Ren Fests are technically Geek conventions too, especially when they have theme days like “Time Travelers Weekend”. Festival attendees of the Carolina Renaissance Festival on the weekend of November 14-15 were invited to attend dressed as their favorite time traveling character inspired by movies, TV, comic books, science fiction and/or fantasy. Kathryn was able to go (dressed
Original broadcast date November 19, 2015. The original podcast post is here: Winter Halloween is almost here, but first there’s the little matter of Thanksgiving. Cecil’s guest tonight is Tourniquet sou chef Earl Harlan, here to walk you through all the steps to cooking the perfect Thanksgiving turkey: Kill, Clean, Gut, Stuff, AND Cook. And he’s
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! You know how we always say in our intro that we’re gonna listen to an episode and then “Spoil the hell out of it”? Well consider yourself warned, because on this week’s bonus episode we’re having a spoileriffic discussion of The
Anyone who regularly reads my book reviews will know I love short story collections. Anthologies by many different authors are great; collections by one of my favorite authors are even better. And there are two authors who could make me run a marathon if they told me they had a new collection waiting for me
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! A Stranger is terrorizing the Night Vale Radio Station and the mayor of Night Vale records a heartfelt plea to help Desert Bluffs, and then she eats dirt! No, that’s not a figure of speech, she’s eating dirt. So it’s a
Maybe she hadn’t seen anything. Maybe she had come into existence seconds ago and made up every moment until this moment to explain how she came to be sitting in this booth in this diner. As long-time fans of the podcast will tell you, Night Vale is a little desert town where the scenario described
“All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust.” – Hell Priest (Pinhead) There are a few things about the horror genre that I really can’t stand. Chopped-up bodies and rivers of blood
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Wow, a lot’s been going on in Night Vale over the past few weeks, hasn’t it? Just so much exciting stuff and revelations and fallout from big things happening. But Cecil doesn’t need to go over the details about The Man
He’d always wondered why people in rural areas, when interviewed after appalling violence, said, “This isn’t supposed to happen here.” As if violence had forgotten to keep itself within some prescribed geographic boundary. It’s a pretty appropriate opening chapter for a book I’m reviewing in the middle of October: a hapless housewife, a ghoulish trick-or-treater, and