Mur Lafferty
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 12 2021 - Insensitive to the Assless
In this episode, I play a song by Paul Melancon; the last few weeks through the end of the year is beating me down; things aren't your fault but they are your responsibility; conservatives love market forces until they have to compete for workers; I couldn't listen to Unchained's episode with the...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 26 2019 - Empty Glass of Nothing
In this episode, I play a song from Sarah Shook and the Disarmers; I may be suffering from "podcast block"; I have the bad habit of a daily defamation; Brian Koppelman and Mur Lafferty are compassionate while I am a dick; I am using Trakt.tv to manage my TV and movie queue; I remember the...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 20, 2015 - Humanity
In this episode, I play a song from Paul Westerberg; I talk about internet controversies, the culture of dehumanization and violence we live in; I conclude by relating how I feel as a parent to how I felt the victims should deal with harassment. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius...
read articleKickstarter Hatred
I am currently listening to Episode #2 of Ditchdiggers with Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace. They are discussing the Stacey Jay Kickstarter fiasco and how the YA community gave her enormous grief about asking for readers to support the creation of her work. Which is the basis of EVERY KICKSTARTER...
read articleKick Start My Heart
At CREATE South last week, we had an informal pitch session at which I primed the pump by going public with some of my skunkworks projects, one of which is an independent documentary idea that I've been kicking around for years. In it, I mentioned that I thought I could bring the project in for...
read articleReading List for my Social Media Vacation
I have purchased a few books on my Kindle recently that I'm going to read during my "social media vacation." Like almost every Kindle purchase I've ever made both of these were impulse buys. I still need to write up my big post about how big publishers are completely missing the impulse...
read articleMy Dragon*Con Schedule
Here are the things I'll be doing at the upcoming Dragon*Con convention. I'm trying to get things together and have created Facebook events for them. I'm doing one live taping of Reality Break and then two of the three other panels are ones I suggested and am moderating. That's a little heavier...
read articleBalticon 2009 in Strobe Flashes
I'm really bad at doing thorough con wrap-ups, as evidenced by the fact that I usually don't actually finish them. I though about presenting my Balticon 2009 wrapup as a compressed novel in honor of the recently late but always great JG Ballard but that turned out to be really difficult. Imagine...
read articleGreensboro Weekend
Last weekend I power drove to Greensboro NC to attend Converge South. I've been to three of the four they have put on and always had a good time. I was also a co-organizer of the Saturday event to fill the space when BlogHer cancelled, which was a tad stressful but also fun. Things really started...
read articleThis Saturday after Converge South, the Day That is Not BlogHer
If you are going to Greensboro this weekend for Converge South, don't forget that we are doing a spontaneous make up day to fill in the hole left by BlogHer when they cancelled their Saturday session. Kelby Carr has organized a morning of panels and I have disorganized an afternoon of hands-on...
read articleNew Reality Break Episode: Mur Lafferty
For those of you who don't subscribe to my other podcast project, this is just a heads up. My interview with podiobook favorite Mur Lafferty that we recorded at this year's Dragon*con has been posted at the Reality Break podcast site. If you are one of her many fans, you should check it out. It has...
read articleDragon*Con Wrapup Part 1
Here's my wrapup of this year's trip to Dragon*Con. This is probably about the latest I can do it and have my friend brain cells intact enough to remember things. It might should go without saying that there is a looooong post warning, but I'll try to spice it up with enough pictures to keep some...
read articleNew Reality Break Episode is Live: Bruce Sterling!
It is belated, but Reality Break #5 with Bruce Sterling is up and live. In order to make up ground and repay listener patience, I'm going to accelerate the timetable for the next few episodes. I aim to put up the interview with Mur Lafferty this weekend and the one with Tobias Buckell the weekend...
read articleMur Lafferty Live Interview at Dragon*Con
I have an hour slot to record at Dragon*Con, which will be Friday at 10 PM. I just posted over on the Reality Break site that I've booked Mur Lafferty to be the guest for the live Reality Break episode. The plan is to do both a Reality Break and an EGC clambake episode in the allotted time. First...
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