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Dried Up Brain
by Dried Up Brain
A biweekly, book club podcast covering novellas and comic books.
Episodes
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Episode 74 - Home of Slipknot
In this episode we take a look at a cornerstone of hardboiled crime fiction with James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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Episode 73 - The Infinite Memory of the Back Issue Bin
It's the incredibly meta end of our time with Animal Man.
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Episode 72 - Functionally A Regular Baby
In this episode, we explore Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard.
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Episode 71 - Ocean Jeans
Things somehow get weirder and also more political in Animal Man Vol. 2.
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Episode 70 - Saved by Purple Ducks
We're getting meta all over again as we explore The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.
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Episode 69 - Chekov's Tigerilla
Things get real heavy and real metafictional in volume 1 of Animal Man.
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Episode 68 - Do You Eat Food
Join us on a journey through the timestream as we tackle This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
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Episode 67 - Little Werewolf Detective
We're talking about Emil Ferris's absolute masterpiece of a comic, My Favorite Thing is Monsters.
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Episode 66 - Odin's Large Adult Son
In this episode, we dig into Ragnarock, AS Byatt's metafictional exploration of Norse mythology.
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Episode 65 - The Candlestick is the Hero
It was Dried Up Brain in the dining room. Yes, you got us we did record an episode about Dash Shaw's Clue: Candlestick and we did, in fact, record it in a dining room. Guilty as charged but can you blame us? It's a good comic.
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Episode 64 - I Never Want to Bite Through My Own Tongue
In this episode, we talk about Patternmaster by Octavia Butler. If you like brain fights this one is for you.
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Episode 63 - Oh F#ck I'm In The Universe
In this episode, we discuss Eleanor Davis's How to Be Happy. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 62 - Anti-Casablanca
We're tackling The Third Man, the lesser-known novella that Graham Greene wrote to help him develop the story for the classic noir thriller of the same name. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 61 - A Baller Eulogy
We've finally reached volume nine of The Wicked + The Divine and thus the end of our third comics series. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 60 - Candles Are An Important Part Of Society
Pour yourself a glass of smoking bishop because we're talking about THE Christmas classic, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 59 - Mostly Near The End Are We
We're reached the penultimate volume of The Wicked + The Divine. It's called Old is the New New and it gets us ready for the end by showing us some glimpses of the past. Note: Grant Morrison is referenced briefly and referred to by masculine pronouns because this episode was recorded weeks before...
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Episode 58 - Sorry For Using A Jazz Metaphor
This episode tackle Michael Chabon's historical adventure story Gentlemen of the Road, a book with a lot of action and elephants.
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Episode 57 - A Big Box With Knives
We're inching ever closer to the end of The Wicked + The Divine but first, we have to take about Vol. 7: Mothering Invention and it's a wild one.
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Episode 56 - Skeleton Barbeque Family
To celebrate the spookiest month of the year we're traveling back to the spookiest decade of all time...the 90s. We're reading Say Cheese and Die! the fourth entry in RL Stine's classic Goosebumps series
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Episode 55 - A Regular Ass Gun
We read The Wicked + The Divine Volume 6: Imperial Phase Part 2 and honestly it's a lot to process. There are some truly wild revelations in this one. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 54 - The Dixie Chicks of His Time
It's back to school season so we decided to tackle a book about how much school sucks. We read Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse.
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Episode 53 - Dads Make Toast
Our journey through The Wicked + Divine counties with a look at volume 5, the first half of the Imperial Phase duology. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 52 - A Personal Relationship You Have With A Bird
We're taking a look at Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote as well as the movie based on it. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 51 - A Lot of Scooby Villain Vibes
Join us as we dig into the action-packed fourth volume of The Wicked + Divine.
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Episode 50 - These Bad Boys I Like To Call Books
For our 50th episode, we tunnel back in time 50 years to talk Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox as well as the Wes Anderson movie based on it.
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Episode 49 - Self Loathing Robot DJ
The third volume of The Wicked + Divine is a bit of a breather after the breakneck plotting of the first two. So in this episode, we get to slow things down and spend some time with these characters and their world.
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Episode 48 - I'm Gonna Say Scienco
In this episode, we dig into recent Hugo finalist Becky Chamber's To Be Taught If Fortunate.
