The Overnightscape Underground

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2:12:22 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Union, NJ, indoor flea markets, comic books, birthday at cafe, Up or Down? card game, sundog, Tape Land 204 – Dream Writes (1989-1994), pawn shop, The Howard Stern Show on HBO Max, Living Nutz Raw Sprouted Pumpkin Seeds, Theme Restaurant Design by Martin M. Pegler (1997), Gate Five, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:31:31)… Flamenco Rumba by Teo Vincent IV [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Raiders of Galaxy (1985) (excerpt) [Archive.org], Blue Feather by Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1909) [Archive.org, public domain], WSNS Channel 44 – Summit Series Game 8 (Commercial Break, 1972) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Circus Apple Gray by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], John Peel’s Final Perfumed Garden, 14th. August 1967 (segment 3-3) [collection], Slush Jerk (excerpt from Blatant Manipulation of the Timestream (FN 2/27/10)) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Natasja Scotch by The Search [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Hardcore FM Xmas [via Webm8 productions], TV Guide Commercial – 1977 [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:04:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This is quite the re-discovery. It’s a computer voice reading a bunch of dreams I had written down from 1989 to 1994. It was originally released as my entry for Overnightscape Central – Writes (2/23/22). At that time, the computer voice I used was less sophisticated and talking very fast. It also seemed to be incomplete. Here, I use the computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2”, which is a much better voice, talking at a more normal pace. And the full text is included.

It’s a dizzying trip through my dreams, at a time when I was dreaming a lot, and remembering epic sections of the dreams. There are even a few references to dreams which inspired sections of my failed science fiction novel, Severe Repair (including the origin of the character Prince Ferrajalt).

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Fuzzy Daupner – more info at onsug.com

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3:36:40 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: WFMU, The Average Jones Street Band, timeline theories, birds, Fuzzy Daupner, Infinite (2021), T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren, carts, Frieda from The Peanuts, gamebooks, Amber, The Merchant Princes Series by Charles Stross, visions, astral travel, other world, the cosmic information cop-out, Gentle Giant, Tangerine Dream, Severe Repair, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, TITFOS, Stony Brook Raw Pumpkin Seeds, Surrender to the Flow of the Night, American Giant Diamond Stitch Classic Full Zip, hoodie drawstring, The Traitors Season 5, Harriet Hookner, Lanterns, Disco Dynamite, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:56:01)… C Channel – Music intro (1983) [YouTube], My Straw Hat – Mix 3 by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], KOMA 1965 WQXI 1968 Scoped (excerpt) [Archive.org], lets play ragtime band by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], Everything is Going Up by Billy Murray (1917) [Archive.org, public domain], The Games of Starcade – Galaga [YouTube], CITYPULSE TONIGHT OPEN – MARK DAILEY (OCTOBER 1993) [Retrontario, YouTube], Train Sound Indian Railways Sound [soundbible.com, public domain], Saturday the 14th Strikes Back Trailer 1988 [YouTube], Reality Check by Spirituz [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Charles Nelson Reilly – Bic Banana Ad [YouTube], Xevious Arrangement Music – Objects & Forest (Area 1-4) [YouTube], Macintosh SE – Boot [collection], Mind [collection], Scrab T (Michel) by Tortue Super Sonic [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], Cube Banter 9 [collection].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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1:11:44 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.

Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time. CUPLINE 9: THE WATERALLIDGE EDGE, CUPLINE 10: QUARREL ORCHARD, and CUPLINE 11: CARDBOARD RISING, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2”.

I enjoyed listening to these three Cuplines. Though as I recall, I don’t think I continued with any of them.

Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora– more info at onsug.com

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12:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This was quite an interesting find. The tape is simply labeled “11/28/01”, for some reason, but the short recording on it is from 12/19/01. It turned out to be notes for my failed science fiction novel Severe Repair, especially interesting because here on Tape Land I’m in the middle of an audiobook version of Severe Repair using a computer voice. Though short, there are some very interesting notes, including some ideas for future editions of Severe Repair that never came to be.

Notes: Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 12:34pm, on the Parkway South, going down to see my friend Mike to see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) again, 18 days off from work, Severe Repair, Yellowhaus, Carne’s, Nurship, Perkins, Fry Friend, Superior Chapter, going to malls to read and edit the book, E-ZPass, Millicent, Tiny Little Owl, Route 9 under the weekday sun, 8:35pm, saw Lord of the Rings again, Onion Ring Friend, idea for Book 2 or Book 3, Demolish All, Daptin’s Land, Red Archer Booze, Sleap Drassy, Curbside Line Tattoos, Burchard and Keepy, Beautiful Disaster Area, a little broken train set, Crosscountry Canada, to go into that world, Fuzzy Daupner, Trojan Horse.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Fuzzy Daupner – more info at onsug.com

