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.

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.

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.

The crew at Meme Therapy invited me to answer a question for the Brain Parade section of their website. It was an honor to go overboard with my response:
http://memetherapy.net/27/has-science-fiction-had-an-impact-on-your-worldview/

Check it out; they also asked Christiana Ellis!

(Do memes need therapists?)

I’m really not all that interesting, but Dan Shaurette still saw fit to have me on the latest episode of his excellent, “Is This Thing On?” podcast. We spoke a lot about Deadpan, my writing, and my music – and he even played two of my songs on his show.

Many thanks to Dan Shaurette for having me on his show.

So, I haven’t been completely idle over the past few months. . . . here are some news items:

• 7th Son: Descent recap. J.C. Hutchins invited me to read a paragraph for him in “7th Son Book One: Descent” recap to launch the sequel, “7th Son Book Two: Deceit.” I’m there with some pretty esteemed company. Wow.
• Speaking of Beer appearance. Charlie the Beer Guy, everybody’s favorite beercaster and scholar, recently invited me to sample Oktoberfest beers with him on his podcast. It was a fun experience, and makes for a good listen.
• The force of nature that is WNDR Wolf has connected with the folks at ESC! Magazine’s Coffee House to Go, and they have posted his director’s cut audio drama of my short story, “Sixteen Pieces at a Time”.

And as unproductive as I’ve been of late, I still have more cool news items pending. And oh yeah — the haircut (i need to take more-detailed, less-sleepy photos):

WNDRWolf, a good friend of mine and of the Deadpan, has created a 37:59 minute audio drama of my short story, “16 Pieces at a Time”. Long-time Deadpan listeners have heard the story in installments on my show — well now you can hear the entire thing in one file, plus a few extra goodies, hence the “Director’s Cut” label.
There are a lot of cool names in the credits, and I’m pretty proud to hear my story presented in this way. Thanks, Wolf.

Give the story a listen, give him a howl to tell him what a good job he did.

OK, I posted something like this back in June. Interestingly, the list hasn’t changed that much. I’ll compare it to the Top Played list at home – should be interesting.

Feel free to paste your own lists – – or comment on mine.

Vanity Fair -Mr. Bungle 46
One With the Stillness -Jack Mangan 45
fear regret and hope -Jack Mangan 41
Myself Within Love -jack mangan 41
temple of earth and sea -jack mangan 41
Is There Love In Space? -Joe Satriani 39
Earth Time Pigs Fate -Jack Mangan 36
Wine -Jack Mangan 31
Organ Donor -DJ Shadow 28
Black Circle Remix -Jack Mangan 28
Dog Diary -Jack Mangan 28
playing with spiders-skullkrusher -Overkill 27
Saddam A Go-Go -GWAR 26
Slaughter of the Soul -At the Gates 25
Dad and Dog -Fredo Viola 25
Did My Time -KoRn 25
Miss Misery -Elliott Smith 23
Candles -Jack Mangan 23
Rumble -Link Wray & His Ray Men 23
Asteroid Speed Highway -Matt Mango 23
Tears of Liquid Mercury -Jack Mangan 22
Head Out To The Highway -Judas Priest 22
Spirit Man -Mango 22
Defender -Manowar 22
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face -Roberta Flack 22
Lost In Space -Aimee Mann 21
Waltz #2 (XO) -Elliott Smith 21
Microphone Fiend -Eric B & Rakim 21
Red Right Hand -Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 21
West End Girls -Pet Shop Boys 21