Join us at the table and chow down on a podcast full of tender, succulent information. Our main course today is “long pig”, aka “human flesh”! How does it taste? Who are some of history’s most infamous cannibals? Was there any cannibalism in World War II? You’ll even hear about people volunteering to be cooked and eaten alive! This episode features “Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals” by Raymond Scott.
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Cartoon de Jour of the Day of April
Caustic Soda Podcast
Episode 1: Shark Attacks
and Episode 2: Parasites
are now up on iTunes and causticsodapodcast.com
Episode 1 is also on rantmedia.com
More to follow shortly
Go get ’em!
Caustic Soda: The Podcast
I am 1 of 4 creators and 3 hosts of a new podcast called Caustic Soda.
We’ve already got over 100 fans on Facebook and the first episode has only been out for 2 days! Each episode we take a different gruesome topic like shark attacks or radiation and look at the science, history, current events and pop culture facets, all with an inappropriate amount of levity.
You can listen or download it at http://www.causticsodapodcast.com or on iTunes
2d20 Gaming Convention
Attention all gamer friends: For my birthday this year (I’ll be 2d20 years old) I’d like to organize a gaming convention. You may recall I founded the Vancouver Gaming Guild and about a decade ago I was helping to organize 2-4 cons a year. I gave that up to focus on other projects such as Second Level Wizards Awesome Events Society but I’d like to do one more con at the Marpole Curling Club in July. I need help – GMs, special guests, people to run demos of hot new games, and mostly a commitment to shell out $6-10 bucks for a Saturday of good nerdy times.
If you’re willing to do any of these things, please join this Facebook event!
June: Acts of Violence Comic Anthology
I’ve finally been given the go-ahead to announce the comic project I was working on for so long. The story by Critical Hit Comics’ Todd Ireland & Kevin Leeson* called “Reggie-Town”will be one of four stories in the anthology “Acts of Violence” – in fact it’s the longest story of four. The book is going to be in the April previews so order this sucker from your local comic book store and pick it up in June.
Here are a couple of preview pages which unfortunately do not show the lettering by the ever-perspicacious Ed “New Reliable Press” Brisson.
*(Those of you who remember my covers from Outnumbered #5 and #6 will recall they were published by CHC)
Click on the pics below to make them LARGE. And yes, Aaron and Chris, my handsome and talented models of users and pushers, I’ll have a copy for each of you!
Happy 40th Year of Not Dying Horribly
This June 28 will mark my 40th birthday, in which I carry on the tradition of my father and my father’s father and my father’s father’s father of continuing to live (past 39).
All I want for my birthday is a week-long gaming fest in which I can play D&D and Gamma World/Mutilator and Savage Worlds and Mouseguard and Mutants & Masterminds. Is that too much to ask? If it’s not, how about all that plus leftovers from my X-Mas wish list?
- The new Ghostbusters game for XBox 360
- Ponyo on the Cliff DVD (the one with japanese language and english subtitles)
- Miniatures from Hydra Miniatures. Sadly Strategies Games cannot order them for me.
- Home Movies: Season Four (1999)
- Space Ghost & Dino Boy
- Powerpuff Girls Complete Series
- Birdman and the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
- Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection, Volume One (1946)
- The Hilarious House of Frightenstein: Vol. 1
- Tenacious D Complete Masterworks 2
And if anyone is still reading, I happily accept used DVDs. In fact I’d rather you get them from a thrift store than from WalMart or Chapters (do they sell DVDs at Chapters? I don’t know I never go in there.)
Slow Day = Miniature Browsing
It’s dead at work so I’m browsing gaming mini websites.
There are some good ones on armorcast like this steam-powered buddha.
They also have lots of cool steampunk robots and post-apocalyptic terrain. One of my favourites is the ingenius ‘soda can topper’:
Upside down soda/soft drink cans look cool as storage tanks, but what do you do about the depression in the top of the can? Armorcast has solved the problem for you with Soda Can Storage Tank kits. You supply the cans and Armorcast provides a base with recesses for two or three upside down soft drink cans and detail pieces that fit into the tops of the cans. Drink a soda, build gaming terrain and recycle at the same time!
