Monthly Archives: September 2016

Live Long & Prosper

TBM 1609.11 – Sunday Brunch: Hope Springs Trek-ternal

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Live Long & Prosper

Description:

In which the Bathtub Mermaid talks about Star Trek‘s enduring message of hope.

Excerpt:

And now it’s 2016, and every social, every cultural step we’ve moved forward seems, at times, to be counter-balanced by a step back. Darkness encroaches upon our lives through politics, through economics, and through civil unrest. Our media – especially our fiction – is filled with heroes and villains who seem to be locked in never-ending battles or filled with zombies, vampires and demons.

Don’t get me wrong; I love fictional horror as much as anyone, but when the darkness, both real and fictional, gets too intense, Star Trek is my safe space (and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this). Sure, I’ve seen every episode at least twice at this point, but every time, I find some new nuance in a performance, some new detail in the script, that adds depth.

If macaroni and cheese is comfort food, Star Trek is comfort-viewing, as much because of the familiarity I have with it as because of that message of hope.

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the BossJock iPad app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Music used for the opening and closing is David Popper’s “Village Song” as performed by Cello Journey. This music came from the podsafe music archive at Mevio’s Music Alley, which site is now defunct.
  • Image credit unknown.

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DDOP-24 Diagnostics (Gold)

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datakiss2

 

Description:

In which the Bathtub Mermaid presents a reader’s theatre version of a piece of TNG fanfic.  (Star Trek: The Next Generation  & the character Data belong to CBS/Paramount.  The rest is mine. This is a work of fan-fiction, and no money is being made.)

If you’re an android, there’s room for a LOT of thinking in the space of a single kiss.

Transcript:

No transcript. To read the original story follow the link under Links and References.

Voice Credits:

Berkley Rose Pearl, as Zoe

Clay Robeson, as Data

Nutty Nuchtchas, as Tasha

Selena Taylor, as Jenna

and me, MissMelysse, the Bathtub Mermaid, as the Narrator.

Links & References:

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the BossJock iPad app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Music used for the opening and closing is David Popper’s “Village Song” as performed by Cello Journey. This music came from the podsafe music archive at Mevio’s Music Alley, which site is now defunct.
  • Image credit unknown.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:33 — 6.5MB)

DDOP-23 Indigo

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BlueButterfly

 

Description:

In which the Bathtub Mermaid talks about blue jeans and butterfly wings.

Transcript:

No transcript, but topics include denim, 4-H camp, campfire songs, singing with people, and the wings of butterflies.

Links & References:

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the BossJock iPad app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Music used for the opening and closing is David Popper’s “Village Song” as performed by Cello Journey. This music came from the podsafe music archive at Mevio’s Music Alley, which site is now defunct.

Contact Me:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:00 — 4.1MB)