It's Lynn's fault.Lynn and my nieces. See, over a year ago when I was in Richmond for my father's funeral, Sparky and I were hit on several fronts that we really needed to get on facebook. After much badgering, we both relented.

Sadly it got worse from there. The games. Ah, the games. So now I officialy spend Way Too much Time on facebook and not nearly enough on LJ. I promise I will try to pay attention to LJ, because I know there are some here who have not joined the lemming parade.

I also have to change my LJ style. It really is shockingly garish... no subtlety at all to the red and blue and purple trimmings.

So, after weeks of denying that moving Leno to 10:00 was a big bad mistake, NBC has finally decided to continue to deny it was a mistake while at the same time admitting that the rumours about moving him back to 11:30 are true. But, of course, it's the affiliates' fault, not NBC's.

Since about mid-October I have been working on an audio play conceived and written by my friend Vince Stadon and voiced by many others (including myself and Sparky, among others). My job has been putting it together, assembling SFX, backgrounds, and music to create an aural cinematic masterpiece. Or at least something that doesn't sound like it was put together with duct tape and baling wire. To preserve my sanity fter the first episode was copmpleted, I have help for the gathering process.

The result is The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalking Death, a lighter look at the World's (and Time's) Greatest Consulting Detective. Part 1 of the four part series is up now, with subsequent episodes due out every week (hopefully... I'm still up to my elbows in episode 3).

Check it out. Listen while you put the tree up tomorrow. Nothing like murder creepy arachnids to make a Merry Christmas.

I am on the air, but if you want to listen, it will have to be live. I forgot my recording device...

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Back after the hiatus.
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Back on the air after a month away!

The usual link is broken so try this one.

Ahhh, finally. First snow of the season has begun. Ok, it started a few hours ago, but we're up to about 4" so far.

By March it'll be old, but for now... woohoo!

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesdispatch/obituary.aspx?n=allan-heyward&pid=136057720

Thanks for your well wishes and prayers, all. Tonight I lifted the Glenlivet with my brother and sister while they were on the phone.

To Allan McAlpin Heyward. A true Southern Gentleman.

..this evening, not while you're working. Tonight, I will pour a glass of my best scotch (Glenfiddich) and raise a glass in toast to a great man, my father, who passed this morning. At 87 years old, as my friend Vince says, that's a lot of innings. He lived them well.

To be blunt, my father is dying. He developed a hematoma of the right parietal lobe two weeks ago Sunday. He was in ICU for a few days, and then in recovery, and the plan was to send hom to rehab soon.

This morning, he didn't remember my mother, didn't know where he was, and they determine that he had a massive stroke on the other side of the brain. He is now unconscious and will not recover. Could be a day, could be a week.

I guess the best way to describe my mood is sad, but not distraught. He's had a long, fulfilling life, at 87. No unfinished business, and, I suspect, few regrets. He was a good, well respected man, and a good father. I'll miss him.

I also don't think it's quite sunk in yet...

Also, I came within inches of hitting a moose with my car. Inches. My heart still racing, though the shot of Jack has helped. Not my fault it was just standing there on the bridge in the middle of th road, And as I slammed on brakes and swerved, it just slowly turned its head and looked at me, with the "what are YOU doing here at 1AM" look on his face. I frantically flashed my brights at the car up the road so he'd get an idea that he should slow down and NOT hit the moose. he didn't. hit the moose, I mean.

Ah well. I guess this week's project was not meant to be heard. the webstream is down, and my iRiver recorded the wrong frequency. So, no podcast this week *sigh*

The Setlist:

The Beat Club / Introduction / Robotica / Electrobeat

Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes 104: The Psychic Detective

*Stars of Track and Field / A Time for Lions / Wind-up
Mates of State / Invitation Inn / House Full of Friends / Magic Marker
Ben Folds Five / Radio Killed the radio Star / Whatever and Ever Amen (extended) / Epic
The Clientele / Tonight / Bonfires of the Heath / Merge

Peter Gabriel / Exit Through You / Big Blue Ball / Real World
Moby / Wait for Me / Wait For Me / Little Idiot/Mute
Air / Night Hunter / Love 2 / Astralwerks
David Bazan / Please Baby Please / Curse Your Branches / Barsuk

BoyOBoy / Barber of Skaville/Holiday / Shish-Ska-Bob / Bob Records
Ululating Mummies / Holy Ghost Polka / Sacred Snack / Plan 9
The Gaskets / Earthquake / na /
Raveonettes / D.R.U.G.S. / In and Out of Control / Vice

BT / Godspeed (Hybrid Mix / Nettwerk
Capsula / The 9 / Sense of a Drop / Waveform
Vitalic / See the Sea / Flashmob / Citizen
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At WRBC as usual...

