Comments on: Episode 15 – Historically Speaking w/ Cherie Priest

By: Jesse Acosta

Jesse Acosta — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:41 +0000

Picked up Bone Shaker because of this interview. I’m excited to hear it. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so that was also another reason for the purchase! Excited for a pulplicious read!

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:17:10 +0000

That was a fun one guys and Cherie Priest was a pretty cool & groovy guest. Bless her little heart for not folding in the face of the two of you! Have you sent her a Best of the Wu-Tang for the holidays? Think I’ll be giving that Boneshaker a read sometime soon.

BTW, in terms of steampunk, though I wouldn’t claim it to be the first expression of it, you should check out Pat Mills and the great Kev O’Neill’s (and later, Bryan Talbot’s) work on Nemesis the Warlock where they had an alien world, the Goths, that continued the development of the Victorian era British Empire without the major upheaval of WW 1. Well, until the human Terminators (not that kind) start slaughtering them. Well worth a look, guys.

Keep up the great work. I’ll be sure to get through the rest of the podcasts before Christmas. Have a fun one!

Oh, and as a P.S., where’s the love for Ice-T? Sure he’s sold his sorry ass out years ago, but man, the Iceburg and, in particular, O.G. were the fucking shit! And, for the most part, they still stand up today.

By: Tyler W

Tyler W — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:30:50 +0000

Just listened to the whole interview, as I had gotten Boneshaker from the Library last Friday and didn’t want to spoil it before finishing- It’s very cool, btw, and people that haven’t picked it up should. Great episode guys. I have to say that the “literary folks” (Misses Priest and Coover and Mr. Nevins) have probably been my favorite, I’d love to see them come back or have some more cool people from the circles they run in as future guests.

By: A.J

A.J — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:43:37 +0000

yes wooohoo, i gotta listen to the christmas special episode keep on the hippity hoppin and more reegaeton airhorne please

By: Mike "Llakor" Ryan

Mike "Llakor" Ryan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:19:27 +0000

Great convo that makes me want to pick up her book.

My Sad Thoughts:

1) Cherie Priest is hot, short-sighted and a fan of comics. That is a pretty intoxicating combination, innit?

2) One of the difficulties with literary sub-genres like steam-punk is that sometimes there is a great example that you can’t use because the example becomes too popular. Like say Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang which is a perfectly fine steam-punk film, but if you told people that who are unfamiliar with the sub-genre they would just say that Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang isn’t steam-punk, it’s Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

3) Very cool for Action Age on the Oni gig.

4) Not to be the “You Forgot” guy, but if Chris is doing Chris vs. Twilight on Twitter, you might want to mention it on the show notes rather than idly mentioning it with about thirty seconds left in the podcast. Or is it supposed to be a deep-dark secret?

5) The aforementioned Chris vs. Twilight may force me on to the Twitter.

6) Cool music conversation even though I barely recognized any of the music that you were mentioning.

7) Cherie said something about how she believes that popular culture should be fun, but that she hadn’t worried about it until Boneshaker because before that she was writing horror. So, wait, horror is not fun? No wonder she haterizes Psycho. Oh also, Southern Gothic writer hating Psycho? Isn’t that like a superhero writer hating on Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four?

Is is sad that these are what I thought as I listened?

By: Andrew Kehoe

Andrew Kehoe — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:45:08 +0000

Great show. But the best hip hop track is actually a two-fer: Contracct on the World Love Jam –> Brothers Gonna Work It Out by PE from Fear of a Black Planet.

Either that or Posse’s on Broadway by Sir Mix-A-Lot.

By: A.J

A.J — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:43:27 +0000

Dizamn i’m lovin the podcast, please do a hippty hoppin rappin opera style musical for the christmas ep, and more regaeton airhorn please

By: DK

DK — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:14:03 +0000

Not metal enough. Kinda goth but not metal.

By: Mark Clapham

Mark Clapham — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:58:12 +0000

As much as I like Rusty’s art for the site, the Oni strip sounds like a much better use of his time. Looking forward to it, and I might just have to go and catch up on Resurrection first, dammit.

By: Rusty Shackles

Rusty Shackles — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:17:33 +0000

thanks for the kind words folks and great ep as usual! I should have time to return for the xmas ep for art which might be it for me for the foreseeable future, but you never know!