Strangely and Friends

Hello Everyone! In honor of my Birthday here is the first half of my reading list review for 2021! Enjoy the annual unscripted ramblings of a goober telling you what they done read this year! (61-130 are next week!)

I hope you're all safe and warm!

- Strangely

The Magician and the Fool - Barth Anderson The Soul of Shame - Kurt Thompson Spiderman: The Clone Conspiracy - Dan Slott, et al Florence Foster Jenkins - Nicolas Martin & Jasper Rees Memory and Dream - Charles de Lint Walden - Thoreau The Other - David Guterson Metatropolis - Bear, Buckell, Lake, Scalze, and Schroeder The Reason for God - Timothy Keller Your Mouth is Lovely - Nancy Richler Harald, Claudia, and their Son Duncan - Nadine Gardiner The Life of St. Teresa of Avila: A Biography - Carlos Eire Parallel Histories: Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain - James S. Amelang Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum - Kristen Weiss Celestina - Fernando de Rojas Sideshow U.S.A. - Rachael Addams A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie The Trouble with Peace The Wisdom of Crowds - Joe Abercrombie A Life Under Russian Serfdom - Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii The Inquisition in New Spain - John F. Chuchiak (ed.) Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Lost Continents - L. Sprauge DeCamp Sketches from a Hunter’s Album - Ivan Turgenev A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia - Semën Ivanovich Kanachikov A World Without Email - Cal Newport The Golden Age of Spanish Drama - Barbara Fuchs (ed.) Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford The Given Sacrifice - S.M. Stirling The Golden Princess - S.M. Stirling Prince of Outcasts - S.M. Stirling Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Lucifer Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway - Carey, Hampton, Weston, et. al. The F*ck It Diet - Nancy Richler Cerebus Vol. III: Church and State I - Dave Sim & Gerhard Manhattan Projects Vol. IV - Hickman & Pitarra The October Faction Vol III - Miles & Worm The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast - Josh Kaufman Preacher Vol 1: Gone to Texas - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 2: Til the End of the World - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 3: Proud Americans - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 4: Ancient History - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 5: Dixie Fried - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 6: War in the Sun - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 7: Salvation - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 8: All Hell’s a Coming - Ennis and Dillion Preacher Vol 9: Alamo - Ennis and Dillion This is How They Tell me the World Ends - Nicole Perlroth Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances - Lisa Morton Moby Dick - Herman Melville Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes translated: Tobias Smollett Analogia - George Dyson Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton The Saints of Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton Team of Teams - General Stanley McCrystal et. al. We Will Not Cancel Us - adrienne marie brown The Trouble with Gravity - Richard Panek

I got my very first artists residency! in April of next year I will be one of the artists and scientists participating in an expedition aboard the tall ship Antigua!

I've got more to say about that on this episode of the podcast (including a Kickstarter), a sneak peak at a new writing project, and the debut of a new drinking song co-written with Benjamin Franklin. Elsewhen you can hear what I think of King Lear and Bulletproof Monk. SAFTP is back!

Kickstarter Link: http://kck.st/3BsNvmd

I built a fence.

Elsewhen I've got thoughts on Jordan Peterson, Chernobyl, and a song about a Tapestry!

It's good to be back, I missed you!

This week I muse about the possibilities available in admitting there is no hope of inventing anything new. Elsewhen I revisit a classic slasher flick from the turn of the millennium, open my mail, and reveal my favourite documentary film of all time. [The peeled lemons serve no function, I'm just being a domestic wee beastie.]

The week's episode feature's a book about Benedictines, one of Leonard Cohen's last albums, and my own shocking lack of intent when dropping out of university. Elsewhen I've got a new song about the shocking sight glimpsed via screensharing during a Zoom meeting.

Fresh off the presses! This week's episode has mullings on likeable baddies, a comic book full of loveable degenerates, a new reccordion of "Sweet Cron," and more outtakes than usual.

This week sees the return of guests! I'm so happy I got to chat with my friend Heather... in my van! Elsewhen I suggest you do things wrong on purpose, recommend some Canadian comedy, and share another brand new song! Plus, as a bonus, you get to hear my fake Australian accent!

This week I've got some thoughts on some gender-fluid scifi factions, a comic book more bananas than Doctor Who, and a ramble about emergent consciousness. Elsewhen there is another preview of my in-progress album, and my true feelings about Ludacris. Disturbing noises abound!

This week I've got some first impressions about a big scary book I FINALLY finished reading. Elsewhen I talk about increasing understanding through appreciating terminology, recommend a book for learning skills with, and tell the "Yogurt Story," on a reccordion!

Although I'm deep in the throes of reccordion my next album, I still managed to keep up the schedule for the podcast this week! Within you will learn what my favourite "candy" was in church as a child, what a "zero day" is, and how I deploy 2,500 words to examine how comedy should "feel." All that and a new studio reccordion of "Sweet Cron?!" It must be this week’s episode of the podcast!