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I’m super excited about this split! Not only is it with our friends GROUPHUG form Denver, but it has a never before heard from the comfort of your home Rizzos song on it.

AND! And! The exclusive premier of my new band, ULTRAGROSS.

And! Let’s be real. I’m fortunate to have some very talented friends.

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Episode Twenty-one: Monster in the Sack

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story about a lake i did recently. text formatting is based on the CBC’s closed captioning style guide.

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Jessica Hayworth is good at art.

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Thank you for the best year ever.

2015 was a huge year for us at Welcome to Night Vale. Even huger than something that is really huge.

We performed our live touring show The Investigators 72 times across the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. More than 57,000 people came out and saw Welcome to Night Vale on stage.

We worked with the best actors around: Meg Bashwiner, Desiree Burch, Kevin R. Free, Mark Gagliardi, Kate Jones, Hal Lublin, Dylan Marron, Jasika Nicole, Flor De Liz Perez, Molly Quinn, Retta, Symphony Sanders, James Urbaniak, Wil Wheaton, Mara Wilson, and (of course) Cecil Baldwin.

Plus there were the amazing musicians who toured with us in 2015: Jon Bernstein (Disparition) performed at every single live show, and we traveled with some great “weather” musicians: Dessa Darling & Aby Wolf, Mary Epworth & Will Twynham, Jason Webley, and Eliza Rickman.

Did we mention we published a novel? We did? Sorry. Listen, we’re just so excited. You know why? Well, it’s because we published a damn novel! And it debuted at number 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list (just behind John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, and J.K. Rowling and ahead of James Patterson’s Murder House!)

We beat Murder House.

Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor did a 21-city book tour. They signed more than 12,000 books and talked with thousands of fans all over the US and Canada. They drove through a thunderstorm with Hank Green, celebrated Halloween with Felicia Day, appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and told anyone who would listen that the best podcasts of last year were You Must Remember This, The Read, The Black Tapes, TANIS, and The Worst Idea of All Time.

The nicest thing anyone has ever said about us was said by NPR.

We printed shorts with the word CREEPY on the butt and sold them to a surprisingly large number of people.

Noelle Stevenson was a finalist for a National Book Award for her graphic novel Nimona, and she still took time to make us a Khoshekh phone case.

We introduced a brand new donation system, with all sorts of new and interesting rewards for people who help us continue making the show.

We started writing a SECOND Night Vale Novel that will be published by Harper Perennial, and we can reveal that the book will have a cover and pages and a title and probably some words inside.

And along with all that, we released a free podcast, twice a month, for anyone to download and listen. Just like we’ve done for almost four years. What a fun thing to get to do.

Thank you all for a fantastic 2015, for listening to our podcast, for coming to our live shows, for meeting us at our book events, and for reading our first novel.

There is so much we’re planning for 2016. We’re starting the year with a run of New York City shows, followed less than two weeks later by a tour of New Zealand and Australia. We’ll soon be announcing more live shows for this year, all of them with a brand new script that no one has ever heard before.

We’ll be putting out two volumes of script collections this fall through Harper Perennial, containing our first two years of writing for the podcast, along with a ton of behind the scenes commentary and illustrations for every episode by one of our absolute favorite artists Jessica Hayworth. And we’ll be debuting some new, non-Night Vale podcasts that we have been hard at work on, and that we think you’re going to love.

And of course, we’ll keep putting up Welcome to Night Vale episodes on the first and fifteenth of the month, for you to listen to wherever and whenever you are in the world.

If you like what we do, and you want to help us keep doing it in 2016 and beyond, please do consider donating, or buying something from our store full of an ever-changing selection of weird and cool things, or reading our novel (did we mention the novel yet?) or coming to see us at one of our live shows.

But most of all, keep listening. We’ll do the same. We’ve been getting some great info from all those hidden microphones we put in your home.

and hey… thanks!

Joseph, Jeffrey, and Cecil Welcome to Night Vale

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In case anyone was curious what I did last year, I’m just going to leave this here.

Add in 43 Rizzos shows, the first publication of Wowzers, 2 festivals, and 0 naps.

Kidding. There were lots of naps.

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Running Out of Time: The Girl is Non-Stop

Instead of another half marathon, I’ve decided to train to run the entire Hamilton soundtrack from start to finish.

You may think I’m kidding but…

I can cover around 15 miles in the 2 hour 22 minute runtime, which gives me plenty of opportunity for some A.Ham tourism. I’ve picked a route replete with history, starting at Trinity Church where he’s buried and ending at Richard Rodgers where he’s immortalized on stage.

I’ve scheduled the run for January 11th: Hamilton’s Birthday. Yes. January. It’s going to be cold. Brrrr, Sir.

Follow along with my training under #HamilRun on twitter, and here I guess.

In conclusion, I don’t know when, exactly, I lost control of my life, but I’m leaning in to it. Thanks a lot, @linmanuel.

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My roommate is kind of a dork but I love this. I love this so much.

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Dancers in Brighton April, 1939

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Illustrations from a 1953 book on psychosomatic illnesses.

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Tonight was the most amazing night ever! I went and saw Welcome to Night Vale live!!! It was phenomenal and I loved every minute. Although I didnt get a picture with Meg or her signature, we did make eye contact before the show and wave to each others which was magical ☆

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There is no picking favorites because I’ve only met a handful of Night Vale fans thus far but this one asked me, the little ol’ business/merch manager, for my autograph and it made my NIGHT.