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 … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 26 2019 – Empty Glass of Nothing

In this episode, I play a song from Valley Lodge; I discuss the work trips to India and Louisiana; I love a lot of science fiction literature but I don’t like urban fantasy – expecially Harry Potter and especially especially the voice acting of the audiobook; I do love cyberpunk; I finished Game of Thrones … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 7 2019 – I want My Fantasy Grungy

In this episode, I play a song by Five Eight; I discuss how bands really need to get their metadata right; I reminisce about the CREATE South conference; I am catching up on my podcast backlog; not going to Dragon*Con makes me less sad than you might think; the Axis of Evo never happened; Ken … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 31 2019 – Laboring Through Days

In this episode, I talk about Otter.ai being partof my workflow; digitizing my radio history; figures that have gone from ubiquitous to forgotten in my lifetime; cyberpunk remains my favorite genre; Cory Doctorow has a certainty that I envy; our culture suffers from certainty poisoning; RIP Lois Edgerly; Andre Pope is struggling. Here is the … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 12 2019 – Certainty Poisoning

In this episode, I play a song by the Kreelers; I went to Iron Maiden; accept the invitations that don’t make sense; The Bachelor live show makes me crazy; podcast network promos encourage me to leave; I am winning the war with clutter or at least fighting to a standstill. Here is the direct MP3 … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 2 2019 – Smugness is the Brand

In this show, I play a song from Cats Laughing; I discuss the new setup in my podcasting rig and the mechanical failures that led to it; I am trying in vain to avoid spoilers for Game of Thrones ; I am slowly winning the fight against chaos; there is a lot of pleasure in … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 17, 2019 – Winning the Fight Against Chaos

In this episode, I play a song from Glass Eye; I discuss how life is full of thousands of micro-decisions about broken things; no mobile app is as easy to use as the commercial; some people are chaos sources and some are chaos sinks; I discuss why I have no real interest in the debates … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 29 2019 – Life is a Series of Broken Things

In this episode, I play a song from John Howie Jr; I talk about attending DevRelCon in San Francisco and how I have a weird job; I have become easy with people in a way I once wasn’t; dealing with people that almost agree with you is hard; reheating yesterday coffee; I’m maybe not woke … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 9 2019 – It’s the Heart You Have that I Want

In this episode, I play a song from the new Siderunners album; I talk about how much I like the Do You Need a Ride podcast and why I don’t listen to Dan Benjamin anymore; I don’t care about Ken Jennings, any game show or reality show contestants; reality shows drove me away from television; … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 29 2019 – No Need to Pull Gs

In this episode, I play a song from Valley Lodge; I discuss my work trip to Las Vegas with a lot of detail in how I play roulette and my experiment with the reverse Martingale betting strategy; I talk about how even as an extroverted type in a public facing role I can have enough … Continue reading Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 12 2019 – The Reverse Martingale