Jeff Strand
An interview with Jeff Strand!This is the best episode 489b a guy could ask for. We cover some of Jeff’s books, his writing philosophies, a
Helpful Snowman Radio Ep 490b
Ignobel prizes, a slow crawl out of obscurity to a slightly lesser obscurity, and prep for the big JEFF STRAND interview!
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 493b
A bro show! With the promised Kid Pix artwork! That’s right, I REMEMBERED what we talked about enough to actually do a thing!
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 494b
it was cold, and we go over some presents that RUINED Christmas!
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 496 b
The Glass Onion, 2022, Dir. Rian Johnson.
Amazing Spider Web Cast Issue 032
In which we hold out for a hero, who has big plans, but for the next issue, not so much this one.
Podoween 2022 The Whole Shebang
all stitched together for your listening pleasure.
Podoween 2022 ep 29
It all comes together with the help of a pot leaf chandelier and a great moment in sports history.
Podoween 2022 ep 03
A very important business meeting. And a title at last!
Podoween 2022 Ep 01
An intro to a hoax. And a goodbye to a hoax. For now…
Amazing Spider Web Cast Issue 031
Peter Parker starts college. Peter D. relates his experience starting college. It’s not exactly Animal House material.
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 499b
Homemade tattoos might not be the most stellar idea.
Helpful Snowman Radio Ep 499
Scooby Scooby Doo, Why did you, make all these dumb cartoons?
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 497
We go through a…donation. Of Sorts. And a life list provided by neal.fun.
Curse Words by Charles Soule
This one’s got its charms, but at the end of the day, wizards doing magic, not like a ton of new shit brought to the
Helpful Snowman Radio Ep 496
Thanks to a SPECIAL GUEST STAR we get back to our roots and help someone realize their dad is best left to his own devices.
Helpful Snowman Radio Ep 495
As we inch towards 500, some thoughts, some plans.
Amazing Spider Web Cast Issue 030
The Cat. Not the busty one. The other one.
Helpful Snowman Radio Ep 491
Pete takes over The Times. Stupid IS a strategy.
Amazing Spider Web Cast Issue 029
Back in action with the Scorpion and his allegedly scorpion-like tail.
Pete’s Occult Books: Elephants Are Not Birds
In this newest episode, we cover a new imprint, BRAVE Books, and their first offering. Which comes with an extremely inconvenient map!
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 488
I solve every philosophical question. Cannot say why it took you all so long. Throw your philosophy degrees in the trash. You won’t need them
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 487
Salacious Crumbcast begins. We’re talking about Salacious Crumb. Excuse me, Salacious B. Crumb. Would hate for you to think it’s another Salacious Crumb.
Amazing Spider Web Cast Annual 002
Really one-third of an annual. But we let it slide.
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 484
Poonie and Pete do brackets. Is that how it’s phrased? “Doing” brackets?
Helpful Snowman Radio ep 483
Well, ladies, my sperms are slowly dying inside my balls. Ladies.
Amazing Spider Web Cast Issue 027
In which a cop breaks the fourth wall with fists of fury.
Helpful Snowman Radio Ep 482
Pepsi, Coke, a broken camera, sharting the bed.
In this week’s episode of my body just does whatever with no reasonable cause: why is my one beard hair so sproingy? It’s like a perfect spring from inside a pen that holds the ink vessel. I have no other hairs like this anywhere on my body.
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Cagemas! We had some pretty good beers and finally got to Pig. Pig is a wonderful movie. It’s dark and hopeful at the same time. A very human story. Cage is great. The pig is perfect casting. Ultimately it’s a tale of the different ways people are broken, which is of course appealing to the downers among us (me).
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HEY FUCKERS, if you don’t want a full steam wash in cold water followed by the hottest, fastest dry my dryer will handle, don’t sell me your clothes.
