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SITUATIONAL GENIUS: THE PRACTICE OF THE AMERICAN BANDLEADERS.

Full first draft completed, 123,107 words.

12.18.23 1741 EDT.

I bloody well did it.
05:44 PM - Dec 18, 2023
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COME WORK WITH US AT TEXAS TECH!
The School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Musicology to begin in fall 2024.
11:32 AM - Dec 15, 2023
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The Bassanda Podcast Ep 8:

The Great Train Ride for Bassanda Ch.
04:09 PM - Dec 03, 2023
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re-up for the Monday evening crowd (sorry--long day today):

The Bassanda Podcast Ep 7:

The Great Train Ride for Bassanda Ch.
09:47 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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The Bassanda Podcast Ep 7:

The Great Train Ride for Bassanda Ch. 13-14

Prestige TV, Kin Platt, Roger Landes, Chipper Thompson

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Bassanda Podcast Ep 7 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA, Ch. 13-14

12:17 PM - Nov 26, 2023
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Re-up for the Monday crowd:

The Bassanda Podcast Ep 6:

Notes on James Lincoln Habjar-Lawrence

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse

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11:00 PM - Nov 20, 2023
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The Bassanda Podcast Ep 6:

Notes on James Lincoln Habjar-Lawrence

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12:15 PM - Nov 19, 2023
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Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:

The Bassanda Podcast Ep 5:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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09:10 AM - Nov 13, 2023
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The Bassanda Podcast Ep 5:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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11:19 AM - Nov 12, 2023
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re-up for the Monday morning crowd:

The Bassanda Podcast Ep 4:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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10:28 AM - Nov 06, 2023
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The Bassanda Podcast Ep 4:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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Bassanda Podcast Ep 4 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

BP 006 GTR Ch 06-07 [ ] Welcome to the Bassanda Podcast! I’m Chris Smith. This is a space for riffing upon history and upon speculative fiction, for world-building, for comedy and dialog and badinage, for bad jokes, historical ironies, and the imagination of a kinder, gentler, richer and more creati..

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This is the future the GOP wants. SIGN, dammit.

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URGENT: Oppose an Amendment to Eliminate Funding for the NEH

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

03:18 PM - Nov 02, 2023
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Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:

The Bassanda Podcast Ep 3:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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12:20 PM - Oct 30, 2023
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The Bassanda Podcast Ep 3:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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Bassanda Podcast Ep 3 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

Character, POV, voice, and THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA

10:56 AM - Oct 29, 2023
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Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:

New from the Multiverse!

The Bassanda Podcast:

Alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

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Bassanda Podcast Ep 02! - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

Introducing Cecile Lapin, and, THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA

08:05 AM - Oct 23, 2023
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If I were ever to come to believe in an afterlife, it would be this song, written by Richard Thompson 55 years ago, that might do the trick.

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Thank you, Carla Bley, for your great effort.
09:55 PM - Oct 17, 2023
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Rest in Power, Carla Bley.
04:07 PM - Oct 17, 2023
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Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:
The Final chapter of NEW WORLD A-COMING:
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

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See also this, about what's coming next: https://smithscribe.substa...
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12:51 PM - Oct 09, 2023
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New World a-Coming, Ch. 63: The End
January 1979: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
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11:17 AM - Oct 08, 2023
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Coming soon: The Bassanda Podcast!
Being an audio complement to the Bassanda Correspondence
Stream coming soon!
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Looking ahead: The BASSANDA PODCAST - by Chris Smith

Pretty much what it says!

02:08 PM - Oct 07, 2023
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Re-up for the Friday morning crowd: Penultimate chapter!

New World a-Coming, Ch. 62
1979: Taking the Hippie Trail to Bassanda

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 62 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

Taking the Hippie Trail to Bassanda

09:59 AM - Oct 06, 2023
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New World a-Coming, Ch. 62
1979: Taking the Hippie Trail to Bassanda

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12:56 PM - Oct 05, 2023
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New World a-Coming, Ch. 61
1975: Rescue at the Fall of Saigon

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 61 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

1975: Rescue at the Fall of Saigon

09:40 PM - Oct 01, 2023
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New World a-Coming, Ch. 60
A memorial to the fallen

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11:13 AM - Sep 28, 2023
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Re-up for Monday morning crowd:

New World a-Coming, Ch. 59
June 1969, Stonewall Part II

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 59
June 1969, Stonewall Part II

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BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION https://tinyurl.com/BABR-C...
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Complex feelings on the cusp of completing a third novel:

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Complex feelings on the cusp of completing a third novel

I started this substack serial fiction blog after submitting THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA, the first completed manuscript in the Bassanda corpus, to around 175 literary agents between March 2019 and January 2021, specifically selected because their #MSWL (“manuscript wish list”) criteria fit th..

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 57
June 1969, Stonewall Part I

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 58 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

June, 1969: Stonewall, Part I

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 57
One Niner Six Eight, Part II

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 57 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

One Niner Six Eight, Part II

08:33 AM - Sep 17, 2023
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New World a-Coming, Ch. 56
One Niner Six Eight, Part I

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New World a-Coming, Ch. 56 - by Chris Smith - Smith Scribe

One Niner Six Eight, Part I

10:03 AM - Sep 14, 2023
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