Episode 12: 2020 In Review
We are here at the end of the year and we think that is worth noticing and celebrating. We spend sone time on this episode reflecting on what brought us joy, what distracted us, what we struggled with and how we changed over the course of a year that continuously felt unprecedented. Continue reading Episode 12: 2020 In Review
Episode 11: Spirited Away
We are back after the holiday break with another episode in our Studio Ghibli series. This time it’s Spirited Away, the only Studio Ghibli movie to win an Oscar. This is widely considered their best movie for reasons that we try to figure out during our conversation. Continue reading Episode 11: Spirited Away
Episode 10: BTS & Sufjan Stevens Holiday Music
It’s a musical mashup episode in which we mash up two genres that have basically nothing to do with each other. For the first half of the episode We talk about the pop music sensation BTS and their new-ish album Be. We follow that up in the second half of the episode with a a thorough, or at least as thorough as we could be, discussion of the Christmas and holiday music of Sufjan Stevens. Continue reading Episode 10: BTS & Sufjan Stevens Holiday Music
Bonus Episode: Kiki’s Delivery Service
We are back with another Studio Ghibli movie! This time we watched Kiki’s Delivery Service and then we tried to talk about it. This is an extremely funny and pleasant movie but in way that’s different from a movie like My Neighbor Totoro and we tried to get at exactly why that is. Continue reading Bonus Episode: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Episode 9: Slaughterhouse Five (GN)
Episode nine is here and this one is definitely not bad! No, it’s actually really good and we are proud of it. Angela and I discuss the recently released graphic novel adaptation of the Slaughterhouse Five. We were both a little nervous that we were going to struggle to find something to latch onto in here and really analyze. It ended up that we both dug into this question of how do you adapt a novel into a similar but still crucially different medium. What gets brought along and what is left behind. Continue reading Episode 9: Slaughterhouse Five (GN)
Episode 8: Princess Mononoke
We are back for episode eight with our second Studio Ghibli movie. This week we watched the 1997 movie Princess Mononoke. I think we both expected something a little bit different based on the last Ghibli movie we watched but we both very much enjoyed the complexity we found here. Continue reading Episode 8: Princess Mononoke
Episode 7: Boys State
Ohhh it’s a bit of spicy one. Episode number seven and we are already talking politics. This is our best episode yet though I think. We talk about the Recent Apple TV+ movie Boys State, where a bunch of teenage boys don’t learn how politics actually work, or maybe they do, we’ll get into into. Hope you enjoy. Continue reading Episode 7: Boys State
Episode 6: Mystery Show Podcast
It’s time for us to get very meta, by doing a podcast about another much more popular podcast. No but really this is a good one. Mystery Show occupies an important space for both of us but also kind of in what podcasts have become. It’s an interesting time capsule of that moment in podcasting but it definitely has many enduring qualities. Continue reading Episode 6: Mystery Show Podcast
Episode 5: My Neighbor Totoro
Episode five, half way to ten! This week we talk about the Studio Ghibli movie My Neighbor Totoro. This is the first of a series of Ghibli movies that we will be watching over the next few months. This is very much an introduction to the works of Studio Ghibli for both of us and a process of learning how to talk about these movies. Continue reading Episode 5: My Neighbor Totoro
Episode 4: The King of Staten Island
We did it, or Angela finally made me do it. We watched The new(ish) Judd Apatow movie made with comedian Pete Davidson and released earlier this year on the internet. This one gets a little heavy as we try to figure out exactly what this movie is trying to do and does it succeed. Continue reading Episode 4: The King of Staten Island
Episode 3: A Tale For The Time Being
Episode Three is here. I know it’s too early to have a long lost episode but this is our lost first episode. We weren’t sure if we wanted to re-record the episode but we thought it was worth it, we hope you do too. Continue reading Episode 3: A Tale For The Time Being
Episode 2: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
Episode 2 of the podcast is here! We get into the new album from Sufjan Stevens, The Ascension. You’re going to hear us struggle with these first impression and react to Sufjan’s opinions about his past work and how this album critiques that work. e first impression and react to Sufjan’s opinions about his past work and how this album critiques that work. I hope we did his work justice because he really is one of our favorite artists and his work has meant a lot to us over the years. Continue reading Episode 2: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
Episode 01: Oxenfree
Our first episode, and it’s international podcast day no less! We get into the narrative/interactive game Oxenfree and try to figure our what it’s all about. Continue reading Episode 01: Oxenfree
Where’s The Pod: 8/28/20
Podcast recommendations are back, thIS week is heavily focused on games and food. An odd pairing but i think it works. Continue reading Where’s The Pod: 8/28/20
Runaways #13
Alex Wilder is back! How do the Runaways deal with him and the giant three-headed dinosaur he brought with? Continue reading Runaways #13
Paper Girls #25
The final issue of this arc of Paper Girls, can they re-write their future and do they want to? Continue reading Paper Girls #25
Play Nice: A Games Journal
A few final thoughts about Marvel’s Spider-Man. How is this game asking us to think about it, and does it deserve that consideration. Continue reading Play Nice: A Games Journal
Paper Girls #24
Still stuck in the future the girls search for a cure, a way home, and a reason to keep on. Continue reading Paper Girls #24
Runaways #12
Nico and Karolina, and Gert and Victor. Will they finally or is it all just too complicated? Continue reading Runaways #12
Black Panther #3
Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates Artist: Daniel Acuña Colors: Daniel Acuña Cover: In-Hyuk Lee & Daniel Acuña Published: August 22, 2018 Issue #3 of this new Black Panther run begins to answer some of the big contextual questions that have dogged the first couple of issues. Just as our unknown hero is unmoored from what he knows, so is the reader. The two lingering questions are when … Continue reading Black Panther #3
Paper Girls #23
Writer: Brian K. Vaughan Artist: Cliff Chiang Colors: Matt Wilson Cover: Cliff Chiang Published: August 1, 2018 Timelines were beginning to turn in on themselves in the last issue of Paper Girls, but issue #23 takes everything up a notch as we see the beginnings of that fateful Halloween in 1988 night begin to play out from a new angle. But before that there is … Continue reading Paper Girls #23
Play Nice: A Games Journal
12/03/2018 What up worldwide web, I hope none of you all, unlike me, are back on your bullshit. I’m once again a month late in writing about the games I’ve been playing. Today is Marvel’s: Spider-Man which I wanted to write about multiple times during the month of October. I’m behind here and (if anyone is following) with my comic book reviews, but this probably … Continue reading Play Nice: A Games Journal
Mister Miracle #12
The final issue of Tom King’s Mister Miracle run, where we all learn something about love and choosing life. Continue reading Mister Miracle #12
X-23 #3
Gabby is gone, the Cuckoos are on the move, but Laura is not out of options and knows that she has something to fight for. Continue reading X-23 #3
Captain America #3
Steve goes into middle America as he attempts to learns what has happened to this country (Plus there’s Black Panther). Continue reading Captain America #3
