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Birthday Cakes
I’ve been learning guitar so I could do spontaneous audio… I tend to overproduce some of the audio, spending a lot of time tweaking. This is okay if you have time, but I don’t. I also like the spontaneity and energy of doing it once and leaving it at that. So, after a couple of [...]
Mother’s Day Diary
Various NPR stations like to air this on Mother’s Day. I think I did it in 2006. It highlights the “jump-cut” editing I like to utilize in some of the straight-to-audio stories I’ve done. I think it’s a fun format but would get tiring after more than a few minutes. [Audio clip: view full post [...]
My Kids are Saving the World: #5, in Which Devyn Frees the NSA
Devyn’s long flight back from Tiniabonita took almost a day, and when he got off his flight in LA he changed his ticket to Detroit, because he knew that was where the poor nice folks who run the NSA where being held by the evil kidnapping cell known as ABOE, the American Big Oil Executives. [...]
My Kids are Saving the World: #4.3, Atican’s Discovery of the 4.3rd Dimension
Everyone’s heard of 2D and 3D, and maybe even 4D but not 4.3D. That will all change when Atican is done with his book. But that will be at least a year from now. Atican can write really fast, but he’s always being called away to save the world, or help old ladies cross streets, [...]
Poser. Dork.
Originally published on my old windsurfingradio.com web site in 2004: I knew the type as soon as we saw him pull up in his fancy white Dodge 2500 Cargo Van. Everything he had was clean and new. Perhaps he’d just won the lottery, but more likely he hit a tangent forked from mid-life crisis or [...]
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