Whoa, hey, impromptu episode as the Muses deliver in the wee morning hours—again! Summer vacation dwindles now for us school-workers, so it’s cramming time! We got another vampire romance confession—we got a brainy Victorian-Edwardian Canadian TV detective—and yes, the miniature box phenomenon of the early 1980’s! So much to say!

It’s Monster of the Week—and it’s BEATNIKS! Are they even monsters at all? No way! Cursed, perhaps, some of them, and writing through the pain!—but hey, 30 years ago, the Muses brought me this weird little poem-to-song, and at last, I’ve decided not to question it! So let’s dig into the Beats, irreverently termed “beatniks” by the popular press—their freedom! Their antics! Plus, we’ll look in on the sparkling cast of the 1990 television series “The Outsiders”—little bit cursed. And why I had to read and reread On The Road by Jack Kerouac when I was 15! Let’s do it.

https://the-artifice.com/beat-literature-influence-death/

https://www.beaconcollege.edu/how-death-begat-life-for-a-beat-genius-beacon-professor-explores-uxoricide-and-william-s-burroughs/

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

https://www.beatdom.com/beat-generation-mental-hospitals/

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/82611-does-mental-illness-beget-great-poetry%3F-these-4-poets-exposed-the-sickness-of-a-society-that-sought-to-contain-them

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/82611-does-mental-illness-beget-great-poetry%3F-these-4-poets-exposed-the-sickness-of-a-society-that-sought-to-contain-them

https://www.beatdom.com/the-beat-generation-gonzo-journalism-and-crap-writing/

https://zoerose0.medium.com/a-forgotten-female-beatnik-the-short-and-sad-life-of-elise-cowen-d48ed9c78886

Urban Legend? Cryptid? You decide as we explore the tale of the man with hands of pudding who LURKS—lurks with impunity, leaving all who witness his unusual features and confusing presence…unsettled.

https://theonion.com/pudding-factory-disaster-brings-slow-creamy-death-to-t-1819565362/

https://medium.com/@hallowedway/invent-your-own-urban-legend-ccc07abe8101

In the School World, ISS stands for In-School Suspension—when you’ve done wrong enough to be shunned to the Behavior Room for a whole day—or three—where you must sit quietly and do your worksheets. Ever try it with kindergartners? A godless scene! Romper Room goes to hell!!

Romper Room!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper_Room#:~:text=At%20the%20end%20of%20each,me%2C%20tell%20me%2C%20do.

Come hither, my grandeur, where art thou! How well we artists know the wild ride of the mind from complete certainty of our own radiance to the knowledge that we are no earthly good at all, and back again! How do we tame it? The grandeur cycle itself and the summoning of it? Plus, a quick foray into the mysteries of the Third Eye…

Dangers of Opening the Third Eye

www.https://thelawofattraction.com/dangers-opening-third-eye/

Third Eye Overactive?

www.https://midtownyogastudios.com/blog/third-eye-chakra#:~:text=When%20there%20is%20excess%20energy,nightmares%2C%20which%20can%20be%20unsettling.

Cigarettes are sublime—but quite deadly, and how do we want to BE if we are granted a long life? Staggering, gasping, and frail? Or sage and silken, graceful and still singing? So the thing is to quit! But can we, before properly admitting our love for the vice?

Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein

https://www.dukeupress.edu/cigarettes-are-sublime

Have a piece of cake! It’s a lost weekend, commemorating my late mother’s birthday, followed four days later by the 10th anniversary of her death. So we cut loose–watch a little “Murder, She Wrote,” honor the incomparable Randolph Mantooth on his journey to the next world, and  explore “Cakes Men Like.” Do YOU remember your old high school drill team routine to “Brass Monkey?”  Let us find the joy of living wherever we might! Come heal your soul with Podcast in A Minor, and maybe a nice Charleston Chew in the graveyard!

Wassail to the Mausoleum Cakes

https://a.co/d/08KZChCD

So Whatcha Want?

https://youtu.be/ru3gH27Fn6E?is=hzq0S2Kpeq5kErrY

turn that frown upside down sourpuss pie

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaeW2EiOtqB/?igsh=MWRkZ3ViZnJnNTdsbw==

Riddle me this, my brother—Riddles! Can you handle it? The car-ride quip of a Favorite Anonymous Artist births a song that is a riddle unto itself! Plus, we explore an Ancient Greek riddle, The Riddler’s riddles from Batman, and a few sinister detective riddles from Granddad’s lamp-table copy of Reader’s Digest! And finally—are you the die-hard fan who can solve the riddle of the lost Podcast in A Minor episode, and its connection to the last verse of the opening song?

https://www.rd.com/list/detective-riddles/

https://steemit.com/whalepower/@watch-chronolog/riddler-s-riddles-answers

Well, as another National Poetry Month dwindles to a close, we take a deep lungful of Surrealist love poetry—with this weird love song! What better anniversary gift for the man who has it all—the wrist bones, the eyes, the eyelash mites…oh! So romantic. We drink ‘em right in, along with love poems from Surrealist masters — AND from your podcast host! Love songs for Weirdos—and it’s not even February!

AND check out a new episode of Poetry Freaks the Podcast—wherever you get your podcasts!

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/098710.html&title=Three+Poems+from+Surrealist+Love+Poems&desc=+-+Poems+by+Jacques-Bernard+Brunius,+Paul+Eluard+and+Joyce+Mansour+in+English+translation

https://allpoetry.com/Lady-Love

Andre Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism

https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil330/MANIFESTO%20OF%20SURREALISM.pdf

Poets tell lies? What?? Philosopher Plutarch sure thought so! And occasionally, Bjork! “Many lies the poets tell” said the philosopher—-We’ll dig into all that–AND revisit the 1989 film of films, Say Anything. It’s still National Poetry Month! WOOOT and huzzah!

Poets Lie when They Cry—-Plutarch

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2015/09/21/before-you-read-a-poem-know-that-poets-are-liars-plutarch/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CFirst%20of%20all%2C%20it%20is,some%20willingly%2C%20and%20others%20unwillingly.

https://firstthings.com/the-poets-tell-many-lies/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69375/the-defence-of-poesy

Bjork and the Television

https://blog.ourstage.com/2013/11/19/bjorks-theory-of-television/

Joe Lies When he Cries

https://www.moviescriptsandscreenplays.com/johncusack/scripts/sayanything.txt#:~:text=Corey%20continues%20her%20song%20as,about%20you.%20They're%20all%20about

Plutarch: How to Study Poetry

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Quomodo_adolescens*.html