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Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, episode 5

In glorious mono from Roncesvalles, Toronto, and Hilo, Hawaii, it's Episode 5 of Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, brought to you by Grace Kola Champagne and by ILOG CPLEX. In this episode I play the last of the Hawaiian tape, covering my tour of the volcanic landscape.

(31 January 2010)

Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, episode 4

In glorious mono from Roncesvalles, Toronto, and Hilo, Hawaii, it's Episode 4 of Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, brought to you by Tuong Ot Toi Viet Nam, and by the words 早い and 速い. This episode features more Hawaiian tapes, and some thoughts on alcohol - in Buddhism, and in Norse neopaganism.

(24 January 2010)

Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, episode 2

In glorious mono from Roncesvalles and High Park, Toronto, it's Episode 2 of Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, brought to you by the VL-878 pocket-sized audio device and the Ensoniq AudioPCI. In this episode I take a trip to the park, walk the labyrinth, and talk along the way about faith, magic, and whether reality exists. Don't miss it. ETA: Now in ever-more-glorious mono! It turns out that I put a file in the wrong directory and as a result, what went up on the site on the 10th was an early draft instead of the fully edited and cleaned-up version. That explains some of the complaints I got despite the big effort I'd put into cleaning it up - I thought the people involved were just being pricks, but no, it turns out that what they heard wasn't the glorious version that I'd worked on. So, if you had trouble listening to episode 2 before, give it a try again now.

(10 January 2010)

Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, episode 1

In glorious mono from Roncesvalles, Toronto and Hilo, Hawaii, it's Episode 1 of Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, brought to you by El Yucateco Green Habanero Sauce, and the letters ン and ソ. Detailed summary and download link below the cut. Free registration required, to keep out the bots.

(3 January 2010)

The Ten Promises

I titled a recent comic strip Seventh Commandment as natural law because it's about a girl who claims that she didn't cheat on her boyfriend because (using a Meher Baba quote for support) all beings are one and infidelity is therefore impossible.  The Seventh Commandment, of course, is from a different tradition entirely, but it's the one about adultery, so in that title I'm asking the question, what if it was a description of how the universe works instead of an imperative about how you ought to behave?  I thought about that some more and realized that a similar question is worth asking about all the Ten Commandments, not just that one. (24 September 2007)

John he said

John he said you never gotta stop dreaming, all a comfort my mind. (2 March 2005)

The Reverend John Pickett and the damage done

Welcome, everyone, to the God Is Dead Church. (9 December 2000)

Light and Speed

SF short story about superluminal travel and a suicide cult. (2 February 1997)