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3:27:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Conan O’Brien, celebrities, bus, Bodega, art supply store, Magazine Cafe, a feeling from the past, I shouldn’t have done it but I did, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, Pink Floyd, pumpkin seeds incident, Alka-Seltzer locked away, Harken candy bar, wind, Lead Onward Chromium Switch, The Firesign Theatre, AI vs. AGI, force majeure, Roy del espacio (1983), auto translation, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025), timeline revisions, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:46:40)… DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS trailer [Archive.org, public domain], Macrame 7010 by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], TVOntario 1984 [YouTube], Jane Asher Interview with Celia Irving who play “Alice through the Looking Glass” November 23th 1959 [YouTube], Urban Tropic (Pt. ii) by Cosmic Analog Ensemble [Upitup Records, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Michael Row The Boat Ashore by Outta Limits [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Shock of the New: Culture as Nature (1980) (excerpt) [Archive.org], Columbia’s Pride by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], Windansea by MPoppitt [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Magic Gestiuculations Shampoo by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Fly To China by Phonophobia 70 [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Shock of the New: The Mechanical Paradise (1980) (excerpt) [Archive.org], DUPONT JINGLE 4 [collection], Cold by Phonophobia 70 [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], Dexception by Büromaschinen [Upitup Records, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Siam by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1916) [Archive.org, public domain], Recording of IBM 7094 singing “A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy)”, 1961 [textfiles.com], Walking Alone by Orange Magnolia (3/20/10 – Live at Gottrocks – Greenville, SC) [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Variatio 8 a 2 Clav. [The Open Goldberg Variations, played by by Kimiko Ishizaka, public domain], Sphere by Phonophobia 70 [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:32:31 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Disney World, fleece, chess king, The Exit Ramp #71 – Clear Purple Bishop (9/13/26), finished reading Gravity’s Rainbow, Ancient Lights by Davis Grubb, added a visulizer to the Onsug Random Radio Button, The Dr. Willem Hickory Show, hash browns with mayonnaise, Lanterns, Beublin A. Richardson, The Detonation of Thomas Forthaipe, Neil Ardley – Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows (1976), Sky, manipulating reality, Howard Stern, free speech, conspiracy theories, WTC drones, the urge toward certainty, Glitch: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia, Savvy, Broadcasting Magazine, T.V. TONITE w/RON HENDREN OCT. 4 – 8 1982, Shelley Long, System 7, Gong, Theme Restaurant Design, Afterlore, Top Hat, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:51:56)… Urban Rapidity by Roberto Daglio [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Filler by Jon Logan [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], On San Francisco Bay by Billy Murray (1911) [Archive.org, public domain], John Lennon [collection], 1983 Wausau Center Mall commercial [YouTube], Digger by Romper Room (Commercial, 1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Fire Ant Season by Webelos [Budabeats, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Chant of Autumn by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Y-Song by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], The Dr. Willem Hickory Show (4/30/12) [collection], If You Had Wings (Eastern Airlines) [collection].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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4:17:14 – Welcome, hosts and listeners of The Onsug radio universe, to come and join a freeform chat in video, which will be released in audio. The Exit Ramp continues for another amazing group show.

Host Frank from The Overnightscape is joined by Jefferson from Philadelphia, Dave in Kentucky from his various shows, Nate in Wisconsin, Simon from Nevada, Chad from Chadcast, Peter Litkey from The Three Weasels, Jan Erik from Norway, Sam from Wisconsin (Sinister Purpose), Doc Sleaze from his various shows, and Ann from Suffern, NY.

Zoom AI generated topic summary: AI Show Notes Implementation Challenges, The Button Web App Development, Health and Audio Archive Updates, Cultural and World Event, Secret Societies in Film, Gravity’s Rainbow, Historical and Political Technology, AI and Gaming, Evolution of Gender Roles, Evolving Work and Economic Systems, Community and Cultural Dynamics, Music History and Trends Discussion, Cultural and Political Discussion, British Newspapers and Media, Technology and Content Regulation.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora & Guests – more info at onsug.com

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3:33:55 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Shaver Hall, vegan ramen, septarian, Dragon Magazine, retail memories, Sam Flax, ThinkGeek, Tatsumi Mooks, System 7 (1991), Macintosh, desk accessories, HQ Trivia, Best Guess Live, Savvy, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Joe Schmo Show (2003), Spike TV, Discmaster, Marshall McLuhan, Barricade, Snake 97, American Flagg!, New Coke executive dead at 90, Max Headroom, AI conversations, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, comedians, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:53:12)… Max Gunther by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Mushy love letter by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], Cucumber Lotion by The Bombers [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Existence [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues by Grateful Dead (Live at Cumberland County Civic Center on 1986-03-27, taped by Joe D’Amico) [Archive.org], GHIRARDELLI CHOCOLATES, FASHION, MAX HEADROOM (1986) (excerpt) [Fedflix, public domain], Biomythos by Revolution Void [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Max Headroom COKE (1986) [YouTube], Paranormal Pair O’ Pants by The Nourishment [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], WTTW Channel 11 – Doctor Who – “The Max Headroom Pirating Incident” (1987) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Khaki by Who Ha [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Mission Hill Karai-Pantsu (spicy pants) [YouTube], Strange Music 1 by misha64u [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Just Pants (Commercial, 1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], cruisin by pink [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Commercial – Max Headroom Interviews Pepsi [collection], The Little Chauffeur by Billy Murray (1906) [Archive.org, public domain], Doxa Sinistra – The Other Stranger (sample sources) [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:43:13 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 22:32), Chad Bowers (at 52:14) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:45:27). The usual suspects are all present and accounted for in body, mind, and spirit.

Next month’s topics: Scofflaws, Nutcases and Sociopaths. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on October 10, 2026.

Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.

Theme songs: “The O.C. Theme Remix” (2024, 2026) and “Goodbye Till Next Month” (2026) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5). All other clips are either fair use or public domain.