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 John Carter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Carter. Show all posts
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, 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.
Monday, October 21, 2019
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 2. The BBC reports that the wreckage of the Fuwalda has been found. An interview with fan Laurence Dunn of England about his many trips to ERB conventions in the U.S. Bill Hillman, curator of erbzine.com, talks about Tarzan on Broadway. The song “Lost Civilization” by Satya, via the Podsafe Music Network. Jason Gridley (Andy Nunez) pitches the Gridley Wave Network. Bill Ross plugs Dateline Jasoom
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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