sidleypkhermit | Moby-Dick is a wrap; Sub-Etha Radio continues

Remember in May of last year (that's a rhetorical question, obviously none of us remember anything that happened in May of last year) when I started a Discord server just for read-aloud events to help stave off the terror of pandemic loneliness? Well, we've read, among other things, Much Ado; the full original Hitchhiker's radio scripts; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Rivals; The Alchemist; short stories by Poe, Shirley Jackson, Conan Doyle, and Louis Sachar; the War of the Worlds radio play for a Halloween special; and last night we finished the read-through of Moby Dick that I started in June of last year when I felt like it would be a good idea for me, like spiritually, to get a long-term project going (I was right!).

Our weekly schedule at present is a duo of summer spooktaculars: Murder and mayhem on Tuesdays as the listeners become the detectives on The Magnificent Mystery Show, hosted by @TeddyCatBell; and small-town New England gothic on Thursdays with Shirley Jackson's final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, narrated by @Artibartfast (Artie). Both air at 4:30 PM Pacific / 7:30 PM Eastern US time in the voice channel.

As always, anyone can join, anyone can listen, and anyone can put a project of their own on the schedule if they so choose. If you want some help figuring out how the hell Discord works, hit me up, I too am over 35. (One of the great things about this server is that it essentially can't turn into the barrage of teen chat room chaos that makes so many servers so terrifying, not because there are no youths but because nearly everything we do is talking with our human voices in the voice channel. It's amazing sometimes what having a mission statement can do.)

Click right here to check out Sub-Etha Radio, ~~theoretically~~ broadcasting around the galaxy around the clock. I'd love to see any of you there.