Season 2 begins at MythMinute.com.
I finally got a show up! Thanks for everyones patience as I was dealing with work and personal issues.
Unfortunately these issues will continue through March. Depending on what happens in the next week will determine what the remainder of the year will be like. It’s kind of scary being at this pivotal point in my life and career but it is a good kind of scary. I have many friends losing jobs and unable to find work, I am blessed because of the amount of work that I am able to have at this time.
The reason for the “Season 2″ in the title is because of the slight format changes that are in the show. I optimized the show so that many of the segments that are said each time are produced once and used many times. Hopefully this will speed up the podcast post-production in the future.
Let me know what you think!
- Now go share a story!
January 25, 2008 – 11:40 pm
Tonight I was able to spend some time working on the podcasts. I’ve been able to compile four scripts for the Myth Minute Podcast and one script for the Myth Show Podcast. While the day job is still taking a lot of (over) time, I’ve enjoyed the couple of hours of studying the old stories that I’ve been able read tonight.
Once the voice feels up to it (thank you winter flu) and time permitting, I’ll get these recorded and posted. Until then…
Go Share a Story!
December 27, 2007 – 11:53 am
I hope that everyone has had a joyous holiday season and is looking forward to the new year.
For Christmas, I was given a couple of collections of Dr. Seuss stories. The three oldest kids each received a Disney bedtime story collection. I’ve had a lot of fun reading these stories to the kids the past couple of nights. I don’t need to worry about what to read for bedtime for a couple of months now!
A while back, I set up some Google Searches to look for interesting items on mythology, folk lore, and fairy tales. This was in hopes to find some good stuff for the blog. While I did find some interesting things, the ratio of noise to good info was too great. I deleted those feeds from my RSS reader. It is amazing how many time authors use these terms without actually talking about actual mythology or fairy tales.
The forced “podcasting hiatus” continues and will continue into the new year. Now that the holidays are over, I hope to be able to clear out more time for new media. If the plans fall into place, the relaunched shows will be easier to produce and released more frequently.
Until then… Go Share a Story!
December 11, 2007 – 10:11 pm
Today, I received my copy of “Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies” written by Tee Morris, Evo Terra, and Ryan Williams. At the Podcast Expo, Tee mentioned that my podcast was mentioned in his new book. So I was excited to find where the podcast was mentioned.
The Myth Minute Podcast is mentioned as an example of a five-to-ten minute quickcast (page 256) along with Aliens You Will Meet, and The Podcast For Dummies: The Companion Podcast.
That is SO awesome! Thanks Tee!
As my thanks to him, please go enjoy Tee’s podcast MOREVI: Remastered or any of his other fun podcasts.
December 11, 2007 – 12:05 pm
It has been too long since I have been behind the microphone and I’m really missing it. The past three weeks where I’ve been on this overtime schedule has been a marathon. I hope that I don’t end up like Pheidippides at the end.
I have some great ideas that I’ve been jotting down and I hope to get back to it at the beginning of the year. Something sooner if the moons align correctly.
Until then, “Go share a story!”
November 29, 2007 – 6:41 am
I found this quote on my “Einstein Quote of the Day Google Widget” and I verified in through Wikiquote.com
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
November 25, 2007 – 1:39 am
This is what my internal voice is telling me right now…
For a guy who says he has no time to podcast, enough time to put out a podcast to say you don’t have enough time to podcast; you sure do put out a long show…
My defense?
- It was a four day weekend (Happy Thanksgiving),
- the podcast muse smacked me upside the head,
- I got my wife and kids involved, and
- I didn’t write a script for it.
Enjoy the show!
November 23, 2007 – 8:53 am
A while back, I mentioned how a new favorite quote came at the end of a Criminal Minds show. An uncredited author none as “The Mediator” from The Lincoln Echo saw the same show and shared thoughts about the quote:
I was watching a TV program, Criminal Minds, and at the end of the program the narrator said “ kids know that Dragons exist”. What fairy tales provide them with is the fact they could they can be killed. In thinking about this it occurred to me this should be the primary responsibility of parents. A parent is not responsible for explaining to children problems exist in this world but showing them they can be overcome. Parents must provide support for those tools (values) children will need to overcome problems. The tools (values) used to kill the Dragon in fairy tales can be used overcome their problems today.
Good article, I just wish I could give the proper credit to the author.
November 23, 2007 – 8:42 am
Dan Hudak (article found in the Boise Weekly) takes a look at the new Disney movie, Enchanted.
And therein lies the true appeal of Enchanted: It was made by Disney with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, openly willing to poke fun at the onscreen fairy-tale conventions it helped create. Kudos to the venerable Mouse House for putting a new spin on a classic tale, and doing it so well.
Now this is a movie that will be on the short list to be seen. It helps that I can take my kids to this one. If not in the theater, then the DVD (Beowulf doesn’t mix with kids under 6.)
November 23, 2007 – 8:32 am
Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, in the Sydney Morning Herald writes a review of Beowulf and how some scholars may be worried about the movie’s effect on students:
Because of the power of cinema, the myths told in The Wizard Of Oz, Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings, Ellwood says, “are more alive and personally interesting to most present-day students than ancient examples. They are also more likely to work their way into one’s deepest levels of consciousness, resurfacing when needed to provide character models, and a world view undergirding one’s own life journey.”
Some scholars are less than thrilled by the idea of the new 3-D film version of Beowulf. “I have colleagues who think the new Beowulf movie is a travesty and disgusting,” says David Johnson, the executive director of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the chairman of the department of interdisciplinary humanities at Florida State University . “Personally, I think anything that raises general public awareness of this material is fantastic.”
It’s hard to thinks that this movie was done with the same technology as the Polar Express. A movie that I enjoy. With how rare, I get to go to the movies, Beowulf is not going to earn a spot on my list.
