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Geek Fu Morning Show After Dark LIVE #13 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show LITE After Dark #12 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show AFTER DARK (#11) Jason and I get together for some gin and some twitter talk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show #10 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 009 This is so late it’s almost laughable. No. It is laughable. Soon after this was recorded, I went to Buffalo for Xmas, got sick, and then the website went down. Pathetic, I know. But here is your Christmas Geek Fu! Music: If You Didn’t Get Me Before, Why Did You Get Me Anything For Christmas? by SNMNMNM Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 008 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 008 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 007 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 007 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 006 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 006 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 005 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 005 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 004 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 003 We have new theme music thanks to Beatnik Turtle. The theme: Better Things Coming! Jason has a cyst-hole! Hear graphic details about it at Random Signal. Jason’s Flickr pics. Jason’s superhero DragonCon film. (And while we’re at it, the Throwing Toasters concert) Jason and I will be at PNME - come ask us for Go Eagle Go! stickers. Mur [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 002 Jason and I return with DragonCon reports, and music from Carla Ulbrich! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 001 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 This Day in Alternate History Lulu Radio Download Geek Fu Morning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Morning Show 001 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #103 - Good Bye Thank you. Links: I Should Be Writing Heaven Season Three: Earth Knights of the Dinner Table Wingin’ It Have Games Will Travel Finis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Promos THREE, count ‘em, THREE promos for EARTH: http://tinyurl.com/2fsmrc - http://tinyurl.com/yowt2z - http://tinyurl.com/2xrlss Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Promos THREE, count ‘em, THREE promos for EARTH: http://tinyurl.com/2fsmrc - http://tinyurl.com/yowt2z - http://tinyurl.com/2xrlss Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Promos THREE, count ‘em, THREE promos for EARTH: http://tinyurl.com/2fsmrc - http://tinyurl.com/yowt2z - http://tinyurl.com/2xrlss Download Earth Promo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #102 - Guest Essay about Chaotic Good I am back from Balticon where I hung out with my tribe. Matt Selznick’s blog, Matt Wallace’s blog. I will be at Origins in the first week of July. Columbus, here I come! Mur’s Bitch shirt now available for purchase! Use coupon code “geekfu”. Earth launches June 23! Yes. This Saturday. Eeek. It will be on Podiobooks. Neil Gorman [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #101 - A Conversation with Mur Lafferty Guest host J.C. Hutchins sat down with Mur at Balticon41 and interviewed her. The sound limitations of the iRiver caused a bit of a hiss, but it’s a lot of fun. Download Geek Fu #101 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #101 - A Conversation with Mur Lafferty Guest host J.C. Hutchins sat down with Mur at Balticon41 and interviewed her. The sound limitations of the iRiver caused a bit of a hiss, but it’s a lot of fun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GEEK FU 100, BABY Geek Fu 100 live from Balticon I’ll do show notes later, but thanks to everyone who worked so hard on the podcast to make it awesome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #99 - Guest Essay Because of Balticon 41, the show notes are lazy. Sorry. Had lots of problems, lost lots of voicemails. Argh. But! 99! W00t! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #98 - Guest Essay Returns! As we edge closer to 100, we talk stuff: Planet Earth and GO EAGLE GO! New Segment: Personal Message to One of You Murcaching report Balticon is in 2 weeks! Bumper: Tabitha Smith from Strangely Literal Guest essay from James Parkinson: Awe vs Respect and Normalcy Bumper: George Hrab’s music (and podcast) Feedback and ComicSpace Guest appearance by the kiddo! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #97 - Lawful Stodgy or Chaotic Schmuck? More essays! When will the madness stop? Bumper: Earl Newton, Stranger Things It was Free Comic Book Day! We have official Geek Fu, Heaven, Hell and Earth Geeklabel Shirts! Murcaching is out of control! It’ll start soon! I have a rant about MySpace. There WILL be a Heaven part IV. Bumper: Buffy Between The Lines Essay Bumper: Geeklabel! New voicemail line: 206 666 3045 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #96 - RETURN OF THE ESSAY 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #95 - Heaven Fanfic 2 I got boingboinged! I was on Writer’s Talking #1 - you can still download! I have purple hair! Tomorrow is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! UPDATE: My video is here! I’m going to A-Kon. Comment from AlanfromtheUK. I was guest host of Random Signal. I did a pirate story on the Escapist! Promo from Crescent Station. Fanfic by Tim Callender. Promo from Scapecast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guest Hosting Random Signal! A while ago, I had my best friend from college, Jason Adams, on my podcast. Now he had me on Random Signal to guest-host, and we do geek music! Show Notes New Geek Fu this weekend! