Before today's episode, Toby and TJ had never heard the word "stramash", but now we can't stop saying it! Scottish musician, editor, author, and all-rounder Tommy MacKay joins the WAKE fold, not only to teach us this ever-so useful Scottish term for chaos, but also to discuss his amazing Joyce-music 'stramashups', the pitfalls of adaptation, pioneering punk music, creepy death masks, and the things that may or may not be appropriate to say to a younger sister. Yes, Shaun is up to all sorts of trouble this time around, lecturing Issy and her classmates in a mansplainy way that has shades of Laertes and Ophelia, but way filthier. It's an accessible, rollicking chapter, and the only one so far that features Denti Alligator, so everyone wins.

This week's readers: Tommy MacKay, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 448 pages complete, 180 pages to go; 71.34% read.

Contextual Notes:

The Daily Reckless: https://www.dailyreckless.com/

Finnegans Dreams: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/08/15/finnegans-dreams/

Cunstuntonoplies (Patrick Horgan vs. They Might Be Giants) https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/10/22/cunstuntonoplies/

Thunderwords! https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/09/16/thunderwords/

James Joyce’s death mask: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/james-joyce-death-mask-1941/TQGMVB7smSO0JA?hl=en

Tommy MacKay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tommy.mackay/

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