Arts
The prehistory of this conversation begins in like 2013 when I worked at a used book warehouse and came upon a copy of Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, a collection of short fiction by Howard Waldrop. I've ended up with a few more of his books since then, all amazing. One longer story called "Fin de Cyclé" has stuck with me. We go into it on the podcast but it's Waldrop's attempt at a kind of art-historical fan fiction—maybe the most Mess Museum idea ever. I don't want to say too much about it, but I'm very excited for you to read it, and I bootlegged/typeset a PDF so you can! (Here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/zqs38dhobytn3zj/HW-FDC.pdf) The story itself concerns film, but we also talk a lot about movies on this one for some reason. And the kind of canon of classic Vines and YouTubes. Back at it again at Krispy Kreme. Someone on Instagram asked where the old theme song went so I brought it back.