The Overnightscape Underground

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4:38:57 – New from Falling Cow Productions, Glass Parameters is a compendium of old-time radio shows with a science fiction (for the most part) theme. Also featured are several songs recorded in the first half of the 20th century, a considerable amount of talky-talk from me (this is Shambles typing this, so I’m the me I mean), and perhaps another treat or two in here somewhere. And now the show notes:

Yearning, Just For You (Gene Austin, 1925), Glass Parameters Intro, And The Moon Be Still As Bright (Dimension X, 9/29/50), Ray Bradbury and other topics, Selections from Sunny Side Up (The Victor Light Opera Company, 1930), driving to work, The Blue Eyed People (Theater Five, 12/30/64), melanin, Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue? (Nick Lucas, 1925), The Twilight Zone and other topics, clip from Attack of the Monsters (1969), DVD box sets of public domain films and other topics, Encountering New Race (Planet Man, 1950), where to find more Planet Man, Shine On Harvest Moon (The Southerners, 1930), preservation of pop culture and other topics, The Time Machine (Escape, 5/9/48), a brief word from Jackie, Sugar Lump (The Victor Military Band, 1914), The Time Machine and other topics, Queen of Space (Space Patrol, 11/15/52), rain, Love Me Tonight (Annette Hanshaw, 1929), stories in multiple forms of media and other topics, Meet John Smith, John (Quiet Please, 10/3/48), Glass Parameters Outro, Destination K.C. (Kansas City Seven, 1944).

And now the important texty-text about Creative Commons licensing and stuff like that:

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

And now (or any time at all, all you gotta do is call) you can listen to Glass Parameters. And I’ll be there!

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10:13 – Blind Duncan’s Blues by Arthur Jaz (aka Shambles)
This is my first novel, Blind Duncan’s Blues, which I completed in 2004 and am now releasing here upon an unsuspecting public. Blind Duncan’s Blues is a novel consisting of interrelated short stories about a boy named Duncan Pierce. It covers various incidents in Duncan’s life, ranging from the age of eighteen months through about eleven years. There are eighteen chapters in all, which will be released sporadically on Onsug.com. Read by the author.

There are certain autobiographical elements to this book, but they mainly consist of general impressions of what it was like to be a child in the early 1980s in Illinois. I never had an older brother who made me eat cat food; my parents had a much happier and stronger marriage than Duncan’s own folks; none of my teachers ever made me wear a dunce cap. The situations that arise for Duncan from being in a large family (as well as a dysfunctional one) I had to either steal from other people’s experiences or fictionalize entirely.

However, I did start writing stories at an early age, and I did play Santa Claus one year in the Christmas program. Most of the rest is fictionalized.

I am currently working on a sequel, Bentleyville Tigers, which will be completed one of these days.

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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5:04 – Blind Duncan’s Blues by Arthur Jaz (aka Shambles)
This is my first novel, Blind Duncan’s Blues, which I completed in 2004 and am now releasing here upon an unsuspecting public. Blind Duncan’s Blues is a novel consisting of interrelated short stories about a boy named Duncan Pierce. It covers various incidents in Duncan’s life, ranging from the age of eighteen months through about eleven years. There are eighteen chapters in all, which will be released sporadically on Onsug.com. Read by the author.

There are certain autobiographical elements to this book, but they mainly consist of general impressions of what it was like to be a child in the early 1980s in Illinois. I never had an older brother who made me eat cat food; my parents had a much happier and stronger marriage than Duncan’s own folks; none of my teachers ever made me wear a dunce cap. The situations that arise for Duncan from being in a large family (as well as a dysfunctional one) I had to either steal from other people’s experiences or fictionalize entirely.

However, I did start writing stories at an early age, and I did play Santa Claus one year in the Christmas program. Most of the rest is fictionalized.

