{"id":7953,"date":"2014-06-03T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2014-06-03T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T13:03:25","slug":"podcast-theory-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-theory-and-practice","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Theory and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katieskellycomics.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7954\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-theory-and-practice\/katietcaf\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf.jpg?fit=999%2C526\" data-orig-size=\"999,526\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"katietcaf\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf.jpg?fit=525%2C276\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-7954\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf.jpg?resize=525%2C276\" alt=\"katietcaf\" width=\"525\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf.jpg?resize=620%2C326 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf.jpg?resize=440%2C231 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf.jpg?w=999 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories:\u00a0Katie Skelly &#8211; Theory and Practice<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3597\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7953-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7953-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m never gonna be a parent, but if I were, I&#8217;d be like, &#8216;We&#8217;re skippin&#8217; this <em>Goodnight, Moon<\/em> thing; you&#8217;re goin&#8217; to <em>Pale Fire<\/em>.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/books\/operationmargarine.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7955\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-theory-and-practice\/cov175\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/cov175.jpg?fit=175%2C239\" data-orig-size=\"175,239\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chris Pitzer&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cov175\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/cov175.jpg?fit=175%2C239\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7955\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/cov175.jpg?resize=175%2C239\" alt=\"cov175\" width=\"175\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a>Cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katieskellycomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Skelly<\/a> joins the show to talk about her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/books\/operationmargarine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Margarine<\/a> (AdHouse Books), which is really just an opportunity for us to talk about Barthes, Edie Sedgwick, and <em>The Maxx<\/em>, before getting to the moment when she was 15 and read the least &#8220;YA&#8221;-friendly book ever for all the wrong reasons. Along the way, we also talk about how she manages to work on her comics while holding down a (respectable) full-time job, why she&#8217;d rather hunt for a rare comic than buy something new, what it was like to belong to a high school anime club that only had two members. <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Go listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;6 o&#8217;clock hits, it&#8217;s time to leave the office; what are you going to do with the four or five hours you have before going to sleep?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3598\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7953-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7953-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_21_-_Theory_and_Practice.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-comic-sans\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Spurgeon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-semper-fido\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Keenan\/Nathan Fox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mimi-pond-the-customer-is-always-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">Mimi Pond<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mike-and-ivans-comics-cabaret\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Kupperman\/Ivan Brunetti<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-hello-columbus\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin McGurk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katieskellycomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Skelly<\/a> lives and works in Queens, NY. Her first graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katieskellycomics.com\/nurse-nurse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nurse Nurse<\/a>, was published by Sparkplug Books in 2012. Her latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/books\/operationmargarine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Margarine<\/a>, was published by AdHouse Books in 2014.\u00a0You can find her on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katieskellycomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/calicocomics.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@nurse_nurse\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Katie&#8217;s Been Gone<em>\u00a0by The Band. The conversation was recorded in my hotel room during the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/torontocomics.com\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Comic Arts Festival<\/a>\u00a0on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005CQ2ZY6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B005CQ2ZY6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=3TD6SGPDPOYUPKRD\">Zoom H2n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005CQ2ZY6\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(I had some weird distortion\/flutter on my usual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62\">Zoom H4n recorder<\/a>, so I went with my backup recording)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QWBM62\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. The intro and outro were recorded on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. 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