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A Preternatural Experiment
Marie and I are contractually obligated to discuss any book with dragons on the cover, so in the end, we couldn’t avoid chatting about...
We look back on the things we most enjoyed in 2025, covering films, games, books and whatever else strikes our fancy. Download the Podcast (...
Over 20 years have passed since I first read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1869-1870), so I roped in Cory and Marie for a re-...
We wander through a vast mansion full of looming statues in Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020). Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie...
We try to get the jump on Canada Reads by discussing Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele (2024), the first pick for our 2025 book club. This southern...
We decide to finally discuss something J.R.R. Tolkien-related on our podcast, but in the stupidest way possible: by comparing the 2024 anima...
As the end of 2024 draws ever closer, we reflect on our favourite arts and culture from the past year. Download the Podcast (archive.org pag...
Our 2024 book club concludes with Roger Zelazny’s 1963 novelette “A Rose for Ecclesiastes”, wherein a poet goes to Mars an...
We have only good things to say about The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed (2021), though that doesn’t extend to the term...
90s fantasy is back, baby! We discuss The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (2019). Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Mari...
Will we survive the fungal infestation that lurks beneath Toronto in The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan (2023)? This horror/near-future scie...
In the dying days of 2023, we came together to reflect on the best things that we read, watched, listened to and played this year. Tune in t...
We wrap up our 2023 book club with a recent release, The Terraformers (2023) by Annalee Newitz. This throwback to the fix-up novel explores...
A working-class memoir? In this day and age? We sit down to discuss Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022) by Kate Beaton. Warning: Includ...
We talk about Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia Butler, which begins in the far-future year of 2024. And yet somehow, this still seems...
We discuss Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, and marvel at how much literature you can pack into so few pages. Download the Podcast (archive.o...
Just before the holidays, we’re back for a reflection on culture we experienced over the past year. Books, comics, films, TV, games –...
We triumphantly re-convene after over a year’s absence to talk about The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem, a book of fairy tales for robots, by rob...
Despite the title, we are in fact talking about movies. But also books. Because this episode is all about adaptations! Download the Podcast...
A short discussion about Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). Part of this episode references the YouTube video “Raya’s Moral ISN...
After 5 years of people yelling at me to see this film, we finally watch The Witch (2015). Books mentioned: Witches and Neighbours: The Soci...
Marie watched the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher! Michal indulges in his teenage obsessions. We end up comparing The Witcher to Dealing w...
…There’s a new Kwisatz Haderach in town. We talk Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Download the Podcast (arc...
Recording this episode cost us an arm and a leg. We talk Fullmetal Alchemist. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s website Source...
We were supposed to record an episode about Fullmetal Alchemist, but we got distracted by Cybersix, an animated Canadian TV show from 1999 t...
We finally talk about Bone. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s new website Source of our theme song
Marie talks about Marie Brennan’s Memoirs of Lady Trent series, which begins with A Natural History ...
We remember the internet being a lot more fun a decade ago. Why did our attitude change, and what major milestones did internet culture expe...
A reflection on the life and works of Ursula K. Le Guin in light of her recent passing. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s...
So little of 2017 left, but just enough time to post our year in review! We discuss media we enjoyed this year, whether it was objectively g...
In which we speak of books we never finished, or wish we had never finished. Normally, I would provide a list of the novels we talked about....
We settle down to talk about another classic work of fantasy: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series, specifically the first th...
We take a break from civilized life and get our barbarian groove on with a discussion of Robert E. Howard’s character Conan, focusing...
What does heaven look like? We find out by reading Steven Brust’s novel To Reign in Hell (1984). Download the Podcast (archive.org pag...
Japan makes lots of cartoons, so our planned cartoon episode ended up being all about anime junk: Kill la Kill, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The...
I already did my year-end blog post, but my usual podcast hosts haven’t, so here’s the podcast edition! We talk about all the mo...
The Giver by Lois Lowry is the one book on elementary/high school reading lists that Canadians our age remember fondly. Why is this, and why...
The internet has provided ways for artists to skirt around traditional channels to get their work out to the public; web series are one of t...
We’re back! This time, we’re talking about adolescence, isolation and social anxiety in the anime series No Matter How I look at...
We egoize about Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 classic, The Dispossessed. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Episode 10 &#...
A short, impromptu review of The Witches of Lublin, the holiday radio play “by Ellen Kushner and a bunch of other people in the cast.&...
After suffering through TSR’s gamebooks, we decide to try one that’s actually good: Ring of Thieves by S. John Ross. Dice will b...
The Dungeoneering Edition™ reaches its conclusion (Thank God) with Circus of Fear, and there is much rejoicing. Download the Podcast (archiv...
Our ill-advised experiment drags on as we play our way through Revolt of the Dwarves and The Dragon’s Ransom. Despite covering two boo...
The Dungeoneering Edition™ of the podcast continues with Light on Quests Mountain. (We’re sorry. We’re so, so sorry.) Download t...
I found a stack of TSR Endless Quest Books at the dump. After that, this podcast was inevitable. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Mar...
Young Adult literature is a Thing now, but it wasn’t when Marie and I grew up! Join as as we talk about the books we read as teenagers...
Cross-posted with Iatropexy. Thus the dueling theme songs. We watch Doc Zone’s last documentary, Volunteers Unleashed. Then…we r...
It’s 1962. Marijuana is legal in California, massive amounts of farmland was recently recovered from the Mediterranean, and human colo...
Frank Hebert’s Dune is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time. Naturally, we have a lot to say about it. Downl...