Good Story 023: Way Station

Episode 23: Julie and Scott agree to make coffee for Ulysses in return for a cube of deceased vegetation. Also, they read Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.

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More stuff:

• A Clifford D. Simak fan page.


• A Review of The Better Angels by Steven Pinker


• James Patrick Kelly: jimkelly.net

Good Story 022: The Social Network

Episode 22! Julie and Scott talk about The Social Network, a movie written by Aaron Sorkin, then decide to sue Mark Zuckerberg for wearing flip flops in the snow.

You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

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More stuff:

• General Glyphics, Inc.

Good Story 021: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Episode 21: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Also, Julie and Scott race to the barber pole, go trick or treating, and barely mention zombies.

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More stuff:

• RayBradbury.com
• At Happy Catholic: Offering it up
• At Happy Catholic: Cardinal Virtues!
• mmm... zombies
• The Halloween Tree - review and audio link
• Flicks That Church Forgot podcast
• October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween, edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish

Good Story 020: Shaun of the Dead

Episode 20, in which Julie sacrifices her record collection to ward off zombies, and Scott wishes she hadn't thrown the Batman soundtrack. Shaun of the Dead is the subject! Hilarious movie. With zombies.

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More stuff:

• Julie at Patheos: St. Martha: Truth and Practicality


• The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins, atheist


• The Tobolowsky Files by Stephen Tobolowsky

Good Story 019: Declare

Episode 19. Here is a list: Philby. Espionage. Powers. Declare. While they await your coded response, Julie and Scott discuss Declare by Tim Powers, a fantasy/spy thriller they both enjoyed.

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More stuff:

• The blog of Jeff, aka The Curt Jester


• The Works of Tim Powers


• Kim Philby at Wikipedia


• Hour 25: Tim Powers interview from March 2, 2001

Good Story 018: Contact

Episode 18, in which Julie watches a movie she does not like and Scott says, "Wha?" Contact, from a book by Carl Sagan, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Jodie Foster and rarely shirtless Matthew McConaughey.

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More stuff:

• Lucy's Laugh Enlivens the Solar System by Robert Krulwich. From Morning Edition, 2008.


• Confessions of an Alien Hunter by Seth Shostak


• Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould. Two other great books by Gould: Wonderful Life and Dinosaur in a Haystack

Good Story 017: And Then There Were None

Episode 17. Julie and Scott find themselves trapped on an island serving cold ham to eight seven extremely nervous guests. What could go wrong? And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Good book.

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More stuff:

• Luke Burrage's Science Fiction Book Review Podcast
• Agatha Christie on Forgotten Classics ... both nonfiction and "The Secret Adversary"
• The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie - contains both "Ten Little Indians" and "The Mousetrap"
• Some other favorite Agatha Christie books to try:
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Death Comes as the End
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin
  • Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
  • What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
• Julie's review of Now I Walk on Death Row.
• Maria Goretti and her attacker, Alessandro (his letter is very moving)
• Jacques Fesch (he is the murderer who experienced that moment of grace in his prison cell ... )

Good Story 016: Inception

Episode 16. Or is it? Julie and Scott both remember how they got there, and are pretty darned sure they discussed Christopher Nolan's Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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More stuff:

• Pope Recommends Summer Reading by the Faithful
• The Prestige by Christopher Priest
• Christopher Nolan and his stuff
• Julie's excellent book: Happy Catholic
• Cowboy's tailgating guidelines - evidently there are so many restrictions that they advise using nearby private lots.

Good Story 015: East of Eden

Episode 15 takes us to the Salinas Valley in California. The subject is John Steinbeck's East of Eden, written in 1951.

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• Julie's Forgotten Classics: The Genesis Episodes - Julie is not quite done with Genesis, but she's up to Chapter 31. |HERE| is Genesis Chapter 1-2, and |HERE| is the episode that contains the first part of Robert Alter's Note to Reader.
• Also from Forgotten Classics, a couple of Lagniappes! Lagniappe 49, in which we hear about Olive and the airplane and Lagniappe 6, a little something from The Paragraph Farmer who makes sure we don't think that Chinese chefs only know how to cook
• East of Eden on Wikipedia
• Dragged kicking and screaming into the promised land ... Julie's review of East of Eden at Patheos.

Good Story 014: Groundhog Day

Episode 14. We recommend that you listen to this episode over and over and over and over... Julie and Scott talk about Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowall.

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More stuff:

• The Tobolowsky Files podcast - the Episode in which Stephen Tobolowsky talks about Groundhog Day is Episode 20 - The Classic.