The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #011: Come On In My Kitchen!

A Supper to end all Suppers in the Geekery.  (Yes, ALL the holidays.)

Episode Eleven of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher!

We're covering the holidays with an examination of feasts and food in history, games and geek media!

0:00:00  Intros
0:02:00  The Up Front: On pageantry and periodicity
0:05:38  The Interview:  Medieval food expert Cassandra Baldassano tells us about medieval misconceptions, humors us with a discussion of the four humors, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:27:!6  Payin' some bills
0:32:19  The Roundtable:  Wherein Mike and Donny and Jack make with the matchups, celebrate 7 holidays in 90 minutes, and enjoy an offally good dinner!
1:58:04  Announcements and the Community Calendar
2:03:43  Outro & Credits
2:04:54  Bonus Track:    Highway 53 Blues!

Hey, how about some show notes?

Check out Cassandra Baldassano and her Culinary Journey!

Penzey's is a great place to get your spices!

Here's the Geek's main Amazon link!

Attention kids and giblets: KWIKSTARTER IS NOT A REAL THING.  Neither is A Pwnable Feast.

PATREON sure is though!

Let's hit some holidays!

THANKSGIVING!

HANUKKAH!

KWANZAA!

Give a listen to the Atomic Array!

Or the Gamer's Haven Podcast!

Or Postcards from the Dungeon!

Or Gaming & BS!

FESTIVUS!

How about some Feats of Strength!

Mike and Jack square off...

Donny goes "Tusken Raider" on the Festivus pole...

MERRY XMAS!

Afterlife with Archie! by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla

The Manhattan Projects! by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra

Black Science! by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera

Go watch Ravenous!

Or Crazy Legs Conti and the Zen Art of Competitive Eating

Or Cannibal! The Musical

NEW YEAR'S EVE!

We want to get to:

Trail of Cthulhu
and
The One Ring

BURNS NIGHT!

Try it with something from the Keweenaw Brewing Company!  (I recommend the Widow Maker Black Ale.)

Remember you can get your own copies of the bonus tracks out at Bandcamp!

PC Stinger:

Euriol of Lothian is how Cassandra Baldassano is known amongst the SCA, and as she explains, "Euriol is Welsh and Lothian is the county where Edinburgh resides.  My mother was born in East Lothian and most of my ancestors in the geneology research I've done were born in... East Lothian"
The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "Magic Wand Glitter.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "01914 punches and slaps.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Space Engine.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Space Beam, Cloak, Warp, Jump, etc.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.

Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #010: Boogie Choosin'!

The ladies are all about the monocle...

Episode Ten of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher!

We're back from an accidental hiatus, and we're talking about freewill and fate in our lives and in our games!

0:00:00  Intros
0:02:02  The Up Front: On choosing to choose poorly
0:07:05  The Interview:  Author and illustrator Matt Youngmark tells us about the Choose-o-matic Book Series, vouches for the creative influence of Jean-Claude Van Damme, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:30:24  Payin' some bills
0:34:54  The Roundtable:  Wherein Mike and Donny fulfill their destiny by defending the fantasy that they have some control over their sad, pathetic lives.  Also, we discover a long lost classic of geek literature together!
1:52:25  A rebuttal of sorts
1:53:42  A non-calendar and a long-distance dedication
1:54:46  Outro & Credits
1:56:31  Bonus Track:    CN Woman Boogie!

What do you want from me?  I've been listening to an awful lot of John Lee Hooker lately...

Hey, how about some show notes?

Check out Matt Youngmark and the Choose-o-matic book series!
Here's a great place to get Time Travel Dinosaur!

Zork!

Choose Your Own Adventure!

Neil Patrick Harris:  Choose Your Own Autobiography!

Garycon!  Where the grognards gather...

"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", by Tom Stoppard!

5th Edition gives you a do-over!

The Geek's twitter!

Author and illustrator Matt Youngmark!

The Choose-o-matic book series!
Zombiepocalypse Now!
Thrusts of Justice!
Time-Travel Dinosaur!

Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North!

Free RPG Day!

The Conspiracy Friends webcomic!

Freewill, on Amazon!

Support the ASPCPC!

Experiments on the neuroscience of freewill!

LaPlace's Demon!

Shaun of the Dead!

The Casca series!

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, the source of the concept of "psychohistory"!

The "Kobiyashi Maru" - a supposedly no-win scenario, and all the folks who beat it!

I6 - Ravenloft!  The original module!

Hollywood's always gotta do a sequel...  so,
I10 - Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill!

The World of Darkness!  Sorry, Jack

Star Wars and Farsight!

The Reluctant Hero!

The Dungeons and Dragons kids better feckin' knock it off...

The Hero's Journey!

John Carter of Mars was much better than you probably think!

So were the books!

Pick your Bond!

Liam Neeson has a very specific set of skills!

The Fighting Fantasy series!

Because Serenity!

Serenity now!


Hey kids, it's Summer Glau!

Area 51!

Dr. Nera Vivaldi is an actual thing...

