Good Story 049: The Hobbit

Julie and Scott lose track of time as they close out the second year of Good Story with The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Julie finds remarkable meaning in it, while Scott forgets the name of every actor he's ever seen. In glorious 48fps 3D! Good Story, Episode 49.

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More stuff:

• Free lectures from Corey Olsen, The Tolkien Professor!
• Stuff for your pocketses at ThinkGeek.

Good Story 048: The Paper

It's never going to be that one big moment; it's going to be a bunch of small ones. Julie and Scott experience the mayhem of a day at a tabloid newspaper in New York City, and learn a lot on the way. The Paper, directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Robert Duvall, and Glenn Close.

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More stuff:

• Ron Howard on IMDB
• David Koepp (Screenwriter) on IMDB
• KCRW: The Treatment
• You Are There!
• Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

Good Story 047: Bleak House

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog at Julie's house, fog at Scott's place. Fog. The fog doesn't stop Julie and Scott from discussing Bleak House by Charles Dickens. The risk of overwhelming deportment doesn't stop them either. Episode 47.

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More stuff:

• FANTASTIC audio version from Naxos Audiobooks, read by Sean Barrett and Teresa Gallagher

Good Story 046: Heroines, Past and Present

Episode 46. A subject much too big for just two people. Joining Julie and Scott for the first "topic" episode of Good Story are Rose Davis, Joseph Susanka, and Heather Ordover. The topic? Heroines, Past and Present - heroines in YA fiction and films.

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More stuff:

• Heather Ordover's Mama O Knits Too Much, and CraftLit - Stick a Book in Your Ear!
• Rose Davis' Double Exposure blog
• Joseph Susanka on Twitter, and at Patheos

Good Story 045: The Sixth Sense

This is Episode 45, during which Julie and Scott see dead people. They both enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense.

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More stuff:

• M. Night Shyamalan's Website
• De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine...

Good Story 044: H.P. Lovecraft

During today's podcast, Julie takes a few moments to explore a hole Scott found next to an ancient stone marker in a graveyard. Despite all that microphone cable, Scott lost contact with her near the end of the podcast... but he's sure she's fine. Episode 44 is about H.P. Lovecraft. Happy October!

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More stuff:

• Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, 27 November 1927 by H.P. Lovecraft
• On Forgotten Classics: Lagniappe 57: The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Will Duquette
• SFFaudio #126 - |MP3|-|POST|- AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Statement Of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft
• SFFaudio #138 - |MP3|-|POST|- AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Crawling Chaos by Winifred V. Jackson and H.P. Lovecraft
• SFFaudio #147 - |MP3|-|POST|- AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft
• SFFaudio #168 - |MP3|-|POST|- AUDIOBOOK: Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft
• SFFaudio #174 - |MP3|-|POST|- AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft
• SFFaudio #175 - |MP3|-|POST|- AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
• Supernatural Horror in Literature: the essay by H.P. Lovecraft
• Supernatural Horror in Literature: the podcast reading the stories mentioned in the essay
• Candlemass
• Dirk Maggs

Good Story 043: Mary and Max

Somewhere during this podcast, Julie decided she didn't need her imaginary friend Mr. Ravioli any more. Now he just sits in the corner and reads. Scott experiences confuzzlement. Episode 43: Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot.

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More stuff:

• Confuzzlement Abounds, Julie's review of Mary and Max on Happy Catholic
• The Power of Vulnerability, a TED talk by Brené Brown

Good Story 042: The Uncommon Reader

In Episode #42, Julie and Scott discover reading. Turns out it's kind of meaningful and fun. Who knew? The Queen didn't, but does now according to The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. At the end of the podcast, Julie talks a bit about the 2012 Catholic New Media Conference!

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More stuff:

• Goodreads!
• Alan Bennett and The Uncommon Reader on Goodreads
• The Catholic New Media Conference
• Roger Ebert's review of The Curators of Dixon School, a documentary edited by Rose (Julie's youngest daughter)
• A letter a week telling a story of the zombie apocalypse and a romance: Ora et Labora et Zombies
• Heather Ordover, a generous friend and all-round stand up gal.

Good Story 041: O Brother Where Art Thou?

Julie and Scott learn much from Ulysses Everett McGill in the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?. You can't display a toad in some fine restaurants. What it means to be "bona-fide". And what the devil looks like when you meat him at the crossroads. And what does this movie have to do with The Odyssey?

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More stuff:

• O Brother Where Art Thou on IMDB
• Roger Ebert on O Brother Where Art Thou

Good Story 040: The Stand

Episode #40 - It's the end of the world again, this time due to a plague. Julie and Scott discuss The Stand by Stephen King. Bumpity bump!

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More stuff:

• The C.S. Lewis quote from On Stories:

  Another very large class of stories turns on fulfilled prophecies--the story of Oedipus, or The Man Who Would Be King, or The Hobbit. In most of them the ver steps taken to prevent the fulfillment of the prophecy actually bring it about. It is foretold that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. In order to prevent this from happening he is exposed on mountain: and that exposure, by leading to his rescue and thus to his life among strangers in ignorance of his real parentage, renders possible both the disasters. Such stories produce (at least in me) a feeling of awe, coupled with a certain sort of bewilderment such as one often feels in looking at a complex pattern of lines that pass over and under one another. One sees, yet does not quite see, the regularity. And is there not good occasion for both awe and bewilderment? We have just had set before our imagination something that has always baffled the intellect: we have seen how destiny and free will can be combined, even how free will is the modus operandi of destiny. The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

• Brandywine Books
• Inspiration for The Stand