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As Season 0 of the audio drama HG World barrels to a conclusion, 3015 North Studios is presenting the final three parts of the season in the final three weeks of the year, starting tonight with the fifth episode, "All the Greenery is Comin' Down, Boy." The sixth episode, "And Shadows Still Remain," will go live on 18 December, with the season finale, "It's a World of Dread and Fear," hitting on Christmas Day. (Then, of course, Season 1 starts in January 2010......) The United Nations heads north to HG World. Refugees run from a guerrilla attack into the arms of a mob of eaters. Hicks' fate is revealed. Inside HG World, tensions rise as the lockdown continues and accidents lead to tough choices among the staff struggling to keep up appearances. A separate group of survivors tries to hold off Eaters from a mountaintop church. Starring: Shane Harris as AUGGIE Dustin Shanafelter as DAVID Mark Zaricor as DAWKINS Lee Sands as DOGBERRY Tracy Hall as DOREEN Steve C. as FISH Michael L. Stokes as GRANT and JACK Stacy Dooks as GRAY Glen Bartram as HARRIS Ryan Smith as HICKS D.T. Kelly as JEB M. Sieiro Garcia as JENNY JO and SARGE Lance Shoenberg as KRANTZ Shane Harris as MAYOR Ayoub Khote as McINNES Dustin Shanafelter as PIMPLES Cheryl Malcom as REGINA and SHELLY Becca Rinas as RONNI Carole Stokes as RUBY Dayton Ward as SHEMP Eric Avedission as THOMAS and Keith R.A. DeCandido as TODD RAGE The episode was written and directed by Jay Smith, edited and engineered by Michael Stokes. HG World is produced by Jay Smith & Michael L. Stokes, with production assistance by Martha Linbo-Terhaar and Carole Stokes. Production logo and additional art by Adrianna Linbo-Terhaar. This show was edited with Reaper Audio Editor with some Sound Effects from FreeSound.org. For a full list of FreeSound contributors, please visit us at GoodMorningSurvivors.com. Jonathan Coulton appears courtesy of the Creative Commons License. Visit JonathanCoulton.com for music downloads and concert information. HG World is a production of 3015 North Studios. You can download the episode from iTunes, or go to GoodMorningSurvivors.com or podOmatic's HG World page. And please do comment on the HG World message boards. Current Mood:  pleased
Current Music: "Don't Do It" by The Band
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Looked over the Dragon Precinct story, and realized it needs a buttload of work (an assessment seconded by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) girasole), but the editor ( damcphail) has generously given me to the end of the year. Had to do a final pass on D'Argo's Quest #4, and also did final revisions to the mystery proposal. Did a couple of online interviews that should show up on the web some time soon. Also been getting in touch with editors, doing the trolling-for-work thing. Did up the latest "Couch Potato Salad," which is a review of Alice that'll be on The Chronic Rift next week. Also recorded something for HG World (about which more in another post....). I started doing the research necessary for the historical fantasy I want to do. I know which historical figure I want to focus on, and the commencement of the research has come with it a notion as to what the fantasy element will likely be. Had lunch with my old buddy Glenn Greenberg today. He works at Scholastic, and afterward I walked up Broadway for a bit into NoHo. Was depressed to see that the old site of Tower Records is still for rent. The excellent independent bookstore Shakespeare & Co. is still there, though, and I picked up a couple things there. (In general, I've been trying to do more stuff. Lately I've been to the Cloisters, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bronx Zoo, and Columbia University (the latter for the Al Jaffee talk last night). Plans are afoot for the Whitney (wanna see the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit) and the New York Annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (before it closes).) Now I'm working on Farscape #6, which I'm running late on. Tomorrow is the monthly lunch with Dave Mack and Marco Palmieri and dinner with the Forebearance. Looking ahead to the rest of December, I want to get at least three chapters of the urban fantasy written. I also need to rework Super City Police Department ( remember that?). By the time I get through that, I should have done the research necessary to at least plot out the historical. In the midst of that will be more Farscape scripts, of course. And I'm hoping other work becomes real between now and then...................... Current Mood:  busy
Current Music: "To Cry You a Song" by Jethro Tull
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Tonight I saw Al Jaffee of MAD Magazine fame give a talk at Columbia University. It was magnificent, and you can see some pictures on Facebook. He told some great stories, ranging from growing up in Savannah, Lithuania, and the Bronx; being one of the first students (along with future fellow MAD artist Will Elder) at the then-new School of Music and Art; working in the early days of the comics industry (which was mostly run by Jews, and so didn't have the anti-Semitism that other illustrative fields were choked with); to working with Harvey Kurtzman on the short-lived Trump and Humbug; to his time on MAD; to the creation of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" and the fold-ins; to the entire staff of MAD converging on the home of their one subscriber in Haiti, who hadn't renewed. Jaffee was delightfully crotchety, funny as hell, and still is at the top of his game. In short, I want to be Al Jaffee when I'm 88. But afterward, I needed food. I found a place called Koronet Pizza on Broadway & 110th, which has the biggest fucking slices of pizza I've ever seen in my life. ( Naturally, I had to take a picture, because would you believe me otherwise? )It was yummy.... Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Teidhir Abhaile Riú" by Clannad
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British artist Neill Cameron has been doing a fun advent thing: a new Santa every day. Thus far we've had Pirate Santa, Full of Existential Dread Kitten Santa, BatSanta (or, the Dark Knight Before Christmas), Toddler Santa, Santa Raptor, Toshiro Mifune Santa (my personal favorite), Santa Who (David Tennant version), and Santa Cthulhu. Today, though, is the classic Reanimated Killbot Hello Kitty! Revenge Santa!!!!!Hee! Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Pavane" by Ian Anderson w/orchestra
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After 13 "dry" years, America officially repealed Prohibition (1933)THE RED PHONE During a visit to China in March 2007, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace announced that Washington and Beijing were considering installing an emergency hotline between the leaders of the two countries. Such hotlines tend to be known as "red phones," after the U.S.-Russia link established in 1963, following the potentially disastrous failures of communication during the Cuban missile crisis. (For example, it reportedly took the U.S. c.12 hours to receive and decode Khruschev's first settlement message, and the Soviet ambassador later disclosed that he handed messages to a bicycle courier, who in turn sent them via Western Union.) The "red phone" was actually used for the first time in 1967, when it helped prevent the Six Day War from escalating into a global conflict. Initially, the "red phone" consisted of a set of teleprinters connected via transatlantic cable. In the 1970s, the teleprinters were replaced with actual phones and, later, satellite communications and facsimile transmission. Why the phone is "red" is the subject of some speculation. Moscow apparently called their side of the connection "the red telephone"--though whether this was because of its actual color, the urgency of its function, or a humorous allusion to political ideology, is unclear. A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Thomas Edward Brown (1830-97)Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway (1947)PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT After the assassination of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, by Leon Czolgosz, Congress charged the Secret Service with protecting the President of the United States. Nowadays, the Secret Services is mandated by law to protect: ---the president, th evice president (or other individuals next in order of succession to the office of the President) ---the president-elect and vice president-elect ---the immediate families of the above individuals ---former presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except when the spouse remarries (in 1997, congressional legislation became effective limiting Secret Service protection to former presidents for a period of not more than 10 years from the date the former president leaves office [Bill Clinton will be the last president to enjoy lifelong protection]) ---children of former presidents until age 16 ---visiting heads of foreign states or governments and their spouses traveling with them, other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States, and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad ---major presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses, within 120 days of a presidential election I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson (1709-84)Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: "Rocks on the Road" by Jethro Tull
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