Archives for May 2005
Logo!
Published on 30 May 2005 at 12:35 am.
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If you’re looking at our main page right now, you can see Escape Pod has a new logo. If you’re looking at the RSS feed instead, click back over, it’ll be worth the couple seconds.
This terrific rendering is the work of my good friend Doug Triggs, geek outdoorsman and 3D artist extraordinaire. Check out his Web site for some other fine work, and help me convince him that he really ought to be selling this stuff.
And if anyone here has a driving need for a promotional image to help spread the word, hey, don’t let me stop you:
Geek Fu Action Grip
Published on 27 May 2005 at 11:20 pm.
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I just caught up with the last six episodes of Geek Fu Action Grip today. I’d heard Mur Lafferty’s essays on The Dragon Page for a while, but I’ve been sadly remiss in tracking back to her own podcast.
She’s smart. She’s got a great voice. She understands the virtues of Babylon 5. She can rant about babies and gaming in the same sentence. She’s a SF/F writer. And she’s sarcastic.
I have a new geek crush.
EP003: Three Wish Habit
Published on 26 May 2005 at 2:06 am.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
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-->By Janni Lee Simner.
Read by Jonathon Sullivan.
The man opens his hand, the one that’s been in his pocket all this time. A shiny brass bottle lies there, small in his large palm. A band of flowery, unreadable lettering is etched just beneath the narrow neck. Otherwise the surface is flawless: no dents, no scratches, no dirt.
My hands tremble; my heart pounds so loud I have trouble thinking. That’s the real thing he’s holding, no doubt about it. He might still be a cop. But I flip into park, and roll the window down.
Rated PG. Contains some profanity, vehicular violence, and poor judgment.
The Serenity Spoiler Review
Published on 26 May 2005 at 12:22 am.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated G, SF/F News.
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-->(Clarification: No, this isn’t a real spoiler review. It’s a joke, okay?)
Escape Pod #3 will be up later tonight. It’ll probably be uploaded at the same time some of you will be in one of twenty theaters around the country, watching the unfinished preview screener of Serenity.
(Note: an earlier version of this same rant appeared on the Slice of SciFi podcast earlier this month. If you’ve heard it twice… C’mon, it was funny both times, right?)
EP002: Feng Burger
Published on 19 May 2005 at 1:09 am.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By John Aegard. Read by Stephen Eley.
The Chinese are particular about their designs, and for good reason. A design with good feng shui — one that satisfies the universe’s sense of metaphor — attracts chi, the energy that raises mountains and pushes rivers and draws good fortune near and keeps tax collectors far away. Whether by accident or design, no one can say, but the Burger Pods have potent feng shui. Where normal men would see nothing but gleaming stainless-steel cabinets and a charbroiling grill, a feng shui practitioner would see arms and hands, cradling the Burger Pod’s occupant and bathing her in chi.
Rated PG. Contains sexual innuendo, mild profanity, and food service employees slacking off.
The Seanachai
Published on 16 May 2005 at 11:38 am.
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A great podcast I just discovered this morning. A seanachai was an Irish bard or storyteller, and Patrick McLean has nailed the art of packing an entertaining story into a five minute (give or take) podcast. His voice is excellent, his sound production is clean and diverse, and above all, his stories are fun. The one about the man who stole a semi truck full of nickels was all it took to get me hooked.
Schedule
Published on 16 May 2005 at 9:45 am.
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Just a clarification, as I realized it wasn’t mentioned anywhere here:
Escape Pod is a weekly podcast. New issues will be released here on Thursdays. Exactly when on Thursday may be variable, although hopefully it won’t be just before midnight again.
Between Thursday releases we may put up other content on an irregular basis. It could be simple blog posts like this one, with genre news or book reviews or mentions of other interesting sites; or we may podcast short “flash” fiction pieces, or anything else that amuses us.
So it’s worthwhile to check here often. But if you can’t do that, check here late Thursday or early Friday. Even better, point your RSS newsreader or podcatcher at us and let it all happen automagically.
Any questions?
EP001: ‘Imperial’ by Jonathon Sullivan
Published on 12 May 2005 at 11:18 pm.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
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-->Our debut issue!
Dennis blinked through his dripping eyelashes at the irresistible abomination seated on the blue-green grass two meters in front of him. The Pig smiled her bio-engineered leopard-smile at him and kept her right hand prominently in contact with the stun-gun at her hip.
He stared, too choked with shock, desire and tepid river water to speak.
Rated R. Contains profanity, sexual content, politics, and sarcasm.
