I'M SO POPULAR

On the season finale of I’M SO POPULAR, Maggie and Chi Chi recount a year of violence, heartbreak and political turmoil and look to a more beautiful future beyond the parabola with a discussion of JD Salinger’s CATCHER IN THE RYE (1950) + the murder of John Lennon + Yoko Ono’s SEASON OF GLASS (1981) + Yoko Ono’s GRAPEFRUIT (1964).

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On the penultimate episode of I’M SO POPULAR Season 5, we discuss the internet legend of Densha Otoko and the 2005 film adaptation of said legend: TRAIN MAN 電車の男 + love and actualization of the otaku + escaping the constricted panopticon of the online world.

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On the fifth edition of Chi Chi’s exclusive Patreon bookclub, we discuss WHEN SHE WAS GOOD by Philip Roth.

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Discussing Karl Ove Knausgård's MY STRUGGLE VOLUME THREE (2009年) + memories from my childhood + mysteries of the unconscious mind.

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Very handsome novelist Jordan Castro joins to discuss his fascinating new book MUSCLE MAN (2025年), a fascinating work of fiction about an English professor who hates being an English professor and loves lifting weights. We discuss novels of the mind, Mishima Yukio and the mimetic flattening of reactionary authors, the puzzling reception to his work, the godless twenty-first century and more.

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Discussing the iconic Japanese horror mainstay franchise of RING リング: its original trilogy of late nineties films + its source material novels + the occult world of spirituality and tangible emotion + video tape and horror of memory + Nakatani Miki and her iconic haircuts.

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Discussing the Ryan Murphy produced MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025年) + Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960年) + Polio Addison Rae + "gynephilism" + true crime + horror and phalluses.

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Inaugurating the Halloween season, we're talking about Bloober Team's 2024 remake of horror masterpiece SILENT HILL 2 + otherworlds and American rot + latent sexual impulses + grief and violence + video games as art.

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erotica THE GREAT MIRROR OF MALE LOVE 男色大鏡 (1687年) + the ethereal world of desire and pleasure + sexual roles across the great scope of history + gently falling cherry blossoms and the melancholic impermanence of all things.

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Maggie and Chi Chi discuss the perverse gender inverted world of Japanese samurai history by way of Yaoi excess: Yoshinaga Fumi’s OOKU 大奥.