(PODCAST) Episode 1 Now Available!

Episode 1 of the X-Ray Visions Podcast is now available for download:

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IN THIS EPISODE: Introduction to the X-Ray Visions Podcast / Car Horns ≠ Social Tools /  On Ogrish Poetry / Rights As Wrongs / Excerpts From the Book of Surliness / What’s In a Name? Pure Evil. / Degrees of Conceit / The Postmaster’s Door

CONTENT ADVISORY: This podcast, much like this blog, contains some strong language. On the off chance that your kids would want to listen to something like this… well, don’t let them. If they insist that they can’t get along in life without the half-crazed ramblings of a middle-aged Ohioan in their earbuds, the clean version bleeps out most of the naughty words (though it’s that half-bleeping, like South Park does, where you hear “f(BLEEP)ck” and can sort of guess what’s in the middle).

If you’re not yet acquainted, this program is, in essence, me reading some of (what I feel are) the more compelling posts from this blog, along with some new, previously unpublished, material. I must say: as strange as it is to reread some of the stuff I’ve written, it’s even more unusual to hear my own voice reading it back.

Special thanks to Atticus Hyde for loaning me some of their original music for the show.

(ANNOUNCEMENT) Podcast premieres Monday, Feb. 25th

For those who prefer their odd ramblings in the form of a digital audio collection, the first edition of the X-Ray Visions Podcast is scheduled for release next Monday, February 25th. In it, I read several posts from this blog, interspersed with a whiff of new content, and music clips from my friends Atticus Hyde. I’d actually hoped to spring the podcast on you today, fully formed and with crisp production values, but a first listen revealed passages that sounded as though I were standing a hair too close to the microphone, while speaking around a mouthful of dry oatmeal. With a mild concussion. Plainly, a decade’s experience in live sound and public performance does not translate directly into the recorded medium.

My plan is to produce a new podcast every time I’ve built up enough written material… which means that, at the current pace, you can expect about 20 minutes of new audio content every four months.

–Ray