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April 12, 2014
We Play Bukowski or Bukkake! [video]
It’s time for another (the first ever) round of Bukowski or Bukkake, in which I show you a magnified image and you tell me if it’s a picture of the pock-riddled face of writer and poet Charles Bukowski or the cock-ridden disgrace at the center of a bukkake.
My guest today is Gordon Highland.
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April 2, 2014
Episode 005: INTERVIEW with Matt Bell
In this interview episode of The Velvet Podcast, Caleb J Ross interviews Matt Bell, author of The Collectors (Caketrain Press), Wolf Parts and the forthcoming How They Were Found, both from Keyhole Press. Matt’s short fiction has been published and anthologized just about everywhere and is forthcoming to Ninth Letter, the ML Press chapbook series, and Kill Author.
We talk about live-writing with an audience over at Everyday Genius, editing for The Collagist, teaching writing to fourth graders, and mucho more.
Show Notes:
00:01:04
Why did it take me so long to find Matt Bell?
00:02:04
Involvement with Dzanc
Teaching 4th grade writing
Emerging Writers Network
Best of the Web
00:05:46
All about Wolf Parts?
Fairy Tale Review
Is Wolf Parts still available?
00:07:52
Chosen by Brian Evenson
00:09:42
Live-writing at Everyday Genius
00:18:31
What is Matt Bell’s writing process?
00:23:22
About the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) experience
Originally posted 6/5/2010
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March 30, 2014
Jews probably didn’t kill Jesus: A review of Zealot by Reza Aslan [video]
I’m not religious, so reading what could be called a religious book goes against the expected content on this channel (a channel, need I remind you, that sometimes features a character called the Heavenly Feather, which is a, yes, heavenly feather). But this book is different. It’s more history than religious. Much is discussed about Jesus the Christ, but what about Jesus the person? Got your attention yet? This is what Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan explores. And it’s incredible. Even to a non-religious person like me. The worldly origins of otherworldly belief systems is very interesting to me.
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What beer am I drinking? Imperial Stout 2013 from Boulevard Brewery
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March 25, 2014
A video book review of The Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong [video book review]
I review The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong. I apologize in advance for being offensive during the first 1 minute of the video.
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March 12, 2014
Native Americans and Body Hair? A review of The Least of My Scars by Stephen Graham Jones [video book review]
Stephen Graham Jones is incredibly prolific. Seriously, The Least of My Scars was published in late 2013 and already, as of March 2014, he’s got at least 3 other books out that I am aware of. But what’s incredible is that the man doesn’t skimp on quality. The Least of My Scars is no exception. This book is incredible.
Similar to Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, The Least of My Scars is told from the perspective of a serial killer with whom the reader has no empathy. But somehow, Jones (and Ellis) makes it work. I’ll be studying this book for a very long time.
Intro easter egg: WheezyWaiter http://www.youtube.com/user/wheezywaiter (can it really be an easter egg when it’s probably pretty obvious and definitely a complete rip-off?)
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March 8, 2014
How to Pour the Perfect Pint of Beer…and have a 3 way in the process [video]
A riff on the cheesey classroom filmstrips of the 1950s-60s wherein we learn how to pour the perfect pint of beer from a bottle. Also, you may learn a few tips on how to pick up women…bottle-shaped women.
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February 16, 2014
Stress and Checklists
I need to stop doing things for the sake of some intangible goal. I want the goal itself to be the doing. I want writing and video making and reading to be fun again. This video is step one toward that goal (okay, I realize that by having a “step one” I’ve already discredited my attempt to make the act itself a goal…baby steps, alright! Dammit, I’m indicating steps again!)
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Invisible Man/Twilight – The Definitely Prepared to Discuss Book Club Discussion Series [video]
For this week’s edition of the Definitely Prepared to Discuss Book Club Discussion Series I thought I was supposed to read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I was wrong.
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February 9, 2014
5 Places to See Dead Human Body Parts [video]
See hair in Turkey, skulls in Paris, an Arm in Maryland, several penises in Iceland, and human skin pants in Iceland, really Iceland again? You can even visit a few strange human part themed roadside attractions in my novel I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin.
1. Hair
Avanos Hair Museum in Cappadocia, Turkey contains hair samples, names and addresses from more than 16,000 women from all around the world. The founder, Chez Galip, admits that the hair collection began as a way to increase membership in his pottery workshops.
While visitors to the cave are not required to donate a lock of hair, each year Galip does select 10 locks of hair at random whose owners are awarded with a trip back to his pottery studio and are allowed to stay in his guest house free of charge.
2. Head
The Catacombs of Paris, are essentially underground walls and walls and walls built with human skulls. Why? In the 1700s in Paris a series of forgotten mines buckled under the enormous weight of a series of maybe forgotten cemeteries. The city needed new walls for the mines and the human bones needed new places to conjure up nightmares for children. Therefore, skull walls.
3. Arm
In Boonsboro, Maryland you can visit the Boonsboro Museum of History and be duped into thinking you’re looking at something much cooler than you really are. Despite the Civil War context of the museum, the shriveled arm that’s on display behind glass is most likely not from the civil war at all, but is rather a regular ‘ol medical school specimen, says Museum Curator Doug Bast.
4. Penis
The Icelandic Phallological Museum is home to 215 “down theres” belonging to the various mammals found in Iceland.
5. Legs
The Strandagaldur Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft contains as one of it’s famous exhibits the skin of a male bottom half.
The display isn’t meant only to be creepy, but actually illustrates a macabre Icelandic legend. According to the legend, after a man dies, the non-torso skin can be worn and if a coin, stolen from the man’s widow, is placed into the necropants’ scrotum, that scrotum would produce an endless supply of coins.
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February 4, 2014
The Greatest J.D Salinger Book Collection Ever
I am interviewed for a documentary about my J.D Salinger collection. Important note: I am not interviewed for a documentary about my J.D Salinger collection.
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