The Voice of Pod

The Voice of Pod by Daedalus Howell.

  • Talk is Cheap… And I Like It

    Talk is Cheap… And I Like It

    Check, check… Is this thing on? And… we’re back! One of the pleasures of being a local media gadfly is getting down with O.P.P. — Other People’s Podcasts — yeah, you know me. Daedalus Howell | Story Desk is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Here…

  • Episode 5 of The Bohemian Now Live

    Episode 5 of The Bohemian Now Live

    This week, we speak with writer Sara Ost — whose recent feature on Twitter phenom @MenWriteWomen went viral last week— with a hilarious bonus reading of Ost’s take of “Men writing Men” in the same, ahem, style. Reporter Will Carruthers recounts PG&E‘s settlement woes as the utility staggers toward a zombie version of itself; and…

  • In The Waste Land Between a Day Job and Dream Job

    In The Waste Land Between a Day Job and Dream Job

    Just across the freeway from my professional wasteland is Kerner Blvd. where Industrial Light and Magic once was and where I let my mind wonder while contemplating my own feature film, Pill Head.

  • It’s Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been

    George Eliot writes “It’s never too late to be what you might have been” and a century and a half later, Rebecca Mead, in a New Yorker essay titled Middlemarch and Me tries to find the origin of the quotation, which she first read on a refrigerator magnet.

  • Keep the Aspidistra Dying: I’m an Artist Not a Creative Entrepreneur

    Keep the Aspidistra Dying: I’m an Artist Not a Creative Entrepreneur

    When you’re a broke-ass-art-person, there’s about million podcasts and blogs and online courses encouraging you to create podcasts and blogs and online courses to help monetize your creative process by sharing it with other artists who, in turn, will create more podcasts and blogs and online courses. It’s time to stop…

  • Transmedia, Worldbuilding and Weird German Words

    Transmedia, Worldbuilding and Weird German Words

    Remember when the entertainment industry was pushing the term “transmedia?” Yeah, neither do I but how do we refer to the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms?

  • That Time My Fear of Artistic Inauthenticity Met The Fear Doctor

    Wherein I face my fear of artistic inauthenticity by visiting The Fear Doctor, Hunter Franks, and getting a prescription for what ails…

  • Quicksand Fetish: Don’t make it weird.

    Long left behind in B-Movies, quicksand is making something of a cultural comeback. But maybe not in the way one might expect. From fetish films to a David Bowie word salad, your host Daedalus Howell plays through the sandtrap and finds old video games, snakes, and Nazis along the way.

  • Burning Down the Art House, Part Three

    Burning Down the Art House, Part Three

    The third and final installment of the mini-series “Burning Down the Art House” focuses on Tom Schiller’s hat tip to Fellini, “La Dolce Gilda,” starring Gilda Radner and evoking a nostalgia trip for your host.