Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, circa January 17, 2012. This episode is one of a new format recorded in my car, but sounds better than I would have expected. I talk about having the longest running podcast (once this gets published); I talk about finishing the first draft of my novel and doing small amounts of work consistently over time; how to try to get more podcasts done and how to get through life. It’s a short one, trying to get in a new groove.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now was our sponsor: (Still) Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• Rock and Roll Geek Show
• Drew Domkus
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: drew domkus, podcast, rock and roll geek show

Out of the blue, I started doing a new podcast for Derek Coward‘s Reader Feed called Pull Box Picks. I decided I wanted to do a review show of short episodes I could record in my car, and Derek has generously built such a platform for podcasters. It’s a meta-feed made up of various focussed sub-shows. As far as I can tell, mine is now the only one on there that isn’t focussed on specific characters or series. I might have broken the premise but oh well. I flat out love a few of the shows in that feed such as Ronin Rabbit about Usagi Yojimbo, Devil in Your Ears about Grendel, and the Love and Rockets show.

I’ll put the first episode here in my feed as well. On it I give my review of the new series from Boom Studios Elric: The Balance Lost. I’m torn whether to do it with all episodes or just this one. I’ll let the EGC subscribers tell me. The default is just this one, but if popular sentiment runs the other way I have no problem putting them all in.

I had so much fun doing the first episode. I recently received my newly purchased Zoom H2 Recorder. I spent the drive into work profiling how different settings sounded, and on the drive home I recorded this show. I did another one today that I’ll upload soon. I’ve been highly non-prolific with the EGC podcast for years now, and the baby doesn’t help anything. The fact that I haven’t gotten around to recording my seventh anniversary show is telling. Recording a five minute show about comic books, doing minimal editing and uploading it to Derek feels like podcasting heaven to me. Perhaps this is how I get my groove back.

Tags: comib, comic book noise network, derek coward, podcasting, pull box picks, reader feed

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for July 4, 2011. I play an acoustic song from J Mascis; I talk about being a new dad; did you know that lemon cake is particularly sad?; I play a song from George Hrab and Phil Plait; I discuss my growing disdain for all forms of cults of personality; I discuss the Dropbox terms of service fiasco in the writing community; I play a song by Low and head back to the diaper pail.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now our sponsor: Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• J Mascis
• Buy the new J Mascis album Several Shades of Why at Sub Pop
• George Hrab’s Geologic Podcast
• Buy George Hrab’s album Trebuchet from CD Baby
• Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog
• Dropbox terms of service
• J. Daniel Sawyer attacks the Dropbox TOS
• Low, the band
• Buy the Low album C’Mon from Sub Pop
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
  
• My FriendFeed

Tags: drew domkus, dropbox, george hrab, hover.com, j daniel sawyer, j mascis, low, phil plait, rock and roll geek show

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 9, 2011. I play a holiday song from Jill Sobule that is actually almost an anti-holiday song; I talk about the various communities that I’ve been in over my lifetime and how I’m retreating somewhat from the frenzy of social media into some of my oldest surviving online communities; I talk abut getting jealous with my time and withdrawing from projects and sites that aren’t doing it for me; I play a song from Alejandro Escovedo; I talk about loving the new Love and Rockets comic; I talk about my blog post about Colleen Doran vs. digital piracy; I discuss Dave Sim, Cerebus TV and Locus Magazine; I play a song by Jaill and call it good.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now our sponsor: Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• Jill Sobule
• For the love of Dobbs, buy stuff from Jill Sobule!
• SFF.net, the spirit of the GEnie SFRT abides
• AmigoFish stays alive!
• Alejandro Escovedo
• Buy stuff from Alejandro Escovedo
• Love and Rockets #3 available from Fantagraphics
• Cerebus TV
• Locus Magazine, the news magazine of the science fiction community
• Subscribe to Locus Magazine online
• Jaill, the band
• Buy the newest album from Jaill
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
  
• My FriendFeed

Tags: alejandro escovedo, amigofish, colleen doran, gentle readers, hover, jaill, jill sobule, locus magazine, love and rockets, sff.net

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for October 10, 2010. I play a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch; most of this show is an extended mediation on friendship and putting in the time, showing up and being there. It also includes music from The Arts and Sciences and George Hrab.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now our sponsor: Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• Buy Hopeful Monsters from The Arts and Sciences
• Listen to Deliberate Noise
• George Hrab
• Buy Trebuchet from George Hrab
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: deliberatenoise, george hrab, hedwigandtheangryinch, hover.com, paulmelancon, the arts and sciences

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 19, 2010. I play a song from George Hrab; I talk about about the new addition to the family and my reaction to a post on Boing Boing; I play a song by the Beatnik Turtle that I co-wrote with them; I talk about shutting down AmigoFish and starting up Ebooks From TV; I play a song by Boiled in Lead and hurl … myself into the future.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now our sponsor: Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• George Hrab
• Buy Trebuchet from George Hrab
• Beatnik Turtle
• “Drunk Man’s Junk” at the Song of the Day
• Rock and Roll Geek Show
• Good Clean Fun
• Boiled in Lead
• Buy Alloy from Boiled in Lead
• Ebooks From TV
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: beatnik turtle, boiled in lead, ebooksfromtv, george hrab, good clean fun, hover.com, rock and roll geek

