Month: July 2020

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Critters Home Base

The Ballad of Oberon

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I’ve lost the sweetest cat I’ve ever known in my life.

Oberon literally showed up unannounced in my yard one on of the worst days in my life – a December day on which I saw my horse drown.  It was almost like he was someone cluelessly showing up at the worst possible time asking “Hey, I heard you have a vacancy?”  But there was something very different about this cat: not only was he immediately friendly, coming up to me awkwardly for pets and scritchies, but…my dog, Xena, hadn’t chased him away.  She normally chased away any cats that weren’t “hers” (at that time, my cat Othello still ruled the roost, and Olivia had just been adopted a few months earlier and was still a kitten.) … Read more

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Home Base Podcasting Serious Stuff

Voices from the machine

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I don’t think it’s any secret that I’m a podcast fan.  Being an every-day podcast listener is a big part of what led me to become an every-day podcaster.  I listen to lots of stuff, I find the gaps that no one seems to be covering in either subject matter or format, and off I go, so excited about starting on a new show that I momentarily forget that it’s been nearly 30 years since I worked in radio, and somewhere in the vicinity of 15 years since my last TV voice-over.  Still…I know how to Put Shows Together, either by myself or for someone else, so I get behind my battered microphone and keep trying.… Read more

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Serious Stuff Television & Movies

Memo to Russell T. Davies: when did you actually acquire the ability to time travel?

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I rewatched Torchwood: Children of Earth recently…kinda wished I hadn’t.  Not that it’s not good, but I liked these conversations better as a science fiction show and not when it’s Uncle Bubba on social media demanding that kids be sent back into crowded schools in the middle of a pandemic. … Read more