Escape Pod 814: Oddments, Pasha’s Autodiary of 07 MAR 2032

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Oddments, Pasha’s Autodiary of 07 MAR 2032 By Christopher Noessel I woke you up two hours before, so you would have time to get into face. You sat in the rattling shoebox lavatory of an interstate bus with a handheld mirror and terrible lighting, sang false apologies to anyone who knocked, and finished your work with a band of programmable glitter on your lips and in a wide stripe from temple to temple, right across your eyes like some kind of brigand. You decided, “Indigo,” and in a cascade, it changed. You reached into a bag and pulled out a giant blue wig with antlers sticking out. You pulled it on, bobby-pinned it into place, and primped. Admiring your handiwork in the mirror, you accidentally elbowed the little glass jar of glitter into the sink, and without a strainer, the jar vanished right down. It was a costly mistake. You didn’t get worked up though. You just looked down the dark drain and said, “Do svidaniya, little sun.” >> Inserted 10 MAR: A few days later, a maintenance technician would recover the lost jar in a bus parking lot, and, curious, open it. The stuff would spill everywhere. The next evening satellite images showed curly loaves of sparkling-indigo javelina turds in the neighboring fields. I expect you will find this hilarious. Perhaps even metaphorical. >>End Insert

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0:00.0	A skate pod, Episode 814, Odments, Pasha's Auto Diary of the 7th of March, 2032, by Christopher
0:17.7	Nellison Hello and welcome to a skate pod, your weekly science
0:43.6	fiction podcast. I'm your host this week, Tina Connell, and I'm here to bring you Odments,
0:50.0	Pasha's Auto Diary of the 7th of March, 2032, by Christopher Nellison. This story is original
0:59.3	to a skate pod. In his day job, Christopher designs AI at IBM. He's published non-fiction
1:08.2	books about sci-fi, design, and AI, and is the keeper of the blog, sci-fi-interfaces.com. Find
1:16.6	them on Twitter at Chris Nossel, that's N-O-E-S-S-E-L, or at US of AI. Your narrator this week is Tatiana
1:29.0	Gray. Tatiana Gray is a New York City-based actress of stage, screen, and of course the
1:34.7	Audiopolis. Her facility with multiple genres and accents has landed her numerous audiobooks
1:40.2	and on camera rolls, including the role of Evdemia in the award-winning I Am Effect. She received
1:47.2	the New York Innovative Theater award-best featured actress nomination for her work in the
1:51.7	Might of Nose for Oct. Tatiana's a graduate of the Tisch School of Learts, and a proud
1:57.5	member of Actor's Equity Association. Find her at Tatiana Gray.com or on Twitter at
2:04.4	TatianaTheGray. Your audio producer this week is Adam Perott. So get ready to apply the
2:12.7	programmable order, because it's story time.
2:20.5	Odments, Pasha's Auto Diary of 7 March, 2032, by Christopher Nossel, narrated by Tatiana
2:32.6	Gray. I woke you up two hours before, so you would have time to get into face. You
2:42.1	sat in the rattling shoebox lavatory of an interstate bus with a handheld mirror and
2:48.6	terrible lighting, saying false apologies to anyone who knocked, and finished your work
2:54.9	with a band of programmable glitter on your lips and in a wide stripe from temple to temple
3:01.9	right across your eyes like some kind of brigand. You decided, in to go, and in a cascade,
3:10.7	you changed. You reached into a bag and pulled out a giant blue wig with antlers sticking
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