Unramblings

The Left Hand of Darkness

Charlyn & Mark discuss Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness," touching on gender, patriotism, and folktales. 

 

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Show notes: 

Ursula Le Guin's essay "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" can be found in her collection "Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places" - Here's a link to Amazon for your reference, but support your local bookstore where possible: https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Edge-World-Ursula-Guin/dp/0802135293/

We discuss prisoner sentences related to birth control, here is some more information on that program: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/21/tenn-judge-reprimanded-for-offering-reduced-jail-time-in-exchange-for-sterilization/

An interview with Ursula Le Guin from The Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6253/ursula-k-le-guin-the-art-of-fiction-no-221-ursula-k-le-guin

The Nightmare Before Christmas

This week, Charlyn & Mark talk about the perfect mid-holiday season movie: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Highlights include discussion of leadership in Halloween Town, cultural appropriation, and musical storytelling.

 

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Show notes:

No notes this week.

Murder Ballads

In this episode, Charlyn and Mark discuss the storytelling elements, trends, and implications of several murder ballads. Highlights include murder, folktales, and a dulcitone solo! (We’ll do something a little lighter next week).

You can find a Spotify playlist of the songs we discuss in this episode here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ScrFrTpIILTLmVhn0QygD

 

And an expanded playlist, including songs we listened to in preparation, but didn’t discuss here:

 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TWLwwV3rWdhHMFHFFxILj

 

 

Show notes: 

Toxic Masculinity - https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/what-we-mean-when-we-say-toxic-masculinity 

 

Memorial to Truth and Justice - https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial

Good Omens and American Gods

In this episode, Charlyn and Mark discuss American Gods by Neil Gaiman alongside Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Meddling divine beings abound! 

 

Next week (November 27th, 2019) we'll be discussing murder ballads! As promised in the episode, here are the links to the Spotify playlists we put together in advance of the episode:  

Unramblings - Murder Ballads: 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ScrFrTpIILTLmVhn0QygD?si=b9SADs5sRNCZCTob3cRZDQ 

This playlist only contains the songs that we discuss in the episode  

 

Unramblings - Murder Ballads (Expanded): 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TWLwwV3rWdhHMFHFFxILj?si=_qxFtiadRtiaIIU6JwGQag 

This playlist contains all the songs that we listened to in selecting tracks to discuss for the episode.

 

Show notes: 

Ricky Whittle plays Shadow Moon in the American Gods TV adaptation. Mark forgot this in the spur of the moment, and adding it in later seemed like a lot of effort. 

Charlyn refreshed her memory on these books with TV Tropes, here are the links in case you would like to do the same: 

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/literature/goodomens

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/literature/americangods

 

The Shining

In the first episode of Unramblings, Charlyn and Mark discuss Stephen King's novel "The Shining," the adaptation to film by Stanley Kubrick, and Hallorann's snowcat delivery service.

 

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And That's Why We Drink - https://www.andthatswhywedrink.com/