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I honestly couldn't tell if this episode was on the up-and-up on the product placement. And you know what, ...don't care!

Mighty fine use of of my monthly donation. Bravo, sir.

Alright, time to jump on the weirdo train! How Margaret Atwood is making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic . Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Radio show: Q. Host: Tom Power ( not the ex-front-man of Moxy Fruvous). Duration: 13:54. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1723571779562/ ...or... Z...

Yall do realize fungus really do control the planet right? ...yeahhhhhh, I still like showing that Planet Earth episode with the parasitic fungus that attacks ant colonies to my grade 11 biology students. If I want to really traumatise teenagers, I show it as an example of animal interactions (symb...

Margaret Atwood?! That's like howling CHUCK NORRIS in an English teacher's clubhouse (yep, it's a thing... at least in my circle of associates [Science-English Hybrids]).

Whoo hoo! I'm saving this episode to share it with my high school peeps.

Hmm, looks like I can post my first root-thread on the drabblecast. Nice. This patron-only audio drama is quite evocative. I'd urge you to (a) support the 'cast and (b) slog your way through the episode's intentional audio manipulation . I have a very Gucci listening nook set up (fancy dancy headpho...

March 22, 2020
For Drabblecast Bsides Premium Subscribers this week, we bring you the classic 1972 Full Cast radio production of The Peoria Plague. Don’t worry, it’s just a fictional audio drama! …isn’t it?

What am I listening to? 1977?! I was in grade 2, with Ms. Carol at Peace Arch Elementary in White Rock, BC. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Has anybody else watched the movie, Xanadu ? Starring Olivia Newton-John. Oh, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ? I'm getting that vibe with this story (th...

I"m getting a Chung Kuo (by David Wingrove) vibe from this tale. Spindly monoliths (timestamp ~20:40). Their purpose lost in time. Invasive species. Mind you the story starts out like a narrative of people living near a nuclear waste depository (with warning signs that have degraded with time) . It ...

Okay, so I just finished listening to L.F.J. with my spouse. And we were BOTH looking at the loud speaker... and saying .... wait... what?! I wolfed down The Scar and had many conversations with my spouse. The authour's prose is intricate and if one paid attention, had an elegant logic to it. L.F.J....

China Melville. As in The Scar?! A steampunk or post-gasoline tale?! Oh boy. People, please support drabblecast so that you can access this thread (my $10USD/month a la PayPal is being well-used).

8) In the End, You Get Clarity . As a high school science teacher, I grok our protagonist & her allies. I’m NOT tough enough to teach grade 3 class - and that’s a pity (I sincerely want more men to step up and teach the primary grades [by the time I get the teenagers, their core skills {or lack ther...

I’m up here in the North Bruce Peninsula, waiting for the latest rain storm to pass (thus allowing my spouse & I safe access to the woodlot). While she slumbers upstairs, I spun up this odd little tale. It reminds me of a King Kong comes to the city... and it just goes off-kilter from there. This ep...

I was kinda hoping the cats would stick around after earning their voice . My icon shows 1 of 3 black house panthers who tolerate cat-dad and cat-mom. He'd be out the door (as he started out life as a stray). The other 2 are little lemons (bad hips; a touch of brain damage). :( I do love our little...

Oh hell yeah! Uncle Norm, please use some % of my monthly patronage to secure additional episodes of this VERY distopian world. It was like listening to the lovechild of “The Matrix”, “Total Recall”, “Inception”, “2001 [HAL going on the fritz]”, and a James S.A. Corey ( Leviathan Wakes ) book. ADVIC...

Nasty first story. Don't. Blindly. Follow. Mentors.

I was kinda hoping the cats would stick around after earning their voice. My icon shows 1 of 3 black house panthers who tolerate cat-dad and cat-mom. He'd be out the door (as he started out life as a stray). The other 2 are little lemons (bad hips; a touch of brain damage).

Alright alright alright! This was good stuff. I processed this twisted story as an example of survival of the fittest. I didn't see that end coming.... the losing man who remained under the grass. He was stung by some aweful insect until the victim {{{or angel... or dandelion man?!}}}} became a dir...

I had to listen to this episode (again?) to understand it. It really is an impressive piece of fiction. This week, my spouse's mother had to euthanize her elderly cat. She now has 1 cat left that's very standoffish and it hurts my mother-in-law's feelings. We have 3 black cats that I know we'll outl...

This week, we had at least two Amber Alerts here in the Greater Toronto Area. Dammit, this episode did an (unintended?) gut punch with me.... ...especially when the army base and aliens release a radio alert. I was expecting the station attendant to tackle the woman and the baby/ambassador. Or worse...