Podside Picnic

Jacob and Aysha from Workers' Lit swing by to talk all things Sekiro - both the game, the upcoming anime.

The end of the road! We talk about the last three collections of Bone (Ghost Circles, Treasure Hunters, and Crown of Horns), collected into Book 3, titled Harvest, or Friends & Enemies. Hopefully, the Bone cousins will make it back to Boneville this time!

It's the future, and LAPD needs mega-serial killer Sid 6.7 for training purposes - at least until he slips containment and ends up thrill-killing irl :(

The Bone journey continues! We cover next three collections (The Dragonslayer, Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border, and Old Man's Cave), now combined into "Book 2" (also named, Solstice, or Phoney Strikes Back)

This time we talk about Brian Trenchard-Smith's 1986 post-apocalypse nightmare, Dead End Drive-In.

We get together to talk about the history of Jeff Smith's process in publishing Bone as well as the first three collections (Out from Boneville, The Great Cow Race, Old Man's Cave), now combined into "Book 1"

Guests Sam Reader and Eden Kupermintz join us to talk about the operatic fever-dream that is Hiron Ennes's The Works of Vermin.

We get back together to . . . well, you know

We're joined by Este, of the Altmania podcast, to talk about Holmes & Yoyo. Ever hear about good cop, bad cop? How about not-so-great cop and awkward robot cop?

This time we discuss the Gothic-to-Cosmic Horror pipeline that is FromSoftware's Bloodborne. Writer and editor, John WM Thompson, as well as Worker's Lit podcast comrades, Lenore Olson and Aysha U. Farah join us in fearing the old blood.

This time, we talk about another example of Twohy excellence, The Arrival (1996). Charlie Sheen, our hero, uncovers a nefarious alien conspiracy to change Earth's climate

Twin Cities-area writers Naomi Kritzer, Lydah Morehouse, Marissa Lingen, and J.R. Dawson join us to talk about how the presence of ICE during Operation Metro Surge and beyond has affected them, and how their activism has informed their writing. Preorder Naomi Kritzer's novella, Obstetrix Check out J.R.'s book, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World Marissa Lingen's novella, A Dubious Clamor is fo...

This time around, we discuss some genre bits and bobs from around the internet. First up, we talk about Mike Jittlov's The Wizard of Speed and Time, a stop-motion extravaganza. Then, we discuss Juliana Maité's horror short, Agon. From there, we also cover Antediluvian (Mario Lanzas), Mallet! (Aidan Hughes a.k.a. BRUTE!), and R'ha (Kaleb Lechowski) Enjoy!

This time, we talk about Mamoru Hosoda's Summer Wars (2009), a wacky almost-cataclysm involving an everything app, a Love Machine, country gentry weirdos, and Japan's second-best math guy

Jacob from Worker's Lit podcast returns - this time to talk about Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Chris and I get together to talk about Phillip K. Dick's original novella and Steven Spielberg's lean, mean actioner that has managed to remain prescient 24 years later.

This time we return to the oeuvre of U.S. mythologist and professional dinner guest, Washington Irving to talk about his most Goof-coded character: Rip Van Winkle

A bit more chatting about this and that. We even try to keep it vaguely SFF-related!

Ready to . . . fall into what appears to have been Tarsem Singh's passion project? That's right, we discuss The Fall (2006) and how beautiful a man Lee Pace is

Join us for Robot and Frank (2012), a charming little film about loneliness, aging, and getting the robot gang together for one last job

We talk about The Truman Show (1998) this time, and Peter Weir's amazing filmography and how Thomas Kincaid wished he'd grown up in Seahaven

This time, we discuss the Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz collaboration, Elektra: Assassin. It really does end up feeling like Fear and Loathing in the MCU.

We got together to talk about Ryan Coogler's blockbuster hit, Sinners (2025) before it got a billion nominations at the Oscars

We return to the works of John Carpenter with Starman (1984), where an alien visitor incarnates as a pre-Dude Jeff Bridges for recently widowed Karen Allen and they go on a road trip

Enjoy your Sunday as we talk about The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton