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Germans head to the polls Sunday at a time of increasing popularity for far-right politicians and Europe at a crossroads over Ukraine.  Trump wants to stop funding schools with diversity initiatives. LAUSD officials fear losing more than a billion dollars in federal funding. Critics review the latest film releases: “Old Guy,” “The Monkey,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.” Two foods that are fun to make and satisfying to eat: onigiri (Japanese rice balls) and spring rolls. Both involve steamed rice wrapped in seaweed sheets or rice paper, and a wide variety of fillings.  The Museum of Jurassic Technology has recreated a meditative space from medieval Andalusia as part of the Getty’s region-wide PST Art event. 

In the fall of 2019 I had a notable visit to The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. In my mind I always think of it as just “The Museum,” because it is my favorite Museum. To explain anything about the inner workings, or even contents of this venerable institution is, in my opinion, to spoil it. This reticence doubtless comes from the fact that upon my first visit, I entered wholly in the dark as to what I was about to experience. I have since insisted upon this policy with any friend I bring to the museum. I'm sure I've piqued your curiosity a little bit, no? If you enjoy history, literature, puzzles, beautiful art, or total commitment to a concept, then I believe you will love it like I do. I beg of you, get thee hither to Culver City and see The Museum for yourself. Allow the gentle madness to wash over you, and be inspired!It is my hope that my artwork inspires people to feel something, and the artwork that this place embodies has certainly engendered feelings in me. In the hope of sharing one of those, and at the risk of violating my own policy about this wondrous piece of educational-installation-art I want to tell you about the time one of their exhibits moved me to tears. But first, I need to tell you about Ricky Jay.Ricky Jay was a magician, historian, actor, and tale teller. He appeared countless times in films and television programs, many of which he worked on as a consultant, and was the author of over a dozen books. While composing this essay I have tried to think of another artist, that I have not met, who has had such an impact on me personally. I have been unable to. For me, Ricky Jay changed not only how I perform, but also what I perform. Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants might be my favorite magic show of all time, at least the filmed version released as an HBO special. Not only that but it contains my single favorite magic trick. The trick, which ostensibly draws upon astrology, sees him pulling a woman out of the audience and purporting to use the discipline to determine… “something.” After she signs a card it disappears back into the deck, after which he attempts to bring it back. And fails. Fails repeatedly, fails copiously, conspicuously and, somehow joyously. Once the card fails to appear the act descends into a parade of vintage wind-up toys, pulled from a large suitcase beside the magic table. Mechanical rabbits, demented ducks, and strange chimeras all appear, each one ostensibly set loose to find the volunteer's chosen card. They all fail. Eventually in frustration Jay shouts, “Behold! A suitcase I have not opened in a month.” He then proceeds to produce the chosen card from inside it. Herein lies the key to why I love the bit so much. It is a classic thing in a magic trick that a magician will tell you something wrong, in order to muddy the waters of your memory and thus make the trick more impressive. Something like, “Now I have shown you both sides of this cricket bat.” In reality the magician has done nothing of the sort. Jay has just pointed to the selfsame suitcase he has been opening over and over again for the past ten minutes! This is because this piece of his show is not about fooling anyone, although many bits of impressive magic are still present within the bit. Rather, it is because this whole thing is a comedic bit, one that Jay is presenting to create amusement, and to share something he loves. In this case, the windup toys.Jay was a collector, he would comb through bookshops, antique malls, rummage sales, and archives. Looking for things people had forgotten about, old books, playing cards, dice, windup toys, concepts, ideas, stories. He would take these bits of the past, dust them off, and shine a beautiful light on them. A friend of mine once remarked to me that, “An artist should be an arrow, pointing at beauty.” That is precisely what Jay did, and it drives so much of what I do as a performer. I am trying to showcase something outside myself, even if the way I do it is by telling a story about my own experience. Jay showed me that a magic trick was about so much more than just fooling someone, it could be about telling a story. The fact that Jay told his stories with a narrating voice that was so particularly his own made them all the more compelling to me. Jay's public persona proffered peculiar patterns of speech, aided by a vocabulary of frightening breadth. He had a gift for making centuries old poetry and dialogue feel alive, as though an actual human being might have one day uttered “Zounds!” with the same conviction you or I might utter a word like, “Fuck.” In the hope of understanding this quality I have studied this speech for years, listening to recordings of him over and over, some of them hundreds of times, working hard to track down obscure ones. I like to think this effort has paid off in some way, though after you engage with his work dear reader, you may be the judge.If you're looking for a bite-sized introduction to the writing, and narrating style of Ricky Jay, you need look no further than his series of bite-sized radio essays, “Jay's Journal.” Every episode of the show was only 4 minutes long, a delightful little window that you could gaze out of for approximately the same amount of time it takes the kettle to boil. The Subjects were as wide ranging as Jay's interests; Chickens, Detectives, Three Card Monte, Coffee, and Mynah Birds all received their due.Which brings me back to the museum. Jay died in the fall of 2018, and this visit roughly coincided with the one year anniversary of that passing. I knew from my reading that he had spent time and the museum and even contributed a thing or two, but I was unprepared for what I found. In a small hallway connecting two larger exhibits was a presentation of a few choice objects from Jay's collection. A small button on the wall triggered a narration he had recorded years ago explaining the objects. I was startled, I thought I had heard all available recordings of him before, yet here was a new one. Somehow, this one particular voice still had more to say, even from beyond the grave. Happy Halloween Everyone! Photo by: Sam Teigen

