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August 25, 2009
ISBW #124 – 4 Year Anniversary / Neil Gaiman Interview!
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I'm starting to wonder if I should just take August off from podcasting. It seems to be the month I have the most trouble getting content out. But no more! This week you will be DELUGED with content! Starting with the (one week late) anniversary episode of I Should Be Writing, featuring an interview with one of my favorite writers, Neil Gaiman!
Detailed show notes coming up soon (that would have
August 24, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 91
Lesser known superheroes:
The Pugilist has gigantic fists. His hands are normal-sized, but when the anger of righteous indignation brings his fingers in, when the mighty fists of the Pugilist are clenched, they are enormous. And it woe to any who would stand in their way.
At least, that's how it was, decades ago. While the years have not grayed the Pugilist's impressive mustache, nor weakened his muscular physique, he feels lost. What can one man do, if all he can do is hit things? Can he possibly
Media
I was a child of the television. Cartoons, Brady Bunch reruns, Family Feud (I so wanted to be on that show but the biggest thing holding me back – besides, you know, the rest of my family being on board – was creepy-ass Richard Dawson insisting on kissing all the females.), Tic Tak Dough, Smurfs, Snorks, Disney, Fraggle Rock, etc.
I was a child of video games. Duck Hunt on the Commodore 64, Defender and Pac-Man on the Atari, Super Mario on the SNES, Final Fantasy on the Game Boy.
While I grew up r
August 21, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 90
Time travel works like this:
Everyone has a chronal signature. It's built into your very cells, and it's what keeps time travelers from being seen. Go forward, go back, it doesn't matter. You can't interact with another time because you're not from that time. On the one hand, it makes returning extremely easy, as your chronal signature works like a tether. On the other, it means that time travel is now the domain of bored tourists and stuffy historians.
But not Danni Xhang. She's figured it out,
ISBW 4th Anniversary, Links, and update
First, I've been writing.
I feel like that's the best excuse for falling behind on the podcast and the blog. I've written close to 10K words this week on both War and the edits on Heaven. I'm seven chapters done on Heaven, through page 72.
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My daughter is home this week- no camp and no school- and that's been taking up the rest of my time. I am realizing the myth of the SUPERMOM when I realize that I can write, edit, and care for my kiddo and make dinner… and
August 20, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 89
Time travel works like this:
Arianna has been traveling through time her entire life. Through every single life she's had.
Arianna was born on January 1st, year 1, and her first-born daughter has always been her: a perfect duplicate, retaining all of her mother's memories. And so, the collective memories of 100 Ariannas–100 lifetimes, course through the synapses of the latest Arianna, who has just moved out of her parent's house into her own life.
But this latest Arianna finds that she can do mor
August 19, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 88
Time travel works like this:
There is no time travel. Every moment occurs now. Linear existence, as we perceive it, is a fallacy. The clumsiness of our physical bodies keeps us from truly experiencing time. But, if we were able to release ourselves from our physical bodies, then we would truly experience time as it is. When people speak of the "white light" as they die, it's not heaven: it's the brilliance of a non-linear world.
Derek Singh is positive of this. Which is why he needs his girlfrien
August 18, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 87
Time travel works like this:
You can't go forward, only back.
The future is at best unknowable, at worst, non-existent. The best temporal mechanics minds in the world cannot figure out why we move forward from moment to moment on our own, but can't jump ahead in the sequence a bit. The future remains unknowable and unvisitable.
The past, however, is fair game. Thing is, no one ever returns from a jaunt to the past. Old journals have turned up, detailing trips of hundreds of years, but never an exp
