Geek Fu #13
You know, I listened to this today, and suddenly it seems like Last Night Mur missed the entire point of the whole Podcast Alley thing. Not only are lots of people asking for votes, which is fine, but not something I’m comfortable doing - but also they’re pissed at the people who are driving their listeners to vote one star for the podcasts above them. And yeah, calling for bad votes for your competitors is uncool, I will agree.
And just to make sure I’m clear, I am very grateful for my listeners and appreciate you guys very much. Tons, in fact. Buckets and bucketsful of appreciation.
And the topic of today’s essay - the fact that I used to be a big ole crybaby. Sadly, the sniffles didn’t translate well into audio form without me sounding like I was snorting.
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1. Andrew replies at 6th March 2005 um 4:58 pm :
My i-tunes is set up alphabetically, so the song following Geek Fu is “Give Your Momma One Smile (Don’t Cry).” By coincidence (and the world is entirely random and coincidental, we know that)(that’s why one day I walked on a subway car with only one person on it, and it was my old girlfriend, from my mid-west high school).
The 2/27/05 New York Times is a Sunday paper, and the Sunday paper always carries a separate magazine called the Book Review, and the Book Review always has a column toward the back called TBR: Inside the List with a couple of paragraphs of comments from an editor of the Book Review on one or two books, and on 2/27, reviewing an “addiction memoir” called “Smashed”, by Koren Zailckas, the editor Dwight Garner included these thoughts: “… finally got sober at 22. Not a pretty story, but not a Belushi-level meltdown , either. Zailckas’s failure to flame out in a more spectacular fashion has bugged some critics. … Zailckas got her $150,000 book deal, I suspect, because she is often a terrific writer…”
As I read this review your podcasts came to mind. Friend Mur, so your nose wasn’t broke, and you get embarassed when you finish reading your essays to us. You’re a terrific writer, so please stop saying, “anyway” or otherwise apologizing, OK?
apologies for any sense of the critical
Andrew
New York City
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footnotes:
(a) Give Your Momma One Smile (Madeleine Peyroux) from the Starbucks “Sweethearts 2005″ CD. My next song is “Harbor” by Vienna Teng, which has nothing to do with anything, as far as I can know.
(b) the full article (still at no cost):
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E3DD103AF934A15751C0A9639C8B63
2. Herbert replies at 7th March 2005 um 5:37 am :
Hey Mur, loved you essay. Would love to hear more about how life changes when you get a child
3. Websnark.com&hellip replies at 9th March 2005 um 11:32 pm :
Podcasts Ahoy!
So there’s a couple of podcasts I’ve taken to listening to that I think you, the Snarkoleptics, would be interested in. The first, Geek Fu Action Grip, is actually done by a friend of mine named Mur Lafferty. Mur’s extremely…
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