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 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