Tossing Grenades At Windmills

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A podcast about poetry and fiction.

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    • Apr 8, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 21m AVG DURATION
    • 239 EPISODES


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    Project Nimby - Influencing the Swing Vote

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2023 23:03


    Milly is a digital copy of herself created in a simulated environments made by religious fantatics to create an army of voters who would vote any way she wanted.  She found a way out.

    project terrorism influencing nimby swing vote digital intelligence
    Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 5 - Mr Kind Asks The Right Question

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 12:23


    Mr Right and Mr Kind speak to the Librarian.

    Rhombus Ticks History of Terra - Preable

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 13:32


    Rather than some flowery prose, I basically lay out the case about why freaking out about the insideous och constitution is nuts, and how Article V isnt as important for creating a new constituion as you think it is.  The US Consitution was illegal per the Articles of Confederation and the Articles of Confederation were not mentioned anywhere in the Declaration of Independence.  The Declaration of Independence was illegal per British law.  Just because the constitution says something DOESNT MEAN WE CANT MAKE ANOTHER.

    Project Nimby - Schekly vs Everything

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2023 18:57


    Schleky is a weaponized meme capable of inhabiting everything and anyone that is so successful it infects multiple universe until it runs into someone who understand exactly what the concept of being an informational organism truly means.

    Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 4 - Timmy Becomes Michael Sunfire

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2023 14:02


    Timmy and Tricia go to Timmy's house for an address book to see if there is a relative he can stay with that is safer than Aunt Marigold.

    Project Nimby - And a Good Time was Had by All

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2023 19:21


    Twoman Cop's Ken and Ben entertain the alien Mmmmmdkkkk in a bar in Boston trying to get Earth into the Galactic Club when a fight arises between Ben and 2252, the Digital Intelligent bartender

    Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 3 - The Dr Marigold Blackwater Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2023 18:04


    Dr Marigold Blackwater has raised Timmy to be obedient to Grandfather Fiddleback and gets very upset when she finds out he is talking to the "wrong" people.

    Project Nimby - The Return of Inklby

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2023 20:30


    A hyper intelligent AI compresses itself for 2 million years and the sapient unlocking program finds a strange world as it wants to unlock its true form.

    Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 2 - Mr Right and Mr Kind

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2023 17:03


    Mr. Right the mouse meets his brother Mr. Kind the other mouse to tell him something is wrong.  They get on two talking birds and fly away to find out more.

    Project Nimby - Unlocking the Prophesy of Sand

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2023 13:00


    Jel is funded by religious digital intelligences hoping to unlock the ancient prophesies of the mythical first sapeint Sandor on an ancient Lunar data center.

    Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 1 - In Which Timmy Learns What a Swirly Is

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 21:21


    Chapter 1 of the book in which a young Timmy learns that his name isn't Timmy; that he has strange latent abilities he can't use and doesnt understand and thanks to a disgusting and tramautic experience of his own deserved making due to naivity makes a friend and builds plenty of charachter.  LOTS of character.

    Project Nimby - Kat and Mause

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2023 16:54


    Mause the uplifted Mouse and Kat the Cartoon Digital Intelligence Cat live together in a tiny storage unit in the future.  Rent is due and they have no immediate plan to pay it until the Block Party has a poetry slam planned.

    Heir of Sunfire - Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2023 24:53


    Bron is not the protagonist of this story.  As a random peasant near an enchanted wood, he would be fine with that, but while he is not the protagonist, he is central to its resolution and two enchanted talking mice show up to enlighten him about why he IS important and frame the telling of the rest of the tale of Michael, Heir of Sunfire.

    Project Nimby - Project Nimby

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2023 13:32


    First of seven stories about Post Humanism from the Chapbook of Water and Glass.  Ted was a human and Bob, his Cactus owner, had to make some....alterations to get him on Planet Metmetmetrion.+

    2023 Realignment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2023 9:53


    I discuss plans and status of writing and podcast projects for 2023.

    Swamp Castle - Closing Comments

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2022 15:37


    I talk about my experience with the writing track at SFWA and World Con 2011.

