Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 27, 2008 – “Thankful For You”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 27, 2008. I play a song from Camper Van Beethoven; I discuss what I’m thankful for; I talk about the fragile first few minutes of a podcast and how you can lose me in them; I talk about trying and failing to get [...]
Tags: android, campervanbeethoven, comicbookdb, gtd, iwantsandy, onion, onionradionews, scad, seqalab, shannonwright, siderunners, twitterSpare Me From Black Friday
I’m making a blog post of a recent FriendFeed message of mine:
god help me if getting up at 4 AM to go to a store and do shopping ever seems like a good idea. Whatever the day and store and the product and the deal, until the breadlines get really long my self respect still [...]
Free Services are Not Free
As my post about hating Twitter gets traction, the main thrust of pushback to my stance seems to be this: “Hey dude, it was a service they provided to you for free, get over it.” That is, to put it bluntly, bullshit. You don’t get to play that card. I Want Sandy didn’t have a [...]
Miracleman Explains Money
Via Derek Coward comes this link to a blog post the re-posts an old page from Miracleman that explains what money is and where it comes from. That is, right before it was abolished. As it happens, getting back into my comic collection means that I just touched my Miracleman issues for the first time [...]
Tags: comics, miracleman, moneyI Hate Twitter
I went for a long time resisting Twitter, then I joined and liked it for a good while. Eventually I grew weary about Twitter’s downtime and disingenuity and their rolling back of the feature set. Meanwhile, I liked FriendFeed from the first time I used it and the value of it has consistently gone up [...]
Tags: friendfeed, iwantsandy, twitter, valuesofnEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 23, 2008 – “Indie Band Survival Guide – Part 2″
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 23, 2008. I play songs by Beatnik Turtle and present the second half of an interview I recorded at Dragon*Con with Jason Feehan and Randy Chertkow about their book the Indie Band Survival Guide. “I Don’t Want to Work Today” is my favorite [...]
Tags: beatnikturtle, dragoncon, indiebandsurvivalguideSlow Time in Blogville
Wow, I’ve only posted twice in the last nine days and both of those were about the Gentle Readers show. I just haven’t had a lot of urgency to blog. No doubt that posting to my FriendFeed account is part of that. I’m already posting 20 times a day, just not here.
Compounding it, there was [...]
The Gentle Readers Rocked
We went to Atlanta last weekend and I got to see the Gentle Readers play. It’s an increasingly rare occurrence that they perform a show and I never know when it will be the last time, so I really wanted to go and catch them one more time. It was great, although I was probably [...]
Tags: gentlereadersI’m Going To See the Gentle Readers
It is true, dear friends. This weekend we will be going to Eddie’s Attic in Decatur GA to see the beloved band of the EGC theme song, the Gentle Readers. They’ll be “opening up” for the Susi French Connection. I quote the word because basically almost all of the members of the Gentle Readers are [...]
Tags: eddiesattic, gentlereaders, susifrenchconnectionEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 11, 2008 – “Indie Band Survival Guide – Part 1″
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 11, 2008. I play songs by Beatnik Turtle and present the first half of an interview I recorded at Dragon*Con with Jason Feehan and Randy Chertkow about their book the Indie Band Survival Guide.
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First Pass of Comics Done
I’ve entered everything I could on my printout into ComicBookDB. The next pass involves adding issues and/or titles to the database that don’t already exist in it. I’ve been pulling out copies of those issue and also ones that exist but need a scanned cover. I’ve uploaded around 10 covers so far. There are 90 [...]
Tags: comicbookdb, comicsWhat You Don’t Know About Obama
The Republican campaign spent six months trying to work up a sense of fear about “what we don’t know about Obama.” Well, here now is a list of 50 facts you may not have known about Obama. As someone just going back and (re) computerizing his comic book collection, I liked that the number one [...]
Cataloging Comic Books
Every so often for the past few years, I’ve been looking for a good solution for computerizing my comic book collection. As I tentatively get back into collecting them, I’ve got a good solid mess of things that were once cataloged, added since, and just loose in unorganized boxes and piles. I wanted to get [...]
Tags: comicbookdb, comicbooks, comicsHyperlocal coverage of Conway SC Mayoral Elections
Over on the Grand Strand Bloggers site I have begun covering the Conway mayoral election. It’s kind of an experiment for me. I was hyped up by Ruby Sinreich’s presention at Converge South about the work she does with Orange Politics and decided I’d like to try my hand at this. If you live in [...]
Tags: conway, conwaymayoralelection2008Congratulations President-Elect Obama
I feel good about the election. Even though I have remained at arms length with Obama because of his failure to embrace true progressive positions, he ran an extraordinarily well organized and remarkably clean campaign. Where McCain/Palin tried to throw in fud about his associations and emphasize his otherness and use lots of code words [...]
I Voted
I cast a vote today for a black man for President of the United States. Sure, there have been black candidates for the last 36 years. I strongly considered voting for Lenora Fulani in 1988, the first black person to be on the ballot in all 50 states. It is a historic day, and although [...]
North Carolina TV
I’m in a hotel room in North Carolina. During the 11 PM news I believe 3/4 of all ads were campaign ads. I thought it was hard to take in South Carolina, but this is bad. One commercial break was a succession of alternating Kay Hagan and Elizabeth Dole ads. I don’t know how you [...]
Steve, It’s Open Source
Via Doug Kaye comes this link to a new version of the Gillmor Gang. This might well be the best one yet. I’m just waiting for the Andrew Keen puppet. Maybe I should build one and start competing with Feldman!
Tags: gillmorgang, lorenfeldman, opensourceponytail, podcasting, stevegillmor“Dave Slusher, Local Comic Book Fan”
I can live with the label in the title. I was interviewed by Roger Yale for this weeks cover article in the Weekly Surge (the Surge is weird about permalinks, follow that link quick if you want to see the actual article) about the XCon in Myrtle Beach. I was highly worried when I talked [...]
Tags: rogeryale, weeklysurge, xcon, xconmyrtlebeach
