CBS Radio Workshop: Sounds of a Nation

Sounds of a Nation

An attempt to present the history of the US through the characteristic sounds of each era.

It's interesting how they acknowledge the existence of Native Americans (as saviors and threats) while still claiming the land the Americans were pouring into was empty.

CBS Radio Workshop: King of the Cats (based on a story by Stephen Vincent Benét)

King of the Cats

A young American man, having in his mind claimed a Siamese woman as his own, takes great offense to her irritating display of free will as expressed in her attraction to a visiting foreigner who not only has the effrontery to be a foreign sort of foreigner but who also has a tail. His plan to discredit his rival works only too well.

This ... has not aged very well.

Interestingly, Benét is the one who transformed the Rape of the Sabine Women into the basis for the comedy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

CBS Radio Workshop: A Psychological Account of the Do-It-Yourself Movement

A Psychological Account of the Do-It-Yourself Movement

The doleful tale of how a man was launched into the self-destructive lifestyle of a DIYer through the seemingly harmless decision to build a book shelf.

British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Late June New Releases f/m

British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Late June New Releases

Total   Female Male  Unknown   F/T    Notes
 22        2    19      1      .09    M. Sudain?

Resnick replies

Some comments by Resnick on the Bulletin situation, as relayed by Vox Day

In Canada under Harper regime, major urban center may be blacked out for months

Power issues in Calgary could continue for weeks or months: Director of Calgary Emergency Management Agency Bruce Burrell.

It gets worse from there.

Orchestrated sexual harassment at A-KON

A-Kon is America's oldest annual anime convention. But when it convened for the 24th time in Dallas over the weekend, it had new problems to contend with, as its cosplayers ran headlong into a trolling attempt designed to tap into the ongoing tensions surrounding sexism and women in geek culture.

The tactic? The Twitter hashtags #Gropecrew and #Rapecrew, a concerted effort to troll A-kon attendees by threatening them with sexual assault and physical violence.