The pre-Halloween show. Sort of.

Hour 1:

The Beat Club / Introduction / Robotica / Electrobeat

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes 103: The Impossible Magician

Mike Oldfield / The Sentinel / Tubular Bells 2 / Reprise
Concrete Blonde / Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) / Texas Man EP / IRS
David Bowie / I'm Afraid of Americans v4 / remix EP / Virgin
*Lucky Pineapple / Moonlight Spiderbite / The Bubble Has Burst in Sky City / Sonablast

Hour 2:
Yello / Assistant's Cry / Solid Pleasure / Vertigo
*Mutemath / Clipping / Armistice / Warner Bros
Poe / Trigger Happy Jack / Hello / Atlantic
ELP / Karn Evil 9 / Best Of... / Rhino

Bonzo Dog Band / Monster Mash / Peel Sessions / Dutch East India
Arctic Monkeys / Potion Approaching / Humbug / Domino
Telenovela Star / Vampire / Love Lust Sci Fi & Monsters / s/r
Monsters of Folk / Losin' to head / S/T / Shangri-La
The Beatles / I'm Looking Through You / Rubber Soul / Capitol

Kitty Daisy & Lewis / Got My Mojo Workin' / DH Records
Ditty Bops / Fish to Fry / Moon Over the Freeway / Warner Bros
Belle & Sebastian / Step into my Office Baby / Dear Catastrophe Waitress / Matador
Peter Gabriel / Moribund the Burgermeister / Peter Gabriel (car) / Atco

The Dissociatives / Horror with Eyeballs / s/t / Astralwerks

Special Bonus Mix because MrHarps didn't come in:

Fatboy Slim / Demons (Staunton Warriors Mix)
Tori Amos / Professional Widow (Just Da Funk)
Yaz / Situation (Agressive Attitude Mix)
Tiesto No More Heroes (with Blue Man Group)
Moby / Disco Lies (Specer & Hills Mix
Bigod20 / Carpe Diem (Bigod10 Mix)

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Oh yeah. I'm on the air...

There's snow on the ground. Just a dusting, but there's snow. Something tells me it's a good thing I got a bigger snow blower.

( Cut for your protection )

The Project is on the air.

..And I promise that as soon as I go home I will post the PodProject (http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheProject)

Set list ( cut for space-savers )
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I decided a year (actually, a year and most of the summer) is long enough. The Project is back on the air at 10PM tonight. And the stream is working: http://www.wrbcradio.com/listen

District 9. just... wow

Sunday and Monday only: Bandit (without Sparky, sadly) will be in Richmond and would love to catch up with folks! Calendar is filling up, so it's down to Sunday afternoon and Monday evening...

As part of it's unveiling of the new BBCAmerica HD next week, BBCA will be showing the new 5-part Torchwood story that just aired on BBC1 last week. Because we have no patience, Sparky and I downloaded and watched it. we watched the final two episodes tonight.

Watch it. You have to watch it. Even if you didn't really care for the darkness of the first two seasons of Torchwood, watching this five-part story is a must. it one one of the best things Russell T Davies has written to date.

VEGAN zombies!

(and shadowlynn's in it too!)

It amuses me to read all the comments decrying the conversion of the SciFi channel to "SyFy"

Yes, it is probably going to go down as one of the dumbes rebranding stratgies in TV history (the main reason, they almost admitted, is money: they can own a trademark on "SyFy," not on "SciFi"), but what amuses me about the comments is the cries of despair that it means the END of the SciFi channel as we knew.

Uh, folks, the SciFi channel as we knew it ended about 5 years ago, when NBC Universal took it over and decided they didn't want to have a station that only appealed to pimply boys and men of stunted social skills, so they killed the better SF oriented shows in order to appeal to women. Ignoring the fact that plenty of women and articulate adult males were already rife in their audience.

So I see the change to a name to be not a sign of the station's change, but an admission of their failure (or unwillingness) to provide the intelligent, thought-provoking content that makes up real science fiction.

Wrestling on a science fiction/fantasy channel? Really?

the time to drive my parents from maine to Virginia approaches, so the Midnight Tree Bandit will be in town for two days, Sunday and Monday, Aug 2-3. Sadly, the Sparky will not be along with. Anyway, will be available for lunch, dinner, whatevah!