Episode 211 - Spring Media Update 2025

 It’s episode 211 and we’re talking about books and other media we’ve enjoyed recently! We discuss early internet chatrooms, shuttlecocks, haunted dolls, what constitutes a “banger”, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

What We’re Into:

• Anna
  • Acid West by Joshua Wheeler
  • Two Point Museum
    • Trailer
  • R.E.P.O. || Crossing the Streams
    • R.E.P.O. on Stream
• Matthew
  • Never a Sidekick: Exploring the Dynamic History of Batgirl by Tim Hanley
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon
    • 7 Weirdest Yakuza: Like a Dragon Quests That Were Bizarre Even by Yakuza Standards
  • Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils
• Jam
  • WEBFISHING
    • Trailer
  • Murdle Volume 1 by G.T. Karber
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race adjacent media
    • Runnereye (YouTube)
    • Drag Her (podcast)
    • UpUntil Dawn (YouTube)
    • I Got Dr*nk and Built the Lego Tuxedo Cat (Crashout Included)
    • Crystal Envy & Lexi Love’s “Alter Ego” Lip Sync
    • Arrietty & Lydia B Kollins’ “Boogie Wonderland” Lip Sync
• Meghan
  • Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
  • Badminton
    • Pilou
  • Meeting Infinity and Infinity Wars (short story collections)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Didi (film)
• Doechii - Denial is a River

Links, Articles, and Things

• RA in a Day
• folio - 019 - immanence 01 - with jam edwards & garbageface aka gnostic front aka karol orzechowski
• Spaceport America

15 Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Women Wide Awake: Stories, Sculptures and Poems From Sindhi Folklore by  Nimra Bandukwala and Manahil Bandukwala

• Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy and Romance by Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy

• The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar

• Blackberry Blue: And Other Fairy Tales by Jamila Gavin

• Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon

• The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America by Jamie Hernandez

• Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions by Tomson Highway

• Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson

• Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan SaSuWeh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre

• An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History by Komatsu Kazuhiko, translated by Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda

• Rediscovering Turtle Island: a First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America by Taylor Keen

• Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America by Liniers

• Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship: Stories From India by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy

• Vietnamese Folktales for Children: Stories of Adventure and Wonder in Vietnamese and English by Phuoc Thi Minh Tran, illustrated by Dong Nguyen and Hop Thi Nguyen

• The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 6th when we’ll be discussing the genre/topic of Linguistics and Language!

Then on Tuesday, June 3rd we’ll be discussing “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps.