Noiseless Chatter Archive

I know I said I wasn’t going to write about ALF anymore, but I wrote this one with my mouth so I think that’s okay! There’s a group of folks reviewing ALF , as far as I can tell coincidentally, in an episode-by-episode podcast. It’s called ALF is Back…in Pod Form , which is such a good title I plagiarized it three years ago !!!! No, it’s a coincidence, obviously, and it points to just how infrequent references to ALF are in popular culture. When you need one…man, it’s slim pickings. Anyway, they’re dissecting the show on their own, and I was asked to participate. I said no, of course. But I accidentally typed “yes,” and here we are. They’re about halfway through season one, which means they have no idea what they’re in for, the poor, innocent children. I was invited to join their discussion about “I’ve Got a New Attitude,” which, if I remember correctly, was fucking garbage . You can check out this episode of the podcast here , and if you’re (for some odd reason) look

Some of you may remember my original site, which was located at phil-reed.com. I’m not hyperlinking that because 1) it hasn’t been there for years and 2) it seems to intermittently become a porn site. It was…different. Like Noiseless Chatter in some ways, probably, but I was also blogging much more regularly about myself. I’d post writing and some other projects, but it was mainly a livejournal writ large. In short if you weren’t around for it, you didn’t miss much. There was one feature, though, that came together right at the end of that site’s life, way back in 2007: a podcast. (That’s a period-appropriate photo of in the header, by the way. Man, I look great when you can’t see me at all.) Only two episodes were produced, and I lost the files at some point since then. In my mind, they were great. I’d think back on them and genuinely wish I’d kept doing them. The concept, originally, was to have talented folks “perform” excerpts from novels. This proved pretty difficu