The

The The time is almost upon us for Sailing Fest 2024.

I can't believe it's already here, you know, we've been talking about it on the show

for such a long time now, a lot of preparation in the background, but the time is now,

and your Sailing Fest 24 coverage begins here.. So to help me go through the schedule of

Sailing Fest, I'm invited on my longtime friend, friend of the show, and author of the Twilight Zone

Hiku, Chad, Ellis Boykin. Chad, welcome back, man. It's great to be here, Tom. Thanks so much for having me on. This is really exciting.

Now, when we last spoke, you were just publishing the Twilight Zone Hiku. So how's it been?

Now the book is out, the audio book is out. How's it been for you?

It's been really exciting. We've done some really cool things. We had a book launch event where I had an actual cellist do some musical accompaniment to some of the select poems and sort of introduced the shows that they were based on for anybody in the audience that might not be familiar. We've had an art exhibit in

Brooklyn. We've done multiple signings and readings. We've done some visual art pieces, and we've

worked on some actual haiku comic panels with a collaboration with weirdo poetry. So we've done a lot

of cool stuff. It's been well received, and it's hard to believe it's almost a year.

And, of course, the coolest thing is that I got the new millennium voice of the Twilight Zone

to do the narration for the audiobook.

So that makes it really special.

Well, thank you, man.

Thank you.

It was a lot of fun to do that.

Now, that kind of leads quite nicely into our

Sailing Fest coverage because Sailing Fest itself begins on Friday the 13th of September, and we'll get

onto the schedule in a moment. But there's actually a kind of pre-sailing Fest thing going on but I'll just run through my time in Binghamton for anyone out there you know who wants to kind of say hello or whatever

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