House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski, Anne Danielewski (Poe), Haunted, Tad Danielewski, Tad's death as a reason for House of Leaves & Haunted, Utah, Provo, Mormonism, Brigham Young University (BYU), BYU's film program, SRA claims in Provo, House of Leaves in the context of 1990s alienation, immersive art, ergodic literature, the history of immersive art & ergodic literature, Leaves' places in these traditions, alternate reality games (ARGs), transmedia, Ong's Hat, Joseph Matheny, Blair Witch Project, Pink Floyd, Plubius enigma, Museum for Jurassic Technology, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, treasure hunts, Beale papers, QAnon, Edgar Allen Poe, University of Virginia, Menomonie, Neil Gaiman, House on the Borderland, weird fiction, William Hope Hodgson. Jorge Luis BorgesMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music: J Money Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lords: * Mike * Jake Topics: * Cameras are peaking -- what's next? * Is the mysterious disappearing, or just mystery? * Preschool security practices * At the Feast in the Great Hall, by Ursula Leguin * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/1-EFinaN.png * It's not boring to talk about dreams Microtopics: * The great state of Maine. * A project you've been working on for a long time. * Inventing a game developer community in Michigan. * Meaningful distinguishers on normal camera use. * A lukewarm decisionmaking process. * Computational photography. * Samsung's fake moon. * A camera that just guesses what you want to see so you don't even need to take the photo. * A massive endless feed of the same photo with different people in it. * Why people use cameras. * Whether photos exist. * Late stages of the product category. * People who need Photoshop to do their job. * Photo mode in real life. * A photo you can take later. * Adding a filter to make the guy in the background less likable. * Meals for the Ages * How to get from here to perfect ubiquitous service surveillance. * Theatrically pretending to be hit by a stationary car. * Going to the Gallagher movie and getting sprayed with watermelon. * There's just the one Bigfoot, it's the same Bigfoot every time. * Tomato sauces that are still delicious even if you learned the recipe from the Internet and not from a grandma. * Mysterious things backing into the shadows so they can remain mysterious. * Protecting mystery wherever you find it. * The Museum of Jurassic Technology. * Stepping inside someone else's very strange brain. * Dawn Wall. * An intensely detailed exploration of the surface of a cliff. * I wonder what it's like on the fucking moon? * Who painted the iconic cover of the Wrinkle in Time paperback. * The shoot-em-up cabinet you saw in the canteen at the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia before the first Liberian civil war and have never been able to find since. * A reaction to the lack of organic mystery in our lives. * The Case of the Missing Hit and Searching for Sugarman. * Wash over me, True Story. * Which phone checked the kid out of preschool. * Being on the list of services the insurance companies consider to have checked various boxes. * We got pins. We can do that. * The three bad four-digit pins. * Streamlining the process of rapidly accounting for all the children. * Developing a system that would deterministically move the needle in a useful way. * Blundering in the brightness. * Telling two events from the same perspective. * Ugly crying at your desk in a public workspace. * Spending way more time not alive than alive. * Something that we can experience on either side of our lives. * A Fire Take from Jake. * Waiter stress dreams. * A skill that you can hone. * One of the more fun channels in the discord. * Holding an increasingly large bag of stuff. * Waking up laughing until you realize your dream was not funny. * The consciousness wall between you and visualization. * Training yourself to let your mental imagery be visible. * Seeing clumps of color and interpreting them. * Doing an editing pass on your dreams before relating it to your friends. * Jay-Z's favorite bleu cheese Milkshakes. * Screwball horror. * A splash of furry content.

