Episode 57 – Friends, Family and Feedback

Our News

Finds

  • Viv
    Hat tip to John Taylor Williams for linking to this one in twitter – “What Made for a Successful D&D Birthday Party” from the blog “The Mule Abides” as he explains how he successfully shared Dungeons and Dragons with 8 and 9 year olds at his sons’ birthday party. He’s now started a company hosting these parties in the NYC area. You can email tavis@adventuringparties.com for information on hiring his service.

We have audio from Paulette Jaxton on her newly released novel, Empress Sword. Available for purchase from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.


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Episode 56 – Don’t Call It A Comeback, We’ve Been Here For Years

Announcements

  • Phasing-in a new format
    • Sharing finds
    • New web site look
    • Perhaps new theme music
    • Considering a new segment for cross promotion – if you’re a friend of the show, meaning you’ve been on or had a promo played you are, standard dependent, welcome to join us or send audio to promote your new podcast, book, project or whatever. If you’ve not been featured on the show, send it along and we’ll review it for compatibility with our show!

News

  • Viv
    • Medication change after a terrible result from going medication free.
    • Taking the semester off and getting old projects completed and starting new ones.
    • Running and exercising again after a 2 month lapse due to sinus infection, Cipro concerns, ankle problems and icy conditions.
    • LT’s birthday, 14. Girls, drums, girls, friends, girls and girls.
  • Chooch
    • DbK album update (and new recordings)
    • Return to Facebook
    • Writing – Short story for Philippa Ballantine’s Geist, novel, secret project and …
    • Very Scary Art project by Helen Madden

Finds

  • Viv
    • Drunk History – Web series by Derek Waters. Probably NSFW or for young kids since the historians are visibly drunk and the language is not ‘G’ rated.

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Episode 55 – Holiday Survival? Just Barely.

In this episode, we discuss:

Promo: Flying Island Press

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Episode 54 – Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 3

We happily lured beloved friend P.G. Holyfield into the burrow for a media review (He’s also the brilliant author of Murder at Avedon Hill), and ended up talking for over four hours. We are breaking it into tasty pieces for your enjoyment. This is the final part of the series.

In this episode we discuss:

Television

  • Modern Family
  • Castle
  • Firefly
  • House
  • Red: Warewolf Hunter
  • The Guild
  • The Office
  • Glee
  • Bad Asronomy
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  • Kitten Mittons
  • Dick Towel
  • Star-ving (David Faustino web series)
  • (bleep schisse at around 1 hour mark)
  • 30 Rock
  • Studio 60
  • The Soup
  • Community
  • The Nerdist Podcast
  • South Park
  • The Simpsons
  • Family Guy
  • Medium
  • Weeds

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Episode 53 – Holiday Update

We’re interrupting our presentation of multi-episode media review with P.G. Holyfield to give an end of the year update.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Thanksgiving Fun
  • Turkey Trot – 5k Race. Viv completes a 5k for the first time EVAR!
  • Dinner at the Thomas and Andrea Gideon’s.
  • Tweet-up for Gabrielle Harbowy and her husband Matt at DFH.
  • Lunch baby playtime with the Seidman’s at Sweetwater Tavern.
  • Con-Struction – An experimental dinner hosted by Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine
  • Feedback from Richard, aka Danger Force.
  • Living Proof Brewcast, a new podcast by Thomas Gideon and John Taylor Williams.
  • Discussion of holiday traditions and survival tips on Viv’s Girls’ Rules Podcast
  • Promo: Nutty Bites

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    Episode 52 – Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 2

    We happily lured beloved friend P.G. Holyfield into the burrow for a media review (He’s also the brilliant author of Murder at Avedon Hill), and ended up talking for over four hours. We are breaking it into tasty pieces for your enjoyment. This is part 2 of 3.

    In this episode we discuss:

    Books:

    Movies:

    Music:

    Promo: The Gearheart

    Bumper: Jonathan Coulton

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    Special Ep3 – Harry Potter 7 Pt1

    Viv, Chooch, and Mistress Jett bring you our SPOILER FILLED thoughts on seeing the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.

    This episode is a little different from most others — no editing! Yep, “live to tape” to get our thoughts down and out as quickly as we can. Well, I suppose our live shows are that way.. Only this time there wasn’t a Con 🙂

    It’s almost 5:00 in the morning and I have to work tomorrow, so linkey links for show notes. But, we’ll get them up as soon as we can.

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    Episode 51 – Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 1

    We happily lured beloved friend P.G. Holyfield into the burrow for a media review (He’s also the brilliant author of Murder at Avedon Hill), and ended up talking for over four hours. We are breaking it into tasty pieces for your enjoyment and will alternate them with regular episodes in future weeks.

    In this episode we discuss:

    • Our fun the night before at the Geek Radio Daily Pub Crawl in Richmond, Virginia and the new ChocoCon PiCake (a twist on the cherpumple, using a pecan pie baked into a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting).
    • Our media review includes new favorite podcasts and podio/audio books, including:

    Podiobooks:
    Unkillable by Patrick E. McLean
    Dreamer’s Thread by Starla Hutchton (with mention of the super talented Cheyenne Wright)
    FETIDUS by James Durham
    Fables of the Flying City by Jared Axelrod
    Harvey by Phil Rossi

    Podcasts:
    Jay and Silent Bob Get Old
    Living Proof Brew Cast

    Promo: Geek Radio Daily

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    Episode 50 – Happy Podcastiversary

    Monday is the third anniversary of our podcast! So, this episode we’ll call a “State of the Blender Address”
    • J- Just turned 11. Doing great in school and still taking guitar lessons
    • LT – 13, enjoying chorus, has lots of new friends, and is doing well
    • Naughty Bear – settled into new place and happy
    • Chooch – trying to balance music, writing, work and home.
      • Having a great time in this time of rampant creativity
    • Viv – Struggling to balance illness, work and school.
      • Trying new meds, with high hopes.
      • Feeling more healthy in spite of symptoms than I’ve felt in nearly a year, thanks to exercise and support of family and friends.
    • Missing our kids, nieces that have moved and nephews we see less because of boys being gone but glad that they are all healthy and happy.
    • Niece is pregnant again and doing great
    • Thank you to everybody in the various social media communities — you’ve all contributed to making our lives brighter!
    • Promo: Unkillable

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    Special Episode 2 – NaNo for Noobs

    Simulcast in Podereo on the Balticon Podcast feed, we are proud to bring you the recording of the “NaNoWriMo for Noobs” panel recording. Now is the perfect time to get your outlines down and prepare to write that novel you’ve always wanted to in November!

    From the Balticon program guide:

    How it was won or lost
    National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a motivational novel-writing program for anyone who has wanted to write a novel but doesn’t know how to get started. The program provides guidelines, structure and countless tools for success yet many still do not complete the 50,000 words required to be a winner. This panel of NaNoWriMo participants and winners will discuss their strategies for success, and if finishing even matters.

    Panelists include:

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