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"It's like God gave you something man. All those stories that you can make up, and He said, "This is what we got for you kid, try not to lose it.""



Welcome to Episode #32 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Annie about her crush on Stand by Me (1986).

Disappointments Does you being awkward absolve you of making people uncomfortable? In the intro, would it have sounded more adult to say "one of my closest friends" instead of "one of my best friends"? Did you give up editing the clicks?



Stand by Me (1986) - Trivia - IMDb

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."



Welcome to Episode #31 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Emma Goldman.

Disappointments: Is it called the Britannia Encyclopedia? In the 1890s, would you need to fill in an application to live in a brothel? Have you got worse at enunciating? How do you manage to speak quickly but with no energy? Do you need to make it clearer when you are quoting?



Emma Goldman: Living My Life

Loyal Books (Podcast): Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Penny A. Weiss & Loretta Kensinger: Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman

Paul Avrich & Karen Avrich: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

Alix Kates Shulman: Dances with Feminists (Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, no. 3, December 1991)

The History Channel: Haymarket Riot

Britannica Encyclopedia: Homestead Strike

"I imagined Many Moons in the sky lighting the way to freedom"



Welcome to Episode #30 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Cindi Mayweather.

Disappointments: Was this too ambitious? Should you have used more sources than just those you found by searching "Cindi Mayweather" on Google Scholar? Should you have just left this to people who are better equipped to discuss race, class, and gender?



Black Girls Code

Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Cassandra L. Jones: “Tryna Free Kansas City” The Revolutions of Janelle Monáe as Digital Griot

Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim: Now We Want Our Funk Cut Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism

D.A. Hassler-Forest: The Politics of World-Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand

Nathalie Aghoro : Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe

Grace D. Gipson: Afrofuturism's Musical Princess Janelle Monáe: Psychedelic Soul Message Music Infused with a Sci-Fi Twist

Anders Liljedahl: Recalling the (Afro)future: Collective Memory and the Construction of Subversive Meanings in Janelle Monáe's Metropolis-Suites

Aleksandra Szaniawska: Gestural Refusals, Embodied Flights Janelle Monáe’s Vision of Black Queer Futurity

Jana Baró González: The ArchAndroid: Cyborg Consciousness in Janelle Monáe’s Cindi Mayweather Saga

E. van Soldt: “Black Girl Magic, Y‟all Can‟t Stand It”: On Afrofuturism and intersectionality in Janelle Monáe‟s Dirty Computer

Darieus Antonino Za Gara II: Finding Moments of Rupture in Monáe's Metropolis: A Hybrid Tradition

Brianne A. Painia: “My Crown Too Heavy Like the Queen Nefertiti”: A Black Feminist Analysis of Erykah Badu, Beyoncé Knowles, Nicki Minaj, and Janelle Monáe



Afrofuturists, Sci-Fi authors and other interesting people to follow on twitter: Ytasha Womack, Ingrid LaFleur, Cassandra L. Jones, Nnedi Okorafor, Tananarive Due, N. K. Jemisin

Nnedi Okorafor's tweet - "I DO NOT WRITE AFROFUTURISM." and her definitions of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism here.

Ytasha Womack - Afrofuturism Imagination and Humanity

TEDxFortGreeneSalon - Ingrid LaFleur - Visual Aesthetics of Afrofuturism

Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa | Nnedi Okorafor

Ytasha Womack L. Womack: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

What does the Afrofuture say?