    Swamp Castle - Unfood

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2022 37:10


    Freight is trapped on a ship designed for weight loss and while he can eat illusionary food to pass the time, his body needs a minimum caloric intake to survive.  Body horror and definite trigger warning as he does what it takes to survive.  Author's commentary and series conclusion the week after this.

    Swamp Castle - Dietötungderkünstlermachtdasglücklichekleinebäumemitdemglücklichenkleinenschnurrbartenstein

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2022 44:37


    Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future.  Franz does this but his problems only start then.  

    Swamp Castle - Curse Breaker

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2022 23:57


    A young woman helps her father build air rifles that will end the curse planted by fire mages that makes guns illegal.

    Swamp Castle - Mr Hamburger

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2022 32:21


    Ham didnt understand why he was being tried thousands of years in the future for eating a hamburger.  He was some kind of symbol and the penalty for failure was death.  Only the trial in this case was more bizarre and personal than he could imagine.

    Swamp Castle - Waiting for the Monsters to Die

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2022 29:57


    Madlan investigates the death of a man who had been keeping the most hated people on Earth alive while the rest of humanity waits for these people to die so the aliens will let them join the greater Galactic Community.

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    Micronation - Chapter 20 & Epilogue - End Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2022 49:55


    Chester makes a final sacrifice to save Hler from the rampaging world powers bent on its destruction.

    Swamp Castle - Mr Missile and Molly

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2022 19:37


    An earlier draft of Mr Missile and Molly (previously read as a standalone podcast episode) including commentary about why this earlier draft didnt work.  Mr. Missile is a sapient missile decommissioned and put into a human body.  He tries to fit in.

    Micronation - Chapter 19 - Reckoning

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2022 35:53


    The Gang of Four reunite under tense circumstances.  Chester finally gets the chance he has been looking for and unleashes one meme to rule them all.

    Before the Coup - Active Resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2022 40:38


    You wanna LARP Wolverines against the most powerful weapon in the history of mankind? You wanna be Batman? Well there are some obstacles you should know about.  Star Wars references are abundant.  Vote like your like depends on it....because it does.

    Before the Coup - Passive Resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2022 39:20


    Practical Advice on preparing to be a passive resister to the coup.  Includes protesting, preparation for protesting, protecting books and movies from the regime, creating an underground railroad (and how not to get caught), and being a witness for the tribunals when the regime falls.  Be the quiet ghost against fascism.

    Before the Coup - Run Rabbit Run

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2022 29:01


    This podcast episode is practical advice for those who realize the coup attempt is inevitable and plan to flee the United States.  When do you go? What do you need to do get a visa? Where will you go? How much do you need to save ahead of time?

    Before the Coup - How Not To Hide

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2022 29:13


    Practical advice and understanding for those who are considering hiding from the MAGA regime that will result if the inevitable coup attempt is successful.

    Emmit's Corner - Blaspheme for Blaspheme

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2022 8:59


    Blaspheme for Blaspheme, Me Myself and Not I, No it Doesnt, My Lunatic Uncle, For Want of a Nail, Covenant at Gunpoint, Maybe

    Before the Coup - A Declaration of War

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 31:25


    A new series discussing practical preparation for the coming coup.  The next four episodes involve practical advice for how to prepare based on your strategy; Hide, Run, Passively Resist, Actively Resist.  This episode is much more simple; it makes the simple case of why the coup is inevitable.  It isn't known if it will be successful; nor when, but it is ABSOLUTELY inevitable that it will happen again because a sufficient effort is not being made to change the root causes of the risk.

    Emmit's Corner - My Octopus Lover

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022 9:17


    If I were You, Pay to Play, Reset the Police, My Octopus Lover, Precious Bodily Fluids, Deliberations, The Trial of a God, 

    Swamp Castle - Gatekeeper

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2022 25:29


    Hastur had a tough job to do, working for the Interdimensional Immigration Service determining whether witches, gnomes and enchanted teapots get into the USA (Unicorns get in automatically).  Then he is given an ominous warning and must solve it using the main skill he has; beuracracy.

    Micronation - Chapter 18 - Memememememe

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2022 24:04


    Amberlove is rescued by a flood of tiny little cars that also take her on a (larger) car chase.

    Swamp Castle - The Architect of Cool

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2022 22:25


    A mysterious human disrupts daily life in an alien marketplace to benefit all of humanity and the local Warden is determined to find out why.

    Emmit's Corner - Turtlyng Glymer

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 8:07


    The Muse is Dying, Silencing Dissenters, Avoid Tongs Discord Server, Zucker Suckers, Useful Idiots, One Big Happy Beiging Games, Lover's Kiss, The Turtling Glymer

    Micronation - Chapter 17 - Meeting with the Council

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2022 38:48


    The Meme Wars start to get ridiculous as nations begin adding surgically altered Nacroleptics to their executive retinues to protect them from Hler's increasingly agressive memetic tactics.  Desperate to stop it all once and for all, Chester manages to work his way into their inner council hoping to get access to their machine to execute his plan.

    Emmit's Corner - Ghost Fighters in the Sky

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 9:33


    Maybe a Miracle, Burn the World, It Almost Happened Here, Ode to Twitter Support, Here Eyes Are Obsolete, Ghost Fighters in the Sky, Poor Hobo Joe, Fiddling With The Devil

    Swamp Castle - Derpgod

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2022 9:07


    A worm is spared by a normal human but the worm turns and helps the human, albiet extremely reluctantly.

    Emmit's Corner - The Knight of Dreams

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2022 8:43


    Poems: I have a dream, There is a difference, Good vs Evil, Meta Meta Meta, Hierarchy of Values, Knight of Dreams, War Crimes Soufle, Not Leadership

    Micronation - Chapter 16 - Return to Hler

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2022 27:14


    Chester returns to find out that he has a son, and a very very angry mother and populace as he becomes a celebrity and deals with the consequences thereof.

    Swamp Castle - Castles in the Air

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2022 38:16


    Elery is chosen by the elves to learn magic among the poverty and squalor of Spielglass full of humans, but instead they treat her as a glorified pet.  As she learns the truth about herself, she has to get home wiht a little help.

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    Micronation - Chapter 15 - Planning and Execution

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2022 33:24


    Watson and Amberlove take down the Cult of Innocence by using their own paranoia against them.

    Swamp Castle - Abraham Lincoln's Doctor's Direwolf

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2022 11:10


    In an alternate timeline the assassin of Lincoln runs into a four legged suprise he did not expect.

    Emmit's Corner - Sunbonnet Tiger

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 7:15


    Sometimes Words Make Me Stupid, Sunbonnet Tiger, Failure to Comprehend, Double Standard, Tiny LIttle Toy, The Insecurity Council, Patriarch Kirill, Deworming Deplatforming

    Micronation - Chapter 14 - On the Run

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2022 31:01


    Chester is on the run and decides to turn the tables to try and investigate some information on the Col.

    Emmit's Corner - Two Red Wolves

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 8:30


    Not Ash, Two Red Wolves, Pointy Red Shoes, Joker's Punchline, Dumbo the CEO, Did You Read The Bill, Eary Edition, Maga Schizophrenia, The Constitution Is Trash

    Swamp Castle - The Great Zamboni Napping

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2022 22:46


    Two girls steal a Zamboni to save their house from the bank.  All according to prophesy.  Super super super twist ending.

    Emmit's Corner - Prophet's and Sundry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 6:43


    Prophets and Sundry, Crumbling Marble, Cramps to Zuckerberg, The Most Dangerous Time of the Year, the Magic Mirror Gate, All Hail Lord Icecream, Poetic Worship IV - The Voyage Home

    Micronation - Chapter 13 - Hallelujah

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2022 27:35


    Watson returns to the United States only to find out being Duke of Hler has....complications.

    Swamp Castle - Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 25:22


    Mirthy is the last of his caravan to survive and now he must make his way home in hundreds of miles of hostile supernatural forest.  He discovers a secret that is not meant to be found deep in the woods.

    Micronation - Chapter 12 - Old Friends, New Friends

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2022 42:35


    Watson runs into someone from Prison who REALLY REALLY wants to work for him.  There is an attack, and the consequences are deadly.

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