My 12-Month Video Fast

In which the podcaster stops by a diner, tells you what you don’t want to know, tells you what you do want to know, and bids you adieu.

MY LINKS

Creative website: http://richardloranger.com
Literary Services: http://PowerUnit17.com
Bandcamp page: https://richardloranger.bandcamp.com/ 

Email: [email protected] 

LINKS & INFO

Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss 

“Here at the end of all things” – Frodo and Sam escape Mount Doom at the end of Return of the King, dir. Peter Jackson (2003)  

Audacity – Wikipedia page

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television – Wikipedia page

Porky Pig – Wikipedia page 

Theodor Adorno – Wikipedia page 

Frankfurt School – Wikipedia page 

The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D. and Michael E. Long, Health Sciences Research Commons

Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, M.D., NPR interview

Happy the Clown, entry on Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia webpage 

Balafon – Wikipedia page  

Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel

Dean Spade’s website

In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil 

Halley Low on Instagram 

The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia

Joy Harjo – Wikipedia page

Henri Tajfel – Wikipedia page

Rimski & Handkerchief 

Mary Poppins, dir. Robert Stevenson (1964) 

”Hello, I Must Be Going,” sung by Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (1930)  

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7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!

Episode 32 – Weeks 49-50:  I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind

In which the podcaster gives a bad review, takes you on a walk to nowhere, and advocates ecstasy as a form of resistance.

LINKS & INFO

Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss  

Barton Fink, 1991 film by the Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers 

Equus, a play by Peter Shaeffer

Surrealism  

Exquisite corpse   

Influx Blinklists (chapbook)  

Blinklists as text art

Mammal (Roof Books, 2023)  

San Francisco International Arts Festival 

Dandelion Dance Theater  

Carla Lucero  

Flower Moon  

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7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!

Episode 31 – Weeks 47-48:  The H-Word

In which the podcaster explains the tragedy of humankind and you can’t stop laughing.

LINKS & INFO

The B-52s  

“Rock Lobster” on YouTube  

https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-we-laugh/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter 

O Brother, Where Art Thou?  

Doctor Strangelove 

Waiting for Guffman 

Galaxy Quest  

Marx Brothers  

What’s Up Doc?  

Mack Sennett 

Rick & Morty 

Madge & Bisket 

Equus 

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Episode 30 – Weeks 45-46:  Aye, I, Eye

 In which the podcaster introduces himself, dissolves all boundaries, and stirs up some weather.

LINKS & INFO

Moustafa Bayoumi 

graysexuality  

Henri Tajfel   

Mammal, Roof Books, 2023  

Neurodiversity 

Vitreous Detachment  

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In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew. 

LINKS & INFO

Network, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976).  
Speech 1
Peter Finch as Howard Beale  
Speech 2
Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen

Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983 

Victor Hernandez Cruz, “tu no eres” recorded by Christopher Funkhouser at Naropa Institute, 1991.  Rough translation in the episode transcript. 

Barbie, dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)
America Ferrera as Gloria (main speech) 
Voices in response:
Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie  
Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie 
Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie  
Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter  

Hidden Figures, dir. Theodore Melfi (2016)
Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson (speech) 
Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group 

Stonewall Forever, dir. Ro Haber, is a documentary from NYC’s LGBT Community Center. You can watch it in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync, and PLEASE DO. The voices that you hear in the excerpts are, in this order, Chella Man, Jay Toole, Martin Boyce, Agosto Machado, Wallace Sanders, Judy Bowen, Sylvia Rivera, Karla Jay, Bianey Garcia, and Zackary Drucker.

Janice Mirikitani, excerpt from the film Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?, dir. Russell Leong (1990)   

Jane Fonda, excerpt from her acceptance speech for a SAG Life Achievement Award, Feb 23, 2025. 

Tongo Eisen-Martin, “The Course of Meal”, recorded for the Create Justice project in 2017.  

