In case you can’t tell by now, we’ve got a lot of these. Here’s a Coulton-only edition.
Is it just us, or does he look a little bit emo in this pic?
Posted September 9th, 2008
Show #005.5: Video!
The sixth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.
Well…sort of.
Paul’s recording rig went kablooey, so it was up to Storm to make good on our commitment to our loyal listeners to deliver a new podcast every Monday night…
Show #005.5: Video! – Quicktime Video (11.5 MB) (Some content NSFW)
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Posted September 8th, 2008
Nature Hike from Hell
As mentioned in Podcast #005, Storm and his wife Gillian stare death in the face on their summer vacation. Mostly SFW (one expletive).
Posted September 6th, 2008
Tying Up a Couple Loose Ends
Before we head into the weekend, there’s a couple things we forgot to take care of…
First of all, it’s been noted that, while we were at Dragon*Con, our touring buddy Jonathan Coulton was at PAX in Seattle, performing with Felicia Day (from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and The Guild). Well, Jonathan’s not the only person who got to share the stage with famous people from the Nettertubes; the audio file below is how we were introduced on Saturday night…
Strong Bad Intro (right-click to “Save Target as…”)
[audio:http://www.paulandstorm.com/sounds/sb-paulstorm.mp3|titles=Strong Bad Intro]
Secondly, we forgot to link to this awesome illustration that Len Peralta did for our latest song, “Cruel Cruel Moon“. Len, as per usual, is awesome.
Posted September 5th, 2008
Song Fu 2, Round 2 Begins
The new challenge has been issued in the Masters of Song Fu songwriting contest, and it’s rife with possibilities:
"Your challenge is to choose a famous inventor and craft a song proposing a “dance craze” based on either the inventor or one of his/her most well known inventions."
Here we go again, folks…
Posted September 5th, 2008
Dragon*Con Rundown
As you may have heard us mention, we spent last weekend at Dragon*Con—and even though we’ve already talked about it in our last podcast, and posted a movie about it, there’s still plenty more we haven’t really properly covered. So, in no particular order…
It bears repeating: Dana Snyder is the life of the party, and the party starts wherever Dana happens to be.
Most popular costume of the weekend seemed to be Dark Knight Joker. But at least one person appears to have come dressed as Storm (see left).
Ken "Plumey" Plume’s Saturday night film fest is reason enough to come to D*C. Obscure Monty Python productions, vintage GI Joe segments, Action Jackson action figure commercials, Dark Place, and I Hanker For a Hunk of Cheese, just to name a few. And they’re all even better when watched along with 300 or so fellow geeks. Click here to see a picture of those who made it all the way to the end (roughly 4 am).
We got some hang time with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff from Cinematic Titanic, and formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000. That’s not particularly interesting, necessarily; we just wanted to drop those names like we’re so damn cool.
Sunday afternoon’s "Nuts on the Road" British-style panel/quiz show was a brilliantly entertaining trainwreck experience. Doc Hammer has no "off" button, and it’s a beautiful thing. Paul’s team (Paul, John "Widgett" Robinson and Robert Llewellyn) lost spectacularly to Storm’s team (Storm, Doc and Dana Snyder), though Paul and Widge are currently completing the paperwork to institute a mandatory recount. By the way, does anyone have video of the whole panel? We only got the last 30 minutes or so, and would love to get copy of the first half.
And now, we are afraid we must report some very sad news…the audience at our Saturday concert shattered the record for thrown panties (which, oddly enough, had been held by Atlanta), with 30 pairs. Unfortunately, when packing up that night, we neglected to take them with us. By the time we realized our mistake, the panties had disappeared. We believe they were either thrown out, or are sitting in the bedroom of one very lucky Hyatt hotel worker somewhere. Double-unfortunately, this also means that we didn’t get a chance to catalog them for the Gallery of Thrown Panties. This makes us very sad, especially since many/most of them appeared to have personalized messages. Luckily, we have found a reasonable facsimile of them (see right).
In all, a completely enjoyable experience. Huge thanks to our "patrons," Ken Plume of Quick Stop Entertainment and "Widgett" Walls of Needcoffee.com. Thanks, guys, for sheperding us through the Valley of the Shadow of Geeks, coming out safely (if extremely tired) on the other side.
Posted September 5th, 2008
What’s The Baby Using? – Dragon*Con 2008
A good question. One that has been asked before. Several times over, actually.
Now, we ask it of the various attendees of Dragon*Con 2008. Who will win: good, evil, or celebrities?
Posted September 3rd, 2008
Some Notes About Our Podcast
Now that you’re aware of Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), we thought we’d make note of a few things. The format is still evolving somewhat; but we have developed a few…well, maybe not rules, but…call them “operating principles.” We’re listing them here (and updating them as necessary) so that we don’t have to go back over any of them every time we do the show.
So then; until we arbitrarily change them:
- Barring schedule conflicts, we will always attempt to record the show on Monday evenings, and release it as soon as it’s edited and ready (usually late Monday evenings or Tuesday mornings)
- The intro music will always be “The By Cracky Beat” from Lowney’s Chocolates. (Find the song and more info here)
- The outro music will always be “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” by the Tom-Terry Trio
- We assume that, if you’re listening to the podcast, you have at least a basic familiarity with us, our music, and what we do. If you don’t, please see the Paul and Storm FAQ
- We may occasionally play our own music, but probably rarely, and always for “a good reason”
- We make more than occasional references to Jonathan Coulton, who we sometimes travel with and open for. If for some odd reason you don’t know who he is, his website is here
- We also sometimes reference the BOB & TOM syndicated radio show, which you should visit here
- “Poochie” refers to other people talking about us, which we discuss in detail in Episode 001
- “Acknowledgment Day” is September 2 (discussed in Episode 006), and represents the date on which Felicia Day acknowledged our existence. That having happened, we declared a new goal: having Paul McCartney notice us, by way of Joss Whedon. The numbers in “Whedon Watch” and “McCartney Watch” represent the level of seismic activity that might lead to us achieving each goal.
- Donations sent to the podcast will go towards recording costs, pizza, and other things that we need or like. In return, you have our eternal gratitude.
- Yes, we are aware that the show is longer than 5-10 minutes (actual time = 15-20 min); enough with the emails already. If you need a proper justification, then the 5-10 minutes (on average) refers to how long we discuss any one topic.
Posted September 2nd, 2008
Show #005: Hiking Song Fu Dragon Schmoe-y Schmoe-Head
The fifth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.
In this episode, we recap our world travels, crow about our Song Fu victory, debrief about Dragon*Con, drop some names, Paul tries to quash cool and attempts (unsuccessfully) to clear up the whole “Felicia Day” thing, and the gremlin in Storm’s phone acts up again.
Outro music: “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” – Tom-Terry Trio; “Stout Hearted Men” – Shooby Taylor
Show #005: Hiking Song Fu Dragon Schmoe-y Schmoe-Head (Some content NSFW)
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.paulandstorm.com/podcasts/PS_5-10_005.mp3]Enjoy the podcast? Maybe donate, why don’tcha?
Posted September 2nd, 2008
New Podcast Coming Tomorrow
Apologies for those impatient folks among you…the newest Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average) episode will go online sometime tomorrow morning (probably late-morning EST); we’re just too tired to edit this thing tonight.
But to make up for it, something else cool will be going online later tomorrow, as well. Trust us, it’s cool.
Thank you for understanding.
Posted September 1st, 2008
