MC MytholOG - Midas, Medea, Jonah*, ATOWT, Last Gasp, Homeric, Icarus, Murph*, Herc, Orpheus, Dayz*

In this episode of Accursed Philoctetes, two great Greeks, Odysseus and Diomedes, heroes in their own right even before they reach Troy, must make the difficult decision to bring nasty Philoctetes along or not. 

Without driving their crews to mutiny.

Without getting shot themselves by Philoctetes.

With or without the legendary bow of Hercules. 

With or without Philoctetes’s permission. 

With or without Philoctetes himself.  

Without incurring Hera’s wrath on themselves.

Without shedding Philoctetes's Greek blood.

Enjoy learning more of the myth in this episode of Accursed Philoctetes.

This is the first episode of Accursed Philoctetes, an updated myth from the Trojan War cycle.

In Act I, a famous Greek archer, Philoctetes, gets bitten by a snake - sent by Hera - on the island of Lemnos as the Greek army is heading to Troy to avenge the dishonor done to one of their own. The snakebit gets infected and fetid and completely incapitates him and unsettles his fellow sailors to the point that the Greek forces must consider leaving him behind on their way to Troy.

How and why does Philoctetes get singled out for this particular punishment?

What does it matter to the Greeks if he were to be left behind?

What are lifeboat ethics anyway? 

Explore the beginnings of this strange story in my Accursed / A Cursed Philoctetes. 

Trigger warnings: disgusting wound imagery, some noisesome howling and realistic depictions of abandonment and FOMO.

There is a certain universality to his experience despite the great goddess Hera and the snake.

Enjoy?

This is the full podcast of Midas, A Folly in Two Acts & an Epilogue, which was previously dropped as discrete episodes but is available now in its shimmering entirety!

Everyone thinks they know the story of Midas and the Golden Touch, some even know the concomitant story of Midas and the Donkey Ears, but there is even more to know about this foollish king of Phrygia than those two stories.

Why did Midas get the Golden Touch in the first place? What did that have to do with Dionysus the god and the satyr Silenus? And will Dan ever get paid?

Why did Midas get the Donkey Ears? How was this, too, an instance of his foolishness? Was he a racist?

How did Midas die in the end? Was he really punished through eternity in Tartarus for his sins?

There is a reason this story is a classic as the material herein has multiple parallels to events and persons throughout history not to mention the present day.

Enjoy, and thank you for tuning in.

This is a brief, light-hearted presentation by two narrators and an ad hoc chorus on the Ides of March, explaining some of the background of this infamous date in history.

Enjoy. A little foolishness is good for the soul.

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist play about the invasion by a crash of rhinos (read: fascism), my Skool Dayz is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case, an armed intruder (or two) in the school.

Dayz opens with a faculty meeting wherein administrators head a workshop on protocol for the event of an armed intruder. Things do not quite go as planned in the simulation and the faculty are not quite as attentive as they should be and are easily distracted by this and that. In the midst of their distraction, they see an actual shooter through the halls of the building, leading to at least one administrator getting shot! No, for realz!

This episode is the surreal sequel to Act I of Skool Dayz, in which the previous events - an intruder or two runnning through the school hallways and the faculty's slow reaction to it and to their own administrator getting shot - lead to their inevitable (?) conclusion. In this episode you will find out who the intruders are, why they have intruded, and how the administrators, faculty and students in the building react to this menacing breach.

Tune in and embrace the strange and unsettling conclusion, Act II, of Skool Dayz. 

In this episode of Skool Dayz, Act I, Part II, the routine faculty workshop on intruder protocol begins to spiral out of control when more alarms sound and another intruder runs through the building, and, even more unsettling, at least one administrator gets shot!

How will everyone react this time? Are they prepared for the real thing? Will they apply what they've learned? Will they be able to stay focused on the urgent matter at hand?

Enjoy and embrace the increasing dysfunctionality in Act I, Part II of Skool Dayz.

Inspired by Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist play about the rise of fascism, my Skool Daze is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case an armed intruder (or two) in their own school.

After a general introduction to the play and the actors, Daze opens with a faculty meeting where administrators head a workshop on protocol for the event of an armed intruder. Things do not quite go as planned in the simulation and the faculty are not quite as attentive as they should be and are easily distracted by this and that, which does not bode well should a routine workshop spiral out of control as alarms jangle nerves and an intruder runs through the halls of the school...

Enjoy the distracted dysfunction of Act I, Part I of this version of Skool Dayz.

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist play about the invasion of a population of rhinos (read: fascism), my Skool Daze is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case, an armed intruder (or two) in the school.

Daze opens with a faculty meeting wherein administrators head a workshop on protocol for the event of an armed intruder. Things do not quite go as planned in the simulation and the faculty are not quite as attentive as they should be and are easily distracted by this and that. In the midst of their distraction, they see an actual shooter through the halls of the building, leading to at least one administrator getting shot! For realz!

How will everyone - teachers, administrators, students - react to this? Have they been fully prepared for the real thing? Will they be able to stay focused on the matter at hand or will things spiral out of control?

Tune in and embrace the surreal, dysfunctional Act I of Skool Dayz. 

In this episode of Skool Daze, the simple faculty workshop on intruder protocol begins to spiral out of control when a shooter [or two] in the building and at least one administrator gets shot!

How will everyone react? Are they prepared for the real thing? Will they be able to stay focused on the matter at hand?

Embrace the increasing dysfunctionality in Part II.

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist play about the rise of fascism, my Skool Daze is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case an armed intruder or two in the school.

Daze opens with a faculty meeting where administrators head a workshop on protocol for the event of an armed intruder. Things do not quite go as planned in the simulation and the faculty are not quite as attentive as they should be and are easily distracted by this and that.

Yet nothing is quite what it seems...