There's Sometimes a Buggy

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For episode 1B, we jump to the ass-end of The Gipper's career, examining Don Siegel's acclaimed 1964 adaptation of Hemingway's THE KILLERS. Reagan's final role finds him cast against type as a sociopathic Southern California entrepreneur who is most at home on the business end of a sniper scope (when he's got former associates to kill) or a pair of binoculars (when he's being cuckolded again). The film is a motion Dorian Gray-picture hiding in plain sight, belying the "Great Communicator's" good-guy grandpa image and laying bare the criminal/realpolitik roots of the Goldwaterite Conservative movement that would swallow the Republican party whole by 1980.

Of course, in 1964, even the most sanguine libertarian hustlers in the GOP had no idea what the next decade and a half held in store for their movement. After the defeat of their sparsely-haired boy Barry in November, those ragged individualists found themselves between a Rockefeller and a hard place, not unlike Reagan's Jack Browning character near the end of THE KILLERS.

We cover the film's place in post-studio and post-noir history, discuss the careers of director Siegel and players Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Norman Fell and Claude Akins; and play our first round of "Would you bang Reagan in this film?"

This is a time for choosing. Choose Red Time For Bonzo!

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Intro Theme:

"Driving Reagan" by Gareth Hedges 

Dave and Elise conclude their journey into the field of narrative possibilities that is FLEX MENTALLO, MAN OF MUSCLE MYSTERY, losing themselves in the bizarre Bermuda Love Triangle between superhero fandom, character formation, and perversity. M & M's figure prominently. 

Further Flexing:

Davids Allison, "Whatever Happened to the Mentallium Man of Tomorrow?"

Intro Song:

Billy Idol - "Flesh For Fantasy"

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Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

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We search in vain for the man himself during our inaugural film (IMDB insists that he is among the angry mob at the governor's mansion), but we find a wealth of material for our Marxist-Reaganist manifesto in Warner Brothers' They Won't Forget.

Join us as we examine the progressive commitments of the Gipper's home studio and set the table for our ongoing exploration of mid-century American pop cultural politics. Along the way, Dave argues that Tump Redwine is in fact the hero of the film; Romy lays out a good faith murder case against Robert Hale; and Gareth launches his soon-to-be-famous Norbert "I Love Actresses!" Lusk reading series. You'll also meet immortals like Westbrook Pegler, Ward Greene, and Gloria Dickson. 

It's morning in Red Time For Bonzoland.

Intro Theme:

"Driving Reagan" by Gareth Hedges 

Give your brain more Grant Morrison!

Brains love it!

Intro Song:

Billy Idol - "Flesh For Fantasy"

You can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or our Twitter accounts @milescoverdale and @rhodaAF709 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

"Let us treat the persons and personae well: treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are." (adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience")

Relevant Link:

"Councils of Perfection: Genre and Generosity in Animal Man" 

 (David's essay)

Intro Song:

New Kingdom - "Horse Latitudes"

You can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or our Twitter accounts @milescoverdale and @rhodaAF709 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

At last, it's the Revanchist Left American Studies project you've been pining for since November 4, 1980! Join Romy, Gareth and David on a vitriolic voyage through Ronald Reagan's filmic oeuvre.

Consider this an audio cease-and-desist missive to the hordes of "#Resistance" tweeters who've seen fit to critique the Trump regime with soothing prune-faced Gipper memes. Ronald Reagan was not a "moderate", and the fact that anyone in our cohort thinks he was only goes to demonstrate the magnitude of his grim hegemonic coup. The time has come to reclaim the discourse from the criminals who plopped The Great Communicator atop the electoral Christmas Tree in the Fall of 1980, and have been hogging 99% of the gifts ever since. 

Our humble thesis? Want to deploy Reagan against Trump and late capitalism? Go to it! Just use his filmography instead. 

Or, better yet, let us do it for you. 

Expect the first episode in mid-June, 2018!

Dave and Elise explore Animal Man #23 and #24, wherein much 4th dimension and 4th wall shattering occurs. Also: Streaky the Super-Cat!

Intro Song:

New Kingdom - "Horse Latitudes"

You can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or our Twitter accounts @milescoverdale and @rhodaAF709 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

"I love comic books!"

-Psalms of the Psycho-Pirate

Intro Song:

New Kingdom - "Horse Latitudes"

You can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or our Twitter accounts @milescoverdale and @rhodaAF709 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

We're too upset to write much about the events covered in issues #19 and #20 - but not too upset to ramble on at great length about metafiction, supporting character murder as a storytelling stratagem, and bronze age comic books. We also dispense a fair bit of contradictory life advice (prompted by listener email and mild sunstroke). 

Salient Link--

Interview re: veganism with Margaret Robinson

Intro Song:

New Kingdom - "Horse Latitudes"

You can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or our Twitter accounts @milescoverdale and @rhodaAF709 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure

The narrative begins to gather steam in issues #17 and #18 - although there's some tricky time signature distortion at work that may leave the reader just as discombobulated as our beleaguered protagonist(s). James Highwater experiences a highway epiphany, Buddy's ethical quandaries metastasize (on live TV), and Mirror Master delivers an advanced class in illusionist techniques + Glaswegian smack talk. Then it's time to ingest peyote. Elise delves into some extracurricular reading she's been doing, and there's another letter from Xavi! 

Salient Link--

Angry Inuk - a film by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Intro Song:

New Kingdom - "Horse Latitudes"

You can always write us at [email protected], or contact us through our Facebook Page or our Twitter accounts @milescoverdale and @rhodaAF709 

We're on all of the podcast delivery services, including iTunes, TuneIn radio and Stitcher, so please rate/review us there, if you can!

Finally, as suggested by listener Jay, here's an Amazon link to Dave's time travel novel, Hypocritic Days (published by Insomniac Press), which is set in the pulp magazine and film worlds of the early 1930s. Please do let us know if you check it out.

Original Another Kind of Distance artwork by Lee McClure