Episode 73 - Jesse Livingston's A Thousand LIfetimes in an Hour

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The Two Mikes walk with tender feet into author/listener Jesse Livingston's AThousand Lifetimes in an Hour.   They get all meta on each other's asses and decide that it might be just fine to end the world . . . well just for the evening. Check the comments on episode 72 if you'd like a link to Jesse's audiobook.

COCKTAIL TIME!

The Black Squirrel

1 Shot Creme de Cacao

1 Shot Kaluha

I Shot Creme de Noyaux

I Shot Dark Chocolate Sauce

2.5 shots Half and Half or Cream

Shake with ice, strain into a martini glas and garnish with a nut of some sort.

End Music:  In The Night Room.

Episode 68: David Wong's John Dies at the End

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We Two Mikes rip off one more episode before the year's end. In it we get off a short n sweet discussion of David Wong's gonzo web novel made good. Read it now before the movie comes out.

It's Cocktail Time!

Soy Sauce

Pour yourself a shot of tequila and top it with a dash of soy sauce and a dash of Tabasco sauce. Shoot it in the head.

Special closing music: "Christmas with the Devil" by Spinal Tap

Episode 66 - The House of Lost Souls by F.G. Cottam

 

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Find the secret powers within -- or don't -- in The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam.  The Two Mikes enter this gothic tale of witchcraft, ghosts, madness, and quiet lesbianism and come out with their sanity surprisingly intact.

COCKTAIL TIME !

Pandora's Box

1 Sugar Cube

1 shot good Gin

2 dashes Bitters

Ice cold Champagne

Take a fluted glass, place sugar cube in the bottom and splash with bitters.  Put in the gin and top with the champagne. 

Chin, chin.

End Music: Tam Lin, by the Fairport Convention - some song referenced in the book.  Look it up.

Episode 58 : Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

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If life ever felt a little like Hell to you then join the Two Mikes and the title character of Richard Kadrey's "Sandman Slim." It is hard-boiled horror at its best; you might even smell a little sulfurous when it is through.

It Is Cocktail Time!

Red Rum

1 part 151 Rum,

1 part Rosso Vermouth

Mix with ice.
Drink.

End Music: Tom Waits's - "Alice."

Episode 56 : The Tenant by Roland Topor

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The Two Mikes pull up the van and move into Roland Topor's crazy apartment building in The Tenant. You'll pound on the ceiling and join the tenant's union just to get them all to shut up. There's a party on the roof so put on a frosted-tip wig and a tight girdle and join the neighbors for some paranoid fun!

It's Cocktail Time!

Knock Three Times.

Take a Mason Jar and fill it with vodka. Take half that jar and pour into sauce pan with the peel of a whole orange, 2 star anise, 2 tablespoons coriander and 2 tablespoons of tarragon.

Warm this up, don't boil, just warm it through. Put this in the Mason jar and top off the jar with more vodka.

Keep tightly closed in a cool dry place - 1, 2, or 3 weeks. Shake it up every few days.

Get a nice bottle of rose wine.

Into a tall glass packed with ice fill with half wine and half infused vodka.

End Music: We have Adel's Crazy for You. We wanted Tony Orlando and Dawn's - Knock Three Times.

Episode 49, Peter Straub's Lost, Boy Lost Girl

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If you are into screwing ghosts, you'll dig Peter Straub's Lost Boy, Lost Girl. One Mike loves its labyrinthine gestalt and Milwaukee sensibility. The other Mike says it only made him crave Leon's Frozen Custard and Balistrieri's Pizza. They both end with an Ode to Milwaukee.

It's Cocktail Time.

The Schiltz Your Wrist and Pabst Your Bottom.

Take one tall glass of ice and fill with

1 /4 Milwaukee beer like Schlitz, Miller, Pabst, or even Blatz

1/4 of Amaretto

and 1/2 of Pick-n-Save brand OJ.

Stir, enjoy and then head over to Ma Fischer's for breakfast all day.

Episode 46: R. L. Stine's Superstitious

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Join the Two Mikes as they lay open R. L. Stine's Superstitious. Walk under ladders, smash mirrors, step on sidewalk cracks, and watch the demons have at it. Stine takes a crack at adult fiction and may need 1,000 lucky rabbit's feet to make it in the horror genre. Ouch. He could learn a few things from J. K. Rowling, more than just having initials as your first name.

IT TRULY IS COCKTAIL TIME!

GREY GOOSE BUMPS

1 Double shot of chilled Grey Goose Vodka ( Yes, it has to be Grey Goose.)

1 Thimble full of Harp Beer ( Yes, a thimble.)

Drop the thimble into the vodka and kick it back. DO NOT SWALLOW THE THIMBLE!

Yes it is an insult to both the beer and the vodka.

End Music: "99" by Barabra Feldon on The Sex Sixties.

Episode 39: William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist

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Hitting a touchstone of modern horror, the Two Mikes wrestle with the demons of childhood trauma, belief, and audio production, to bring you an uncharacteristically focused discussion of William Peter Blatty's bestseller.

It's Cocktail Time!

Pea Soup

1 scoop vanilla ice cream, softened, per drink
1 shot electric green crème de menthe per scoop of ice cream
1 shot Kahlua per scoop of ice cream
a few chocolate chips and mint leaves

Place all ingredients in blender with the lid off. Blend on HIGH until walls, ceiling, and yourself are generously coated.


Closing music: "Little Demon" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Episode 35, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

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The Mike's dig right in to this latest novel by Dark Fantasy superstar Neil Gaiman. We find much to like and stay remarkably on topic. An hour goes by before we know it.

1/27/09 - And now a Newbery Award Winner!


It's Cocktail Time!

The Winding Sheet

2 shots gin (something British, like Boodles or Beefeaters) 1/2 shot Becherovka (clove liqueur from the Czech Republic) 1 teaspoon powdered sugar shake vigorously with crushed ice and strain into martini glass finish with 2–3 shakes orange bitters on top.

Wrap yourself in this pale, ghostly treat and bid farewell to all your earthly cares.

End tune:  The Main Theme from Torchwood.

Episode 34 - Oliver Onions - The Beckoning Fair One

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The house is haunted again and the Mikes are going to see if they can get out of it in one piece in Oliver Onions's masterpiece of atmospheric horror The Beckoning Fair One. You may want to leave, be begged to leave, or just decide it is that time of year to quietly pull down the shades and stay in until the snow melts.

Yes, of course it is Cocktail Time!

Combing The Old Ghost's Hair: The Godiva Comb-Over

1 pint Guinness, Young's, or Murphy's stout

1 shot of Godiva Chocolate Liqueur

Drop the shot in the pint and drink up. Don't swallow the glass.

End Music: "Sister Golden Hair" by America.

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE # 29 - THE DEXTER SERIES BY JEFF LINDSAY

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Take a stab in the dark with America's huggable serial killer in the first three books of the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay. This is a very special** out-of-sequence episode brought to you from the future for your summer listening pleasure.

The Mikes enter the mind of a killer and, like good traditional men, drink the summer away. They battle over the presence of dark gods in the third book and end up with a little blood on their hands but, hey, that's what beer is for. Who's right? Mike is.

** Confession: the real episode The M.D. by Thomas Disch is lost somewhere deepin the bowels of the dank thing in the basement of the Forbidden Books Group studio. We are diligently pouring gallons of Syrup of Ipecac down its throat in hopes that it will be spewed forth—and when it does, you will hear it, right here, on Necronomipod.


IT REALLY IS COCKTAIL TIME!

Beer on the Couch

1 cold can Miller Lite, Bud, or even Hamm's
A bottle of Jack Daniels

Pop the can, take one manly gulp, while the Little Missus is making you some Tater-Tots®, refill the can to the top with Jack and gently swirl. Sit on the couch and watch an episode of Two and a Half Men with your hand down your pants.


End Music: We Are Cinders by The Molly Family. Music brought to you by Podsafe Audio.

Episode 23.0: Joseph Delaney's Last Apprentice Series, Books 3 and 4

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By carefully avoiding girls with pointy shoes, The Mikes further their schooling in all things Spook in Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice Series, Book 3 - Night of the Soul Stealer and Book 4 - Attack of the Fiend. It takes a while for the guys to warm up in that cold bitter Spring of Doppletown USA but eventually the pontificating hits new heights and we all warm ourselves in the impending fires of the Apocalypse foreshadowed at the end of the book.


IT'S COCKTAIL TIME!

Blood Magic Cocktail

Crushed ice
2 shots Grenadine
3 shots OJ
1 shot Banana Liquor
1 egg white ( pasteurized - Egg Beaters or Crackleberry)

Shake it up till nice and frothy and pour into your favorite martini glass. You can garnish with a bleached white bone but we wouldn't recommend it.



End Music : Black Magic Women by Deep Purple.

Episode 20.0 Ramsey Campbell's Ancient Images

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Take a leap off of an ancient heathen tower and join the Mikes as they mumble over horror master Ramsey Campbell's novel of cinematic sleuthwork. Like a gruesome bus tour of the scones and bones set, you'll sample wholesome bread, warm half-drunk beers and the wonders of the British highway system.


Cocktail Time!

How 'bout a Little Fire, Scarecrow!

1 bottle wheat beer
1 shot triple sec
1 tbsp 151 rum

Gently pour beer into a highball glass. Wait for the foam to settle down. Then pour in the triple sec. Pour rum into a metal spoon and, with the rest of the bottle well away from you and with full knowledge of where your fire extinguisher is and how to use it, light the rum in the spoon. Gently pour onto the top of the cocktail.

Enjoy the fine blue flame for a few seconds, but then blow it out; else your glass will be too hot to lip.