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The Blindboy Podcast

The Pistils of the Dandelions

The Blindboy Podcast

Blindboyboatclub

Art, Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Factual, Comedy, Fiction

4.98.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

I read a new short story from my book Topographia Hibernica 

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0:00.0

Boley Bola Boss, you costered husbands.

0:03.0

Welcome to the Blind By-by podcast.

0:05.0

Limerick is jittery with the cold.

0:07.0

It's pints in a dark smoking area,

0:10.0

weather, shavoring, hodling, in a dark smoking area and your fingers gone numb from wrapping

0:16.7

around a cold pint, smoking a cigarette because you think it'll warm you up.

0:21.2

It sounds really depressing but it's not. That's beautiful and once I have my

0:25.6

fucking buck out and my book tour done and I get back to Limerick in two weeks, I'm going to have

0:31.6

a shitty pint of Moretti in the

0:35.0

city pint of Moretti in the dark with an extreme chill in the night air

0:38.0

and have the type of chats you have

0:40.0

when you're just talking to distract yourself from the cold, but it's publishing week for me.

0:44.9

My book, Topographya, Ibarneka, it's coming out this Thursday, the 9th.

0:50.1

It's coming out the 9th in November in Ireland Ireland and then next week the 19th over in the UK

0:55.9

Also yes, there is an audiobook the audiobook is coming out too. I made a very special audio book

1:01.9

Where I composed an ambient soundtrack for each story and read the stories as a kind of performance, a rhythmic performance, because an audiobook is a slightly different medium and you're

1:14.8

consuming the work in a different way than when you read it. Because sometimes

1:19.8

audio books really miss an opportunity to do reading it out, just a person reading out what the book is,

1:27.0

and sometimes you've got audio books where it's just a person reading it out, just a person reading out

1:30.9

what the book is, because they have to instead of really

1:34.4

taking into account. People are consuming this in a different way now what little

1:39.2

bits can I change to make that experience more impactful.

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