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Episode 47 - Full Outback Steakhouse
We continue our exploration of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + Divine by digging into Volume 2: Fandemonium.
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Episode 46 - Concerned About Literary Hats
In this episode, we tackle the very first of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, A Study in Scarlet.
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Episode 45 - An Uncomfortable Level of Humanity
We're starting a new comic series. For the next nine months, we're gonna be covering The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. We kick things off in this episode by taking a look at Vol. 1 The Faust Act. 1 2 3 4 SNAP
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Episode 44 - The High-Stakes World of Soda Jerking
In this episode, we read two Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard, The Frost Giant's Daughter and Rogues in the House. Spoiler Alert: Conan is rad..
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Episode 43 - A Much Subtler Horniness
In this episode, we delve into Becky Cloonan's By Chance or Providence, a collection of three moody tales about doomed lovers.
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Episode 42 - A Time of Waste and Confusion
In this episode, we discuss The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers. It's a story about how much love stinks that includes irresistible ear wiggling, deaths from tainted pork, and a protracted tragic wrestling match. In short, it's a masterpiece.
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Episode 41 - Frankenstein; or, A Dude Creates a Thing and It Sucks Ass
We're talking about Destroyer by Victor LaValle and Dietrich Smith, an action-packed Frankenstein story for our complicated modern age.
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Episode 40 - You're Still Mad But Now You're In Space
We're dipping into some classic sci-fi and discussing Samuel R. Delany's The Star Pit.
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Cortex 1 - Nine Billion Miles
The Cortex is a supplement to our usual discussion-based content. In the Cortex, we flip things around and instead of discussing other people's fiction we serve up some original fiction of our own. Our first story was written by Nate and it's about space, life, and the passage of time. Music: 10…
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Episode 39 - Comical Books of a Graphical Nature
In this episode, we cover two comics by the Norwegian cartoonist Jason namely his literary heist story The Left Bank Gang and his sci-fi action, love story I Killed Adolf Hitler.
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Episode 38 - Can I Blast This Whole Thing Apart
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Episode 37 - When He Gotta Punch He Do A Punch
It's still December, we're still firmly ensconced in our sweaters and now we're talking about Grant Morrison and Dan Mora's Klaus. Theme Music: 10 by HOME
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Episode 36 - I Don't Even Have A Nutcracker
It's December. We've already put on our sweaters and chugged frankly criminal amounts of eggnog. Now it's time to talk about The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.
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Episode 35 - A Whole Boat Full of Space Idiots
It's the second half of Neilvember and we're talking about The Sandman: Overture.
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Episode 34 - Is This About Grape Jelly?
Stay out of the Splash Zone™ because we got a real Wet Book™ on our hands! We're talking about Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also touch on the His Dark Materials trilogy and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
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Episode 33 - There's Such A Thing As A Zeta Beam
We've reached the end of The Saga of the Swamp Thing. Join as as we follow our big, green friend through the last leg of his journey home.
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Episode 32 - Pumpkin Spice Laundry Soap
We're kicking off the official month of pumpkins, candy corn, and murderous monsters by talking about Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest.
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Episode 31 - His Many Tubers
This episode is all about volume five of Saga of the Swamp Thing. We follow our floral hero out of the swamp and into the city of Gotham for a story about how struggle between love and an oppressive society can turn into a mythical battle between man and nature.
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Episode 30 - The Monster is Poetry
We're taking to the sea and talking about Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville. It's a surprisingly complex little story full of hot sailors and powerful punches. We also take a look at the 2019 Hugo Award Winners.
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Episode 29 - Me and the Boys at the Shores of Hell
We're talking about the fourth volume of Swamp Thing and that means the boys are back in town. Of course by "the boys" I mean "Swamp Thing and John Constantine" and by "town" I mean "the path of an oncoming apocalypse".
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Episode 28 - Jabbered At By Weirdos
For this episode we read The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys. It's a sequel of sorts to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and thus we must also tangle with the thorny legacy of HP Lovecraft.
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Episode 27 - He Has Ears
There's a lot going on in the third volume of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run and we do are best top cover all of it. That means we're talking about vampires, werewolves, zombies, and the very first appearance of John Constantine.
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Episode 26 - The Ghost Is His Appendix
Lie down on the couch and rest your vermiform appendix because it's time to talk about The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.
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