Archive for March, 2008

Show031: Interview with Julia Bond Ellingboe

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Show031: Interview with Julia Bond Ellingboe       (<—–Click this link to listen!!)

This is another interview that happened at Dreamation. This time it’s with Julia Bond Ellingboe creator of the slave narrative game, “Steal Away Jordan.” I typically am not terribly nervous or worried doing an interview, but I was a bit concerned doing this one. Being a bald, facial tattooed white guy I’m typically seen by default as a racist by society. That being said I approached Julia to discuss her game after playing a demo with her at Gen Con 2007. (Please note, don’t post in that thread it’s old and dead.) One of the reasons was the content of the game, but the other reason was because Julia seemed to just accept me as a person, and made me think we could have this discussion without a lot of stereotyping coming into play.

Here’s a link to a bunch of The Whitest Kids You Know videos that I mention in the podcast.

Show030: Mutualism is dead?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Show030: Mutualism is dead?

Here’s the first of those issue based podcasts I’ve been talking about. In this show I have Vincent Baker, Luke Crane, and my occasionally interrupting self, discussing Mutualism and whether it’s dead in the Indie-Punk scene. I came in with the dead opinion, but this discussion convinced me I was wrong. Not just that I was wrong, but that my opinion might be a bit insulting considering the help that is available to me. I realized I  just haven’t asked many people for help. I’d love to hear what other folks think. I’ll add the link to the interviews Luke is doing, which is mentioned at the beginning of the podcast as soon as I know that he has them up.

Show029: Interview with Vincent Baker

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Show029: Inteview with Vincent Baker

Here’s the follow up interview I did with Vincent Baker somewhat based on feedback folks gave to Show025. I will at some point have a link to the interview Luke Crane did with Vincent right before this interview, that is mentioned at the beginning. For the record it’s not me being lazy. This time…. I think Luke hasn’t finished editing them yet. They’ll be somewhere around see pagexx. Wow, four links. I’m tired. Let me know if this interview helped alleviate your questions.

Show028: Interview with Jason Walters

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Show028: Interview with Jason Walters

This is the last of the Gen Con interviews, and the last of the Ashcan Front interviews to boot. I talk with Jason Walters about his game, “You Brought This On Yourself,” a game based in Slasher film fiction. I recorded this Gen Con Sunday, and I think we could have gone a bit longer but I was trying to get done in time to also meet Kevin Allen Jr. I think. I didn’t make it. It’s a shame as I think we were just starting to move to some interesting territory. Although I do believe there is some really interesting stuff in the interview especially when Jason hits on different deconstructions of slasher movies. I know I had never really considered them very deeply until after talking with him.