Official OLS Episodes – One Last Sketch

Recording this episode cost us an arm and a leg. We talk Fullmetal Alchemist. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s website Source of our theme song

We were supposed to record an episode about Fullmetal Alchemist, but we got distracted by Cybersix, an animated Canadian TV show from 1999 that should not exist. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s website Source of our theme song

We finally talk about Bone. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s new website Source of our theme song

Marie talks about Marie Brennan’s Memoirs of Lady Trent series, which begins with A Natural History of Dragons. I am also present, largely to provide colour. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog (Podcast Marie, not Brennan Marie) Source of our theme song

We remember the internet being a lot more fun a decade ago. Why did our attitude change, and what major milestones did internet culture experience between now and the time we first logged on? Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Source of our theme song

A reflection on the life and works of Ursula K. Le Guin in light of her recent passing. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Cory’s blog Source of our theme song

So little of 2017 left, but just enough time to post our year in review! We discuss media we enjoyed this year, whether it was objectively good or not, including the University of Alberta murder-mystery-but-not-really-a-murder-mystery The Next Margaret, Haruki Murakami’s slow melancholy, Nausicaä  of the Valley of the Wind (again!), Roger Zelazny’s fiction, and more. Dow...

In which we speak of books we never finished, or wish we had never finished. Normally, I would provide a list of the novels we talked about. But this time, I think it’s better if you go in blind. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Cory’s blog Source of our theme song  

We settle down to talk about another classic work of fantasy: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series, specifically the first three novels, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore. Also: dragons. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Cory’s blog Source of our theme song

We take a break from civilized life and get our barbarian groove on with a discussion of Robert E. Howard’s character Conan, focusing on the 1936 serialized novel The Hour of the Dragon. Topics include the wide-ranging influence of these stories, reprehensible anthropological themes within them, the enduring appeal of the character, approaches to world-building, and Hobbes’ Leviathan....

What does heaven look like? We find out by reading Steven Brust’s novel To Reign in Hell (1984). Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Cory’s blog Source of our theme song

Japan makes lots of cartoons, so our planned cartoon episode ended up being all about anime junk: Kill la Kill, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Vision of Escaflowne, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Cory’s blog Source of our theme song

I already did my year-end blog post, but my usual podcast hosts haven’t, so here’s the podcast edition! We talk about all the movies, books, television shows, comics, anime and art gallery shows we enjoyed this year. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Cory’s blog Source of our theme song

The Giver by Lois Lowry is the one book on elementary/high school reading lists that Canadians our age remember fondly. Why is this, and why is the cover so darn memorable? Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Episode 26: Get Urras back to Anarres (Discussion of The Dispossessed) Source of our theme song

The internet has provided ways for artists to skirt around traditional channels to get their work out to the public; web series are one of the more ambitious examples. We chat about our favourite web series and the idiosyncrasies of the medium. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Episode 8: Eeee! Source of our theme song … Continue reading Episode 28 – Web series ...

We’re back! This time, we’re talking about adolescence, isolation and social anxiety in the anime series No Matter How I look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m not Popular! AKA, WataMote. Includes verbatim readings of entries from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and plenty of cringing. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog &#8220...

We egoize about Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 classic, The Dispossessed. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Episode 10 – The Left Hand of Podcasts Source of our theme song Incidental Music: Danse Macabre – Big Hit 1 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

A short, impromptu review of The Witches of Lublin, the holiday radio play “by Ellen Kushner and a bunch of other people in the cast.” Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog The Witches of Lublin website  

After suffering through TSR’s gamebooks, we decide to try one that’s actually good: Ring of Thieves by S. John Ross. Dice will be rolled! Blood will spilled! Genies will be petulant! Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Get Ring of Thieves for free! Risus: The Anything RPG Incidental Music: Danse Macabre – Big Hit 1 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commo...

The Dungeoneering Edition™ reaches its conclusion (Thank God) with Circus of Fear, and there is much rejoicing. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme song: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Our ill-advised experiment drags on as we play our way through Revolt of the Dwarves and The Dragon’s Ransom. Despite covering two books, this might well be our shortest episode yet. Only one more book remains before this series draws to a definite and unavoidable close. Apologies for the intermittent background noise! Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme … Contin...

The Dungeoneering Edition™ of the podcast continues with Light on Quests Mountain. (We’re sorry. We’re so, so sorry.) Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme song: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

I found a stack of TSR Endless Quest Books at the dump. After that, this podcast was inevitable. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme song: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Young Adult literature is a Thing now, but it wasn’t when Marie and I grew up! Join as as we talk about the books we read as teenagers and realize with dawning horror that we had terrible, terrible taste. Warning folks, this one’s a long one. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Blog post: Underground … Continue reading Episode 20 – Stuff Teenagers Read (Pas...

Cross-posted with Iatropexy. Thus the dueling theme songs. We watch Doc Zone’s last documentary, Volunteers Unleashed. Then…we rant. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) The documentary! (Video available for Canadians only) Pippa Biddle’s blog post: “The Problem with Little White Girls (And Boys): Why I stopped being a Voluntourist” Source of my theme song Source o...