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Cheryl Interviews John Anealio, which is NOT his real name

Posted on October 9 2012 by Justin | 5 Comments

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I met first encounted John Anealio on The Functional Nerds podcast, which I encountered as a result of the SF Signal podcast. I found him engaging and all together worth listening to. It wasn’t for a while that I realized he was also the man behind the (in)famous rendition of “George R.R. Martin is Not Your Bitch“. He subsequently invited me to join him on the FN podcast. We began a sweet, and respectful, eFriendship.

Then, I had the pleasure of meeting him at Balticon this past May. Although he was chronically exhausted the entire con, we talked about a bunch of things, I watched him perform live, and we recorded another episode of the FN podcast along with one of my favorite science fiction authors, T.C. McCarthy.

But, despite my friendship with Anealio, I couldn’t be bothered to interview him. I had to wash my hair. So I asked my assistant Cheryl to have a chat with him about his new album, Laser Zombie Robot Love, and some.

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Find Me in Other Places on the Interweb

Posted on June 6 2012 by Justin | 2 Comments

Aidan Moher, of genre super blog A Dribble of Ink, has invited me syndicate reviews on his site. The first one, my early review of Alastair Reynolds’ Blue Remembered Earth, went live yesterday, coinciding with the novel’s US release date.

As a prolific reviewer, something Aidan doesn’t do as often as he’d like, I’m hoping to give his readers more frequent input on new releases and the occasional back list title. A Dribble of Ink will be running a few of my reviews every month, typically a week or two after they run here. For those who read me frequently, this won’t impact a thing, but hopefully it exposes me to some new readers from among Aidan’s legion.

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In other news, last week while I was at Balticon, John Anealio of The Functional Nerds asked me to sit in on the podcast for an interview with Compton Crook Award Winner, T.C.

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Podcasting – The Functional Nerds

Posted on April 3 2012 by Justin | 3 Comments

Last week, the Functional Nerds invited me on their podcast to talk about book blogging. Paul Weimer, of SF Signal and overlord of commenting on blogs everywhere, joined me, along with hosts Patrick Hester and John Anealio. We talked for exactly 42 minutes about a host of things, like how awesome I am (that didn’t really happen), why we blog, and how good Elizabeth Bear’s new novel, Range of Ghosts, is. I hope you’ll download it, or stream it. If it gets enough downloads my review will be done in interpretive dance and filmed.

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