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 George McWhorter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George McWhorter. Show all posts
Sunday, July 12, 2020
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.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Episode 10. “Does he think he is Tarzan, or what?” Tarzan references in the movie Deliverance and how the apeman has generally permeated pop culture. Via The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, “The Jingle of Jungle Joe,” released in 1911. Bud Light presents, Real Men of Genius: Mr. Painful Loincloth Wedgie Guy, by Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding. George McWhorter, then the curator of the ERB Collection at the University of Louisville and editor of the Burroughs Bulletin, speaks during a 2006 panel discussion at the Oak Park Historical Society about Burroughs and Ray Bradbury. “They both had imaginations that never stopped,” he says.
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