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Episode 95 – The Refurbished Man

Matthew — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:26 +0000

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Read one of my Mango-inspired stories!

Matthew — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:25:43 +0000

My story, Electric Ladyland, is available in StarShipSofa Stories, Vol. 3. It started as a plain old science fiction story, until I asked myself, “What if the narrator spoke like Beware the Hairy Mango sounds?” And then it got nutty from there. If you want to get your hands on a copy, click the link. There are lots of other great stories by others great authors as a bonus!

StarShipSofa Stories, Vol. 3

Episode 94 – Cowpokin’!

Matthew — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:09 +0000

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Episode 93 – Nexoskeleton

Matthew — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:00:54 +0000

Back to abnormal!

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Episode 92 – The Careerist’s Guide to the Sea, Part 4

Matthew — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:00:17 +0000

The Big Crappy Finale!

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Episode 91 – The Careerist’s Guide to the Sea, Part 3

Matthew — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:00:18 +0000

Our longest episode ever! Almost like a real podcast!

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Episode 90 – The Careerist’s Guide to the Sea, Part 2

Matthew — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:56 +0000

WARNING – This gets loud in here!

Come listen to John Mierau’s ASUNDER!

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Episode 89 – The Careerist’s Guide to the Sea, Part 1

Matthew — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:01:21 +0000

First in a four part series! If you don’t like it, fast-forward to December 30th.

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Episode 88 – Halfway House

Matthew — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:00:17 +0000

Inform yourself, or better yet, let Disalmanac inform you: http://disalmanac.wordpress.com/

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Episode 87 – Second Puberty

Matthew — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:03:32 +0000

Get at least one type of Mango 24 hours a day! Mango! http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/mango/
Big thanks for the tip to @Chivalrybean!

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Mangticipation

Matthew — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:40:44 +0000

Sorry, folks. Although I’ve been sticking to a rigid schedule for the past few months, episode 87 is going to be anywhere from 1 to 15 hours late. Seems the Mango thought he’d have some fun by donning a bald wig. He didn’t expect his foolery to be so thick that I might nearly eat him (accidentally, of course (he’s my bread and butter)). So I’m in the waiting room of the local fruit vet as I write this, waiting for the bite marks to be buffed out. Come back tomorrow afternoon and my spit-polished sidekick will be here to greet his adoring fans.

Episode 86 – The Can Man Can’t

Matthew — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:00:30 +0000

The Mango’s tribute to stuff you can put on toast! Can’t believe we forgot the toe jam.

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Episode 85 – Bouncy House

Matthew — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:01:48 +0000

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Episode 84 – Easy as Cake

Matthew — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:01:24 +0000

Holy crap! I’ve been telling you to go to SF Signal for dozens of episodes and I’ve never stuck the link on the sidebar to the right. I suck! That egregious error has been fixed. Go visit the best science fiction blog ever and the only one that loves the Mango so much, you can listen to it over there: http://sfsignal.com/

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Episode 83 – The Chimney Sweep and the Steeplejack

Matthew — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:01:50 +0000

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Episode 82 – Jimmy Holds the Line

Matthew — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:01:06 +0000

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Episiode 81 – They Call Me Johnny Eggroll

Matthew — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:01:22 +0000

Dig you some Ryan Browne brilliance!

God Hates Astronauts: http://www.godhatesastronauts.com/

Blast Furnace: http://blastfurnacecomic.com/

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Episode 80 – A Hell of a Licking

Matthew — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:00:00 +0000

Big announcement lurks within! Just hit the damned “play” button already!

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Episode 79 – A Question of Benefits

Matthew — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:01:46 +0000

WOOOOOOOOO!!!!! It’s the final day of MuchoMangoMayo! Thanks to everybody who toughed it out. Don’t expect another show for a couple of weeks. I have to go lie down.

Check out the first installment starring our team of intrepid adventurers right here: Episode 5 – Just Another Day at the Job

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Episode 78 – Wedding the Dress

Matthew — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:01:01 +0000

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Episode 77 – Sex, Ice Cream, Sex

Matthew — Sun, 29 May 2011 04:01:37 +0000

Check out the magnificent StarShipSofa podcast today!

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Episode 76 – Purgatory is for Pencils

Matthew — Sat, 28 May 2011 04:01:14 +0000

Take your number 2 firmly in hand and read today’s story at Everyday Weirdness!

