Episodes

  • Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations - Literary Loitering 129

    Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations - Literary Loitering 129
    Jan 28 2021
    So 2020 is over, but thanks to some cunning and stealthy arrangements our cultural anarchists hid away a couple of episodes.   This time around we have tales of a secret but obvious message left by a librarian, an art dealer’s racist selfies, a scholar who lied about their race, a painter’s untrue memoirs, a fake Rembrandt painting that isn’t fake and all sorts of other stuff.    We also have a quiz about badly translated quotes.
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    59 mins
  • Sherrington's New Steampunk Balls - Literary Loitering 128

    Sherrington's New Steampunk Balls - Literary Loitering 128
    Nov 14 2020
    The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find something good to read, and along the way they find strange tidings that include tales of someone doing something nice on Twitter, Logjam Day, re-issuing books under their author’s original pen-names, stage performances on Zoom, lectures from bubble-blowing sharks and more.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    51 mins
  • Wes Anderson's Tommy Knockers - Literary Loitering 127

    Wes Anderson's Tommy Knockers - Literary Loitering 127
    Oct 29 2020
    Cultural anarchy is the order of the day as the Literary Loitering gang sashay back into the foreground with a pocket full of news and other oddities.

    On this episode we've got dead language confusion involving the tag line of Sean Hannity's new book, John Boyne's surprising connection to The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, publishing contracts for four year-old poets, controversy about Flashing Swords that doesn't involve trench coats (maybe), ironically accidental art destruction and more.

    We also have the return of our quiz about badly translated movie titles.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Meat Safes And The Dictionary Sausage - Literary Loitering 126

    Meat Safes And The Dictionary Sausage - Literary Loitering 126
    Sep 19 2020
    These are strange times we're living in, which is why it's good to carry a stick as part of your EDC. A good stick is a very useful object as it can be used as a walking aid, for fishing, thrashing, emergency kindling, and in the case of our resident cultural anarchists, poking fun at the world (while avoiding surprise bears).

    This week we discover that Ready Player One is somehow getting a sequel (we're not sure how that's going to work either). In other more important news, there's a new collection of Terry Pratchett short stories due for publication, The Great Gatsby is now in the public domain (which means all of that fanfiction can now be published), Donald Trump Jr. has apparently written another book (we still haven't discovered why he was fired the first time), someone is going around collecting mountweazels, and all sorts of other stuff.

    We also have another of our semi-regular quizzes, and this time it's all about mondegreens (misheard lyrics).

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    59 mins
  • The Liberace Pocket Guide (With Checklist) - Literary Loitering 125

    The Liberace Pocket Guide (With Checklist) - Literary Loitering 125
    Aug 21 2020
    It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by travelling salesmen in the Old West).   In the news this week are Waterstone’s “controversial” idea about displaying books, why you shouldn’t microwave books, yet another tell-all book about Donald Trump, things that make you go … really?!, and other tales from the apocalypso (other tropical shirt-wearing armageddons also probably exist somewhere).   Oh, and GRR Martin is typing … allegedly.   After all that it’s the return of our book title Blankety Blank so get ready for some odd questions and even odder answers.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Nietzsche's Happy Days Fandom - Literary Loitering 124

    Nietzsche's Happy Days Fandom - Literary Loitering 124
    Jul 27 2020
    Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twitter gaff.    Oh Twitter. How you amuse us.    After that it’s the good news that poet Michael Rosen was finally released from hospital after suffering from Covid-19, an article by Sam Mendes about practical ways to maintain theatres and support actors during times of lock-down, Waterstone’s strange yet somehow logical idea to quarantine books if any customer touches them, changes to the publishing schedule due to the lock-down, dogs reviewing books, and the plagiarism controversy surrounding Agatha Christie.    After that it’s time for another quiz, and this time Graham’s got some rather odd book covers for classic novels.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Tasty Steampunk Beef - Literary Loitering 123

    Tasty Steampunk Beef - Literary Loitering 123
    Jul 13 2020
    It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we go, and where it stops first is  … penguins visiting and art gallery.   Looks like we have a winner!   After that it’s more usual fare (the word usual is used very loosely), children’s books by children, children’s books by James Patterson, a Woody Allen film taking the number one spot at the global box office, MP Michael Gove’s questionable bookshelf, republished Johnson fiction (this time it’s Dad), real-life-yet-still-fictional Terry Mindhunter, and what may be an early entry (pardon the fully intended pun), into the Bad Sex Awards.   We also have a quiz about translations of English words into other languages, and vice versa.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • James Joyce’s Undersea Pineapple - Literary Loitering 122

    James Joyce’s Undersea Pineapple - Literary Loitering 122
    Jun 28 2020
    We’re back once again with those renegade masters of cultural anarchy, and this week we make our usual pit-stop to find out what everyone’s been reading before diving straight into some news … about VAT.    It’s actually more interesting than you think. Honest!   After that we have some things about spying on the bookshelves of politicians, some unsurprising additions to the American Library Associations list of “most challenged” books, the banning of some very surprising books by an Alaskan school board, the top three biggest-selling authors in America for 2019 and more.   Then it’s time for our now seemingly regular quiz, and this week Producer Rob has a Blankety Blank about strange book titles.

    If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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    1 hr