I Want A Podcast for Christmas
Over the past few days I’ve been consumed with the idea of starting a podcast, but it’s one of those things you don’t want to yap to everyone about because if you never end up doing it then you’re just one of those people who yaps about doing something they never do. But here I am, a-yapping.
Every podcast should be weekly, but everyone knows I don’t have time to set aside an evening every week so I’d probably do a long recording once every 3 weeks and edit it into 3 separate downloads over the course of 3 weeks. I also don’t have time to set up the recording, edit the recording, upload the episode and nurture the associated web site/facebook group/forum/whathaveyou. So what I’m saying is, I need help.
Plus every podcast is best with at least minimum 2 people (maximum 3). I occasionally listen to WFMU’s The Best Show and the first quarter is useless because the host just talks to himself and it’s just not entertaining. So optimally whoever handles the technical aspects would also be a bitchin’ co-host. I don’t want it to be The Toren Atkinson Podcast.
Speaking of which, I find introductions and theme songs a real drag. More wasted time and bandwidth. Expecially when I’ve got 20 pods on my mp3 player and I’m trying to figure out which ones I’ve already listened to, I have to fast forward through a minute of “this podcast is brought to you by” and bad music and “welcome to episode 45 my name is Jonny Dull and I’m here with Sammy O’Predictable JUST LIKE EVERY TIME!” One thing I like about the Speedway Squad podcast is they don’t introduce themselves until well into the episode.
On my podcast we’d shoot the shit, talk about current events (especially in science), criticize people on the bus who eat tuna, interview guests, and have lots of wacky segments. Even a little music maybe, but again – NOT at the beginning of the show. I’d been toying with the idea of having a setting, as if the podcast was recorded in a post-apocalyptic future and somehow sent backwards to the present, but that would kind of preclude having guests that want to promo their own real-life stuff, or talking about current events.
What would I call our podcast? The Secret Underground E-Bunker? Signal to Noise? Claw Claw Bite? Congeries Quisquiliarum (latin for pile of crap)?
BLOG ENTRY PART 2: What existing podcasts are the good ones?
ASTRONOMY CAST – I love science and space! But the downside of this is it can be dry, especially if you’re not well versed in astronomy. I usually tune out when they talk about theoretical quantum mechanical-type stuff. I just want to know cool facts about stars and planets.
COMEDY DEATH RAY – This podcast is almost flawless. Great comedian guests.
DISCOVERY NEWS ‘FRIDAY NEWS FEEDBAG’ – Three guys from the Discovery Channel compete with science news stories. Besides the science angle which as I said, I like, the hosts do not take their podcast seriously – as well they should not!
NEVER NOT FUNNY – another comedy podcast. Always entertaining, but this is one of those podcasts with an annoying theme song and only the first half of the show is free.
NPR SCIENCE FRIDAY – Ira Flatow is one of those interviewers who does his job well enough, but like Bob McDonald from Quirks & Quarks, his jokes are never funny. Great science though!
QUIRKS & QUARKS – See notes on Bob McDonald above. I usually only listen to the episodes that have topics that interest me, and there are some doozies, like the Aug 19 2006 show on happiness & evolution.
SCIENCE WEEKLY (UK’S THE GUARDIAN) – Another science news podcast that is actually entertaining, no small thanks to the youthful glibness of Alok Jha.
SKEPTICALITY – content is hit and miss, and more dry than Astronomy Cast as the hosts just read off of paper. Not sure why this is still on my list.
SKEPTICS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE/SGU 5X5 – Fascinating, nice and long, and again mixing science with hosts that are entertaining to listen to.
SPEEDWAY SQUAD – Drunken ramblings and not of it politically correct.
STOP PODCASTING YOURSELF – local comedians – get to know them!
TEDTALKS – arguably the most enlightening seminars you’ll ever hear. Also on youtube and tedtalks.org or some such.
THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE – Sciencey, sometimes entertaining, always stilted & awkward.
WFMU’S THE BEST SHOW WITH TOM SHARPLING – Worth listening to when there are good guests like Paul F Tompkins or John Hodgman.
YOG-SOTHOTH.COM CTHULHU PODCAST – sketchy production values but content of interest for the true Lovecraft fan.
Oh, Internet
Here’s a thread from imdb that enforces my love/hate relationship with the internet:
It does make me want to draw an illustration however….
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