In the final days of 2022, I happened upon an intriguing sixty-minute low-budget film. Entitled Letters to the Postman, it is an adaptation by British indie filmmaker Felix Dembinski of a short story by Robert Aickman which appeared in the author’s 1980 anthology Intrusions and proved to be his final […]
Interviews
Meandering Mic with Nick Antosca (Channel Zero)
Meandering Mic returns after a bit of a hiatus, and this time Rob is talking to Nick Antosca – the executive producer and show runner of the hit American television horror series Channel Zero. Join them as they discuss the making of the show, its mythology, influences and much, much […]
Meandering Mic – Andrew Bannister (Creation Machine)
Science fiction is a strange genre that’s part logic, part wild imagination and thoroughly engrossing when done well. Many have tried to become true sci-fi storytellers but tend to fail when it comes to worldbuilding. So how about galaxy building instead? On this edition of Meandering Mic we talk to […]
Meandering Mic – Evan Butler (Mother to Earth)
For many fans and collectors Mother, now known as Earthbound Zero, is an odd but much beloved video game. Part RPG, part urban legend – the story of the journey from its original Japanese release to its official Western release almost a quarter of a century later is something that […]
Meandering Mic: Morgan Boecher
Harry chats with his longtime-plugged webcomic crush, Morgan Boecher, about his coming of age (coming of gender?) series What’s Normal Anyway. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F-VSpys4g&w=290] Have a Listen [Download the Audio] or [Watch the Video] WNA follows the story of Mel, a young, fun and waffle-loving FtM Transgender guy, coming out […]
Meandering Mic: The Doubleclicks
Harry meets Angela Webber, one-half of the sister-duo nerdcore band The Doubleclicks Self-described as Snarky, Geeky and Sweet, the Webber sisters have performed alongside such geek greats as Jonathan Coulton, Wil Wheaton and Paul & Storm. We talk about their new album Lasers and Feelings, as well as touring, cellos, […]
Meandering Mic: Lindsay Penn
This weekend I interviewed Lindsay Penn about her biweekly YouTube program “The Dinz”. The Dinz has been described best by their VFX artist Kezi, “It’s a motivational speech with sketch-comedy cutaways”. Every Tuesday Lindsay tackles a different topic, and reasons through it with advice, evidence and hyperbolas or example sketches […]
Meandering Mic: Tweet RPG
As a sortof-totally-unquestionable segway of our episode on Augmented Reality, we had an interview with Sam Richards, creator, writer and maintainer of Tweet RPG: Twitter’s premier Role Playing system. A year and a half into the project, Sam has created a multitude of scenarios and comes to us with some […]