Well folks, Here it is!

Piggy Moto, All Star Boar Band, Episode two.

 

 Piggy Moto Episode 2 [27:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (50)

Once again, the opening theme: AaAaAa! came from Lazz.

All the music you heard when the pigs arrived at the Sheltering Arms came from Andros:  La tarantela loca, El vals del ruiseño and Baile de los caballeros reales.

Finally, the closing music, RavingDragon did a remix as a tribute to Tony De Vit who died of bone marrow transplant failure when HIV positive back in 1998.

Many of the sound effects I used came from the Freesound Project.  Check them out for all your sound effect needs.

Please be warned.. FA has some adult (and in some cases disturbing and disturbed) art. so.. if you don’t wanna see the bad stuff, then don’t sign up for an adult account :P.

Guest voices for this episode were performed by:

Corey Sprague : as Felicity the concierge

Spoonfed Badger : as Candlebox the hotel porter and valet

Sloane Cochran : as Corbin Zellig

and

Laird Wetzel : as Eberhard Berringer

I did mention that I’ll be doing a Pig Watch with every episode, and I went ahead and talked about the Hearts On Noses - Mini Pig Sanctuary for this one’s link.  There’s a post about the H.O.N. sanctuary in the previous blog post, to.  So, go ahead and drop in on them.

I also answered a couple questions from listeners.  Drop me a line if you have any.

At the end of the episode, I played a promo for Time Well Wasted.  Check it out.  It’s a great place to discover diversions and passtimes.

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Hey Folks, I just wanted to take a moment and send a shoutout to my buddy Bruce V. Williams.  When I started work Editing All Star Boar Band, I wanted to make sure I handeled Eberhard’s dwarfism in a responsible and compassionate way.  So I looked around on some community groups for some first-hand experiences and Bruce dropped me a line.  His guidance and experience have been invaluable to me during this process, and I consulted with him for months while I was tearing apart the manuscript for its first revision.  He gave me a whole lot to think about and really helped me bring Eberhard to life.

So, I just wanted to say thanks to him, and to point all of y’all to his site on Etsy, where he sells his art and poetry crafts.  Drop in, take a look.  Say hi and tell him Nick sentcha.

Everyone knows that a certain amount of research is imperative to writing - be it for setting, the effects of wounds and weapons, vehicular specs or whatever else a writer wants to represent accurately.

Well, when I write anthropomorphic fiction, I like to learn as much about the real-world animals as I can. Their senses, diet, sleeping habits and psychology. One of the places I stumbled across during my research was the Hearts on Noses - Mini Pig Sanctuary.  It was from their website that I learned the most useful (and touching) facts about porcine behavior.

Piggy Moto started off as just a NaNoWriMo project.  It was fun and all, but there was no real ambition behind it, at first. In the original story (which was the plot for a role-playing adventure), the detectives (whom you’ve not met yet) were the main characters.  The swine were a band originally called “Hoshito Piggy Moto” but people made too much fun of the spelling of the first word, so I dropped it.

Anyway, Piggy Moto was (in my opinion) the coolest band, and was made up of the biggest underdogs of all the contestants.  So, for NaNo, I picked them as my main characters (rather than just re-telling the RPG).  I had a blast.

While I was writing, I surfed around to look up pig senses, social motivations and whatnot - and, that’s when I found the H.O.N. Sanctuary.  I read every single story they had posted about their swinish refugees, and I read the profiles of the pigs they’d adopted.  I was moved, heartbroken, inspired and crushed, all at the same time.  It eas then that All Star Boar Band became a passion - an obsession.

Most people don’t really realize that pigs ain’t like dogs and cats.  You don’t get a cute, little, 15-pound baby pet and cuddle it and play with it and keep it 15 pounds.  Ooooh No.  Even so-called “mini” pigs get HUGE.  And, they ain’t 5 or 6 or 10 year investments.  I’ve read of piggy pets living into their 30’s.  What’s more than this though, they go through adolescence.  The testy teens!  So, you get this cute, lovable little ball of oink, and in three years he turns into a testy, destructive, uncooperative, honery hundred-some pound monster.

