Pseudopod is the horror podcasting arm of Escape Artists, Inc. who also do the science fiction podcast Escape Pod and the fantasy-themed Podcastle. All three are fine sources for excellent audio fiction, and all three are in some trouble. Their listener base has been growing substantially, but their paid subscribers haven't kept up, and all three ( Read more... )

I've been posting a lot of signal boosts and calls to action and whatnot lately, and so I thought it might be good to do a quick post collecting them all into one place so that nothing gets lost in the shuffle. So here they all are again:

• Reyna's amazing Octopus Mesmerist t-shirt design is still in the running at Threadless for only four more days ( Read more... )

I'm a couple of days late reporting back on this, but my weekend was a little busier than I'd anticipated. So: Free Comic Book Day was a success! Much better than last year. I got the Mouse Guard and Sixth Gun comics, as well as a couple of others. No place I went to had The Tick, but otherwise I'd consider it a good haul. I also bought a super- ( Read more... )

The Pet Connection is a local no-kill animal shelter in Mission, Kansas. It's where my wife and I got our two cats. It's a very good place staffed by very good people who genuinely care about the animals in their care. It's also going to be closing its doors for lack of funding ( Read more... )