Out On The Stoop is my exploration about things to know, talk about or experience these amazing times. The Stoop mantra is Think, think, it ain't illegal yet.
It is that time again. A bunch of folks get together and for June 2024 create audio recordings sharing who they are, what they are hearing or what they want to talk about.
My topic this year is the Peplum movies between 1958 to 1969.
Simply, a Peplum movie is set in old Greece or Rome, has a hero or demi-god who saves people from the bad people. But not always. There are a couple of films set in Egypt.
There is a lot of interesting things about how that genre of movies came to be created. There are connections from multiple directions and most do not involve oil or a tunic. A very important director of Spaghettis westerns got his start in Peplum movies.
Fifteen years ago, Ernmander started AudioMo as a way to have community and conversation. This is the ultimate diversity project. Blind folks, sighted folks, storytellers and the bashful all try to have a piece of audio to share with other. Mainly participants from the UK, Europe and a handful from the U.S.
I wanted to contribute but I noticed something. Audio isn't accessible to deaf, hard of hearing or new speakers of English.
And to my knowledge, there aren't audio specific embedded captioning that you can click a button and display captions. There could be, I don't know of any at this time.
Yes there are audio players that can display transcripts. But not in real time as the audio.
So what I do is use PowerPoint to hold one photo, record audio and then use video editing software to have it transcribe and display open captions on the screen.
You can also combine the audio, video into Microsoft ClipChamp to add captions. That rascal is finicky. But it works. I then post the video on YouTube.
I can share the video via Mastodon, Bluesky and other social media portals. It use to be on Twitter. There are still a few folks that participate there but many people chose not to visit that site anymore.
Anyway, I have a few challenges this year but I hope to make it to the end of the month.
As I mentioned, Ernmander is the ringleader of this and you can check out his blog posts on it at
A few more words about detective resources:
The Thrilling Detective - excellent for all things sleuthing in literary or media form.
Murder, She Watched - deep in the whozit and whatsit for Jessica Flecture fans and also has a lot of info about television detectives.
The Columbophile Blog - lots of folks hugging their inner raincoated detective.
The book Thin Man had a lot of influence on TV writers and producers.
One of those examples is McMillian and Wife, which was a part of the NBC Mystery Movie.
This show aired in rotation with McCloud and Columbo.
This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.