Well, people don’t read before they take in pets.  So when their pig becomes a handful, they just throw the swine out.

The Hearts On Noses - Mini Pig Sanctuary takes in as many of these poor animals as they can and takes great, loving care of them.  This ain’t cheap, of course - they are a registered charity, and running a charity never is inexpensive.  That’s why I throw money to then when I can, and invite anyone else out there who cares as much about piggies as I do to drop a fiver, or a 10 spot, or even a Yuppie Foodstamp in their coffers.

At very least, read their stories.  Learn about how sweet and wonderful pigs can be, and maybe you’ll find that your own notions were a little unbalanced. Understanding even a little bit about swine psychology realy went a long way in helping me write my novel.  Maybe you’ll find a pearl or two among the pigs, like I did.

Best wishes everyone.  Still aiming for the 29th for Episode two!  Till then, drop in on The Sanctuary, and drop me a line if you find any other piggy places like it.

Love you all,

Nicholas

Well, ladies and gentlemen, here it is!

Piggy Moto, All Star Boar Band, Episode one.

 

 Episode One: Last Leg Aboard the Glorious Mornings [25:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (56)

I lied to you in the banter!!  It was late, and I am sorry!!  but, I said that ep two was gonna drop on the 22nd, which is a Monday and a new moon.  well, I MEANT to say, the 29th.. which is a Monday and the new moon.  So, the OFFICIAL ep 2 is due on the 29th.. BUT  if I am super diligent, I might just get it out on the 22nd.  No promises though.

Also, my cast mention recording got lost in the jumble last night, so I’ll probably be recording and inserting that tonight for a re-upload.  So, if you’re seeing this after Thursday, then it should be in there. At any rate, the guest cast for this episode includes:

Edward Parrot as Crewman Toofer

Sloane Cochran as Corbin Zellig

Wanton Soup as Chesterfield the cabin boy

and

Laird Wetzel as Eberhard Berringer

The opening theme, AaAaAaAa, was created and performed by Lazz.  Check out his stuff over on Fur Affinity

The closing theme, The Monsters They Saw, was created and performed by Eshmasesh.  He, too can be found over on FA.

Please be warned.. FA has some adult (and in some cases disturbing and disturbed) art. so.. if you don’t wanna see the bad stuff, then don’t sign up for an adult account :P.

Chris Caps helped me out with some of the musical sound effects, and the rest came from the Freesound Project.

At the end of the episode I played a promo for one of my absolute favorite podcast novels, New World Orders, and I strongly advise you pop over and check it out.  It’s some great stuff!

In this episode, I mentioned the following recipes: Gingerbred noblemen (with bits of rasins for eyes), and Brandied Cherry Cordials.  Heh heh, well, I make no claim to be able to make the later, but check back soon for a nice noblemen gingerbread recipe.  I might even include a recipe for gumdrop trees!  *evil grins*  There is still the recipe for the prologue’s Rindswurst simmered in mild lager, smothered in saeurcraut and drouned in spicy mustard.   So, that’s another thing to look out for.

Curiosities mentioned that should be in the wiki soon: the Shadow weird - a frightening, urban monster from the realm of darkness.  Look for it’s d20 writeup on the wiki, coming soon.

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Well, folks.  Monday was a bust, and that sucked.  Let me tell you about the weekend leading up to my failed launch.  It might be good for a chuckle or two.  I headed down to my friends’ house (Wyte and Exavia) for the weekend with the intention of editing together all my script bits and posting the episode for drop.

Well, Friday night I realized that I lacked my digital recorder, so I couldn’t do the episode banter.  I’d also left  a lot of my cables and connectors at home.  So, Saturday I had to drive home to get all that stuff (and feed the bunny, etc.)  well, I get back and sit down to do some editing when I realize that I’m missing the thumb drive on which all of my audio files are saved.  I was ALSO reminded of the paranormal Podcast that I’m expected to write, and the Apron I said I’d sew for another friend.