I am currently working on a sequel, Bentleyville Tigers, which will be completed one of these days.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Arthur Jaz (aka Shambles) – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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1:09:40 – Curls by Charlotte Anderson (short story from 1923 Bloomington High School yearbook), sitting on the back patio, Melina, Teen Wolf (1985), Boof was definitely hotter than Pamela, what I did with my Sunday afternoon, identical twins, The Truce at Bakura, Jackie’s playhouse, playing baseball with Jackie, Blue Skies (The Artist Ensemble, 1927), you can’t have everything, Froot Loops, let’s call Steve (field recording from 8/1/93), Angel Eyes by the Jeff Healey Band, feels great outside, “must sell house, cash buyers only,” grumpy employees in the coffee shop, biscuits and gravy, Nightstation, lots of new audio to listen to on Onsug, chatter, the clouds, The Time Machine (1960), writing and recording, Vampires Suck, not a fan of Twilight, Kristen Stewart, On the Road, stream-of-consciousness writing, terrible plane ride to Tucson in 2000, terrible train ride back from Tucson in 2000. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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51:23 – Thinking about experimenting with length and frequency of Shambleshows, Daylight Saving Time, old cassettes and videotapes, nostalgia, Jackie acting out a play for my mother, not the state of Georgia, The Shambleshow #20, varying lengths of past Overnightscape episodes, buying a Cherry Coke at Casey’s, phone call, bowling, religion, human beings wrote the Bible, reincarnation and other cool ideas, Mother Abigail quote in The Stand, every day is different from every other day, flipping through FM radio stations, my high school prom, the old fishing trailer, the need to preserve old audio, the street my old church was on, does everybody get nostalgic?, sunlight is bright. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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1:28:01 – It’s a German cabaret (field recording from 4/12/94), taking it easy this week, old cassettes, “don’t you break!”, acting classes, the neutral mask, Phantom of the Opera, actors (field recording from 4/12/94), more field recordings coming up, people from the past that I can’t remember, musical theater class, Hair, road(s) closed, “thru,” skirmishes, director telling a girl to make herself hyperventilate, characters I played in college production of Our Town, character acting, people I knew on campus (part 1) (field recording from 4/12/94), looking up people from my past on Facebook, old memories that I can’t access, idea of plugging yourself into a computer to watch your memories, Final Cut, people I knew on campus (part 2) (field recording from 4/13/94), I hope this episode comes out okay, cartwheels, hyper as a child, ridiculous gas prices, heartburn, old Suncoast store, the moon, gods and goddesses in ancient mythology, audio projects in progress, group discussion class (field recording from 4/13/94). Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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2:37:30 – Flying solo tonight, Star Trek DVDs, Trek series currently being shown in reruns, Trek movies, Nichelle Nichols meets Martin Luther King Jr., laugh at the Vulcan, Trek novels, Neanderthal depictions in Hominids, learning a new language as an adult, my brief attempt to learn the trumpet, Jackie learning to dance, Matt Frewer, time travel turbulence (Peter Wallner, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States, 2007), cryptic statements of a time traveler, TNG: A Matter of Time, conflicts onboard ship, characters in TNG, article about upcoming TNG series back in 1987, the Klingons in Time Trap, Michael Dorn as Worf, “the Wesley problem,” Deanna Troi saying obvious things, Star Trek novels, Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar, thought about going somewhere tonight, Going There Together (Antimon, Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Sweden), hungry, Uncle Fletcher from Vic and Sade, gas is up to $3.95/gallon, editing Chicago TARDIS audio, Annie gave up biting fingernails for Lent, playlist format, Wendy’s drive-through, two Walgreens stores next door to one another?, dreaming, Katy Perry songs, Melina and Arkie, There Will Fall Soft Rains (Jesse Conner, Attribution 3.0), DS9: Second Sight, Sisko’s short-lived romance, Kira Nerys is hot, the Trill concept, I mean to say John Glover was Lex Luthor’s dad in Smallville but accidentally say he played Lex Luthor, Worf got around, other Deep Space Nine characters, the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie, no more TV series set within the TNG/DS9/Voyager timeline?, the Josh story, the two Trekkies documentaries as a celebration of fandom, the Whitewater juror and other fans in Trekkies, the sweet Australian woman in Trekkies 2, Expendable Guy, Get a Life by William Shatner, five hundred years from now, a wonderful dream, the potential danger of transporter beams, cats, fascination with length of Shambleshow episodes, British sitcoms, Dad and my uncle hated Red Dwarf, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, my wife loves Red Dwarf, Laugh by the Monkees, spontaneous Onsug promo, wondering what the show notes will look like for this episode, forgot about the Star Trek animated series. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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1:52:17 –
Anybody’s Guess #32: Ghost Novel Brainstorm (10-17-11) (30:16)
Ideas for this year’s National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo.org) off the top of my head (i.e. ghosts, reincarnation, and other weirdy-weird stuff).

Anybody’s Guess #33: Surreptitiously, Wiseass (10-21-11) (1:22:00)
Cookout at my friend Tony’s parents’ house (recorded October 8, 2011): I’m not a cartoon character, wooing the waitress, he was the voice of reason, Cornholio, I’ve been watching that Terra Nova, show me the UFO stuff, your can of whupass has expired, siding, the laughing neighbors, selective hearing, carved my initials, big metal grain silos, but I had to make an itinerary, he even has a stereotypical name, it’s on autopilot, it’s so bad MTV won’t even play it, the stairway of penance, What the Deaf Man Heard, mannerisms and gestures, the chicken chicken joint, Eddie Haskell, there’s a tree over there, that was a good run too.

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20:38 – Tribute to Davy Jones (1945-2012). Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released February 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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56:15 – Applause breaks for classic sitcom characters, feeling pensive, free movie pass, pros and cons of The Phantom Menace, recapture the magic, Annie defended George Lucas, The Artist won Best Picture, Wings starring Clara Bow, rare book of Wings, Mel Brooks’s Silent Movie, Blind Duncan’s Blues audiobook, the next Shambleshow (or so I thought at the time but really it’ll be the next one after #18), Leap Day, previews, finished Star Trek Voyager: Pathways, reading Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer, movie trivia, Cute Girls (Bobotek, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0), coming out of movie theater at 1 AM, didn’t quite recapture the magic, weirdy-weird background aliens, wearing two pairs of glasses at once, dimensions, is this okay?, midichlorians, the Star Wars universe, the Star Trek alternate timeline, not into Doctor Who right now, popcorn dreams?, 366 days, ideas for future recordings, the house is dark. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released February 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.