Monday, 24. August 2009
Art from Summer 2009 issue of Goblin Fruit by Oliver Hunter.
I know, it’s been FOREVER since the first episode! So sorry, things were a bit crazy there for a while, and that hasn’t actually changed but Worldcon is over, and that helps some. 
So here is the second episode, with the lovely ladies from Goblin Fruit!
And here are some show notes!
The poem at the beginning is The Changeling Always Wins by Nicole Kornher-Stace, the featured poet in the summer issue of Goblin Fruit. We talk about her a bit in the show, and I met her at Readercon along with the rest of the GF crew, and she is lovely. You should read her poetry (plus her kid is really freakin’ cute).
Oh right, we recorded this at a con. In case you’re wondering, info on Readercon is here, and I really must thank Ellen Kushner who was so sweet to let us record in her hotel room. Thanks Ellen!
Also mentioned is Mike Allen and Mythic Delirium, another fine online poetry ‘zine.
XKCD’s map of the internet!
Mike Allen’s safe for work striptease at the Rhysling Awards: no seriously, it’s safe.
A correction! In the show Amal says she thinks the Science Fiction Poetry Association was founded in 1987, it was actually founded in 1978. We apologize for the error.
Goblin Fruit Trailer
Song at the end is “Goblin Girls,” with words by C.S.E. Cooney and music and performance by Jeremy Cooney.
This episode was so much fun! I’m really proud of it, and so glad that I got a chance to sit down with Amal and Jess! I love what these ladies are doing with Goblin Fruit, and it doesn’t hurt that they are lovely, lovely people. Congratulations once again to Amal for winning the 2009 Rhysling award for short poetry for her poem “Song for an Ancient City,” which she kindly read for us on the show. It was such a treat to hang out with them and the associated Goblins at Readercon, and I can’t wait to do it again next year. A couple more administrative notes, I figured out some more of my technical issues, so you should soon be able to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, which will please me greatly (Update: I wrote this post last night, and this morning I had the email telling me that you can now subscribe through iTunes at this link! Hurray!). If you use a different podcast syndicator, feel free to let me know where you would like to see me submitting the show. And as always, feedback is more than welcome! There will be more news soon about other things I’m involved with, and if you’re interested, I actually started yet another blog at Stackscene for talking about books and literacy issues.
Thanks for coming back for the second episode!
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Monday, 6. July 2009
Update: 7/14/09: It’s better now! Please go to this post for the correct sound file! Thank you for your patience!
EDIT: Apparently I’m having technical issues with the sound, I’m working on fixing these and will post an update when you can actually download the show. Sorry for the problems and delays, but hey, it’s my first one, something had to go wrong.
or: We Are a Raptor Free Zone.
First episode! Finally, right? I’ve only been talking about this for like, well, I guess it’s only been a month, actually, which I guess is pretty good.
This episode features Mandy Leetch of The Uncommon Facade, and she is a maskmaker, among other things.
Show Notes:
Mandy’s Etsy Shop
K’s Firebird mask
My Clockwork Girl Mask
Catherynne M. Valente’s Palimpsest mask (also see above)
We talked about a bunch of other people here, almost all of whom will eventually be featured on the show, so I figured I’d give links to their stuff whenever possible.
S.J. Tucker
K Wiley
Pics of K w/mask from festival
Goblin Fruit
Catherynne M. Valente (be sure to check out her online serial novel, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making! New chapters go up every Monday! )
Waterhouseleather link
Interstitial Arts Foundation
Puppet Building
It’s true, we giggle a lot. Sorry about that.
Yes, we are materials geeks.
D: face, for those not fluent in internet and emoticons. Tilt your head to the right, it’s the face you make when something is just awful.
No music in this episode, although there will be some normally. I decided that for the very first show I had enough to worry about without trying to make myself completely crazy. So next time I’ll try one more new thing, and so on.
So there we are! First show, please leave me some feedback. I know the tags aren’t right yet on the file, it’s something I’m working on getting right, and once I do I’ll get this syndicated on iTunes and the other podcast networks. For now if you want to hear the episode directly just click on the link below and it should start in your preferred media player, if you want to download it right-click and save.
And now, a preview! I mentioned one of my next guests in this episode, but we’ve just confirmed that the next episode of We Have Thumbs will feature the editors of Goblin Fruit, the online poetry magazine! The link is above, do go check it out! I’ll be chatting with Amal and Jess at Readercon week after next THIS WEEK THAT IS HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO MAKE BLOG GO, and it should be a lot of fun!
Thanks!
PS: You may have noticed the site hiccupping a bit today, sorry about that! I was using an old version of Wordpress that my hosting provides, and it was giving me fits. Luckily a friend is wise in these things and scrapped it all and installed a more recent version, so that I can FINALLY give you this show, which was done a couple of weeks ago at this point. Three Cheers for Conrad!
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