tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195036802007-04-27T20:12:01.104-07:00David TBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-36440159733849387322007-04-14T15:10:00.000-07:002007-04-27T20:12:01.130-07:00

Hi all. Apparently the excellent public radio program re:sound chose to air Episode 48: Florida Recount Poker this week on their show. We knew this was coming up, but didn't know it was this week, so it was exciting to get mail from new listeners today. Thanks Roman, Gwen, and everyone over there! I haven't listened yet, but I was reviewing the line-up. Some really great stuff.

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-40663550902793943072007-03-17T19:24:00.000-07:002007-03-17T19:31:19.992-07:00

Catalogue of Ships would like to sincerely thank everyone who has written us or left snarky MySpace comments the last few weeks asking us what the heck happened to us. As you may know, Catalogue of Ships has failed to produce any new material since the new year. We apologize for this. Our intention was transition from being a weekly podcast created by only David and Michael, to a more

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1170094945005912712007-01-29T10:19:00.000-08:002007-01-29T10:22:25.020-08:00

Hey, all. I just wanted to get the word out that it looks like we will not have a January episode. However, if you are in the NYC area, come check out my live show, Taking One for the Team, a commissioned piece for Target Margin Theatre. It will be very Catalogue of Ships-esque. Then we are looking at three or four brand new episodes in February, followed by a big special Catalogue of Ships

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1167275563314081162006-12-27T18:53:00.000-08:002006-12-27T19:12:43.326-08:00

Our Year 2 experiment continues tonight with Episode 54: Behind the Phone Books, our first experiment with teaming up a writer and composer who have never met or spoken with each other. The story is by Sue Mell, an independent radio producer and freelance bed stylist(?) from San Francisco. You can check out more of her work at PRX. If you have a moment, I highly recommend "For Love," which

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1166974903332653372006-12-24T07:18:00.000-08:002006-12-24T07:52:03.883-08:00

Dear listeners, I am happy to announce that we will have a new episode live before the end 2006. Independent radio producer Sue Mell from San Francisco has joined forces with Boston based composer Dylan Ris to bring us a Hannukah story. Yes, I know Hannukah ended Friday night. Sorry about that. You have no idea how hard it is to book a composer around the Holidays. But on to other

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1165201919571950962006-12-03T18:45:00.000-08:002006-12-03T19:11:59.653-08:00

I know! We can't believe it either, but multiple Peabody award winner Marjorie Van Halteren has chosen to premier her new piece "Cheesing" on Catalogue of Ships! So starting at midnight tonight if you click this link, you will be able to hear the latest in innovative radio straight out of Morbecque, France. For more about Marjorie, check out her blog at vanwindmill.googlepages.com

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1164060449472835232006-11-20T14:05:00.000-08:002006-11-20T14:14:57.353-08:00

Comedy Central's website just added a syndicated media player!! Woo hoo! That means I can post their videos on our blog. Admittedly, there is not a lot of Comedy Central relevent material for Catalogue of Ships to post, but here are two videos from our guest contributor, Kristen Schaal. Enjoy!

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1162659358831568472006-11-04T08:42:00.000-08:002006-11-04T10:54:06.076-08:00

Hi, all. It is very very strange to not be doing a Catalogue of Ships episode this weekend, but I am very much enjoying my "vacation" and having my first completely free weekend ever. In fact it felt so weird, I decided to update the site a little bit. I FINALLY got around to adding a real Press section and separated out our the press from our listener reviews (which we REALLY appreciate...,

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1162346578006888922006-10-31T17:59:00.000-08:002006-10-31T18:02:58.006-08:00

we are exhausted, but it has been a blast. and please, drop us a line if you like the show or even if you are just confused by it. we love to hear from you. seriously.

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1161199605424691562006-10-18T12:24:00.000-07:002006-10-31T17:58:57.966-08:00

Thanks this week to Tim Miller http://hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmiller.html who was super helpful in shaping the episode. Thanks Tim.

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1160979445404858522006-10-15T23:15:00.000-07:002006-10-15T23:17:25.423-07:00

Has it really been 50? No it has not. Episode 50 is something a little different. I jsut got David's text tonight at 2:00 am. It's pretty amazing. But I do need to edit it. So give me some time. I'll get to it before Monday at Midnight. I promise. Thanks. mk

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1160456935833471272006-10-09T21:51:00.000-07:002006-10-09T22:10:31.636-07:00

So Catalogue of Ships is #1 on a podcast rating site called Idiotvox which is great (though I still take issue with the fact that they call themselves a "democracy"). However, it's never translated into too many hits for us. Maybe 100 or so a month since we hit the #1 spot. Tonight we got over 400 hits from them. So my question for anyone who found us through Idiotvox tonight... What's the

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1159748552712070302006-10-01T17:10:00.000-07:002006-10-01T19:11:13.700-07:00

In the episode DT did a pretty good job of describing the rules of "Florida Recount Poker," a game developed by David, our friend Josh, this guy, and myself in November of 2000. I thought I would explain them further and print them on the blog for anyone who wants to play: The game plays like a normal 7-card stud game, for the most part. Each player is dealt two cards down and one card up.

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1158548878311996862006-09-17T20:05:00.000-07:002006-09-17T21:26:22.030-07:00

Listen to this week's episode to find out!

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1157375012822198192006-09-04T06:02:00.000-07:002006-09-04T06:03:32.833-07:00

Due to the American Labor Day holiday, Catalogue of Ships will be posted Tuesday morning instead of Monday this week. Sorry for the inconvenience. mk

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1156082713917197342006-08-20T07:03:00.000-07:002006-08-20T07:05:13.930-07:00

Yup. I'm going out of the country for the next few days, and am not confident that I will have internet access (in fact I'm sure I won't) tomorrow morning. So I'm going to go ahead and post Episode 42 now. I know some people do their podcast updates on Sunday, so if you missed episode 41, make sure to go back and get it. I thought it was a nifty one. Thanks. mk

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1155089787114477782006-08-08T19:15:00.000-07:002006-08-09T09:37:23.746-07:00

This has been quite a few days! Ever since BoingBoing.net, the popular web portal, linked to Episode 40 - An Open Letter to US Air, our site has been slammed with traffic! It's very exciting. To give you some perspective, in the last 24 hours, Episode 40 has been downloaded more times than EVERY episode combined are downloaded in a single month! Crazy! Not only that, but for the first time

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1154915077406547232006-08-06T18:35:00.000-07:002006-08-07T21:34:11.793-07:00

If you are reading this, it is likely because you have listened to Episode 40 - An Open Letter to US Airways, and you most likely agree with me that if this story is true, it is among the worst customer service stories you have ever heard (though if you want another good one, be sure to check out Episode 21 - Trading Spaces). Well, it's all true. Even the part about the customer service guys

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1154383810041274362006-07-31T15:05:00.000-07:002006-07-31T15:10:10.043-07:00

Catalogue of Ships was very happy this week to feature the comedian Kristen Schaal on our program! If you enjoyed Kristen, she hosts a live show called the Hot Tub Variety Show in New York City. Check out their website for show dates, videos and a blog. She was recently a featured performer on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham" Thanks Kristen! David needed the break. Now. Does anyone

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1154369049587569552006-07-31T11:02:00.000-07:002006-07-31T15:05:14.536-07:00

Not very late though. I'll have it up by this evening. I wasn't feeling well yesterday (Sunday). I think I got mild food poisoning from a restaurant called Yuca at the corner of 7th and Avenue A in Manhattan. Even if the food wasn't what hurt me, the restaurant treats its customers like crap. Don't go there. m

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1153339514106193372006-07-19T13:02:00.000-07:002006-07-19T13:05:14.120-07:00

Wow! What a great week for Catalogue of Ships! First the interview over at The Third Coast Festival, and now we are a featured "Dispatch from the World of Podcasting" at PRX Check it out!

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1152845063185896492006-07-13T19:32:00.000-07:002006-07-13T19:55:08.066-07:00

Before I get to the topic of this post, I just wanted to once again give extra special thanks to the Third Coast International Audio Festival for featuring us this week on their website. The interview was a lot of fun! Those of you who have websites know that one of the cool things a lot of host services do is show you what search strings have hit your site (i.e. what people Googled that

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1152662260957207832006-07-11T16:53:00.000-07:002006-07-12T16:26:30.380-07:00

Again, I apologize to David and everyone else for being so late this week. But the new episode is up now. It's a big one too. It's all about David's break with the church. I've mixed in a lot of music from old episodes in addition to adding new stuff. That's part of why it took so long. We've really been building up to this one for a while, so I wanted to make sure to get it just right.

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1152739323764085922006-07-12T14:19:00.000-07:002006-07-12T14:22:03.786-07:00

Be sure to check out the first ever Catalogueo fo Ships interview over at the Third Coast International Audio Festival this week. It was extremely nice of them to feature us. They are one of my favorite organizations in the world. Their entire mission is to seek out and highlight exciting audio work from all over the world, and so we are extremely flattered that they recognized little old us.

David Ttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19503680.post-1152549999543518542006-07-10T09:45:00.000-07:002006-07-10T09:46:39.556-07:00

Hi all. I moved into my new apartment in New York this weekend. This was kind of unexpected. The movers we hired to move us from Chicago gave us a two week window in which they would drop off our stuff, so we didn't know when they would come until the day before. But we got everything moved in, and I will finish this weeks show tonight, hopefully, and have it posted tomorrow morning.

David T