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 20, 2010. I play a song from the newly reformed Vaselines; I talk about anti-nostalgia, and harken back to the beginning of this podcast; I play a song by the Gentle Readers; I tell the story of how I come to love the music of the Gentle Readers; I talk about my lack of needing to convince anyone much of anything; I play a song by Camper van Beethoven and we begin the seventh year of this thing.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now our sponsor: Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• The Vaselines
• Buy the music of The Vaselines
• Camper van Beethoven
• Buy New Roman Times by Camper Van Beethoven
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: camper van beethoven, gentle readers, podcast, the vaselines

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 7, 2010. I play a new song from George Hrab; I talk about the new sponsorship by Hover.com; I talk about my increasing divergence from the rest of the online digerati about the value of gadgets; I discuss my trip back to Kansas for my high school reunion; I play a song by the band Carissa’s Wierd [sic]; I talk about how my side projects are beginning to cause thrash and despite that, I want to publish an old school paper zine and do more projects that have something you can touch; I play a song by 3canal that makes me chair dance and then dance into the sunset.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Hover.com is now our sponsor: Use coupon code EGC to save 10% on domain registrations
• George Hrab
• Buy George Hrab’s album Trebuchet from CD Baby
• Carissa’s Wierd [sic, that's how they spelled it]
• Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
• 3canal [warning - link autoplays music]
• Buy 3canal’s Joy + Fire from CD Baby
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: 3canal, carissa, carissas wierd, george hrab, hover.com

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 30, 2010. I play (most of) a song by Phil Rossi; I do a recap of my time as an impromptu guitar tech; I recap CREATE South 2010; I play a song by Mudhoney; I talk about my experiences so far with Baltion 2010; I play a song by Jonathan Coulton as a belated birthday gift to spring. This episode was actually recorded onsite at Balticon 2010.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Phil Rossi
• Buy Phil Rossi’s book Crescent
• CREATE South 2010
• Graham Smith, social media artist
• Mudhoney
• Balticon
• Jonathan Coulton
• Buy Best. Concert. Ever. by Jonathan Coulton
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: balticon, create south, create south 2010, crescent, jonathan coulton, mudhoney, philrossi

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 21, 2010. I play a song by Chris Yale; I discuss the uproar in the podcast world following JC Hutchins’ recent post and my own shifting feelings about new media; I play a song by Paul Westerberg and pull the rip cord.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Chris Yale
• Buy the Chris Yale album Well Enough Alone
• CREATE South 2010
• AmigoFish podcast recommendation engine
• The Peakecast
• Paul Westerberg
• Buy Paul Westerberg’s album Stereo
• Deliberate Noise
• Rock and Roll Geek Indiecast
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed

Tags: amigofish, chris yale, create south, create south 2010, paulwesterberg

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 8, 2009. I play multiple songs from the 1970s San Francisco punk scene; I talk about why I decided to do NaNoWriMo this year even though I wasn’t really ready for it; I talk about discovering interesting facts about the late 70′s San Francisco and the luck that Gimme Something Better was released just in time for me to write this book; I lay out the plan I think gay activists should use to get gay marriage if they really want it. With that, I skank to the beat on out of here.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• NaNoWriMo
• Gimme Something Better book site
  
• Gimme Something Better at Amazon
  
• Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: gimmesomethingbetter, nanowrimo, punk, sanfrancisco

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 27, 2009. I play a song from Fugazi; the bulk of this show is an extended eulogy to the late great Thomas Peake; I play a song by my friends in Stovall and try not to weep my way out.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Fugazi
• Buy the Fugazi album In On the Kill Taker
• Thomas Peake
• The nascent Thomas Peake podcast, the Peakecast!
• Stovall
• Buy Stovall’s True Story
• Gentle Readers
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: fugazi, stovall, thomas peake, wrek

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 15, 2009. I play a song from Chad VanGaalen; I talk about post-Dragon*Con longings; I play a snippet from George Hrab’s Geologic podcast; I talk about my desire to pursue Collection Drawer as a sponsor; I discuss how the boring clerical parts of comic book collecting makes me happy and how you know when you’ve picked the right hobby; I play a song by Blitzen Trapper and say good bye to a good dog.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Buy an Evil Genius Chronicles Stuff Package
• Chad VanGaalen
• Buy Chad’s album Soft Airplane
• George Hrab
• Geologic Podcast
• CollectionDrawer.com
• Blitzen Trapper
• Buy Blitzen Trapper’s Black River Killer EP
• XCon Myrtle Beach, my local comic book convention
• Gentle Readers
• Dragon*Con
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: blitzen trapper, chad van gaalen, collection drawer, dragoncon, geologicpodcast, george hrab, xcon myrtle beach

