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EP11 Union Dues:Team Shikaragaki - The Ballad of Kitty Momoiro by Jeffrey DeRego
By admin | May 28, 2008
The story today is not for young children. It is PG13 for language, mature topics and violence
Read by Abby Kim
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Chris Moody
Jeffrey DeRego’s fiction has appeared at Escape Pod and Tales of the Zombie War. He also contributes funny commentaries about writing to The Writing Show (www.writingshow.com) and has appeared on both SciFi Dig, and The Eclectic Word.
So, we’re like in this mall in Wisconsin or Michigan or some other place I can’t find on a map, roped off and on a little stage. And, all I can concentrate on is how good an Orange Frosty from the food court would taste right now. Do I notice that a couple of hundred kids, mostly girls around between five and fifteen are screaming questions and snapping pictures? Sure, but that isn’t anyway near as interesting as how they mix orange juice, coconut milk, and soda water with a chopped banana.
Topics: Illustration, Union Dues, podcast |
May 28th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Fantastic job gang! Abby really brought Kitty to life.
Thanks!
May 30th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
This is my first listen to clonepod, and I like what you’re all trying to do here. I’ll be back for the next episode.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Gutsy story for the podcast. Way to go, Abby!
June 20th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Good read.
Great universe.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:25 am
I thought the story kind of pushed the limit of PG-13, and my only gripe about the narrator was the repeated mispronunciation of Minneapolis. Abby, it’s said “Mini apple ’s’”. Fantastic story, fantastic characterization. I will be back and sharing this site with others. Starting with my young sons. Keep up the great work.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Good job. Story was decent. I’ve heard several on Escape Pod, not to sure I like the Union, but that is a whole different topic.
Abby did a fairly good reading. A few words wrong here and there, but hey, I do the same thing recording. I’m sorry I don’t remember the intro guy’s name, but that guy, sometimes you slur words a bit and mumble, like I used to do, probably still do sometimes. Take an extra moment to say the words, no matter how excited for the story you are {;0)
Great work guys, for reals. I don’t keep a podcast on my iPod if I don’t dig it. If I pick at anything, it’s because I care enough to try and help.
Keep on goin’!
July 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I’ve listened to several of your episodes at once, so I can’t remember if it was this one or not, but at the beginning two of you talk about going to summer school and the girl says her teacher is a “retard”. As someone who works with individuals who truly have mental retardation, I find this term extremely offensive. I’m sure it’s common and you didn’t mean to be offensive by using it in such a slang manner, but please be more careful. Being in the public eye and a role model to other kids (which you are by doing your podcast), please try to demonstrate sensitivity and that it’s not ok to use a slang term for mental deficiency to put someone down any more than it’s ok to use a racial slur.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
So adorable.
Good job, Abby! Miss you guys!
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hey you kids, get off my lawn!
Yeah, go home… and record some more podcasts! I don’t want to see you kids running around the neighbor hood all summer getting into trouble.
That episode 11 was a darned nice story, and even a bit on the creepy side with Abby sounding like she’s about ten years old. Very entertaining anyways. Let’s have some more Union stories!
August 29th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Where can I get one of those Union Dues t-shirts you mentioned?
August 30th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Is it “Shikaragaki” or “shikakaragaki”? The audio seemed to have it differently than the title of the post.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
We are glad most people enjoyed this episode. I am Abby’s mother and I really thought hard about whether she should read it when she is only 12. But since she understood the story and was not upset by it, we went ahead. We know she made some mistakes, but overall I felt that Kitty would make some of the same mistakes when speaking.
On the left hand side there is a link to the t-shirt store where you can buy Union Dues T-shirts