Beer glorious BEER!

As usual we have Michael, The Chorus of Voices ™ and our constant companion, DEATH beer


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 Wingin' It 3D #031: Beer and Taxes [60:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Big Three Oh.

This is the show for our fans and listeners! Voicemails, emails, we want to hear your comments and feedback. If you amuse Michael or have something interesting to discuss you could make it into the main show otherwise you’re put into the voicemail show.

This week, Michael, Brian, Tim, Kris, Charlie, Garrett, Eliza, and Debbie ponder and thoughtfully comment on your voicemail submissions.

Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. You can now leave a voicemail comment in the comments section of the show, or call our Voicemail Number, 206-600-GEEK, or email Michael with a comment you’ve recorded yourself.

We have set up a Flickr page to show everyone the labels and or bottles of the drinks for each week, check it out here.

We’re in Second Life. Come check us out at the FarPoint Castle.

Tomorrow there will be a brand new show.

 

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America’s sweetheart, Dawn Wells (age 69), who starred as the cute and pixy Mary Ann for years on the television sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” has been cleared of dope charges stemming from a booking done by an Idaho police officer last fall.

Wells had been driving home from her own birthday party celebration in a borrowed automobile and was swerving while attempting to adjust the heater.  The policeman pulled her over and after being given permission by Wells to search the vehicle, discovered an item, not owned by Wells, that contained remnants of marijuana.  Wells denied it was hers and tests showed she was not driving while intoxicated after only two drinks earlier that evening at her party.  Wells admitted in a recent interview that she did make one big mistake.  She said that she should have simply turned off the road for a minute to adjust the heater in the unfamiliar car instead of attempting it while driving in the dark.

Wells was cleared of the drug possession charges after the real owner of the evidence came forward in court and fessed up that it was his stash container in the car.  Wells’ car was in the shop being worked on and this particular car was a loaner.  Her record has been cleared.  Now that is a powerful vibe Mary Ann still holds over the masses, when a guy is willing to be honest and upfront and face charges to keep America’s sweetheart’s name and reputation clean and spotless.

FarPoint Media is happy to announce the launching of its FarPoint Media Video Channel on YouTube. The channel will highlight video entries and features from several of its groundbreaking podcast shows and websites.

The irreverent Wingin’ It 3D blasted off with its first video last week pondering the many facets of preparing and eating chocolate covered cuttlefish.

Also seeing its premiere was the new weekly show “Slice of SciFi Video Headline News” with your news anchors Michael R. Mennenga and Brian Brown showcasing just some of the hundreds of top news stories featured on the Slice of SciFi website each week.

About FarPoint Media
FarPoint Media (FPM) is a family of independent programmers who retain their creative freedom and content rights. FPM shows cover diverse interests and hot topics that bring together the old staples of radio and television into the new technologies of downloadable media.

A leader in producing and distribution of quality radio, podcast and video entertainment, FarPoint Media has scifi media and genre literature shows featuring news and interviews with the actors, producers and writers creating your favorite TV programs and books, and has discussion shows that true fan geeks can immerse themselves in.

FPM also showcases quality audio dramas to fire the imagination of its listeners, specialized sports news and information shows that take the enthusiasts beyond the box scores, comedy and variety shows that will have fans laughing out loud, and shows with experienced advice that can help improve listeners and viewers tech skills, or sharpen their writing skills.

FarPoint Media is online entertainment. See what The Indie Podcast/Vidcast Network has to offer you.

From Joe Russo, of Slice of SciFi’s partner site MoviePulse.net, comes this look at one of the movie industry’s most unappreciated jobs. “Movie Screening Security Guards” is a mockumentary that follows four security guards as they try to stop the number one problem with the film industry, piracy.

Happy Birthday to Mike!

As usual we have Michael, The Chorus of Voices ™, Glenrothes
1991 and beer too!


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Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)

The world mourns the loss of one of its greatest and most gentle humans with the death of Arthur C. Clarke. He passed away late last night in his home in Sri Lanka at the ripe old age of 90.

If I had to point to any person or persons in my nearly 60 years of living on planet Earth that influenced me the most (outside of my parents) I would have to narrow it down to just two men, humanist and philosopher Joseph Campbell and the renowned, author, scientist, futurist and humanitarian Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

For most Sir Arthur is probably best known for writing the sci-fi novel that set the tone for everything that would be seen on the movie screen in the 20th Century if it dealt with outer space, the revolutionary story of “2001: A Space Odyssey” (originally written in 1948), which was brought to the big screen by a collaboration between him and the legendary director Stanley Kubrick in 1965. To say that the novel and film were eons before their time would be a gross understatement. Relying on scientific fact and the limitless imagination of his genius, Clarke allowed an entire generation of closet geeks to come out and change the face of both the scientific and entertainment community simultaneously. He made us proud to be geeky, smart, and yes, a bit nerdish.

Sir Arthur is reverently referred to as the father of the modern communications age when as early as the 1940’s he stunned the scientific community with the concept of using orbital satellites for worldwide telecommunications. Again, in 1940, he was the first to predict that man would be on the moon before the close of the 20th Century and was the first pioneer and proponent for seeing the need to move into green technology decades before anyone else saw the dangers of global temperature shifts.

What made his sci-fi novels so believable and lasting, so that over the last 60 plus years they have stood the test of time and will live on long after most of us are gone, is how he interlaced his fantastic stories with the harsh realities of scientific fact married to scientific possibility.

There have been many SF and genre-related influences in my six decades of living. Such people as the great Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and the feisty but brutally honest Harlan Ellison, but it is Sir Arthur C. Clarke that will forever hold a unique and special place reserved in my heart and memory. I will miss him greatly and the world is less with his passing.

YAY! Mike didn’t die!

This is the show for our fans and listeners! Voicemails, emails, we want to hear your comments and feedback. If you amuse Michael or have something interesting to discuss you could make it into the main show otherwise we just ridicule you here on the voicemail show.

This week, Michael, Brian, Tim, Kris, Doug, Eliza, Krazy Joe, and Debbie point and laugh at your voicemail submissions.

Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. You can now leave a voicemail comment in the comments section of the show, or call our Voicemail Number, 206-600-GEEK, or email Michael with a comment you’ve recorded yourself.

We have set up a Flickr page to show everyone the labels and or bottles of the drinks for each week, check it out here.

We’re in Second Life. Come check us out at the FarPoint Castle.

Tomorrow there will be a brand new show.

 

 Wingin' It 3D #029: Voicemail Show [34:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve all had our garages cluttered with all kinds of things from potted plants, bicycles, boxes stacked on boxes, but Nancy Fiddler had her garage’s much needed space occupied by the remains of a 10-foot tall, prehistoric Mastodon since it was first discovered buried on their ranch land in 1997. Everything was intact except the tusks. While the skeleton had been on display for a while at the Oakland Museum of Natural History, it was eventually given back to the Fiddlers. Now Nancy wants to get rid of it after 11 years and where better to do that than on eBay!

If you’re in the market for such a purchase be reading to fork out some serious coin, the minimum bid on this little ancient beauty is $115,000 (USD).

Why? You may ask. Would she be willing to part with such a keepsake? According to Nancy they need to make room for her son’s new passion, the building of sleek hot rods. But, Nancy also has her own guilty pleasure assigned for the space that will be opened by ridding themselves of this relic of Earth’s past — the use of their sauna, which has laid dormant for nearly 4 years. It has been serving as the storage unit for some of the beastie’s bones.

The Fiddlers figure this is the perfect time to put the hairy elephant on the market since Mastodons are getting a lot of press after the release of the new movie “10,000 B.C.” The ancient critters lived from about 15 million years in our past until their mass extinction around 10,000 years ago.

Lending credence to its authenticty and worth is paleontolgist Bruce Hanson, consultant for the Okland museum. “It’s a beautiful specimen,” stated Hanson.

Some members of academia seem upset over the proposed online bidding for such a priceless fossil. “What is it going to do? Sit on someone’s mantle?” said Mark Goodwin of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. “I would prefer to see it donated to a museum. This is our fossil heritage.”