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in lead. Movement, circularity, and stasis are all terms that also describe Belfi's interests as a composer. We discuss his origins in Italy's punk scene, his time as drummer of the noisy instrumental rock band Rosolina Mar, opening for Thom Yorke, and the development of his unique approach to solo performance as a drummer. TRACKLIST Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 1] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) SP INTRO Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 2] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) Andrea Belfi - “Cera Persa 1” (Cera Persa, Latency, 2016) Andrea Belfi - “Wege B” (Wege, Room40, 2012) Andrea Belfi - “Ton”  (Ore, Float, 2017) Thom Yorke - “Atoms for Peace” (The Eraser, XL, 2006) Four Tet - “Pyramid (Atoms For Peace remix)” (Pink Remixes, Bandcamp, 2014) Andrea Belfi - “Pulsing” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) Carla Bozulich - “Pissing” (Evangelista, Constellation, 2006) Andrea Belfi & Ignaz Schick - “Myth 5” (The Myth Of Persistence Of Vision Revisited, Zarek, 2011) Steve Reich / Ulrich Krieger (performer) - “Pendulum Music” (An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005, Sub Rosa, 2006) Andrea Belfi - “Shale” (Strata, Float, 2019) Steve Reich - “Drumming, Part I” (Works 1965-1995 (Disc 02 - Drumming), Nonesuch, 1997)  John Zorn / Ennio Morricone - “The Battle of Algiers” (The Big Gundown, Nonesuch, 1986) Ennio Morricone - “L'Attentato” (C'era una volta il west, RCA, 1969) Egisto Macchi - “Gare Spatiale” (I Futuribili, Gemelli, 1971) Egisto Macchi - “Jungla I”(Africa Minima, Anya, 1972) Vladislav Delay - “Nesso” (Multila, Chain Reaction, 2000) Vladislav Delay - “Mustelmia” (Tummaa, Leaf, 2009) Medves [Andrea Belfi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Riccardo Wanke, Stefano Pilia] - “Untitled” [Figures Side] (Medves, Fringes Recordings, 2004) Rosolina Mar - “Malpensa Social Club” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004) Swell Maps - “Harmony In Your Bathroom” (A Trip To Marineville, Rough Trade, 1979) Antioch Arrow - “David” (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995) Clikatat Ikatowi- “Science Fiction Reality” (Orchestrated And Conducted By…, Gravity, 1996) Antioch Arrow - “Date With Destiny”  (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995) Drive Like Jehu - “If it kills you” (Drive Like Jehu, Headhunter, 1992) Clikatat Ikatowi - “Rise and Shine” (River of Souls, Gravity, 1998) Heroin - “Indecision” [rework] (All About Heroin, Vinyl Communications, 1991) Hiroshima Rocks - “Walking Like US Maple” (Around Isolation Bus Blues, NO=FI, 2001) Stereolab - “Metronomic Underground” (Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Elektra, 1996) Gastr del Sol - “Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye” (Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly, Drag City, 1995) Gastr del Sol - “The Japanese Room At La Pagode” (The Japanese Room At La Pagode / May [Split with Tony Conrad], Table of the Elements, 1995) Rosolina Mar -  “La Bottega Del Krapftwerk” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004) Rosolina Mar - “Before And After Dinner” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005) Rosolina Mar - “L'ora Di Religione” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005) Rosolina Mar - “Mingozo di Mongozo (Claudio Rocchetti Remix)” (Rosolina Mar Meet Trumans Water, Robot Radio, 2007) Rhythm & Sound - “Trace” (Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, 2001) Andrea Belfi - “Picture Burning” (...a gift for (°!°)..., Afe/Grey Sparkle/et. al, 2004) 3/4hadbeeneliminated - “Loop Recorder in the Patient with Heart Disease” (a year of the aural gauge operation, häpna, 2005) Andrea Belfi - “Iso” (Ore, Float, 2017) Andrea Belfi - “Pastorale” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) -—- Sound Propositions produced by Joseph Sannicandro. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/soundpropositions/support

