The Overnightscape #765 (1/3/09) 8.2
- January 4th, 2009
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The Overnightscape #765 (1/3/09) 8.2 (2:02:00 / 111 MB)
The Overnightscape Underground – January 2009 – Track 2
“Your Late Night Broadcast” online at onsug.com
Created by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) in New Jersey, USA
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Tonight’s subjects include: Blank spot on bulletin board, end of The Overnightscape Calendar tradition, the feeling that it’s already been 2009 for a long time, time travel, Large Hadron Collider, time loop, zonked out on the couch, confused by “Bubble Boy”, Howard Stern, a weird dream (“Race Track / Lincoln Tunnel”), looking around The Overnightscape Studio, tons of boxes of stuff, an ancient tape recorder, being a packrat, time anomalies, uses of a time machine, candy review (“Godiva Chocolatier Nut and Caramel Assortment”), MyFonts.com. the fonts ITC Symbol and ITC Novarese, Aldo Novarese, the story of Lady Godiva, taxation, got sidetracked, creative work, writing in notebooks, getting storage units, new year’s resolution – deal with the stuff (as a part of the show), preserving content for the future, artwork, the idea of giving away stuff from the studio, The Overnightscape Forum, looking in a drawer, misprinted business cards, Chartres labyrinth, the Amber series of books by Roger Zelazny, idea of an Overnightscape convention, magazines, voted for Frank Moore, Essex County, Luver.com, Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs shirt, Steve and Barry’s University Sportswear, Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, cereal characters, the idea of an animated feature film featuring all the breakfast cereal mascots, Cocoa Puffs commercials, Kaboom cereal, Space Shuttle Challenger jokes, The Monsters Go Disco, Fruit Brute, beverage review (Kaboom Infinite Wellness – “Orange_Passion”, “Pomegranate_Berry”), Brand X, Vigilantes of Good, voice in cup, phone call, natural flavors, area code 765 in Indiana, Andy Kaufman, cool stuff coming up on The Overnightscape Underground, Yellow Denim Arcade, Mappy as Micro Police, Elevator Action, playing the video game “Stocker” by Sente, go, FOW, Fuzzy Daupner at Tierney’s, Possible Calhoun, Perfect Gambler, IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), new variation of Shufflin’ Jamboree, Winter Fragrances, Real Simple Magazine, Tokyo Milk, The Alan Parsons Project, Eric Woolfson, Shock Treatment on Sansa Shaker, Look What I Did To My Id, NAVA Meeting, Wham-O Fluid Fantasy, Magic Window, Andy Kaufman Chatroom, and a card game review (“Ligretto”).
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License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com
The show was great! Would love to get OverNightScape goodies. Too bad I live so far away 🙁 I wouldn’t be able to make it to NY if you had some kind of conference like you talked about on this show. No worries though! Your audio show is all I need 🙂 Looking forward to the next release!
In 1990, I was doing college radio at WMSC-FM with some friends at Montclair State. I thought it would be fun to do a weekly radio serial, reminiscent of the 1940’s, but I needed a topic. My sister suggested making it about someone who was half man and half groundhog.
We quickly created “Groundhog Man,” which became a bit of a parody of Batman (coming on the heels of the 1989 film). Being that it was a “serial,” we set the story in “Cereal City,” and had appearances from such cereal characters as Cap’n Crunch and Lucky the Leprechaun. Once we had a villain called The Giggler (sort of a parody of The Riddler, who would torture his victims by popping balloons and laughing incessantly at them). When Groundhog Man saved the day, The Giggler was revealed to be Sonny the Cuckoo Bird.
We only did six episodes, with one of them being a complete diversion from the story and instead simply being a recording of a fictitious band called “Pizza,” because it was EXHAUSTING to produce these episodes with all of the sound & music effects, and editing on reel-to-reel machines. I used to have them on cassette somewhere, but I have no idea where they are. Unfortunately I believe they are lost forever. If by some miracle I ever come across them, you’d be more than welcome to preserve them in the archives of ONSUG, if you like!
There should indeed be an “ONS Con” or “Ramplercon” or something! ;^)