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Podcast Extra: How to Start Listening

When I talk to friends about podcasts I often hear: that sounds cool but I don’t really get podcasts, I don’t really have time to listen to podcasts. Fair enough. It is a commitment, especially if someone is interested in giants like Critical Role, a Dungeons and Dragons

My Favorite Long Running Podcasts

Favorite long running podcasts/how I got into podcasts Since my undergrad years I have been known lightly as a “podcast person”. It started with Welcome to Nightvale, but the more I explored the more I fell in love. My one roommate looked at me when I was excited about

Review: Aftershock

Review: Aftershock

I am curling my toes in anticipation for the next episode. I will be even more enthralled if they keep the episodes short like this, around 30 minutes or so. It works so well here because it feels more like anticipation than exposition.

State of the Blog: Monday June 12th 2021

Scroll down for: What Happened and What’s Coming I’ve been dancing around having a website built and working with something or other. I built a version of Mentally? A Magpie pre COVID. Had some reviews up, then left it for a more “streamlined” idea I had. Have an

Review: Murder in Illinois

Review: Murder in Illinois

Going to the science museum is an event full of wonder for me. Of all the things that you can see, one of the most unassuming, yet interesting things humans have figured out is the pendulum. Used to tell time, measure gravity, and a number of other aspects of this

State of the Blog: July 7th 2021

Hello everyone! Here it is: a shiny new Magpie. A brainchild with a big dream, that COVID postponed and made foggy. I’ve bounced around a few ideas of what my “niche” should be, and what I want to be doing. Magpie came and went, and now I really think

Review: Murder in Oregon

Review: Murder in Oregon

The death of a good man. It is romantic, in a literary sense. The high drama, the bitter ending, and a reminder. Conspiracy, corruption, and the twisted murder that can come with it does not belong outside of reality. We believe in these stories when they are saturated in the