The Geek Fu Morning Show

LIVE from Balticon 42!

With special guests Sudden Death (also of Manic Mondays, one of my favorite podcasts) and Rob Balder from The FuMP and lots of live Twitter commentary. Matt Wallace reads more Silver Bullet facts.

Mur drinks water with olives.

Tee Morris is forcibly removed from the room (see pic) by Matt Wallace.

Thanks to everyone for the awesome participation, it was a lot of fun!

For the record there has been some scandal regarding a question I was asked about my favorite pie. In the past i’ve said strawberry rhubarb, and apparently I disappointed some people by saying key lime. I had just seen a key lime in the grocery store and it was on my mind…

Yeah, I say it’s #11, but really, it’s #12. Live from RavenCon ‘08 with John Cmar, Laura Burns, Joe Komenda, Stuart Jaffe and Tom Gideon! We talk PUPPIES and dishwashers. There has been alcohol involved.

We missed you, Jason!

Jason and I get together for some gin and some twitter talk.

This is so freaking late it’s sad. I am not even going to give the excuses, cause they’re not interesting ones. We recorded this late January. I have no shame.

This was not our best show.

• Music: The Kissing Song by The Craft Economy
• Guest star: the Pink Tornado!
• Etsy shop for Steampunkadelic
• Open Media Review

#11 will go up later today.

We have some sad news, we talk Christmas and Adam Sandler, and are joined by coworker Carol Housel-Kenney. Grant’s Advent Calendar was mentioned. We have lunch in the middle. Then we have some more sad news.

Music by permission of Jody Whitesides - go buy his awesome music!

Jason and I do an ON THE ROAD cast and let you hear not one, but TWO awesome geeky songs. Jason also has awesome flickr pics of our new office. I talk about my new podiobook, but Jason has much more exciting news.

Music: Playing for Keeps by Beatnik Turtle and OK, Let’s Take This Outside by Oppenheimer

We podcast from the beach! And yes, I’m VERY LATE in getting edits up! And no, we never did an after dark episode.

Song: I Crush Everything by Jonathan Coulton

Sorry for the delay - had issues with my computer, and then a vacation. Expect 006 shortly!

• Jason went to the EFF Boot Camp.
• We’re a tad obsessed with Charlie the Unicorn.
• Space Ghost is Mur’s nemesis.
• Should we do a geek fu drinking game?
• Twitter vamping!
• Steampunk is awesome: Steampunk magazine, Girl Genius.
• “Misfit Out of Time” by SNMNMNM

We go forward in time to discuss Heroes (no spoilers) and back in time to discuss Twitter. We talk new fiction from The Daughters of Freya writers, and play ScrewU by Throwing Toasters.

This week: PNME.

Jason and I return with DragonCon reports, and music from Carla Ulbrich!

This is not a reawakening, this is more of a “remember me?” I wanted to put something out on the feed before DragonCon, so Jason and I got together to record the Geek Fu Morning show. And soon: the podcast of Playing for Keeps!

DragonCon!
Random Signal #51
German SF site, Podyssey
This Day in Alternate History
Lulu Radio

With over 140 (!) of you participating in Murchaching, my friend and bitch Chris Miller set up an awesome map to follow the lunchboxen on their journeys. Check it out!

Because of Balticon 41, the show notes are lazy. Sorry. Had lots of problems, lost lots of voicemails. Argh.

But! 99! W00t!

Long time listeners will know that my inability to get NPR to even acknowledge my submissions (I never even got rejections from This American Life, This I Believe or Morning Edition) is what got me started podcasting my essays. So I took some of those essays and entered the public radio talent search. If you’re interested, can you vote for me? I feel silly asking for votes, but since I don’t ask you to vote anywhere else, I figured it can’t hurt… http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1302

(New Geek Fu soon, as soon as I can get it edited)

Yes, you heard it right, kids. The Mur essay returns this week!

BUT, first, we must discuss:

I was on Writers Talking, checking out Talkshoe

The Mur’s Bitches Flickr Group

Get your free tshirt from Geeklabel

Participate in Murcaching!

Send Stranger Things $1

I miss Joe.

New essay, originally run in Knights of the Dinner Table #106

I was on The Myth Show and View From the Quad.

Hi there. My name isn’t Josh.

Stranger Things

Steampunk Magazine

I was interviewed on TechSnark

I’m co-host of Lulu Radio

7th Son book 2 and The Failed Cities Monologues ended last week too!

Genre Traveler is having a photography contest

Promo from Pulp Gamer

Geek Fu - guest hosts Nick Popio and Jason Adams

Promo from UberCon

[EDIT - we have tshirts! I am Josh - I am not Josh]

Ranma 1/2, UK Games Expo, Hell, Computer King, and more!

I tried to edit out all the sniffles.

Further through purgatory, down into hell.

Promos: 7th Son, Scatterpod, Geek Wedding

I sat down with Chris Hutchins at DragonCon and we talked about stuff. You can hear other podcasters in the background laughing.

Stuff mentioned: We mention the Wingin It live show, Scott Sigler’s singing ability, the Parsec Awards, scars, naked George man, Marc Gunn, Rich Sigfrit, Ian’s drinking, spiders, zombies and city planning. Notes from Paul from Des Moines, Will from the Youngest of One blog, I talk about Geek Label, Christiana Ellis’s Hey, Wanna Watch A Movie?, and you can get Lancelot Biggs audio drama from the Balticon Podcast. Heaven is now complete on Podiobooks.com.

00:01 Geek Fu Action Grip #78: August 10, 2006
00:22 What’s up with me and blogs? Do you want a geek fu blog?
01:58 The Rev Up Review is awesome.
03:20 Pseudopod is live!
04:20 I ponder gaming and Second Life.
06:50 Where have I been?
08:40 Heaven will soon be on Podiobooks.com
09:00 Promo of the Scapecast.
10:15 Heaven Pt. 11
15:50 Comment from Doug from Geek Acres.
18:00 Neil Gorman’s Ology
19:30 I sign off. Thanks, as always, for listening. Heaven is released under a Creative Commons License.
19:40 Editorial comment from Jim (adult language)
19:43 Promo of Voice of Free Planet X