Episode 64: 13 Bullets by David Wellington

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WARNING: Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. The sound on this podcast is truly a horror. We did not know how much havoc the air conditioner would visit upon us. It was the hottest day of the year when we recorded and now we know. Please drink heartily before listening.

The Two Mike's take a shot at David Wellington's 13 Bullets. Are vampires unnatural if they actually exist in nature? Do we really need another lesbian cop in a horror novel? Is there anything left to be resurrected in the vampire genre? These questions and more will probably not be answered in this noise riddled episode.

There is also some bonus blathering about Ayn Rand novels and Mike invokes his powers of divination and makes a prediction about a Harry Potter reboot.

It IS Cocktail Time.

Coffin Juice

Double Strength Ginger Beer with/or add ginger bits.

2 shots good dark rum.

Get a tall glass loaded with ice, pour in the ginger beer and top off with rum. Garnish with an orange or lemon rind.

Closing music: I Was Born ( A Unicorn) by The Unicorns.

Episode 52: Danielle Trussoni's Angelology

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Are angels the new vampires? The Two Mikes discuss this and other matters of weighty theology in this latest episode.

And no, they are NOT the new vampires.


It's Cocktail Time! Bad-touched by an Angel

Place in the bottom of a Tom Collins glass:

• slice of ginger
• piece of lemon rind
• several dashes of Angostura bitters

Muddle thoroughly.

Pack glass with crushed ice and pour over it

• 1 shot of bourbon
• 1 shot Frangelico
• top with hard cider.

Garnish with lemon slice.
Drink through straw so you can stir up the goodies down below. Chin chin.

Special Closing Music: "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" by Raul Malo

Episode 41: Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls

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Filling another hole in our Swiss-cheese knowledge of horror, we read our first Poppy Brite book. A quintessential Goth (as opposed to gothic) novel, we think we see what Ms. Brite's trying to do, and like a lot of what we see, but we kinda wish we'd read one of her later, more assured books.

It's cocktail time!

The Chartreuse Sazerac

Chill a small rocks glass. Place sugar cube in a shaker, and add 3–4 dashes Peychaud's bitters and 2 shots rye whiskey. Stir gently with ice.
Add a few drops of Chartreuse to the chilled glass and swing out, leaving the glass coated with the liqueur. Rub lemon peel around the rim of the glass. Strain contents of shaker into chilled glass and garnish with lemon peel. Enjoy the weird rosy burn of this classic New Orleans cocktail.

Episode 31 - The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo

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When the heck did vampires get so darn cuddly? The two Mikes ponder that most ancient of questions in Mario Acevedo's The Nympho of Rocky Flats. Is it possible that Count Chocula is the prototype of all modern vampire detectives or is some other cereal to blame? The guys find the book annoying but they talk about it anyway and ponder what it would be like to take a Short Course In Just Being Evil.

If you want to read a good gumshoe vampire story read the Vampire Papers instead!

IT CERTAINLY IS COCKTAIL TIME!

Kundalini Noir

To one Bottle of Pilsner Beer
add five dashes of your favorite Tabasco Sauce.

Drink up! Chin, chin.




END MUSIC: What I Need by Gangstagrass on the album Gangstagrass. You can download the album for free from here.