Random Signal

To all my new listeners who found me via Geek Fu Action Grip, The DragonPage, or some other happy accident, welcome! You are all totally Airwolf! I've got a cold tonight, so it's less of me talking and more music, Christmas music to be precise. Song 1: It's Christmastime - Lee Harris (Available at www.soundclick.com and the Podsafe Music Network.) Song 2: All Around the World - Evil Wiener Song 3: The Day Monty Saved Christmas - Monty Jones (of The Ukulele Hipster Kings) Song 4: Xmas Bubble Gum Machine - The Sultans of Ping

Song 1: Lie - Tall Dwarfs A close look at the sinister secrets of Bally's 1976 Captain Fantastic (and The Brown Dirt Cowboy) pinball machine. (Coincidentally, the very same one mentioned in The Seanachai, episode 45: Lather, Rinse, Repeat.) Song 2: Lady Luck - Can Joann Dave's Long Box is my new favorite blog. Anyone even remotely interested in comics should check it out. It is totally Airwolf! Song 3: Black Friday - Music for Viola (More Christmas music from Lee Harris and The Lee Show can be found at Soundclick and The Podsafe Music Network.)

The talky parts were recorded early in the morning on an iRiver, so the sound quality is all over the place. Sorry about that. Only one song today: Leaves Do Fall - The Rosebuds The rest of my interview with 365 Tomorrows' Jared Axelrod. In this part we talk about his podcast, The Voice of Free Planet X, and I play a clip from Episode 4: Welcome To The Hotel Kraken. We also wax a bit philosophical about podcasting in general. Links from the interview: Magnatune Skepticality The Signal Geek Fu Action Grip The Seanachai

Happy Thanksgiving!!! For your holiday enjoyment, I play two songs and interview benevolent emissary from the future, Jared Axelrod. Please let me know what you think of this bold new experiment! Also, check out the Random Signal Frappr map. Songs: Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton You Are the Golden Snitch by Billy Sugarfix Podcasts shouted-out: The Comicology Podcast Evil Genius Chronicles Song-a-Day Podcast The Voice of Free Planet X Links from the interview: 365 Tomorrows 365 Tomorrows store AxelHead store Lulu Don't forget you can meet Jared and the rest of the 365 Tomorrows crew at PhilCon! (December 9th-11th)

Recorded at 7:30 am, a feat made possible by wonderful, glorious, life-giving coffee. Song 1: Albacore - Palomar What I've been up to in my first three months at Lulu:The 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize - the world's first literary prize for books based on blogs and other websites. SAM, World's Ugliest Dog 2006 Calendar (Warning: this dog is seriously ugly!) Recent books I have read/am reading: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll by Nick Tosches Special thanks to Jared Axelrod, of The Voice of Free Planet X podcast for the bump. He is also a contributor to 365 Tomorrows sci-fi flash fiction blog. Song 2: Blue Bird - The Rosebuds (also check them out on MySpace and Merge Records)

Songs: Cannot Eat Better Not Sleep - The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers The Fountain of Youth Dries Up in an Election Year - The Physics of Meaning Links: Bu Hanan Records Blue Sun Shirts Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Best. Carwash. Ever.) Stickers:

It's a Halloween music spooktacular! 1. I Eat the Living - The Creeping Cruds (Buy it here!) 2. Spleen - Veronique Diabolique (also www.myspace.com/veroniquediabolique) 3. Godzilla - Bad News Bats 4. Black Cat Black Cat - Evil Wiener (also check out Billy's Song-A-Day podcast!)

It's finally starting to feel like Fall around here, which means, of course, that pretty soon I won't have to worry about mowing my lawn for a few months! The Duke University Podcasting Symposium went well, at least the small part of it that I was involved in did. I had a great time, and I hope they invite me again next year! I am starting to worry that this show is too eclectic to ever find a big audience. Too much geek? Not enough? I wonder... Oh well, let's talk about giant squids instead! And beer. In particular, the World Beer Festival in Durham, NC (this weekend) and the newly legal (in NC at least) high gravity beers. Hoorah for beer! Spoiler Alert!!! Beware my rambling look at Lost season two if you're not caught up with the show. And of course, there's a song... "Malthus, Thomas Robert (1809-1882)" by Artichoke

Tonight I attended the reception for the Duke University Podcasting Symposium. I'll be on the Triangle Podcasters panel tomorrow afternoon along with: Mur Lafferty - Geek Fu Action Grip Brian Russel - Audio Activism Dave Warner - Dave's Lounge Anne Bramley - EatFeed Michael Geoghegan of Reel Reviews (and Grape Radio) was also there, as was Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles. I'm afraid Mur and I might have bored Dave to death. Sorry Dave! For those of you who can't make the Symposium, it will be webcast live. I'm finally on iTunes! The best part is I never got around to submitting my feed. Yet there it is. (Maybe if I wait a little while longer, I'll magically have a logo.) Just one song tonight... Down at Columbia and Cameron - The Physics of Meaning

"Fuller, Richard Buckminster (1895-1983)" by Artichoke (dedicated to Derek from Skepticality) More on Dragon*Con 2005 with specific mentions of Geek Fu Action Grip, The DragonPage: Wingin' It, The Brobdingnagian Bards, The Signal, and The Seanachai. I'm going to be part of the Duke Podcasting Symposium! (September 27-28, 2005) I'm also buried in a back-log of podcasts and comics. "Just There" by Kapow! Music (www.buhananrecords.com) I'll post pictures of my Starman costume soon! "Siamese Hearts" by David Karsten Daniels (www.buhananrecords.com)