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 – 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)
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 […]