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Episode 85 - Throbbing Wetly

Twilight but as told from the vampire's point of view, continues to be a collection of words strung together in mostly coherent fashion, with occasional digressions to count thousands of insects. There you go, Little Brown, you can use that as a quote on the cover of the paperback.

We hit the halfway mark during this episode and Mike and Conor found much to discuss. The role of Gordon Bombay in the Twilight-verse, the logic of taking the world's biggest klutz hiking, and Mike Newton's q...

Meet the Authors #15 - Midge Malinowski

Bob Fingerman and Mike Nelson have a friendly chat with the author of historical fiction exclusively centered around Mayor Albert's Rebellion of 1311!

She surprises us however with the, ahem, salty nature of the surrounding fiction. She's a lovely old gal but sometimes the explic...

Midnight Sun Ep 3 - RIP Orlando Calderas Wallace

If you like Cline-ian pop culture lists you are in for a treat! In this episode Mike and Conor break down Bella's likes / dislikes, turn-ons / turn-offs, preferences for types of flowers / er, preferring not to encounter other types of flowers, etc.

Conor again dives to the dark web to widen our understanding of Edward's movie tastes, while Mike takes out a very dangerous short term loan from Russian mobsters to hire the 372 Players.

Also, many MANY Sonic Chal...

Conor's My Immortal winner

If you listened til the end of our MCR-mini, I realized I'd never given away my copy of My Immortal, full of illegible notes and exclamation marks. Well, here's the winner! Please email or patreon message me your address and I'll send it on out.

Classical Mini - Dominico Scarlatti

You thought Handel, Papa Haydn and Mozart were cool?! They're not at all, but neither is this guy!!!

Be Honest with Domenico....

I CANNOT remember whether I talked about Domenico Scarlatti on any of my Classical Minis, but I recorded one about him and am prepared to post it anyway even if it embarrasses me by covering the same ground.

So the upshot is, please let me know whether to post it with or without embarrassment.

Yours in seven months of mind-bending turmoil and forgetfulness,

M. John Nelson (my classical music name)

Talkin' MCR with Lauren

Hello Jackals, Conor here. I may have mentioned this during the My Immortal podcasts, but Lauren hates Ebony's favorite band, My Chemical Romance. I convinced her to talk me through her objections to the time I added their epic ballad "Welcome to the Black Parade" to a playlist she created, which resulted in me being ...

Meet The Authors #14 - Cade Rellington

Join Mike and cartoonist Bob Fingerman as they discuss the titanic undertaking that Austin, TX author Cade Rellington has spent the past 13 years working on. Learn about his unique diet, feuds with local filmmakers, and prize-winning pooches. Plus,  Mike appears to have negotiated some sort of side-deal with an internet mattress shop?

Midnight Sun Ep 2 - Lanny

Yes, we talk about things other than Lanny. But we don't want to!

You'll all be thrilled to learn that Mike drained the budget to reunite the 372 Players, that Mike scores, um, pretty, pretty well on the Real or Fanfic challenge. There's tons of Dumb Sentences and Conor dives to the dark web.

But let's not bury the lead here (no, not lede, let's not go there) there's a mid-episode mishap that is nothing short of spectacular [we included...

New Episode Up Soon

Wow, so many barriers to getting this episode up; one spectacular one which is included as an Easter egg.

Anyway, soon....

Meet The Authors # 13 - Chasm

Once again, cartoonist Bob Fingerman has unearthed an author who is quite eccentric and writes about an extremely offbeat subject matter. Funny how that keeps being the case! None of these people have normal lives or appearances.

Anyway, this is Chasm, who writes a series of chimp-themed murder mysteries. Conor and Bob will discuss his fascinating worldview and his admited series of physical af...

Midnight Sun Ep 1 - The Comedy Stylings of Emmett

So many words, so many of them "monster"!

A jam-packed episode:

• Conor sails through several Sonic Challenges
• Mike, ahem, sails through Real or Fanfic
• Our listeners mail in and we steal it
• Believe it or not there are plenty of Dumb Sentences.
• There are GOFFS! (get it?)

For next time read through Chapter 9: Hey, we gotta get through this people.

Twilight Elipse premiere photo

As promised in the reveal episode, here are Mike, Sean Thomason, and I outside the theater on the release date of Twilight Eclipse. This was the third movie in the saga and it was apparent that we'd be doing all of them for RiffTrax, so we took the opportunity to be the weirdos in the theater. I do not remember much about the experience other than it felt borderline illegal for the three of us to ask the kid selling tickets "Three for Twilight". I also remember snickering at the poster for "W...

Meet The Authors #12 - Stiletto DiSantini

It's time to Meet another Author whose books are far too obscure even for this podcast. This week we're talking with  Stiletto DiSantini, a savant in the oft-ignored genre of Snowmobile-Husband-Revenge-fiction (it's hopefully fiction!) We'll discuss how her personal life is reflected in her work and gain valuable insights into bear rug disposal methods.

