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So are we going to get some hard nosed campaign coverage of the race for mayor between Hiram McDaniels and the Faceless Old Woman? I'd love to hear Cecil burnish his Serious Journalist credentials and moderate a debate. Pulitzer committee? Are you listening to this? (Do they give out Pulitzers for radio journalism?)
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De Nomolos posted:On Episode 3 now. If I could manage it at work, I'd be much further along. This question comes up a lot and the answer is that there really isn't anything. The closest thing out there might be the Best Show Gems, insofar as Scharpling and Wurster have created a world unto itself in the city of Newbridge, NJ, with it's own politics, culture, landscape, in jokes, and history. But the tone is dramatically different (no creepiness, much more absurd, a lot of punk rock/indie comedy/Best Show in jokes). If you go a little ways back into the Gems archives (about 6 months ago IIRC), you'll find the Newbridge Mayubernatorial Debate, which features like 12 Wurster characters and is easily one of the best things the Best Show has ever done, and a decent-ish introduction to what that portion of The Best Show is all about.
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Jul 1, 2013 23:28
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It's now #2 in Comedy. Michael Ian Black, be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
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Jul 3, 2013 02:25
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Also number 11 overall! Just need to knock off Alton Brown to crack the top 10. His fondness for wheat and wheat by-products will surely be his undoing.
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Jul 4, 2013 14:59
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dj_clawson posted:This is incredible. Also, is there a wiki for this poo poo yet? It's just begging for a wiki. http://nightvale.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Night_Vale_Wiki There's not much there at the moment.
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Jul 5, 2013 02:34
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 Cracked the top 10!
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Jul 7, 2013 05:14
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maxnmona posted:Also, you might remember we were very excited about getting 150,000 downloads our first year. We've gotten 100,000 downloads in just the last six days. Yesterday we had 20,000. Is it just that the tumblr set has latched on that's causing this latest blow up?
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Jul 9, 2013 15:29
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maxnmona posted:, for awhile, all podcasts on iTunes, You're still there at #10 according to my iTunes. Or back up there. Either way. Top 10. Kinda excited to see where you end up in a week when a new episode hits with all this momentum.
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Jul 9, 2013 15:37
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I wonder if any real sponsors would buy one of the existing ad spots that Cecil does; I.E., the sort of ads we already here, but with whoever paid for it getting the totally non-sequitur name drop. I doubt Subway would pay for "Devour your own heart", but I could've seen Subservient Chicken-era Burger King marketing wanting in.
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Jul 14, 2013 01:41
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burnsep posted:If someone hasn't done it yet, we need a new version of the "if you see something, say something" campaign posters, adapted to "If you See something, say nothing and drink to forget". There's like a dozen of those on the fan art compilation tumblr.
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Jul 15, 2013 18:28
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Earwicker posted:I love it but my favorite is still the stuff that looks like 1960's public safety/propaganda posters, those are absolutely perfect. Yeah, more than any Night Vale art, I would probably pay good money for just like... a coffee table book of these. I find most representational fanart (character portraits, etc.) to be kind of boring/uninteresting, but I love in-universe advertisements, posters, design type stuff for some reason. Edit: There have been some great ones in the past few days: http://kazuos.tumblr.com/post/56929876368 http://bagelartnstuff.tumblr.com/post/56915907777/welcome-to-night-vale-pilot http://musain.tumblr.com/tagged/nightvalepr I love the Hiram McDaniels for mayor poster so much. Chevy Slyme fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Good ep! Just a few thoughts: Lists are awesome, stop hating.
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Aug 2, 2013 03:34
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Roach Warehouse posted:I imagine licensing issues make it unfeasible, but I'd love to see a "Best of The Weather" album in the store someday. Tumblr has just kind of decided that Cecil has three eyes. Sometimes Tumblr just collectively decides on a particular look for something for some reason. It took them a while to decide that Carlos wasn't white, but they eventually figured that one out.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:55
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Earwicker posted:
I've always understood 'Hispanic' to include both Spanish and Portuguese colonial countries - anyone with ancestry/linguistic ties to the Iberian peninsula. Is that wrong?
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I just see a radio person and think "...huh. Wouldn't have guessed that" except Ira Glass, who looks exactly like one would expect). Ira Glass: 
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Sep 1, 2013 02:44
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Annakie posted:Here's a link to the article about the NPR interview but the audio isn't up yet. It now no longer says it's going up soon, and instead simply says 'unavailiable.'
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Sep 1, 2013 05:45
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Tumblr gonna Tumbl.
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iostream.h posted:*ahem* Not sure, but do you mind if I pass this along to someone who might be interested in it who isn't a goon?
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Oct 2, 2013 03:04
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Earwicker posted:That was a very fun time. The audiences of the two shows seemed pretty different As someone who attended the early show, I am curious how the late-show vibe differed. (If it matches the stereotypical expectation in my head, I will be disappointed that I ended up at the wrong show, but c'est la vie)
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Oct 11, 2013 06:46
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evilwaldo posted:Hahaha, booing Steve Carlsburg. So apropos. Shame on the first show. I booed him and was very disappointed at all the people around me that cheered. 
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Oct 11, 2013 07:07
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dj_clawson posted:I confess I only have three of them on my iPod, and there's an additional two or three that I'll listen to, but not at a great frequency. The others ... maybe there's a reason they haven't made it big? Except quite a few of the Weather artists have made it (indie-scale) big. John Vanderslice, Hella, Adam Green, the Doomtree crew, Destroyer, have all seen a fair amount of success, and that's just off the top of my head. Personally, I am waiting for the inevitable Mountain Goats Weather that will someday happen and will surely fit perfectly.
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AstroZamboni posted:Don't forget Dengue Fever. They've been getting a lot of love from NPR the last couple years and rightly so. Yeah, my list of artists that have 'made it' was very tossed off and from the top of my head. See also: I left out Clem Snide. The point is, if you don't like The Weather, that's on you, and saying "Maybe there's a reason they haven't made it big" is both myopic and kind of rude. Len posted:Which one? Moral Orel used No Children, Old College Try and Love Love Love if I'm remembering right. None of them are really anywhere near happy. I'm going to assume Love Love Love because it's about suicides and pain and such. No Children is more bitter, and Old College Try is more about a sort of defeated acceptance. Chevy Slyme fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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J.A.B.C. posted:I think he's talking about 'No Children', as that one seems to resonate the most with the show. To be completely honest, I want to know which one came first: Was 'No Children' inspired by Clay and Bloberta Puppington, or were they inspired by 'No Children'? Because it fits that well with the soul-crushing despair we all know as Season 3. No Children is about the culmination/explosion of the relationship between Alpha and Omega, whose relationship is rather well documented in a few dozen Mountain Goats songs from the cassette era. Talahassee as a whole is basically The Album About Alpha And Omega
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Oct 19, 2013 12:06
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Due to a miscommunication, me and my friend now have two extra tickets to the early show at the Bell House in Brooklyn. If you want to buy them, you should talk to me, because I would like to sell then to you. I promise I will not exsanguinate you when handing over the tickets.
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Oct 31, 2013 19:29
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Earwicker posted:The weather song in this episode is really really great Tom Milsom, http://www.tommilsom.com according to the metadata.
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Nov 1, 2013 17:01
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Wandering Knitter posted:Is there a master list somewhere of all of the weather songs, and where I can buy them? If you pull up the episode list on podbay, the metadata for each episode includes the weather and an artist link.
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Nov 5, 2013 01:11
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dj_clawson posted:I hope you have your credit card number memorized, because you're gonna have to enter it fast! Alternately, if you ask Maxnmona super nicely, maybe he'll be able to tell you whether they'll be using Brownpapertickets (as seems to be the case for the other west coast dates atm), or Ticketfly (Which is where my Bell House tickets were through), or some other storefront and register for an account and save your CC# to it ahead of time. Then you just need to remember your CCV number.
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Nov 24, 2013 06:36
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dj_clawson posted:Considering pretty much everything else on the list is a long-running podcast with celebrities cracking wise about their own careers, it's impressive they made room for Night Vale, but sad they didn't put it at Number 1. Long running? Sure, although there are quite a few new podcasts on the list; most notably the great Fogelnest files. I won't deny that there are a few that meet the rest of that description on the list (though WTF, as the best of that genre, gets a pass from me), but plenty of other listed entries don't meet that description at all (Fogelnest, Code Switch, The Flophouse, Savage Love (though admittedly, I'm not a fan), and especially the Best Show.) Seriously, if you want to see what a fully realized fictional radio world looks like after 13 years on the air, you should be listening to the insanity that Scharpling and Wurster have wrought. Newbridge is a special special place.
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DicktheCat posted:
No. The. Third eye poo poo, in particular, I find to be totally bonkers and off-putting.
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This is the most important and representationally accurate night vale fan art ever made.
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Dec 14, 2013 04:56
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Gonna be really baffled and angry if there isn't an audiobook read by Cecil available day one. I'm not even an audiobook person, like, at all, but for this, it feels right.
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Dec 15, 2013 13:42
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So, it looks like I have one extra ticket for the late show in Brooklyn this Wednesday at the Bell House. If you want it, send me a PM.
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Dec 16, 2013 00:46
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Rated PG-34 posted:I have a couple tickets for the tomorrow's late show if anyone's interested. Send me a PM. I have one extra as well, in case you get more takers than you have tickets.
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Dec 17, 2013 19:24
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When will the NYC live episode from October be released? Keeping secrets is growing increasingly difficult.
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Jan 5, 2014 22:33
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Fiendly posted:I'm thinking of going to the Philly show, but I'm reliant on public transportation, so it would be useful to know when it'd be ending. Even the vaguest estimation would be a big help. Night Vale live shows generally run about 90-120 minutes.
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Jan 17, 2014 14:00
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There was also the One Year Anniversary episode which was recorded live and released as a podcast. Episode 26 I think? Maybe 28?
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Jan 28, 2014 13:38
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Looks like Condos is gonna cost a buck. (It's totally worth a buck, I paid many times that much.)
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Feb 13, 2014 23:54
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Wandering Knitter posted:At first I thought she wasn't paying attention until she randomly announced that she thought Carlos looked like Bruno Mars. Y'know... I can actually see it: 
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Meat Street posted:Great show in Durham tonight! Surprise appearance by our very own John Darnielle was pretty amazing. SO loving JEALOUS OF THIS. Please tell me everything about this guest appearance. I hope it was recorded.
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