Dog Pile
This is one of the first irreverent stories I created. From 1995 to 2005 I had a web site called goofiness.com (I sold it in 2005) where I did all kinds of stupid stuff. I had mp3s you could listen...
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This is one of the first stories I produced. I basically just did some weird abstract stuff. The reference to Pat Buchanan is a reference to the 2000 Presidential Primaries, so this was probably...
View ArticleMud
I was looking for one of the scariest/stressful things I could think of for a young man, and being naked and 3-5 minutes from my clothes would have done it for me. Several people have mentioned the...
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Going through other people’s trash. This is one of my Mom’s favorite pieces that I’ve done. It was originally part of a Mockumentary CD I put out in the early part of the millennium. It’s creepy at...
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This is one of the pieces where I feel like I really found my sound. I had made a few pieces in the regular way, telling a story, adding a little music. In this one, I had this really weird experience...
View ArticleSeafood Joint
I went out to eat with some friends and there was a lot of overt racism. I thought about it for a couple of weeks because I was really frustrated by the assholes in that restaurant (a well-known...
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I was several miles off-shore, windsurfing, when I broke down, and was attacked by a shark. Shark is from my Mockumentary days. I think it’s a pretty good piece. It’s complete fiction, or it would be...
View ArticleGod is Talking to Me
This story idea came to me a long time before I did it. I was downtown walking around and almost stepped in front of a bus. It was pretty near miss, probably one of my top ten “near death”...
View ArticleTruck Stop
I got this idea from a similar story in Reader’s Digest. I loved reading all the anecdotes and jokes and the little filler items they had at the end of a story that ran a bit short. One of the...
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The Book
Here’s my creepiest story. This is sometimes played by random public radio stations around Halloween. Years ago, it was featured on Love & Radio as well. I often work late and get up early, and...
View ArticleMother’s Day Diary
When Mother’s Day rolled around in 2004, I thought ‘hey, I should write one of those diaries for it.’ This is the result. It’s not a reflection of my relationship with my then-wife, but I often would...
View Article4th of July Fireworks
By the time I came up with 4th of July Fireworks, I had done a couple of audio diaries and thought I’d give this a shot. It was really fun, because a) It’s the 4th of July and b) it involved...
View ArticleAndy and Dirk
I wrote “Andy & Dirk” for a Third Coast Festival contest years ago, but it had to be under three minutes long so I never submitted it. It had to start with “To begin with, they never got along” or...
View ArticleNPR Shortlist - Star Wars Uncredited Characters
In 2007, Transom put out a call for Shortlists for a new NPR show called Weekend America (which has since been discontinued). This was the first one played, which I thought was pretty cool. See the...
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Hacked Feed - Have You Ever Been Hacked?
This is the first of two (so far) “Hacked Feed” recordings. I asked hackers who visited the Dallas Hacker’s Association meetup if they had ever been hacked, and how it felt if they had. I love...
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Hacked Feed - Have You Ever Been Robbed?
This is the second of two “Hacked Feed” podcasts. I did interviews with hackers who attended the Dallas Hackers Association monthly meetup. In this recording, I asked, “have you ever been robbed?” and...
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Valentine’s Day Diary
I like this energetic audio-diary format, somewhat of a Mockumentary. I’ve done previous versions for Mother’s Day and the 4th of July, and a non-holiday version for a doctor’s appointment (way back...
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What is Computronium?
I was reading around, and stumbled upon this Wikipedia article. I was like… whoa, that sounds good. But… it’s pretty vague. “…a substrate for…(uh, what?) a hypothetical material…(‘scuse me?)…” Okay,...
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Using Screaming Frog to Keep a Monolithic Web Site Hygenic
I worked on an Adobe Experience Manager install for about two years. This particular company used AEM like a stock WordPress website with no plugins. We had custom components and policies on...
View ArticleWordPress-to-static using wget mirror functionality and AWS S3
I like using WordPress. I’ve used it, AEM, Jekyll, a version of Laravel-as-CMS (currently Jigsaw and a lot of custom built code (in the early days). I don’t like how WordPress seems to be a main...
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