Jejune Institute, The Institute, Dispatches from Elsewhere, the Latitude Society, In Bright Axiom, Jeff Hull, alternate reality games (ARGs), immersive art, Rosicrucianism, the Whitechapel Club, the Fortean Society, the Cacophony Society, Suicide Clubs, press clubs, social upheaval, humor as a teaching tool and path of enlightenment, Western forms of Taoism and Sufism, New Thought, The Secret, actions vs thoughts, group encounters, magical realism, the magic of place, manifesting the incredible, the encroachment of capital on open places, the closing of the weird commons, genre fiction, tropes, Museum of Jurassic Technology, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, The X-Files, fiction as a means of transformation, nonfiction metanarrative, changing the narrative, magical nonfiction, the breakdown of society and what comes nextNote: I confused two separate X-Files episodes, season 2's "Firewalker" and season 6's "Field Trip." The former dropped in 1994 while the later appeared in 1999. The Museum of Jurassic Technologies was founded in 1988, but it wasn't originally based in Culver City. Lawrence Weschler's acclaimed account of the museum, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, appeared in 1995. By the time Weschler began exploring the museum, it was based out of Culver. An early display recounting a genus of fungus dubbed Tomentellawas alleged to leave West African ants known as Megaloponera foetens dead with spores protruding from their bodies. Death came after the fungus consumed the ant's brain and nervous system, leaving only a spike-like protrusion out of the creature's head. "Firewalker" most closely resembles this exhibit and the timeframe seems to allow for the X-Files writing staff to explore the museum during this era. After first musical break (4: 10): an epic rundown of the influences behind immersive art and ARGs: Rosicrucianism, the Whitechapel Club, Suicide Clubs, the Fortean Society, Discordianism, Operation Mindfuck, the Cacophony Society. Also, the magic of place and the encroachment of capital: Can magical spots be preserved for the curious? After second musical break (40: 45): The Secret vs actions; magical mystery tours; death and rebirth of personality; manifesting the incredible; Jeff's "the Warp Zone experience" After the third break (1:03: 00): Magical realism, subverting genre fiction a la Lynch & Kubrick; art and self-discovery; human potential, self-help & group encounters; the Museum of Jurassic Technology; the projection of magical spots throughout; the metaphysics of The X-FilesAfter the fourth break (1: 32: 16): The breakdown of consensus reality: When the weird turn pro, what does everyone else do? Plus, the Non-fiction metanarrative; or magical nonfiction? Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional music taken from Daniel Dutton's The Faunhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BC5PQ7GB/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3PNRMC4O8GV21&keywords=dan+dutton+the+faun&qid=1680225166&s=music&sprefix=%2Cpopular%2C71&sr=1-2 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Theresa Duncan, Jeremy Blake, "Theremy," Golden Suicides, Scientology, Alternate reality games, ARGs, Franklin scandal, Johnny Gosch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Beck, Tom Cruise, "Alice Underground," the Duncan Blake Rumor Mill, Brett Easton Ellis, LA, Hollywood, Venice, Chateau Marmont, Chateau d'Amboise, Knights Templar, Leonardo da Vinci, Catherine Di Medici, Black Masses, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Courtney Love, Quentin Tarantino, Hunter S. Thompson, Rodney Alcala, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Bunny Museum, Ray Johnson, Andy Warhol, pop art, Ray Johnson's suicide, Johnson's suicide as art, Mount Lowe, Salvation Mountain, the Salton Sea, Urban exploration, Cacophony Society, Suicide Club, Leonard Knight, Burning Man, Sean Penn, Into the Wild, Noah Purifoy, Joshua Tree, Graham Parsons, Llano del Rio, Job Herriman, utopian communities, faked suicides/deaths, Aztec Motel, Route 66, Wright family, Mayan revival style, Isaac Kappy, Tuesday's Child, Tuesday Weld, Tuesday Weld as Illuminati priestess, Discordianism, neo-Dadaism, underground art currentsFor those interested, Taylor's most recent short film and other work can be found here:https://vimeo.com/686522265Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whose Live Anyway?, TJ & Dave, Being more comfortable on stage vs in the audience,  The Comedy Store, Vinny DePonto's Mindplay at The Geffen, and The Museum of Jurassic Technology Links: Dittelman at Speakeasy Magick on various nights this month 12/27 Dittelman at City Winery NYC Buy tickets to Mat's Show in Vegas! Book Dittelman for your event! Recommendations: Mat: Whose Live Anyway? and White Lotus Eric: TJ & Dave and White Lotus *** Be a patron and help support the show at: Patreon.com/MindOverMagicPodcast Visit us and write us an email at: mindovermagicpod.com Follow us on the socials: linktr.ee/MindOverMagicPod

Cue the Twin Peaks theme music. In this week's mini, we take a Lynchian detour to discuss the book Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler and share our mutual love for L.A. 's weirdly wonderful Museum of Jurassic of Technology and other strange museums around the world. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comFollow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.comEmail us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit PodcastDiscussed in this episode: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence WeschlerThe Museum of Jurassic Technology Oxford's Ashmolean Museum International Museum of Surgical Science in ChicagoFreakatoriumJulia Bulette Red Light Museum in Virginia CityMuseum of Torture in Tuscany Funeral Carriage Museum in Barcelona 

Mom Stomp reviews The Museum of Jurassic Technology but first our journey in becoming a $100,000-an-episode podcast, sweaty drawers, eavesdropping babies, audio from Brit, Beyonce's never-ending website, and JLo's basic wedding. #writeitdown

Or, The Puppeteer Adjudicators Kris and I talk de-normalization, adding color to the wardrobe, and mitigating OCD. We then address our two “derangement syndromes,” ie the cultural debates that trigger us: COVID-19 and wokeness in academia. How do we inoculate ourselves against this allergic reaction to beliefs that we find distasteful? How do we just get on with the process of living? Should values follow from skills?  Notes: Jonas Salk Heather Mac Donald John McWhorter Wilfred Reilly Indonesian shadow puppets The Museum of Jurassic Technology

