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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 20h

Whomst among those of us hovering around 40 *doesn’t* spend some time each day yelling at our skeletons

Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Electrico "reached down with a flaming sword full of electricity and he tapped me on both shoulders and then the tip of my nose and he cried, 'Live, forever!' And I thought, 'God, that’s wonderful. How do you do that?'...I went home and within days I started to write. And I’ve never stopped."

Ray Bradbury Recalls the Visit to the Circus That Inspired Him To Become a Writer

The problem with death, Ray Bradbury once said to me, is that “it is so damned permanent.”

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 2d

Ep 724 - Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury

Ep 724 - Dark Carnival, by Ray Bradbury — Overdue

Everybody loves our old friend Ray Bradbury! This time we’re taking a spin with his first short story collection Dark Carnival, a smattering of spooky tales that wound up scattered across a number of ...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 5d

He doesn't mind!!

The final page of Frankenstein with a hand-written addendum saying that Frankenstein's monster doesn't mind being called Frankenstein.

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 6d

"A rising young author of sci-fi horror has made Goulburn her home and is enchanted by its 'cute, quirky and charming’' qualities."

Overdue group vacation?

Sci-fi horror author spells out qualities giving Goulburn an edge | About Regional

A rising young author of sci-fi horror has made Goulburn her home and is enchanted by its “cute, quirky and…

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 9d

Ep 723 - Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

Ep 723 - Of Monsters and Mainframes, by Barbara Truelove — Overdue

Rudyard Kipling's classic story collection The Jungle Book doesn't have a jazz orangutan named Louie, but it does have the bare necessities of imperialist fiction. The stories about Mowgli and other...

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Allison @lostwendy.bsky.social · 10d

Not sure if you’ve seen this but definitely relevant to this episode 😂

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so much!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve mentioned this podcast a few times but it’s good and informative about the authors and books in a way that doesn’t sound like two guys reading Wikipedia at you and I think the horror eps they do every October are some of the best.

Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 13d

BOO

The Spooktober 2025 schedule: 10.6 - Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove | 10.13 - Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury | 10.20 - The Haunted Baby (Choose Your Own Nightmare) by Edward Packard | 10.27 - I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan | The Sillymarillion - for more info: patreon.com/overduepod

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 13d

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI: new Sit Me Baby episode on the main feed!

Sit Me Baby One More Time Episode 03 - The Truth About Stacey (The Baby-Sitters Club #3) — Overdue

The Club has encountered (gasp) competition! How will they manage to beat their new rivals, the Baby-sitters Agency? Also, Stacey's ready to spill her truth: her parents need to chill out. She's succe...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 14d

"'The Jungle Book,' which Kipling wrote out of a Vermont cabin in 1894, doesn’t showcase his bigotry so much as his uncritical reverence for power. Might makes right mesmerized Kipling."

How Disney’s New Jungle Book Subverts the Gross Colonialism of Rudyard Kipling

Before Disney’s dazzling live-action update of The Jungle Book swung into theaters on Friday, some worried about how the film would negotiate Rudyard...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 16d

Ep 722 - The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Ep 722 - The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling — Overdue

Rudyard Kipling's classic story collection The Jungle Book doesn't have a jazz orangutan named Louie, but it does have the bare necessities of imperialist fiction. The stories about Mowgli and other...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for sharing this!

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 19d

"Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise. At first I tried telling the story from the point of view of a single picture bride, but this approach felt too narrow and confining...It’s a very capacious and infinitely expandable voice."

Julie Otsuka | Interview

‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’ An interview with Julie Otsuka.

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 21d

On the syllabus for this week's episode:

Euphemisms, Concentration Camps And The Japanese Internment

A listener compares the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the Jewish Holocaust under the Nazis and raises the question of what to call the camps used in both experiences. At stak...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 23d

Ep 721 - The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

Ep 721 - The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka — Overdue

Some of us read a book. Some of us research the author and the historical context. Some of us sit in front of our microphones and record a podcast. Some of us edit it together and upload it to the web...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 26d

Mary Smith in Cranford, maybe???

a man in a blue shirt is standing next to a woman laying on a bed

Alt: The end of the Sixth Sense when Bruce Willis realizes he's (spoiler alert) a ghost

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 27d

"Fixed income": Boring; sound stressful; reminds you of our delicate and tenuous social safety net

"Elegant economy": Mysterious; classy; sounds like a *choice* to live below your means, in a chic way

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 28d

“I had always felt a deep sympathy with the care-worn men, who looked as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between work and want; tossed to and fro by circumstances, apparently in even a greater degree than other men.”

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ep 720 - Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell

Ep 720 - Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell — Overdue

Perhaps Elizabeth Gaskell’s best-known work, Cranford chronicles the lives of some Victorian era LMMs (Ladies of Modest Means). Their customs and relevance may be waning as Industrialization advances,...

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · Sep 13

POV: you just told Godzilla you haven’t listened to this week’s episode of yet

a statue of a monster is standing in a field with its mouth open

Alt: Old-school Godzilla turns slowly to the camera

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Olga @olgakolesnikova.bsky.social · Sep 13

My favourite gift of the magi adaptation is when Zoidberg buys a set of combs for Amy but she sold her hair to buy combs for Hermes and he sold his hair to buy a set of combs for Zoidberg and then Zoidberg takes off his hat and he has their hair

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Well, I was actually writing another novel entirely—a dark and brooding political novel set in space—and it turns out that 2020 wasn’t a great year to be writing a dark and moody political novel...my brain went, screw it, I’m gonna write a novel with BIG DAMN MONSTERS in it."

John Scalzi is ready to rumble

Why The Kaiju Preservation Society was the most fun John Scalzi has ever had as a writer.

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · Sep 9

Nothing's standing out to us on our end yet — if you're able to send a screenshot of what you're encountering, that might help us focus our search. Otherwise, we'll keep looking!

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