

dave — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:12:58 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 31, 2008. I play a song from Corb Lund; I talk about playing poker and why I love it; I talk about my podcast listening queue and shows that I am both loving and not loving; I talk about my travails trying to get City of Heroes set up on my MacBook; I talk about my first ever teaching gig in the new media world; I tell a story about and then play a song from Boiled in Lead and then walk myself out into the heather to do what needs to be done.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Corb Lund
Buy Corb Lund Stuff!
Inkstuds
Gillmor Gang
Good Clean Fun Space
Spoleto Today
City of Heroes
Boiled in Lead
Buy Boiled in Lead Stuff! Honestly, please buy some.
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EGC Clambake for April 29, 2008 - “CREATE South Wrapup”

dave — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:47:39 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 9, 2008. I play a song from Alana Davis; I talk about our CREATE South conference and how it went, and our goals for the next year; I play a song by Chris Yale and then dance me to the end of love.

Links mentioned in this episode:

EGC Clambake for March 30, 2008

dave — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:06:19 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 30, 2008. I play an audio promo for our Create South conference, and a song by Chris Yale. I talk about the new MacBook that I’m doing the show on, apologize that things aren’t quite the same when I reach for them and about how I feel like at age 40 I still need adult supervision. I talk about screwing up seeing the Siderunners play live and then play a live Siderunners song. I walk down the well worn hallways of discussing the economy and our scary economic times. I play an unreleased track by the amazing Jill Sobule and mention her interesting album funding project.

The audio on this show is not perfect by a long ways, mostly in the levels. This were just weird enough on new versions of the OS and Quicktime that I had a hard time getting everything the same. By next show I hope to have these kinks worked out.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Create South
Chris Yale
The Siderunners - Get live tracks there!
Jill Sobule
Jill’s Next Record project
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Create South Audio Promo

dave — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:21:41 +0000

Here is a downloadable audio promo for the Create South conference. It is Creative Commons licensed Attribution, which is more or less impossible to use without attributing it since the promo is its own attribution. For those of you friendly to our project, if you’d throw this in your own podcasts or even just your podcast feed I would be highly appreciative. If you are subscribed to the podcast feed you should just get it anyway in your podcatcher. Thank you!

EGC Clambake for March 7, 2008

dave — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:45:39 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 7, 2008. Lightening up from the previous episode, this one is all Subgenius. I play a song by K. McCarty, I do a little bit of Subgenius preaching for the first time ever, and then I play my interview with High Church Muckitymuck Doctor Philo Drummond of the Puzzling Evidence program. Philo’s interview starts slow but really cranks up to overdrive when it gets going.

Kathy McCarty
Philo Drummond
Puzzling Evidence show
sacred Subgenius info - get saved now or miss the pleasure saucers!
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EGC Clambake for February 24, 2008

dave — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:02:22 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for February 24, 2008. It is one long speech about the state of the American nation, how we have gone wrong and continue to go wrong, how we have sacrificed the important moral aspects of our nation because we are scared for our safety; how we have a choice and it might be the last choice we ever get; I play a song by Camper Van Beethoven and deliver my eulogy for the nation I thought I once lived in.

EGC Clambake for February 3, 2008 - “Disillusion”

dave — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:48:14 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for February 3, 2008.

I play a rocking, honky tonking boogie woogie song from the Two Dollar Pistols; I discuss a sad anniversary; I talk about how my former hero is no longer of any interest to me; I play a song by Viva Voce and collide my world on out of here.

This episode’s egregious error of fact: Viva Voce did not come down my Sub Pop feed, they are in fact on the Amore!Phonics label. I’m really not sure where I got the MP3 from now.

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To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5.

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EGC Clambake for January 13, 2008 - “Getting it Together For One More Year”

dave — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:39:42 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 13, 2008.

I play an uplifting song from Thacker Dairy Road; I talk about rebooting GTD and getting my projects rolling; I lay out why this show is the first one of the post-Bittorrent era; I talk about the endless podcasting advertising debate and why I think it is the wrong question; I play a song by the The Thermals and head off to get things done.

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS.

To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Thacker Dairy Road
Kent Nicholls on the podcasting money debate. I could link to more, but just navigate from there.
The Thermals
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Update: It isn’t the most auspicious debut for a new method of publishing to screw up the very first file you try, but that is what happened. Sorry for the confusion, those of you who got the previous show labeled as the new show. Those of you subscribed via a client that groks bittorrent may get the shows again as well. I’ll try not to overload it all at once.

EGC Clambake for December 24, 2007 - “New Media XMas”

dave — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:22:12 +0000

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for December 24, 2007.

I play a holiday song that is a big favorite around here from Jill Sobule; I talk about Xmas and the “War Thereupon” and celebrating as an atheist; I rail against consumerism; I talk a little more about the Zune that Ken Kennedy sent me and my experience watching 18 month old vlogs; I mention the “Dave 100″ project; I play a song by the Two Dollar Pistols and head off into the eggnogosphere.

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS.

To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5.

Links mentioned in this episode:

EGC Clambake for December 2, 2007 - “Shindigs and Doing Stuff”

dave — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:11:29 +0000

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for December 2, 2007.

Played a song by Chris Yale; I talked about my evening at the South by Southeast fundraiser; I segue from that into our ideas for our Myrtle Beach conference;

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS.

To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Chris Yale (Buy his CD from there)
South by Southeast
ConvergeSouth
Podcast Expo
Name the Myrtle Beach conference
Shepard Fairey
Elvis Mitchell interviews Brian de Palma
Two Dollar Pistols
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Technorati Tags: briandepalma, chrisyale, convergesouth, elvismitchell, newmediaexpo, podcastexpo, sheppardfairey, southbysoutheast, twod