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4:23:03 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

On a rainy Monday, May 13, 2002, I took a 6 hours drive out to my grandmother’s hometown of Patton, PA, and visited her little brother Ralph, and other relatives. She had been telling me so many stories of her youth there I wanted to visit it for myself.

Notes: Monday, May 13, 2002, arrival in Patton, driving in my Jeep in the rain with Ralph, craftsmanship, talking about the old days, arrival at Louise’s house, shooting rifles, the ghost in the mine, Joe with the knife, Uncle Frank who died in a mine accident, he had a bad feeling beforehand, history of the mine, cats, leg funeral, Grandpap Pinali was a weaver, Alabama, Ellis Island, mine accidents, jobs (miner, farmer, CC camp, blacksmith), slingshots, Sears Catalog, old schoolhouse, Precious the kitty, Dry Run, the town used to be called Columbia but was renamed Reilly’s, Patton, Lumber City (previously named Goods), Uncle Bill the bootlegger, bathroom story, houses, moonshine, cockfights, poker, rambling rose and blackberry bushes, Sheetz, in the Navy in WWII, Guam, Skyline Drive, rain, back on the road, trolley, Cunningham’s Woods, school, driving around, cemetery, mules chewing tobacco, old radio shows, TV shows, geese, coal mines, giant stones, arrival at Ralph’s house, cats, broken service, portage railroad, driving up to the Anna’s, current events, 9/11, ball field, rough road, arrival at the Anna’s, Joe, Dick, the lumber business, computers, cellphones, Joan, 9/11, remembering the family reunion, disposable cameras, “we live where time has passed us by”, heading back on the road, Star Wars, Spider-Man, social hall, back to Louise’s, commuting, the cemetery, hotel for the stone workers, windmill, looking for giant stones, random encounter, stone work, another random encounter, inside a store, McCrory Stores, back to Ralph’s, motorcycles, in the house, back on the road, Joe, history of Patton, back to the house, hobo’s lunch, troublemaker girl, a lotta screwballs in Altoona, morel mushrooms, Joe’s trip tp NYC, Cranberry King, archway painting, Joe can’t place Route 80, sonar school, tobacco, the long drive home.

Released 10/11/21

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9:19:36 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The train station, Tim Hortons, Krispy Kreme, vegan foods, express train, John Galt, Ayn Rand, The Mike Wallace Interview, coffee, farro, Riverboat Gambler, Triple Shot, Tri-Sports (1989), Midtown Comics, Carry On Nurse (1959), Carry on Spying (1964), Carry on Matron (1972), Carry on Cleo (1964), Le Gendarme (série de films), 500 day / 12,000 hour mark coming soon, Moodbruck Ideation, Acid shirt, Sente Mini Golf (1985), Go, Riichi Mahjong, Mappy (1983), demolition, reviving a Zippo lighter, Lyft, delicata squash, American Dream, wandering the mall, Dream Wheel, luxury wing, Sid Vicious, Garden Court, if it’s artificial, roller coasters, Van Leeuwen Oat Milk Bourbon Apple Crisp vegan ice cream, Clumsy Courier, final published copy of the book arrives, Animaniacs pinball, 400 Conejos mezcal, Mark Twain Riverboat cigar, Val Kilmer, Riverworld, Karma Chameleon, custom hole punches, Mazenweed Scrip, posted that the book “The Onsug – A Radio Station Inside a Book” is now available for purchase, good morning, dream quote “time is the hell of the empty hand”, wake, Carry On Doctor (1967), Frankie Howerd, Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Get Carter (1971), ug: Port/Pinchot (11/28/08), Mad Dog Ernie’s Deli, Nightstation Ride One PC Demo, Sombra mezcal, The Little White Duck, massive book The Monkees – The Day-By-Day Story by Andrew Sandoval, Eden Shake, Jittlov Font Read Me files, Kibology, bedcast, attic, Riverboat Alley, Thomas Kinkade, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Expo 2020 Dubai, Expo – Magic of the White City (Narrated by Gene Wilder), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 8:38:59)… Greasing Wheezer by Smersh [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Reflection in a Coffee Cup by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Scrap of Moonlight (6/11/03) by Robert Hunter [Gravity’s Rainbow compilation, Archive.org], The Maze by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], 70’s and 80’s VHS Distribution Logos.mov [YouTube], Let’s Kiss by Bullette [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Ooh2 by Russelle [Freesound, CC0 1.0], Cut and Shoot (11/15/69 – 2/22/70) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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The book is finally done! 700 pages, with complete listings of over 10,000 episodes, with over 6,000 pieces of show art. An essential companion for a lifetime of listening to The Onsug! Color covers and black-and-white interior. Priced as low as possible so you can buy more and put them on many bookshelves, for future listeners to discover!