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #94 - Heaven Fanfic Third time I’ve done this. Apologies. Joe Murphy Memorial Fund Interviews with Mur: Footnote, Tech Snark, Dragon Page Cover to Cover I am on Twitter. Promo and fanfic from Nobilis Erotica. - NSFW Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #93 - Geek Social Skills 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #92 - Hell Pt. 12 The end. And right after I posted this, the server died a horrible death. And we lost lots and lots of database information. This has been an awesome week, let me tell you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #91 - Hell Pt. 11 Recovering another lost file. Again with the apologies of lost data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #90 - Hell Pt. 10 We had a server crash earlier this week. Data lost. Terribly sorry. Here’s the file. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #89 - Hell Pt. 9 W00t! I was interviewed on the Sci Phi Show. Paul S. Jenkins is writing for InterZone! Geek Fu has forums, thanks to Farpoint Media! Spoke with Dave and Rob to some teachers, not about the clit. Send me fanfic! Art! Stuff! I get to see Cory Doctorow this week! Hell Pt. 9 - crossover with JC Hutchins’s 7th Son novels. John Michael [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #88 - Hell Pt. 8 Yes, it’s late. I explain why. It’s better now. I promise. Promo: The Signal - Songs from the Black Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #87: Hell Pt. 7 Help TD-0013 in his MS walk! We’re raw this morning so I can get this to you. Lucky you, I’m doing a crossover thingy with JC Hutchins in that the clones from his books, 7th Son, will guest star in Episode 9! And you should totally check out JC’s book either at his site or on podiobooks.com. Get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meta Podcast: State of the Mur, 12/06 I wanted to post a podcast letting you know what was up with me, my podcasts, and my life. Why the podcast has been spotty and my plans for 2007. So I did. My novel is done! Now I begin my agent search. 2007’s early months will be dedicated to finishing Hell for Geek Fu. Interviews with podiobook [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #84: Hell Pt. 4 Dude! Geek Fu is TWO YEARS OLD! I give you a Dave Slusher Christmas Story and the rather personal reason I started podcasting. Matt Wallace from Varient Frequencies got some awesome news this week, congrats, Matt! Geo Hrab didn’t make the 10 Sexiest Geeks, dammit. And if you have asked me to read ANYTHING for you, please remind [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #83: Hell Pt. 3 Ranma 1/2, UK Games Expo, Hell, Computer King, and more! I tried to edit out all the sniffles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #82: Hell Pt. 2 Further through purgatory, down into hell. Promos: 7th Son, Scatterpod, Geek Wedding Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #81 - I’m back. With some Hell. I’m back! A couple of notes about this podcast: I recorded it last week, but had to delay posting and editing for a week, which is why the date tag at the beginning is a while ago. Sorry about that. Links and stuff: George Hrab (myspace) Pseudopod Do I need to mention there’s adult language? And a bit of blasphemy? That [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #80: A Conversation with JC Hutchins 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #79 - The Survival Guide to DragonCon Going to DragonCon for the first time? Listen to this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Special - Heaven Part 12 This ends Season 1. Thanks to everyone for all the support and feedback! I’m itching to get started on Season 2, so don’t worry, you won’t have to wait as long as, say BSG fans are waiting for Season 3! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #78: Heaven Pt. 11 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #77: Heaven Pt. 10 00:01 Geek Fu Action Grip #77: July 27, 2006 00:25 Had an awesome birthday weekend with Rich Sigfrit, Christiana Ellis, Nuri, Jason Adams and of course Jim Van Verth doing podcasty things at my birthday party. TrinocCon was also much fun. 02:45 I have a DS with the best game ever: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 09:00 Birthday report: Sick [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #76: Heaven Pt. 9 - trying again I have tried to fix the feed a number of times, sorry to everyone who’s having trouble. I’m trying again. Someday I’ll learn how to do RSS by hand and bypass all this dependence on Wordpress, Feedburner, and the like. Here’s the file Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Pod 61 - I Look Forward to Remembering You Thanks to the magic of podcasting and the glory of Creative Commons, I give you my story, I Look Forward to Remembering You, available on Escape Pod. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Pod 61 - I Look Forward to Remembering You Thanks to the magic of podcasting and the glory of Creative Commons, I give you my story, I Look Forward to Remembering You, available on Escape Pod. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #75 - Origins unplugged Utilikilts, Fanpro, Cheapass, Rio Grande, and fun! Unedited. Unapologetic. Bad words. Etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #74: Heaven Pt. 8 Boy, do I go on about Final Fantasy… And then I talk about podiobooks… And then we have Heaven Pt. 8, read by Jim Van Verth of The Vintage Gamer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #73: Heaven Pt. 7 Finally, it’s here, it’s edited, it’s good to go. * Is Apple creating iPods with Chinese slave labor? * Sandra Bullock tells Keanu not to do Constantine 2. Like she has a leg to stand on with Miss Congeniality 2… * My reading list for 2006. * Heaven Pt. 7 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #72: Guest Essay Taking a break from Heaven this week, it starts again next week. Go see Serenity again in 2 weeks! It benefits Equality Now. I was recently interviewed by Jack Mangan and Rob at Podcast 411. Mike Czaplinski’s longish (but worth it) essay about Star Wars and what has meant to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #71: Heaven Pt. 6 I wrote these show notes and then the browser crashed. Grrrr… I went to Balticon, interviewed Neil Gaiman, and saw some awesome people. I’ll also be at ConCarolinas this weekend. You get the halfway point of Season 1 of Heaven, partly narrated by Jim Van Verth of The Vintage Gamer podcast. I review some comics sent to me [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #70 - Heaven Pt. 5 Hello OAFSS - Whee. It’s late. Hockey fans are obnoxious. *(Far)Scapecast *Balticon! *Should I do a cult shirt? Send me designs if you think so! *Savedarfur.org *I get sweet nothings from TD0013 *Heaven Pt. 5 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #69, Dudes. Heaven Pt. 4 I apologize for the delay in getting this to you. I have a cult! Alert me if we have the need for cult t-shirts. My con schedule: Balticon, ConCarolinas, Origins, Deep South Con, DragonCon I panic about upcoming projects. Ad for Does My Geek Look Big In This? Heaven Pt. 4 - Not for kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #68 - Heaven Pt. 3 I am back with more fiction! * I won the 2005 Grumble Magazine Reader’s Choice Award! * I recently appeared on the Leftwing Nutjob podcast. * Thanks for asking about the dog, she’s doing well. You can see pics at Flickr. * I now have a mailbox for the podcasts, so if you want to send me anything for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #68 - Heaven Pt. 3 I am back with more fiction! I won the 2005 Grumble Magazine Reader’s Choice Award! I recently appeared on the Leftwing Nutjob podcast. Thanks for asking about the dog, she’s doing well. You can see pics at Flickr. I now have a mailbox for the podcasts, so if you want to send me anything for review, mail to: PMB 215 105 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #67 - Guest Essay (Home for Firefly) Hello all! No Heaven this week, but a guest essay about Firefly. I have made the move to Farpoint Media and therefore had to rename all the files and make sure all the ID3 tags were happy. This… took a long time. During this tedium, I discovered that three podcasts are outside the normal numbering mechanism. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #63 - Heaven Part 2 Sick Mur = late podcast. Apologies. Swearing in this one, including one f-bomb. I was recently interviewed on Unedited and Dragon Page Cover To Cover Being sick means being able to catch up on Lost! Gordon Lee comic book case: get details and donate to the CBLDF! We’re taking a podcasting track to Dragon*Con this year! (we hope!) Michael [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Geek Fu Promo! This one is hysterical. New show tonight or tomorrow, as soon as I can edit it. Sorry about the lateness; I’ve been sick. New Promo! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #62 - Heaven Pt. 1 The audio quality is crap, I’m still struggling with Garageband. If anyone knows of a good Garageband 3 resource, let me know. Submission guidelines for essays Lessons From a Geek Fu Master is available I’m finally into Dr. Who! I’m feeling burned out geek-wise I missed the yearly sale at my comic book store. It makes me sad My serialized fiction [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #61 - Guest Essay! - Rated PG Stuff n’ things. We catch up. A guest reads an essay. I’ll probably have better show notes when I’m less tired. But regardless, Geek Fu is back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu Brokeback Edition Well, we sat in a bar at StellarCon, drank, and talked about who we would go gay for. This podcast is not for kids. It’s also quite long. The players: Me Jason from Random Signal Christiana, author of Nina Kimberly the Merciless Tee from Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy Davey from RotO Diana from Spades (NOT spayed) Nick from Lulu I accept reponsiblity for none [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #60 - You’re Teaching My Daughter WHAT? Valentine’s Day and a plug for Jonathan Coulton. I’m sick of the Olympics tragedies. And huzzah for Joey Cheek, but Nike did something… odd. Work is going well on VOICES: New Media Fiction, should launch in 2 weeks. StellarCon is this weekend! Google made me look smart regarding Creative Commons. Scurvy Dogs = Totally Airwolf. This week’s essay about children’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #59 - Guest Essay! My college doesn’t love me! Neither did my high school! Angst! Oh angst! A brief stint on why podcasters apologize so much. My essays on Wingin’ It Hereditary Hemochromatosis Lots of cons! A brief rant on Battlestar Galactica (spoiler for Jan 27 episode) Guest essay from Aaron - who doesn’t hate blister packaging? Comment from Fred on happiness Plug for Podiobooks.com (Subscribe to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #58 - Obi Wan, Can I Borrow the Keys? Back on track, here’s an essay-filled geek fu! Report of the D&D Duke University demo I announce Voices: New Media Fiction - a podiobook featuring Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Patrick McLean, JR Blackwell, Jared Axlerod, Paul Jenkins, Tee Morris, Daniel Emery and Jason Erik Lundberg I will be at StellarCon this year We saw a fun musician last [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #57 - Duke D&D, stress, horoscopes In this podcast I test out my iRiver microphone and discuss my upcoming talk at Duke about D&D, the horrible horoscopes in the paper, and the creation of stress in lives without it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GeekFu #56 - Everything I Learned Someday I’ll get this damn podcast back on track. Show notes n stuff: I apologize for name idiocy - check the blog post below this one for more info. I’m not going to write “cheapass gamer” seventeen times again. I make a deal with my listeners on politics. My husband Jim has a podcast: The Vintage Gamer. Check it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #55 - Guest Essay! I’m back. Sorry for the delay, I’ve been sick. Filk podcasts - or rather, fun podcasts: Manic Mondays, Freakin’ Funny Music, and the live streaming filk.com. [EDIT - Thanks to Tim, the Firefly filk (or Firefilk) band is the Bedlam Bards. And of course I can’t leave out my favorite filk, the Brobdingnagian Bards.] If you’re in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #54 - Happy New Year I’m sick. Short podcast, no essay. Things can only improve. PodcasterCon is one week away! I’m opening Geek Fu to submissions Go check out Paul Jenkins’ plot thingy at the Rev Up Review Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #53 - Belated Merry Christmas Just a short Christmas note I recorded on Christmas Eve…. then carried around on my iRiver for a week. Very sorry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #52 - Competently Incompetent I look around and I seem to have lost my damn list of show notes… Ah. There it is. I bitch about politics. And crow about politics. Leftwing Nutjob Evil Genius Chronicles Win a cool toy from Thought Out by going here, getting a code, and emailing it to me with “Contest” in the subject Jason’s Airwolf Gallery (as of 12/18 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #51: Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers Pt. 3 Happy Birthday Geek Fu! I have strep throat, so Jason from Random Signal serves as my co-host for this episode. Wil Wheaton has a podcast! Be still my geeky heart. We get a peek of Geek Fu #1 Then we hear the end of Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers Birthday greetings from The Seanachai, The Dragon Page, Escape Pod, Podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #50: Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers Pt. 2 Part 2 of Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers: Happy Birthday to Geek Fu on December 9! Is there a filk podcast out there? Geek 4X4 Random Signal Cafe Press Store is up! Angi Shearstone Writers for Relief Anthology Frappr Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers, Pt. 2 And thanks for everyone who sent a note about my dog. She’s much better, thanks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #49 - Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers The dog is recovering! More about PodcasterCon Women Warm the Bench? EatFeed Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers, Pt. 1 Hear more Mur: Librivox Escape Pod Lessons From the Geek Fu Master The Poe Podcast Project Cafe Press shop is in the works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #48 - Things That Should Be Funny Pt 2 So here it is. The Jones Soda debacle. Send happy thoughts to my dog this Tuesday as she goes under the knife. Podcaster Con is coming up! It’s free! I’ll be there! Jones Soda. It’s for charity. We’ll be doing a Geek Fu shop on Cafe Press soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #47 - Things That Should Be Funny New show! Check me out. My rant on Christmas decorations Lessons of the Geek Fu Master podiobook I’m writing a book with Rob from Podcast411! I have too many podcasts to listen to… My