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This week I share how I wasn't able to get the next guest blog post out due to just getting back from vacation. Download the . mp3 Brought to you by: http://www.dandantheartman.com/

TV Memories # 12 by Dan Absalonson This week is by me again and it's audio only. Sorry there is no blog post to go along with it if you prefer reading, but the audio will be a nice change this week as it's not scripted. Just me talking off the cuff about one of my favorite TV memories. I talk about a summer long ago when I sat as a little boy around a small TV with my parents and neighbors watchin...

My novel is a little like this Easter bunny. It's almost done, but there are still a few really good bites left to take care of. I spent a lot of time revising the outline before going back through it. Now I have cut several chapters, moved others around, deleted scenes, written new ones, and planned out a new ending. Even though I'm almost through with revising the first draft, only a few chapter...

TV Memories # 11 I Saw Men Walking on the Moon by Richard Green aka Mainframe On May 25, 1961 President Kennedy said these words, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” On July 20, 1969, a five year old me joined millions of others in watching those words being made real...

TV Memories # 10 by Arlene Radasky My first television memories. Wow, takes me back. I really have a hard time remembering much back that far, but I can remember the hour my brother and I had on weekend nights to watch our programs. We had a tv that has a tiny screen and it was black and white, but the images that came to the screen were fascinating, magic. I had no idea how it worked and didn't c...

TV Memories # 9 By Thomas Reed (AKA Treed) I grew up watching Make Room for Daddy, The Donna Reed Show, Dennis the Menace, Leave It To Beaver, My Three Sons, Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, Red Skelton, Lawrence Welk, Milton Berle, Ozzie and Harriet, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Lost in Space, the Flintstones (when it was a prime time show, not a Saturday morning cartoon),Star Trek, reruns o...

TV Memories # 8 by Justin Macumber Like most Gen-Xers, I grew up on a steady diet of television. Some of my first memories are of watching SUPERMAN in grainy black and white, later graduating to shows like V and KNIGHT RIDER. Really it's no wonder that I became the sci-fi geek I am today. I doubt I had a chance of being anything else. That said, for a long time I never considered television a medi...

TV Memories # 7 by Zach Ricks I'll admit up front this may be a bit of a cheat, but I'm going to defend it because it is about TV. Just… Foreign TV. That I may have watched over the internet. Which brings up an interesting question. What is TV any more? Does netflix count? How about Hulu? iTunes downloads? DVR? Huh. Anyway... I grew up watching Saturday Morning Cartoons, which meant that on any gi...

TV Memories # 6 by Scott Roche I watched a metric butt ton of TV as a kid. I could have given Mike Teavee a run for his money. As a “latchkey” kid who had cable TV when that was something of a rarity, I watched quite the variety of shows. Possibly the best TV memory I have though, from a life full of them, would be weekday afternoon TV from my Elementary School days. I’d get home, sling my books o...

TV Memories # 5 by J.R. Murdock I remember being very young and sitting quite close to the television to watch. It was around that time that my parents realized that I needed glasses. What a difference that made in my television watching experience. But beyond that, I grew up way back in the woods. When I say way back, I mean it. We got four television stations and one was on two of those channels...

TV Memories # 4 by Michell Plested Growing up on the farm, television was always a means to connect with the outside world. We lived more than twenty miles out of town and the nearest neighbor was a couple miles away, so it also served as a social outlet. The fact that we only had three channels for the first several years of my life meant we watched whatever was on at the time and we liked it. Es...

TV Memories # 3 by Tim Ward I could write about living in Korea for six months, and the only thing I could watch was 24 hour loops of UFC fighting (with Korean announcers). I could write how I'd spend hours in the local video store scouring the shelves for anything serviceable to watch. Instead, I think I should write about what happened last night when a friend and I watched the last two episodes...

TV Memories # 2 by Jeff Hite “Good Afternoon Baltimore. It’s 5 o’clock.” I have no idea who he was, or what station he was on but this man was my very first TV Hero. It may sound silly that the anchor for the 5 o’clock news was my hero, but you have to remember I was three at the time, and when he said those words, it meant it was only minutes until my dad came home. And like most three year olds...

