Click these to Subscribe! And search for us on IPodderX if that's you're program of choice!


Help support Grey Matters!

Grey Matters: Temporal Lobe FAQ

Q1: What is this?

A: This is Grey Matters, a podcast about comicbooks.

Q2: What's a podcast?

A: A podcast is simply an aduio download (Although video versions exist, as well as other types, but audio is the most common, and what this particular podcast is) that anyone can take and listen to. While this is nothing new to the internet, along came a very simple technology called RSS (Really Simple Syndication), that allowed people to subscribe to things and have them automatically downloaded whenever they update. No more checking of websites, it just comes to you when it's ready!

Q3: Why call it Grey Matters: Temporal Lobe?

A: I write a monthly column for the online magazine Collector Times, which is also called Grey Matters, and just so happens to covers much of the same information, and since I like the name, it made sense to carry it over to the podcast version, and append Temporal Lobe to it, since that is the part of the brain that deals with hearing.

Q4: Podcasting? I need an iPod for that, don't I? Those are expensive, dude!

A: Oh, my good fellow, no! You don't need an iPod. The term podcasting is a bit confusing, but came about because it wasn't until the iPods became so ubiquitous, that this sort of thing really took off, and plus, it makes a great portmanteau of a name, between iPods and Broadcasting. As long as you can download and listen to mp3s, then you can listen to Grey Matters. You don't even need to subscribe, if you don't want to, although that is the easiest, reccomended way to get the podcasts.

Q5: Why do you talk about Marvel and DC so much? They suck! There's other companies, you know!

A: Well, because they keep serving me up heaping plates of stupid that I can bitch about. Although, I do feel they don't suck, overall. Yeah, some really boneheaded stuff comes down the pike pretty often, but overall, I'm pleased with the directions being taken by both companies, and enjoy a lot of their product. And while I do realise that there are other companies, I don't read a lot from anyone besides the big two, with a handful of exceptions. I do so love my superheroes.

Q6: Who are you?

A: What do you want? Sorry, Babylon 5 reference. If you get it, you are welcome amongst my crowd. I'm just a guy, with too much free time on his hands, and an opinion about comicbooks. Well, more than one opinion. I have bucketloads of opinions. I love computers and technology as well, and find this podcasting thing to be terribly fascinating, and revolutionary, as well as being a great way to share my opinions with other people in a new and exciting way. I've done quite a bit of acting locally, as well as helping produce plays and such, so I have a bit of the performer bug in me, and this was a great way for me to keep that up, as well as still produce. I love creating, in many various forms.

Q7: Did these questions stop being entirely serious?

A: Oh yeah, something like three questions ago.

The face behind the podcast: