Hot Java Blues
by Larry Heyl
licensed CC BY

Joe could dig some hot java to loosen up his teeth. He’d been too long on this rig and even if he was a whole lot closer than he was just a little while ago he was still worried. If he could just get back to Europa with this rock in tow everything would be all right. More than all right. He’d be alive.

When he saw the rock he let himself get greedy. Sure it was at the upper edge of the possible but look at that ore! And just look at the size of it! He let himself talk himself into it. And that was just his first mistake.

He filled the basket and hit the side of the percolator with his wrench until it started bubbling. Joe was still worried. He couldn’t get over woulda this and coulda that with his 20 20 hindsight.

He felt better with a hot cup in his hands. Still worried but better. The coffee soothed him but it reminded him of his problem at the same time. Sure he got the rock. Sure he turned it around. He’d be at Europa in a week. Maybe eight days. But he was still worried.

He still had at least a week to go on this bucket and he only had a three day supply of coffee left.

Mix Remix Radio
Creative Commons Remix
November 15, 2020

MixRemix Radio can be heard at mixremix.cc.

Sometimes serendipity rules. This playlist was generated randomly from the MixRemix Radio Creative Commons Library. This is a cool mix of jazz, reggae, and cinematic in a variety of styles, all clean and shiny.

Since all the music is Creative Commons it is fine to post the songs with attribution. Here's a list of the albums these songs were drawn from including the duration of the album, the link, and the license. Each song also includes attribution in the filename. Free streaming. Free to download and share. Also some of these songs are available to use in your project. Check the license for songs you are interested in reusing. They are all either no derivatives or non commercial so your intended use dictates availability.

Album list

51:16
Ghost Hunter / Dark reggae by MOURNFUL SKANK
https://mournful-skank.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-hunter-dark-reggae
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

38:51
Amor Absconditus - Régis V. Gronoff
https://www.jamendo.com/album/154722/amor-absconditus
CC BY-NC-ND

28:14
Wild Goats and Useless Heroes by The Freak Fandango Orchestra
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Freak_Fandango_Orchestra/Wild_Goats_and_Useless_Heroes/
CC BY-SA and CC BY-NC

1:07:46
Groove Related - Jeffrey Scott Lawrence (JSL)
https://www.jamendo.com/album/77553/groove-related
CC BY-NC-SA

32:34
[SCL145] Kai Engel - Paradigm Lost by Kai Engel
https://archive.org/details/SCL145
CC BY-NC-SA

31:53
A Quiet Light by Somewhere off Jazz Street
https://somewhereoffjazzstreet.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-light
CC BY-NC

19:48
Second - Paolo Pavan
https://www.jamendo.com/album/100053/second
CC BY-NC-SA

58:30
Queen of the Woods by Dee Yan-Key
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Queen_of_the_Woods/
CC BY-NC-SA

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring songs from jazz re:freshed, oprachina, and Steve Lawson. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

jazz re:freshed Vol1 with Obenawa, Joy Jones, Organism, and Xantone Blacq
jazzrefreshed.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-re-freshed-vol1

oprachina – the jazz farm
www.jamendo.com/album/9986/the-jazz-farm

Steve Lawson – Grace and Gratitude
music.stevelawson.net/album/grace-and-gratitude

The NEA Game Fest wrapped up yesterday with two interesting events. Sarah, Kier, and Megan gave their personal top 10 board game list discussing each in some detail. Then Kier hosted an online game of Um Actually, a trivia game about all things geek.

So our opening topic for Inspired Unreality tonight will be Online Gaming and Online Conventions. As always we will be in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord at 9:00 PM Central. Open game chat, everyone is welcome, all gaming is on topic. If you're new to Tenkar's Tavern Gamer+ has an invitation for you here.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring songs from jazz re:freshed, oprachina, and Steve Lawson. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Uyama Hiroto, Nubya Garcia, and Ambrose Akinmusire. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at http://sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at http://kasu.org.

Thanks Marty, it's a joy to play some Arkansas jazz on Arkansas Roots.

On September 27, 2011, Jazz Alliance played at the Jonesboro Public Library. With Ron Horton on trumpet; Craig Collison, vibes; David Eckert, bass; and Mike Overall playing drums they really delivered on this jazz standard, "It Could Happen To You". Mike was editor at the Jonesboro Sun. Ron taught at ASU and Craig and David continue teaching at ASU nearly ten years later. Listen now as they give us an exquisite performance of "It Could Happen To You".

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And that's "It Could Happen To You" played by Jazz Alliance at the Jonesboro Public Library.

Tune in to Something Blue Saturday night at 10:00 to hear songs from Uyama Hiroto, Nubya Garcia, and Ambrose Akinmusire.

Mix Remix Radio
Creative Commons Remix
November 11, 2020

MixRemix Radio can be heard at mixremix.cc.

Sometimes serendipity rules. This playlist was generated randomly from the MixRemix Radio Creative Commons Library. This is a cool mix of jazz, rock, and hiphop in a variety of styles, all clean and shiny.

Since all the music is Creative Commons it is fine to post the songs with attribution. Here's a list of the albums these songs were drawn from including the duration of the album, the link, and the license. Each song also includes attribution in the filename. Free streaming. Free to download and share. Also some of these songs are available to use in your project. Check the license for songs you are interested in reusing. They are all either no derivatives or non commercial so your intended use dictates availability.

