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.
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
01:52:15 — While I’m in-between producing shows or whatever, enjoy one of the random recordings I’ve been posting on my Spotify feed since the last episode of my podcast, The Midnight Citizen, back in November 2025.
On this episode, join me on my last night in Fargo, ND, where I walk around a thriving downtown area as it preps for the big AI festival. After my request for a photo op in front of the Marge Gunderson woodchip statue gets turned down by Fargo theater staff, I go for a drink and talk about the classic film on the rooftop bar of the historic Hotel Donaldson. Later, I take it back to the Home 2 Suites for a nightcap and some final thoughts on the town and its people.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground.
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
2:50:14 – Magic Kingdom – 5/18/26 (0:00-43:35), Monorail and Epcot – 5/19/26 (43:35-2:18:18), Epcot – 5/20/26 (2:18:18-2:50:14). Part 3 of 4. Recorded 5/18/26 through 5/20/26 on my iPhone 13. M8D008.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com Released September 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever individuals who say stuff and record it and let other people hear it.
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13:26 – Suno recently scrapped all their old versions, including v4.5, the one I had been using. The current model, v6, was trained from scratch using only licensed music, and I’m rather impressed by the results. Here’s a sample of what I’ve been able to do with v6-mini, the current free version. It’s the first four songs from the fourth and final installment of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville, the next episode of my Killer Serials series here on the Onsug.
Background: A private detective is shacked up with his female informant. She’s afraid someone’s going to kill her; he’s afraid he’s going “blood simple” due to the amount of killing he’s either done or provoked lately. He tries to escape into a gin bottle, and when that proves insufficient, she mixes him a gin-and-laudanum cocktail or two. Not surprisingly, he passes out. When he awakes, he finds her dead with an icepick embedded in her chest. Instead of raising the alarm, he proceeds to remove all trace of his having been there, wiping away his own fingerprints as well as everyone else’s. Upon leaving, he arranges an alibi for himself. Oddly enough, when the police discover the body, the icepick is nowhere to be found.
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
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
32:30 – Who’s Peter, and why does he live in Kensington? Also Muji coffee, my favourite places in the world to travel, Chatswood’s Japanese stores, cheesecake, subscribing to feeds at a coffee shop in 2003, Singapore changing beyond recognition, and Frank Nora being the last one standing after the demise of Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders.
Released September 2026 on Rubenerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.
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
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
