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 65: The Passage by Justin Cronin

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We read and rate and wrangle with Justin Cronin's looooooooooonnnng first book in a trilogy. We both like the book but spend the entire 'cast complaining about its shortcomings. But we LIKE the book; it's hard to explain. Just read it.

ps. We were both wrong: we missed TWO months this year. Shame on us.

It's Cocktail Time

Antivirus

•  2 shots vodka (not the good stuff)
• 1/2 shot Midori melon liqueur
• 1/4 Galliano

 Shake with ice and strain into martini glass. Top with a spritz of tonic (contains quinine).

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 63: Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium

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The Mikes delight in Daryl Gregory's debut novel and are happy to get to talk about comic books, Jung, and Philip K. Dick. In the end we discover that when we agree about a book we're kinda boring.

It's Cocktail time.

Not a Manhattan

In a shaker combine:

• 2 shots vodka
• 1 shot dry sherry
• 4–5 dashes Worcestershire sauce
• thimblefull of tomato juice

shake with ice, strain into martini glass, garnish with a cherry tomato

Closing Music: "I Think Up Demons" by Roky Erikson