Today's radio appearance is still available
I appeared today on Jim Freund's radio show Hour of the Wolf.... Well, I was scheduled to appear on the show on Saturday morning, which is its regular time slot. But Jim is being pre-empted this Saturday, and the regular hosts of Cat Radio Cafe, which was to air today at 2PM, were away, so Jim filled in, and did his show Monday afternoon instead of Saturday morning.
I seem to recall, way back when, the fear that as computers took over the world, we would lose the permanence we have with paper and books and such. A book sitting on a shelf will last for decades; an electronic file is seemingly so ephemeral. And yet, in a piece of cognitive dissonance today, I realized that radio used to be the ephemeral medium: you broadcast a live show, and it's gone. Today, however, with computers, it's still around.
Thus, through that circuitous reasoning, I get to say: If you missed my appearance on Jim Freund's version of Cat Radio Cafe (which was a show about the blue moon that will be this Saturday), you can still hear it. It's archived on WBAI's web site at archive.wbai.org/pls.php?mp3fil=12693. The program runs one hour. I make my first appearance about ten and a half minutes in.
We talked about blue moons, what they are and why they're important, and then branched out into the Artemis Project, my publishing of Artemis Magazine (which is no more), my current work with SFScope, my history in science fiction, and I read a story ("You Gotta See This," which appeared in the December 2002 issue of Analog).
It was a good time for me, and I hope it was a good time for the listeners. Jim opened up the phones for the last five minutes or so, and we took several calls, so someone was listening.
Anyway, if you're interested, check it out. I don't know how long the show will be archived, but it will be there far longer than it was on the air.
I seem to recall, way back when, the fear that as computers took over the world, we would lose the permanence we have with paper and books and such. A book sitting on a shelf will last for decades; an electronic file is seemingly so ephemeral. And yet, in a piece of cognitive dissonance today, I realized that radio used to be the ephemeral medium: you broadcast a live show, and it's gone. Today, however, with computers, it's still around.
Thus, through that circuitous reasoning, I get to say: If you missed my appearance on Jim Freund's version of Cat Radio Cafe (which was a show about the blue moon that will be this Saturday), you can still hear it. It's archived on WBAI's web site at archive.wbai.org/pls.php?mp3fil=12693. The program runs one hour. I make my first appearance about ten and a half minutes in.
We talked about blue moons, what they are and why they're important, and then branched out into the Artemis Project, my publishing of Artemis Magazine (which is no more), my current work with SFScope, my history in science fiction, and I read a story ("You Gotta See This," which appeared in the December 2002 issue of Analog).
It was a good time for me, and I hope it was a good time for the listeners. Jim opened up the phones for the last five minutes or so, and we took several calls, so someone was listening.
Anyway, if you're interested, check it out. I don't know how long the show will be archived, but it will be there far longer than it was on the air.