Episode #39 – wait…what…it’s 2015??

We’re back, and we have been doing things honest.

00:00 Introduction and a wee Catch Up

• Phil Rossi has chosen Tee Morris as his Best Man. Will he be great at that?
• Pip has crossed the Pacific four times already, so…excuses…
• Gail Carriger’s latest book Prudence is out.
• We might not have released any episodes…but we have recorded a bunch.
• Promise we have two months worth of stuff for us.
• So hold it to us (WHAT???)
• Pip had a tough first trip, but all is well now.
• The second trip was loads of fun, so lets dive in…
• To Deadlines…
• Social Media for Writers is now coming Fall, but apparently social media platforms are a moving target
• The Shared Desk promises to get sensible (again don’t hold it to us)
• The Diamond Conspiracy is OUT! We love it, and we hope you do to.
• Dawn’s Early Light wins the RT Reviewers Choice Award
• Tee makes a choice between moonshine and craft beer…

8:25 To New Zealand

• We do things a little differently. Con in the middle.
• Te Papa and their awesome exhibits.
• Nothing like flight attendant in go go boots!
• We look into the history of World War I and New Zealand. If you can, go see their new exhibit on Gallipoli
• Tee is wrong. The last veteran of WWI died in 2012. Smug Pip is smug. And doing the shownotes.
• Pip tries to explain the significance of Gallipoli to New Zealanders.
• Perhaps spitting around New Zealand is not good advice.
• Dawn services in New Zealand are incredibly popular and moving
• Tee and Pip might get to see this exhibit, since it is apparently running for a few years.
• New Zealand is planning to bid for the 2020 Worldcon.
• Tee throws himself into the NZ craft beer movement. Starting with the Garage Project. Pip used to fill up on gas there, and now Tee filled up on beer.
• Tee lists what he did try.
• Tee loves the Venusian Pale Ale…though he hasn’t tried it yet. Go follow the Garage Project on Facebook.
• Tee discovers a beer made for consumption with Saturday morning cartoons.

23:07 On to Rotorua

•  Reconnaissance: the 36th New Zealand National SFF&H convention is a blast
• Not a huge con, but a great turn out for New Zealand
• Pip and Tee ran a writing workshop…and made apparently work.
• Great booksigning at Atlantis Books
• And then finished off with a steampunk get together in the Government Gardens.
• A family trip to the Polynesian Spa, and manage not to boil
• Sonic Boom shows her parents up

27:39 On to Oamaru

• Tee and Pip travel to Steampunk Oamaru, and are made to feel welcome by the steampunks of Oamaru. Thanks to Agent Darling.
• Severely underestimation on how much there was to see and do.
• Finally above the fold!
• This is a town that has embraced its past, and then found steampunk
• Steampunk HQ is art gallery/interactive display/playground/mind-trip
• Pip and Tee struggle to adequately describe everything they saw. So go see it. Thank you to all those steampunks that came out.
• Possibility of a new short story.
• Steampunk play grounds rock!
• Even Pip got weirded out by driving through literally nowhere…no signal…nothing.
• Queenstown, the most touristy town in New Zealand with the worst parking. Still cool stuff to do.
• Pip won’t let Tee jump off a bridge, but finds a soda bar that serves wine.
• The New Zealand Whisky Collection, in Oamaru.
• Could be why we came back so relaxed.

41:13 Writers off the Clock. Daredevil

• Pip and Tee have a lot of TV to catch up on.
• Violent and will written.
• Tee admits liking parts of the movie. Pip manages not to run out of the room screaming…
• Charlie Cox has always been a great actor, but a bad-ass??
• The cinematography is just beautiful.
• More realistic fight scenes. Yay!
• Vincent D’Onofrio is intense but surprisingly touching as Wilson Fisk.
• Great television needs great writers and great actors.
• Pip and Tee love how it is tied into the wider MCU

54:07 What lies ahead

•  We reach the end of a rather large Shared Desk
• No talking about what’s going within the writing community, unless you buy us a drink somewhere…
• Tee is the Best Man.
• Pip heads to RT in a pretty dress to pick up the award.
• Pip has some panels in Dallas.
• Then Balticon to celebrate with our tribe, and remember PG Holyfield
• We’ll have plenty of books to sell, including Tales of a Tesla Ranger, to benefit PG Holyfield’s Childrens Trust
• Roleplaying games will be had
• CapitalCon right in our backyard…not literally. Come meet our first cosplayer.
• See you soon!!

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and we’ll catch you later.