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Unrequired Reading: May not
Just another honkin’ load of links, courtesy of my Twitter feed at twitter.com/groth18! RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle VanBlerk): Awesome people hanging out together. Early contender for Tumblr of the day. * *...
View ArticleUnrequired Reading: Junebug
Just in time for July 4th, it’s a collection of my tweeted links and retweets, for those of you too lazy to get on Twitter and follow me @groth18! First up, the retweets! RT @MoCCAnyc (MoCCA): Kirby vs...
View ArticleUnrequired Reading: Jewel Eye
It’s time for another month’s worth of my tweets from twitter! First the retweets (the ones that begin with RT) and then the marginally more original ones! Remember, you can get these regularly by...
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Baseball & Shakespeare Update
PDA conference in PHX done! Now to close the “Shakespeare plays read to ballparks visited” spread! Shakespeare Plays Read A Midsummer Night’s Dream Antony & Cleopatra As You Like It Coriolanus...
View ArticleA Little Updatery
Here’s a short post to keep you apprised of things, dear reader/listener! The Virtual Memories Show (VMS) podcast just had its most successful month yet, busting the previous monthly record for...
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Podcast: Slipping the Noose of the Topical
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 20 – Slipping the Noose of the Topical “When you start out writing, you think, ‘Maybe I’ll become one of the great writers, like Dostoevsky or Goethe, Tolstoy.’...
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Podcast: The Least Insane of Cartoonists
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 22 – The Least Insane of Cartoonists “I was asking not to be taken seriously, but I was also getting annoyed that I wasn’t being taken seriously.” Peter Bagge, the...
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Podcast: The Whimsical Barracuda
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 31 -The Whimsical Barracuda “With my brothers, it was like ‘Resistance is futile! You will enjoy horror movies! You will go to comic book conventions! You will...
View ArticleWho Does Number 2 Work For?
Your browser does not support iframes. I was happy to see some of the 1996-2000 players there to celebrate (but no Brosius?).
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Podcast – 35 Cents & a Stamp
Virtual Memories Show: John Porcellino – 35 Cents & A Stamp “I managed to go 43 issues before I hit the paralyzing grip of self-doubt and self-consciousness [from realizing that I had an audience]....
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Podcast – Simple Tricks and Nonsense (ep. 101)
Virtual Memories Show: Levi Stahl – Simple Tricks and Nonsense “The biggest thing I learned editing The Getaway Car is that a working writer’s work is never done.” Let’s kick off 2015 with a podcast...
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Episode 112 – Remainder
Virtual Memories Show: Clive James – Remainder “I should have led a more balanced life, but that’s easy to say at the end of things. When you’re caught up in what you’re doing, it’s very hard to be...
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Episode 116 – Magic City
Virtual Memories Show: Thane Rosenbaum – Magic City “I’m starting to think that the essays, the fiction, the long non-fiction are all coming from the same place, tapping the same resources, the same...
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Episode 149 – Keith Knight
Virtual Memories Show #149: Keith Knight “The talk about race in America hinges on how comfortable white people are with it. Because once white people are too uncomfortable, they’ll either say you’re...
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Episode 168 – Harry Katz
Virtual Memories Show #168: Harry Katz “What connected Levine and Herblock was the fire in the belly, the outrage against people try to impose their power over the powerless, who try to disenfranchise...
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Episode 185 – Willard Spiegelman
Virtual Memories Show #185: Willard Spiegelman “It’s an existential question, not a historical one: what kinds of places make you feel at home? Some people feel at home nowhere, and some feel at home...
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Episode 198 – Ed Ward
Virtual Memories Show #198: Ed Ward “There’s a large narrative in this book: the popular music tradition of A&R, where songs were given to artists to record, was on its way out.” Lifelong rock...
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Episode 199 – Michael Tisserand
Virtual Memories Show #199: Michael Tisserand “I always feel like Herriman’s a a step ahead of me. When I read Krazy Kat I think I know what I’m reading; the next week I read the same strip and I...
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Episode 204 – Phillip Lopate
Virtual Memories Show 204: Phillip Lopate “There were times when I was transcribing the tapes and I’d catch my breath and say, ‘Oh, my God.’ I would stop the tape and just sit there, staring into...
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Episode 211 – John Cuneo
Virtual Memories Show 211: John Cuneo “These drawings were made with no intention of anyone ever seeing them. They were just practice, and — as more than one person has suggested — a cry for help.”...
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