Archive for November, 2006

Jack Mangan’s Deadpan #35: Business As Usual

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Stolen, altered movie lines.
Introbabble.
Tee Morris’s Billibub Baddings Teaser, featuring JC Hutchins and Scott Sigler.
Chris the Fixed Kitty bumper.
Jules Windu (by Greg).
Paul from Elk River in Denver VM.
J.R. Murdock’s Stolen Rap Lyrics, part 1.
Ear Buds - Andrea Smarty Hottie, the Reigning Shogun of Taiwan?
The Greatest Voicemail ever.
Alvie in Boulder’s bumper.
“Really Big Things” by Paul Maki, episode 1-4 recap. Visual link: http://www.wlra.us/hb/hbhappychef2.htm
J.R. Murdock’s Stolen Rap Lyrics, part 2.
“Really Big Things”, part 5. A podcast serial by Paul Maki.
Grimlock bumper (from Alvie).
You’re Deadpan.
J.R. Murdock’s Stolen Rap Lyrics, part 3.
GYGO Deadpan bumper mashed with CA Sizemore’s VM (would you believe it was intentional? OK. I’ll fix it.)
“Meet the Parkers”, original music from DJ Utopia.
This is where I’d have run the Greasy Spoon comments, had I remembered to record them.
Original Fiction from Marlo Dianne: “Id”.
Stolen from the 80s (would you believe this segment was my idea? OK, it was actually created by JustaJ0e.)
“Discovered Country” by Nora Fleischer — Podiobook promo
Outrobabble
“Fear, Regret, and Hope”. Original (intentional) mash.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/lazy

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Spam Treets

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

A fun, pointless game for the comments pages. . . . Some spammers and/or subject lines are just too bizarre to cast off into anonymous disintegration with the rest of the Cialis and OEM ads. Sometimes they just gotta be shared. Example:
Sender: Kirkland F. Rebecca . Subj: FeeJee is the sucker spelling of Fiji I believe.

I couldn’t just delete that without posting it publicly and saying “WTF?!”

A couple of ground rules:

  • Just cut-and paste the Sender and subject line. Don’t open spam (Unless you’re a Viking). And - DON’T FWD or send me any spam, thanks. Just post funny subjects on the comments page.
  • Don’t just send the ones that we all see every day. A penis enlargement ad might have been hilarious in 2003, but 10,000 spams later, the comedy value is all gone. Broken English in the subject line also isn’t funny anymore, unless they’ve managed a really good, unintentional double-entendre. It’s highly unlikely that you’ll have more than one good one per week, if that often.
  • Comments spam for your site is not off-limits.
  • Try to ensure that no actual spamlinks get into your post. If someone does post one with a link, don’t click it. (duh).
  • It may fizzle, it may produce comedy gold. We’ll see. Have fun.

Jack Mangan’s Deadpan 34: is really just a rerun of Deadpan #2 with extra introbabble

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

A rerun of episode 2, featuring the Mike J. Nelson interview, an exhibition Duel of the Fates, plus a very green Deadpan host.

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The Neep

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

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Deadpan Interview Roster

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Mike J. Nelson. Star and Head Writer for the long-running Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show. He’s also made numerous other DVD and TV appearances.

Tee Morris. Best known for his Morevi novels; co-author of Podcasting for Dummies (with Evo Terra), The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy, co-founder of Podiobooks.com, all-around good guy. Pioneering Podcast novelist.

John Buccigross. Longtime ESPN writer and on-air personality; host of ESPN2’s long-running NHL2Night program.

Scott Sigler. The most successful of the early podcast novelists. Author of Earthcore, Infection, Ancestor, and many others. He never orders the value meal.

John Joseph Adams. The Slush God. JJA is the esteemed, award-winning Assistant Editor at the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, also a noted blogger and MetaL \m/ enthusiast.

Mark Forman. The Brooklyn Bluesman. The self-proclaimed Reigning Shogun of Taiwan; one of the most active online music podcasters, the man behind “Getting a Leg Up�, best known for podcasting Cory Doctorow’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom�.

Pete Allen. Editor-in-Chief of Creative Guy Publishing, best-known for the successful, critically-acclaimed Amityville House of Pancakes anthologies. They also published a little something called “Spherical Tomi�.

Mur Lafferty. It’s Mur Lafferty. The brilliant mind behind “Geek Fu Action Grip�, “I Should Be Writing�.