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Episode 75 – Herb, Accelerated

Matthew — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:07:47 +0000

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Episode 74 – Those Darned Aliens

Matthew — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:01:26 +0000

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Episode 73 – Short Stories with Long Titles

Matthew — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:01:54 +0000

Get Tales for Canterbury, read great stories and help out with New Zealand’s earthquake relief efforts! http://talesforcanterbury.wordpress.com/

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Episode 72 – Stick With Me, Baby

Matthew — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:59:04 +0000

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Episode 71 – Stretching for Victory

Matthew — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:01:45 +0000

Oops! In order for this episode to work, pretend the Rapture was yesterday instead of the day before yesterday. This is what happens when you get ahead of yourself. Or when I get ahead of Iself.

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Episode 70 – Scatman

Matthew — Sun, 22 May 2011 04:01:56 +0000

I’m really loud in this one. Sorry! Scat works me up.

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Episode 69 – Earth Science

Matthew — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:01:06 +0000

The all sex episode! Turn down the lights and lock the kids out!

Episode 68 – The Secret Lives of Sinister Shoes

Matthew — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:01:28 +0000

Mankind’s tentative first step toward the Frog Launcher!

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Episode 67 – Frog Magnet

Matthew — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:01:33 +0000

YES! Please send me to the place where I, too, can get a copy of Fred Heimbaugh’s wonderful new single, Earth Girl for just $0.99!

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Episode 66 – Such Genius Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Matthew — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:01:37 +0000

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Episode 65 – Puppy Dog Capital of the World

Matthew — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:01:05 +0000

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Episode 64 – The Eighth Age

Matthew — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:01:49 +0000

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Episode 63 – The Goatway

Matthew — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:01:06 +0000

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Episode 62 – Special Meducation

Matthew — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:01:20 +0000

Hilarious Lovecraft related fun! This HPLLP Life: http://hppodcraft.com/index.php/2010/11/17/this-hpllp-life/

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Episode 61 – The Gift of the Canine

Matthew — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:01:19 +0000

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Episode 60 – The Clean Man

Matthew — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:01:38 +0000

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Episode 59 – V-9

Matthew — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:01:17 +0000

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Episode 58 – The Surge

Matthew — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Today’s frothy show includes politics and pee-drinking! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

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Episode 57 – Eat Me

Matthew — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:01:13 +0000

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Episode 56 – Squeezing One Out

Matthew — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:01:50 +0000

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Episode 55 – The Stupidity of Washing Fish

Matthew — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:01:29 +0000

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Episode 54 – Me and My Big Head

Matthew — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:01:44 +0000

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Episode 53 – Sane Cow Disease

Matthew — Thu, 05 May 2011 04:01:21 +0000

Happy Cinco de MuchoMangoMayo! Enjoy some big-ass Mangoritas!

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Episode 52 – Breadburger

Matthew — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:01:49 +0000

Get a great book full of wonderful stories (including one by Mango fan and New Zealander, Grant Stone!) and help out New Zealand’s earthquake victims! Tales for Canterbury: http://talesforcanterbury.wordpress.com/

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Episode 51 – The Flying Leatherthroats

Matthew — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:01:36 +0000

Dune Re-Dub! Watch this shit through, cuz it rocks!

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Episode 50 – The Anarchist

Matthew — Mon, 02 May 2011 04:01:22 +0000

Badger! Badger! Badger! (Thank you, John DeNardo of SF Signal for turning us onto this!)

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Episode 49 – We Were Our Underwear

Matthew — Sun, 01 May 2011 04:01:10 +0000

Welcome to the big, stinking kick-off of MuchoMangoMayo! Strap in, strap on and get uncomfortable. It’s going to be a hell of a long month!

WARNING! LOTS OF LOUD STUFF IN THIS SHOW!

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Episode 48 – Origasmi

Matthew — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:31:38 +0000

WARNING! Nasty situations abound in this episode!

Help Another Brother Out and pick up an autographed copy of Bryan Thomas Schmidt’s book!

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Wait for it . . .

Matthew — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:52:30 +0000

Just want to pop in and say I haven’t forgotten you, especially since I didn’t know any of you in the first place. The new episode should be up around Friday or Saturday. It’s been over a month and I thank those of you who haven’t wandered off to listen to some other podcast. Those that have, well, I’ll know it when the baby’s born.

I’ve been scribbling furiously on MuchoMangoMayo, so the starving pack of you bastards can distend your stomachs with thirty-one brand new episodes of this show coming next month! It’s bellysplosion or famine here, people! I work damned hard to make sure nobody leaves here happy!

-Big Daddy Matty

Episode 47 – Marv, Mostly Unloved

Matthew — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:40:16 +0000

Listen to this episode for the biggest announcement since the beginning of time! MuchoMangoMayo!

