A Pickle For Christmas

This is last year's Podcast Pickle Christmas skit, "A Pickle for Christmas". There doesn't appear to be one coming out for this year; last year was hard enough to get done. As such I found myself acting as producer, as well as writer. A shortage of voices and a technical problem with one reader forced me to contribute more than I would have preferred, which is why I read more of the poem than anyone else.



http://www.archive.org/download/APickleForChristmas/A_Pickle_For_Christmas_Stereo.mp3

I tried posting this a few times last year but for someo reason it wouldn't work properly. I'm going to try again, although this one should work.

Podcast Ping Bonus 9 Rebuild

This is a rebuild of last year's Christmas bonus episode, a reading of "A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Moore." For some reason the old one came out in mono so this is a stereo version of it.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPingBonus9Rebuild/ppb9-REBUILD.mp3

I'm not sure if I'll do a Christmas bonus this year or not. I do have Podcast Ping 50finished which I'll release in December. I was going to wait on this one but since we're into the Christmas season I didn't see any point in waiting.

I seem to be at a terrible standstill with THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE. I'm still trying to rewrite the second chapter for recording, but I find myself drawn in other directions. I tend to take December off from writing since I find myself creatively worn out and it offers some time to regain my energy. I am also finding myself drawn towards children's stories right now. Some of it came from listening to the poems I selected for Podcast Ping 50 and realizing how well suited many are for children. Of course it might also be the time of year.

I have tried some children's stories in the past and it might be time to get back to it. I've got a great one going right now that's worth focusing on. And I really would like to rework some already finished full-length novels to boost their length into a more saleable size. Currently they're about 80K so I need about another 10K or 20K.

So I can't say how long it will take to get back to THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE. I don't want to leave it a half-finished podiobook so until I'm ready to fully commit it might be best to hold off. I thought it might help motivate me to work on to release it as a podiobook but it's just not working out that way. But it will get finished.

Of course I've still got a lot of material to get out. I have been considering a change of structure for Podcast Ping, but that wouldn't happen until next year. And I find myself spending a little more time on my blog lately so I might be giving that more attention.

As for episode 50, I'll either get that out around the start of December (maybe even Sunday) or the end. I was originally going to make it like the end of the year episode last year but I may not wait that long. After that I might just take a few months break from podcasting but I'll decide that in January.

Podcast Ping 23 Rebuild

This is a rebuild of episode 23-Comrades. It was originally intended for Rememberance Day of last year, which is why I waited until now to release it, and includes a reading of "In Flander's Fields."



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPing23Rebuild/pp23-Rebuild.mp3

This will be the last music and poetry episode until December, but should get at least one chapter of THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE out this month.

Podcast Ping 49

This episode contains music and poetry about the coming of winter.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPing49/pp49.mp3

I'll release the rebuild of 23 in a couple days. I've also finished episode 50 and a rebuild of Bonus 9, but I want to release those in December. I'm also considering doing a Christmas episode for this year, even though I'll have the rebuild of last year's Bonus 9 and a posting of "A Pickle for Christmas" which I had trouble posting properly last year.

Podcast Ping 1-10 Special

This is a collection of the poems from episodes 1 to 10, excluding those re-used for episode 41. I've been meaning to do this for a while and remembered while working on episode 50.

This is just poetry alone. No music. The poems have been re-recorded. Most of the rest of the stuff from the earliest episodes were just me talking or some of my guitar playing. It was at episode 11 that I started on the current format with the podsafe music, so doing a full rebuild of the first ten episodes wasn't worthwhile. And I have been meaning to do an all-poetry episode for a long time.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPing1-10Special/pp1-10-Special.mp3

I called it a "special" instead of a "bonus" episode because bonus implies additional material. And it's not a proper "rebuild" because I'm only using select parts of some of the podcasts.

This is just part of the wrap-up process for the season. I've decided that episode 50 will be the season finale and after 50 I won't be touching any of the old material except for publication. So no more rebuilds or best-ofs, just all new material. Of course that may wait a while until I've finished THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE. (The first chapter of which will be about the only thing carried over into season 2.)

Podcast Ping 32 Rebuild

Here's a rebuild of episode 32.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPing32Rebuild/pp32-Rebuild.mp3

It's getting a little hard to keep track of which rebuilds I've released, but I've only got a couple left. Just the rebuild of 23, which I'll get out this week and the rebuild of Bonus 9, which I'll release in December. And of course I've got the new episode 49 coming out soon, likely this week as well. I don't plan on doing any more rebuilds after Bonus 9; they were mostly done because I wanted to torrent them and felt it was worth the work since it would improve the quality.

Podcast Ping Bonus 10 - Waking The Dead

I wasn't planning to do another Halloween one this year but I ran across a couple things from the Internet Archive I had which I had thought of using for a Halloween episode and wound up not using them on episode 48 so I thought I'd throw together a bonus episode. I made it a bonus episode because I want 50 to be special and I've already got 49 put together.

Considering the age of the recordings, which I tried to clean up as much as possible, all the musical performers are likely dead now, hence the title. The noisiest recording is the first: the other two aren't bad.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPingBonus10/ppb10-WakingTheDead.mp3

This will likely be the last episode for the month. I've just got three more rebuilds to go, one which is for Christmas and will come out in December. So things will slow down. Episode 50 may come out just before New Years as episode 30 did. As for episodes in the new year, I haven't decided on that yet. I'm planning to just concentrate on THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE.

Podcast Ping 22 Rebuild

A rebuild of Podcast Ping 22-Garden Party. The first turned out to be in mono so this one is in stereo.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPing22Rebuild/pp22-Rebuild.mp3

If I can find the time I'd like to get another bonus episode put together for Halloween, which I'll get out tomorrow or Friday. I came across a couple of things on Internet Archive and I've got a couple poems I can use.

Podcast Ping Bonus 6 Rebuild

A rebuild of Podcast Ping 6-Circus Is In Town.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPingBonus6Rebuild/ppb6-REBUILD.mp3

(Button now fixed. It previously played the wrong episode, although the link played the right one.)

The only other bonus episode rebuild will be for bonus 9, which is a Christmas theme.
Aside from that I have three more rebuilds which I hope to get out before the end of next week, if not this week. Episode 49 will be out after that, and I might get a bonus Halloween episode in as well. I've already started selecting material for 50, which I plan to release in December. After that I may just stick with THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE until it's finished.

The Unstoppable Ride - Chapter 1 Version 2

Although it's been a while, I'm now back to presenting THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE. It's a story of a detective trapped in an amusement park.



http://www.archive.org/download/TheUnstoppableRide-Chapter1Version2/UnstoppableRideCh1-V2.mp3

This is the second version of the first episode and there are some noticeable changes, particularly to the beginning. I will probably get a few episodes out before Christmas but I would like to present them weekly, or at least bi-weekly, in the new year.

As such, I may hold off on doing any regular Podcast Ping episodes after 50 until the series is finished. It depends upon how much time I have. I've also got a few rebuilds that I'll finish before the end of the year. I've been doing rebuilds because I've been uploading old episodes to Mininova and felt that many of the old episodes were of such poor quality it was worth redoing. But there's only about four or five of those.