We felt a great disturbance in the Force yesterday. It turns out that’s because actor James Earl Jones had died at the age of 93. You can read obituaries and remembrances from: Jones was a phenomenal actor, full stop. And his presence in the American theater (touched on in several of the pieces above), deserve…
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Some of our favorite productions have been the two shows we’ve been able to do in front of a live audience. You can check out the recordings from 2018 and 2019. One of the aspects of doing audio fiction live is doing the sound effects live… and here, the appearance of the noisemakers are almost…
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For those of you who want something spooky to listen to versus watch — or if you just want something a bit more abstract horror rather than TV-MA-wow-the-prothetics-team-outdid-themselves than our previous mention, we have something that should cover your whole evening passing out candy to ghosts and goblins coming to your door. We’ve long touted the…
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What with it being Halloween today, we’re thinking about all things spooky, so we wanted to to share some of the things we’ve been watching and listening to this season in the Tulgey Wood. Given how many stories by the O.G. (original ghoulish) writer Edgar Allan Poe we’ve done for our series Through a Glass, Darkly,…
Read MoreSo while we’re working away at the next set of stories from the Tygerverse, this Zach Snyder-sized slice of space opera dropped on the Interwebs with the promise of a holiday release (for part 1, anyway). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHLOXbFZtI If you’re like us, you got Star Wars vibes before you even saw the women with the, um,…
Read MoreIf you’re one of our patrons on Patreon, you’ll know all the different influences that go into making our shows, many of which come from vintage radio and film. Bjorn Munson also has a frankly disturbing zeal for Star Trek, so he made sure to share this mash-up of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and…
Read MoreWhat with the casting going on for our show Quorum, we have secret societies on our mind, but what about the actual ones? As Jackie Mansky writes for Smithsonian magazine, actual secret societies are often centered around good causes (certainly as far as the members are concerned). Not only that, but these days, they’re not…
Read MoreA lot of us here in Deepest Springfield are obsessed with accents. How do we do a good Scouse accent so no one will think it’s Geordie? But with that obsession is also learning about the history of accents and how things shift. So we’re doing some research for some scripts that raise the question…
Read MoreWe posted about the upcoming TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s influential Foundation series just a little over a year ago. Well, we’ve got a date when the series premieres on its requisite streaming service (September 24th, 2021 on Apple TV+) and we have a brand new trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvOAA1U0li8 As a reminder, the Foundation series was…
Read MoreWe’d heard about species of radiation-loving fungus in relation to Chernobyl in the past, but this article by Stephen Johnson in Big Think explains how they’ve been testing it on the International Space Station. Specifically, they’ve been testing it with the idea that some form of this radiotrophic fungus could help shield astronauts bound for Mars….
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