Just a quick note to let those who haven’t already noticed know that the scanned journal entries (Part 1 – Part 2) for the last couple of Ruby episodes are now in place for your reading pleasure.
I feel like Opop really outdid herself this time around, so even if you’ve already heard them, I highly recommend you take a look.
Welcome to Flash Pulp, Episode Seventy-Four.
Tonight, we present Ruby Departed: Neighbours, Part 2 of 3
(Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3)
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As Bob Dylan famously sang:
Now you see this one-eyed midget
Shouting the word “NOW”
And you say, “For what reason?”
And he says, “How?”
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Flash Pulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age – three to ten minutes of fiction brought to you Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.
In this, the second chapter of our current story arc, Ruby, our heroine, encounters some unexpected company.
Flash Pulp 074 – Ruby Departed: Neighbours, Part 2 of 3
Written by J.R.D. Skinner
Art and Narration by Opopanax
and Audio produced by Jessica May
Flash Pulp is presented by http://skinner.fm. The audio and text formats of Flash Pulp are released under the Canadian Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.
– W.S. Anglin
I hate posting up youtube clips without comment, but, this video, a visualization of a Mandelbox which I found via Coilhouse, is beautiful, and requires very little chattery on my part.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE]
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
– Ivars Peterson
This is an odd note, but: Do you remember the sequel to Spaceballs?
I recall as a kid really wondering if the fourth wall breaking gag that Yogurt made near the end of the movie – “Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money” – would ever actually happen.
For one nation, it sort of did.
From Wikipedia:
In September 2004, news about a sequel, parodying the Star Wars prequel trilogy, appeared on the internet. It was rumored that there was going to be a sequel entitled Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2, but the sequel turned out to be a hoax.
[…]
In 1989, the movie Martians Go Home was distributed in the Italian market as Balle Spaziali 2 – La vendetta (Balle Spaziali being the localized title of Spaceballs). – article
I can find no evidence of the original Martians Go Home, nor its Italian variant, on youtube. The cast listing on imdb is a hodge-podge of B-actors of the period, as well as some low-end stand up comedians.
My one hope is that, with a title like “Space Balls 2: The Vendetta”, it ends with Randy Quaid’s character beaten by Martian felons.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFWbwW9RU6I]
Listen, I’m no genius – as evidenced by the fact that I went to McDonald’s for food yesterday – but I’m fairly sure this sign could just as easily say “pick any 254 for $505.46” and it would be just as useful.
I mean, it would make sense to me if it was pick any 2 for $3.50, or even $3.97, but, as it stands, it’s just a suggestion for those who are really terrible at math.
Friend of the site Captain Pigheart has posted up some short videos of his dramatic recountings.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFK3JlJdfk]
Another grab from the CNN front page:
I realize that this is supposed to be an enticing lead in, but it struck me more as CNN just asking me a question: “Seriously, why am I so tired? I can barely even write this useless human interest story. Not covering actual news is exhausting, imagine if I was Richard Engel? OMG.”
Welcome to Flash Pulp, Episode Seventy-Three.
Tonight, we present Ruby Departed: Neighbours, Part 1 of 3
(Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3)
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This week’s episodes are brought to you by Flash Pulp on iTunes.
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Find it here.
Flash Pulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age – three to ten minutes of fiction brought to you Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.
Tonight we present the first entry in another arc straight from the pages of Ruby’s travel log. In this chapter, our heroine attempts to track down the source of the mysterious smoke she has repeatedly witnessed during her post-apocalyptic journey.
Flash Pulp 073 – Ruby Departed: Neighbours, Part 1 of 3
Written by J.R.D. Skinner
Art and Narration by Opopanax
and Audio produced by Jessica May
Flash Pulp is presented by http://skinner.fm. The audio and text formats of Flash Pulp are released under the Canadian Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.
It seems to me the age of Seasonal DVDs has killed water cooler chat.
Someone needs to create an ‘Old Show Forum’, broken down by series and episode.
That way, people running through something on DVD like LOST, or Battlestar Galactica, or Babylon 5, (or whatever,) can visit and chat up the episode they’ve just watched, without running the spoiler risk that any sort of discussion of a completed television show holds.
Tonight we’ll be revisiting out friend Ruby, as she continues to struggle along in the post-apocalyptic zombie-scape.
While the audio will be posted on time, the hand written portion that accompanies her stories will be published tomorrow – the move has left me temporarily scanner-less, so I’ve got to get creative.
