Category: maintenance

My Hidden Agenda

Flash PulpWe’ll be posting the FlashCast we were supposed to record yesterday, tomorrow. We’ve got a lot of great content for it, but it was a long weekend in our little corner of the interverse and we found ourselves with a full social schedule.

Although I consider FC to be a bit of a floater show – to be accomplished when the stars align properly – we’ve got a lot of great content in the hopper, and I’m quite excited to record.

This, of course, in no way effects the Flash Pulp schedule for the week. Tonight: Mulligan Smith does some navel gazing.

Scheduling Answers

Wedding FandangoSo, you may have noticed that #129 didn’t go up this weekend.

I realized, after my third draft of the script, that I needed to expand the story into a three-parter. The necessary hacking, stapling, sanding, burning, and genesis device deployment, were simply not manageable in the limited window I had. Rather than throw an ugly baby into the world, I made a command decision to skip an episode – the first time we’ve had to do so.

We did release a FlashCast, (FC07 – Bunny Cussin’,) however, and happily now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

More Scheduling Hijinks

Classy fellow in a gas mask found at: http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=2837422First up, I wanted to note that the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, mentioned in last night’s story, is/was a real thing.

I also wanted to point out that “Mattoon” is one of those words that’s just fun to say.

Mattoon.

Next, I wanted to let everyone know that the episode that’s scheduled for this evening will be delayed until tomorrow, and Friday’s will be posted Saturday. I apologize for jiggering with the schedule, but it’s really the fallout from having recorded FlashCast on a Monday – we’ll be releasing the next FC on Sunday, and that should put us back on our regular schedule.
Headlines collected at: http://castle.eiu.edu/~localite/coles/mattoon/gasser/Mattoon%20headlines.htm

The Schedule This Week

Stringing Together Our Little Orbs
Hello, and welcome to Monday.

Just for this week, we’re tweaking the schedule a bit:

Tonight we’ll be releasing another FlashCast, this time regarding zombies, cussing, and possibly the Antiques Roadshow.

If you have something you’d like us to discuss, or if you’ve recently fled Nigeria with a large stash of funds you’d like to release to me if only I could pay the brokerage fee, you can call our voicemail line at (206) 338-2792, or email us text or mp3s to skinner@skinner.fm.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we’ll be releasing Flash Pulp #127, in which PI Mulligan Smith must deal with some random, and uninvited, nudity.

From there we pretty much get back on track. Wednesday we’ll have another tale of The Collective Detective, and, for Friday, I’m cooking up a bit of a special surprise to round out the week.

Stay tuned – and if you’d rather just have everything delivered to your doorstep, why not subscribe via iTunes?

Popularity Contest

Abstinence
The first result from a Google image search for "doritos meaning bear baiting cartoonist relationship"

I meant to run this bit of maintenance news closer to the New Year, but it slipped my mind till just now.

There are three posts from the archives that continue to get an oddly-large amount of traffic, despite the fact that all three are essentially throw away bits of brain-scraping:

  • The truth behind the naming of Doritos.
  • The current summation of the relationship status of cartoonist Kris Straub, as it relates to his former girlfriend, Erica.
  • Two lines I posted regarding the disturbing fact that bear baiting is still active in Pakistan.

Flash Pulp Schedule, etc.

I hate to say it, but tonight’s episode is going to be delayed until tomorrow. I’ve picked up a fantastically angry stomach bug from Mr or Ms Eight, and the three of us have been reduced to moaning heaps.

In the mean time, please enjoy another bit of musical intermixing, as left in the comments for yesterday’s mash-up roundup by H.

Lennox vs Bowie – No More Pressure
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We'll Do It Live

Flash Pulp notesHere’s a quick snapshot of the process behind Flash Pulp – this is really how almost every episode begins.

Well, I suppose this is actually step two; step one usually looks like a hastily jotted explanatory sentence, either elsewhere in the notebook, or in my phone.

Events in the proposed story are distributed over the three sections on the left, with random items I need to retain on the right. This is the second run-down I’ve begun for a three-part Ruby Departed tale, which will hopefully be posted the week after next; the first attempt exploded into a thousand weeping paper cuts at the narrative’s climax.

Once I’ve managed to get the three overarching sections pat, I’ll create an identical structure for the trio of acts in each division.

(Also pictured: my notes for tonight’s FC – no peeking.)

Information Corral

FlashCast
I just wanted to duck my head up from scripting to let everyone know that we’ll be posting an episode of FlashCast tonight. Anyone who wants to get in a last minute voicemail should try the line at (206) 338-2792, or email me text/mp3s at skinner@skinner.fm.

If you’d rather add an extra layer to the process, you can also ask me any random questions over at formspring – or on twitter: @jrdskinner.

While I’m at it, I should note that Jessica May loves it when people join the Facebook group.