Author Topic: PC136: The Christmas Mummy  (Read 22374 times)

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Reply #25 on: January 03, 2011, 11:10:04 PM
Humorous.  I got a few chuckles out of it.  Personally, I didn't think it was as good as the past Murr stories for Christmas.



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Reply #26 on: January 04, 2011, 03:23:16 AM
Personally, I didn't think it was as good as the past Murr stories for Christmas.

Actually, Podcastle has never really run a Christmas story before!  It's Escape Pod that had the tradition of Mur written Christmas yarns...  Of course, now that Mur is the editor of EP, I don't think she'll be buying any Christmas stories from herself.  So maybe she'll submit one to Podcastle next year...



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Reply #27 on: January 07, 2011, 04:07:30 AM
This story could have been read by Ben Stein and still been entertaining. However, the great voice work of Rish was the extra kick the story needed to turn normal coffee into the hilarious Irish coffee that the dad loved so much.

Fantastic work to all, and thanks to the PodCastle team for bringing this story to us.



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Reply #28 on: January 09, 2011, 03:56:09 AM
Listened to this one again just last night, this time with my wife. Pure pleasure! And it was wonderful to share it with someone.


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Reply #29 on: January 12, 2011, 03:30:10 PM
Pure lighthearted joy. As J. T. Evans said above, this story didn't need a great reading to be entertaining, but it got a great reading, which just made it much more delightful.



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Reply #30 on: January 20, 2011, 09:21:38 PM
Personally, I didn't think it was as good as the past Murr stories for Christmas.

Actually, Podcastle has never really run a Christmas story before!  It's Escape Pod that had the tradition of Mur written Christmas yarns...  Of course, now that Mur is the editor of EP, I don't think she'll be buying any Christmas stories from herself.  So maybe she'll submit one to Podcastle next year...

I believe I remember someone suggesting that EP run Steve Eley Christmas stories every year, since Mur was now the editor...

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Reply #31 on: January 21, 2011, 01:32:04 PM
I believe I remember someone suggesting that EP run Steve Eley Christmas stories every year, since Mur was now the editor...

I may be wrong, but I don't believe Steve Eley is writing fiction these days.



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Reply #32 on: January 24, 2011, 07:44:49 PM
I believe I remember someone suggesting that EP run Steve Eley Christmas stories every year, since Mur was now the editor...

I may be wrong, but I don't believe Steve Eley is writing fiction these days.

Be that as it may, it would be a nice role reversal.

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Reply #33 on: January 24, 2011, 11:02:36 PM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.



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Reply #34 on: January 24, 2011, 11:07:16 PM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.

I've got to tell you, Rish (and not just because you did an excellent job with my The Invisible Kingdom on the Dunesteef *cough* shameless self promotion *cough*), but I always enjoy your narration. You have a remarkably flexible voice and you do wonderful things with it on a regular basis. Not only do you regularly produce a brilliant full cast audio fiction podcast, stories narrated by you alone sound almost exactly like full cast themselves. You're really good.

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Reply #35 on: January 24, 2011, 11:11:29 PM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.

I've got to tell you, Rish (and not just because you did an excellent job with my The Invisible Kingdom on the Dunesteef *cough* shameless self promotion *cough*), but I always enjoy your narration. You have a remarkably flexible voice and you do wonderful things with it on a regular basis. Not only do you regularly produce a brilliant full cast audio fiction podcast, stories narrated by you alone sound almost exactly like full cast themselves. You're really good.

Indeed.  While I didn't like the lisp in this particular situation, in general I think Rish is one of the best narrators/voice actors around, particularly in terms of flexibility and variety.



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Reply #36 on: January 25, 2011, 12:34:06 AM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.

I've got to tell you, Rish (and not just because you did an excellent job with my The Invisible Kingdom on the Dunesteef *cough* shameless self promotion *cough*), but I always enjoy your narration. You have a remarkably flexible voice and you do wonderful things with it on a regular basis. Not only do you regularly produce a brilliant full cast audio fiction podcast, stories narrated by you alone sound almost exactly like full cast themselves. You're really good.

Indeed.  While I didn't like the lisp in this particular situation, in general I think Rish is one of the best narrators/voice actors around, particularly in terms of flexibility and variety.

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Reply #37 on: January 25, 2011, 01:40:42 AM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.

I'm actually a little jealous of your versatility! It ain't easy for one person to get character differentiation in a story like that -- you made it sound easy. Masterfully done!

Also... I keep hearing of this "Dunesteef" thing. Maybe I should check it out...


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Reply #38 on: January 25, 2011, 02:11:28 AM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.

I'm actually a little jealous of your versatility! It ain't easy for one person to get character differentiation in a story like that -- you made it sound easy. Masterfully done!

Also... I keep hearing of this "Dunesteef" thing. Maybe I should check it out...

The most recent two stories are super-awesome!!!!!11eleven


(Note: One is mine and one is my buddy ElectricPaladin's, in case people weren't paying attention.  Mark's is pretty rad, though.)



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Reply #39 on: January 25, 2011, 02:15:35 AM
I really appreciate the compliments about my narration.  Maybe the lisp was a little annoying, but it's what I chose to do so the kids wouldn't sound alike.

I'm used to the full-cast type of readings, so when faced with the challenge of voicing several characters at once, I tried to determine how each would speak, and make them sound identifiably different from one another.

I'm my own harshest critic, however, so I hope I get another chance to read a story, to see if I can fix the flaws I picked up on when I listened to it.

I'm actually a little jealous of your versatility! It ain't easy for one person to get character differentiation in a story like that -- you made it sound easy. Masterfully done!

Also... I keep hearing of this "Dunesteef" thing. Maybe I should check it out...

The most recent two stories are super-awesome!!!!!11eleven


(Note: One is mine and one is my buddy ElectricPaladin's, in case people weren't paying attention.  Mark's is pretty rad, though.)

Nah. Mine's ok, but Nathan's is much better.

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Reply #40 on: January 25, 2011, 02:22:22 AM
Yours is shorter.  People have limited attention spans.



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Reply #41 on: January 25, 2011, 04:24:54 PM
Also... I keep hearing of this "Dunesteef" thing. Maybe I should check it out...

You should.  It's a lot of fun.  I also liked the recent two by Scattercat and Electric Pallidin.  Another favorite was Tattletale by Christopher Fisher.

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Reply #42 on: January 26, 2011, 05:37:23 PM

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Reply #43 on: January 26, 2011, 08:11:02 PM

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Reply #44 on: January 26, 2011, 10:49:44 PM

Here. Here.

Where? Where?

Hear, hear.

That's what I was getting at. It sets my teeth on edge when people get it wrong.
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Reply #45 on: January 27, 2011, 03:43:30 AM
Here. Here.
Where? Where?
Hear, hear.
That's what I was getting at. It sets my teeth on edge when people get it wrong.

Me too.  I was cheering you.  :)

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Reply #46 on: January 27, 2011, 02:59:07 PM
Here. Here.
Where? Where?
Hear, hear.
That's what I was getting at. It sets my teeth on edge when people get it wrong.

Me too.  I was cheering you.  :)

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Reply #47 on: January 27, 2011, 03:08:10 PM
Here. Here.
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Hear, hear.
That's what I was getting at. It sets my teeth on edge when people get it wrong.

Me too.  I was cheering you.  :)

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Reply #48 on: January 27, 2011, 03:26:01 PM
Here. Here.
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Hear, hear.
That's what I was getting at. It sets my teeth on edge when people get it wrong.

Me too.  I was cheering you.  :)

I stand corrected.  Thank you sirs. :)

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Reply #49 on: January 27, 2011, 04:24:44 PM
I stand corrected.  Thank you sirs. :)

Just don't say "case and point" or "for all intensive purposes", or we will be fighting. :P

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