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Magic of Eyri 024-Flight of the Griffin

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Today’s episode: Alexander the Small explains who the Pixie People are, and their connection to his ship, the Griffin. U’nala, Remmit and Kaz show up in Tal aboard a flying chariot looking for our heroes, prompting Alexander to flee the duck port town, taking Steve and his friends along for the ride.

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In our last episode: Steve and his friends met Alexander the Small, captain of the Griffin.

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Technical Notes: Some sound effects courtesy of Freesound.org (User Attribution list). Other sound effects and music by GarageBand or Daniel J. Hogan.

For more information on the story, please visit the About and Characters pages. These sections will be updated as episodes are put online since I don’t want to spoil too much ahead of time.

Cast:

Daniel J. Hogan

(Host, Narrator, Characters)

Robin Hudson

(Eira the pelican)

Valeta

(various Pixie People)

Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (06.02.10): “Pirates!” – Our heroes have a run-in with the scourge of the Ralk Sea, Vanderawlt the pirate.

Ramblings:

We get to know Alexander the Small a bit better in this episode. He is, of course, named after Alexander the Great, and a friend of mine named Alex (who wasn’t small, but very skinny). His crew, Julius the albatross and Hector the Penguin are named after Julius Caesar and Hector of Troy. I was partially inspired by an article I read once about the Nine Worthies.

With the audio versions of Julius and Hector, decided to try and do a “Bones and Spock” approach to the voices. We’ll see how it goes.

The joke behind the Pixie People surrounding Uncle Shameless and saying “Hi!” over and over, is a poke at Navi in the video game Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

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Humor in Science Fiction and Fantasy (with Jim C. Hines and Brian Briggs)

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

This is audio from another panel discussion at Penguicon 2010 I was a part of, called “Humor in Science Fiction and Fantasy.”

Joining me on the panel are Jim C. Hines, author of the Goblin Quest and Princess series and Brian Briggs, creator of the geek humor site BBspot.com.

I loved being on this panel. It was a hoot. We talked about writing humor in genres vs. traditional fiction, and even in non-fiction. Jim teases me for taking food home from the laundromat. And we learn that Batman makes anything funnier.

Jim was also a guest on an episode for the other podcast I’m a part of, LansingNext. I am the co-host, and bring my lovable geek humor to the show.

Oh and last week’s podcast made it to the front page of BoingBong last week. Awesome!

runtime: 55 minutes

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Next Weds (5.19) is the next episode of the Magic of Eyri, “Flight of the Griffin.”

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