The book can be purchased here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HHKNZ3T?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Download the PDF (including the Digital Extension) here:
http://www.theovernightscape.com/shows/The_Onsug-A_Radio_Station_Inside_a_Book-published_version.pdf

Listen to all the shows here:
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5:19:29 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Step back to 2012 in this never before released recording of me working on ideas for a new direction in my audio projects. There are a lot of interesting ideas discussed. And while I never moved forward with these ideas specifically, some aspects of them have lived on. Specifically, the current concept of “A Radio Station Inside a Book” establishes a sense of place, much like I was talking about on these audio notes. And the concept of welcoming the listener in – while not formalized as much as in these 2012 ideas – is still very much at the heart of The Onsug.

Notes: 2/21/12, talking about what is going on with my various radio projects, PQ, Shambles, Bob, Eddie, the archive, a static form, Nightstation, focusing on one thing, Nightstation Pocket City, You Live In Pocket Audio City, Pocket Radioland, New Pocket Radio, Aerie Obliviana, Nightstation: A Pocket Audio City, Weasel Village Mall, Nightweek, the analogy of a place, Devastating Nightscape, Rockefeller Center, GTA IV, 2/22/12, patch in and broadcast on Nightstation, transcending time and space, Hello Kitty has become a criminal, Times Square, Ash Wednesday, new idea for Nightstation, 3:05 PM, Wednesday, 2/22/12, decentralized system, very warm this morning, 8:39 AM, Thursday, 2/23/12, new perpectives, imaginary broadcasting, a new imaginary place, range of content, philosophies, hierarchies, subdivisions, doubt, Moodbruck intro, 9:43 AM, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, Aspects of Ideation, idea of a place with doors, The Rampler as the imaginary person, being taken on a trip, the wanderer archetype, Nightport, Grateful Dead, recording as if you’re taking the listener on a journey, idea of taking strangers on a trip, L-Theanine, Talkport, lunchtime Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012, You Are The Rampler, Weasel Village Mall, 9:43 AM, Monday, March 5, 2012, history of recorded audio, day world vs. night world, step on through, transit center of the mind, past and future, Welcome to the Weasel Village Mall, the audio format, 6:42 PM, Wednesday March 7, 2012, pack the very minimum, The New Nightstation, Jenny Ondioline, subway, the magic of audio doorways.

Released 10/6/21

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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4:01:35 – Frank in New Jersey, NYC, and White Plains, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Photocopier replacement parts, White Plains Drifter II, maps, theme parks and shopping malls, Avatar 2, carpooling, the book is published, Grand Central, train concept eventovision, rough brick exteriors, Scarsdale, arrival in White Plains, agenda: visit 5 malls (Galleria, White Plains Mall, City Center, The Westchester, The Source), dead mall perfection, The Onsug Vault, Mike Jittlov, scary rooftop photo session, plastic rabbit ring, Nightstation Ride One PC demo, juice, get a small sporting good, Eargangbe, can’t find a way into the mall, how to shop, Savor, coincidental golden horses in a mall, sporting good (Maxfli Bead Score Counter), Diesel Hair of the Dog Classic Unholy Cocktail, cool part of town, typography, Peignot ecstasy, finding my way back to the train station, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:20:59)… Coffee Bar (from The Poetry of Natale Delle Palme) [Archive.org, CC BY 3.0], Turkish Samba by Tevellus [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Bozo’s Circus – “Bozo’s Tv POWWW!” (1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Invisible Walls by Revolution Void [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Sounds of the Commons (Alternate Audio) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], So Sublime (Dave Kent remix) by Redmann [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], Dolores Project archaeology (1979) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain] & Mini Golf (Sente, 1985) [MAME], Still Ones by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Apollo 12 – Approach and Landing – November 19, 1969 [YouTube].

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 TheOvernightscape.com

Onsug Radio Update – September 2021 Added

Back in 2014 I made a VR demo called “Nightstation Ride One” which I presented at the SVVR conference in Mountain View, California.

It was the next year, I think, that I thought to make a non-VR version of it – and I recently found it!

It runs great on my laptop. It’s Windows only. Download:

http://www.theovernightscape.com/shows/Nightstation_Ride_One_PC_win32.zip

Instructions: Move mouse to look around. Hit ALT-F4 to quit.

As this is an old demo, I don’t know how well it will work on any other computer, so use with caution.

Here’s an old video of the VR version. The non-VR version does not have the “split screen” effect:

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1:34:25 – In this episode:

• Caddyshack II (1989) starring Jackie Mason,
• celebrity deaths (Richard Donner, Ed Asner, Charlie Watts, Fez Whatley),
• how AI is used to create video game dialogue,
• Rob didn’t tell Greg he was also at the Rolling Stones concert,
• was Chad Channing truly Nirvana’s drummer?,
• recent TV series that portray the 1990s (People vs. O.J. Simpson, Cruel Summer),
• To Funny To Fail: Life and Death of The Dana Carvey Show,
• Batman and Bill, documentary about the true creator of Batman, Bill Finger,
• and whether pop culture has now passed us by?

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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1:05:19 – In this episode:

• taking horse pills to cure coronavirus,
• celebrity deaths (Charles Grodin, John Paragon, George Segal, Samuel E. Wright),
• Clifford (1994) starring Martin Short,
• Lon Adams, inventor of the Slim Jim,
• failed Dukes of Hazzard spinoff “Enos”,
• Neil Innes of The Rutles,
• anticipating the return of Terry Silver to “Cobra Kai”,
• Hollywood can now bring every dead actor back to the screen with AI de-aging technology,
• terrible de-aging vs. deep fake for Mark Hamill in “The Mandalorian”,
• Samuel L. Jackson’s UNIX computer interface in Jurassic Park,
• and the Coz is on the loose!

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

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2:03:10 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: NIACHUZM, demolition, delusional dreams, almost done with the book, town dream, garbage pickers, Swinging Britain in the 60s: A Psychedelic Dream (1967), The 117 Group, LOONA in trouble, DONUTS, Arizona Coyotes Kachina logo returns, hornet update, Slunkine Harboona, Daftine Harboona-Wallace, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:22:36)… This is Coffee (1961) [Prelinger, public domain], Cycle 9 by Flux Capacitor [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], betsons furniture commercial. philadelphia 1986-1987 [YouTube], Danger Time! by Partners In Wonder [collection], Northwest Orient Airlines by Blue Sandalwood Soap [Archive.org], Pathfinder: Brand Portfolio Mapping in the new BAT (2001) [Archive.org], Over You by Wild Way [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], GTE PHONE COMMERCIAL Perry Como Special 1975 (excerpt) [YouTube], Escape by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Hypergirl Battlesquad by Kulor [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], So Does an Automobile (excerpt) [Archive.org, public domain].

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 TheOvernightscape.com