Nineball

Turns out you can use an iPad as a MIDI controller for GarageBand. Pretty cool! Here's a song I made that I kind of like!

Some vaguely religious insights involving the will of God, Star Wars, and artificial intelligence at Green-Wood Cemetery.

The captain of the Premier Challenge League looks at me and back at the statue and then again at me. He makes a clicking with his throat that tells me this is not part of the show. The captain is the sort of man who enjoys being in control.

Linguists, Noam Chomsky, Tom Wolfe, and hand axes. Isn't it more fun if language is an invention?

In which I reveal that I'm a religious zealot at heart and then go off on the GOP, John McCain, Barack Obama, and Nicholas Kristof.

Let's talk about solitary confinement and the imaginative leap of recognizing pain in people you don't directly know.

Nineball has a new mission: it is an ongoing audition tape to replace Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes.

An improvised fictional story about manhood and Aspergers in the mid-1980s.

Who cares about being an international embarrassment, who needs hotel closets, and what's wrong with being sensitive?

Natali Rivers (natalinicole.com) joins to talk about being Geminis, pushing yourself and accepting yourself, longterm relationships, personal clothing styles, and more.

Follow along, won't you, on a wonderful adventure through the tedious process of writing and refining a piece of longform fiction.

Vulgarity and golden toilets.

Leonard sits down with Lance Sebastian Schmegegge, the Chief Operational Talent Scout Champion at Spaghetti Enterprises.

Anonymous conversation with a friend who we'll call "Howard," but basically only call him that just right now. Howard and I discuss Ulysses S. Grant, mountain taxidermy, old hard drives, the burden of anxiety, etc.

New MacBook, an unpopular opinion about the Statue of Liberty, and a call for women to come on the show, all mixed together with not a little audio distortion.

A hopefully not completely sophomoric ramble about computers and how they aren't all that different from writing or art.

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Everyone thinks they could be a great president who's also funny, when really probably most people are only a bit funny and most would be lousy presidents.

Laura reads a story I wrote that we'll call "Veterans Affairs."

Another phone call, this time with my friend Jon, who is one of my favorite people (top two?), and also a programmer and lover of San Diego. We discuss making the case for a pay raise, digital addiction, dating profiles and, I'm sorry, computers.

The first episode with a guest. My brother, David, and I talk about Japanese garden bells, the writ of habeas corpus, nuclear annihilation and more. Share this show if you like it.

First go at a fiction episode. Unscripted fiction. A story, or the beginning of a story, about a woman named Nina who works the morning shift at Au Bon Pain in LaGuardia Airport. Is it any good? We report, you decide, etc.

24-minute teaser for new podcast program, Nineball. Nineball will sometimes just be like this, me on a microphone, and sometimes with a guest, and sometimes with a piece of oRiGiNaL fIcTiOn.