Want to learn more about the Perfectly Wonderful and Horrible Things discussed in each episode? Then “click” on the “blue words” and knowledge shall be yours.
Episode One: American Teenage Hymen Defense Methods
The $300 manual to giving your daughter something to tell her therapist in a couple of years.
The Madonna-Industrial Complex
Purity Ball pictures I wish I could have gotten permission to use.
Episode Two: Vespa-Heads
Something pretty sweet, also by Faux Reel
Torontoist saying what most folk were already thinking (and writing and also saying)
Someone who did something a little more interesting then writing “COPORATE SLUT” or whatever.
Episode Three: Getting Back to Fundie Mentals
Episode Four: General Butt Naked
I kinda wish I’d been exaggerating those numbers, but…
VICE covers the fashion side of things in their usual manner
General Dragon Master: THE MUSICAL.
Thankfully, things did start to get better for Liberia.
Episode Five: Webcomics
First, here are all the webcomics shown in the episode itself (In the order they appeared): CAD, DPAD & Little Gamers (Gamers on Couches), Menage a 3 & PVP (Tits and Blandness), Achewood (“Very well written”), A Lesson is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible (“Beautifully rendered”), Kate Beaton Comics (“quite funny”), A Softer World (“…even poignant”), Meridith Gran’s Octopus Pie and finally Penny Arcade, Diesel Sweeties and Dinosaur Comics.
As comes up in my chat with Ryan North, recommendations are a great way to find out about webcomics. So, in addition to those comics I complimented in the episode, I’m going to recommend the following :
Dr. McNinja is great for over those who think surfing a robot dracula through space is a pretty good thing.
Scarygoround’s wonderful art and deft use of language make it a constant delight. Also it’s British IF YOU SWING THAT WAY.
Overcompensating is hard to sum up but easy to enjoy. If you want to read an episodic web diary that takes liberties with the author’s life and features a dead, alcoholic cat then Overcompensating could be for you!
Pictures for Sad Children mines the task eternal by trying to portray every way in which something horrible is often also hilarious.
Anders Loves Maria gives you that rare gem, a relationship comic which succeeds in being both funny and engaging. It’s also Swedish (written in English, mostly) if you swing that way.
Questionable Content has evolved into something of a relationship comic, but also touches upon music, goofy little robot/appliances and does some interesting things in the realm of psychiatry.
There are always more webcomics to mention, but all these should get you off to a good start!
Episode Six: Anecdotes
If you want to hear a series of stores from a man whose life seems to be nothing but one great yarn after another, then hunt down Martin Scorcese’s quite possibly least known film American Boy. In it he perfectly recreates that intimate feeling of sitting around the couches in your friend’s living room after a long night of drinking, when you gather round that one fella – in this case an old friend of Scorcese by the name of Steven Prince – and he tells you stories you’ll be passing on for years.
Meanwhile, here’s that part of Reservoir Dogs I reference at the start of the episode.
Episode Seven: Not So Great Lakes
Want to visit Lake Karachay to play at being a spooooky ghost? Well here it is on Google Maps.
Learn more about the most contaminated spot on the planet.
Episode Eight: Manchildren
A few of those definitions of “Manchild” over at Urbandictionary.com
An English take on the concept, as shown in a television series.
An interesting dissection of the topic by Mr. Wiggles
Want to dress up as “The Media” we showed in this episode? Here’s how.
Episode Nine: Unethical Psychology Experiments
A detailed look at The Standford Prison Experiment
Apparently the Standford Prison Experiment might become a movie?
Thirteen of the most important psychology experiments that have never been done
Episode 10: Urban Exploration
Infiltration: One of the longest running UE resource websites
An interview with Ninjalicious, the man behind Infiltration.org
UER: Piles and piles of UE photography
Abandoned Places: A top-notch UE blog with photos and tales from around the world
Episode 11: Pillow Fight League
The League Site (And also their Myspace)
An article on the most recent (as of this episode’s “airing”) PFL night
Episode 12: The Collyer Brothers
That Edmund Trebus guy I mentioned
A non-famous hoarder that could very well end up that way (Lots of large pictures)
Episode 13: First World Problems
A decent little book on the subject by David Rakoff
“Cocaine” – A 1929 song by a man named Dick Justice…is it any wonder I used this in the episode?
Episode 14: Goblins (An Economic Solution)
Joey Comeau wrote a pretty good letter to the RAND corporation once.
OH GOD MAN I AIN’T READY FOR A GOBLIN SHARK MOVIE, I AIN’T READY FOR THIS!
The Green Goblin looks like this now, apparently?
Episode 15: Nostalgia
How could I forget Protonostalgia?
Okay okay, I can be as big a sucker for nostalgic crap as anyone else
Episode 16: Beasts of Battle – Exploding Animals
Further detail about the Bat Bomb, Bat Bomb II and Bats general wartime adventures
Plenty of Piegeon Experiment videos by B.F. Skinner – he loves’em!
I can’t believe I missed Exploding Rats!
Episode 17: Mass Hysteria – The Original Flash Mob
A lot more people think their fans can kill them then you might think
This one is dubious, but interesting
Episode 18: Giving a Shit
STARTGIVINGASHIT.ORG is a pretty classic, messy, ranting website if there ever was one
Episode 19: Free Family Law Advice (For Men)
If this sort of thing is up your alley then you may enjoy Found magazine
Episode 20: Beasts of Battle – Animal War Heroes
Episode 21: Being a Prick
Please do not imitate Joe Francis (unless it is an unflattering imitation).
Episode 22: Delicious Disasters
Delicious disasters of a whole different order
Episode 23: Post-Apocalyptic Living
Plenty more photos like the ones at the end of the episode
Still more wicked Soviet Ruins
Episode 24: Disconcerting Parasites
Some more details on Toxic Plasma Ghandi and the effect it has on human beings
Episode 25: Burlesque
Julie Atlas Muz – Coco’s other favorite female performer.
Skin Tight Outta Sight! (Honey B.Hind, Tanya Cheex & Sauci Calla Horra’s troupe)
Revival – the venue for where we recorded most of this episode.
Episode 28: Subliminal Messages
In case you don’t remember or weren’t aware of that Disney “scandal”…
Episode 29: Aum er uh…
Aleph’s Website – which does not include the AUM ANIME THEY MADE ABOUT THEIR LEADER! (Oh hey another cartoon!)
Someone who has taken a much deeper look into the group than I have
Behold – Nikola Tesla’s Earthquake Machine!
A bit of a loosey-goosey article on science fiction and terrorism, which mentions Aum
Episode 30: Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
Here’s the original twenty minute film of the same name
Here’s a curious animation project someone did that was based on the film
Vornezh has had other perfectly wonderful and horrible things happen around town…
Episode 31: One Man Building Crews
The 1957 documentary on Simon Rodia that I found list a little too late.
Not a one man building crew, but boy did this guy have some vision!
The technical term for what these guys create is “Visionary Environments”
Episode 32: Small Towns
A small town short story with some wholesome morality you can soak in
John Cooper Mellancamp has some things to say about small towns
Don’t forget, you can only find Real Americans in small towns, all the other Americans are secretly escapees from Madame Tusaud’s Wax Museum
Episode 33: Parallel Universes
Go on over here to see more of Keir’s great drawer-ings
Episode 35: Potemkin Villages
Pulgasari? (You can watch it here)
Catherine the Great got up to some things, maybe
A lot of North Koreans are, in fact starving – even their military is hungry.
Episode 36: Time Cube
The man’s website! BEWARE, MANY PARTS ARE HELL OF OFFENSIVE.
The firts episode in a long and very thorough video series on Gene Ray
A reasonable argument against the Time Cube theory.
If anybody wants to buy me THIS timecube, I would be ever so grateful!
Episode 38: Indigo Children
Indigo Children…THE MOVIE
What seems to be the most official Indigo Children website
A test to tell if you are an Indigo Child
The good ol’ Barnum Effect (AKA “Forer Effect”)
Episode 40:Roller Derby
The story behind the real “Babe Ruthless” (Ellen Page’s character from the film Whip It)
Find a roller derby league near you!
Drey Barrymore & Ellen Page promote Whip It, Roller Derby and also kissing?
Episode 41: Attention Whores
On the off chance you don’t know who Chris Crocker is.
One of those pageant ladies I alluded to.
The “John 3:16″ guy could have made some interesting use of the Internet, I’m sure.
Episode 42: Topical Humor
Here’s some real Shakespeare Mad Libs for your ass.
More hot, hot quotable Cato (No Relation).
Episode 43: Underground Communities
The Tokyo Storm Drain system is pretty awe-inspiring.
A secret Moscow tunnel system.
That unfortunate Catacomb vandalism.
Episode 46: Domesticated Hedgehogs
Oh my God Hedgehogs, what is the deal?
Episode 47: The No Cussing Club
The full video of the No Cussing Rap.
As is so often the case, Stephen Fry has the right idea.
Episode 49: Seasteading
Sealand has also had troubles with FIRE.
Peter Thiel’s words of “wisdom”
Episode 52: Bigotry
Ever wish the Olsen Twins had formed a white power band?
Episode 55: Nibirupedia
“Punching towards the Earth – a sign of violence towards the Earth” Yup, he’s got Beyonce down.
Ancient astronauts, including the picture which inspired the guy you saw in the episode.
GUEST WEEK #1 – Modern Classical Music (by Tom Milsom)
My favorite video by Tom Milsom
GUEST WEEK #2 – In a Handful of Charlie (by Charlie McDonnell)
In a Handful of Minutes Big Ol’ Special 2009
CHAMELEON CIRCUIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAi4izfvXo4
www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike
http://www.youtube.com/user/nerimon
DANIELLE ATE THE SANDWICH
http://www.danielleatethesandwich.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/daniellesmagic
http://www.myspace.com/danielleatethesandwich
JOSEPH THIBODEAU
http://www.youtube.com/user/HandsomeNarrator
PAPA JULES
http://www.myspace.com/papajulestheband
http://www.youtube.com/user/marlonminty
PAULA VARJACK
http://www.myspace.com/paulavarjack
http://www.youtube.com/user/mochachild
http://twitter.com/paulavarjack
http://paulavarjack.bandcamp.com/
POMPLAMOOSE
http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic
http://www.myspace.com/pomplamoosemusic
http://twitter.com/pomplamoose
TOM MILSOM
http://www.youtube.com/user/hexachordal
http://www.myspace.com/tomandhisuke
http://twitter.com/Hexachordal
ZAYNA DAZE
http://www.youtube.com/user/zainabadam
http://zaynadaze.bandcamp.com/