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 8, 2009. This show is my wrap up for Dragon*Con 2009, at which I had one fantastic time. I start out with an anecdote about the late great Thomas Fuller of the Atlanta Radio Theater Company; I talk about the panels I was on and the fun time I had interviewing Keith R.A DeCandido; I talk about the fan things I did and the demography of the con; I discuss the bad vibe I get from aggressive jock guys in the Dragon*Con space; I talk about playing my first ever game at a con at a table of strangers; I retell the writing of my song collaboration with Beatnik Turtle and the wacky hijinks around its release; I play the song itself and then laugh myself out of the show.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Atlanta Radio Theater Company
• Keith R.A. DeCandido
• Bob Burden
• Darwyn Cooke
• Are You the Traitor?
• The Scotchcast
• Beatnik Turtle
• Song of the Day
• Gentle Readers
• Dragon*Con
• Ewan Spence
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: are you the traitor, artc, atlanta radio theater company, beatnik turtle, bob burden, darwyncooke, dragoncon, ewanspence, keithradecandido, scotchcast

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 31, 2009. This show is entirely a conversation I had with science fiction author James Patrick Kelly about this upcoming panel at Dragon*Con and how the podcast world can be useful to the writing world. We discuss how he got started podcasting his fiction, what information would have let him make different and better decisions, ways writers can use new media to their advantage, how repeatable the early experiments are at scale and much much more.

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:

• James Patrick Kelly’s website
• James Patrick Kelly’s podcasts
• Gentle Readers
• Dragon*Con
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: dragoncon, jamespatrickkelly, pod4writers, pod4ww

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August, 2009. I play a brand new song by Rocket City Riot; I talk about the first five years of this podcast, how I got here and where I want to be and where I want to go in the future; I play a special song from the Gentle Readers; I celebrate our medium in my own special way; one more brand new song from Rocket City Riot and it’s on to the second five years of this show.

My MP3s didn’t have an album name in the metadata, but in fact the Rocket City Riot album is titled Saturday Night Angels.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Rocket City Riot
• Buy Saturday Night Angels from Rocket City Riot
• Gentle Readers
• Dragon*Con
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: dragoncon, gentle readers, rocket city riot

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for July 26, 2009. I play a song by Wolf Parade; I play a sponsorship announcement from Bob’s Institute of Time Control; I talk about vacationing in the North Carolina mountains and trying to refocus on what is important; about enthusiasm for and history of new media as it waxes and wanes; I talk about conventions I have and will attend; once again I take a dump on podcasting awards and then play some angry lo-fi punk from Pissed Jeans to seal the deal. Take that!

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Wolf Parade
• Buy Apologies To The Queen Mary from Wolf Parade!
• Balticon
• Heroes Con
• Dragon*Con
• The Church of the Subgenius
• Pissed Jeans
• Buy King of Jeans from Pissed Jeans, kids!
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: balticon, church of the subgenius, dragoncon, gentle readers, heroescon, pissedjeans, subgenius, subpop, wolf parade

I’ve been having a hard time getting the show produced lately. I had planned to do an episode this weekend but my MacBook is fighting me every step of the way lately. Because of all these problems, I’m filling in the gaps with the audio of a panel I was on at Balticon 43 a few months ago. The panel was conceived of and moderated by Thomas Gideon, and my co-panelists were Patrick McLean and Earl Newton. If I recall correctly, this was the morning after I had met Earl for the first time and hung out with him for a few hours late into the previous evening.

I enjoyed being on this panel and I’d like to thank the other three guys and all the attendees for making it a good one. Here is the audio for your enjoyment.

Tags: balticon, earlnewton, patrickmclean, the command line, thomas gideon

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 22, 2009. This is my first ever episode recorded in a car. I give a wrapup to our 2009 CREATE South conference; I play my goto song for this kind of topic by Alana Davis; I then talk about Balticon and why from here on out I will be attending science fiction conferences with a podcast track and probably not any pure tech-centric or commercially organized new media conferences.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• CREATE South
• Alana Davis
• Buy Surrender Dorothy from Alana Davis at iTunes!
• Balticon
• Dragon*Con
• This podcast’s Ustream channel
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: alana davis, balticon, create south, create south 2009

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 6, 2009. I play a song from Glass Eye; I talk about CREATE South and Balticon and Dragon*Con, about organizing a conference and what we are trying to do with CREATE South in Myrtle Beach; I play a solo song by Kathy McCarty, talk about my Kindle and my social media timeout; I close out with another Glass Eye song.

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:

• Glass Eye
• CREATE South
• Balticon
• Dragon*Con
• Kathy McCarty
• Kindle 2
• This podcast’s Ustream channel
• My FriendFeed
• Sign my Frappr Map!

Tags: balticon, create south, create south 2009, dragoncon, glasseye, kathymccarty, kindle