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Financial duress drove the GR Show from its on-line ports last year, but if you’re interested in hearing any of the episodes described below, just get in touch with me and I will email them to you in mp3 form.
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Dave
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Cerebus #8: “Day of the Earth-Pig”
Listen to the show HERE!
Music
1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)
2. Ramones, “I’m Against It” (from Road to Ruin)
Simage Gallery
Caveat Elrod
Ditkoesque Maw
Mental turbulence
Fever tendrils
Subjective correlative
Objective Quarrelative
Mind Game #0
bridging the gap
Spare the Elrod, Spoil the Trial
I'm a doctor, not a Bismarckian
Getting Fisted
The Three Faces of Cerebus
Conniptin Fit
That’s It!
Thanks for reading! See you soon!
Oh! Don’t forget to give The Legion of Substitute Podcasters a try!
Dave
Frank Borzage’s That’s My Man (1947)
Listen to the podcast HERE.
Frank Borzage
For a good introduction to the director, read Joel McElhaney’s Sense of Cinema article.
Here’s a piece I wrote on Strange Cargo about 6 years ago.
Note: The copy I was able to obtain had hard-coded Spanish subtitles, so, if you can read the language, enjoy!
Is that a colt in your pocket?
Our narrator
The nerve!
The coat off his back
- Sweet surrender
- Honeymoon haul
- love is a prison
love is freedom
the ultimate Borzage set
- coziness impinged upon by the socio-political carnival
- love (and family) is a prison
- aftermath of the Frere Jacques sequence (not discussed in the podcast)–an emotional triumph
- Gallant Man makes his move
Thanks for listening! (and if you want to see the film, don’t hesitate to contact me!)
Dave
Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #117 (February 1964)
Listen to the episode HERE!
Music Track List
1. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)
2. T. Rex, “Mambo Sun” (from Electric Warrior)
Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #117
“The Many Traps of Baron Mordo” (8pgs; 2nd feature)
- Script: Steve Ditko (plot, un-credited); Stan Lee (script)
- Art: Steve Ditko
- Letters: Sam Rosen
Spell Cheque (a running count of extra-dimensional countersignatories invoked in Dr. Strange)
This issue:
Dormammu: 1// Vishanti: 1
Series Total:
Agamotto: 2// Dormammu: 5//Hoggoth: 1// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 2//Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1
Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!
Doctored images:
Double Trouble
protagonist?
Baron Mordo, will you never learn?
Bleecked Out (House)
Divide to conquer
Dimension Praecox
Ethereal Under Fire
Can Mordo do it?
Knave in the Woods
Magic loophole
Express tunnel
Evil eye
Mystic Melee
The Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light
Another Sorcerous Night, and He Ain't Got Nobody
Thanks for listening!
Talk at you soon!
Dave
Cerebus #7
Listen to the show HERE!
Music
1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)
2. Ramones, “I’m Against It” (from Road to Ruin)
Simage Gallery
Forging a Smithian atmosphere
Hooray for Elrod Spaulding!
Checkerbird
wavy bricks and stuffed polar bears
Cultist as (Walter) Mit(ty)
Did I triptych you up, son?
J'obtuse!
Agitatin' Cerebus' brain
mistaken identity payoff!
soulless in the void
brigandry just ain't what it used to be
Bleecker Banter: A Dr. Strange Podcast — Strange Tales #116 (January 1964)
Listen to the episode HERE!
Music Track List
1. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)
2. Ramones, “I’m Against It” (from Road to Ruin)
Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #116
“Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic!” (8pgs; 2nd feature)
- Script: Steve Ditko (plot, un-credited); Stan Lee (script)
- Art: Steve Ditko
- Letters: Artie Simek
Spell Cheque (a running count of extra-dimensional countersignatories invoked in Dr. Strange)
This issue:
Agamotto: 1// Dormammu: 1// Hoggoth: 1 //Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1
Series Total:
Agamotto: 2// Dormammu:4//Hoggoth: 1// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 1//Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1
Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!
Doctored images:
- Keep an eye on that eye
Spider-Man viewer?
Ditkovian delirium
Enter: the Book of the Vishanti
The Jaws of un-Life
Major Spell Cheque action
Nightmare Hospitality
Dr. Strange descends to the use of parlor tricks
Ditkovian Man on Precipice (by far my favourite image from this issue)
a new friend
Status Quoed
Other shows mentioned this episode:
Komics Kast (look in early 2009 and early 2008 for the early Marvel episodes discussed!)
That’s it for now–thanks for listening/reading!
Dave
The Christmas Episode!
Listen to the show HERE!
