12.01.2011

Description for the Canadian National Day of Podcasting 2011

A year to the day since the last Description podcast episode, Valerie stands on a windy beach in Shediac, New Brunswick and tries to update you on stuff while fighting off pneumonia.

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The Second (Great) Canadian National Day of Podcasting
Town of Shediac
Description 75: Be...In This Place
Description 73: The Dual Citizens (aka the one with the birth mother)
Movies For the Blind
Bayley on the Baize
Demo of my day job
"My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders (ironically now associated with a very unpleasant radio show in the U.S.)

Actually, I had some great material for National Podcast Post Month this year, but I was just too busy to even try to start. But I still want to put it out, so I suspect if there comes a month where I'm not as busy, NaPodPoMo or not, I'll put it out there, so hang in. Thanks!

12.01.2010

Description Daily: December 1st

For the Canadian National Day of Podcasting, Matt and Valerie review their National Podcast Post Month, with what they did and didn't learn. Concludes with Derek and Clive.

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11.30.2010

Description Daily 30

With pauses edited out, Matt talks on the phone with his pub landlord friend Ben, who fills in the holes of a story in which Matt shoots himself and an old woman, gets thrown in the trunk of car and finds himself on a 100-foot-high cliff.

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(Note: there'll be one more episode tomorrow, to celebrate The Canadian National Day of Podcasting.)

11.29.2010

Description Daily 29

Elsewhere in Valerie's podcast world...audio-described scenes from the cult favourite Dementia 13, part of Episode 148 of Movies For the Blind.

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Description Daily 28

In Ohio, while watching a Manchester United game on tv, Valerie dad and Matt compare notes on their respective versions of football.

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11.27.2010

Description Daily 27

Matt and Valerie walk through downtown Buffalo, New York and inevitably go into a Tim Horton's.

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11.26.2010

Description Daily 26

With pretty bad sound quality, Valerie finds out more about one of Matt's favourite songs as a spanner (British for nerd, as he means it), "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" by Hawkwind.

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11.25.2010

Description Daily 25


In High Park, Matt and Valerie chat with two women taking care of a well-behaved Sheltie dog with a difficult home life.

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11.24.2010

Description Daily 24

From another proper Description episode not completed, Valerie starts a soundseeing tour of the Art Gallery of Ontario and settles herself in the Henry Moore statue just outside.

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"Down by the Henry Moore" by Murray McLauchlan
Wikipedia explains the Shmoo
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11.23.2010

Description Daily 23

After Matt finds himself onstage with seven other guys doing another podcast, he and Valerie (who gets too loud again - sorry) discuss credibility and the dynamics of male conversation.

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