GENRE STOP!

Episode 16: ‘Lagoon’ by Nnedi Okorafor

This is the “show notes” section for the podcast Genre Stop! The goal of the show note is to provide a concise textual description of the audio content of the attached podcast, as podcasts are an aural medium and many of the devices on which humans listen to podcasts do not have a feature by which podcast previews may be spoken aloud through an automated voice, even though (and this is important) the device does allow for the conveyance of sound (such as when someone plays a podcast, for instance). Show notes therefore need to be written down. Maybe someday, some wondrous far-off future day, there will exist a means by which podcast show notes can be just as audible as the podcast they are describing. And on that wonderful day, my great grand-daughter will dismount her trusty Hoversteed, call up the podcast app wired into her retina (and slightly visible to any curious bystander or time-traveling ancestor) as a nearly translucent milky presence flattened across her iris, and peruse the latest offerings. Say one tickles her fancy. Say it’s called “Your Daily Blorpball Update!” Well, she can just thoughtselect “Show Notes” at that moment and, as she’s walking into the Blorpball Arena, you better fucking believe it that her SecondMe implant will speak those notes to her. This, however, is not that day. That was an exact copy of the show notes for our last episode. Show notes are hard. They can often take upwards of 30 minutes to write. And those are thirty sweet, sweet minutes I might have otherwise spent not writing. ‘Not writing’ is an activity I enjoy. Plus, I assume they go unread. Or, maybe not. Tell you what, if you’ve read this far, have noticed my show note plagiarism, and would like some new ones from here on out, let us know. Toss up a twit or comment and they’ll be back. It’ll be a Christmas miracle. [audio https://s3.amazonaws.com/genrestop/Episode+16_+%27Lagoon%27+by+Nnedi+Okorafor.mp3]

Episode 15: ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman

Hello. This is the “show notes” section for the podcast Genre Stop! The goal of the show note is to provide a concise textual description of the audio content of the attached podcast, as podcasts are an aural medium and many of the devices on which humans listen to podcasts do not have a feature by which podcast previews may be spoken aloud through an automated voice, even though (and this is important) the device does allow for the conveyance of sound (such as when someone plays a podcast, for instance). Show notes therefore need to be written down. Maybe someday, some wondrous far-off future day, there will exist a means by which podcast show notes can be just as audible as the podcast they are describing. And on that wonderful day, my great grand-daughter will dismount her trusty Hoversteed, call up the podcast app wired into her retina (and slightly visible to any curious bystander or time-traveling ancestor) as a nearly translucent milky presence flattened across her iris, and peruse the latest offerings. Say one tickles her fancy. Say it’s called “Your Daily Blorpball Update!” Well, she can just thoughtselect “Show Notes” at that moment and, as she’s walking into the Blorpball Arena, you better fucking believe it that her SecondMe implant will speak those notes to her. This, however, is not that day. Stick around for Genre Stop!’s fifteenth episode, as Bri and Scott discuss Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Along the way, Bri abandons Natalie Portman at a Wal-Mart, they debate the merit of dream sequences, and Scott shields himself from the white hot heat radiating outwards from Bri’s undying loveflame for the novel. [audio https://s3.amazonaws.com/genrestop/Episode+15_+%27American+Gods%27+by+Neil+Gaiman.mp3]

Episode 14: ‘City of Bones’ by Cassandra Clare

I never could sleep growing up. A lot can go through a kid’s mind laying there, waiting for papa to drag his bum foot across my dirty bedroom floor. Mama’d wasn’t much of a cleaner. Two years a coat-check girl on Music Row and you couldn’t convince her she wudn’t Loretta Lynn. Papa’s plant wasn’t doing so good regardless. Jim’d been laid off. Aunt Karen had moved on. And Uncle Billy only really had a job on account of losing two fingers on the line twenty years before. He hadn’t raised much of a fuss about it then and they made good on it by finding room for him now in return. Wasn’t much of a raw deal, the more ya set to think on it. Hell, I reckon dozens of boys woulda taken that trade in a blink. Anyway, when dad got home he’d read City of Bones to me. On Genre Stop!’s fourteenth episode, Bri and Scott revisit Cassandra Clare’s 2007 urban fantasy. Along the way, they discuss age-appropriate club drugs, invisible European countries, and the correct number of sequels. [audio https://s3.amazonaws.com/genrestop/Episode+14_+%27City+of+Bones%27+by+Cassandra+Clare.mp3]

Episode 13: ‘Mythago Wood’ by Robert Holdstock

Ah, who doesn’t love camping? The smell of the grass. Relaxing with friends. Eating sunflower seeds and cotton candy. Watching your favorite player hit a home run. Driving home in your car after the end of the baseball game. Oh, wait. That’s baseball. Tune in for Genre Stop!’s long-awaited thirteenth episode, as Bri and Scott pop an epic Mythago Wood for Robert Holdstock’s 1984 novel. Along the way, they debate the sexuality of dead actors, clear markers of genre writing, and Britain, pedophile incubator. [audio https://s3.amazonaws.com/genrestop/Episode+13_+%27Mythago+Wood%27+by+Robert+Holdstock.mp3]

Episode 12: ‘Dawn’ by Octavia Butler

Ted was going to end it all. He took $400 out of an ATM and started walking toward the gorge. He passed a video store on the way. He realized that he hadn’t seen Tank Girl in a couple decades. They had a copy. On the way home he bought an old VHS player from Jerome for 45 bucks and a pair of broken-in penny loafers. They were just what Jerome needed. They sat down and watched Tank Girl. [audio https://s3.amazonaws.com/genrestop/Episode+12_+%27Dawn%27+by+Octavia+Butler.mp3]