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
Showing posts with label Barsoom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barsoom. Show all posts
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Episode 46. Opening bit: An expedition into the Carrion Caves at the frozen North Pole of Barsoom is foiled by Rudolph's nose. Francisco M. Camas of the Spanish National Biotechnology Centre in Madrid creates Tarzan yells via pan flute, clarinet and oboe. Dateline Jasoom talks to Steve “Korak” Allsup, who audited Paul Yoder's class at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, which explored literary icons: Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes – and Tarzan of the Apes.
Friday, June 12, 2020
Episode 36. Opening Bit: “Harvey Paul” tells the rest of the story about Billy Byrne, the mucker.(My impression of Paul Harvey is embarrassingly bad.) Celebrity Jeopardy with Sean Connery, star of “Tarzan's Greatest Adventure.” Futurama clip: Bender does a Tarzan yell. A breaking story from the Barsoomian Blade: Another naked Jasoomian wins the hand of a Martian princess and becomes royal. Canadian television program clip: Cheta wins lifetime achievement award. Information about 2007 Dum-Dum in Louisville, Kentucky. A reading from “The God of Tarzan,” courtesy the Pometheus Podcast. Elmo gets sentimental about ERB.
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.)
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Episode 8. Sound clips from “A Princess of Mars,” performed on the stage by Hardcover Theater in Minneapolis in 2006. Elmo reviews the play: “I've been to Barsoom. I was taken there in a little theater in Minneapolis.” Interviews with actors. “I thought it was very cool playing a superhero,” says Jami Rassmussen, who played John Carter. “I was never cast as a Martian before,” says Terri Elofson Bly, who played Sola. Several others of the cast are also interviewed. Jesse Ray on playing Tars Tarkas: “Tars Tarkas is very intrigued by this new creature.” “John Carter also sees a lot of himself in Tars Tarkas,” says Jami. Amber Swenson on playing Dejah Thoris: “This strong, heroic heroine. She's torn between two worlds. She has this need to be strong, but she also needs to be comforted.” Joan Bledig and Elmo discuss the play on the way home from the theater. “I think it was respectful and incredibly well done,” says Joan.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Episode 7. Elmo speaks with Barsoomian Blade reporter Herbo Gooli, who is at the foot of the landing stage where the great warship Paramount is about to land in Greater Helium to finalize details of the “John Carter of Mars” documentary. “The ship is riding majestically toward us, like some great feather ...” The Oak Park Historical Society hosts a panel discussion of ERB and Ray Bradbury. Chicago Mucker Greg Phillips speaks at that forum about how each writer handled Mars. “The red Martians are completely human – except they lay eggs and live for a thousand years,” he says of Barsoom. The Tarzan yell of George McWhorter, who also spoke at the forum (and will be featured on another podcast), makes its Dateline Jasoom debut.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Episode 6. Andy “Jason Gridley” Nunez: Why Elmo Lincoln didn't get the speaking role of Tarzan in “Tarzan the Ape Man.” Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding promotes the 2006 ECOF convention in Rockville, Maryland. Bit: A preview of the dinner speaker for a 2006 Burroughs convention. Real news about that convention, which would be held in 2006 in Maryland, in an interview with Bill Ross of the National Capital Panthans, a chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles. “It's a great place to meet and become friends with people who share your interest,” Bill says. A chat with Bill Hillman, curator of erbzine.com, about what conventions are like. He recalls the “fight to the death” he and Bob “Tarak” Woodley had with Johnny Weissmuller's knife at the 1999 Dum-Dum in Tarzana. More details on plans for the Tarzan on Broadway production.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Episode 5. The tail end of “Kodos, the Executioner” by the Karidian Players leads into Dateline Jasoom on the Gridley Wave Network. An interview with Steve Schroer, who wrote and directed a stage production of “A Princess of Mars” for Hardcover Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2006. Elmo notes the passing of great ERB fan and scholar Bob Hyde
Episode 3. Herbo Gooli of the Barsoomian Blade reports on more problems encountered by a Jasoomian documentary crew on Mars. (Banths!) A Stiiv Ryan song, “My name is John Carter.” Artificial Life Protection laws for synthetic men, by Andy Nunez. Elmo talks with Bill Hillman, curator at erbzine.com, about what should be in a John Carter movie. A short discussion of Disney's Tarzan and the preview Disney Studios gave fans during the 1999 Dum-Dum
Here is the video of Stiiv Ryan's "John Carter of Mars" mix.
Episode 1. Elmo describes the idea behind Dateline Jasoom and his favorite Edgar Rice Burroughs worlds. Includes a bit about a documentary crew from Earth running into trouble with white apes and another about the Dolly Dorcas Cruise Line in Pellucidar. Fans Gerald Spannraft, Ray Le Beau and Laurence Dunn make appearances. A song by Stiiv Ryan celebrates Tarzan and Jane. Elmo's wife gives a shout-out to “Tarzan widows."
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