[GreenKeys] Halloween and Santa Tracker Broadcast Story Submissions
Joe Duszyński
joeduszynski1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 17:56:01 EDT 2022
Insert the War of the Worlds as "Bulletins" and "News Flashes" in between
stories.
;-)
5 Bells for a Bulletin and 10 For a Flash.
Them martians coming out and attacking... is gonna be a flash!! LOL! ;-)
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 1:52 PM Erik Grant <nitewolf1138 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> What I think would be interesting is to add snippets from the War of the
> Worlds broadcast mixed in with the stories.
>
> ~Erik - KF7WAI
>
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> greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Jordan Spencer Cunningham
> <js at teletype.net>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 23, 2022 7:00 PM
> *To:* GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] Halloween and Santa Tracker Broadcast Story
> Submissions
>
> A few have asked as to whether I'm looking for original content or not.
> Mostly original, yes-- I think it would be more enjoyable to read stories
> in Greenkeyers' own words and especially if the stories are from personal
> experience, experience of someone you know, passed down to you as a part of
> your localized culture, or made up to sound like any of that (who can tell
> the difference?). I could copy/paste a million scary stories from across
> the internet, and there would definitely be plenty of good ones to make an
> interesting broadcast, but I personally wouldn't be as interested in
> reading those if I were in your shoes since they're not sourced from our
> eclectic group. Maybe I'm just too sentimental and should appreciate any
> chance to put a teleprinter to work.
>
> It's no big deal if there's not much interest for writing your own story--
> I can go back to tradition and whip up a single, longer short story in
> parts. If there's not much interest garnered in, say, a week or two, I
> think that's what I'll do. I always enjoy writing those, and I have a some
> good ideas of what to do next anyway. I thought I'd check for interest, but
> I'm by no means demanding or have a sense of entitlement to it.
>
> Thanks everyone for your input.
>
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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>
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022, at 12:55 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>
> Oh, and if you are interested in contibuting to either or both broadcasts,
> please inform me of your interest within the next few weeks. If nobody
> wants to submit anything, I'll need to know soon so I have time enough to
> pivot plans.
>
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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>
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, at 7:21 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hello friends,
>
> A bit different than prior special broadcasts, this year I'd like to
> compile a series of ghost stories from Greenkeys members for Halloween, and
> I would also like to open the Santa Tracker vignettes to GreenKeys members
> to write. This merits a bit of explanation to understand what's needed for
> anyone interested, so I've divided the detail into two walls of text below.
>
>
> *Halloween Broadcast Ghost Stories*
>
> If you haven't yet experienced one, each Halloween I run a broadcast of a
> properly spooky story as if being broadcast in realtime (see here
> <https://teletype.net/display/TEL/Internet+Teletype+-+ITTY> for the
> recordings*)*. This year I'd like to do an anthology of short, spooky
> stories shared by fellow Greenkeys members, assuming there are enough GKers
> interested in transmitting their stories into the void. If you have a good
> ghost story like but not limited to the following, please consider sharing
> it:
>
> - One passed down to you -- you know, the kind often told around
> campfires, or perhaps swapped while you served in the military or some
> other close-knit group
> - One that actually happened to you
> - One you make up special for this broadcast
> - One you heard from some other source-- news story, YouTube video,
> popular culture, &c
>
> Topics can vary:
>
> - Ghosts & spectres from the other side
> - Aliens & government experiments gone wrong
> - Ancient dark magicks and the kinds of entities they might attract
> - Deranged and disturbed sociopaths & scientists (perhaps they're one
> and the same!)
> - Rusty, possessed teletypes hungry for the fingers of your average
> Greenkeyer
> - Really anything that spooks your nooks-- also feel free to be
> humorous (if in a macabre way) if horror and terror aren't your thing
>
> I'll compile them into the broadcast, and it will make for a good
> Halloween night. I may need to make minor edits to stories for grammar,
> spelling, continuity, and brevity, so please don't be offended if that
> happens. It's just a part of how an anthology works. I do also need to
> reserve the right to reject a story if it's egregiously inappropriate for
> general audiences, overtly political (let's have one refuge where it's not
> constantly shoved down our throats), so long it dominates the entire
> broadcast, &c.
>
> Please email me your story(ies) no later than October 2. There's no hard
> limit on how long a story can be, but probably best to keep it less than
> around 10,000 characters to leave room for others. If you want to submit
> multiple stories, feel free.
>
>
>
> *Santa Tracker Broadcast Report Vignettes*
>
> If you haven't yet experienced one, each Christmas Eve I run a Santa
> Tracker ITTY-like broadcast where brief updates are issued every so often
> describing where Santa was last sighted on his festive sojourn around the
> globe. It's like Google's or Norad's trackers but with text, through ITTY,
> and more fun in my estimation. These updates are more than just basic
> reports of where and when he was sighted-- they are meant to be short
> vignettes describing what Santa was doing or something that happened to the
> individual who spotted him, to make it a bit more real and much more
> enjoyable to read.
>
> If you'd like to submit one or more reports for the broadcast, please come
> up with a brief vignette that does the following:
>
> - Includes the city, state/province (if applicable), and country where
> Santa was spotted
> - You could select your home town, for example, or some major city, or
> use Google Maps and some online research like I do to find obscure towns
> and learn about their nation's Christmas traditions and culture to come up
> with a creative vignette; I will take care of calculating WHEN this happens
> since Santa follows a fairly tight schedule.
> - If you don't care where the vignette takes place, I will take
> care of selecting the location-- just use a placeholder for the location
> like this: <LOCATION>
> - Briefly describes how the person/people making the report spotted
> Santa
> - Was it a little boy who snuck downstairs and spied Santa's boots
> whisking up the chimney? Was it a little girl who fell asleep on the couch
> to be awoken as Santa accidentally knocked over her tree? Was it a man who
> had forgotten his belief in Santa until a sleigh flying at astonishing
> speed careened overhead, leaving him windswept and lost for wordS? Was it a
> ham who stumbled across what he claims is Santa CQing back to North Pole
> Headquarters on 12.25 MHz reporting an uncomfortable but manageable run-in
> with a seagull? The possibilities are endless.
> - Need some inspiration or wish to see how the typical vignette
> goes? You can go through one of the previous broadcast textfile sets
> here
> <https://teletype.net/download/attachments/8028167/santatracker.zip?version=1&modificationDate=1582402231256&api=v2&download=true>
> to get some ideas of how and where Santa's been in the past (skip to file
> 14 to get through the test messages). You could also pipe the same
> broadcast recording to one of your machines for the full teleprinter
> experience here
> <https://teletype.net/audio/2019_santatracker.mp3.zip>.
>
> As with Halloween, I may need to make minor edits for grammar, spelling,
> continuity, and brevity, and I need to reserve the right to reject a
> vignette if it's egregiously inappropriate for general audiences, overtly
> political, (Santa might invade the airspace of North Korea to shed a bit of
> needed light but doesn't leave reindeer crap in certain politicians'
> stockings as much as I might like him to), &c.
>
> Please email me your vignette(s) no later than November 13. Try to keep
> each vignette less than about 650 characters tops; multiple vignettes is
> fine.
>
> Maybe people won't be as interested in participating as I think, but I
> won't know until I try. Be creative, and have fun. A premature happy
> Halloween and merry Christmas to one and all.
>
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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