Empty Checking with Derek Brink

As mentioned in the last episode, no new episode this week, but here's a quick reminder to send in your emails to [email protected] for episode #100! It'll be recorded and uploaded next weekend so you've got a *little* time...but it's running out quick!

God's holy trousers! There's a new episode of Empty Checking! In this long-awaited return you're getting a half-year report on music that has come out in 2021 and also my review of a couple books by Tatiana de Rosnay. This is episode #99, which means episode #100 is up next! I'm taking two weeks between because I want to get some listener mail in to read on the show and I want to give you plenty of time to send it in to [email protected] (or to comment on the Podbean page or at the companion blog at http://emptychecking.blogspot.com). Thanks so much for your patience and support. It's good to be back!

In this 8 minute almost-episode I explain that my computer isn't letting me into my account but my phone is. Who knows? I also babble about The Tragically Hip and Gord Downie for a little while. So we're getting close! :)

Talk to you soon!

Look...I had too much vodka before recording this...but basically I promised to record a new episode for 6/20. And I think I meant it this time. Thanks for your patience. This has been a very difficult period, but I'm glad I have this outlet. new episode on Father's Day. I mostly promise. Probably for sure. Maybe. Probably. Listen to the thing. If you want. And so on.

Quick update on when the show is coming back. Kinda. Sorta. Thanks for your patience! You're the best fans in the...thing!

Quick update on the show. We'll be back to normal soon. Just not today. Thanks for your patience.

Quick update from my phone on the state of the show. It'll be back as soon as I can get it back...but we're not there yet.

A brief update on why there's not a new episode. and why I don't know if there ever will be. (I'll probably find a way to do more, but I have no idea when or how. Next week? Next month? Next year? We'll have to wait and see.

Thanks for your time.

In a FREQUENTLY delayed episode (see http://emptychecking.blogspot.com for details on that) I finally talk about some of the art hanging on my walls and the subjects related to it. We cover Kurt Vonnegut, Bone by Jeff Smith, Star Trek, Rush, and Leonard Cohen, amidst the typical babbling.

Also, in two episodes, we'll be at #100! I'd like to make that episode all about the listeners, so please submit some comments and questions at either the Podbean page, the blog above, or by e-mailing me directly at [email protected]! And check out the blog for a TON of photos on this one! Thanks as always!

Time Index:

0:00 - Intro, including an appeal for questions for episode #100!

13:45 - Music Break #1 - A new song from an upcoming album!

14:15 - ART! Part One. - Kurt Vonnegut: Asterisk, etc. / Jeff Smith's Bone, by the rocks and elsewhere.

47:18 - Music Break #2 - More of the same song!

47:48 - ART! Part Two. - Star Trek Posters

55:24 - Music Break #3 - Even MORE of the same song!

55:54 - ART! Part Three. - Rush: The Canadian Gothic. / Leonard Cohen's skull and a naked lady.

1:17:17 - Music Break #4 - Somehow there was still MORE of the song left!

1:17:49 - Outro

Sorry, Checkmates...no real episode this week. Instead you get me complaining about the work being done on my bathrooms (and the serious personal pain it's causing me!) for 5 minutes. We'll be back hopefully next week, depending on the progress, of course. Always remember to check http://emptychecking.blogspot.com if you don't see anything in your feed and I'll hopefully have said something there. Thanks for your five-minutes!

-Uncle Derek