EP039: My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie
Published by SFEley on 2 Feb 2006 at 4:40 am.
Discuss on the forums.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated X.
By Eugie Foster.
Read by the Word Whore (of Air Out My Shorts).
I don’t know how it happened. I’m the last person I’d go to if I were a zombie; I’m not into the occult thing at all. But I was the only friend Mandy had in this city, so she came to me with her sob story. Lucky me. So there she was, kicked back in my bed, having herself a good, long cry and I was stuck with her, wondering how long until she began stinking. That was really unfair of me, I know, but there was a goddamn walking, talking corpse snuggled up in my good sheets and I was a little concerned about it.
Rated X. Contains profanity, sexual situations, and the undead, in various combinations.
Referenced sites:
The Sci Phi Show
Tangent Short Fiction Review
The Town Drunk
Radio A.D.D.
24 Comments to ‘EP039: My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie’:
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Aaron Wormus on 2 Feb 2006 at 5:51 am: 1
Here’s my take on “Webfungus”
http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2006/02/02/webfungus.html
Simply, it’s Google’s fault. They choose the links to display, you click on them.
Sure, webfungus sites suck… but so do plenty of other sites. They are not forcing you to look at the site, Google is.
sal on 2 Feb 2006 at 12:34 pm: 2
So what was that NPR thingy Steve mentioned. I live in the UK… I dont get NPR.
Scott Janssens on 2 Feb 2006 at 1:55 pm: 3
The segment that mentions Escape Pod can be found here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5182721
Lar on 3 Feb 2006 at 4:27 pm: 4
Interesting story. I’m still digesting it. I loved the statement saying that not all Escape Pod stories contain homosexual undead. In fact, this was only the second. I nearly fell off the treadmill laughing.
Thanks for all you do.
PaulJ on 4 Feb 2006 at 10:04 am: 5
Great story, and a fantastic reading by tWW, whose ’straight’ delivery really worked.
Now, when are we going to hear Buttons?
Brad P. from NJ on 4 Feb 2006 at 2:45 pm: 6
This was a frickin’ hysterical story. I love tWW & Buttons, so hearing her read was a joy to be… hear…ld…
My favourite part of this story was the point when Dana tells Mandy they need to find a goup that deals with alternative religions…
Mandy asks, “You mean Unitarians?”
I almost fell off my bed I was laughing so hard. While you may find that most other religions may send you hate mail because of some reference, as a Unitarian, I can say I wouldn’t expect that you’ll be getting any from us…
until after the meeting… and dinner… and another meeting… and a congregational discussion… and another meeting… and maybe a potluck dinner…
Awesome work, everybody.
Chris M on 4 Feb 2006 at 9:55 pm: 7
Hey Steve another great story. More Lesbian Zombies please.
I have to take issue with using “webfungus” to describe link farms, as it gives fungus a bad name. Technically a bad fungus would be a parasite and a good fungus would be a saprophyte. A Portobello is a tasty saprophyte fungus. I would like to suggest using the term “webscum” as an alternate to “webfungus”.
p.s. this not to be taken all that seriously.
Chris
sal on 5 Feb 2006 at 8:33 am: 8
Ah… that NPR link is by Xeni Jardin who is one of the Boing Boing editors and a pal of Cory Doctorow. It all fits together.
-k on 6 Feb 2006 at 7:40 am: 9
Word Whore is an amazing reader. She does a great job creating distinct characters with subtle vocal changes.
Too bad she’s burdened by a story that sounds like it came from a sophomore writing seminar. Fun idea, poor execution.
Guy on 6 Feb 2006 at 3:55 pm: 10
This story vaulted right into my Top 5 EP favorites!
On the other hand … I checked out the ADD podcast. ???? Did you actually listen to it or did you recomend it just based on the promo ??? I have to say that I checked it out based on how much I like EP and the fact that the ADD promo “kicked-ass”. The A.D.D. podcast though … to be kind I’ll just say that it half what I described the promo as… and not the good half.
Loz on 6 Feb 2006 at 4:17 pm: 11
On the issue of how many episodes of ‘Escape Pod’ I would like a week, I’d quite like to keep it at one a week, but perhaps do the reviews and suchlike as a midweek special?
experimental error on 9 Feb 2006 at 12:54 am: 12
I hadn’t heard the term “link farm” before, but I like it. It’s immediately obvious what it means and brings to similar negative terms, like “puppy farm” and “degree farm”. “Web fungus” needs to be explained. Besides, I like fungi!
Opus1971 on 10 Feb 2006 at 1:58 pm: 13
Great story! Please get more from this author if possible:-) Oh and webfungus is a great term, I will be using it a lot
Thanks for the great show!
The Word Whore on 14 Feb 2006 at 7:32 pm: 14
Just wanted to thank you once more for the honor of participating in your wonderful show. Please never hesitate to call upon me in the future…
Keep up the great work!!!
JDW on 15 Feb 2006 at 1:36 pm: 15
experimental error mentioned the “puppy farm” and “diploma farm” — perhaps the other common phrase of “mill” (as in Puppymill, diploma-mill) might work to more powerfully suggest the ‘just churning em out’ idea of these things. Like others, fungus doesn’t really have a negative spin for me
“scum” might work - but the problem there is that it is already used in a more general sense
eh - how’s that for useless
(please excuse rambling - on post surgery pain management — WEEEE!!)
Kate on 13 May 2006 at 9:24 pm: 16
Great story. I listened to it stuck on a train, and it made the wait fun. I can’t imagine what my cabin-mates (box-mates?) thought of my laughter. I loved the ways the narrator was not too sure which was more distasteful, the lesbian thingy or the undead thingy.
And I’d go for web mold. I like fungii (portobello!), but mold is yucky and once it gets a foothold it expands across your walls and into your tile grout and caulking never to be removed again except with incredibly toxic bathroom cleaning chemicals.
I just discovered Escape Pod and as soon as I graduate and get a real job, I’m sending along regular payments. This is so worth it.
Thanks, Steve, for all you do.
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