We interview Adam Christopher, talk about WorldBuilder, and discuss his upcoming tour (New York and London), and then get a reading of his new novel, Empire State!
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Angry Robot Podcast #14 :: Adam Christopher
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The Shadowlocked Podcast: On loving Star Wars but hating George Lucas
This is the podcast of the movie, TV and genre website www.shadowlocked.com, featuring debate among our writers and guests, as well as occasional interviews. It may get silly, it may get serious…
Why did George Lucas hand The Empire Strikes Back to his old film-school professor Irvin Kirshner - hating the resultant footage - when he was supposedly the hottest and richest property in Hollywood? Is he really still living in 1977? And what spicy Star Wars tattoo does outspoken contributor and self-confessed ‘optimistic masochist’ Aaron Knier have on his body?
In this inaugural podcast for shadowlocked.com, founding editor Martin Anderson chats with Aaron about the glories, failings and fallacies of both the Star Wars prequels and their creator, George Lucas.
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Author Targets Pop Culture’s ‘Empire Of Illusion’ : NPR
Vapid talk shows, celebrity gossip, empty promises that you, too, can be happy and rich. Writer Chris Hedges took on war and the Christian right. Now, he targets pop culture and what he calls the cultural embrace of fantasy.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106853619
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The Talk Show Episode 19: Tin Ear
John Gruber and Dan Benjamin briefly dissect the masculinity of smartphones before a tribute to Irvin Kershner leads to a runaway discussion of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the best Bond, Star Trek and underwater cars.
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Mapping Britain: Maps and Empire
An early projection of the British Empire attempted to show the shape of the globe on paper to assist navigators.
From http://podcast.open.ac.uk/oulearn/social-sciences/podcast-dd100-social-science-04#
Tagged with maps mapping cartography open university empire britain
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Bill Moyers with The Wire’s David Simon
Here Bill Moyers sits down with David Simon, executive producer of The Wire, the stunning HBO production. As anyone who has watched the show knows, The Wire is not just a splendid drama. It is, as Simon has once called it, “a political tract masquerading as a cop show.” It takes a penetrating and aesthetically rich look at some of America’s most vexing social issues. And it’s why Moyers says, “What Edward Gibbon was to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, or Charles Dickens to the smokey, mean streets of Victorian London, David Simon is to America today.”
http://www.openculture.com/2009/04/bill_moyers_with_the_wires_david_simon.html