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Structured Rambling — 146 episodes
Hardly Knew Ya: Compelling Minor Characters in Frank Herbert's Dune
Andor: Two Conjunctions Make a Man
Andor: The Man Made of Two Prepositions
1926 Revisited: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gaudi
Dune Deep Dive
The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King: At Long Last!
Vampires and Vikings: The Norse in Dracula
Goodnight Desdemona, (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann Marie MacDonald
Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 6. Song of Susannah
Othello: A Play About a Bad Guy Winning
Vikings (TV SERIES) and Vikings:Valhalla
Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 5: Wolves of the Calla
Superman on Film: Mainstream Punkrock
The Comedy That Got Away From Shakespreare: Romeo and Juliet
Thr Last (?) Dark Tower Aside: Insomnia
Number 24: What's in a Norwegian Name?
Dark Tower Double Aside: Winds and Hearts
Alice in Chains: For Layne Friendship
Revisit: Game of Thrones Season 8
Arthur, Once, Future, King
Flaguary: 28 Days That Gave our Nation Back Its Leaf
Maybe It's an Offer You Should Refuse? Gangster Shows
Royals, Who Needs 'Em: Peter Morgan's The Crown
I looked Ahead: Pre-Destiny, Fate, Prophecy, Luck . . .
Another Dark Tower Aside: 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Texts of '24
Stephen King's The Stand (The Dark Tower Series Aside Part 1)
Profane Decency: Ted Lasso
My Love Letter To Pearl Jam
That Thing Isn't IT: John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
The 5Ws of Tom Bombadil
Dirty Rotten Superheroes: The Boys
Ancient Applicability: Our Man Marcus
Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 4. The Wizard and Glass
Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 3. The Waste Lands
I Hate Deadpool, #notmyWolverine, but a Fun Movie
Great Scott's Great, Serious-Ridley
Trump, Terrorism, and Eight Texts
"Trickling into the Stream"
Rewatch: Game of Thrones
A Brief Discussion on the Mentor
Villeneuve In Review: Dune 2
The Better Story Post Script: Papa Lu and "Man of the Hour"
The Better Story: Life of Pi and Big Fish
Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 2. The Drawing of the Three. Best book in the series? Best SK book EVER?
Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 1.The Gunslinger. Mostly just get through it.
Dys or Dat-Topia? (Brave New World Vs. 1984)
Pop-Punk's Power People: Green Day
Snorri Sturlason
The Texts of '23
Alpha Symbols
The False Myth of the American Western
What Should We Know About the War?
The Beauty of the Short Story
On Re-Reading Books
Heat (1995) By Michael Mann.
Vinland and the Norse Sagas (for Tim and Allie)
The Barbarity of Banning Books
Speaking of a Death, Let's Talk About Death: Cormac McCarthy's the Sunset Limited
Canada Day, 2023
The Love of the Stage
Spoiler: The King Returns
Stoicism in the Modern World
METALLI-f*#$ing-CA
Best-PERIOD-Show-PERIOD-Ever-PERIOD: The Newsroom by Aaron Sorkin (for J. on her birthday)
On Revisiting the Terminator and T2: Judgement Day
The Water Bond Between Gollum and Frodo (Special Episode)
Being in Hamlet
Comics Can't Change
Prophecies and Walkin' Trees: That time Shakespeare annoyed Tolkien.
Quentin and Tarantinoed by Quentin Tarantino
Pig Politicians: The Enduring Applicability of George Orwell's Animal Farm
The Texts of '22
Names Upon Names Upon Names: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Prey Doesn't Suck and I'm Surprised
Alexander the Far Side Allusion
The Play's the Thing: Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Rings of Power review with Special Guests Fynn and Coen
The Death of Cinema
Utterly Fantastic Fantasy
When the West(World) Was Wild
Asatru Story, Bro, I Swear
Rings of Power, Pre: YOU NERDS DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU'RE MAD YET!
A Literary Man's Guide to Failing Women (Or, Feminism: Let's Do Better, Boys)
REPOST: Road Trips to Nowhere with Jack Keroauc
The Northman by Robert Eggers: Stupid Title, Good Film, Fair Movie
We Need Us Some Atticus
The World Is a Great Book
Even For Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, The Road is a Bit of a Downer
Confessions of a Tolkien Nerd
Compromising Canada: The History and Controversy of the Maple Leaf Flag
The War of Art, Or, War + Art = Wart
What if We Don't Have a Word for Dystopia? Language and Ideas in George Orwell's 1984
Boys Will Be . . . Savage Sociopaths: Golding's Lord of the Flies
Small Screen Superheroing
Unnatural Nature in Timothy Findley's The Wars
The Texts of '21: A Year in Review
Trampling Out the Vintage: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
The Beast In Me: Primal Roots of Modern Fears
Dune is Short and Sideways for "Denis Villeneuve." This is a movie review.
Michael Crichton Tries Eating the Dead (and an Unlucky Warrior)
True Detective: True? Nah. Detecting? Eventually. Good TV? Ya-yaaaass!
Colonialism in Literature
Oyster Mucus Ball Causes Ruckus: Steinbeck's The Pearl
Summer Bonus! (4 of 4): Featuring Coen!
Summer Bonus! (3 of 4): Featuring Fynn!
The One About Stephen King
A Book Nearly as Long as Its Title: Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Summer Bonus! (Part 2 of 4): July-rusalem (Part 2 of 2)
Summer Bonus! (Part 1 of 4) July-rusalem (Part 1 of 2)
The Fictional Dream
State of the Podcast and, Briefly, of the Constitutional Monarchy
On Gutting a Worm: The Saga of the Volsungs
Old Heroes Can't Be Old
Tolkien's Towers Two
Into the Snyder-verse
The Darkening of The Dark Knight
Wait, The Godfather was Based on a Book?
The Writer as Hero
Beowulf: That Disarming Poem With Grendel
I Liked the War Better: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Light and Dark in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
2020 Books and Albums
SCIENCE! Fiction! Movies.
The Best Laid Plans: The Marginalized and Weak in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
The Bible. Because, Why Not?
The Philosophy of All Quiet on the Western Front
The Fellowship of the Ring: This Sequel Shouldn't Work (But Does)
The Issue of Faith: Depicting Religion in Secular Fiction
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Is Reading Listening?
Why Shakespeare?
That Yellow Art: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Can the Hero Go Home Again? (Yes, but . . . )
Back Again! (but with some There): J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
I Read Plato So You Don't Have To
The Better Story: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
How They Broke Star Wars
So you're turning 18 in a pandemic (for Paige, and all the rest)
How to Read a Book Via The Great Gatsby Via Bauer Via My Opinion!
The Fiction of Non-Fiction
Dune by Frank Herbert
Thou Shalt Not: Video Games, Vampires, and Zombies.
Double the Homer, Double the Fun
Martin Scorsese Vs the Marvel Universe
Series Introduction and the The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood