Author Tim Pratt aka T A PrattTim Pratt is the author is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet whose story “Hart & Boot” was included in the collection Best American Short Stories: 2005. His novels include: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Blood Engines, and Poison Sleep.

Tim’s story “Impossible Dreams” at Escape Pod.

Link to Tim Pratt’s Website.

Please note: There are a few adult words toward the end of the show. When I first posted this, the EscapePod show got into the feed. Hopefully this repost will fix that.

 
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Minister Faust as taken by Fish GriwkowskyMinister Faust is the author of two satiric science fiction novels, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad and From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain. The later won the Special Citation at this year’s Philip K. Dick Awards. He is also a teacher, radio host, community activist, and political aspirant. We spoke about his names, his work, super heroes, reality television, and more. Minister Fausts’s Original Bro-log Blog. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky

 
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Jeremy Lassen is the chief editor and part owner of Night Shade Books. If you’ve attended a science fiction convention and glanced a man in a long dark pin-striped suit, a bright red shirt, a fedora, and a two-foot long feather that was Jeremy.

In this week’s show he talks about how
he came to wear his suits and what they mean to him.

Photo credit: Midamericon.org

For other suits see: Suit Gallery.

 
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Joahua Klein describes himself as practiced and trained, both formally and informally, in hacking - social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behavior, and, most recently, the publishing industry. The goal of his Vending Machine for Crows is to create a device that will autonomously train crows to find lost coins. Find out how and why.

Joshua Klein’s website.

A YouTube movie presentation.

 
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Anthony Newman, an active harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor, composer, writer and recording artist, is one of the world’s premier baroque interpreters. He has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein and Wynton Marsalis.

The New York Times stated, “He has the virtuoso command of fingerwork to achieve brilliant distinctness at high speed. His flair for theatrical, propulsive rhythms is exciting.”

Click here to purchase music from Anthony Newman’s site.

 
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Have you ever Googled yourself? Sure you have. In this podcast I talk to two other high ranking Jon Armstrongs. We discuss googling, whether we’re rivals, and what we have in common … which would seem like a lot.

Links:

The query that launched this show.

Jon Armstrong the Magician.

Jon Armstrong the Designer. And his wife’s site, Dooce.com

 
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Can I Get An AmenNate Harrison is an artist, writer, and the creator of “Can I Get An Amen?” Nate has produced projects and exhibited for The American Museum of Natural History, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kunstverein in Hamburg and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, among others.

“Can I Get An Amen?” is a piece about sampling, electronic music, creativity, and copyright.

Visit Nate Harrison’s site, http://nkhstudio.com/ to see the video that accompanies the audio and others of his video projects. You can also see Can I Get An Amen? on YouTube where it has been viewed almost 900,000 times.

 
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Death and Typos


January 21st, 2008

Last summer Jeff Johnson and Jessica Cowley produced a piece about a man who works on the Death Notices Desk for a newspaper. After the piece, I speak with the death notices man about the job and some very unfortunate typos.

Please note, this podcast episode contains adult language.

 
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Ray BurkeRay Burke is a retired New York Police Detective. In 1995, he was one of the first to see the horrific scene of a crime that came to be known as the College Point Massacre. I speak with Ray about that case, writing, and all that’s wrong with those cop shows on TV.

 
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Shaun Farrell is the host of Adventures in Scifi Publishing; Alyssa Boehm, The Big Red Podcast. I speak with both of them about their podcasts, why they do them, and what they get out of them. I also ask about their favorite podcasts. A few of their favorite podcast are below:

The Wicked Good Podcast
Dharmalars
The Future and You
I should be Writing
Speaking of Beer
This Week in Science

 
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  • Host Jon Armstrong

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  • Recommended Books:

    The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
    Ask Me No Questions
    Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog
    From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
    Grey
    Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1)
    Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
    Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry