Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. Featured in the New York Times, NPR and slashdot, his... Read More →
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Paul Sabourin is one half of comedy/music duo Paul and Storm. He is a co-founder of the geek-oriented variety show w00tstock (along with Storm, Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage), and a co-producer of the annual JoCo Cruise. He is a staff writer and co-producer on the past two seasons of... Read More →
Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. Featured in the New York Times, NPR and slashdot, his... Read More →
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Paul Sabourin is one half of comedy/music duo Paul and Storm. He is a co-founder of the geek-oriented variety show w00tstock (along with Storm, Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage), and a co-producer of the annual JoCo Cruise. He is a staff writer and co-producer on the past two seasons of... Read More →
Mark and Hal are joined by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction on a very special episode of their (non)AWARD-WINNING podcast to settle, once and for all, the worst form of immortality.
It's me. Hal. I like talking into microphones. Like on Venture Brothers, Mighty Magiswords, Thrilling Adventure Hour, Welcome to Night Vale, We Got This, TIghts and Fights, Surprisingly Nice, and more.
Kelly Sue DeConnick got her start in the comic industry adapting Japanese and Korean comics into English. Five years and more than ten thousand pages of adaptation later, she transitioned to American comics with 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: EBEN AND STELLA, for Steve Niles and IDW. Work for... Read More →
MATT FRACTION writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and crows. Surely there’s a metaphor there.
Saturday April 10, 2021 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
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Come join the virtual dance floor with an hour of tunes spun by John Scalzi, followed immediately by an hour set from Riz Rollins!
This dance party will be held via Zoom; feel free to turn your camera on if you'd like to be visible to other participants. And please remember that the JoCo Cruise Code of Conduct applies to all events (re: content, nudity, harassment, etc.).
' i want to give you the beats to make your pants itch'lynda barry. they been letting me help people dance for almost 3 decades. all ages, sizes, hues, and abilities ( please don't tell me ' i cain't dance'..just please don't. ) you don't hafta dance if you don't want to. we can just... Read More →
Saturday April 10, 2021 10:00pm - Sunday April 11, 2021 12:00am EDT
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Morning announcements? Inspirational messages? Calisthenics? Whatever content Storm and the Management decide to come up with while in our Virtual Cruise COVID bubble? Probably/maybe to all of these things!
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Sunday April 11, 2021 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
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Open Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to.On this descent into... Read More →
Laser Webber is best known as the songwriter and singer of US-based pop band the Doubleclicks. They have toured the US, Canada, Australia and Europe and topped Billboard and iTunes charts five times with albums spanning folk, pop and comedy genres. Their YouTube videos have racked... Read More →
Paul Sabourin is one half of comedy/music duo Paul and Storm. He is a co-founder of the geek-oriented variety show w00tstock (along with Storm, Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage), and a co-producer of the annual JoCo Cruise. He is a staff writer and co-producer on the past two seasons of... Read More →
Wil Wheaton began acting in commercials at the age of seven, and by the age of ten had appeared in numerous television and film roles. In 1986, his critically acclaimed role in Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me put him in the public spotlight, where he remains to this day. In 1987, Wil was... Read More →
Sunday April 11, 2021 9:00pm - 10:15pm EDT
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Morning announcements? Inspirational messages? Calisthenics? Whatever content Storm and the Management decide to come up with while in our Virtual Cruise COVID bubble? Probably/maybe to all of these things!
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Monday April 12, 2021 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
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Dr. Julio Friedmann, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and Chief Scientist for Carbon Direct, sits down (notionally speaking) for a talk about carbon policy with Eli Mitchell-Larson (who was instrumental in the development of JoCo Cruise's Carbon Roadmap) and JoCo Cruise's own Jonathan and Drew.
Dr. Friedmann is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, the CEO of Carbon Wrangler, LLC, is a Distinguished Associate at the Energy Futures Initiative, and serves as a Special Advisor to the Global CCS Institute. Dr. Friedmann recently... Read More →
Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. Featured in the New York Times, NPR and slashdot, his... Read More →
Eli is a climate researcher and practitioner based at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on scaling technologies and policies that can deliver global net zero emissions through safe, highly durable carbon storage. Eli’s net zero strategy and carbon removal consulting... Read More →
Songs about cats, queer feelings, dinosaurs, anxiety, and space, on a cat keyboard and ukulele, sung by siblings Laser (they/them) and Aubrey (she/her). The cat keyboard is part of it.