Historian JD Dickey discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. J.D. Dickey has for more than 20 years been observing and writing about American history, society and culture. Of his book, Rising in Flames, Harold Holzer in the Wall Street Journal wrote, "No one interested in Sherman's March should be deprived of his lively narrative. Absolutely spellbinding." His earlier book, Empire of Mud, was a New York Times bestseller and described the troubled landscape of Washington, D.C., in the nineteenth century. He has also written and spoken on on a broad range of historical and political topics in media such as TIME magazine, C-SPAN's Book TV, Public Radio International's The Takeaway and Literary Hub. In addition, he has lectured for the New-York Historical Society, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, and the Atlanta History Center, among other organizations. His current work, The Republic of Violence: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America, was published in March 2022 by Pegasus Books. The Built, The Unbuilt and the Unbuildable https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/built-unbuilt-and-unbuildable The Museum of Jurassic Technology https://www.mjt.org/ The Visitor https://jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/the-visitor Gregory Crewdson https://dianamarin.com/2019/02/19/review-gregory-crewdson-cinematic-photography/ The Flagellation of Christ http://www.travelingintuscany.com/art/pierodellafrancesca/flagellation.htm Pandora and the Flying Dutchman https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/movies/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman-restoration.html This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this week's episode of Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast, host Jon Steinberg shares his list of Southern California's 10 unorthodox museums to incorporate in your next visit to the sprawl. His list includes: the Martial Arts Museum in Burbank, the Valley relics Museum in Van Nuys, the International Printing Museum in Carson, the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, the Buck Owens Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, the Teddy Bear Museum in Santa Barbara, the International Banana Museum in Mecca, the Route 66 Museum in Victorville and the Bunny Museum in Altadena.Instagram: @livinginthesprawlpodcastEmail: livinginthesprawlpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: www.livinginthesprawlpodcast.comCheck out our favorite CBD gummy company...it helps us get better sleep and stay chill. Use code "SPRAWL" for 20% off.  https://www.justcbdstore.com?aff=645Check out Goldbelly for all your favorite US foods to satisfy those cravings or bring back some nostalgia. Our favorites include Junior's Chessecakes from New York, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago and a philly cheesesteak from Pat's. Use the link https://goldbelly.pxf.io/c/2974077/1032087/13451 to check out all of the options and let them know we sent you.Use code "SPRAWL" for (2) free meals and free delivery on your first Everytable subscription.Support the podcast and future exploration adventures. We are working on unique perks and will give you a shout out on the podcast to thank you for your contribution!Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast is on Podfanhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprawl Support the show

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * maxx.infinity@gmail.com * Elena * https://propinquity.me/ Topics: * Been playing Celeste recently and I'm real into the themes of conflict with oneself vs acceptance of oneself * The museum of Jurassic Technology and when it's okay to lie to your audience * Human jaw shrinkage * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanjawshrinkage * Feeding the Worms, by Danusha Lameris * http://poetrytreeonthecharles.net/2020/09/feeding-the-worms-by-danusha-lameris/ * Linguistics of Swearing and Taboo * The weird Mummy trailer with the missing audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1jg5YlQuT8 Microtopics: * Getting a lot of calories for your money. * All your amino acids right there. * Superman grabbing the bumper and lifting the entire gestalt of the car. * A "superfood" in the sense of being beyond the concept of food, e.g. antidepressants. * Whether you get better at running events after running events for a decade. * Ultimately reconciling with yourself after making a video game about reconciling with yourself. * A platformer about depression and panic attacks. * The checkbox in a hard game's accessibility options that allows you to give yourself permission to use the disability options. * The 8-way joystick gate on the Nintendo 64 and the Gamecube. * Installing little pigeon spikes on the thumb stick to remind yourself to use the d-pad when playing Celeste. * Iterating when everything you do is slightly difficult. * A mixed record of enjoying platformers. * Putting in the effort to making someone's holy video game genre, such as the scrolling shooter or the masocore platformer, accessible to a non-believer. * A culture of something. * Being unable to process what's going on in a movie so you look up the Wikipedia plot summary mid-movie. * Media-related experiences that you miss out on because your priorities lie elsewhere. * Hating very difficult platformers but also being so good at platformers that you only get mildly frustrated at platformers that are generally considered very difficult. * An art installation that pretends to be a museum. * Visiting a museum and at the end of it being unsure what a museum is. * A glitch in your house where rooms occasionally disappear. * The genre of joke that takes the form of telling a lie, and the failure modes where the listener believes the lie and gets confused, or where they don't realize it's supposed to be amusing and think you're trying to deceive them. * Listening to someone tell a story from their life with growing horror and only realizing midway through that they're describing a dream. * Subscribe to Nitro on Discord and needing to write a SQL query to find the right emoji reaction. * Using a normally innocuous emoji in a way that is not innocuous on this particular Discord server. * Using emoji reactions to replace the parental paratextual back channel of information that body language gives you in a real life conversation. * Whether "human jaw shrinkage" refers to over an individual lifetime or over millennia of evolution. * Human jaws getting smaller not because of evolutionary pressure, but because we aren't chewing tough grains and nuts as much as our ancestors did. * Not experiencing pain, fear or anxiety and not realizing it until you're in your sixties. * Not experiencing pain, fear or anxiety so you only feel mild disappointment when you get a cut on your foot and your dog eats your foot while you're not paying attention. * The tickly sensation of yanking metal wire out of the ground. * Recreational anaphylaxis. * Drinking hot tea to burn your tongue so your dad won't be disappointed when you react to incredibly spicy ramen. * The sweetness of apples permeating the pores all over your stringy body. * The feathery tops of carrots. * At what point things become gross. * High and low variance fruit. * Mush that is beyond comprehension. * If going on the bus to work was that chaotic Willy Wonka tunnel. * Getting more reminders of life in your life. * Google procedurally generating a vacation montage of the time you visited a Holocaust memorial, and playing a jaunty tune over it. * Giving people unlabeled interfaces that they subconsciously learn how to use. * Using a fishing rod to hanging a sad mannequin head in front of the lens when you're taking photos that you don't want Google to create a jaunty montage of three years from now. * Ling 269. * What that guy is saying in the weird Mummy trailer. * Pan-Pan the Human Man. * Studying the brain of the guy who can only say "pan," and there in his brain wrinkles you can read the word "pan" in the place where most people have the dictionary etched. * An aphasic situation. * A comprehensive timeline of euphemisms for genitals going back to the 12th century. * A novel mince to your swear. * Practicing minced oaths until they are internalized enough to move into swear storage in your brain. * Finding a stranger in the Alps. * Americans coming back from World War I with a bunch of new slurs. * The Holy Shit Shift, where the offensive part of the phrase "holy shit" shifted from one word to the other over time.

