Keith Conrad
@keithrconrad.bsky.social
Podcaster, writer, Cubs fan, space geek, Beacon of restraint & self-sacrifice in a squall of car-crazies.
Bailey Park was a cemetery before George started building houses there. They moved the headstones but not the bodies. It's A Wonderful Life is a Poltergeist prequel.
December 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Bailey Park was a cemetery before George started building houses there. They moved the headstones but not the bodies. It's A Wonderful Life is a Poltergeist prequel.
Just FYI, if George Bailey or anyone else lassoed the Moon, it would be an extinction level event 🌙
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just FYI, if George Bailey or anyone else lassoed the Moon, it would be an extinction level event 🌙
Misty and I give it two kurus up
Moviegoers escaped into director James Cameron’s sci-fi universe this weekend, driving the third installment of the “Avatar” franchise to an estimated $88 million domestically. https://cnn.it/4aoMlxr
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Misty and I give it two kurus up
On this date forty-nine years ago, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley stopped dining at Chez Paul
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this date forty-nine years ago, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley stopped dining at Chez Paul
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Call Center by Noah Vale. It's an author-submitted story that's a bit of a cross between the TV show Dead Like Me and the movie Office Space. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/pcZTe7derB
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Call Center by Noah Vale. It's an author-submitted story that's a bit of a cross between the TV show Dead Like Me and the movie Office Space. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/pcZTe7derB
Happy Hanukkah to all my friends who are celebrating
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Happy Hanukkah to all my friends who are celebrating
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. Parents decide it's a good idea to outsource raising their kids to technology, with less than stellar results. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/JMCSwch
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. Parents decide it's a good idea to outsource raising their kids to technology, with less than stellar results. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/JMCSwch
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair. It's basically a cross between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Little Shop of Horrors. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/0HH
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair. It's basically a cross between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Little Shop of Horrors. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/0HH
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Escape From Pluto By William Oberfield. It's like the story of Icarus, if he was an exiled Martian dictator rather than being from ancient Greece. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/s9ksOQ1Fsb
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Escape From Pluto By William Oberfield. It's like the story of Icarus, if he was an exiled Martian dictator rather than being from ancient Greece. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/s9ksOQ1Fsb
Reposted by Keith Conrad
This week in America:
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This week in America:
Marjorie Taylor Greene leaving Congress to found a Christian Space Laser company
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will resign, after fallout with Trump
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene supported a bill compelling the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the DOJ, putting her on the bad side of President Trump.
www.cnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene leaving Congress to found a Christian Space Laser company
This week's story on Auditory Anthology my sci-fi audio fiction podcast is The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson. Getting back to nature always seems like a great idea... until you're dropped onto another planet. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/oIXIiR6gy7
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This week's story on Auditory Anthology my sci-fi audio fiction podcast is The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson. Getting back to nature always seems like a great idea... until you're dropped onto another planet. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/oIXIiR6gy7
Happy World Kindness Day, jerks
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Happy World Kindness Day, jerks
You're going to be hearing this absolute banger a lot today. OTD 50 years ago, the Gales of November came early
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
YouTube video by Zeezy
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November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
You're going to be hearing this absolute banger a lot today. OTD 50 years ago, the Gales of November came early
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Six Frightened Men by Randall Garrett. It might remind you of the movie Forbidden Planet (without the cool robot). Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/B25dNuvi
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is Six Frightened Men by Randall Garrett. It might remind you of the movie Forbidden Planet (without the cool robot). Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/B25dNuvi
Obligatory "Why is it getting dark so early?" post
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Obligatory "Why is it getting dark so early?" post
This year, I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then, bang! That's when I'll cash in.
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This year, I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then, bang! That's when I'll cash in.
Reposted by Keith Conrad
Not sure who needs to hear this but we landed on the moon
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Not sure who needs to hear this but we landed on the moon
That's less than ideal
FAA warns of ‘surge’ in air traffic controllers calling out of work
FAA warns of ‘surge’ in air traffic controllers calling out of work
The agency reported “widespread impacts” across the aviation system as the shutdown drags on.
dlvr.it
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
That's less than ideal
Reposted by Keith Conrad
Inside you there are two wolves. One wolf wants to start a conversation over lunch that begins "Did you hear what Kim Kardashian fucking said this week?" and the other wolf wants to put a fucking gun in its mouth for even knowing what the fuck Kim Kardashian fucking said this week.
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Inside you there are two wolves. One wolf wants to start a conversation over lunch that begins "Did you hear what Kim Kardashian fucking said this week?" and the other wolf wants to put a fucking gun in its mouth for even knowing what the fuck Kim Kardashian fucking said this week.
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Shoddy Lands by C.S. Lewis. Have you ever been so bored in a conversation that you got transported into a different dimension? Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/ZJHfCsD2d1G
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This week's story on my sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Shoddy Lands by C.S. Lewis. Have you ever been so bored in a conversation that you got transported into a different dimension? Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/ZJHfCsD2d1G
Listen, I know things may feel a little bleak these days. Just remember there's nothing to be afraid of... Except that fog that turns people inside out
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Listen, I know things may feel a little bleak these days. Just remember there's nothing to be afraid of... Except that fog that turns people inside out
"You went to MIT?" "Yes, Murray's Institute of Tools"
Trump on Harvard: "We reached a concept of a deal but it's pretty complicated bc under this deal it would be $500m, they're gonna open up trade schools. I love the idea of trade & trade schools by Harvard. You know, they get into like a vocational-type school... we may just charge them a $500m fine"
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"You went to MIT?" "Yes, Murray's Institute of Tools"
This week's story on on sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis. It's a fun story that's basically a cross between Flubber and that scene when Will Smith makes that ball fly around MIB headquarters. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/E37kF
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This week's story on on sci-fi audio fiction podcast Auditory Anthology is The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis. It's a fun story that's basically a cross between Flubber and that scene when Will Smith makes that ball fly around MIB headquarters. Listen to the whole story: https://dwarf.ly/E37kF
Today we celebrate Columbus Day with the time-honored tradition of waiting to see if the Columbus Day Holiday Hobgoblin will "discover" our home & move in like he owns the place
October 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Today we celebrate Columbus Day with the time-honored tradition of waiting to see if the Columbus Day Holiday Hobgoblin will "discover" our home & move in like he owns the place