Monolog from Episode 1 of The Newsroom, dir. Greg Mottola and written by Aaron Sorkin
Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (main speech) 
Other voices (in order):
David Cromer as Debate Moderator 
Riley Voelkel as Jennifer Johnson 
Elizabeth Marvel as Sharon  
Jason Butler Harner as Lewis 

Senator Cory Booker on the Senate floor, 2:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 1, 2025, 19 hours 45 minutes into a filibuster that went on until 8:05 pm, breaking the record at 25 hours 5 minutes. .  

The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin (1940).

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, APRIL 19. 

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In which the podcaster gives you an unexpected assignment.

LINKS

The cut-up lines on the episode logo are from the poem “Final Exam” by Nancy Lambert, taken from the anthology Practising Angels, ed. Michael Mayo, Seismograph Publications (1986). You can find a digital copy of this terrific collection here on the Internet Archive. 

Alien (1979) on Wikipedia (this entry is just for the first film of – currently – seven, along with crossovers and books)  

Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” on YouTube (3:15 version – with lyrics and roller boogie!) 

Check out INeedANewPledge.com for New Pledges of Allegiance

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ON SATURDAY, APRIL 5. 

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In which the podcaster puts on a classic, takes off some masks, and explains the politics of the moment.

LINKS

The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia (includes a link to the page about the books) 

Muriel Rukeyser on Wikipedia 

Adrienne Rich on Wikipedia  

No More Masks! anthology – page on poets.org 
(has a couple of links to purchase that are not Amazon)

To find Meta Support for Instagram or Facebook, you need to pay for Meta Verified at $11.99 per month. (Don’t sign up till you need it – then you can cancel later.) Besides a little checkmark by your profile pic, one of the benefits is called Enhanced Support, meaning you can get help via chat. Of course if you’re locked out of your account, you can’t access the support option either. But if you have both a Facebook and an Instagram account, you can start Meta Verified on the one can access and report the problem with the other account. It might take a few days (they say). As of this posting I haven’t heard from them about my hacked Facebook account after three days, so who knows – but I do know someone who got his hacked account back through this method. Don’t forget to cancel Meta Verified after everything is fixed (unless you want to keep it).

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29. 

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In which the podcaster takes on a tragicomic perspective while shattering glass, misplacing teeth, and taking a joyride through Hollywood.

LINKS

Dianoga – Wookieepedia page 

Golden State Film Festival – 2025 Program 

·         Not sure this link will hold up, but you can open a pdf of the program. It has a bad interface, but if you click on the three bars on the upper left, you can scroll down it page by page. You’ll find the poster for our film “Force Drift” (which I designed) on page 5.

Ken Paul Rosenthal’s website (more links in Episode 21) 

Itzhak Perlman on Wikipedia  

Yaakov Andrew Cohen is @realyaakovcohen on Instagram 

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 15. 

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In which the podcaster exposes himself, offers his hand, chases ghosts from a bridge, rips off a few facades, and extols the joys of oranges.

LINKS

Ru Paul MasterClass excerpt

Ru Paul’s Wikipedia site

Heather Cox Richardson comments

Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel

ACT UP 

William Blake – Wikipedia page 

Adrienne Rich – Wikipedia page 

Dean Spade comments

Dean Spade’s website

In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil 

Halley Low IG Reels: 

You must love yourself 

Learn to love yourself 

The art of non-offense 

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 1. 

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In which the podcaster recalls talking, derides cyborgs, and examines a chest of survival methods.

LINKS

Year of the Snake 

Videodrome, dir. David Cronenberg (1983)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man, dir. Shin'ya Tsukamoto (1989)  

Hardware, dir. Richard Stanley (1990)

Virus, dir. John Bruno (1999)

Transhumanism – Wikipedia page 

Posthumanism - Wikipedia page 

Posthuman - Wikipedia page 

Bayo Akomolafe  

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 

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