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Required weekend listening. Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America shares word that a special TSOYA feature episode on The Kasper Hauser Comedy Group is now up. [The] San Francisco-based sketch comedy group [have] been mainstays of The Sound of Young America, and have appeared on Comedy Central and on This American Life. They're the authors of three hilarious books: "SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From A Plane," "Obama's Blackberry," and "Weddings of the Times." They also wrote the website Wonderglen for former Onion editor and Daily Show executive producer Ben Karlin. On this special hour-long Sound of Young America special, they talk about their careers, and we hear their comedy -- both sketches produced for The Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast and all-new pieces. Go have a listen here, or click the embed below....
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Hey, Josh is currently making a high-speed run across state lines, but have no fear -- once he's suitably safe from danger the Engadget Podcast will be broadcasting live. Settle into the chat room below, and we'll see you at 6:30PM EST!
Update: Well, that was certainly a wild one, thanks for bearing with us -- and if you missed it, our usual post will be up tomorrow!
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The Engadget Podcast is live... now! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under sf anthology, rudy rucker, romantic science, sly humor, tesseracts, training wheels, sf story, artificial intelligences, flurb, imaginary friends, singularity, launch, marvellous, podcast, peoe, pod, teenagers, heart, love |
This week's Escape Pod podcast story is Madeline Ashby's βoyfriend, a marvellous, sweetly romantic science fiction story about teenagers who use clever artificial intelligences as "training wheels" on the way to their first real love, but who quickly find themselves substituting the warm companionship of their imaginary friends for the confusing and fraught people around them. It's got Ashby's sly humor, heart and it's got clever to spare. I bought Madeline's first published story for Tesseracts 11 and it's wonderful to see where she's gone since. EP216: βoyfriend Previously:Flurb #7 is out -- Rudy Rucker's awesomely weird and fantastic ... Tesseracts 11 Canadian sf anthology launch in Toronto this Sat ......
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What do three bloggers huddled around microphones in frigid locales across the country have on 22 of America's beefiest athletes gathered on the field in Miami? An
iPhone app. Oh, actually,
no. But Josh Tops, Nilz, and P-Mill most certainly comprise the universe's largest repository of JooJoo insight. That's worth
something, right?
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
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Former Microsoft VP Dick Brass weighs in on why Microsoft 'no longer brings us the future'
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Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price conflict -- confirmed (update: they're back!)
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Posted by on under kelley eskridge, michael swanwick, pat cadigan, eileen gunn, west writers, persal, paypal, clari, west forum, sf writers, writers workshop, th th, comms, immortality, podcast, science |
Eileen Gunn sez, The Clarion West Writers Workshop has started their annual Write-a-thon fundraiser, and celebrated science fiction writer Michael Swanwick is offering the chance to appear in a Swanwick short-short for a paltry $10. Michael has pledged to write a piece of flash fiction or a podcast every day of the workshop, and everyone who donates $10 or more to support him can ask that he include their name in one of the 42 stories. (This is a limited offer: he will write only 42 stories.) So far, he's written three stories, but many more are pledged: you can read them on the Clarion West Forum. The first two feature (and gently josh) SF writers Pat Cadigan and Eileen Gunn, and the third story sweetly and spectacularly honors a friend of writer Kelley Eskridge. To get your own personal Swanwick story, donate $10 to Clarion West on Michael Swanwick's page (via PayPal or check), and follow the directions listed under "Goals.". Clarion West's sister workshop, Clarion, is doing its first Write-a-thon this year as well. (Image: Michael Swanwick, Kyle Cassidy/Wikimedia Commons)...
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