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Episode 63 – A New Blender

27 Nov

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We find ourselves heading into a whole new blender and discuss it a bit.
Announcements

News

Main Topic

  • Our future plans – Another blend?!? Shut the front door!
    • Because of the economy and recent events, we are going to be moving in with the Rossi family after our house sells. It benefits both our families tremendously, beyond the financial aspect. We also have another roomie moving in, and with the full count at 6 adults, 2 small children, 3 dogs, 3 cats and one fish, we are finding ourselves in another new realm to adjust to. Far improved from the empty nest, and with ample room for our sons to visit whenever they like.
    • Phil Rossi

Solid Nuggets

  • Viv teases, but does not really discuss.  More on the next episode, but in case you find it useful now…
  • Chooch
    • Google Music
    • Tell Viv why she should ditch Android for an iPhone

Episode 62 – Happy Anniversary

25 Oct

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Happy Anniversary to us!

    • Breast Cancer Anthology Update
      • Stories by folks that have some how been affected by breast cancer. You don’t have to have had it. Fiction or non-fiction and the only word limit is the maximum of 30k words since I’ll consider poetry, flash fiction, short stories and novellas
      • Art work – photos, sketches, finger painting, anything you have the rights to. And I am still looking for a cover
      • This will be paid work
      • All profits will go to charity
    • Ditched by Kate working on new album
    • Did not attend Dragon*Con
      • Intervention - Ditched By Kate had to cancel
      • Chooch participated on two panels (Backup solutions and Podcasting 101)
    • TuacaCon
      • Virtual convention broadcast on the Internet
      • Author readings, music, comedy, panel discussions
      • Audience participation is encouraged via chat room and skype
      • If you are a writer, musician, or comedian that has the ability to do webcam work (or prerecorded video, in certain cases), please comment on SpecFicMedia.com or an email to pgholyfield at specficmedia.com
      • Saturday November 12
    • Out of Milk App
    • (Untappd)
    • People sh*tting themselves at a haunted house
    • Promo: Geek Acres

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

14 Jan

Episode 54 - Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 3 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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

5 Dec

Episode 52 - Media Review with P.G. Holyfield, Pt 2 [ 1:11:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

Special Ep3 – Harry Potter 7 Pt1

19 Nov

Special Ep3 - Harry Potter 7 Pt1 [ 1:01:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

Episode 50 – Happy Podcastiversary

24 Oct

Episode 50 - Happy Podcastiversary [ 33:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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

Special Episode 2 – NaNo for Noobs

17 Oct

Special 02 - Nano for Noobs [ 1:02:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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:

Episode 49: The Tao of Twitter

27 Sep

Episode 49: The Tao of Twitter [ 30:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we bring you a departure from how we normally do things. This episode consists of an impromptu conversation that we had in the kitchen while nomming some tasty homemade pasta fagioli.

The topic of discussion is how people on Twitter tend to come across as Hundred Acre Wood characters. We talk about how we perceive ourselves, and how we think others may perceive us.

Please forgive the audio quality on this one. We just fired up our field recorder without really thinking about it. Just to capture the discussion and, perhaps, come back to it later. Looking back, we decided to go ahead and release it as is, without editing – aside from a couple quick cuts where there’s a loud noise, but that’s it. So it’s pretty raw and intimate. And slurp-tastic. In fact, one might even say we could stand to take an etiquette lesson or two.

Please e-mail us if it’s too distracting, as Viv is leaning towards not doing this type of recording again.

As we say in the recording, please chime in and let us know how you see yourself and perhaps how you think people perceive you!

Things we discuss:

Episode 48 – Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

12 Sep

Episode 48 - Chchchanges [ 37:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Happy Labor Day Weekend (well, in the US anyway).

In this episode we discuss:

Episode 47 – BlenderCon 2010

28 Aug

Episode 47 - BlenderCon 2010 [ 55:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Summery comes to a close, well at least as far as school and such are concerned. Con Season is also winding down and we continue the third year of our “BlenderCon” tradition.

Things we mention include:

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