Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

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  • Willy Wonka’s Golden Toilet - Literary Loitering 109
    It’s been a strange few weeks in the arts world, beginning with Slovenia, which now has a rather odd transforming wooden statue of Donald Trump to go along with the bizarre, prehistoric-style statue of his wife Melania. 
     
    In other news, a sculpture called America by Maurizio Cattelan has been installed in Blenheim Palace for display/use, Wellington in New Zealand gets its own dose of strange sculpture in the form of a giant hand with a face on it, an attempt in Lincolnshire to join the trend of hiding books for kids to find goes wrong, the Harry Potter books get banned (again), for apparently allowing people to summon demons when read aloud, and we have a quiz about the working titles of famous books.

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    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    54 min
  • A Disappointing Lack Of Antlers - Literary Loitering 108
    After roaming the cultural wastelands for a while, we’re back with another sack full of scavenged items to poke fun at, and this week it’s a very mixed bag indeed. 
     
    So what’s on the cards? Well, there’s the rise of lesbian time-travelling books, Swiss critic Martin Ebel’s corvine-based fantasies, Desert Island Discs, Northern working class licenses, Paul Harrison’s controversial true crime claims, Loch Ness monster conventions, a painting of Donald Trump (complete with bald eagle, a flag that’s fraying at the edges, Planet Earth the same size as his head, and the Statue of Liberty), Barack Obama’s summer reading list, and a quiz about rejection letters received by famous authors.

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    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #TimeTravel #MartinEbel #SallyRooney #LauraLaverne #DesertIslandDiscs #PaulHarrison #TrueCrime #LochNessMonster #DonaldTrump #Smithsonian #BarackObama #Quiz #RejectionLetters #FamousAuthors

    1 hr 6 min
  • Literary Loitering 107 - Laser Bulge Versus Sexy Voodoo
    We kick things off this week with an excerpt from the 1960s sci-fi novel Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, which has a “hero” with a remarkably familiar name …
     
    Other discoveries this week include some very off books written by candidate for the nomination for the candidacy to become U.S. President Marianne Williamson, the rumour of the possibility of a children’s book that Meghan Markle may be thinking about writing, the fact that Donald Trump Jr. has written a book, the defence of the bizarre Cats trailer by the T. S. Eliot estate, and a village game that involves hiding books from children.
     
    After all that business is over, Rob rather appropriately ends the show with Wastelands: The New Apocalypse - an anthology of post-apocalyptic shorts stories edited by John Joseph Adams.

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    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #AgentOfChaos #BorisJohnson #NormanSpinrad #MarianneWilliamson #Politics #DonaldTrumpJr #Triggered #MeghanMarkle #ChildrensBooks #Cats #TSEliot #Wastelands #TheNewApocalypse #JohnJosephAdams

    59 min
  • Literary Loitering 106 - Balls Deep With Geoffrey Of Monmouth
    The internet’s hand-basket of cultural anarchy return for more playful poking of the over-stuffed bears of books and the arts. Kicking things off this episode are Stephen King’s claims that America’s President is scarier than anything he wrote, and that he kind of predicted the future in his book The Dead Zone.
     
    After that all bets are off as we take a look at Brad Downey’s statue of Melania Trump, find out why Metallica are writing a children’s book, discover some dystopian German sci-fi based on modern Britain, channel the spirits of Hunter S. Thompson’s thanks to AirBnB and more.

    We end the show with Graham's thoughts about The Record Keeper by Agnes Gomillion.

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    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    57 min
  • Literary Loitering 105 - My Laudanum Hell
    After a lengthy introduction about the pumping of jam and the lack of any noteworthy news relating to Game of Thrones, we kick things off with the lesser-known Tory leadership contest involving the books the contenders have written, after which we find out that people are angry at Jeremy Corbyn (again), for liking a book.

    In other news, a wing of a castle that meant nothing to Charlotte Brontë is up for sale, a Russian man has created a business making bespoke signatures, one of the naked statues of Antony Gormley in Scotland has been “vandalised” in a very creative way, the American Christian group Return To Order has sent a petition to Netflix to cancel the Amazon Prime series Good Omens, a new animated feature film based on the Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents has been announced, and Usborne have decided to re-issue their 1976 book The World of the Unknown: Ghosts.

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    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #AmazonPrime #AnimatedFeatureFilm #Animation #AntonyGormley #Stautes #Art #CharlotteBrontë #ConservativeLeadershipContest #ConservativeParty #Discworld #Films #GoodOmens #JamesJoyce #JeremyCorbyn #LabourParty #Movies #Netflix #Politics #Signatures #TerryPratchett #TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents #TheWorldOfTheUnknown #Ghosts #Ulysses #UsbornePublishing #WTFAward

    51 min
  • Literary Loitering 104 - Surprise Lions Cause Khaki Pants
    The goat herders of cultural anarchy return with another sack full of interesting and sometimes strange tidings from the arts world, and kicking things off this week is the shocking news that Grr Martin has allegedly finished a book - something that he strenuously denies.
     