Gangstagrass brings together two kinds of American music and creates a third, greater than the sum of the parts.The band has released six full-length albums with dozens of appearances on the Billboard Top 10 bluegrass chart. Gangstagrass tracks have featured Nitty Scott MC, Dead Prez... Read More →
Monday April 12, 2021 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
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Morning announcements? Inspirational messages? Calisthenics? Whatever content Storm and the Management decide to come up with while in our Virtual Cruise COVID bubble? Probably/maybe to all of these things!
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Tuesday April 13, 2021 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
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This last year has been one unlike any other in living memory: a pandemic, an economic collapse and a presidential election year—and its aftermath. And yet creative lives had to go on in between all of this. On this panel, we'll look back at the year that was, how we met the challenge—or didn't!—and what, if anything, we can take out of the last year to incorporate into our creative and professional lives in 2021 and beyond.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of the forthcoming Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a young adult trilogy. Plus an upcoming short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes. And a collection of essays about how to make up stories during tough times, called Never Say You Can't Survive. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the Hugo Award-winning podc... Read More →
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut series and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories and Ghost Talkers. She’s the president of SFWA, a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer... Read More →
Rebecca Roanhorse is a New York Times Bestseller and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer. Her novels include Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts (both part of the Sixth World series), Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, and the middle grade novel on the Rick... Read More →
Comedians appreciate having an actual, laughing audience to see and react to. Add this event to your "My Sched" for the chance to get chosen to participate in the actual Zoom session for this comedy show! (You won't be visible on the actual live stream, only to the comics.)
I do standup and read a lot. Mostly fiction - though every three years I'll do a deep dive into a non fiction.Heh. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Novels mostly. My favorite authors, historically, are Tolkien and Kage Baker and Lois McMaster Bujold. Currently loving NK... Read More →
Tuesday April 13, 2021 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
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Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. Featured in the New York Times, NPR and slashdot, his... Read More →
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Paul Sabourin is one half of comedy/music duo Paul and Storm. He is a co-founder of the geek-oriented variety show w00tstock (along with Storm, Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage), and a co-producer of the annual JoCo Cruise. He is a staff writer and co-producer on the past two seasons of... Read More →
Morning announcements? Inspirational messages? Calisthenics? Whatever content Storm and the Management decide to come up with while in our Virtual Cruise COVID bubble? Probably/maybe to all of these things!
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Wednesday April 14, 2021 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
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Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. Featured in the New York Times, NPR and slashdot, his... Read More →
For more than 20 years, Jim Boggia has been winning over fans, critics, contemporaries and luminaries alike with his uncompromising devotion to the sort of winsomely nostalgic, emotionally direct songcraft that’s impervious to age. His sonically intelligent retro-pop manifesto informs... Read More →
Storm DiCostanzo is the latter half of the music/comedy duo Paul and Storm, and formerly (along with Paul) a member of a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. He's also a co-producer of JoCo Cruise, writer and producer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and is a resident and Town Council... Read More →
Songs about cats, queer feelings, dinosaurs, anxiety, and space, on a cat keyboard and ukulele, sung by siblings Laser (they/them) and Aubrey (she/her). The cat keyboard is part of it.
Ted Leo has been a fixture of the punk community for over thirty years, first with bands like Citizen’s Arrest and Chisel, and later with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. He is the frontman and lead guitarist of rock group Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and in 2013, he and Aimee Mann... Read More →
MATERIAL FLATS - a debut-ish album from Tawny Newsome and Bethany ThomasBethany and Tawny have been singing together for 15 years. It started with a poorly attended musicalabout sex workers (it wasn't great), and soon turned the two of them into backing-vocalists-for-hire forevery... Read More →
Paul Sabourin is one half of comedy/music duo Paul and Storm. He is a co-founder of the geek-oriented variety show w00tstock (along with Storm, Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage), and a co-producer of the annual JoCo Cruise. He is a staff writer and co-producer on the past two seasons of... Read More →
Wednesday April 14, 2021 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
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