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“The study isn’t able to determine if the empathy gained through reading is ever applied. “Which means that a reader might shove an elderly woman in the gutter and walk on her back to avoid getting his shoes wet, and the only difference between him and a non-reader would be that he’d better understand what that elderly meat bridge was feeling while she burbled away in torrent of melted bus runoff. “Is unused empathy stored up in the Think Bank worth writing articles about? Probably not.” Today at @litreactor, a column about why reading science is mostly nonsense, and also a message about why reading doesn’t have to make you a good person.
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I made this art for a LitReactor column about whether or not the library will recover from COVID. Short answer: I don’t know. Read and learn more. In the meantime, I have some things to say about COVID and how people are reacting to it. If you’re unvaxxed by choice and refuse to wear a mask, just stop being a scared bitch. If your body can handle the virus, it can handle the vaccine and a little stick. If your grandfather could wear the same pair of combat boots all the way across France, you can wear a mask for 20 minutes in the grocery store. To vaxxed and masked people: you can probably do better. I’m sorry, but if you got on a plane between now and April 2020 for anything other than a necessity (I consider visiting close family a necessity btw) you’ve been spreading shit. If you’ve been dining in, attending events, doing all that sort of shit, I don’t want to be the first person to tell you this, but you’re making things worse. Your choices are spreading this virus, and maybe you don’t worry about killing people because of the availability of vaccines, but I want you to consider that libraries are closing unexpectedly and cancelling events because they don’t have enough healthy staff. This may not sound like a big deal, but if your library closes at 2 pm when it’s 20 degrees outside, it’s a pretty big deal for a lot of folks. Libraries, schools, and other services like these closing is a big problem for people who can’t pay for childcare or don’t have a home or who are generally underserved. We talk a lot about medicine, but consider what happens when the food bank can’t be open, or when the fire department is short handed on the week you need them. Consider that our county has been way behind on plowing because of their staff being out with COVID, and consider that this makes the roads less safe. This is a much bigger deal than long lines at the ski slopes, okay? I just ask that everyone consider that their optional activities have an effect on everyone right now. If you can reduce these sorts of activities a bit longer, you can do something concrete to help the people in your community.
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Ah, yes. Sunday blues.
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I got it. My thrifting white whale.
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Another Cagemas. We paid the ghost. This one isn’t bad, although we’re hitting the Cagemas point where that scale isn’t…consistent. But Pay the Ghost is coherent, it’s a story. Not a super original one, but there was a ghost who demanded payment. Ghosts are hilarious because they’re so revenge-oriented. Wouldn’t getting revenge like FOREVER get boring? Like the earth is dead and maybe a Star Trek crew comes down, and you’re still going to haunt them? Isn’t the point of a ghostly punishment kind of defeated when there’s no longer any context, when the characters have no ducking idea what’s happening or why? But whatever. I guess dumb people become ghosts too.
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Cagemas rolls on! Middle beer was…challenging. Thick like syrup. But the movie is great. As my brother put it, “I used to identify with the young car thieves, and now I feel like the old ones.” Possibly the best Cage character name so far: Memphis Raines.
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Unexpected update: finishing a second book somehow catapulted me from being 9 books behind to being “on track.” I’m not sure if this is a glitch or if goodreads secretly knows that I am on track, just not for the reading goal I set. Either way, riding this high.
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Unfortunately, in the hours since I set my goodreads goal, I’ve fallen behind an additional 3 books, putting the total books behind at 9 on day one.
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Goodreads limiting a yearly reading goal to 5000 is so dumb. As if 5000 is more achievable than 99999999999. It’s all made-up nonsense anyway. I already read one book on day one of the year, and I’m still behind on my goal. But hey, I regrouped and now only have to read 12 books per day, every day, to make it. But listen, I gotta go. I’m 6 behind schedule.
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I wrote this whole thing about how to make ebook gifts less shitty. Because ebooks are nice gifts, you just have to work em a little bit. Look it over at @litreactor, take ten minutes and make an ebook into a memorable, heartfelt gift instead of a digital file transaction.
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