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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #4 - Don't Come Back Alive
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a podcast dedicated to examining each episode of the original "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television series, show by show in chronological order. In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma looks at the first of thirty episodes scripted by Robert C. Dennis and finds something in common between Irene Dunne, Marilyn Monroe and Doris Day.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #3 - Triggers in Leash
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a podcast dedicated to examining each episode of the original "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television series, show by show in chronological order. In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma looks at Hitchcock's aversion to directing a Western then examines the third episode, "Triggers in Leash," a Western.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #2 - Premonition
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a podcast dedicated to examining each episode of the original "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television series, show by show in chronological order. In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma delves into "The Trouble With Harry," Hitchcock's sense of humor, and "Premonition," the second episode.
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Fellow Youths: An Apa A Day
Get out your pom-poms and suspend your disbelief! This week we visit the town with PEP in CW's teen drama, Riverdale, a show that takes our favorite animated town and packs it with pink neon, pouty redheads, evil schemes, adults being creeps, teens being creeps, gangs, MURDER, and so much kissing it'll make you say, "AGAIN? Gross."
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #1 - Revenge
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a podcast dedicated to examining each episode of the original "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television series, show by show in chronological order. In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma delves into "Revenge," the first episode. Amy Cantu later joins Al for a discussion of "Revenge," "Vertigo," and Hitchcock's treatment of women.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #0
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a podcast dedicated to examining each episode of the original "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television series, show by show in chronological order. In this initial installment, Al Sjoerdsma explores the details behind the series' creation.
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Fellow Youths: Haikyu
In this episode we get to finally meet Audrey's volleyball children in the anime Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate. This anime has opened the hearts of Nicole, Audrey, and unfortunately for Kathy, Kathy's boyfriend. Tune in to hear Kathy's incandescent rage. Check It Out! Theme Music is “Nekozilla (LFZ Remix)” by Different Heaven.
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Actor/Writer Jon Glaser Discusses Comedy And His Career
Actor and writer Jon Glaser sits down with us to discuss his television and comedy career.
Jon Glaser created, starred in, and co-wrote the TV shows Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, Jon Glaser Loves Gear, and Delocated. He is well-known as Councilman Jamm on Parks and Recreation, and Laird on HBO's Girls. Other TV credits include Inside Amy Schumer, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Wonder Showzen.
Film credits include Trainwreck, Be Kind Rewind, and Pootie Tang. Cartoon voice work includes Bob's Burgers, Archer, Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, TV Funhouse, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He appeared as Video Cowboy in the ESPN web series Mayne Street, and he created, wrote, directed and starred in a series of web shorts for Comedy Central called Tiny Hands.
As a writer and consultant, Jon's credits include Inside Amy Schumer, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Dana Carvey Show, Human Giant, and Cheap Seats. He has written several stories for The New York Times Magazine, and his writing has also appeared in ESPN The Magazine, The Onion A.V. Club, and online for New York Magazine.
His first book, My Dead Dad Was In ZZ Top, was published by Harper Perennial, and he wrote and directed the music video for Bob Mould’s Star Machine.
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Nerd Nite #49 - Living in a Cyberpunk World
Cyberpunk was everywhere in the 1980s. It started in science fiction, but it influenced fashion, movies, comics, games, advertising, and architecture. After a decade of high-tech, neon-colored, future-looking pop culture, cyberpunk just…went away. Or did it? Could cyberpunk stories still be with us, hiding in plain sight?
About Alex: Alex Kourvo loves books. She writes them, reviews them, edits them, and teaches other people how to write them. She is the author of numerous short stories and the forthcoming “Detroit Next” series of near-future thrillers. She edits books for Fifth Avenue Press and helped start the Emerging Writers Workshop at the Ann Arbor District Library, where she teaches monthly classes for new writers. You can find Alex online at AlexKourvo.com or follow her @AlexKourvo.
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History Mystery Superstar Maureen Jennings
Historical mystery writer Maureen Jennings discusses her work and the history/mystery genre.
Born in England, Maureen Jennings emigrated to Canada as a teenager. The first acclaimed Detective Murdoch mystery was published in 1997. Six more followed, all to enthusiastic reviews. In 2003, Shaftesbury Films adapted three of the novels into movies of the week, and four years later the Murdoch Mysteries TV series was created and is now shown around the world.
The Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series, set in World War II-era England, got off to a spectacular start with 2011’s Season of Darkness. Her newest book, "Dead Ground in Between," is the haunting fourth novel in the DI Tom Tyler series. Set in Britain during the darkest days of World War II, this is a must-read especially for those interested in wartime dramas.
This event was cosponsored by Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookstore.