On The Road With Al and Ivy: Newest Promo Short

https://youtube.com/shorts/ofpTv1TRFrY?si=H8HFi5nMme8TmPoB

Newest Promo Video for The Quitturz by Al Handa. The short depicts the group's 80s hard rock sound. eBook version scheduled for December. Music by Handa-McGraw International.

#punk #newwave #rock #classicrock #hardrock #80s #70s #kindle #ebook #novel

On The Road With Al and Ivy Episode 7 now live!

 On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast - Episode 7 is now live!

Topic: The biography of Joan of Arc by Anatole France

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/AMz-BiabX0I?si=-XUuoPCXQ5wIKpbp

Also on Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Pocket Casts

Joan of Arc is a polarizing figure even in modern times. One of France's greatest satirists wrote a two-volume biography about her. His conclusions will surprise those expecting a debunking of the legend surrounding this remarkable woman.

Music:

Intro: Mescalene Manny by Handa-McGraw International

Episode: Sunday's Moon by Handa-McGraw International

Outro and featured: In The Summertime by Mark McGraw

#podcast #classicliterature #books #joanofarc #anatolefrance

Update June 20th for On The Road With Al and Ivy

Podcast update June 20: I've upgraded the graphics for the Podcast with a new main cover image, plus a graphic for each episode. I wasn't entirely happy with using the image that's going to be used for the ebook cover. The new main graphic is surrealistic and the image depicts the opening prologue of the upcoming ebook, which wasn't included in the Kindle Vella version. The ebook has 50% more content that I held back. The new images are live on Spotify and the other sites should update within 24 hours. 

- Al Handa

 Episode 5 of On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast: 

 YouTube https://youtu.be/UzbidX1ji-Q?si=sWMjIsorIT8N1YxN 

 Also on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, i Heart Radio, and Pocket Casts - Review of Jack London's "The Star Rover." Was it early Science Fiction or a Metaphysical work about reincarnation, mental illness and sanity. 

Podcast update June 20: I've upgraded the graphics for the Podcast with a new main

Podcast update June 20: I've upgraded the graphics for the Podcast with a new main cover image, plus a graphic for each episode. I wasn't entirely happy with using the image that's going to be used for the ebook cover.

The new main graphic is surrealistic and the image depicts the opening prologue of the upcoming ebook, which wasn't included in the Kindle Vella version. The ebook has 50% more content that I held back.

The new images are live on Spotify and the other sites should update within 24 hours.


Also on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, i Heart Radio, and Pocket Casts

- Review of Jack London's "The Star Rover." Was it early Science Fiction or a Metaphysical work about reincarnation, mental illness and sanity.

Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer cover image, plus a graphic for each episode. I wasn't entirely happy with

Podcast update June 20: I've upgraded the graphics for the Podcast with a new main cover image, plus a graphic for each episode. I wasn't entirely happy with using the image that's going to be used for the ebook cover.

The new main graphic is surrealistic and the image depicts the opening prologue of the upcoming ebook, which wasn't included in the Kindle Vella version. The ebook has 50% more content that I held back.

The new images are live on Spotify and the other sites should update within 24 hours.

Episode 5 of On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast:

YouTube 

The new main graphic is surrealistic and the image depicts the opening prologue of the upcoming ebook, which wasn't included in the Kindle Vella version. The ebook has 50% more content that I held back.

The new images are live on Spotify and the other sites should update within 24 hours.

Episode 5 of On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast:

Episode 4 of the On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast is now live!

Episode 4 of the On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast is now live!

YouTube Music:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=muDkgVRj0og&si=3vU-XGkN0Pn4rqqy

Spotify:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alhanda/episodes/On-The-Road-With-Al--Ivy-Episode-4-e2kksd2

Also on Apple, Amazon Music, i Heart Radio, and Pocket Casts

Topics: The book "Gone To Texas (aka Josie Wales) by Forest Carter, a Homeless Woman's hard choice, outlaw protocols, value of friendship and knowing what's important.

Music:

Handa-McGraw International: Joyous Noise At The Burnside Church/Sunday's Moon/Maximum Delta Dirge/Interstellar Blowout

Mark McGraw: Water Into Wine Time

#podcast #josiewales #homeless #books #reviews #music #westerns

On The Road With Al and Ivy-Podcast 3 now live

Podcast Episode 3 now live on Spotify and Apple. 

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alhanda/episodes/On-The-Road-With-Al--Ivy-Episode-3-e2k5k0q

Topics:

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Three Musketeers by Dumas, and the Robin Hood myth.

Some thoughts on Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, On The Road by Kerouac Scroll Version, and The Road by Jack London.

Music:

My Dog Dreams And Becomes A Mermaid Techno Mix, Sunday's Moon and Nigel Raga by Handa-McGraw International.

Taylor's Blues by Mark McGraw

Episode 2 of On The Road With Al and Ivy Podcast now live

On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast: Episode 2 Live on Spotify. 

Will be live on Apple and YouTube Music with a day or two.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deltasnake/episodes/On-The-Road-With-Al--Ivy-Episode-2-e2jsa5l 

Topics: 

 - The homeless literature of Jack London and George Orwell with commentary. 

 - The Kind Elderly Lady (aka Somebody's Grandmother) Excerpt from On The Road With Al & Ivy: The Anthology Vol. 2 - 2016-2018

Music: 

 Sunday's Moon by Handa-McGraw International 

 Mississippi John On The Mainline and Taj'n 'Round by Mark McGraw

Intro and outro music: My Dog Dreams and Becomes A Mermaid (techno version) by Handa-McGraw International 

 #podcast #literature #homeless #blog #jacklondon #georgeorwell

On The Road With Al and Ivy: Update on Podcast. Changing back to the original blog format

Update on Podcast: Changing back to the original blog format

There's one more change to the podcast format, which is in many of the descriptions of the show, the old title of the blog is going to be used again. It will read "On The Road With Al & Ivy: A Literary Homeless Chronicle."

The reason is that it will allow me to incorporate material from my ebook and past blog entries that relate to homelessness. In other words, the podcast is simply going back to the old blog format that started in 2016 which covered literary and cultural issues occasionally from a homeless point of view.

I may sound naive or clueless when I say that the main reason I had moved to a more literary format was that I actually thought the homeless issue was going to either go away or be reduced by the influx of help and money that was occurring even back in 2016. 

There have been huge sums of money spent and the creation of many local and government services, yet the problem has been getting worse. The reasons are probably complex, but most of you reading this instinctively know what the basic problem is when millions are spent on a problem that just keeps getting bigger.

Another example is the pictures I'm seeing in the media of the present San Francisco homeless scene that have surprised me. 

In 2016, it was becoming dangerous for any homeless who owned a car to go to that city, but that was in a relatively narrow area. There were some tent cities starting up along the freeway overpasses but nothing like what is seen in the media now.

Also, the dominant media images seem to center around drug users and the mentally ill homeless and I still regularly see comments that "people choose to be homeless" or that "they're all druggies" and so on. There's a reason for that and I've discussed it in the blog and the eBook.

There are media stories now that make my blood boil that I thought would be balanced out by more diverse stories and analyses. I also discussed "Van Life" videos in a past blog entry. There's some potentially dangerous advice being given by vloggers, though I'm also seeing a pendulum swing in that fad with more stories coming out about the downside of Van Life.

I'm not going to start preaching or detail grand solutions to the homeless problem. The scene is too diverse for that. The point of the old blog was to add another voice, and that's still the best course.

I confess to feeling ambivalent about the podcast after publishing the first episode. A return to the old Blog format will give future Al & Ivy blog entries and the Podcast a warmer, more human sensibility.

Oddly enough, the delay in uploading a second episode was due to an illness that included laryngitis, so the course correction won't come as a radical change. I should be able to have a new second episode up in a few days once my voice is fully back to normal.

- Al Handa

On The Road With Al & Ivy on Spotify:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deltasnake/episodes/Classic-Literatures-Greatest-Hits-and-Some-Humor-e2ipogr

Apple Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-road-with-al-and-ivy/id1743679285

#podcast #literature #homeless #blog