On my third guest appearance on the extraordinary Doctor Who Podcast, “Get Off My World,” I finally get to talk about Silurians! I in fact get to do a full ten-minute Monster Science on them. Recorded live at Minneapolis’ Phoenix Theater, alongside such amazing local theater luminaries as Laura Zabel (encountering Doctor Who for the first time), Tim Uren and Eric Webster (doing, along with the other folks, a Doctor Who adventure in the style of old radio dramas), the Sevateem (with original Doctor Who songs!) and the exceptional series hosts, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Pat Harrigan, and Kelvin Hatle! It’s terrific and you should give it a listen right here!

This week I had the honor of being on the amazing “Just Enough Trope” podcast! We riff on Norse mythology, its obsession with its eschaton, “Thor: Ragnarok,” and my then-great anticipation of goth outer-space Cate Blanchett. (I have seen the film since the recording, and my goth outer-space Cate Blanchett needs were met and exceeded.) Give it a listen! Right here!

Number four! The Loch Ness Monster and the lives of the saints. I hope you like it!

Awww, you’re not bastards. I think you’re really nice.

But evolution is a thing that can be explained pretty much irrefutably in like ten minutes, as I do here, and the fact that we’re having a prolonged national debate about it makes me grouchy. Continue reading…

Episode two! There are two episodes now! It’s a real podcast! To think we have lived to see such times!

I have realized too late that, in discussing the character “Chaos” from “Primal Rage,” I neglected to mention that he is a giant, pinkish ape. I apologize sincerely. This will not happen again. I mean, not this exactly.