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Green Pill Secret: Leaving Home

TimeHorse December 14, 2024 No Comments

As we close out another season of the Green Pill Secret, we wanted to go out with some hope of a greater future. Yesterday, I got a call from an employer who wanted to offer me a job in San Antonio, and while the pay would be less, so would the cost of living, and when I quitted my last job I celebrate change. And after being scammed, I’m kind of itching to get out of the DMV and all its lack of romantic opportunities.

All that said, I got a letter from the FAA extending my license through 2025 and I’m sure as heck going to continue my studies when I get down there!

And I can continue running the Science Book Club and Reston Writers and Doctor Who Anonymous from there thanks to Zoom, as well as attend my Westminster Astronomical Society meetings, as I did from Austin last April.

So, it looks like (with all due respect to The Beatles) He’s Leaving Home, bye bye!

The Green Pill Secret: Convention Roundtable, Part 2

TimeHorse September 29, 2024 No Comments

In the second part of our Convention Roundtable, we go through how we all got here. We begin by embarrassing Gracie by talking about how she grew up on the convention circuit. Lawrence Neals then talks about his convention experience and what it’s like now with money. Then Alex Boruff chimes in with how much fun he has coming to these conventions. Cat tells us all about how she got into the convention scene. And finally, I talk about how my Mom was part of the Mark Twain Masquers and how I went to conventions at a young age in both Connecticut and Montréal, and then founded the Northern Virginia Doctor Who Viewing Society in 1999, then did a bunch of Electric Car events and got into cosplay—beginning with Ian Chesterton, and most recently in a Fuck Yeah!, complete with Pornstashe—and finally back into the Doctor Who conventions with the Convention which shall not be named, where I met Cat and eventually started attending L.I. Who.

As before, the audio quality is frankly atrocious. I’ve done my best to clean it up but me thinks short of magical computer code, this is the best I can do. I think I’ve boosted the audio of our guests as best I can and since even I find them still relatively unintelligible, even subtitles are out of the question.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the special crawl at the beginning to bring you up to speed, and may the Force Be With You, until next time!