Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 4 2018 – Flooded with Work

In this episode, I play a new song from John Howie Jr.; I talk about the flooding in my area and watching a functioning municipality break down; I discuss how my day job has trained me to be panicky and how to fight that; the first time you see something work is the best part of computer programming; I end with an update on my DIY Bookscanner project.

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Evil Genius Chronicles for August 10, 2017 – DDOP 10: Conway SC

In this episode, I discuss my current home of Conway SC!

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 4 2015 – Dog Days of Podcasting 1

In this episode, I answer two questions from James Ghofulpo: Why did I move to Conway SC and do I ever re-read my comics?

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Nerdist in Kansas

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In this Nerdist episode where Chris Hardwick talks solo with Robert Patrick, towards the end they talk about driving alone across the country. Patrick is talking about doing it on motorcycles, and Hardwick mentions a drive where he found lots of great little towns like … Hays, Kansas.

This is not news to any of my high school friends, some chunk of whom went to Fort Hays State University. It is a cool little college town. I think of it as a big city, due to the relative size of the small towns I grew up in. When I look up the data, its population in 2010 was around 20,000 people. The town I live in now, which I think of as a small town has a population of 16,000.

Hays is where my mom went back to college to get her teaching degree. In the summer of 1980 my brother and I lived on campus with her, and had a great time of it. We rode bikes all over the campus, we found the stores with the best comic books and went to the summer film series at one of the theaters where we saw Steve Reeves Hercules movies and various Ray Harryhausen swashbuckler films.

The whole reason I know it is 1980 is because I remember watching David Letterman’s morning show in that little married student housing apartment. One of our neighbors was a psychology student and I remember her administering the gifted test multiple times as she tried practiced giving it. I suggest that one reason I always score high on those kinds of tests is regardless of what natural aptitude might be there, I have more experience taking them then most people.

Hays is a nice little town, and western Kansas still holds a warm place in my heart. Also a cold place in my heart, is it is both the hottest and coldest place I’ve ever been. I was glad I went back to Norton for my 25th high school reunion a few years ago. Kansas gets a lot of guff when people talk about driving cross country. True, it is a wide state, most of the width of Texas, and will take a day to get across. If you do drive through, you could do a lot worse then spend some time in Norton or Hays or both.