    In other news, the musician Moby has had to apologise for the claim in his autobiography that he dated Natalie Portman, Naomi Wolf misunderstood what the term “death recorded” meant, Jacob Rees Mogg has written a book about the Victorians (insert your own jokes here - we’re sure you have plenty), Richard Osman has received a seven-figure sum for a book that hasn’t been written yet, the copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover used in its trial has been auctioned, and more.

    We also have a book - Strange Ink by Gary Kemble.
     
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    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #StrangeInk #LadyChatterleysLover #Moby #NataliePortman #JacobReesMogg #GeorgeRRMartin #GameOfThrones #RichardOsman #Outrages #NaomiWolf
    57 min
  • Literary Loitering 103 - My Life in the Bum of Ghosts
    The cultural anarchists have gathered for another edition of the notorious books and arts podcast that keeps threatening to make sense while at the same time keeps sliding down the slippery slope of art-house podcasting (you know, five minutes of silence, someone repeating the word peanut for ten seconds, a random Wilhelm scream, a comment about the state of the world told through the sounds of interpretive dance, etc).

    Kicking things off this week is our usual Game-Of-Thrones-watch before we take a look at the Republic of Consciousness Awards, the connection between James Joyce and US politics, a new addition to the American Library Association's list of most banned or challenged books, Catholic book-burning in Poland (see The Geek Show S16E06 - Schrödinger's Black Hole), political commentary versus Brett Easton Ellis, and some bizarre advice from the Harvard Business Review on how to read more books in a year. 

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Literary Loitering 102 - Pro Evolution Narnia In Space

    Some time in the near yet seemingly distant past (which would be around the end of last year), the cultural anarchists gathered to offer each other secret gifts to honour the season of the Jolly Red Northern Obese Man (not to be confused with his relative and arch nemesis, the Harassed Yellow Southern Gaunt Man). Over the next few months we covered those gifts on several episodes of this show, but now it’s time for the final book to be revealed!

    But before we get into that there’s our usual look at what’s been happening in the cultured world, which this week include a new “comprehensive” collection of scandals, mis-steps and personality flaws of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump called Kushner Inc, how books are apparently and allegedly the “hot”, “new” fashion accessory, a good Narnia fanfiction that will never be published, using artificial intelligence to create art while maintaining a health fear of its prose, and getting paid to do literally nothing.  

    Our final Secret Santa book is Wiffle Lever to Full!: Daleks, Death Stars and Dreamy-Eyed Nostalgia at the Strangest Sci-Fi Conventionsby Bob Fischer 

    Also, we apologise for the audio quality in this episode. We had some technical issues during the recording.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop and partake in some of our lovely wares.

    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Politics #JaredKushner #IvankaTrump #VickyWard #KushnerInc #Scandals #Fashion #Accessories #FrancisSpufford #Narnia #Fanfiction #OpenAI #Art #ArtificialIntelligence #Sweden #ArtProjects #WiffleLeverToFull #Daleks #DeathStar #DreamyEyedNostalgia #SciFi #Conventions

    1 hr
  • Literary Loitering 101 - Everybody Definitaly Poobs

    The Literary Loitering soap box car speeds its way through the mean streets of cultural anarchy, with Graham, Andrew and Rob riding along on this fun outing. 

    Kicking things off on this week’s tour of cultural anarchy is a CEO’s claim that she had memorised and could quote Jane Austen novels. After that we discover that parents are spending more on costumes for their children than books on World Book Day, science has allegedly proven that kids books like Mr. Greedy are just as advanced as The Grapes of Wrath, QAnon’s book of conspiracies is performing well on Amazon’s non-fiction charts in the US, and Mountain View libarary in California has decided to employ a robot. 

    Then it’s time for Graham to talk about his Secret Santa book, Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich by James A. Yannes.

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    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Theranos #ElizabethHolmes #JaneAusten #Memorisation #WorldBoojDay #Costumes #MrGreedy #JohnSteinbeck #TheGrapesOfWrath #QAnon #AnInvitationToTheGreatAwakening #Amazon #Charts #MountainViewLibrary #Robots #BookBot

    55 min
  • Literary Loitering 100 - 100 Years Of Very Successful Pimpery

    It’s party time for the cultural anarchists as we finally hit 100 episodes!

    Now that we’re officially fogeys of the podcasting world we cast a weathered gaze over the recent happenings, and offer our usual derisive, sorry, decisive commentary on things like French festival that have been criticised for using “forbidden” English words, exhibitions of erotic literature that include works by Roger Pheuquewell (this is not a joke), prisoners in Nottingham are getting high on Harry Potter, and more. 

    After that we look at some of the words that were first noted down a century ago before we dive into the murky world of books that people people claim to have read (in an effort to look smart), but actually haven’t. 

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop and partake in some of our lovely wares.

    Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

    #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #ScèneYoungAdult #Language #French #English #BritishLibrary #PrivateCaseCollection #EroticFiction #RogerPheuquewell #HarryPotter #Prison #Drugs

    1 hr 7 min

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