Stan and Marshall take their long-awaited trip to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles! Hang out with the two as they walk through the museum, and later discuss art, museum-going etiquette, best options for museum buddies, and much more. Show Links (some contain affiliate links): Cesar Santos - https://proko.com/251 Bouguereau A Young Girl Defending Herself against Love - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/bouguereau-draftsmen-s3e33.jpg Han Hoblein - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/holbein-draftsmen-s3e33.jpg Van Gogh's Irises - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/van-gogh-irises-s3e33.jpg Jean-François Millet's Man with a Hoe - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/jean-francois-s3e33.jpg Caspar David Friedrich's A Walk at Dusk - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/caspar-david-friedrich-s3e33.jpg Degas' After the Bath - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/edgar-degas-s3e33.jpg Lawrence Alma - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/lawrence-alma-s3e33.jpg Rob Walker - https://amzn.to/2ZAijVk Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit - https://vangoghexpo.com/ Akira Kurosawa Dreams - https://amzn.to/3d4ikEd The Met: https://www.metmuseum.org Getty Villa - https://www.getty.edu/visit/villa/ Huntington Library and Gardens: https://www.huntington.org Norton Simon: https://www.nortonsimon.org Rodin - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/rodin-s3e33.jpg Louvre - https://www.louvre.fr/ Dorset Museum - https://www.dorsetmuseum.org/ Smithsonian - https://www.si.edu/ Tate - https://www.tate.org.uk/ National Museum of Wildlife Art - https://www.wildlifeart.org/ Museum of Jurassic Technology - https://www.mjt.org/ The Russian State Museum - https://rusmuseum.ru/ Tretyakov Gallery - https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ Ilya Repin - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/ilya-repin-s3e33.jpg Valentin Serov - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/valentin-serov-s3e33.jpg Hermitage - https://hermitage.nl/en/ George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art - https://lucasmuseum.org/ Norman Rockwell - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/norman-rockwell-s3e33.jpg N.C. Wyeth - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/nc-wyeth-s3e33.jpg Howard Pyle - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/howard-pyle-s3e33.jpg Andrew Wyeth - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/andrew-wyeth-s3e33.jpg  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you believe us if we told you that today's episode is all about the Lower Jurassic, yet dinosaurs are not mentioned a single time? Campers, we are headed to, quite possibly, the strangest museum yet. The Museum of Jurassic Technology has left us befuddled, yet amused. Please enjoy.

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This week, Alice and Kim recommend easy nonfiction reads to start your year. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Follow Up Shoutout on Twitter from Ibram X. Kendi – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi  and Keisha N. Blain Nonfiction in the News Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price The Doctors Blackwell : How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura  The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America by Bradford Pearson  Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas  Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Reading Now KIM: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey ALICE: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Special guests galore this week!! We are thrilled to be back with another Thursday author interview. Today, Becky and Emily speak to Emily Beyda, author of the highly anticipated debut, The Body Double. This suspenseful novel, in the vein of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, tells the dark, glittering story of a young woman who is recruited by a stranger to give up her old life and identity to impersonate a reclusive Hollywood star. Stay tuned to hear all about Emily’s inspiration behind this (as Kayla would say) mind-f*** of a book, including her own upbringing in Los Angeles, her feelings on celebrity culture and how it’s changed over time, the nature of isolation, and the W I L D story of the first (unpublished) novel she ever wrote. Read on for buy links! And please feel free to drop us a line about this interview, Emily’s work, or anything else you'd like to tell us at booksandthecitypod@gmail.com. ------------------------> The Body Double by Emily Beyda: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608690/the-body-double-by-emily-beyda/ Emily’s LA rec: The Museum of Jurassic Technology, https://www.mjt.org/ What she’s reading now: The Beetle by Richard Marsh: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-beetle/#tab-description Daniel Deronda by George Eliot: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/45821/daniel-deronda-by-george-eliot-introduction-by-edmund-white/ https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksandthecity Music by EpidemicSound, art by @niczollos, all opinions our own.

