Channel Guide
What is on Pawn Island Television across the next twenty-four hours, listed the way a guide should list it. The island serves fifty pieces a day from its own shelves, and this queue is the shape of every day.
Until the signal opens, the guide shows the standing queue. Once we are broadcasting, it names the pieces themselves, in the order they air.
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12 AM – 4 AM
Poetry after dark
Poems for the hours when the house is asleep and somebody is still awake.
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4 AM – 7 AM
First light
Quiet songs and visual pieces from the Pawn Island Records catalog, for whoever is awake before the island is.
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7 AM – 10 AM
Chess
Games, analysis, and lessons from a lifetime at the board.
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10 AM – 2 PM
From the lab
Experiments, builds, and works in progress, shown while they are still becoming.
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2 PM – 6 PM
Skwerl’s World
The hunt served in full, and the clips it leaves behind, cut down to the moments worth keeping.
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6 PM – 8 PM
Music
Songs, visual pieces, and performances from the Records catalog, programmed for the evening.
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8 PM – 11 PM
Original series
Serialized work made on the island, in the open, one installment at a time, in the hours that count.
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11 PM – 12 AM
The late hour
An encore of the day’s best piece, and then the island hands the night over to poetry after dark.
How the guide works
Every piece in the queue is drawn from the island’s own shelves: the Records catalog, the Academy’s chess, the studio’s series and lab work, and the channels. This page is a description of the day the network is being built to serve, not a promise about a date. When the signal opens, the guide turns live, and the next twenty-four hours are listed by name.