Jennifer Batten. Almost universally recognized as the greatest female guitarist of all time. Her finger-tapping technique is mind-boggling. Best known for her appearances (and her hair) on tour and in videos with Michael Jackson.

Adrienne Jones. Popular offbeat novelist, best-known for her appearance in the Amityville House of Pancakes anthology, as well as her novella, “Temple of Cod�, and her novel, “The Hoax�.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Frequent NOVA host, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, incredibly nice, incredibly intelligent human being.

Ellen Datlow. Esteemed, monumentally influential Sci-Fi editor-in-chief for Omni Magazine, SCIFICTION, plus countless print anthologies. She’s responsible for discovering many of the most notable SF authors of the late 20th century.

Stephen King (not really). A mock interview was staged with Stephen King for Deadpan episode 15.

TD-0013. The stormtrooper behind the wildly popular and creative, “A Different Point of View� podcast.

Ravyn Crescent. YA Author of the “Predator Turned Prey� e-book, print novel, and manga.

John Jacobs. Editor-in-Chief of cutting-edge zine, Neometropolis. Notable Cyberpunk enthusiast. Really intelligent guy.

J.C. Hutchins. Author of the acclaimed, highly successful podcast “7th Son� novels. The Second Life release party for his second book managed to crash servers.

Christiana Ellis. Prolific podcaster/author, best-known for her Podiobook, “Nina Kimberly the Merciless�, as well as “Hey, Want to Watch a Movie?�. She’s also the driving force behind Podcast Pickle’s “Pickle Tales� contest.

Rusty Cooley. Guitar virtuoso for the band, Outworld. columnist for Guitar Player magazine; known for his unique 8-string guitar and his blinding speed. Guitar One dubbed him the “7th-Fastest Guitar Player in the World�.

Jack Mangan’s Deadpan 33: Half the Pan It Used to Be

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Sorry.

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Ugh

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Well Murphy — that ever-present, relentless fuck (not Joe) — has enforced his law yet again. A bit of bad luck has derailed my plan for an on-time Deadpan release. I’ll update tomorrow to let you know if we’ll be a day late - or just have a Panless week. :( Sorry, gang.

Jack Mangan’s Deadpan 32: Shreddin’ with Rusty Cooley

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Stolen Movie Lines
Introbabble
FanboySmackdown promo
Sober-dial from Paul from Elk River in Colorado AND Alvie in Boulder
Rusty Cooley Interview, part 1
- - Break - -
Chris the Fixed Kitty’s android bumper
Ear Buds - Amy Bowen
VM from Gil from Milwaukee in Hong Kong
Outworld sample “The Never”
Greg from Illinois bumper
Rusty Cooley Interview, part 2
ADDCast promo
Outrobabble
Greasy Spoon 2 commencement
Outrobabble 2
Spirit Man


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Jack Mangan’s Deadpan 31: The Secret of the Deadpan

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Deadpan Checklist
Introbabbly
Wander Radio promo
Living Deadpan bumper (thanks Milo!)
Dr. Zoidberg Deadpan bumper (thanks, Alvie!)
Dumbass Memories - Chris in Milan
Double Dumbass Memories
Dumbass Memories - Amy Bowen
Scott Sigler never orders a Macho Combo
Ear Buds - “Bon” Scott from Kalamazoo
Paul from Des Moines bumper
Phil Rossi original music: Bright Midnight (And oh shit — you’re right, Phil. Your file was set at a 48000 rate, but I didn’t notice and plugged it in at 44100. Sorry!!!!!)
Pan Cemetary promo (thanks, )
Really Big Things, by Paul Maki. Episode 4: Return to Chicken Heaven.
Cool J.C. Hutchins/Nathan Fillion news
Nice E-mail RE: last week’s Rapture
Bitter Unrelated Thought (or maybe Unrelated Ear Bud)
Computer King channels through H.R. Tucker for the Into the Dark podcast promo
Longest, heaviest Outrobabble EVAR. Here goes.
Original Music: Love Is Never Distant
Little ones

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Jack Mangan Live, November 11

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

OK, this isn’t *the* huge major announcement, but it’s still a pretty cool thing:

I will be playing live acoustic guitar music at Jug N Barrel Wine Bar in Glendale, AZ (You can Google it - -  too sleepy to post the link right now) —-

Saturday Nov. 11th from 7:30 until 10:30ish.

I played there once before, even broke Deadpan for vocals *gasp*. So if you can make it, then I’d love to see you there. I’ll try to post some of my setlist in the Show Comments discussion.