rant on “Happy Holidays” Essay: Things That Should Be Funny, But Aren’t (Pt 1) Anyone interested in switching from our current limited-yet-cheap tshirt to a variety-yet-expensive Cafe Press [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #46 - Barry Koleman, Hero (Pt 3) Two weeks later, I return! To make up for being late, you get both parts of Barry Koleman, Hero in two podcasts. I finished my novel, Keepsie’s Bar! Talk more about writing and novels at I Should Be Writing, my other podcast. The kiddo was a skeleton for Halloween. Mur was in the game Dominant Species, as the planet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #45 - Barry Koleman, Hero (Pt 2) Two weeks later, I return! To make up for being late, you get both parts of Barry Koleman, Hero in two podcasts. I finished my novel, Keepsie’s Bar! Talk more about writing and novels at I Should Be Writing, my other podcast. The kiddo was a skeleton for Halloween. Mur was in the game Dominant Species, as the planet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #44 - Barry Koleman, Hero (Pt. 1) So very much to talk about. Former prom date goes mad! The middle class have SUCH problems. And Mur puts out fiction over podcast because an essay failed to leave her mind this week. Penny Arcade (and their charity, Child’s Play) Geek Fu Shirts Skepticality - Derek Blog How to Succeed in Evil Evil Genius Chronicles Still time to fill out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #43 - Prevention and Cure So very late. So very sorry. You have a chance to win swag from the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean movie, Mirrormask! All you need to do to qualify for our random drawing is fill out this survey. Please note the “not a tool” policy - I don’t do anything with the personal info except contact the winner [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #42 - Domestic Goddess This one is tired and short, and quite late. Sorry about that. Adult language. It’s about plants. And godhood. Buy a T-shirt with a donation of $16 Duke Podcasting Symposium The Weird Shit Show Beyond the Storm Zombie Art Show Your Move Games Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #41 - Geeky Parenting Well, some of you asked for it, more insight into being a geek and a parent. Here ya go. Wow, check me out: lots of show notes! Treo Cast (Rita Cast) Duke Podcasting Symposium Random Signal Dave’s Lounge Eat Feed Audio Activism Beyond the Storm Chapel Hill Comics Zombie Reception Angi Shearstone The Signal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #40 - Delusions of Grandeur Pt. 2 Wow. 40. Maybe I should throw a party at 50. Geeks who run. Check out forums. And a questionable yet clever card game called Gloom. Geek Fu Forums Have Games, Will Travel Random Signal Autism Run Dragon Page Seanachai American Red Cross Salvation Army Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #39.5 - Good Good Things Sad, then happy. Congrats to the winners of the Split Reason sponsored random drawing contest! Send healing thoughts to Derek of Skepticality The RPG book to benefit the victims of hurricane Katrina: Beyond the Storm Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #39 - Dean Haglund interview Whee. I’m back. Promise. Deadlines are achieved, sleep has been accomplished, passive voice is back in full force. This is my dragoncon podcast, where I intereviewed Dean Haglund because he asked me to. Show notes. Are there any show notes? Oh, well, I should link to dean, I suspect. Dean’s site Chill pak - his invention Another geek [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #38 - Creativity is *hard* Sorry this is late, haven’t felt terribly inspired lately. We have a new contest, I’ll do a random drawing of emails I get for free shirts! Whoo! Thanks to the sponsor, Splitreason.com. Hopes, thoughts, and prayers are with the people who are affected by Katrina. Forgot to mention we have new forums at TSFPN.com! I Should Be Writing The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #37 - OLD Interestingly enough, I cover a lot of ground here in about 20 minutes. Go me. Shows what preparing can do for you. New podcast, tshirts coming very soon, CD’s available now, and this is the Geek Ladies’ Show, and a geeky guy thrown in for flavor. I Should Be Writing Rev Up Review Vox Monitor review of Escape [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #36 - Geek Cruises Last Geek Music cast! From now on, I’ll be doing features on Jason Adams’ podcast, Random Signal, to introduce music. But we go out with the Beatnik Turtles, and talk about games for 2 players, Firefly, and discussions on why throwing a bunch of geeks in the middle of an ocean is not the best [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #35 - The Wisdom of Douglas Adams My Odeo Channel (odeo/b24793b97f50478b) (yeah, I really messed up Odeo… what’s it to ya?) Kinda disjointed this podcast. I break my promise about this being my last geek music podcast, but I make it up to you guys who don’t like the music by a) playing it at the end and b) not cheating you out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #34 - Smoke and Mirrors New format - hopefully seamless to you guys. Welcome if you’re here from the Penny Arcade link the second, I hope the site holds up better this time. Stuffy men, writing, plea for more geeky women podcasters, pictures, interviews, and more! I always forget to mention my forums… Websnark Rev Up Review Escape Pod Angi Shearstone Andy Lee Dragon’s Landing Apologies for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu 34 - Smoke and Mirrors New format - hopefully seamless to you guys. Welcome if you’re here from the Penny Arcade link the second, I hope the site holds up better this time. Stuffy men, writing, plea for more geeky women podcasters, pictures, interviews, and more!I always forget to mention my forums…WebsnarkRev Up ReviewEscape PodAngi ShearstoneAndy LeeDragon’s LandingListen :: RSSPitchers! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #33 - You Had Me, Then You Lost Me My Odeo Channel (odeo/58da2acbe4a7476c) (Pay no attention to this. Stupid WP won’t recognize comment tags) Thirty three. I mention birthday prep, congrats to the brobdingnagian bards, upcoming Dragon*Con panel, and an essay about books that I desperately tried to like, cause everyone else liked them. Brobdingnagian Bards on CDbaby Dragon*Con If I’ve forgotten any, let me know. Some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu 33: You Had Me, Then You Lost Me My Odeo Channel (odeo/58da2acbe4a7476c) (Pay no attention to this. Stupid WP won’t recognize comment tags)Thirty three. I mention birthday prep, congrats to the brobdingnagian bards, upcoming Dragon*Con panel, and an essay about books that I desperately tried to like, cause everyone else liked them.Brobdingnagian Bards on CDbabyDragon*ConIf I’ve forgotten any, let me know. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #32 - Tivo Nation You know, next week I turn 32. And this is my 32nd podcast. I’m vaguely disappointed that I didn’t manage to time this *just so*, since next week will be podcast the 33rd. Ah well. This podcast marks the return of the essay! And I review Alpha Shade, discuss my trip to the Mac store, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast the 32nd- Tivo Nation You know, next week I turn32. And this is my 32nd podcast. I’m vaguely disappointed that I didn’t manage to time this *just so*, since next week will be podcast the 33rd. Ah well.This podcast marks the return of the essay! And I review Alpha Shade, discuss my trip to the Mac store, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #31 Special Guest Jason Adams from Random Signal returns, and we do geek music again. Jason breaks me at the end. You’ve been warned. There’s swearing. There’s Batman Begins spoilers. I mention that if you do skype me (mightymur), please let me know who you are and why you’re messaging me. Something as simple as “I listen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu 31 Special Guest Jason Adams from Random Signal returns, and we do geek music again. Jason breaks me at the end. You’ve been warned. There’s swearing. There’s Batman Begins spoilers.I mention that if you do skype me (mightymur), please let me know who you are and why you’re messaging me. Something as simple as “I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Fu #30 - I made it to 30! Woot! This podcast is all over the place. I am extremely tired. Saturday’s will be more structure, promise. I went to Origins I played a game I did an interview with Comicology I sometimes show up on Gaming Uncensored My geek music friend is Jason from Random Signal Geeky music includes The Phenomenauts and The Aquabats I have forums now, in case you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I made it to 30! Woot! This podcast is all over the place. I am extremely tired. Saturday’s will be more structure, promise.I went to OriginsI played a gameI did an interview with ComicologyI sometimes show up on Gaming UncensoredMy geek music friend is Jason from Random SignalGeeky music includes The Phenomenauts and The AquabatsI have forums now, in case [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast the 29th Still no essay, but much discussion on Origins, work, Howl’s Moving Castle, a plug, and more. Fresh essay at The Dragon Page.If you’re interested in a Geek Fu Action Grip t-shirt, drop me a line and let me know. I have prototypes and will start ordering them for real if there’s enough interest. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast - no essay, but music and a special guest If you get the latest podcast twice, I apologize. My server is screaming at me, and I switched the RSS to point to Nicole Simon's server, as she is lending me space and bandwidth. Thanks, Nicole, you rock! If RSS makes you download the file twice, I apologize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast the 27th: No Shame I wanted to have a guest star for the next podcast, and he had to leave town to see his father-in-law. So we're recording tomorrow night. Thanks for your patience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast 26 - Geekosterone How the crap is This WEEK in TECH #1 on podcast alley when I haven't downloaded any shows? I've checked the feed three times, and it's not seeing any shows. I really doubt people people would be voting for a show that isn't really there, so the problem is obviously ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website