Monthly Archives: September 2005

Sep 30

JIMM 16a – Promo for the Cheryl Dawson Memorial Walk-a-thon Podcast

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On Sunday, September 25, 2005, members of the Cincinnati church of Christ, as well as others in the community, participated in the One Voice Cheryl Dawson Memorial Walk-a-thon to help victims of domestic abuse and raise awareness of domestic violence:

Cheryl Dawson was stabbed to death outside her workplace in March of 2002 by her estranged husband. She was a member of the Cincinnati church of Christ. (related post: “One More Angel in Heaven“)

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, so this event was aptly timed.

I recorded audio from this event, and the upcoming podcast, as well as this montage, contains excerpts from that audio.

You’ll hear audio from the outdoor worship service and comments from church members and others about Cheryl and the event.

Background music comes from the Podsafe Music Network , mostly from Rob Costlow, but there is one of my favorite songs by Adrina Thorpe called “Did You Think” (lyrics page), which is perfect for this type of podcast.

Please stay tuned to the Journey Inside My Mind for more details and for the entire show. Update: The complete show has been posted!

As a note to myself, here is My Odeo Channel (odeo/c6b682aa5fd58ce6) – it looks like I may be able to participate in some alpha testing of their studio software.

Sep 27

The 23rd Post Meme

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Here are the rules:

1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the 5th sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Here’s mine:

Keisha responded, “No, Mommy. It’s Keisha’s!”

It was from a post entitled, “Learning Grammar“, from January 28, 2002:

Keisha came home from preschool today and showed Jennie a piece of paper. Her class practiced tracing their names. When Jennie asked her whose name was on the paper, she replied, “Keisha’s.” Jennie then tried to correct her by getting her to be grammatically correct and say “No, it’s my name.” Keisha responded, “No, Mommy. It’s Keisha’s!”

Picked up from the Official Superblessed Blogger of Journey Inside My Mind.

Sep 26

Joker’s Comedy Relief for Hurricane Victims

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Hey you! Yes, you! In Dayton, Ohio! You will want to read this e-mail I received (okay you can read it if you’re not in Dayton, Ohio):

Jokers Comedy Cafe is proud to join 30 clubs across the country in presenting a comedy benefit show to raise funds for the Red Cross for the victims of Katrina and Rita.

Pat Kilbane from Mad TV, Vince Morris from Comedy Central, Tom Mabe (his Terrorizing Telemarketers was written up in People Magazine), Susanna Lee, Charles Eggerton, Michael Halasz and Geoff Pipoly will be all donating their performance on Wed, Sept 28th at 8pm.

Tickets are ust $10 and all proceeds will be donated. Please join us if you can and pass this email on to others who might be willing to help!

Thanks!

Lisa Grigsby
Jokers Comedy Cafe

937-433-5233 x 16 fax 937-433-7318

Sep 26

Next Podcast Follow-up – Keisha and Walkathon

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I mentioned two days ago my thoughts for the next podcast. I’m writing this post to provide an update:

Something for the Kids

Keisha and I decided that we’ll do a show together this coming Wednesday or Thursday, when I’ve been working from home. She wasn’t that into it yesterday. It will be a podcast “for the kids”, and you’ll definitely hear it in the music. Not only so, but you’ll get some great commentary and perspective from an 8-year old girl.

Cheryl Dawson Memorial Walk-a-thon

For those that do not know what I’m referring to, here’s a link to the post I made back in March 2002, after I’d found out she’d been murdered by her husband: “One More Angel in Heaven“.

I collected A LOT of audio footage today. Close to three hours’ worth. Most of the time, I had just set the mic to record, so I know I won’t be using the entire footage. It does appear that I’ll want to break it up into multiple episodes, though.

I got footage from the drive to Sawyer Point, with Keisha and me – maybe I could use some of that for the above podcast.

I got footage from our church service, including some fantastic singing and a message from our minister. Maybe I’ll intermingle the songs throughout the podcast, as I would songs I would usually play from other artists. From talking with the sound crew, they didn’t record the message. I guess that means that I have the only recorded version of today’s sermon. I’ll look into pulling that out and send it to the website team; perhaps they’ll post it to the website.

Prior to the walk, I was able to interview some church members and family about their memories of Cheryl. Understandably, those that were most closest to her had difficultly. In fact, there were a couple of women who were closest to her that didn’t want to be interviewed, just because it was such an emotional time.

I was able to talk with the woman who had organized the event as a way of her dealing with her own grief: not only is she a survivor of domestic abuse herself, but she was present at the time that Cheryl was murdered: she heard it as an audio witness.

So, right now I’m going through the audio, annotating it; i.e., identifying what’s being talked about at different spots. Then I’ll go back and pull the portions I’ll want to use for upcoming podcast episodes.

I also hope to find some related websites, not only for the Cincinnati area, but also some others. If those of you reading this know of any yourself or have any other suggestions, please leave them in the comments, send me an e-mail at danimal0416 at gmail dot com, or call the Listener Hotline: (206) 666-5466 (JIMM) and leave a voice message. I really appreciate it.

Sep 24

Podcasting Updates

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As much of the nation and world have their thoughts and hearts with those on the Gulf Coast, lamenting the Wet Weather Wenches, I’m ready to share some podcasting updates:

Thoughts for the Next Podcast

Some ideas for the next podcast:

  1. Soundseeing event with Keisha as the co-host:
    Keisha, Jennie, and I have searched the Podsafe Music Network for some songs Jennie and Keisha like
  2. Soundscape event at the Cheryl Dawson Memorial Walk-a-thon at Sawyer Point this coming Sunday:
    In addition to having worship service at Sawyer Point, many of us will be participating in this Family Fitness Walk afterward. For more information on who Cheryl Dawson was, please read this post from March 2002: “One More Angel in Heaven“

Podcast Alley Submission Update

I previously mentioned that I submitted this podcast to be listed at Podcast Alley. From time to time, I’ve searched for it over there, to see whether it had been added. Great news – it has. So now, if you like what you hear, you can cast your Vote for Journey Inside My Mind at Podcast Alley.

Sep 21

Senior Courtship – JOKE ALERT!

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A very elderly gentleman (mid-nineties), very well dressed, hair well groomed, great-looking suit, flower in his lapel, smelling slightly of a good after-shave, presenting a well-looked-after image, walks into an upscale cocktail lounge.

Seated at the bar is an elderly looking lady (mid-eighties). The gentleman walks over, sits along side of her, orders a drink, takes a sip, turns to her, and says, “So tell me, do I come here often?”