The contradictions inherent in the movement of capitalist society impress themselves upon the practical bourgeois most strikingly in the changes of the periodic cycle, through which modern industry runs, and whose crowning point is the universal crisis. That crisis is once again approaching, although as yet but in its preliminary stage; and by the universality of its theatre and the intensity of its action it will drum dialectics even into the heads of the mushroom-podcast listeners of the new, holy Prusso-German empire.

– Karl Marx, London, January 24, 1873.

This week, join Beautiful Fairy Princess and Captain Handsome as they effortlessly relate to the non-Facebook demographic by establishing

An episode description in which I once again take some of my discarded episode titles and list them as bullet points in lieu of writing a proper thingy:

Self-explanatory, as always:

In honour of Dr Gary Foley’s recent 75th birthday, Beautiful Fairy Princess continues with her dastardly plan to publish his complete biography in podcast form before Tony Birch has the chance to write any of it down. Besides, reading is for suckers, which is why I’m just going to trail off …

… Ugh, fine. Stories included feature the likes of John Webster, Marcia Langton, Germaine Greer, Bob Bellear, Paul Coe, Gary Williams, Pat O’Shane, Chicka Dixon, Bob Maza, Ken and Sacha Horler, Ray Peckham, Joe Strummer, and more! Plus, Bird Ferguson briefly steals the show.

See, kids? I know video games. Oh, and it’s a true crime podcast now, so that’s all the listener demographics covered. Also:

Lured by the undeniable architectural triumph that is the newly unveiled Feminist Wing at Floate Library—it didn’t take very long, either—our prodigal heroes return to say things directly at each other’s faces. Some of those things:

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They call him Captain Handsome but his name was Elisa Day. Nicknames, huh. Where do they come from? Beautiful Fairy Princess seems to think that the answer is ChatDSV, which I understand to be both a telepathic dolphin who loves subroutines—which are evil, unlike normal routines, which are natural and good—and her only companion since the breakdown of the quarantediation process. I probably should have split that last sentence up a bit but I did not want to risk remembering it by stopping partway through, plus I am working to a kitchen timer of indeterminate duration.

Also:
• Chairman Mao’s Red Braised Porkies
• Taken for a Wildean ride
• In Seattle, Washington, mushroom eats you!
• ‘… the best way out is always Theroux’ – Robert Frost, 1915
• What if Regus Patoff but tall?