Covering the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and beyond via the vast Gridley Wave Network. Interviews with fans, professional artists and writers, ERB scholars and more -- with liberal doses of humor from the Barsoomian Blade, the oldest tabloid newspaper on Mars. Email the host, Elmo, at jefflong0220@gmail.com
Friday, December 27, 2019
Episode 15. A 2006 interview with longtime ERB fan Mark Wheatley – comic book author, illustrator, graphic artist, musician and all around radical dreamer. The show includes selections of his music. In 2019, Mark won the Burroughs Bibliophiles Golden Lion Award. Coincidence? Visit the Facebook page for Mark's fans at https://www.facebook.com/WheatleyMarks/ Late breaking news: The 2007 Dum Dum will be held in Louisville, Kentucky. And Paramount has NOT renewed its options on “A Princess of Mars.” A snippet of Edgar Rice Burroughs' appearance on a 1939 radio show. (The full appearance will appear on Episode 16.)
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Episode 14 From the 2006 ECOF convention in Rockville, Maryland. Interviews with fans Steve Wadding and Robert Jones. Shirley LeBeau says hi. George McWhorter opens banquet with a Tarzan yell. Speakers: Laurence Dunn, Dorothy D.J. “Usha” Howell, Mike Conran, Jim Thompson, and Alan Hanson, winner of the 2006 Golden Lion award, and John Tyner. Elmo announces the formation of the Chicago Muckers.
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Episode 13. Ray LeBeau introduces Dateline Jasoom. Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding reads his fan fiction, “Computer Engineer of Mars.” Bit: Kantos Kan's new and used fliers. Elmo talks about how his grandfather grew up in the same neighborhood as Billy Byrne on Chicago's Great West Side, and addresses the notion that ERB was racist.
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