FlashCast 015 – Atmospheric Noises
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Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode fifteen – prepare yourself for New York, Kar’Wick, secret codes, and some curmudgeoning.
Mentions this episode:
- Barry, of http://bmj2k.com
- Ray, of The Walker Zombie Journal
- The cryptic mystery of Ricky McCormick’s murder
- China bans time travel stories
- Canine, Part 1 of 1
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It’s always a pleasure for me to listen to Flash Cast!
There are a few thoughts I’d like to put on here.
I enjoyed the FBI story very much; and I’d also be very interested to hear from Barry a bit about NY, also because it’s one of the cities I’d love to visit one day.
@ Kar’Wick: I do enjoy these stories very much, maybe just because they are, like you said, somehow “experimental”. I love to be puzzled in the end of the stories, but it’s difficult for me to make a comment. I really hope to read/listen more of this sort!!!
I was thinking about you while we were discussing New York; Vienna strikes me as another city that lives more in my imagination than reality – although, in one I’d expect to be mugged, and in the other I’d expect to run across a powdered-wig-wearing composer.
I’m glad you enjoy the Kar’Wick stories. The feedback seems to be positive overall, so I guess we won’t be forgetting that apocalypse any time soon.
(I had to delete two emoticons from this reply!)
Maybe I should call in with an AudioTweet every once in a while, sort of a Where in New York is Barry? type deal. They are forcasting a huge storm here tomorrow night so if Ingrid wants Bensonhurst in the rain I can do that. (Bensonhurst Fact- It was the fictional home of The Honeymooners and they named a bus depot here after Jackie Gleason. How’s that?)
I love the idea, please do!
That also reminds me, do you have any *cough* “Legend Tripping” stories from around NY? I seem to recall a haunted house in your past?
I also love your idea, Barry. I’m looking forward to it!
JRD, your recents posts and your image about Vienna inspired me to the following idea. There are, of course, also a lot of legends here in Vienna. I did a bit of research today (so I stumbled upon “The Third Man”), but I couldn’t find one piece in English. So if you’re interested I could write one of those legends down.
I would love to hear some legends from Vienna! Please do post some, or even call in and read us one!
I called in today but it sounded like I was futzing around with the phone. I wasn’t, that was the wind whipping around and the rain pounding on my unbrella so it isn’t as lousy as it sounds.
When I was young I toured Colonial Williamsburg and one of the homes I later found out was allegedly haunted. I didn’t see a thing. I did a great number of urban explorations and have been in a lot of “haunted” graveyeards and mass graves but never noticed anything weird. I went on a ghost tour in San Diego led by a guy who was a self-styled ghost hunter but he was a real tool. I’d ask a common sense question and he’d have no answer. At the end of the tour he tried to pass off some pictures he took with dust on the lens and claim they were orbs and he could see faces in them. Dude, they were pieces of dust. You can find a spooky (meaning underilluminated, sorry) picture from a historic San Diego cemetary here: http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p312/bmj2k/P8100630.jpg
Feel free to use it if you wish. You can find a couple of other pics (I think) on my Facebook page.
Got the call, and it was definitely appreciated.
It bothers me that people are still willing to jump to ‘ghosts’ as the first explanation after seeing an artifact from the lens. Digital cameras are pretty complex devices, and the first thing you’re going to jump when there’s an issue with it is ‘supernatural being from another time’?
Anyhow.
Fun picture – despite not really believing I’ll ever encounter anything there, I still love going on spook walks down dark lanes or through historic buildings.