Episodes
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Stan Lee!
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Face front, True Believers! Grant takes us through the life and career of every nerd's grandpa, Stan Lee! From humble beginnings as a teenage office assistant, to luminary of the field, to midlife crisis, to global celebrity! His talent, bluster, and talent for bluster carried him through it all. Who deserves credit for a collaboration? Which characters were really being sold? What is the value of a figurehead that has no contact with the rest of the ship? Excelsior!
Links!
- Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
- The Bullpen Bulletins Index
- Merry Marvel Marching Society record skit
- More on Funky Flashman
- Ads and press from A Marvel-ous Evening with Stan Lee, the Carnegie Hall event
- Footage of the Spider-Wedding
- Stan ripping on Liefeld and McFarlane
- Walk of Fame star
- The Stan Lee Foundation
- POW! Entertainment
- Mad Fuzz; Proceeds from purchases made before Februaey 11th will go to the ACLU. Please mention ACLU in the "notes to seller" area when ordering.
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
EPCOT
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Alaina continues her Disney Parks series with an episode on Walt Disney World Resort's second gate: Epcot. Walt Disney's original idea for all that Florida land was a planned city so unique that the world would come to see how his people lived and worked. After his death, some of those ideas, and the name, were recycled to be a theme park that serves as a permanent World's Fair. Is high modernism the path to despotism? Even so, could it have worked? How can you hit a forever-moving target: the future? Who needs rides when you can visit 11 themed gift shops and drink?
Links!
- Epcot website
- Walt Disney's EPCOT film
- The Reedy Creek Improvement District
- Collections of concept art
- Epcot Center 1978 Preview Video; Featuring Card Walker
- Epcot dedication ceremony
- Opening Celebration TV Special
- Kitchen Kabaret
- Symbiosis
- Captain EO
- Abandoned - Journey Into Imagination
- Abandoned - Horizons
- Abandoned - Wonders of Life Pavilion
- The Making of Me
- Video comparison of Maelstrom and Frozen Ever After
- Epcot Festival of the Arts Trip report
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
A Look Back at '16
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Happy New Year! Our New Year's special has two topics for you. First, Grant takes us back to 1816, the Year Without a Summer, to tell the story behind the story of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Next, Alaina pops into 1916 to share the foundations and highlights of Dada. How does a geological event on one small island shape all of Western culture? If art is created by war, can art go to war?
Links!
- Frankensten; or, the Modern Prometheus at Project Gutenberg
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site
- Villa Dilotati, where the group summered
- Fuseli’s The Nightmare
- The Cabaret Voltaire (website in French)
- Hugo Ball's Dada manifesto
- Tristan Tzara's Dada manifesto
- Duchamp's Fountain
- Ballet "Parade"
- http://www.chumba.com/
- Copy Kitty on Steam Early Access