Hey all, Big-O here. Just wanted to let you know about a new social networking site that I’ve become hooked on. It’s called Plurk. It’s a lot like twitter, which I also use a lot. It’s more instant though, and I feel really connected to the people I’m talking to on there. You can sign up and follow me by clicking here. I’d love to have you join me!

Just as a reminder you can also catch me on MySpace, Facebook, AIM (username murry537), skype (username murry537), MSN Messenger (username is murry537 then an at symbol and then gmail.com), and gTalk (same username as for MSN).

ABC has launched a contest to give a lucky Lost fan a free trip for two to the next Comic Con. Participants will play through Lostscape, an new online “game” (for lack of a better word) from ABC. I haven’t checked it out but it sounds like they’ll have you walking around a virtual version of the island looking for hidden things.

You’ll have until June 30 to enter the contest. Rules are found here, and you can enter Lostscape here.

Oh, and by the way, DarkUFO has already posted the location to all the hidden parts if you’d like to get through it quickly.

The April 29th date I mentioned in the last news post for the Lost Season 3 Soundtrack has been bumped back to May 6th. This sort of pisses me off but at least it’s not a huge delay. It seems like this OST has taken forever to finally get released. You can read more about it, and see the track listing, on the record label’s site here. 

While I wish I could introduce myself by tying you up in a shack, sticking a grenade in your mouth and lecturing to you about how I protect the island, I am unfortunately nowhere nearly as cool as John Locke. I also have no access to rope or grenades (probably for the best.)

I’m congested, and I’ve been a listener of Big-O’s show for over a year now. I’ve been blogging over on the DarkUFO Forum and Media Mentions sections, I also helped out with the Via Domus and Find 815 sections when those were going. What recently caught the attention of Big-O however, which ultimately led me on a path to write this sentence, was my own blog, Audibly Lost. There I blog less about Lost and more about the fan community that surrounds it. 

I hope to bring some interesting stuff to the Cranky Fanatic blog in the coming weeks, and I look forward to consuming your time, especially if you’re at work. 

Now that I have my new server, I’ve got a lot of big things planned for the web site. I’d like to build a community (for all of my podcasts) and I want all of you to have a voice in that.

The first thing I want to focus on is getting more quality content to the web site in the form of blog posts. I’ve got the audio end covered, but I’ve always wanted to have more articles on the site than just the podcast posts. I’ve tried more than once to blog myself and it just doesn’t seem to be in my blood.

So, here’s where you come in. I’m looking for people to contribute to my site in the form of blog posts. At the moment I’m focusing only on LOST, but other than that, I’ll take anything. If you’re good and finding Lost news, or even if you just have a lot of opinions, then I’ll probably like to hear what you’ve got. I also won’t have a problem linking back to your own site if you have something to promote. I’m generous with the link love

You don’t have to have previous experience but I will want to see a sample of what you’ve written before I sign you up. Either send me a link to something LOST related you’ve written, or just write up a new article and email it to me. If you’re interested in helping out then contact me and we’ll work out the details.

One person has come on board already, and that is the one and only Congested! He’s a regular on the live shows but usually stays only in the chat room until the recorder is off. He is a regular contributer to DarkUFO’s site, and has his own LOST blog as well which I’ll let him tell you more about when he posts. He’s also the one who sent me the exclusive coverage of the Damon and Carlton interview at the Promax conference.

Congested, welcome to the team!

The Cranky Fanatic web site has been updated! It doesn’t look very different yet, but a lot of change is coming down the pike. The first thing I have to announce is that I just moved my site over to a new server! This change will not only help to prevent the downtime that I’ve been having lately, but also will allow me to do some cool things with the site that I wasn’t able to do before.

That being said, I would love your help in making sure that everything is working properly. Please poke around the site and tell me if anything is broken!

In this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast, Big-O announces that Cranky Fanatic will be taking a Hiatus. Listen in to hear why. We also play some trivia, and the listeners turn the tables on Big-O and start aksing HIM trivia questions!

 

 Cranky Fanatic ~ Taking A Break [1:12:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (183)

I had no idea how much traffic I would get when I put this podcast up! And my poor little server can’t handle the load, So I’ve gotten myself a Libsyn account.

If any of you have had trouble downloading the first four shows, the feed has been updated with the Libsyn URLs instead of the links to my server. Just come download them again if you have trouble before.