Listen to Miette reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jemima, The Mountain Girl: http://www.miettecast.com/2005/11/18/jemima-the-mountain-girl/

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Go Read Something Else!

Matthew — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:32:12 +0000

Go read my story at Tor.com, Beauty Belongs to the Flowers. I wasn’t going to mention this here, because it’s so unMangoish (It’s long and serious), but there are some crossover fans, so maybe you’ll dig it too.

Episode 46 – The Laughter of the Chicken-Wieners

Matthew — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:48:20 +0000

A special VD show, just in time for the holiday! Hold onto your goods and enjoy the ride!

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Episode 45 – More Than a Muffin

Matthew — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:59:42 +0000

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Episode 44 – A Coupla Shorties

Matthew — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:17:50 +0000

Sing your love out to the Man of the Hour, Mr. Patrick Hester, the guy who brought the music back into our lives! Check him out at these fine establishments:
http://www.atfmb.com/
http://twitter.com/atfmb

AND . . .

The proof of my precognitive abilities:
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/20/iowa-town-de-ices-roads-with-garlic-salt/

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Episode 43 – They Call Me Mr. Stinkypants

Matthew — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:45:07 +0000

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Episode 42 – A Diet That Works and Ifs, Ands or Buts

Matthew — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:10:06 +0000

And we’re back! Thanks for your patience!

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All Mangoled Up!

Matthew — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:08:50 +0000

Sorry, gang. Someone hacked the site months ago (If you want to see how, just google ‘bewarethehairymango.com’ and you’ll understand). Anyway, because I am an inconsiderate host, I just started dealing with the problem today. And because I am dumb, it’s very slow going. So give me a couple few days and don’t be surprised if the site goes down for a little while somewhere in there, like it did a few minutes ago, and I’ll get a new episode up, once I get my act together.

Thanks for your infinite patience (like you have a choice)!

Episode 41 – Leonardo Da Countertop

Matthew — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:49:40 +0000

Warning: This episode contains volume spikes, dirty words and a poem concerning the happenings of my ding-ding.

Check out SF Signal here: http://sfsignal.com/

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Episode 40 – Joe the Larry

Matthew — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:42:55 +0000

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Episode 39 – Pain Comes Not to the Bananaman

Matthew — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:14:01 +0000

Maybe the last GUD show! Long since the last good show, anyway. Visit our ball-kicking sponsor!
http://www.gudmagazine.com/

And then Look Around You. You might like what you see. Or you might run screaming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPPD8ZF850&feature=player_embedded

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Episode 38 – Passions in Orbit, a Stirring in the Pants

Matthew — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:43:37 +0000

Read this week’s story here: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20070301-0000/www.antisf.com/stories/story07.html

And other great stuff here at Antipodean SF: http://www.antisf.com.au/

And remember to visit our swell sponsor: http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Episode 37 – An Epic Tale of Love and Can-Opening

Matthew — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:07:24 +0000

Explore our sponsor’s wonderful mag! http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Episode 36 – Truck Stop and Climbing Trees

Matthew — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:43:00 +0000

Check out Jeff Lane’s This Paper World here: http://jefflaneaudiobooks.com/

And don’t forget our sponsor’s guddy guddy gumdrops here! http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Episode 35 – The Fall of the House of Light

Matthew — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:26:37 +0000

Click all over our sponsor, the incredible GUD Magazine!http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Episode 34 – The Bigger The Cushion

Matthew — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:58:57 +0000

Love up our sponsor, the delightful GUD Magazine! http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Episodes For Everyone!

Matthew — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:27:01 +0000

I finally fixed the Mango’s RSS and iTunes problems. Turns out my feed settings were all wonky. All episodes should be available now, whether you subscribe from here or there! Many thanks to Jeff Lane and all of his Audio Books who know this crap a hell of a lot better than I do!

Episode 33 – The Blower

Matthew — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:38:38 +0000

Seek out our sponsor, the magnificent GUD Magazine! http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Episode 32 – Finally, A Computer For Everyone Else

Matthew — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:56:28 +0000

Check out our sponsor, the awesome GUD Magazine! http://www.gudmagazine.com/

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Wherein I Am Reduced To Begging

Matthew — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:58:41 +0000

Hey, Gang, I’m in a bit of a spot. My wild divorced lifestyle filled with macaroni and cheese dinners has finally caught up with me. If you’ve donated to the Mango in the past, I am eternally grateful and this message is not directed at you. If you have never donated to this show and you think what I bring to you here is worth, say, five or ten bucks over the course of our lifetimes, this would be a swell time to tap that donate button over there and lay your money down. I thank you, one and all for donating and for listening.

Episode 31 – Carl's Best

Matthew — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:25:24 +0000

The singing of the Marvel songs!

WARNING! Sudden bursts of volume may make you uncomfortable. Sorry!

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Episode 30 – Notes from the Bottomless Pit

Matthew — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:44:07 +0000

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Sorry, Doodles

Matthew — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:34:54 +0000

I picked the podcasting plug-in that I did, specifically for that download button directly beneath the player. It has disappeared and I don’t where it went. It may have crawled off the screen and is now hiding in a dark corner of my home. If I find, I’ll stick it back onto the screen with some spit if I have to. In the mean, if you want to download my incredible content, click on that orange RSS square to the right that I’m always telling you about. You won’t actually have to subscribe (in case you’re some sort of subscription curmudgeon) but there will be downloadable links to .mp3s there. So be happy.

Episode 29 – Road Trip

Matthew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:38 +0000

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Episode 28 – Karma and the Lucky Man

Matthew — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:34:43 +0000

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Episode 27 – Jim Comes Out

Matthew — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:08:54 +0000

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Due To Life Beyond Our Control

Matthew — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:21:33 +0000

Sorry, folks. I know it’s been a while. Life has been as hairy as the proverbial Mango as of late. The site was down for something like the last twelve hours because I screwed up while backing up its database. I now have to update WordPress — Well, you don’t care. I’m shooting for Saturday for the next episode and if it comes earlier – Bonus!

P.S. Bonuses will be canceled this year.

Episode 26 – Double Shot

Matthew — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:00:51 +0000

A double shot today! That’s right! 2, two, II pieces by me, you fortunate scoundrels! Running Downhill, Naked and The Adventures of Smart Guy! Love them!

Today’s promo leads you to the darkened halls of The Drabblecast. Venture within!

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Episode 25 – Signs

Matthew — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:54:23 +0000

Click this thing to enjoy Fred Himebaugh’s “They’re Made Out Of Meat.”

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Episode 24 – Saturday Night, Wasted at Bill's

Matthew — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:09:36 +0000

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Episode 23 – The Conquest of the Pumpkins

Matthew — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:25:13 +0000

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Fluff and Buttons at Cossmass Infinities

Matthew — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:56:20 +0000

If you’re here (you are here, aren’t you?), then you like audio and you like my stories. That means you’ll like the first episode of the brand new speculative fiction podcast, Cossmass Infinities. It features my short story Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range, a simultaneously grim and ridiculous tale of teddy bears fighting for survival. You can listen to it here:

http://cossmass.co.uk/infinities/1

The story’s read by Paul W. Campbell who narrated my story Brothers and Sisters All on the StarShipSofa podcast. Now you can imagine my bears in little kilts. Celebrate your new year with the horrible destruction of cute stuffed animals!

Episode 22 – Today's Special

Matthew — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:59:27 +0000

Since we’ve got a whole year before Santa’s return, this episode contains all sorts of naughty things!

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StarShipSofa's Spider Robinson Fundraiser!

Matthew — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:22:23 +0000

From my blog:

Click here to help Spider and Jeanne Robinson!

Today’s the big day! I hope that all of you are out there blogging about StarShipSofa’s fundraiser for Spider and Jeanne Robinson. We had a fantastic response on Twitter yesterday. Thanks to all of you who tweeted and re-tweeted. I saw something like two-hundred tweets about the fundraiser. That’s fantastic. I got a couple of notes during the day from Tony at the Sofa saying how he could see donation traffic picking up yesterday. I’m hoping we’ll see even more traffic today.

Why? Because if people are actually blogging about it today, like we’ve asked, the message will reach people that it didn’t reach on Twitter. We’ll reach science fiction fans who don’t use Twitter and we’ll reach non-science fiction fans as well.

Why should you donate?

THE SHORT VERSION
1) It’s a good cause, you big silly!
2) It only costs about $5.00, American.
3) You get an awesome e-book!

THE SLIGHTLY LONGER VERSION
1) From Spider’s Blog: Earlier his year a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Andresz Busczowski, helped Jeanne Robinson beat back a rare and virulent form of biliary cancer. But it’s so rare even he can’t say how much time he‘s bought her, how soon it might recur—and her latest blood tests have been so discouraging they’ve now decided she needs to start chemotherapy as soon as possible. Besides the prescription drugs to counteract the chemotherapy, she needs special therapies and supplements, counseling, and extensive diet and lifestyle changes, to reduce her stress level and the strain on her liver to as close to zero as possible. All those things are expensive…and like many artists today the Robinsons were already running on fumes financially.

