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LATEST EPISODE – Slasher Theory with Jackal
Jackal (@JackalJester) from Mammonburg joins Odd Splice for a discussion of the history of the Slasher genre with special focus on John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)
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Episode 13: Ten Double Features w/Steven Punk
Josh and guest Grand Rapids Filmmaker Steven Punk(@_theartofb_ on twitter) program their dream festival of 10 double features over 5 “nights”
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On A Small Town, In Particular
new phil christman just dropped It’s about small towns, specifically midwestern small towns. I grew up in a Small Town, but contra Cougar-Mellencamp, I don’t know if I’ll die in one or not. Who’s to say. Phil Christman’s bugbear here is the portrayal of midwestern small towns in literature and their position in the popular…
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Thursday Lynx 2/24/22
Hysteria High: How Demons Destroyed a Florida School – article about a case of mass hysteria/demon possession at a military academy run by a Cuban exile. Part 2 and Part 3 of Charles’s series about social media and psychoanalysis Notes on Squeecore – Simon Mcneil’s analysis of the “dominant paradigm” in contemporary SFF lit Household…
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SUNDAY LYNX 2/13/22
Links to a few things I read on the internet recently. Not the sunniest reading material for the most part, but all thought-provoking in their own way. The first two articles are research for a (not) secret project I’m working on and the last two were written by friends of mine from Twitter. The Ideology…
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Autobiography of Ideas/Welcome to Odd Splice
I picked this exercise up from an older episode of Conner Habib’s podcast. The idea is to list out all of the ideas that had an impact on you, be they book, film, album, whatever. Then you organize them by the age you were when you encountered them. Below are my pages so far: I’ve…