THIS is episode 13. Direct LINK.

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Special thanks to Dwight Dunlop from the Pod 5 Podcast and Much To Do About Nothing. Dwight is the truest of true Palms Daddies from north of the Border!! Thanks!

Awesome news this week in terms of the JWU release getting closer: it will officially be May 5th, according to this new Amazon page that I just saw. Kinda cool, interesting to check out, and you can pre-order there, but save your pennies. We've got a whole lot of attacking to do on the publishing world before this baby is ready to get bought up by you. The name of the game this year: Independent Bookstores! Big box brick and mortars, too. We take 'em all down! I found out about this page from Mark Gladding and his new site ebooksjustpublished.com. Thanks to him for posting JACK WAKES UP over there. (Here.)

This week's Netflix movie of the week? It's Scarface. Have you not seen it yet this year? Get on that!!

AND, last but not least, if you want to see the MMA and Kickboxing championship fighter who I fought when I was 15, then watch this youtube video! You know you'll be impressed! Those who've read/heard "Don Flamenco's Finest Round" should get a big kick out of this. No pun intended. I'll be back with you after Thanksgiving. Eat your weight in Turkey!

So I know I should post more stuff here, FYI, but if you're interested in what it's like to be in the middle of the writing/working process I'm doing now, have a look at the forum topic: Writing: the Life.

Now here's what you've been waiting for: Direct link to Episode 12-- (Right-click to download.)

This week's story so far is from bigtime podcaster J.C. Hutchins! Check him out at his new site, 7thSonNovel.com. The site rocks, J.C. rocks, you got to check this out!

For the ladies!! We have a new Palms Momma shirt design (available in lots of styles) over at Zazzle. You can get yours (and customize it too) right here. (You're welcome ladies!!)

Also a special plug this week for Breakneck Books publisher Jeremy Robinson! Jeremy's new novel Kronos comes out January 20th! You can preorder now at his site. It's going to blow you away!

On this episode I talk about two crime classes I'll be teaching this spring. The first is a Creative Writing: Crime Fiction class for Stanford Online. More info here. You can take it no matter where you are. Registration starts Dec. 1. The second class is a Detective Fiction class for City College of SF. This meets Thursday nights at the Ocean campus near Balboa Park. Info here. If you're interested in either one and want more info, let me know.

AND: this week's Netflix pick of the week is Snatch. It's a hard-ass, fast-action Guy Ritchie vessel with boxing, Statham, and plenty of laughs. Kinda rocks. Get it here. 

I'm Pimpin' for you all!

Hoo Rah!! Episode 11 of Young Junius is HERE. (Right-click to download.)

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This week you'll hear me give shout outs to some great new listeners, explain the new roles of Palms Soldier™ and Palms Cappo™, as well as wax nostalgic about Lollapalooza 1994, Smashing Pumkins, and my hatred for Josh Grobin. It's just a mere seven months from the second-coming of JACK WAKES UP and you can bet I'm getting excited.

Plus, I just got my check for the second installment of advance money in from Three Rivers and in these tough economic times, you know I'm'a put it to good use!

Story so far this week by Britain's own Mike Bennett, Author of One Among the Sleepless and Hall of Mirrors.

Want to see what I'm writing on a daily basis? Check this out: Writing: The Life: The Forum.

And for you Netflix lovers, I present this week one of my ultimate favorite movies: The Long Goodbye, starring Eliot Gould, Directed by Robert Altman, and based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Can you beat that? No. You can't. Believe me. Or watch it and find out!

Promo: New World Orders and Archangel podcasts.

Direct link to Episode 10 here. (Right click to download.)

Here it is. Story so far this week by Mikel O.D. of Most People Are DJs.

Add to the Twitter party @JaneGannon and @AlVrazda thanks and a big shout out to Randy, Jason, Aldo, Miki, and Matt. Word booty. Let me know if you want to join in. Also shout outs to forum users Nathaniel, Trucker Rich and thanks to Nick and Stephen for the K7 calls!

This week's Netflix movie of the week is Get Carter (1971). No Stalone in it, but a trimmed up, sometimes-naked Michael Caine. Could you really ask for more?

Czech it out as Young J and Big Ugi get all their action going!

This week we got K7 calls, movie picks, heaters, a beat down, shout outs, a request for some folks to Tweet as characters (already going down!) and Phil Rossi doing the story so FAR!!! Boo yah!

So you're clearly going to LOVE episode 9. (Right click to download/click to play.)

So far for Twitterers we have @VladeKladivo, @akakievich, and @Junius_Ponds. Get your ass to Twitter and follow them! Let me know if you want to tweet as a character and you'll get hooked up too!

Check the news: NOW, for registered users only, I'm posting early-release episodes on the site ASAP. (This week on Thurs.) Sign your ass up to get YOURS! This week's movie pick is Le Samourai (1967) with Jean-Pierre Melville. Sign up for Netflix here and then get it into your queue!!

Do you know Phil Rossi? If you haven't heard Crescent yet, you'd better check it out! And his new deal is Notes from the Vault. Also dope. Dan Klass? Yeah, check him too. He's "Sublime" according to the NY Times, and I agree.

See you back here next week, Ponds Fans!! You get registered yet? You rope in any friends to the cause? Burn a CD!

Young Julius OR Junius CaesarYou better believe that Episode 8 is HERE. Click to listen or right-click to download.

We picked up Netflix as a sponsor this week, which is pretty cool (and by cool I mean $$ and by we I mean Palms Nation)! I am cooking like a pancake in hot grease when it comes to cranking out the pages of Young Junius now. Busted into chapter 42 this week, so you know you've got lots more to come.

Plus: for those of you who were worried about me being down this week, wait until you hear this week's news!

Help push the needle this week, will you, by inviting more friends to listen and register here. Thanks to Jason Andrews for this week's art and to Gary Johnson for production help.

My movie pick for this week is Ghost Dog. Watch it!

Have you seen Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff's new podcast, Things I Learned This Week? Check it out and see how cool this week's t-shirt is!

Direct Link to Episode 7. Click here.

Yes, I'm BACK with a new episode to rock your socks until next week. Feast your ears!

I got a little whine/rant heavy this week at the end there, so take it with a grain. I'll be back with some good news next week to tip the scales. Pub Crawl in Berkeley. Info here. I also yak about the new Busted Caps and Inviting a Friend.

SSF: John Vicar Stallard from Geek Radio Daily Shout Outs: Elsie Escobar from Elsie's Yoga Kula and Evo Terra from Podiobooks.com

Looks like I might start making some money from a Netflix ad. More info coming soon!

AND, what I spent all morning on... The Young Junius Google Map is here!! Check it out, follow along in Satellite or Map mode, feast your brains and tell me what else I should add! (Click on Read More) or Go here to see more!Go here to see more! Zoom in to see the actual Rindge Towers!