Thanks as always to Bob Fingerman fo...

Belaria's bucket?

Hey folks, Conor here. Just spent five days camping in the Adirondacks. The weather was perfect, saw many beautiful sights, even some wildlife. But the only pic I deemed worthy to share with the jackals was this bucket I saw that was part of someone else's camping setup. May be the closest we'll ever get to a real life Bleriana's bucket sighting.

I did not ask what was in it.

Episode 81 - Book 14

Let's read another terrible book! But first, a story (By listener request!) about the time Mike inherited a house. It does not go well.

This should be a fun one, let's start by reading through Chapter 4!

July 30th 2020 Jackal Call-in: 300 Sanderson Face edition

Thanks to everyone who called in to talk to us tonight! We had a lot of fun even if Conor managed to drop off four separate times. Here's the audio for anyone who couldn't make it. Please enjoy the screenshot of how callinstudio.com's auto transcription interpreted our friend from the Emerald Isle

Call-in Show details

We're looking forward to chatting with people tonight! We'll be going live at 8PM eastern and stay live for around an hour. You can call in to this number:  413-372-8099

There are five spots in the queue, where you'll be able to hear the conversation while waiting. We'll try to keep it moving so that more people can get thru, but in the mean time, enjoy the busy signal! When was the last time you heard one of th...

Washington, E.T. is now live!

In retrospect, this was an insane undertaking and we're super impressed you guys were able to pull it off. Special thanks to Matt for his cover, Miss Marie for the layout/formatting/chapters, and Janelle and Slideruth for their organization!

 http://372pages.com/washington-et 

Meet The Authors #11 - C.R. Kowba

Mike is joined once again by Bob Fingerman to interview another interesting under-the-radar author! This week it's C.R. Kowba, who's written a book with a dubious Amazon distinction. Hear about how his work informs his fiction, his tales of recording a hit album, and the perils of dealing blackjack with ill-fitting orthodontics. Lou Bega also comes up.

And hey, Bob has a new book coming out! Pr...

Call-in Show on Thursday!

Hey everyone, we're going to do another call in show this Thursday at 8pm eastern. We did one of these a while back and it seemed to go well! We'll post the number to dial into Thursday afternoon, a...

My Immortal meme contest WINNERS!

Congrats to our audience vote and judge's vote winners! Some great stuff from everybody, check out all the entries here. Winners, please email 372pages@gmail.com or send us a patreon message to claim your TOKEN CASH PRIZE!!!

My Immortal Ep. 3 - ABRA KEDABRA!!!!!11” We shooted.

Mike and Conor try to make sense of this madness. They come up empty.

Still, there are highlights: Conor does a sonic challenge sexily. Mike manages not to follow a single plot point. The Dumb Sentences of the Week burst forth like milk and honey from the promised land. (Dumb despite the great work from Raven and Medusa!)

PLUS This ep compares our author's work to:

• James Joyce
• The Bible
• The Tempest
• David Foster Wallace
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Meet the Authors #03 - Elmer Ellenbogen

Conor is once again joined by Bob Fingerman to interview and author whose books are too bad even for this podcast. This week it's Elmer Ellenbogen, who has been trying to write a book about his birding efforts for four years now. Learn about his interesting childhood, unique wife, and efforts to fix up a pontoon boat.

Meet the Authors #02 (Repost) - Harmony Craftlove

Mike is joined by cartoonist Bob Fingerman to interview another one of his portrait subject matters, Brooklyn resident and former celebrity child bride Harmony Craftlove. 

Meet The Authors #01 (Repost) - Gary Kraplow

(We initially posted these as videos but have received requests to post them as audio to make them compatible with podcast apps.)

Celebrated artist Bob Fingerman drops in to help Conor interview one of his subjects: an obscure writer named Gary Kraplow.

http://bobfingerman.com/

Meet The Authors #10 - Justin Tyler Skylerson

Our youngest ever author on Meet The Authors is 18 year old Justin Tyler Skylerson! Conor  is joined by cartoonist Bob Fingerman to interview a remarkable young man who at 18 has already written a book whose contents he does not seem super familiar with, possibly gotten accepted to Dartmouth, and drives a Maserati. Plus he seems to have just great relationships with everyone in his li...

My Immortal meme contest!

Almost forgot the meme contest! Make your best My Immortal meme and post a link in the comments. Vote for your favorites, because we'll pick a Judges' winner as well as an audience winner to win a Token Cash Prize!

My Immortal - Ep 2: Conor Unveils His Superpower

Conor is able to somehow follow the plot of My Immortal! A power that comes in handy when having to explain it to Mike who views it as somewhat more abstruse than the Voynich manuscript.

A packed if mercifully briefer episode than last time we steal mail (including some amazing mash-ups by our listeners), Mike fails spectacularly at Real Fanfic or Fake Fanfic, Conor dives to th...

Sentence Diagram

In our last ep we discussed the need for sentence diagrams and listener Augusta has stepped up with this one of the introduction of B'loody Mary!