Wings Over the Pyre

Current Mood: tired

Headed to bed, magnificently tired, but rather than put up a short Twitter with the briefest capsule you can imagine, I figured I might actually post a few words.

Shocking, I know. Terrifying, really.

Midnight Reign was awesome and I’ll go on at greater length tonight on the Operation BSU LJ community as well as promoting next week’s band. But … man, Joeseph and Starla were two of the simultaneously nicest and most entirely fucked up people it’s ever been our great pleasure to interview. If you need a laugh today, go listen to yesterday’s show. Seriously, you’ll find more than one good time to burst out in malicious giggles. Totally well worth it.

Unrelatedly, my fingernail’s still attached, but it feels weird, as if it were numb in the area up by the cuticle and more attached further down. There’s a band of darkening area across just by the cuticle which suggests it might really want to shed at some point, which concerns me to some degree. If it keeps being “weird,” I may simply have to call my old dermatologist and beg and plead to see what he can do for some poor moron with no health insurance and no real way to pay him. And I have to get in touch with the Medicare people. Oh, yes, and the morons at the orthopedic place that was supposed to look at me and get back to VocRehab.

If it weren’t for tryptophan, my entire opinion of the medical establishment would be shot all to Hell.

Good show, last night. And I’ve been doing piles of VOs for RadioDaddy requests for the past week and some. Oh, yes, and in addition to my promo that went out to various podcasts, I cut a “station ID” for Girls’ Night In which we’ll have to see if they’ll end up using. I’ve suggested to stellabambino and point5b that they do one as well.

Hell, all of my readers should do one, all claiming to be from Operation BSU. I say that the best way to the awareness of humanity is through madness. And we got that if nothing else.

Yeah, madness.

Short versions: I’m not dead. Go listen to my show. I’ll write more as it comes to me.

Miss you guys. Drop in sometime.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Gwar - Violence Has Arrived - Happy Death-Day (Squid's Redoubt)

Hopefully, this little bit of code will actually work on LiveJournal. If not, just recognize that tonight, 9p Eastern, we’ll be putting on the usual madness of Operation BSU and interviewing the electronic/pop band Blood Red Squid in a fit of ironic self-referential humour.

Pre-show starts at 8:45p Eastern, recording kicks in at 9p, You can actually call in now without having a TalkShoe account just by calling 724-444-7444 and hitting 1#. Better yet is to create an account right quick (it’s free) and connect up to the live chat room from the show page as well as calling in. Get the whole experience! If you’re too shy to talk, the chat room comes with it’s own live audio stream so you can still be part of the whole thing!

Tonight on Operation BSU there’s another two-fer guest dose of intra-aural madness in the usual Sunday night, 9p niche!

Doctor Fishkisser appears via time-shift to answer your questions on a very special Ask Dr Fishkisser.

Ursula Vernon returns in the first segment to talk about webcomics, artist burnout, and the travails of pulling together your own webcomic.

The Big Leneski and his lecherous beer-grip talk up the pleasures to be had with reprogrammed Chuck-E-Cheese androids and other entertainment news.

Ghoultown’s Count Lyle, the smoothest undead gunslinger in gothabilly, brings us Texas punk sensibility and fine tequila.

Eric the Half-a-Bee buzzes in with spine-chilling tales of governmental terror; if you’re not outraged, you’re not feeling his sting!

Finally, SquidLord slithers across the cold tiles with reports from DefCon, real powered armour, plus the true definition of nerd-dom.

Don’t forget that you, yes you, can be part of the live spectacle!

Sure, you could just listen to the stream from the site, but wouldn’t you really rather be live in the text-based chatroom during the show? All you need is a TalkShoe account and a Java-enabled browser.

Better yet, wouldn’t you like to be live on the air with us? Since you already have the account, go ahead and give us a call at (724) 444-7444 with show ID “33899.” Put in your PIN, and you’ll be right there in the studio with us. Ask Lyle, Ursula, or one of our hosts the most personal, inappropriate questions! Or even good questions. We’re pretty easy about that sort of thing.

Tonight, Sunday, 9:00pm Eastern, 6p Pacific if you’re over on the Left Coast. It’s the talk show your mother warned you about. Wearing plaid.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Thyrty: 30th Anniversary Collection (Disc 2) - Talked Muself Right Into It (Squid's

This week, Dr Fishkisser won’t be able to make it to BSU in the flesh, as it were, so I was hoping some of my readers could put together a few good questions to put together beforehand, and pre-record.