There’s a new podcast for everyone interested in Dragon*Con. It’s called Dragon*Pod.

Dragon*Pod is designed to be a show that will act as “Your Audio to Guide Everything Dragon*Con”. It will contain information about the Dragon*Con, guests, some interesting tips and tricks to help improve your con going experience and it will have interviews with all kinds of special guests who help to make the Dragon*Con work so that it provides participants a fun and wonderful time.

The first podcast has been released with an interview with Pat Henry, current Chairman of the Dragon*Con. Pat gives listeners a brief history of Dragon*Con, relates fun stories of what goes on and why this particular Con is so much fun.

You can check out the Dragon*Pod HERE. Like Dragon*Con this podcast is very much a community effort so the show is always looking for feedback and ideas on how to make the podcast more valuable to all of you. So please give it a listen and then share your thoughts with the hosts via their forums, email address or their voicemail. Further details and links are available on their website.

A mountainside house will be auctioned off to the highest bidder this weekend. It has become a favorite stop-over for picture takers so if you can tolerate a lack of privacy, even in the woods, then this flying saucer house my be your next home.

Called a circular home, this was the talk of the town back in the 70’s, but today, even though we’ve come several steps closer in our technology to the age envisioned by the likes of Roddenberry, Heinlein and Bradbury, from the outside this house looks cool, but strangely outdated.

The UFO styled house made a landing in the Signal Mountain range near Chattanooga, Tennessee over 30 years ago.

The ringed home boasts of three bedrooms, two baths retractable staircases, all being held up by six landing pods.

Built from scratch, this one is unlike those pre-fab saucer homes that were all the rage several years back. The builder, the late Curtis W. King, paid meticulous attention to detail with this Tennessee saucer.

“It really looked like a spaceship ready to take off,” realtor Lois Killebrew told the Associated Press.

Speaking of the King family who were the first residents of the unique house Killebrew said, “they liked to do unusual things.”

Source: CBS News

Witchita, KS — A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time he called police had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.

“She is an adult; she made her own decision,” said her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. “I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it.”

The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.

“We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital,” Whipple said. “The hospital removed it.”

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The Brittany mantra could fit quite well with this story about Dawn Wells. The actress who played the innocent little sweet heart for years on “Gilligan’s Island” is currently serving six months of unsupervised probation on a drug charge in Idaho.

First, Mary Ann is a naive and sweet girl who obviously doesn’t know that you never drive around in Idaho with your stash in the car and secondly, she’s been stuck on that island for decades and well….she’s sweet!

Last month Wells was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving. She had been charged with driving under the influence, possession of a controlled substance and having with her some drug paraphernalia. However, those more serious misdemeanor charges were dropped, although, in today’s world, driving under the influence is no laughing matter and should never be treated lightly.

All this stems from being pulled over back in October 2007 when she got nabbed by a Teton County police officer after he noticed that Wells was driving erratically. After watching her swerve, speed up and slow down without apparent reason, the police officer decided to pull the car over. Wells, age 69, was returning home from a surprise birthday party, and SURPRISE, she got hauled off to jail after the officer smelled marijuana in the car and under inspection found a half-smoked doobie and two small empty cases that can be used to store grass in. She then proceeded to miserably fail the administered sobriety test.

For her defense, Wells stated the marijuana wasn’t hers but belonged to a couple of passengers she had dropped off and that she was unaware of it, thought they were smoking a cigarette. Those at the party testified that she had little to drink at that evening’s party. Her lawyer stated that Wells was swerving because she was trying to adjust the heater in her new and unfamiliar car.

The judge took all of this testimony into account, discharging the 3 major accusations but hitting her with the driving under the influence charge which comes with the automatic five days, small fine and six month probation.

See, we told you she was still sweet and innocent.

Sorry folks.

Mike has been hit with the sickness he says the ONLY way to save him is to donate and buy him some magic beer.

We will be back in full force next Saturday.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a WI3D episode?

As usual we have Michael, The Chorus of Voices ™, and beer.


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