My Life In Fandom
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 30, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #27"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 30, 2013. This episode covers my time in the Portland OR area and my very pleasant interactions with PDX fandom. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 29, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #26"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 29, 2013. I talk about the fallout of the GEnie shutdown and the disappearance of the SFRTs. I cover mainly three venues: SFF.net, Dueling Modems and Usenet, specifically rec.arts.sf.written and neighboring...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 28, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #25"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast on August 28, 2013. This episode of "My Life in Fandom" is about some of the SF cons I attended in the 1990s. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 27, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #24"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast on August 27, 2013. I talk about Reality Break, the radio interview show I did first for WREK and later on the public radio satellite system thanks to KRVS FM in Lafayette LA. I tell the whole story, starting from 1992 through...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 25, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #23"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 25, 2013. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 24, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #22"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 24, 2013. The story has reached the first few years of the 1990s, and I talk about my failed crack as an aspiring writer. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 23, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #21"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 23, 2013. This time, the whole show is about one convention - World Fantasy Convention 1992, in Pine Mountain GA. I talk about walking around trying to find interview guests for my budding radio show Reality Break;...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 22, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #20"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 22 2013. In this episode, I talk about my first brushes with online fandom in the form of Compuserve and GEnie; the Hypercard stack I used for offline reading; rubbing virtual elbows with famous science fiction writers;...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 21, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #19"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 21, 2013. In this episode, I talk about the comic books I was buying in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 20, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #18"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 20, 2013. I talk about my experiences with Dragon*Con, from 1990ish to the present. Doing live remotes from the show floor; being a Z list guest in the green room and other good times. You can subscribe to this podcast...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 19, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #17"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 19, 2013. For this outing, I discuss Oxford Books, including Oxford Too and Oxford Comics. Riding the #23 MARTA bus up Peachtree, buying comics records and good stuff in the old house up the hill, going to a Neil Gaiman...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 18, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #16"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 18, 2013. More discussion of the science fiction literature that formed me into the kind of reader (and person) that I am: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Frank Herbert, John Brunner. I...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 17, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #15"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 17, 2013. The fandom series continues with me discussing my love of cyberpunk, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, and JG Ballard. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media....
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 16, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #14"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 16, 2013. In this episode, I focus on the Castlegate hotel and the various fun times I had there, from skeezy record shows to Dixie Trek, Phenomicon and graduation parties. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS....
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 15, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #13"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 15, 2013. This time I talk about fan clubs, being in the Harlan Ellison Recording Collection and the Nomads of the Time Stream - the Michael Moorcock fan club. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 14, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #12"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 14 2013. In this episode, I return to the fandom series. I talk about my early days in Atlanta fandom, going to the Science Fiction and Mystery Bookshop, not going to the 1986 Worldcon in Atlanta, subscribing to science...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 12, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #11"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 12, 2013. On this episode, I talk about my second Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1985, about staying in a hotel without parents for the first time and basically becoming a grownup in fandom. You can subscribe to this podcast...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 11, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #10"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 11, 2013. On this episode, I talk about my first Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1984, and my entrance into the world of fandom proper. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media....
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 10, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #9"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 10, 2013. This episode is about our fanzine in Augusta Georgia in the 1980s (which was technically an APA). You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 9, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #8"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 9 2013. This episode is about working in comic shops, working as a vendor at comic conventions and driving dangerously loaded trucks as a teenager. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 8, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #7"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 8 2013. In this episode I veer away from science fiction and comics fandom and talk about dialing in to BBS boards around Augusta GA in the mid 1980s. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 7, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #6"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 7 2013. This episode is about my first comic shop experiences through becoming a comic shop employee. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 6, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #5"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 6 2013. This episode is about discovering Dungeons and Dragons, finding families of science fiction nerds and buying paperbacks at the hobby shop. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 5, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #4"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 5 2013. This episode is about the point where I found other collectors via zines and magazines and started reaching out to other fans via the USPS. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 4, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #3"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 4 2013. This episode covers the period where I and my friends began ordering comics from Westfield Comics and what that did to small town comics fans like us. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 3, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #2"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 3 2013. This episode is all about going to spinner racks and soda fountains and being at the mercy of spotty small town distribution. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 2, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #1"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 2 2013. This is my first episode recorded specifically for The Dog Days of Podcasting, and is the first entry in my series exploring my history in fandom. This episode is all about those coverless comic books of sketchy...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 1, 2013 - "My Life in Fandom: Issue #0"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 1 2013. This is my first episode recorded specifically for The Dog Days of Podcasting, and is my introduction to my series within the series about my life and history in fandom - fantoms of comics, science fiction, punk...
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