The Music
1. The Ramones, “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
2. The Wailers, “She’s Coming Home” — from Merry Christmas From Etiquette Records
3. Darlene Love, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” — from A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
4. The Squirrel Nut Zippers, “Gift of the Magi” — from Christmas Caravan
5. Weezer, “The Christmas Song”
6. Frank Sinatra, “The Christmas Waltz” — from A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra
Paul Reid’s Christmas!
Charles Dickens — “What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older”
Read the FULL TEXT HERE.
The Movies
I'll Be Seeing You
more I'll Be Seeing You
Remember the Night (1940)
more Remember the Night
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
The Books
Peter Godfrey, ed. Murder For Christmas.
Edward Wagenknecht, ed. The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories.
Charles Dickens. Christmas Books.
The Comics
Christmas With the Super-Heroes, #1-2 (1988, 1989)
Marvel Treasury Edition #8: Giant Superhero Holiday Grab Bag (1975)
Walt Disney Christmas Parade #1-2 (1988-1989)
The Christmas Spirit (Kitchen Sink Reprints of Eisner classics)
That’s it!
Hope you enjoyed the show–and I hope you have an even more enjoyable holiday season!
Don’t forget my Neil the Horse contest!
Dave
Episode #6: Strange Tales #115; Parole Girl [1933]; Cerebus #6
Listen to episode #6 HERE!
Music Track List
1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)
2. The Distillers, “Sing Sing Death House” (from Sing Sing Death House, 2002)
3. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)
4. The Queers, “The Sun Always Shines Around You” (from Punk Rock Confidential, 1998)
5. Ramones, “I’m Against It” (from Road to Ruin)
Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #115 (December 1963)
“The Origin of Dr. Strange” (8pgs; 2nd feature)
Script: Stan Lee
Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko
Letterer: Sam Rosen
Spell Cheque (a running count of extra-dimensional countersignatories invoked in Dr. Strange)
Agamotto: 1// Dormammu:3// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 1
Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!
Doctored images:
Who is he?
Dr. Feel Nothing
live free or die
Strange days indeed
great window, grim Mordo
more characteristic window, more grim Mordo
clamp got your tongue?
Ditko gropes for the psychology
the moment of Ditkonian decision
The Theatre of the Insured:
Parole Girl [1933]
**Audio Erratum! Apparently, I resent Mae Clarke’s unfortunate grapefruit-in-the-face rep so strongly that I refused to state the facts of the case correctly (although claiming she’d been hit with a watermelon makes it sound even worse)…. sorry about that!
Maeday! Maeday!
the conspirators
"I'm a good girl"
the sorority
a bright idea
manufacturing a third wheel
weirdest boss ever
precarious conviviality
Simage Gallery: Cerebus #6
right between the eyes
the male gaze
E'lass and alack
first contact
Don't you think I'd make a good Christmas Queen?
ambrosia
Lettering with a kick
happiness is a warm aardvark
The eyes (don't) have it
a melancholy wedding present
Thanks for listening folks!
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Dave
Episode #5: Grand Maman’s Crumpets, Strange Tales #114, Cerebus #5
Listen to episode #5 HERE!
Music Track List
1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)
2. The Boswell Sisters, “We’re in the Money” (which you can get on this collection)
3. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)
4. The Beatitude, “Jump (On This Hierarchy)” (from …And the Bag of Cacophany)
5. Ramones, “I’m Against It” (from Road to Ruin)
The podcaster and Grand-Maman Leduc, 2002
Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #114 (November 1963)
“Dr. Strange, Master of… Black Magic” (5pgs; 3rd feature)
Script: Stan Lee
Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko
Letterer: Sam Rosen
Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!
Doctored images:
Method mysticism?
The true colours of mysticism
Enter: Rolf
Astral Skype
Victoria Bentley
Ultimate Fighting: Interiority Division
Simage Gallery: Cerebus #5
Y: The Last Aardvark?
Ruler Rain
26???
Art deco skulking--my favourite Sim page to date
Fearful Prophecy
Destiny as Pinata
With great power comes great agency
Thanks for listening folks! See you next time!
Dave
Episode 4: The Beguiling, Neil the Horse, Strange Tales #111, Cerebus #4
Listen to the all-new, all-audible episode #4 HERE!
Music Track List
1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)
2. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)
3. The Boswell Sisters, “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (which you can get on this collection)
4. Ramones, “I’m Against It” (from Road to Ruin)
A Beguiling Haul
Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #111 (August 1963)
“Dr. Strange, Master of… Black Magic” (5pgs; 3rd feature)
Script: Stan Lee
Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko
Letterer: Terry Szenics
Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!
Doctored images:
Black Magic superhero?
intimations of better worlds to come
let's get on with it!
Simage Gallery: Cerebus #4
- Diptych
If death ever sleepwalked
Schulzian
never pull an aardvark's ear
iconic conicity
Where's the "Pop"
Thanks for listening folks! See you next time!
Dave
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