Album list

1:01:27
The Afterglow by YITT
https://yitt.bandcamp.com/album/the-afterglow
CC BY-NC


6:54
Pete Lund - Gypsy Cab
https://archive.org/details/BS450014/02-LastAddiction_192kb.mp3
CC BY-NC-ND

32:30
Inside - Paolo Pavan
https://www.jamendo.com/album/15112/inside
CC BY-NC-SA

35:47
Void by Dan Mason
https://danmason.bandcamp.com/album/void
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

28:20
Live @ Blue Whale 1​-​25​-​13 by Bob Reynolds
https://bobreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/live-blue-whale-1-25-13
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

55:55
Headsnack - Alternative Facts
https://archive.org/details/BSMX0161
CC BY-NC-SA

16:38
Time To Leave I Am Not Lefthanded
https://www.jamendo.com/album/59626/time-to-leave
CC BY-NC-SA

46:37
Various Artists - netBloc Volume 3: La Plus Belle Guerre
https://archive.org/details/BSCOMP0003/11-Ghostown-JohnnyMarr_PsychoKiller__Bonus2006Version__192kb.mp3
CC BY-NC-ND

Open game chat tonight on Inspired Unreality. Our opening topic will be NPCs. Just how much agency should the DM give to NPCs? Should they only be minions or more like PCs with the DM acting out their roles? Or should the DM go even further with NPCs solving puzzles that have stymied the party or even fighting their fights for them? I'm more of the have the NPC give a hint every now and then but I am open minded about this. Should the NPC add a bit of color or should they dominate the narrative if necessary in the eyes of the DM? What's your take?

Inspired Unreality open game chat is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. 9:00 PM Central every Monday night. If you are new to Tenkar's Tavern we have an invite for you here.

https://gamerplus.org/index

Earlier this year on Inspired Unreality the Related To Geeks Book Club discussed "Armada" by Ernest Cline. Our podcast is now up on anchor. If you are a big fan you will want to leave a comment because neither Megan or I were impressed. Here's the link.

https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/2943

I've been posting session summaries from our Archive Of The White Mage quest so I thought I would post a session from someone else's game. From Northport here's "OSE play session with the gang 10/17".

https://gwythaintny.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/ose-play-session-with-the-gang-10-17/

Northport is written by Gamer+ gamer Gwythaint.

https://gamerplus.org/user/Gwythaint

I found this session log on the Gamer+ "View Last 60 Items Here" link.

https://gamerfeed.gamerplus.org/public.php?op=rss&id=-4&key=2c0wl25d431f049948f

If you have a blog, podcast, vlog, or just about anything with an RSS feed let me know and I will see that your posts are listed as well. Here's one more link to "Gamer's Homepages". Great gamer content from the footer of Gamer+.

https://gamerplus.org/homepages

Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
hairylarry@curators.mixremix.cc (Follow me on the Fediverse)
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com

Something Blue – Chills – November 7, 2020

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Bob Corritore, Dave Riley, Kid Ramos, Henry Gray, and Delta Legends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Dave Riley & Bob Corritore – Travelin’ the Dirt Road – From The Vaults
Kid Ramos & Bob Corritore – Phoenix Blues Sessions – From The Vaults
Henry Gray & Bob Corritore – Cold Chills – From The Vaults
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Delta Legends Live at the King Biscuit Blues Festival, October 11, 2020
with Rhode Island Red, Pinky Lee, and Bob Corritore
deltalegends.com


—
Dave Riley, I’m Not Your Junkman

Welcome to Something Blue. I’m Hairy Larry and I’ve got the blues, for you.

Kid Ramos, No More Doggin
Henry Gray, Cold Chills

Now that’s what I’m talking about. We heard Dave Riley sing the John Weston song, “I’m Not Your Junkman”. Then Kid Ramos did “No More Doggin” and Henry Gray sang the title song of his new album with Bob Corritore, “Cold Chills”.

All of these artists are featured on Bob’s new From The Vaults releases. So here’s a big shout out to Bob Corritore, blowing harp on almost every song we’re hearing tonight.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org.

I’m Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com to listen anytime.

Kid Ramos and Bob Corritore have released “Phoenix Blues Sessions”, From The Vaults. Hear’s Kid Ramos now singing “Snakes Crawls At Night” and “Mother In Law Blues”. Then we’ll hear Henry Gray play “Did I Hurt Your Feelings”.

Kid Ramos, Snakes Crawls At Night
Kid Ramos, Mother In Law Blues
Henry Gray, Did I Hurt Your Feelings
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Delta Legends, All Over Again
Delta Legends, Baby What You Want Me To Do
Delta Legends, Big Boss Man

Little did I know that next year would be 2020. We heard Delta Legends recorded live at the King Biscuit Blues Festival, October 11, 2019. John Shepherd, Jeremy Burnett, and I played “All Over Again”. Then we did “Baby What You Want Me To Do” with guest harmonica players, Tim Hoggard and Larry Lacewell. On “Big Boss Man” Rhode Island Red sang, Pinky Lee played tambourine, and Bob Corritore was our guest star on harp. Things like that happen at The Biscuit.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org.

I’m Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. For more great music be sure to visit my new website, hairylarry.rocks.

Dave Riley is our good friend playing at Blues Fest and at The Biscuit. Dave Riley and Bob Corritore also have a From The Vaults release called “Travelin’ the Dirt Road”. Closing the show here they are now with “My Baby’s Gone” and “Voodoo Woman, Voodoo Man”.

Dave Riley, My Baby’s Gone
Dave Riley, Voodoo Woman, Voodoo Man