Saturday, July 22, 2006

Episode #4: Jack the Ripper

Discussion of Jack the Ripper can be found here.

Show notes:
*Whitechapel in 1888 was as fun as a barrel of dead monkeys!
*Missing evidence, Freemasons and mysterious literate men, what could be better?
*Metropolitan Police, aka "Scotland Yard" vs. London City Police: the showdown.

References:
*Casebook
*Crime Library

The song of the night, “Rock & Roll Queen” by The Subways was provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com.

The next podcast will discuss the legend of the Mothman. Talk to you soon!

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Episode #3: Secret Keeping

Discussion of Secret Keeping as a plot device in film and literature can be found here.

Show notes:
*Sophocles wrote, "Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."
*Discussion of:
1) “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1836)
*“For the Earth, too, had on her Black Veil”
2) “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
*“All in vain; because death, in approaching the old man, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and the shadow had now reached and enveloped the victim.”
3) Fatal Attraction (1987)
4) The Sixth Sense (1999)

References:
*PostSecret

The song of the night, “Summer” by The Remainders was provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com.

The next podcast will discuss Jack the Ripper. Talk to you soon!

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Episode #2: Review of Jaws

Discussion of the 1975 film Jaws can be found here. Have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Show notes:
*Red herrings taste good!
*Meet Bruce the shark
*Martin: Well this is not a boat accident. It wasn't any propeller, it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper. It was a shark.
*The film that launched a thousand "big summer blockbusters"
*Spielberg rocks
*Jaws made HOW MUCH money???

ARTICLE:
Jaws article

The song of the night, “Days of Summer” by Gentlemen Losers was provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com.

The next podcast will discuss "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, from the book Twice Told Tales. You can read it for free at Project Gutenberg, or on many other sites across the Internet. Talk to you soon!