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- Geo Beach
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- "Pimp my PC! Portrait of a LAN Party"
- Summary: This story answers the burning question "What's it like to hang out with a bunch of guys at a fourteen-hour video game marathon?"
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Review of Pimp my PC! Portrait of a LAN Party
Geo Beach
Posted on December 30, 2004 at 11:30 PM
Gaming organizer Bob Keller comes across with perfect interviewee candor -- as if he were standing on the other end of a beer pitcher, pouring, not on the other end of a microphone, talking. And in sum, Henkin's crisp selection of "talent" -- the voices he lets advance the story -- insures the human and humorous impact of "Pimp my PC! Portrait of a LAN Party". Precise FX support but never steamroller Henkin's storyline, and he engages reportorially on-mic precisely when the listener is itching with a question.
Smart, fun writing and spotless production make "Pimp" an exemplary long-segment feature story. Aaron Henkin serves a vignette that vibrates beyond the video game environment of his protagonists. Fun!
PDs, if you don't see "Pimp my PC!" in the DACS rundown of a network magazine soon, grab it yourself and lay it in over any ATC segment (you'll have to plaster on a music bed to fit it in B or D) on rollover that dogged first time through. Your listeners will fill your PC with appreciative TKUs.