TV Memories # 1 by Dan Absalonson The first TV show that made me realize how cool the medium can be is Ed. I was in college and tbs was playing reruns on weekdays. It's the show about the guy who moves back to his home town, buys the bowling alley, and practices as a lawyer from inside its alley filled walls. One of my housemates was really into it and bought a device for his computer to capture e...

I give a brief update on my novel revision and then re broadcast my Christmas story from last year. Enjoy. Download the . mp3 My Info: Blog: http://writingsofdan.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan

When Tammy is house sitting, she get creeped out. She keeps hearing and seeing things in the dark corners of the mansion she is alone in. This time, it's not her imagination. Download the . mp3 Bed Music Attribution: http://www.freesound.org/people/thanvannispen/sounds/30274/ My Info: Blog: http://writingsofdan.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan

In this episode (of the 6 Goals Podcast) I make up for not publishing a podcast in weeks and weeks with a special bonus - a reading from chapter two in my work in progress science ficion novel, and a short running spot. Thanks for sticking around, and I'll keep my schedule of posting every Monday going from now on to the best of my ability. My Info: Blog: http://writingsofdan.blogspot.com/ Twitte...

I had a short story published by an online eZine publisher who runs a short story contest called Fiction Tuesday! It's about soldiers sent to rescue children who have been made soldiers themselves. You can read it on their website or listen to my recording of it with sound effects. I had a blast writing it and putting the recording together, and I think you'll have a blast reading it or listening...

Videogame Memories # 12 GUEST BLOG POST by Laith Preston Thinking back I have a hard time placing what the first video game I played. Computer games of one form or another have been a part of my life for so long that it is hard to pick out when we first met. While considering this many happy memories float to the surface of my mind.   I remember many hours spent with my Mom waiting at the Kan...

Videogame Memories # 12 GUEST BLOG POST by Justin Macumber The earliest writing I ever did were adventures for my friends to play through in Dungeons & Dragons. We were just kids, and we couldn't afford store bought modules, so I saw it as my duty to create stories that we could all have fun with. Plenty of monsters to fight, dastardly arch-villains to overcome, kingdoms to save, and priceless...

I remember “Chrono Trigger.” SPOILER ALERT. Warning. This is a game that was originally released in the US for the SNES in 1995, again for the original PlayStation in 2001, again for the Nintendo DS in 2008, and yet again in May of 2011 for the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console. It’s had such a long life because it is the greatest game ever created for any platform, period. I’ve owned it in at least th...

Videogame Memories # 10 GUEST BLOG POST by Michell Plested ( http://www.michellplested.com/ ) I remember the first time I ever saw a video game at someone’s house. The game was Pong (yes, I know I’m dating myself) and it was in black and white on my aunt’s 20” television. I was amazing; for the first time I could actually interact with something on television. The next ones I remember were at my n...

Videogame Memories # 9 GUEST BLOG POST by Laura Nicole A chick with a game controller is hot... or that's what I was told anyway. I didn't play video games much when I was younger. This is mostly because I was outside rollerblading, camping, or taking my dog Lady for long walks in the woods. When I got older I learned to appreciate the artistry of video games through watching my friends play Final...

Videogame Memories # 8 GUEST BLOG POST by Nathan Lowell Hey everybody, the post for today will be a little different. Nathan Lowell, my favorite podcast novelist, was kind enough to share his video game memories via his daily podcast #TOMMW  (Talking On My Morning Walk). Everyday he goes for a 2 mile walk, and records his thoughts for the day on the second half of that walk. Today he talked a...

Videogame Memories # 7 GUEST BLOG POST by J.R. Murdock I grew up with video games. I think I was 5 when I was first introduced to the PONG console and I could hook up the Atari system to the back of the television by the time I was 7. I watched the games in the bars (yes, I grew up in a town where kids could go the bar) change from Tank and Breakout to Pac Man and Zaxxon. Computers in the schools...