Articles about Janelle Monáe

Elizabeth Sandifer: A Short Guide to Janelle Monáe and the Metropolis Saga

Aja Romano (Vox): Janelle Monáe’s body of work is a masterpiece of modern science fiction

Geoffrey Himes (Paste Magazine): Janelle Monáe: Imagining Her Own Future

Charles Pulliam-Moore (Gizmodo): From Metropolis to Dirty Computer: A Guide to Janelle Monáe's Time-Traveling Musical Odyssey



YouTube Videos about Haraway

I took the idea of "A Cyborg Manifesto" arguing for a 'posthumanism that is culturally and socially specific' from Rosanna McNamara, '15 Minutes of Utopia - A Cyborg Manifesto'

& I took the comparison between the Cyborg and Marx's conception of capitalism producing the tools to destroy itself from "Theory and Philosophy"'s Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto"



Janelle Monáe Emotion Pictures mentioned

Many Moons

Tightrope

Q.U.E.E.N.

Primetime

Dirty Computer

"I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again."



Welcome to Episode #29 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Wallace Wood.

Disappointments: Is "being pretty excitement" correct English? Did you intend to speak in a different tone in the bits you added later? How many times to you say "Starger and Spurlock"?



Steve Starger and J. David Spurlock: Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood. The World's Second-Best Comic Book Artist

Bhob Stewart & J. Michael Catron: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 1

Bhob Stewart & J. Michael Catron: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2

Qiana Whitted: EC Comics: Race, Shock & Social Protest

Sean Howe: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Marvel in the Silver Age: Daredevil: Hooray for Wally Wood

Matt Seneca: An Erection Four Decades Long: The Pornography of Wally Wood

The Jock and Nerd Podcast: The 50th Anniversary of Wally Wood’s Red Daredevil (09/10/2015)

Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill: Episode 148 - Wally Wood’s Gang Bang #1 (1980)

Comic book artist Ken Landgraf demonstrates Wally Wood style lighting techniques

HOW TO INK: Studying Inking Masters Episode 4 - Moebius, Wally Wood, P Craig Russell, & more

Wikipedia page from Shock Suspenstories

Tatjana Wood's colours on Swamp Thing with comparisons to the new colours here and here



Some Featured Wallace Wood Comics

My World (Weird Science #22)

The Guilty! (Shock SuspenStories #3)

In Gratitude (Shock SuspenStories #11)

Perimeter (Frontline Combat #15)

The Disney Memorial Orgy

My Word (Big Apple Comix #1)

"If she loves you then she will turn around and see you ... turn ... turn!"



Welcome to Episode #28 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Shandana about her crush on Shah Rukh Khan.

Disappointments: How is it possible that you still don't know how to use a microphone? Do you have any new questions, ideas, thoughts? Did you not think about how to end the episode?



Nosheen Iqbal (The Guardian): Shah Rukh Khan: ‘My success is all down to the women I’ve worked with’

Khandaan- A Bollywood Podcast

Julien Cayla: Following the Endorser's Shadow: Shah Rukh Khan and the Creation of the Cosmopolitan Indian Male

Neelam Sidhar Wright: Bollywood and Postmodernism Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century

My Next Guest with David Letterman and Shah Rukh Khan

Sonia Mariam Thomas (Buzzfeed): The Undeniable Misery Of Being A Shah Rukh Khan Fan Today

Richard Dyer: Entertainment & Utopia

Sunny Singh: The Road to Rāmarājya: Analysing Shah Rukh Khan’s Parallel Text in Commercial Hindi Cinema



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"I want to thank you for your warmth and compassion."



Welcome to Episode #27 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Alek about his crush on Mia Sara.

Disappointments: How did you forget Matthew Broderick's name? Do you know how to set up the microphones? Should you have known Uncle Buck was a John Hughes film?



Michael Leader (Den of Geek): Looking back at Ridley Scott's Legend

Ed Power (The Telegraph): Ridley Scott’s beautiful dark twisted fantasy: the making of Legend

Antonio Sanna: “A Villainous Appetite: Erôs, Madness, and the Food Analogy in Hannibal and Legend”

Matt Rodgers (HeyUGuys): Legend 1985 Retrospective

Martin Morse Wooster: Angry classrooms, vacant minds: what's happened to our high schools?

Roz Kaveney: Teen dreams: Reading Teen Film from Heathers to Veronica Mars