The Drabblecast

Hi, I've just recently discovered the miracle of podcasts and love me some Drabble. Really enjoyed the HP Lovecraft stories, they were also new to me. Great narration, like the musical enhancements, but I do have a Drabble Quibble (would that be a Dribble?) with a pronunciation in The Horror at Martin's Beach.

No native to that town calls it Glou-chester. Rather, they rhyme it with lobsta. Where'd you get that lobsta? Got it in Glosta. Similarly, if you ever visit Worcester (also in Massachusetts) you will receive strange looks if you call it Wer-chester. It rhymes with, umm, eh, I don't know WHAT it rhymes with, but you say it Woosta. Like the Roosta when it crows in the mahning.

Just thought you'd like to know. Keep up the good work. I'll pass you the worcestershire sauce.

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Fiddler59 wrote:Hi, I've just recently discovered the miracle of podcasts and love me some Drabble. Really enjoyed the HP Lovecraft stories, they were also new to me. Great narration, like the musical enhancements, but I do have a Drabble Quibble (would that be a Dribble?) with a pronunciation in The Horror at Martin's Beach.

No native to that town calls it Glou-chester. Rather, they rhyme it with lobsta. Where'd you get that lobsta? Got it in Glosta. Similarly, if you ever visit Worcester (also in Massachusetts) you will receive strange looks if you call it Wer-chester. It rhymes with, umm, eh, I don't know WHAT it rhymes with, but you say it Woosta. Like the Roosta when it crows in the mahning.

Just thought you'd like to know. Keep up the good work. I'll pass you the worcestershire sauce.

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Welcome to the asylum. I have the same pet-peave about Gloucester. In the town I grew up in there's a Gloucester St and everyone pronounces it Glou-Chester.

It's futile to point out to them, that there is no "H" following the "C" so there should be no "CH" sound in the middle.

Also doesn't help to refer to the jingle for Gorton's fish products which pronounces it correctly.

"Trust the Gorton's fisherman, from Gorton's of Gloster" phonetically speaking.

Heh - I used to drive past Gorton's on the way to one of the schools I used to teach at, always smelled like fish sticks. When the wind was right then fish guts. Yum.

*extends the tentacle of welcome* Hi, Fiddler!

Damn fine story, and better telling. I was listening to this alone at 11pm in a lakeside cottage, hearing the water lap the shore. Perfect setting, kick ass story!

That was AWESOME! Well deserved Norm's plugging from the main feed. I loved how it didn't become about the monster, like typical Benchley Jaws and Beast, but about the mystery of the monster. To me, this really is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories now.
I think he could have cut some of the "swaying bodies holding onto the rope under the moonlight" lines and condensed it some 3/4 of the way through. I was definitely like alright alright already, how long is this line of swaying people??
But overall great story.

Woot Woot!!! WOw that was amazing. This is what good pod-casting is, great story, great narration, and probably the best production yet. I was completely drawn into this story, I had to stop everything I was doing(the dishes) and immediately lie down on the floor to listen.

Man I was sucked into this like I was attached to the Horror myself.

This is why Sunday is podcast day at my house.

the mighty twix wrote:Woot Woot!!! WOw that was amazing. This is what good pod-casting is, great story, great narration, and probably the best production yet. I was completely drawn into this story, I had to stop everything I was doing(the dishes) and immediately lie down on the floor to listen.

I agree with you completely, except for the use of the word "probably."

I started out with PodCasts listening to EscapePod. Then EP made the grievous error of letting the drabblecast cat out of the bag. The writing, the humor, the production values, the heavy dose of strange completely hooked me in.

Sadly, I also seemed to have contracted drabble'itis, and it looks like the only treatment is to let it run its course.

I'd consider legal action for criminal negligence in the handling of a toxic memetic virus, but the illness is too much fun.

(P.S. I notice you are from Thunder Bay. Coincidentally my father used to work as a beach comber there when he was a teenager, 70 or so years ago.)

Wow.
That's it. Just wow.
I found Drabblecast through Escape Pod- Norm Sherman's reading of "On The Eyeball Floor" made me absolutely squirm and I had to follow up.
Since then, I have been consistently impressed with the strangeness in Drabblecast.
Holy Crap!!!
This story really freaked me out. I just moved out of my family home (for collegggggeee!!!) which happens to be precariously perched on a lake. I remember one morning waking up and looking out my window to see the fog obscuring the adjacent shore- it's a good thing I hadn't heard this at that point, because I would have lost it.
Now I have to read Lovecraft.
Because all I need at this point is more to read!!!!
I think a Lovecraft collection will fit in nicely between my Biology and Physiology textbooks.