Dragon Page Wingin’ It #39: We Won What?
What’s on this week: Is it really an award if no one tells you about it?
Michael, Evo, The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas Summer and Joe gather ’round the mic for loads more fun! We won a “Best of” award, and no one told us…
- First Drink of the Day: Jubal Ale, Scaldis Noel, and Frombozen Raspberry Brown Ale
- Mur Lafferty (Geek Fu Action Grip): Gimme
- Mur joins the gang via Skype to chat about “A Broadcaster’s Christmas Carol”
- Cooler Than You Productions: Freak Show
- We need new code free dvd players (pay little mind to what I said on-air)
- Duel of the Fates voting closes Friday, Dec 16!
- Deep Thoughts from Michael: Being Michael’s Cat
- Will the winners of the “Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers” CD please send us your street addresses?
- Fantasy Firefly from the folks at The Signal: Interview with “Serenity”
- Talking about the weather again
- Evo Genius: Evo recommends Coastr: The Social Guide to Beers
- SciFi Poetry Slam: In Our Stories
- Chuck from Dragon’s Landing offers up rules for a “Wingin’ It” drinking game
- Instant Narnia review from Mike’s wife
- Voice of the Republic: Questions about Trooper Discipline
- “Wingin’ It” won a Best Local Podcast “Best of Phoenix 2005″ Award… and no one told us!
- Winter Holiday Plans wreak havoc with Dragon Page shows for the rest of the year
- Summer volunteers to create messages of winter cheer to help keep fans in the colder climes keep warm
- MST3K DVD: Ray Moore. You Won. Easily.
- Voicemails: Jason from Perth, Mario from Mexico City, Michael from Riverbend Podcast, Mystery Caller, Mark from Memphis, Brian from Winnipeg, several different comments from Paul from Des Moines, Karen from California, Brian from Trucker Llew’s Podcast, Joe from Denver
- Emails: send us more stories about your embarassing public reactions to Wingin’ It!
Want to send us comments? Feel free to call us at 206-600-GEEK (600-4335) and let ‘er rip!
Promos:
- Mudder’s Milk
- The Signal: Season 2
December 14th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Hey there… thanks for the mention, and for visiting! Great work on the podcast, keep it up!
Brian
coastr.com
December 14th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
Great show as always, and I’m glad you enjoyed the “leftovers.” I’m still chasing down the Belzebuth bar towel, so try not to spill anything.
Cheers
December 15th, 2005 at 5:26 am
Long time listener,great shows guys.
December 15th, 2005 at 6:00 am
coastr.com looks GREAT!
Thanks for bringing it to my attention - as a Real Beer afficinado, I love listening to you guys.
December 15th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
This is a challenge to all Wingin It fans. Go to Coastr and make the Draco Vista Studio the most popular place to have a beer. Go to it!
December 16th, 2005 at 11:18 am
In listening to Mur’s essay, I couldn’t help but think it was partially true, in that at the ripe middle age of 37, I’ve gone through a lot of my stuff over the past few years and have ditched it on Ebay, to either get it out of the house, or make a buck on it. The problem is, I’m still a fanboy, and for everything I sell, I buy twice as much stuff to replace it!! What I want to know is in her sounding like the spokeperson for the world’s charities, what is Mur getting rid of. She reminded me of John Kerry, who told all the Vietnam Veterans to disgard their ribbons and medals, while he held onto his.
December 16th, 2005 at 1:44 pm
Water + Electricity separates the atoms and produces hydrogen and oxygen.
Hydrogen + oxygen + FIRE produces water.
December 16th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
According to this site: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002959F/hydrogeny.htm adding flame to H and O gas is bad. I’m thinking it’s a little more complicated than any of us are giving it credit for being.
December 16th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
I was once a chemistry teacher, but that was many, many beers ago. My recollection is that the splitting of water into its constituents is as easy as hooking up wires to each end of a battery and dunking them in water. No..it doesn’t explode; little bubbles form on the wires (Hydrogen on one, oxygen on the other). Combining two parts hydrogen gas with one part oxygen gas, and adding fire DOES go boom, violently at that, producing water. Hydrogen fuel cells basically do this, but release the energy much more slowly (crushing the hopes of fans of exploding cars).
On an unrelated note, Draco Vista is currently coastr.com’s second favorite place for a beer…just a couple more folks, and it’s number one!
December 17th, 2005 at 11:13 am
I listened to Mur’s essay and totally agreed with it…at first. I just can’t abide the liquidation of one’s comic book collection. Not everything has been collected into TPB format and I would argue the more obscure issues are necessary to round out the experience of reading comic books. So you have your Sandman Library, Watchman, Darknight and Maus Hardcover editions stashed neatly on your bookshelf?If you can’t go digging for those shoddy old issues of Bloodshot when you hear Tarantino in making them into a movie, you’ve missed out on a core part of the experience.
Thanks for a great show!
December 18th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Shane - I’ll be doing a purge on ebay and Goodwill after the chaos of the holidays. I’ll post pics if you like.
And Daniel, as I said, if comics aren’t collected, then don’t get rid of them. I just know i”m a lot happier collecting The Amazing Spider Man, Usagi Yojimbo and Astro City every few months in tpb format instead of letting the comics pile up.
December 19th, 2005 at 8:37 am
Thanks Mur!! This wasn’t a knock, it’s just that sometimes people get that in their head, and think it’s the righteous thing to do, but don’t access what they’d do in the situation!! I give a ton of stuff to Goodwill and other charities. Collectibles are not among them!!
December 20th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Shane- excellent to give to charity! But I did mention that you can sell or toss the stuff too. For example, I don’t know anyone who will want the Independence Day space ship toys in my basement. They’ll probably get tossed. I know a scifi fan who is disabled and not very wealthy, and he welcomes donations of books, so he’ll be getting some of my overflows. And ebay is going to get a workout with other stuff after Christmas.
February 18th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Voice of the Republic: Questions about Trooper Discipline - That was pretty bad. I am catching up on shows I haven’t listened to since November and yes it is February. Also, Evo and Michael. You guys should lighten up on Christmas. Weren’t you guys ever little and woke up to all those gifts? the buying is really about the kids.
Love the show guys!