Michael and Evo: Wingin’ It!

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What’s on this week: Here, There Be Tequila!

• First Drink of the Day: Today, the boys whet their palates with Tequila
• TD0013: A Different Point of View
• Kevin talks about the addiction that is Star Wars Galaxies
• Deep Thoughts from Michael: Porn
• Ponder that Earth is a galactic dumping ground for the criminally insane
• Fantasy Firefly from the folks at The Signal: Blue Hand Job
• DOOM — seen it yet?
• Kevin takes issue with the guys, well, with Tee for CopperCon comments
• SciFi Poetry Slam: A Rap Ode to Adama
• RoTO: Mr Adventure, Episode 2
• Contest Reminders! Still accepting entries for the Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD and copies of The Traveler
• Mark from Memphis
• Thanks for the donations to the beer fund!

Promos:

• TREK in SciFi
• Unquiet Desperation
• Beyond the Storm: Stories for New Orleans
• Legacy of Morevi
• TSFPN

Today’s Tequila selections:

• Patron
• Milagro

 

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Yes, it appears that hanging out with the likes of Jack Mangan and Tee Morris has soiled my soul. But I post this here because Amazon doesn’t make a decent banner ad for new books, and a few folks have asked to run one on their site. Fine. I made it.

For those that need a little extra hand-holding and prefer things cut-and-paste like:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471748986/ref=ase_dragonpage"><img src="http://dragonpage.com/ledads/data/PfD468x60.jpg" /></a>

Use it widely and distribute it far. Book releases Nov 7, 2005.

In an dual effort to spread good-natured fun and completely piss off those who claim we drink too much:

While I have neither the desire nor inclination to participate in NaNoWriMo (but completely support those that do. Rock on.), I think I might be able to find time in my busy schedule to take on the challenge of NaDruWriNi, or National Drunk Writing Night.

Anyone else feel up to the challenge? If you don’t have a blog, feel free to send us your text and we’ll post them here! And it need not be limited to SF/F. Just write your drunken hearts out! I think I’ll write about being “flippant”…

Dropping dead in your car in Sydney is no excuse for taking up a valuable parking spot. According to this report on Yahoo! News, a man died in his car and received a ticket.

“A traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on a car which had its dead driver slumped at the wheel outside an Australian shopping mall, an official said Friday.”

So, this is a little like china, where they execute you and send the bill for the bullet to your family?

What’s on this week: Mike and Evo fly solo!

• First Drink of the Day - Since the boys got their collective pee-pee’s slapped for international spoiler violations, they can’t drink beer. Note the beer in that statement. Today, they switch to Scotch.
• Mur Lafferty talks about “frivolity”
• Philip gets taken to task by his country men for bringing us bad beer.
• The folks from The Signal parody Jack Mangan
• Evo’s getting good costume ideas
• Mr. Adventure from RotO
• Evo gets more feedback on his cult. The natives are restless!
• Force equals Mass times Accelleration
• Leigh is not a chick
• Mike has more Deep Thoughts, this time about worms?
• The boys get their voice mail problems figured out
• Philip needs us to send him some money so he can get into NASA

Promos ran for:

• Unquiet Desperation
• TSFPN
• Suvival Guide to Writing Fantasy
• I Should Be Writing
• TREKS Sci-Fi
• Technorama
• Legacy of Morevi

Today’s Scotch selections:

• Cragganmore
• Glenmorangie
• Lagavulin

 

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Hey, everyone!

With a lot of help from “He” and Nicole Simon and some feedback from The Mighty Mur, I’ve launched my own podcast:

The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy

So what is The Survival Guide all about? This is a podcast that falls between Mur Lafferty and Mike Stackpole. I’m the podcast for new writers with their first title, or with an author who have signed the contract, finished the edits, and are expecting their first box of books to arrive. The Survival Guide is also for the established author who is looking for marketing ideas. This is a podcast of promotional strategies and personal stories that give an inside look at how authors get their works from the publisher’s presses to the hands of the general public.

I just kicked it off. Comments (and subscribers) are welcome…

What’s on this week: Evo On Trial!

• Evo’s father-in-law Max joins us in studio to lend moral support for Evo’s trial for spoiler violations
• Mur Lafferty (Geek Fu Action Grip): Gaming Therapy
• Explicit Serenity
• TD0013’s A Different Point of View
• Contest for free copies of The Traveler
• Michael R. Mennenga: Deep Thoughts
• Fantasy Firefly (from our friends of The Signal)
• Skittle Brau beer experiment
• Listener emails!
• More on the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas podcast

 

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Just a quick note on the days that the shows go out.

Monday: Dragon Page Cover 2 Cover

Friday: Dragon Page Wingin’ It!

After several email comments, all views seem to be the same. “Give us the shows in the order you record them.” So with that in mind, this is the order that they will be released to the web-verse.

Barry Bard, friend of the Dragon Page and any other fan of science fiction, fantasy and movies from Phoenix, passed on yesterday after an all-too-short battle with pancreatic cancer.

Barry was a face you could always count on at conventions and events, either handing out passes to movies, putting out movie posters for free, previewing the coming releases, or sticking pins and other forms of tchotske on your person.

An encyclopedic knowledge of rare books and SF trivia, you will be missed, Barry.