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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi The Hunchback of Notre Dame USA 1939 Director: William Dieterle Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Cedrick Hardwike, Edmund O’Brien It is axiomatic of life and fiction that beauty, male or female, constitutes the norm. Yet beauty is rarely the generator of plot; Homer’s Helen of Troy is the only one that comes to… Continue reading
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Episode 630: Juli Min!
On this week’s show, Samantha Nickerson talks to Juli Min about reverse-chronology narratives and the captivation of surprises in following characters over decades. BOOK DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the podcast is granted a small commission on… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #493: Emergency Squad
With the snarling lioness subdued, I helped Waldo down from the fake tree in the Sheena: Queen of the Jungle exhibit. He was shaking as crouched down. Waldo covered his head with his hands and looked up at me with pleading eyes. “I’m sorry I messed up the statue of Carl Weathers,” he said. “The Goose Lord… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #81: Bladderjacked By the Cutullan Postman and Other Modern Calamities
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #277: Confronting the Pile, Part 2
You didn’t think the pile was over already, did you? That first run that I wrote about last week was only the tip of an old iceberg that’s been sitting on my shelf collecting dust between house moves. Since we have nearly four years worth of stories to catch up on, we may as well keep going… Continue reading
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Episode 629: Li-Young Lee!
On this week’s show Chrissy Kolaya talks to Li-Young Lee about his latest collection of poems, The Invention of the Darling. Together they explore the rooms of poetry, the systems of the human imagination, and the voice of angels. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES The Society for Speculation presents: The World Ahead: a talk on a new collaborative project… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #492: Weapons of Death
Weapons of Death “Who let the lioness out?” I asked as Waldo clung for dear life on the fake tree in the Sheena: Queen of the Jungle exhibit. The Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, stuck two fingers into his mouth and whistled. The lioness swerved around and darted straight for us. The Revenging Manta… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #80: Shave That Dog!
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #276: Confronting the Pile
Since the onset of Covid and how that affected my comic buying habits over the past few years—my home shop began shipping out pull lists early in the pandemic and never really stopped—my to be read pile had become uncharacteristically large. Here in 2024, when I pulled an issue from October 2020, I knew I… Continue reading
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Hallelujah, Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday, one and all. Well, probably not all–but many of the literary weirdos who might find their way onto this site this morning or mid evening or with their faces mashed oh so narcoleptically atop their keyboards. What was I talking about? I am fickle about holidays. My four foot pink Xmas trees gets… Continue reading
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