Modern Mechanix has an amusing 1922 ad from the Perfect Voice Institute IS THAT the way you go after a job? You may have a fine set of brains but you must have a voice to prove it. If you are not as successful as you might have been, start out right by confessing to […]
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I spent yesterday huddled under the covers and alternated between idle, mindless surfing, and typesetting. Rob picked up some hot and sour soup for me, which is my favorite comfort food for when I’m feeling ill. Toward bedtime, I thought I was probably starting to turn the corner, because I had the urge to write,
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Some of you may not know this, but I have weakness for folding furniture. I collect it, in fact. So, you know I want one these collapsible sofas.. FlexibleLove™ experimental furniture incorporates an ‘accordian-like, honeycomb’ structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available, low-cost recycled materials. FlexibleLove™ furniture pieces, such as FlexibleLove 16™, are
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Yesterday I began to have suspicion that the vocal fatigue I’d experienced Thursday night was actually the beginnings of a cold. Today, full blown sore throat. I am irritable; I had things I wanted to do today.
If you are curious, there are pictures of the Monkeys in rehearsal. They aren’t finished yet. Emily still has hair and “makeup” to do, but she’ll wait until closer to performance for two reasons. First, they’ll get dinged up in rehearsal. Second, she’ll have a better idea of what the needs of the paint are,
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I just realized that I had recorded my voice lesson yesterday and the whistling teakettle sound was on the tape. I apologize for the tape hiss, but hey, at least you get to hear the insanity that is the whistle voice. I included a little bit of our conversation before and after so you could
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WRW presents FREE AUDIO DRAMA by Craig Kenworthy, Carole Dane, Sandra DeHelen and Joe Medina by way of H.P. Lovecraft. WRW is happy to prove the cynics wrong and present four of our original audio experiments free of charge to the listening public. All are from writers who have participated in our Writer’s On the
Well, the plants are still missing, but we have a bill of lading number now and an idea of where they might have gone. When they were shipped out of Kodiak, Alaska, there are two shipping orders for them. On one of them, the plants would have been put on a full trailer that was
Mental note: Do not have a voice lesson on the same day as booked to record a chapter of audio fiction. On the other hand, the vocal fatigue probably helped my male characters sound a little deeper. Actually, the voice lesson was interesting today. We were working on “Summertime” and at the end of it
Today Rob and I went to pick our typewriters up from Ace Typewriter* where they had been lovingly cleaned. Oh my goodness, I cannot begin to describe how much better they type than before we took them in. The sound of each machine is different, and the action of the keyboards is great. Our Royal
Ready? Guess which upcoming item at Subterranean Online is the secret project I’ve been referring to. For two years, Subterranean magazine has brought you the absolute finest in science fiction, fantasy and horror, from names like Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Hill and Cherie Priest. Now Subterranean magazine is moving online —
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Yesterday was a stunningly beautiful day; I did yardwork for the first time in ages and it felt great. There was this odd moment when I was working and realized that I was too warm. It took me a minute to make the next logical conclusion, that I could take my jacket off and be
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All right, I loved The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but I never imagined him in the place described here. In fact, I never imagined this at all before, and think I need to go lie down now. Thanks, Sunil. That’s right, ladies and gents, your submissions to Shimmer are passing through
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Tonight we went into the studio to record Chapter Two of the secret project. At one point, the narration refers to one of the characters whistling. When we paused, Rob said, “Are you going to whistle?” “No. I can’t whistle,” I replied. A moment of silence passed with Rob’s mouth hanging slightly open. “Are you
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