Rish Outcast

I meant to have a story this week, but I switched it with the next week's show. You understand. Well, this episode is a tiny bit out of date now, but here you go.  I was driving along, and I thought I'd say a thing or two about my dad, who lost all his chickens, and who gave me a bit of fatherly advice concerning a new car. "My father only gave me one piece of advice.  He said, 'Son, don't ever get married.  Go to sea.'"Sting If you'd like to download the episode, for some reason, Right-Click HERE.

On a roadtrip, I got lost and decided to podcast while trying to get back to where I was going.  So I decided to talk about the horror film THE BABADOOK.  Enjoy? If you feel up to downloading the episode directly, just Right-Click HERE.

Say kids, you remember "Birth of a Sidekick," the Western adventure I once shared with y'all?  Well, I wrote a sequel to it!  And what's more impressive . . . I actually published it.  What's more, Dave Krummenacher provided this (once again) excellent cover art: "A Sidekick's Journey" is the second tale in what somebody somewhere is calling The Sidekick Chronicles, and is considerably longer than the first story, which I wrote in 2005.  This one takes place a few weeks after the first story, and continues to chronicle young Benny Parks in Trueno, Arizona, where he was left after the death of his mentor.  Though there are challenges in his life, it looks as though Ben may get a second chance. It was a pleasure to get a chance to visit Ben again, and flesh out his world a bit.  If it's a pleasure to read as well, we may check in on him again before ten more years go by.  I'll try to come up with something. This episode of the Outcast talks about the book, and is relatively spoiler-free.  You can, of course, go o'er to Amazon and purchase "A Sidekick's Journey, right HERE. Or, if you really wanna be my friend, treat your ears to the audiobook performance, over on Audible.com at THIS LINK. Don't forget, to download this episode directly, simply Right-Click HERE.

Podcasting can be many things: a stage, a soapbox, a springboard for ideas, a confessional, an experiment, an artistic outlet, a pastime, a journal.  And, as I've said a time or two, free therapy. There have been a couple of episodes I've recorded while in a bad mood--either angry or despondent--and used this little forum as a way to feel better.  I think this may be the first of those to actually get released. Got something sunnier for you next time, though. Don't forget, to download the episode, simply RIGHT CLICK HERE.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled podcast for a bit of exercise.  Too much?  You be the judge. Shudder at the tale of Rish's recent brush with exercise. Of course, you're free to download the episode by right-clicking HERE. P.S.  As usual, I'm still after someone who can catalog all of Fake Sean Connery's songs, so I know which ones have not yet seen the light of day.

Recently, there was a contest of sorts over at the Paradise Lost forums, encouraging writers and would-be writers. They were doing a sort of take on the Broken Mirror Story Events that Big and I did on the Dunesteef.  Only these guys called it a Broken Mirror Story Event.  The assigned premise: "As you skip the rock across the water, you are surprised to see it come skipping back." I wrote this story for two reasons: one, to support fans of the show, who were influenced in a positive way by the Dunesteef.  And two, because why not write another story?  Why not . . . that would be a good motto to have. If you wanna download the file, just RIGHT-CLICK HERE.

A while back, I was going to do an episode of That Gets My Goat where I complained about people overusing/misusing the terms "deus ex machina" and "mary sue."  But Big canceled on me, so we didn't. Later, I was glad we'd not recorded it that night, since I was misusing one of them too. Let's talk about it anyway, shall we? Right-Click, you monkey.

Here's another episode of my solo podcast, to announce the publication of my first novel, "Into the Furnace." "Into the Furnace" tells the story of Sheriff Will Ford, who leaves a dead wife and a struggle with the bottle behind him, and moves out to New Mexico Territory to take over as the law in Bendo's Furnace, a small mining town that just keeps getting smaller.  It turns out that people (not to mention local animals and valuable livestock) just keep disappearing out there, and if anyone knows what's happening, they're not talking. It's what I've been told is a Weird Western, which means a genre story (in this case, a bit o' Horror and Fantasy) in an Old West setting.  The text version is available on Amazon.com right now at THIS LINK, with an audio version to follow (I'll drop another blogpost/podcast when that becomes available). I would greatly appreciate it if you'd go buy my book, and I'll put a discussion forum link HERE, just in case. If you'd like to listen to the first chapter of the book, as well as hear me talk about it while trying not to spoil anything, here's another Rish Outcast:    Or you can RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the episode for later consumption.

This is a quick episode I scraped together to tell you a recent tale of happy fortune, sing a little song, and mention my latest story. Next episode'll have to be about my book, I guess. Or I could keep procrastinating. HERE is where you'd Right-Click, if you wanted to download the episode directly.

This is another storyless episode, kids.  In it, I talk about a horror movie I had rented (it's called THE AWAKENING, starring Rebecca Hall and Imelda Staunton), and then about an idea I had for my own ghost story. I never did write it.  Although if you asked me to, I might just change my mind, and let you in my life forever. Yeah, I still like Celine Dion.  Wanna fight about it? If you want to download the episode, you might want to Right-Click here.  Then rethink your attitude.