Derek Coward
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Oct 8 2016 - No Hot Takes
In this episode, I am obsessed with airline status; my media lockdown puts me in a weird position regarding catastrophes; Penn Jillette is a great entertainer but no longer a thought leader for me; Tee Morris is an example of my outrage fatigue. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 11 2017 - Heroescon Preview with Derek Coward
In this episode, Derek Coward and I do a preview of this year's HeroesCon with lots of anecdotes and opinions of comic book creators. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 11 2017 Links mentioned in this episode: Support this show on...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 7, 2015 - Aspirations and Reality repost
Note: this was originally posted with the wrong episode attached. I tried to fix it and it seems like problems persist so I am just creating a whole new post so that subscribers will get it. Sorry for the problems, listeners. On the upside, the number of people who noticed and cared was pretty...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 7, 2015 - Aspirations and Reality
In this episode, I play a song by Steve Conte; I talk about the smallness of what prevents action; I talk about beer and how the term "session beer" kind of impugns the craft beer movement; I discuss ceasing to drink sodas; I talk about topics that came up from Marc Gunn's and Derek...
read articlePull Box Picks - Satellite Sam / DDOP Day 17
I am ill, so today is a repost of an episode of Pull Box Picks that I did for Derek Coward's Reader Feed. In it, I do a brief review of another of my current favorite comic books, Satellite Sam from Image Comics. Here is the direct MP3 download for Pull Box Picks: Satellite Sam. You can subscribe...
read articlePull Box Picks - Velvet/DDOP Day 11
Today is a departure from the normal format. It is a repost of an episode of Pull Box Picks that I did for Derek Coward's Reader Feed. In it, I do a brief review of one of my current favorite comic books, Velvet from Image Comics. Here is the direct MP3 download for Pull Box Picks: Velvet. You can...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 4, 2013 - "Feeling Superior"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 4, 2013. I talk about engineering out failure points from life; I bring up an irksome conversational trope; I talk about my new Kindle Paperwhite; and I discuss the unsung nature of podcaster Derek Coward. You can...
read articleMy New Podcast - Pull Box Picks
Out of the blue, I started doing a new podcast for Derek Coward's Reader Feed called Pull Box Picks. I decided I wanted to do a review show of short episodes I could record in my car, and Derek has generously built such a platform for podcasters. It's a meta-feed made up of various focussed...
read articleMore Heroes Con Wrapups
More Heroes Con wrapups come in. I'm glad I got to meet and hang out with Derek Coward. I was a little surprised that the show was not as explicitly social as many such gatherings. Had I known that you could get in with only a wrist band like a record show, I'd have brought my own name badge. I...
read articleAt Heroes Convention
I'm here in Charlotte a few blocks from the convention center. I'm looking forward to attending Heroes Convention tomorrow. They just had a piece on the con on the 11 PM local news that makes me even more anxious to get there. I brought my full want list of comics I'm looking for, a few issues of...
read articleComic Book Noise's Best of the Year
I'm a regular listener to Comic Book Noise. As I get back into collecting comics, it's one of the tools I use to figure out what books and series sound interesting to me. Derek recently published a show about his top picks for 2008. Here is Part One, As far as I can tell, there is not yet a Part...
read articleMevio/Podshow "Never Believed in User-Generated Content"
Yesterday I got an email from Derek Coward, pointing me to this pair of articles: one about Podshow changing their name to Mevio, and another about how Mevio was focusing on professionally produced content, as opposed to that shitty stuff that they've focused on for the last three years, I...
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