Hey everyone. I was honored to be David’s guest on the most recent “Moldawer in the Morning” podcast. Many of you know David Moldawer from FPM’s own Kickass Mystic Ninjas podcast; his solo gig can be summarized thusly: off-the-cuff conversations with a guest, covering three news items.
David Moldawer is alarmingly witty and insightful; we had a lot of fun chatting. Check it out.

As many of you know, Joe Murphy of the KickAss Msytic Ninjas goes into surgery today to have the large, malignant, evil tumor removed from his abdomen.

Wingin’ It! listener and cool human being Alan Smith has set up a Voicemail line for friends and fans to call in and leave him messages of goodwill and love. The number is 206-202-5179. I encourage every Deadpanite — hell, everyone on the earth — to call the Joe Murphy Sympathy Card Voicemail Line. The recordings will all soon be burned onto a CD for Joe, so don’t hesitate to call.

I just left my message.

Updates as to Joe’s condition have been promised at the Wingin’ It! site: http://www.michaelandevo.com/

OK, it’s almost not funny how I’ve fucked up tracking the Greasy Spoon comments.

As we draw near the final week of Greasy Spoon 2, with a winner to be selected in episode 43, there are the official standings. I think.

7 Alvie
6 ditto
4 Jeremy from Seattle
4 Rhettro
3 Sarah from Charleston
3 JB
3 Ed from Texas
3 Andrea Smarty Hottie
3 Justa j0e
2 Jessica
1 WNDR Wolf
1 JR Murdock

My friend (and former Deadpan interview guest) needs donations and contributions for his 2007 MS-Walk. It’s for a good cause. Go ahead and click the link to learn more.

Sorry about today, gang.

Seems like there was a comment exploit in WordPress, and our ISP shut down the sites being targeted and, well, exploited to email spam.

Back to your previously interrupted chatting… I’ve got a couple more FPM site to upgrade and get back up.

–Summer

**Addendum 12/19** If I said I would contact you when I reach NJ, I will contact you. Just getting caught up. Thanks for your patience. By all means – – feel free to e-mail me. Don’t be shy.
Well, it was a long, strange trip, but here I am in NJ. . . . Posting this using IE on my Mom’s slow-ass crappy dial-up connection. Fret not, I’ll be at my new place tomorrow, getting set up for maximum pod powerI I

The trip had many highlights and lowlights. Thanks very much to WNDR Wolf and his supernice family for giving dinner, a much needed break, and good company while I was passing through Oklahoma. I lost my phone Thursday evening in Ohio, so my apologies if anyone was trying to reach me. I’m here, I’m tired, I’m OK. I hope I’m going to see my children tomorrow, but it’s not entirely in my hands. . . . I’ll be back in touch again soon. I hope you’re all doing well and that everything is good in Deadpanland.

One With the Stillness Jack Mangan 49
Vanity Fair Mr. Bungle 47
fear regret and hope Jack Mangan 44
Is There Love In Space? Joe Satriani 42
Myself Within Love jack mangan 41
temple of earth and sea jack mangan 41
Earth Time Pigs Fate Jack Mangan 37
Wine Jack Mangan 31
Black Circle Remix Jack Mangan 30
Dog Diary Jack Mangan 30
Slaughter of the Soul At the Gates 29
playing with spiders-skullkrusher Overkill 29
Organ Donor DJ Shadow 28
Saddam A Go-Go GWAR 26
Asteroid Speed Highway Matt Mango 26
Dad and Dog Fredo Viola 25
Did My Time KoRn 25
Motley Crue –Too Young To Fall In Love Motley Crue 25
Microphone Fiend Eric B & Rakim 24
Candles Jack Mangan 24
Head Out To The Highway Judas Priest 24
Red Right Hand Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 24
Lost In Space Aimee Mann 23
Miss Misery Elliott Smith 23
Rumble Link Wray & His Ray Men 23
Defender Manowar 23
West End Girls Pet Shop Boys 23
Seemingly Endless Time Death Angel 22
Waltz #2 (XO) Elliott Smith 22
Tears of Liquid Mercury Jack Mangan 22
Up In Flames Joe Satriani 22
Spirit Man Mango 22
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack 22

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”.

John Shirley. Cyberpunk author, musician, lyricist, icon, founder, pioneer, legend.

Bill DeSmedt. Author of the award-winning post-Cold War techno-thriller, “Singularity”.

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.