The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: September 2017

  • KONCAST Episode 7: Andrea Donderi

    http://koncast.libsyn.com/episode-7-andrea-donderi In this episode, I talk to long-time friend Andrea Donderi, a recent graduate of The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. We discuss: the IU support center; the early web; knowledge bases and creating content; Jorn Barger and the invention of the blog; Gopher versus the WWW; the ChiNet BBS and other…

  • KONCAST Episode 6: Ray Miller

    Click here to for more details on this new episode of The Koncast In this episode, I talk to Ray Miller, creator of Metal Curse zine, the record label Cursed Productions, and bassist and vocalist of the band Adversary. We discuss: How we first met 32 years ago, going from Metallica to Death Metal, finding…

  • Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Glass Beach, etc.

    I’ve been back almost a week, but here’s a quick trip report on the tail end of what I wrote about last time. So I stayed just south of Little River. They have a town hall and post office that are in the same building as a two-pump gas station. So the whole town is…

  • KONCAST Episode 5: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

    In this episode, I talk to author John Sheppard about planes, trains, and automobiles – no, not the movie, but actual forms of travel. We discuss: Taking Amtrak across the country; Denver’s weed money revitalization; the painted deserts of Nevada; the subways of NYC, DC, and LA; flying space-available on the C-5 galaxy; skydiving in…