Since you, good people, are my readers, well …

The idea is this:

• It has to be medically related.
• It has to be a non-trivial question to answer.
• It has to have a little bit of edginess, a bit of twist, something that makes it sound like something you couldn’t send to Dear Abby.
• It has to be in by Friday night.

You know the drill: sex, drugs, psychology, violence, relationships, “why are my turds doing this,” all perfectly valid topics to to take up with Herr Fraulein Doktor Fishkisser, MD, PhD, Esq. I just need them put in by the time I need to record this thing. Best ones, of course, get read live on the air (if you’ll be planning to call in live to the show, we may just have you read your accepted question).

Throw me a bone here, folks. Ghoultown’ll be in the house on Sunday night for the show as musical guests, so double reason to listen. OK, one more, ursulav will be anchoring again, too.

Want in? Reply to this post with your questions.

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Momus - philosophy of momus, The - Withinity (Squid's Redoubt)

Dear Hells of my Forefathers, I’ve been watching the stats on the show — like I watch them on every show I do — and have proceeded to being boggled at every turn.

Let’s just break out a bit of the last few week’s stats:

Talkcast Weekly Report - Squid's Redoubt: Operation BSU
Statistics for Past Weeks   This report was last updated Jul 30,2007 5:16:10 am
Week    Episode Detail  Recorded Episodes   *Total Downloads    *Live Audio Streamers   Callers     TalkShoe LIVE
07/22/07-07/28/07   Detail  1   31  4   6   6
07/15/07-07/21/07   Detail  2   103     13  5   3
07/08/07-07/14/07   Detail  2   44  16  10  4
07/01/07-07/07/07   Detail  1   32  2   4   1

And then — this week.

Statistics for Current Week: 07/29/07-08/04/07 (in progress)
Episode Detail  Recorded Episodes   *Total Downloads    *Live Audio Streamers   Callers TalkShoe LIVE
Detail  1   97  36  8   7

Yes, that’s right, the numbers from the past 8hrs or so of data put this show up as the second highest downloaded show in Operation BSU history, such as it is. By this evening, the thing’ll easily be double the size of anything I’ve done to date, including the Top Ten Podcast I’ve been doing for over a year now.

I’m not sure how I feel about that.

My gut says it’s just a matter of reaching the right people. At the right time. Through the right face. That side of me is pretty pleased with itself right now.

The other part of me whispers “We’ll see … Nexxxxt week, ssssucker,” and leaves me feeling kind of overawed and underwhelmed. Plus, you know, performance anxiety.

I’m off to bed, but I thought I’d just point that out. Hopefully, most of the folks who tuned in will stick with us, even call in and be part of the rampage.

Post Scriptum: In the time it took to write and post this, total numbers hit 104. Shit, people. Just … shit. I’m overwhelmed, here. I’m totally boggled.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah - Ooh (Squid's Redoubt)

… I won’t be singing the Star Spangled American Anthem Medley. And the crowd visibly droops.

But I will be running the Squid’s Redoubt: Operation BSU with special musical guests, Fire and Ice! Yeeeeeeeeeahhh! [said in best Kermit-voice] The fun’ll be ongoing since, by current reports, Dr Fishkisser will be in live attendance on the show, along with The Big Leneski and Eric the Half-a-Bee. Most folks even have their show notes up for me, too, which makes me happy. :)

Scheduling for the show is getting juggled around a bit, as much to mimic reality as anything. We’ve never actually hit my scheduling in the last half of the show-as-stands, though we always get in our material and get out, so it’s worthwhile to make the actual spreadsheet agree with how I actually run things. Less cognitive dissonance, more joy.

Reminder, too, that you can be a part of the show — live and in person! Just sign up on TalkShoe to get a free account and, more importantly, a PIN, then call in from your cell phone or land-line while we’re on. That’s it! If I don’t get you unmuted immediately, just hit the “I Wanna Talk!” button in the upper-right of the interface to get my attention. Now that ShoePhone has gone beta, you don’t even need to set up a VoIP solution to call in if you’d rather use your computer, so there are even fewer reasons to avoid us!

Come out tonight and give Fire and Ice your support! Or protect them from the insanity. Whatever.

Nota bene: Further news updates for Operation BSU will go over on the Operation BSU Community page from now on, leaving this one a bit more uncluttered. Expect more news there soon!