The final episode of my podcast is out now. If you've been listening this whole time, thanks so much! If not, you now can blast through the whole thing in about 90 minutes! crimeoftheweekpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-8-...

In which it is revealed that So-Lar City is chock full of animal hybrid creatures! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-avba7...

Finally, FINALLY, this weird project I started back in 2021 is here! Crime of the Week episode 1 is available now! www.podbean.com/ep/pb-7y4fg-...

Trailer release day treat for meeeeeeee

I did it! The trailer for Crime Of the Week is out now! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-fhtw4-...

Crime Of the Week has a release date! The trailer drops June 20th, and episode 1 is out July 4th! And there's already an RSS feed! crimeoftheweekpodcast.podbean.com

I am gonna make a podcast this year if it kills me

Crime Of the Week status report: this weekend I did re-takes of troublesome lines. Once those get edited into place, the majority of the audio work will be done. Music is lined up and I have a logo image I'm content with. My current hope is to have a trailer out by mid-June, for a July release.

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It's wild how much better your audio will sound when you remember to turn your mic around and speak into the front of it.

I've been a @maximumfun.org member for years, so here's a short list of my own fave Rad Boco Eps (including a couple deep cuts): TAZ: Charlieverse Yanni: Live at the Acropolis 2: Live at the Grand Canyon Judge John Hodgman - Animal Supercut Shootin' the Bries Dead Pilot's Society - Weekend Dracula

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better. First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...

This ground-breaking book came out in 1974 (back when fantasy by women was still thin on the ground) and so many writers of my generation were hugely influenced by it, as well as by her subsequent work. She was an absolutely master of fantasy literature, and deserves to be more widely known as such.

Audio drama peeps should check this one out - I know you love a good gothic mystery!

Hey wait I think I have the perfect response to this.

Pre-show music for Murder On the Orient Express is all songs that talk about trains, which is... a choice.

Me, a fool, who has not done any programming since Windows 95 was a thing: I'm going to get a Raspberry Pi for my home entertainment, that seems like a much simpler option than what we're currently using

Ah fuck I might need to buy the audio book as well

I got my copy early, and will be finishing it this evening. I can tell you that this will easily be one of the best books I read this year. She is setting an incredibly high bar for everything else I read this year.

I turned off Google Gemini and other smart features on my Google account a few days ago. Yesterday I noticed my Gmail inbox has switched to a non-default view and won't switch back. OH HOW ODD I wonder if my Hotmail account still works...

Tonight my husband and I saw a play we did together 20 years ago! I am legally obligated to say my husband's performance was better, but it has the benefit of also being true.

The Art Appreciator

I am a 100% full Scrivener girlie, but I've been noodling around in Ellipsis as a way to get off of Google Docs, and I'm a little stricken by how much I love the UI. Looking forward to using it for co-writing.

We saw a play tonight that was so good we can't stop hollering at each other about it. We are that pawn shop meme screaming THAT FIGHT SCENE WAS SO WELL CONTROLLED THOSE LEADS WERE FUCKIN LOCKED IN THE WHOLE SHOW THEY DID IT IN THE ROOOOOUUUUUUNNNNNDDDDDDD

I think this is the year I read a book in Irish. I think I could handle An Prionsa Beag at this point...

I moved from South Dakota to Illinois last year, and I'm truly stunned at how much of an upgrade in governor I got as a result.

I don't talk about my job for a lot of reasons, but I gotta say that I love love LOVE the email I just got reminding us all that use of generative AI is not allowed for any parts of our job. Fuck yeah, good work, job, now give me a fuckin raise in line with the rate of inflation.

A bit of self-aggrandizement is WAY better for your brain than self-deprecation. You don't have to believe it every time you say "I am nature's greatest miracle" but a little bit of that belief does creep in. And it helps. I swear it helps.

I added a bunch of shows from this list to my podcatcher last year, and it was 100% a good decision.

[Venus flytrap]

McKillip will always be one of my all-time faves. Each book a stunner. I really do need to complete my collection...

How is it possible for this inbred farm cat to be so goddamn beautiful

Gabriel Urbina is quickly reaching J. Michael Straczynski levels of makin me cry

Tonight we're seeing a play! It's an adaptation of a show from 1780 and so all the pre-show music is covers, and I extremely approve.

It's always grand when you get a half-day at work and the afternoon is ruined because the damn hell ass car won't start

I was reminded that several museums have Open Access collections, and so I went to check out what the Art Institute of Chicago had and folks, please behold A Young Lady With a Parrot: www.artic.edu/artworks/103...

Craigslist is massively easier to find what you're searching for than FB marketplace. Enshittification has barely touched the site. It's WILD.

I re-recorded the first 3 eps of Crime of the Week today. Somehow I managed to say "centi-sloth" with minimal difficulty, "filched phallic facsimiles" was done in one take, but "plaza" fuckin broke me.

Need a kitty today? Here's a super cozy kitty today.

Born to be a lap cat, forced to compete with laptops

Super fun and challenging little Minesweeper variation from one of my favorite devs, Daniel Benmergui. Playable in browser - use deduction to figure out which monsters to kill in which order to use your limited health as efficiently as possible. danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

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A bragging moment: with the new year came the newest, coolest pin in my little collection. A million, million thanks to @blambot.bsky.social for saving one for me.

i had to stop looking at this fb page because i was about to start genuinely crying

You can tell roughly how old I am by my usage of 24 year old Strongbad quotes

Holy shit my Puzzle Pirates account from 2009 is still active, this fuckin rules. I have a partially decorated manor and a kitty and a rat, apparently. Merry Xmas to me!

I can't believe this is how I find out that Puzzle Pirates is on Steam. Sorry Civ 6, I need to catch up with an old friend...

This morning I made my tea with honey instead of sugar just to shake things up, and that was a Mistake, which I then compounded by adding a bit of almond milk. Tea ruined, morning ruined, going back to bed.