When we're not doing the show or writing, we're talking about the show. Observe:

Logan - I mean, the whole point is keeping the segments snappy.

Logan - With a thing like a writing show, the number one thing I want to avoid is going off on long-winded bits of just talking.

Logan - Which is why a minimum of two hosts, wishing for three, really. The hopeless romantic, the raving womanizing drunk, and either the matronly hot girl, or the Word Whore-type.

Will - Hey, wait. That's uncalled for. I'm not "raving."

Unfortunately, we were unable to link up for Misnomer #5 on Thursday. We had hoped to get it in before relatives could come in and make recording a little awkward (how do you tell your grandparents to hush up while you have a conversation with a computer about women and books?), but Will's connection, as we've discussed before, is having bouts with homosexuality, and thus made it impossible to record until Friday, in which it was already too late, and we decided to just hold off until after the holidays, unless by some miracle (it is the birth of God we're supposed to be celebrating) we manage to get a couple of hours to get Will liquored up and myself ready to chat.

So, instead, I'll just throw a couple of links out here to shows I've recently been listening to, enjoy, and think you may as well, and hope that you come back a little later after the holidays for when we get back into the show.

Next Week's Primary Topic: "Trying Too Hard"

Red Bar Radio - the alternative to Stern, with a bit more brain to it. Very much in touch with the fan base.

Gamers With Jobs Radio - for the more (im)mature gaming enthusiasts.

Air Out My Shorts - Good stuff, making fun of other writers. Good times!

I figured it would only be appropriate for me to write my first blog entry 'round these parts whilest entirely blitzed. It has been a good night, and I have been celebrating. In the midst of a conversation I had this evening, I came up with a response to accusations about my alcoholism. "I'm only an alcoholic if I'm miserable." As long as I continue to be the merry drunk I currently am, I don't really see any drawbacks. Aside from that whole "liver" thing, that is. But that's what the black market's for.

Clearly Will becomes more open with his alcoholism with each and every show. Naturally, the first step toward fixing the problem is admitting you have one.

In my berating of writers workshops, I forgot to mention some writing podcasts that are cool to listen to, and incredibly, incredibly helpful. I'll list them here and now, but expect for me to reiterate this to you in next week's show, perhaps even with promos of said show. First is Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing, who has as impressive a rejection collection as ours, and certainly sounds way too sweet to commiserate with lunatics like ourselves.

Second podcast comes out of an author that I have grown up reading, Michael A. Stackpole's The Secrets, and while every once in a while his information does go into the genre part of the business (there are some slight differences), 99.9% of the podcast is something You Need To Hear.

Currently I'm breaking from camping out for an XBOX 360 - to sell, and thus acquire great riches to purchase my baby, so I may have something more substantial later. But for now, I have coffee to brew, a novel to read, and one to write.

--Logan

TV Writers Wired article: (link)

Writers Guild of America (link)

Craig Clevenger (link)

PodSafe Music Network: (link)

World / Inferno Friendship Society: (link)

Matthew Ebel (link)

Sunspot (link)

TV Stealth Advertising, What We're Writing, Writers Groups, Top 3 Movies to Seduce a Woman, and more.

Over AOL IM, as we discussing my editing of Episode Four: logan: I must be exahusted, because we're actually funny. Will: Bitch, I am always funny

Fear not, for we have finished recording Episode Four tonight.

We'll have it for you on time. You should make note of this, for it may never happen again. Especially if Will dies.

--Logan

Just as an FYI: We do plan on recording tonight, but there are some provisions that must be followed for recording to happen.

The Party Rule: states that if one or more hosts has a function to attend to, be it a house party, or a lady-friend call, or anything of that party nature, said host(s) is/are exempt from recording.

So, in essence - if we don't record tonight, one of us got drunk or laid. So be happy even if we don't record.

So, when discussing one's own co-host, there does tend to be a certain level of decorum; you tread a line, or else you may do the equivalent of kicking your professor in the balls a day before grades are due. Sometimes you just have to let some things go. After all, he is coming back to work in the morning, right?

Questions have been asked, mostly in secret, as if someone were to nudge me in a bookstore, let's say Borders, and whisper about whatever I have in my hand while those around us speak on their cell phones at normal volume. Yes, the man really did drink, and no, the game was not planned. In fact, the "Fuck" rule, if you will, did not come into fruition until the words were in the process of exiting my mouth. We're doing, like, radio now. I don't seem to remember planning being a crucial ingredient. In fact, from what I hear, anything beyond an outline, or a note written on the back of your notepad for Chemistry 1A, is sort of discouraged.

Of course, introductions on the show need no explanation. It is indeed true, that Will is capable of finding a mate - in the carnal sense - if he so desires, for reasons that, to you or I or God, shall forever remain mysterious. I mean, hair, man. Had I known that the "chicks" "dig" a rodent springing forth out of my scalp, I would have bought Rogaine in greater quantities than those of the meth-making persuasion could of Sudafed, et al. Am I making this clear? This is an issue shrouded in mystery.

In Episode Two - no, not that one - I mentioned Max Barry's blog, and since we're going to be using this a little more, I'll go ahead and link it, not that he will actually notice a one, perhaps two, person increase in traffic.

I seriously doubt we will ever be given a chance to thank Jack Thompson for contributing to the content of the show as much as he has. Ten minutes left? We're good. We pull him out of our back pocket, like, like a Visa, but never can it be maxed out.

--Logan

Neilsen Ratings, Video Games Laws, Shadow of the Colossus, GUN, Top Three Books to Read Between Semesters...

"Since I'm drunk, I'm gonna watch Sky High. I'd probably like it sober, but at least this way, I have an excuse."

Our very own Will Garroutte, ladies and gentlemen.