Catalogue of Ships, The Memirrorial
The internet is a funny place. Some things on it are perpetual, and when they’re cast out onto the network, they will never dissapear. Some things are ephemeral, temporary. We don’t think about this much, especially now when we’re considering ideas of personal DRM and social media information security, and how when you upload pictures of yourself doing silly things, there is no Backsies Button you can press. Sometimes, things dissapear and when you find any given electronic artifact, you don’t know quite which category they’re a part of.
I got reminded of this the other month, when the domain CatalogueofShips.com went down. I was terribly sad. CatalogueofShips.com is the home of one of the best podcasts ever created. When people want to know names of good podcasts they should listen to, I always suggest this one. It’s in my list of required listening for new podcasters. It’s remarkable, and it’s art, and I don’t think anyone has done anything remotely close to what David and Terry have accomplished. Shows like this innovate podcasting.
It was gone. Done. I went searching through the internet for other copies of the podcasts somewhere, and there were none. We’ve all lost something.
Turns out, it was only temporary, and the website came back, and I was happy again. But I also learned my lesson, so with David’s permission, I’m “mirroring” the episodes here. Just the audio is archived, I may take more time later to preserve more of his website, but this is what I consider to be the important stuff. Nobody else has moved to try to preserve this material, so I will.
Episode 2 – Teeth (scored with teeth)
Episode 3 – Language is an Antibiotic
Episode 7 – A Christmas Catalogue part I
Episode 8 – A Christmas Catalogue part II
Episode 9 – Catalogue of Catalogues
Episode 12 – Catalogue of Ships Live!
Episode 13 – We’re All the Same
Episode 14 – I Know (a story about not knowing)
Episode 15 – Hope of Future Triumph
Episode 16 – White, White. Like Snow
Episode 17 – Happy Birthday to Me?
Episode 20 – Language is an Over the Counter Painkiller
Episode 22 – Planes and Automobiles(scored by Planes and Automobiles)
Episode 27 – Sitting on the Floor
Episode 28 – (II.760) Magnetes (=Magnesians) led by Prothous: 40 ships
Episode 29 – The Coolest Thing David Has Ever Done
Episode 32 – The Theory of Bisociation
Episode 33 – Graduation, a Time of Moving On
Episode 35 – Only for My Service
Episode 37 – A Glass of Water (a baptism)
Episode 38 – First Time Europe
Episode 40 – An Open Letter to U.S. Airways
Episode 41 – Poison in Their Blood
Episode 42 – Surrealism Unbound (scored by vaginas with teeth in them)
Episode 43, Appendix A – The Silent Room, Kristen Schaal’s perspective
Episode 44 – Notes From Underground (scored by the notes from underground)
Episode 48 – Florida Recount Poker
Episode 49 – Between Two (or three) Worlds
Episode 51 – Voices From the Past
Episode 52 – The Very First Catalogue of Ships Ever
Episode 53 – Cheesing (by Marjorie Van Halteren)
Episode 54 – Behind the Phone Books (Story by Sue Mell, Music by Dylan Ris)
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