{"id":7062,"date":"2013-05-01T06:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T10:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2013-05-01T06:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T10:52:21","slug":"a-little-updatery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-little-updatery","title":{"rendered":"A Little Updatery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short post to keep you apprised of things, dear reader\/listener!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show (VMS) podcast<\/a> just had its most successful month yet, busting the previous monthly record for downloads by 13%. I don&#8217;t chase numbers, but I admit that it makes me happy to know that people are downloading (and maybe listening) to the show.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote my first short story in 20+ years last week, after a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/artic.edu\">Art Institute<\/a> in Chicago. It&#8217;s called <em>Loesser and the Six-Faced Conqueror of Death on a Buffalo<\/em>. If you want to read it, make a donation of at least $1 in the tip jar! I added a Paypal &#8220;donate&#8221; button to the site; it&#8217;s also at the end of the Podcast Archive page.<\/li>\n<li>I put that in place because it&#8217;d be nice to get a little money specifically for VMS-related stuff. My day job subsidizes the show (and gives me opportunities to travel and interview guests), and\u00a0I don&#8217;t have any illusions about making a living based on the podcast, but it&#8217;d be nice to know if people put any monetary value on the work I do to bring out the show.<\/li>\n<li>About <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/magazine\/news\/20130429\/jason-collins-gay-nba-player\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Collins<\/a>: I&#8217;m very glad that he felt ready to come out. I was a Nets fan when he played for them, and in those days I was conflicted about cheering for Jason Kidd, despite the fact that Kidd&#8217;s arrival turned the team around and propelled them to two NBA Finals appearances. That&#8217;s because Kidd got traded to NJ <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1024846\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">because he beat his wife<\/a>. But they won, so I rationalized.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gu.com\/p\/xdvft\/tw\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is one of those lists. I read 31 of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short post to keep you apprised of things, dear reader\/listener! The Virtual Memories Show (VMS) podcast just had its most successful month yet, busting the previous monthly record for downloads by 13%. I don&#8217;t chase numbers, but I admit that it makes me happy to know that people are downloading (and maybe listening) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-little-updatery\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Little Updatery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,1183],"tags":[1762,380],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-literature","category-podcasts","tag-jason-collins","tag-jason-kidd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1PU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7559,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/2013-podcast-countdown-4","url_meta":{"origin":7062,"position":0},"title":"2013 Podcast Countdown: #4","author":"Gil","date":"December 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The podcast countdown continues! 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