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Flyswatter Show 11-08-11

Flyswatter — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:46:13 +0000

Voicemail: 678-368-4935. Busy day, lots of work came in. I almost ran out of time to podcast but hey, money money money! When you freelance, that’s your first priority. I don’t feel comfortable putting any of it off, seeing as how my work flow isn’t at the point that I can count on anything yet. Money time!

First of all, thanks to Ben Earlington for leaving a nice voicemail message! I will check out the podcast you recommended, Scopes Monkey Choir, which seems to be a science/skeptical theme show. I knew Ben from back when I used to have a Tumblr account, before it was so rudely hacked by Lulzsec and then someone used it to spam a lot of people. I just shut it down because it was just too much anyway. I have enough social media to deal with anyway, with Facebook, Google+, and to some extent still, Livejournal. Especially Facebook.

Today I am playing “The Winds of Common Sense” by Mikey Sabatella from his upcoming album A New Horizon. You can preorder a CD from the website. I found this song on musicalley.com.

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Flyswatter — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:51:51 +0000

Voicemail: 678-368-4935.

I was just herp-derping on Facebook when I looked at the time and realized that I had better get cracking if I was going to get the last NaPodPoMo show up on time today!

I don’t know whether I’ll keep this up throughout the year. I’ll try, but my past performances haven’t been so good. I’ll try though!

Thanks everyone for listening this month, leaving comments on the blog and on Facebook, calling me, or telling me in person that you listened. I feel so loved!

I am playing a really great Blues-Rock song by a Swedish/American singer who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her name is Anouschka, and the song is “Good Girl Gone Wild” from her album My Kind Of Heartbreak. Anouschka‘s song really makes me feel happy and I can relate to the title!

Thank you so much to Music Alley from Mevio for making Anouschka’s music available, as well as most of the other songs I’ve played this month. You are a great resource for podcasters and artists both.

After a long time, an actual post!

Flyswatter — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:13:30 +0000

I have been neglecting this podcast, and haven’t even been writing in this blog for a while. Certain events in my real life which I really do not want to go into have caused me to want to pull into myself and hide my personal self from the internet. I have been doing some posting of interesting links on my Facebook account (go ahead and friend me if you like–it’s rare that I refuse a friends request unless it’s from an obvious spammer) and have been in some rewarding arguments. I’ve also posted a few links in my LiveJournal, but nothing really personal. You are welcome to read that, for what it’s worth (my LiveJournal has devolved mostly into a link repository as well).

I’ve been very upset by the economy and how long it is taking to fix it. I am very angry that as usual there are certain charletons who are using the system to enrich themselves on the backs of the taxpayers. I am upset about the situation in Afghanistan, Darfur and Myanmar. I have been called anti-semitic and akin to a Nazi because of my linking to articles about atrocities committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip (Apparently Jews get a free pass on human rights because of their experiences in World War II.). I’ve been told off by a relative because of my activist atheism. I’ve been slammed by a vegetarian family member because of my activist veganism. And it gets more personal than that–I’m just doing everything wrong, apparently.

But the cool thing is that my oldest daughter Halley is living at home while she studies for her GRE and hopefully finds a job soon, and Dwight, Halley, and I have been putting in some raised bed gardens in our front yard (which is a pain because we live on a hill and the only part of our yard that gets any sun whatsoever is very steep). We’ve planted some cool-weather vegetables and they are growing!

Dwight and I also broke down and bought a Vita-Mix after I burned out the motor on our old blender and we’re drinking green smoothies every day. It is the most expensive kitchen appliance we have ever bought, next to the refrigerator and the dishwasher, but it is so useful! When the kale and collards come in, we’ll be blending them into delicious frosty beverages.