Well, Saturday, I had a bit of a meltdown and ended up blowing up at a few friends who were just trying to take me out for a celebretory evening.  Piggy, thy name is heel.  Sunday I went home, and couldn’t find my thumb drive.  Only to discover later that it was in my laptop bag all along *hits head on wall*.   SO I sit down to edit EP1 together and spend 3 hours on that, only to get 20 minutes of episode.  Fine!  I’ll crash here Sunday night, come back Monday after work, and make an evening drop.

But, guess what:

One of the voices (Corbin’s) was missing from the thumb drive.  so now I have to go ALL the way home to get it off the desktop computer.  GROW-ELL!

No, Wait!  I have my digital box HERE!  And Corbin’s voice is on THERE!  Awesome!  So, I pull his lines off the box and start editing him in.  In order to simplify the process, I took the previous edits and exported them as a .wav so it would be easier to work with.  Well, I get 10 minutes into the episode and find that the .wav has been corrupted.

DAM-EN  SALMON!!

So, rather than RE edit everything and cry tears of blood.. I just threw my hands up and said, “FINE!!  I am Teh LOSE!”  I had a nice, stout Gin and Tonic, had dinner with Wyte and Exavia, and headed home for the night.

On the neat side, Wyte lent me his Fender Jazz.  He’s teaching me to play bass guitar, which is pretty bleedin’ awesome!  So pretty soon, I might get pix of myself holding it and looking like a big, fat rocker dragon.  heh heh heh  awesome.

Anyway.  When I head off from here, I’m gonna hit the files and see if anything is salvageable.  If not, it’ll be a late night of editing, but I’m gonna do my damnedest to have Episode one up tomorrow morning.  if it fails again for some reason, then I’m just gonna’ put it off until next Monday.  Let’s hope that I can fix it, though.

Craws your claws, folks!

Due to issue after issue, technical difficulty after technical difficulty and all that jazz..

Piggy Moto was delayed.

Something’s happened to my files and they all merged on top of each other.  I have no idea how this has happened, but I’m not confident that I’ll be able to re-do this editing with any kind of quality before midnight.  So I’m pushing back the drop date to Friday.

*grumbly dragon*

Well, tonight’s the full moon, and you know what that means!   Piggy Moto Episode One drops!  Tune in to hear the story begin in earnest.

1 week from launch date, and I’m totally stressed out.  I have all my recordings done, but I need to sit down still and edit them all together.  snip snip splice.  snip snip splice.  I’ve hit a complete mental block.

See, there two methods by which I’ve compiled audio stories so far, and I don’t know to which I should comit.  Well, I guess I do - I’m just looking for excuses to run away and hide under my bed.  Sheesh, I’m nervous!

Act II is well underway.  Thee dits are long done, I’m just formating it for guest voices (and, MAN do I have some GENEROUS souls lending me their talent!).  I seriously don’t feel worthy.  Like who the hellz am I to be putting a project like THIS together?  Sheesh!

But, I’m committed to it.  and I know that once I get a few eps up, it will become second nature.  Just gotta get there.

Hey folks! I’m jumping the gun and putting the promo out there early.  There was a bit of a SNAFU trying to get this online yesterday, but here it is.  Close enough

Shoutouts:

Thanks to these ladies:

GeminiFatCat: http:/www.timeww.com/

The Brew Mistress: http://www.yourcre8tivity.com/

Music:

Opening music: Lazz: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/lazz-/

Closing music: Eshmasesh: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/eshmasesh/

Sound Effects:

http://www.freesound.org/index.php

Guest voices for this episode were provided by:

Ebony Teakettle as Twomoo the candy salesman

and

Laird Wetzel as Eberhard Berringer

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