Archive for March, 2008
Escape Pod 151: Behind the Rules
Show Notes
Rated R. Contains strong language and relationship drama.
Today’s Sponsor:
Infected by Scott Sigler
Closing music: “I Feel Fantastic” by Jonathan Coulton.
Behind the Rules
By Stephanie Burgis
The first Jacqui wrote me out a list of instructions thirty pages long. It contained all her history with Robert, in detail. It gave me a list of all the things to say and do when he’s hurt, or angry, or depressed. I think she was the perfect wife. When I think about how hard it is to measure up to her, my stomach feels twitchy.
I’d been doing this job for three months. It was supposed to get easier with time, not harder.
Escape Pod 150: This, My Body
Show Notes
Rated X. Contains graphic sexual and culinary scenes.
Today’s Sponsor:
Infected by Scott Sigler
This, My Body
By Jeremiah Tolbert
I am the lover. I am the chef. I am the preterite priest.
I am the secret, unknowable ingredient. You may taste me a thousand times, but never hold my essence on your tongue or capture it in your memory.
I am the flavor of ecstasy. Taste me and know God.
–Prayer of the Assaisonnement Saints
Escape Pod 149: Union Dues: All That We Leave Behind
Show Notes
Rated R. Contains profanity and violence.
Today’s Sponsor:
Referenced Sites:
Union Dues: All That We Leave Behind
by Jeffrey R. DeRego
If I just lay here they will get tired and leave. They can’t hurt me all that much; my body is too hard now, too strong. But I can’t let on that their kicks and punches don’t bother me or who knows what they’ll do next. So I’ll lay here, curled up in the grass like some lump of igneous rock cast from a far away volcano.
“You fat assed son of a bitch! Talk to Loreen again and I’ll kill you! You understand me? I’ll beat your fat lazy ass to death!”
I bet his foot is starting to ache. My stomach is big, but it’s not soft. Not anymore. Not since last month when the change happened. We don’t have a lot of money so my wardrobe is still designed for a three hundred pound teenager, the kind with an almost unnatural love for pizza and potato chips. I still sort of look the same. But I am different, I can feel it. The rolls of flab that once encircled my belly and back are nearly gone, replaced by rippling muscle. My arms and legs are like tree trunks. I could rip Scott’s arms and legs off and beat his torso like a kettledrum. Well, if I wasn’t terrified.
EP Metacast #3
The third “state of the podcast” address. Full text of an earlier draft can be found on our forums.
Closing music is “Ya Famous?” by George Hrab. Used with standing permission. Be sure to check out the Geologic Podcast as well.
Escape Pod 148: Homecoming at the Borderlands Café
Show Notes
Rated PG. Contains heavy racial and political themes.
Referenced Sites:
Decoder Ring Theatre
Homecoming at the Borderlands Café
By Carole McDonnell
We don’t see a lot of mixed couples around here, and we’re not like some of the other states in the Confederate United Republic. It’s not like they’re gonna get killed or lynched or nothing. But it’s tough just the same. And although it’s weird enough that they’re an interracial couple, it seems to me that they’re arguing about something bigger than merely coming into this café.
I don’t know any Blacks. You got to go to Laramie, or Cheyenne to see them. But I watch Cosby when it’s on. The Confederacy ain’t as bad as the folks in Columbia might think. Sure everyone’s segregated, but it’s all equal and the Platte County school district is pretty good about African-American History Month.