Intelli-pop : The Pilot Episode

Back in 2001, Chris and I produced a radio show for KABF. We would record an hour long show at his studio and put it on disc for KABF to play at their convenience. They said they would use it after baseball games, but we can neither confirm nor deny that any episodes ever aired. We even started a website, intelli-pop.com, but since the project never took off, I just pointed it over to rossrice.net.

Thanks to Margot, who recently pointed out to me that the Internet Archive offers free media storage, I uploaded the first show there. Take a listen and let me know what you think. If you enjoy it, I’ll upload the rest of the episodes.

Streaming | Download (80MB right click to ‘save as’)

3 Down, 1 to Go

Dotty Oliver from the Little Rock Free Press emailed me a couple of weeks ago saying that my “name had come up” as a possible writer for a piece on Max Recordings‘ 5th anniversary. It’s nice to know my name comes up. And this time I’ll get paid! Not much, but enough to say I’m a professional journalist[1].

I put it together in just a few days, and it turned out OK. I think it will be in the racks here soon. So I’ve conquered Arkansas Times, Localist, and now the Freep. Onward to Nightflying.

1.) In the same sense that I’ve been a professsional actor because I’ve been paid to act once.

Freakiness

I neglected to mention this wire story from Pittsburgh recently, which freaked me out for several minutes. As I read the story I was thinking how bizarre it was, and then I see the sentence “my name is not Nikki Allen.”

I only know one person in Pittsburgh, and her name is Nikki Allen. She, like the girl in the story, is 24.

After a quick search of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the girl’s picture, and it wasn’t my friend. Here’s her myspace page and livejournal. Still a weird way to start your day. The story is developing into something truly weird.