2) ONLY FIVE BUCKS! (More if you want to give more!)

3) You get Larry Santoro’s excellent e-book novella, Lord Dickens’s Declaration. Listen folks, a lot of you don’t know Larry Santoro’s work. In fact, most of us Sofanauts hadn’t even heard of him until his stories began appearing on StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights podcast. But let me tell you . . .

Wow.

That’s Larry’s work in a nutshell. I didn’t know this guy from Adam a couple of years ago and now he’s one of my favorite writers. He’s been hiding out in the theater world and in Horrorland, sharpening his pen and now he can slice atoms with it. Larry controls his words, they don’t control him, and at the same time he feeds them out like ten-thousand feet of kite string to play in the sky. They think they’re running free, they don’t know. All the while he knows where every one of them runs and what they’re going to do next.

And Lord Dickens’s Declaration is an absolute blast. Alternate history, steampunky, put-your-brain-in-a-box-and-don’t-stop-shaking-it cool. The story features a world in which historians are the big guns and a computer which stretches across hundreds of acres (sometimes), called The Beast, sends those historians back in time. And let me ask you, have you ever known historians to put things back where they found them? Me neither. And that’s what drives this mad world. It’s 1902 in a world where Jesus ran the Roman Empire and a ninety-something Edgar Allen Poe runs North America. Occam is the man and who the hell is Charles Darwin?

Buy this book. Read this book. Enjoy, enjoy this book. Rest the rest of the righteously smug, knowing that your pleasure is also a Karmic write-off, all 100% of your electronic money is helping good people who are seeing a rough time.

GO NOW:

http://www.starshipsofa.com/shop/lord-dickenss-declaration/

THERE’S ONLY ONE DAY LEFT!

And then tell all of your big-hearted friends to pick up a copy as well. Thanks!

Christmas Break

Matthew — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:47:05 +0000

Sorry, gang. I didn’t mean it to turn out this way, but it will probably be another week or so before episode 22 hits you in the ears. I have a lot to do between now and then. Hang strong!

Episode 21 – Mabel, Like Medusa

Matthew — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:27:16 +0000

Related News Item: Funyuns Still Outselling Responsibilityuns

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Episode 20 – The Creepy Little Mailbox Man

Matthew — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:20:29 +0000

Enjoy Everyday Weirdness! http://everydayweirdness.com/

Follow Everyday Weirdness on Twitter http://twitter.com/everydayWeird

Read The Creepy Little Mailbox Man! http://everydayweirdness.com/e/20090322/

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Episode 19 – The Nelson's Tarp Brass Band War of 1983

Matthew — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:33:12 +0000

This one is dedicated to Lauren, a band nerd I occasionally work with.

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Promo – First Try

Matthew — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:04 +0000

Here we go! I just put together this promo. Give it a listen, tell me what you think. Let me know if you think it’s too long. I hear longish promos on other podcasts, so it might be cool. I don’t know.

Episode 18 – The Solution

Matthew — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:51:07 +0000

Today’s show features our very first guest! Please help me in welcoming my son, Ian Alexander Sanborn Smith!

Cake Wrecks! Laugh until cake comes out of your nose. Then submit the resulting picture! (Not to me, please.) http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

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Episode 17 – Tahiti Screams

Matthew — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:28:04 +0000

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Episode 16 – The Fall of the Soy Milkers

Matthew — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:53:11 +0000

Art Frahm: A study of the effects of celery on loose elastic

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Episode 15 – Maisy Made Croutons

Matthew — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:03:40 +0000

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Episode 14 – We Became a Star

Matthew — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:43:04 +0000

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Episode 13 – High School Days

Matthew — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:03:08 +0000

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Episode 12 – The Next Vampire Story

Matthew — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:47:11 +0000

Michael Swanwick’s “The Periodic Table of Science Fiction”

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Episode 11 – How a Telepathic Ladder Visits his Brother Across the Country

Matthew — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:07:08 +0000

StarShipSofa – Great science fiction, non-fiction and discussion every single week!

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Episode 10 – Gifts from the Lawn

Matthew — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:18:05 +0000

Getting closer to normal. Wait, that’s a bad thing . . .

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Episode 9 – Boss Conversion

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:31:14 +0000

I hope this one came out okay. I’m learning to use Audacity.

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