Category Archives: Podcasting
Pod-fiction listening as therapy
You can imagine many uses for podcasts if you try: company during commutes (my own favorite), occupation of the mind during chiefly physical tasks such as washing dishes, even (apologies to many authors) insomnia treatments. Here’s one I hadn’t considered. … Continue reading
Welcome, SCI PHI SHOW and 7TH SON listeners!
If you’re here because you heard Jason Rennie’s interview with me in “Sci Phi Show Outcast #59,”1 (thank you, Jason) or my “7th Son Episode 17: The Story So Far” reading (thanks, Hutch!), you might still be wondering what’s going … Continue reading
“Just wait ’til NEXT year!”
It wasn’t to be, alas. As I noted earlier, the quality of the other nominees is superb, and I’m not surprised to have been blown out of the water by such excellent pieces as Matt Wallace’s thoughtful “No World for … Continue reading
A Parsec nominee I, a thing of shreds and patches…
It’s time for the second annual Parsec Awards for excellence in podcasting, which will be given out at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia (31 August–3 September 2007). Two of my short pieces have been nominated and will be considered by the … Continue reading
Scott Sigler, a Strauss waltz, and Super Bowl XLI
Clerk’s log, MJDate 54262.0: Scott’s gracious comment on a previous article reminded me of something remarkable that happened this past February. Let me tell you about it. Every so often someone comes along and completely changes your perspective on a … Continue reading
Podcast novelists in the NEW YORK TIMES
Two worlds have collided, and storytelling may not be the same again. In case you haven’t yet seen this, the august New York Times (”all the news that’s fit to print”) recently ran an article on podcast fiction, featuring Scott … Continue reading
Podcasters take on Clement Clark Moore
On the fifth day of Christmas, P. Dilly gave to me … Actually, this was up on Friday the 22nd as part of the Pickle Tales Holiday Show #2, but, with the proprietors’ permission, I’m posting it here for those … Continue reading
Pickle Tale postscript
The results are in … and I’m out. Not a problem; hey, out of the initial 26 submissions (and you’ll get to hear all of them during the various Pickle Tales podcasts), I was chosen to be one of the … Continue reading
For mine is a Pickle tale …
You — yes, you — can encourage an aspiring podcaster! Namely, me.
The advantage of podcast radio: Freberg’s dream lives!
“Anybody here remember radio?” That was the question satirist Stan Freberg asked the audience in an auditorium one night in 1966.