HPL assaults Catholicism and other intellectual outrages. This one may ruffle some feathers as Lovecraft lays it on thick in part three of his lengthy letter to his friend Frank Belknap Long. Includes a short and pleasant detour to Quebec! Be sure to check out the website of The Museum of Jurassic Technology, and visit in person if you ever get the chance. In the gift shop they have the wonderful book No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again. Frank Belknap Long wrote a memoir of HPL entitled Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside. In that memoir, he mentions this letter and gives us some insight into what he had said to Lovecraft to provoke HPL's anti-Catholic diatribe. "At one point covering a period of several years," Long writes, "I came close to becoming a convert to a ritualistic Catholic mysticism, perhaps because I have always been in rebellion against what I felt was the beauty-ignoring aspect of Protestantism, even when it repudiated every kind of Bible Belt fundamentalism. Despite his atheism, HPL had a great admiration for the liberal Protestant tradition, as he made plain in one of his middle-period letters to me. It is included in the third volume of Arkham House correspondence and was just about the longest letter he ever wrote to anyone. What he failed to realize was that even at that period I had no real intention of becoming a Trappist monk, and it was only the aesthetic aspects of Roman or Anglo-Catholicism that had made me just a bit less of an agnostic than I had been earlier. Basically, I would never have been able to live for long with any kind of theological orthodoxy, but in challenging some of his most firmly held beliefs, I derived a certain pleasure in playing the part of a Devil's advocate." So it seems Long deliberately tried to get a rise out of HPL by suggesting he might become a monk! Long's memoir was first published by Arkham House in 1975, but it has been recently released in paperback and digital versions by Wildside Press. And drop by the website of our friends at Hippocampus Press to see HPL's lengthy essay about Quebec and other travel writing!

As part of The Keepers, The Kitchen Sisters series about activist archivists, rogue librarians and keepers of the truth and the free flow of information, we query Lawrence Weschler, archivist of "the odd, the marvelous, the passionate and slightly askew.” Lawrence Weschler leads us into the world of pronged ants, horned humans, mice on toast and other marvels of the mind of David Wilson and his “cabinet of wonder,” the Museum of Jurassic Technology. We take a deep dive into the discovery of a cache of thousands of reels of nitrate film stock buried under the permafrost in Dawson City, the heart of the gold rush in the Klondike, and the making of Bill Morrison’s film Frozen Time. Weschler weaves stories of memory palaces, archives of misery, the early history of museums, obsessed collectors and more. Lawrence Weschler was a staff writer for the New Yorker for 20 years. He is a contributing editor to McSweeney’s, The Threepenny Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the author of numerous books including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged ants, Horned humans, Mice on Toast and other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. True to Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney. Waves Passing in the Night: Water Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists. And his most recent book, How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: a Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks. The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced by The Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson, with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell. Special thanks to our Kitchen Sisters’ production intern Grant MacHamer, for his work on this story. The Kitchen Sisters Present is part of PRX’s Radiotopia, a curated network of some of the best podcasts around. Visit kitchensisters.org for more.

Hey all! We make a brief mistake in the first few minutes of the episode and refer to Jim Crawford as Jim Cummings! That’s a mistake on our part and we refer to him correctly throughout the rest of the episode! Sorry for any confusion!!This is the first half of our discussion of the ARG surrounding the release of Twinbeard's Frog Fractions 2! Marn uses Amiibos in a timely manner. Andrew gives a close friend a close shave. Both realize they'll never give up on a new Castlevania Game.Useful Links:Play Frog Fractions 1Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter CampaignPage with Passacaglia of Disrepair ROM in the source codeObama Shaving SimulatorAndrew's New Favorite Bad WebsiteMuseum of Jurassic Technology.Bigger Luke WikiRecommendations:Umineko: When They CryYou Don't Know the Half of It: Fins of the FatherBilly BatSpecial Thanks to Astrometrics on the Free Music Archive for our theme music.

Shan tells Jaybee all about the fascinating and bizarre Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California: the museum's history, accordion-playing curator slash director David Wilson, and a few of the most puzzling exhibits.    Sources: Weschler, Lawrence. (1995). Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder. New York :Pantheon Books. http://www.mjt.org/ http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-31/entertainment/ca-109_1_museums-jurassic-technology https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-museum-of-jurassic-technology-160774366/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/design/museum-of-jurrasic-technology-shows-its-wild-side-review.html https://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/macarthur/011027.macarthur.html https://www.economist.com/node/14397777 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-las-strangest-museum-180954803/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-afternoon-in-the-museum-of-jurassic-technology-the-strangest-museum-in-america https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC1nSF9v3RA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=recdbJpkxt4

