What starts out as a normal episode of ElectricSistaHood becomes something completely different just a few minutes into the podcast.

With classic overtones inspired by Orson Welles' broadcast of War of the Worlds, this week's episode morphs into a history of modern music. We think you'll enjoy it.

For those of you interested in learning how this week's episode was created, please read on...

THE MAKING OF EPISODE 41

When Ninjasisth and Pandalicious' father died a week ago, there was a question about how the next episode would be handled. It was debated whether we should have MagicMysticGrl do her long-awaited Top 5 show, a clip show of past episodes or take a week or two in hiatus.

The hiatus was ruled out almost immediately -- the Sistahs' fans needed their weekly fix of the electronic goodness. MagicMysticGrl wasn't finished with her notes on the Top 5 episode (it will air next week instead), so fashioning together a clip show was the order of the day.

As the producer of the shows since Episode 32, I was assigned the task of putting together a clip show. I have been planning to put together a clip show to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the show in May, but didn't have anything prepared at such short notice.

So I took a different direction on a clip show. With the Sistahs' proclivity toward singing on the show, I thought I should put together a musical clip show, featuring the Sistahs' singing along with samples of the original songs.

I collected various clips of the Sistahs' singing songs ranging from Eric Carmen's classic "All By Myself" to one of many Ethel Merman renditions of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to the Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop title theme from their 1990s PBS show. To tie the songs together, I collected a variety of those cheesy Ktel music album commercials -- pop, rock, disco, country, soul and even a collection of Jim Nabors cover songs.

All that remained was to include never-before-heard clips at the beginning of the podcast. Luckily, there were a few to be had. The intro of the episode was taken from an out-take from last week's episode. Ninjasistah had recorded three intros for Episode 40. If you listen closely, we changed the word "forty" to "forty-one" in the episode number by carefully cutting the syllables "ty one" from episode 31 and pasting them in place of the last syllable of "forty". This was the kind of stuff I learned all those years ago in college.

For the opening sequence itself, I stole an out-take from Episode 32. The Sistahs had originally recorded it 10 weeks ago, but an errant cell phone went off in the opening minutes, so they decided to record it again from scratch. We ended up using the second take in the Episode 32 podcast.

The rest of it was just cutting and pasting. Basically, interspersed between a bunch of old Ktel promos for record albums of the past was clips of the Sistahs singing. When possible, I added sequences of the actual song they were (trying) to sing.

I had a lot of success finding these songs. The newer ones were the easiest to locate. There were just a couple that posed some problems finding. The hardest to find was the opening of "Lamb Chop's Playalong," which I finally found on a website devoted to theme songs of kids shows.

There are a couple of corrections that have to be made about the Sistahs' comments on this show. First, Ninjasistah is incorrect about the copyright nature of the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Although Ethel Merman is, indeed, dead, that doesn't affect the copyright nature of the song. The song is still under copyright protection -- it has not fallen into the public domain. Heck, it's not even that old. It comes from the musical Gypsy, which was first produced on Broadway in 1959.

The second correction has to do with the song Return to Innocence. On the podcast, Pandalicious says it was done by Enya, but she is mistaken. It was actually done by Enigma (an easy mistake to make).

Please enjoy this week's podcast and please come back for a special Top 5 episode on Bleach, presented by MagicMysticGrl. We hope you enjoy them.

Finish What You Start...

Well, it being Monday and all it's time for a new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast. This post comes to you live after a few parties at the CES, so please forgive da typos. I'm tired and I no longer believe in spell check.

In this episode of the podcast we talk about forming a manga group and the best naming policies, reasons why kids shouldn't listen to our podcast, the difference between movie remakes and prequels, the Columbine Massacre RPG game [and the surrounding hub bub] and finally which is better: lesbianism or beastiality. Yes, we cover a bit of everything in this here episode... so you better just give it a listen.

Finish What You Start...

Alright folks, last week didn't work out very well, only Tooky and Amberjack answered my question. So, we're upping the stakes and giving you something special for the holiday. Let's see if we can get you guys excited.

Once again, here are the rules:
- Winners will be announced during the podcast, so it will run Friday to Friday
- I will put up a post each Friday explaining which manga I will be giving away as well as the rules of the game
- The following Friday, right before the podcast I will put up a comment to cap the thread and I will start up a new week's post
- Each week I will ask a question and my favorite/the best answer will win
- No one can win twice in a row
- If there are fewer than 3 eligible responses to the question I will hold off on the Giveaway for another week
- ESH members aren't eligible for the Giveaway
- Just posting a comment for the Magic Manga Mania Givaway will also qualify you to be a Candy Bitch
- I will post my answer to the question at the end of the week, my post will signify the end of the thread and no posts after mine will be eligible to win

The Manga:
This week I'm giving away volumes 1-4 of Ken Akamatsu's AI Love You. This series was created before Love Hina and it established Ken as a manga-ka. If you know Ken's work at all you will see many similar characters that were precursors to the characters you know from Love Hina. His style has changed a bit since those days, but it is still great work.

Hitoshi is a bad student, a worse athlete and isn't the most popular of people either. It doesn't help any that his closest friend is an AI program on his computer. Number 30 is Hitoshi's crowning achievement and is the only girl he can talk to. Luckily for him a power surge somehow brings her out of the computer and into his life. Hitoshi has to learn quickly what to do when his girlfriend gets a bug or gets herself hacked, and he needs to figure out how to teach an AI all there is to being a real girl. Add in the devious Hacker Billy G, Program 20 (the overly sexual older sister) and Program 40 (the bipolar younger brother/sister) and Hitoshi's life will never be the same.

This Weeks Question:
Out of the podcast episodes we've done [with #32 being released Monday], which is your favorite any why?

Finish What You Start...

As promised, I present to you the Magic Manga Mania givaway.

So, here's the deal.

- Winners will be announced during the podcast, so it will run Friday to Friday
- I will put up a post each Friday explaining which manga I will be giving away as well as the rules of the game
- The following Friday, right before the podcast I will put up a comment to cap the thread and I will start up a new week's post
- Each week I will ask a question and my favorite/the best answer will win
- No one can win twice in a row
- If there are fewer than 3 responses to the question I will hold off on the Giveaway for another week
- ESH members aren't eligible for the Giveaway
- Just posting a comment for the Magic Manga Mania Givaway will also qualify you to be a Candy Bitch
- I will post my answer to the question at the end of the week, my post will signify the end of the thread and no posts after mine will be eligible to win

This Weeks Manga:

Peach Girl (Vol. 1) by Miwa Ueda
Momo is a typical teenage girl, except for her looks. Momo tans easily and her hair is bleached out, so anyone who sees her assumes that she is a beach bunny and a slut. Old men hit on her when she walks down the street, and no one takes her seriously. He one true friend Sae, is a little backstabbing bitch behind the scenes and is responsible for many of the nastier roumors circulating the school. Momo has a crush on a boy named Toji, but Sae also likes him, leading to an all out war. Add in the wise-cracking Kiley who likes Momo and you have a genuine love quadrangle.

This Weeks Question:

Kids in high school love labeling each other and dividing themselves into groups. Everyone is a member of at least one exclusive group that looks down on the others. Even if a kid is in the "Outsiders", the "I'm-not-in-a-clique" clique, they take pride in that fact and look down upon those who conform. When you were in high school, what group of people did you hang out with? Which clique were you a part of?

Finish What You Start...