The Drabblecast

B sides 3

Celestial Duck, Breaststroke to Freedom
by Orlo Yeahblip

In America at the time, stuffed full as it was with young men looking for a draft dodge and housewives listless for the next wave of feminism, people needed an escape route. There seemed nothing better than to join the flotilla of balloons, private planes and transcendental meditators who made the journey through the stratosphere...

Art by Josh Hugo

Forgot to mention, Tweedy made the art for us this week!
sorry

normsherman wrote:Forgot to mention, Tweedy made the art for us this week!
sorry

Out of this World - Groovy
Far out Tweedy. I want that on a T-Shirt.

Anyone having problems getting this through the feed?

Kevin Anderson wrote:

normsherman wrote:Forgot to mention, Tweedy made the art for us this week!
sorry

Out of this World - Groovy
Far out Tweedy. I want that on a T-Shirt.

I did that in a program called Art Rage* that I got at Target for $20. Pretty decent paint simulator. I recommend.


*Finished in PhotoShop.

If he follows Swedish custom, Orlo's son's name will be Yeahblipsen. Boy, will THAT be a funny name!

Still, he is forced to moonlight with the Drabblecast to put Swedish meatballs on his plate. Good thing his extensive market research correctly predicted that a story including male lactation was a surefire hook for one Norman Sherman, whalecheesemeister extraordinaire.

Watch out for the taxman, Orlo. Remember that 40.5 kr of your 45 kr earnings on this gig go to Uncle Sven.

Note to Tweedy: The hybrid Chinese take-out carton/nappy hamper is a stroke of genius. Use one, and an hour later you've got to poop again...Do DC licensing rules mean we can't bring that puppy to market?

Cool art, no problems with the feed.

Re: Story- What?? Huh? I wonder if I need to go back a listen again, fully awake this time.

tbaker2500 wrote:Re: Story- What?? Huh? I wonder if I need to go back a listen again, fully awake this time.

I must agree. Exception being that I was FULLY awake while listening. The lactation thing caught my attention, but I still couldn't follow it.

From what I did catch, it kind of reminded me of the male that recently had a very public gestation period and birth.

It was really weird, but made sense to me at least.
The detective is trying to figure out where/what happened to Edward Stone by interviewing people. Suddenly, the drunken ramblings of a guy passed out at the bar make perfect sense to him and he is able to put the pieces together (that's the joke, no way could a story this bizarre and detailed just "come to him", but that's also what happens in Law and Order CI every week.)
The story from there is just weird and hilarious. I especially loved the section describing the people trying to eat Chinese food in space.

I loved this for all its wierdness. The idea that the grown up baby had hired him to find out who he (the baby) was, was good in itself, then the splendidly bizarre circumstances of his birth and subsequent escape from captivity just added to it. A fantastic new twist on the traditional Private Eye story. Wonderful.

This story made my own world a little bizarre.

I listened to it in the car with my wife yesterday. Mrs Blammo doesn't usually enjoy the Drabblecast---"It's too weird," she'll say. "Can't we listen to 'The Law Report' or 'The Science Show'?"

Yet she loved this one. The idea of a lactating male made her giggle, and she was hooked.

The moral of the story is that gender bending makes car trips legitimately weirder. I don't know what that means, but I'm happy to find out.

I really had a hard time following... did all the answers just "come" to the detective guy? Didnt he pass out in a phone booth, intoxicated by some sort of hallucigenic drug? That would explain this whole B Sides Episode...
So this whole "story" that he reported to the now-grown "baby"- was it just to feed his appetite for the answer about his past, or did the detective dude actually figure out that this shit all went down? Did I miss something? A few things? Everything?

Have to listen to that one again...

Hi Norm!

I might be way off, but the way I understood it was that the detective knew most of that story, but just wanted to figure out who the dad was...It was super weird, but I just reconciled all of that with the good ol standby alternate universe theory...

I loved the part about "shipping the packages" to the astronauts, and the packages were Chinese food and not missiles.