First, Keith talks about his recent trips to LA for autograph signing sessions, and also describes his visit to The Museum of Jurassic Technology. This leads to a discussion of the movie “After Hours” and the radio dramas of Joe Frank. Also discussed are bats that can walk through walls, the gallery of Russian space dogs, and a Tiki lounge in Vegas. Keith reports on the status of Action Cats! and Andy talks about receiving the first production samples of Doctor Who Fluxx and Zendo. Moving on to media, Keith talks spoiler-free about Blade Runner, since Andy hasn't seen it yet, and Andy talks spoiler-free about Star Trek: Discovery, since Keith hasn't seen it. Then they lower the spoiler-curtain to discuss The Orville. Lastly, they discuss TJ Hooker and Braindead.SPOILER WARNING: Spoilers Inside!

Topics Include:  - Why Soup is SO Good For You! - The 'Bullshit' Cake Report! - The Museum of Jurassic Technology! - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Erin Marie Betty Davis, Jr.! And so much more! So sit back, relax, and enjoy the most downloaded podcast in the world! The Unimaginary Friendcast! The Unimaginary Friendcast is hosted by David Monster, Erin Marie Bette Davis Jr. and Nathan Edmondson. www.unimaginaryfriend.com/friendcast And find us on Facebook!

Actor/writer Matt Newell talks to us about The Sandman, DC's long-running fantasy/horror-ish comic book by Neil Gaiman. We get into the amazing high quality and quantity of stories covered in its run, and the many literary figures who casually saunter through and how it changed from its beginning as a horror comic. Also, Will discusses the Museum of Jurassic Technology and Anthony raves about the Shane Black movie "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang."  

Rookie Yearbook Two (Drawn + Quarterly)"Rookie" is an independent online magazine made by and for teenage girls. It was created by Tavi Gevinson in 2011, when she was just fourteen years old; today, about a third of the magazine's staff are teenage writers, photographers, and illustrators. Rookie Yearbook Two features exclusive content from Lena Dunham, Judy Blume, Grimes and Mindy Kaling. The books collects interviews and contributions from notable adults including Morrissey, Emma Watson, Molly Ringwald, Carrie Brownstein, the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, award-winning cartoonist Chris Ware, and Museum of Jurassic Technology founder David Wilson. Like the website itself, the "Rookie" yearbooks combine personal essays by young girls; advice about style, sex, friends, and school; fashion; gorgeous photo albums; humor and pathos--in other words, everything a teenage girl thinks and cares about. On its second birthday, "Rookie" averages more than 450,000 unique visitors, and 1.2 million visits per month (and counting) with 205,000 Tumblr followers. The "Rookie" yearbooks reach that audience and beyond, spanning a diverse group who may have found "Rookie""Yearbook One" on the shelves of their local library or been given the book as a gift from an adult who laments not having "Rookie" around when they were a teenager. Praise for Rookie Yearbook: "Irreverent, honest, and wholly affirming, this is a book that teen girls will cherish." --School Library Journal "Many books for teenagers encourage independence and self-awareness, but few do so with this much honesty, humor, and style . . . It's a lucky teen who receives this book as a gift, and a smart one who picks it up for herself." --Publishers Weekly"To say that ["Rookie Yearbook One"] is the essential companion to navigating your teen years, is an understatement."--Hello Giggles"In short: ["Rookie Yearbook One"] rules."--Bust"Yearbook" is as impressive as it is inspiring and entertaining."--Vice

Ep. 75 - We kick off 2014 w/ singer, songwriter, DJ, photographer and vegan author Moby. Zach went to his house, where they talked about sustainable farming, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, oysters, and how advances in Vegan cooking over the years have made touring much easier for him over the years. He also tells us the story of how he bought stock in Whole Foods immediately after discovering the first branch in Austin in 1992, and floats his theory that heaven is vegan. Moby's latest album "innocents" is out now on Mute Records. 

In a supplement to this week's interview, Lawrence Weschler talks with Jesse about The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Don't miss this!

This week: We talk to artist Mark Dion, about social practice, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, cabinets of curiosity. The word "taxonomy" is bandied about at great length. Mark Dion was born in 1961 in Massachusetts; he lives and works in Pennsylvania. Dion is known for making art out of fieldwork, incorporating elements of biology, archaeology, ethnography, and the history of science, and applying to his artwork methodologies generally used for pure science. Traveling the world and collaborating with a wide range of scientists, artists, and museums, Dion has excavated ancient and modern artifacts from the banks of the Thames in London, established a marine life laboratory using specimens from New York’s Chinatown, and created a contemporary cabinet of curiosities exploring natural and philosophical hierarchies. His approach emphasizes illustration and accuracy but is charged with a biting undertone. Dion has a longstanding interest in exploring how ideas about natural history are visualized and how they circulate in society. Dion’s work has been presented at many U.S. and international museums and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; and Deutsches Museum, Bonn. Dion has been commissioned to create works for Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Tate Gallery, London; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.