Captain Kirk's cannon!  Again.


You have died of dysentery.  Naturally.

"The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking

This episode is dedicated to the memory of R. A. Montgomery!

The Geek's main Amazon link!

Remember you can get your own copies of the bonus tracks out at Bandcamp!

PC Stinger:  Matt Youngmark's Calavert of the Great Northern Bear Tribe

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "Melancholic Interpretation in G#", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license.  The original file can be found here.

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #009: What Is And What Should Never Be!

My poor head...

Episode Nine of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.

It's the start of Season Two, and you're getting a veritable cannonade about canon in this episode!

0:00:00  Intros
0:02:06  The Up Front: On race and re-casting canon
0:12:25  The Interview:  Tom Foss of The Fortress of Soliloquy explains the point of canon, lets us know where it goes horribly wrong, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:56:12  Payin' some bills
1:01:26  The Roundtable:  Wherein Donny and Mike heap their scorn on canon, then decide they're kind of OK with it after all, and then go and choose the wrong cannon!
1:45:31  The Community Calendar
1:50:44  Outro & Credits
1:52:05  Bonus Track:    Sagan the Blues!

Sweet Monkey Jesus, do we have some Show Notes and Links this time!

Make sure to complete The Chippewa Valley Geek 2014 Reader & Listener Poll


Felicia Day's "high school essay" on race and casting

Don't get these guys mixed up...

Doctor Who and The Talons of Weng-Chiang!

Dungeons and Dragons: The Movie - Oh the humanity...

The Hitchhiker's Guide movie  (Now is a good time to panic.)

Hey kids, it's Kate Mara!
House of Cards
Kevin Spacey and the worst Cockney accent ever...

Shira Brie came first.

Jupiter's Legacy! by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely (It gets brutal...)

The Return of Donna Troy! by Phil Jemenez

Daredevil! by Mark Waid

Wolverine & The X-Men! by Jason Aaron

If you liked the first 150 pages of the Silmarillion, you'll love DC's 52, by Johns / Morrison / Waid / Rucka.

Spider-Man: One More Day

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

The New 52

Grant Morrison is a genius, pure and simple.
Check out his amazing interviews w/ Kev Smith on Fatman on Batman here, here and here!

Adventures of Superman

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight

All-New X-Men! by Brian Michael Bendis

Amazing Fantasy # 15! by Lee / Ditko

The Death of Superman! by Dan Jurgens and a bunch of people

Tom Foss's Walking with Superman blog project.  It's pretty farking clever.

The 8th Doctor Audio Adventures

The Night of the Doctor: Mini Episode featuring #8

Garth Ennis' The Punisher

Star Trek: Into Darkness  - frickin' kids these days...

It's  A Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman: The Superman Musical

Jaime Reyes and the Blue Beetle

Wally West

Daredevil <-- Find a decent Kingpin here...

Miles Morales and Ultimate Spider-Man

Superman: Birthright!  by Mark Waid

All-Star Superman!  by Grant Morrison

Superman: Red Son!  by Mark Millar

Supergirl: The Director's Cut

Tom Foss is at  The Fortress of Soliloquy and on Twitter at @dowding_tom.  I think.

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Cannon: Season One w/ William Conrad

Cannon by Wally Wood

Rock me baby like a Wagon Wheel...

A few words from the Furyondy Chamber of Commerce.

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Wolfgang Baur is here.  (He didn't really do any of the stuff I said he did.  He's a nice guy.  Really.)

Memorize the Wookiiepedia and learn about Billy Bob!

You should read some Patrick O'Brian!

Master & Commander

Because she's there...

Atomic Robo

Rat Queens:  Sass and Sorcery

Back to the Future

Donny's Horror Reboots:
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th 
Halloween
Fright Night
Carrie
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Salem's Lot

The Star Wars RPG Mike meant.

Don't forget the Forgotten Realms!
Ed Greenwood!

The One Ring!

Traveller, baby!

Mutants and Masterminds!

Call of Cthulhu - Core Book

Mecatol Rex from afar and up close and personal

Captain Kirk's Cannon!
Captain Kirk's Cannon, Recreated!

Pachabel's Canon

Dyan Cannon, 1978...

Hint: the correct answer is -not- to always own a cannon

Rollie Fingers

The origin story of Monster Mike
(Someone is owed some life story rights I think...)

Teen Wolf

The Geek's main Amazon link!

Remember you can get your own copies of the bonus tracks out at Bandcamp!

Sorry, no Monthly Marathon this time out.  I'm playing binge-watch-catch-up on a few series right now and will need any bonus free time to start work on the next few eps of the podcast.  Feel free to view amongst yourselves.

PC Stinger:  Quelidan the Magnificent

This month's stinger is by an Eladrin Wizard contributed by our special guest Mr. Tom Foss.  Check out his character sheet here...

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "Moroccan Guimbri Lute", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.

It's no "Heaven and Hell", but nevertheless, special thanks for helping to inspire this episode's bonus track go out to Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan