In Arizona for the first time! “How to Contract Lycanthropy”: Because sometimes you need practical advice. A one-man, tweed-wearing, pipe-smoking, comedy lecture – with PowerPoint! – chock full of helpful household tips and tricks from throughout the world and its history for taking the form of a wolf and going forth to maraud and terrify. Also advice on how to become an attractive Amazonian were-dolphin, an avenging Nile were-crocodile, and a menagerie of other bizarre horrors!

Sunday, January 10th, 10:30pm-11:30pm
Saturday, January 11th, 3pm-4pm
Sunday, January 12th, 6pm-7pm

This week’s entry is my third appearance at the Encyclopedia Show Minneapolis, way back in December of 2012! (Which explains the bit at the end of my piece.) It’s the first one where I began to get abusive with that show’s monthly theme, which was, in this case, “Obsolete Diseases.” Still, it went over pretty okay, and afterwards Mike Fotis (a producer of the show, seen here transitioning between myself and fact-checker Levi Weinhagen) was kind enough to give me a standing invitation to the show. I thanked him, and said, “But you do realize I’ll always take the monthly theme and turn it into being about monsters?” “Yes, that’s fine, you’ve shown that you can do that,” he said. Continue reading…