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PseudoPod => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Bdoomed on April 07, 2018, 05:10:48 AM
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PseudoPod 589: Flash On The Borderlands XLII: Misanthropes (http://pseudopod.org/2018/04/06/pseudopod-589-flash-on-the-borderlands-xlii-misanthropes/)
Authors: Jack London (http://pseudopod.org/people/jack-london/), Melissa Snark (http://pseudopod.org/people/melissa-snark/) and Sam Gorenstein (http://pseudopod.org/people/sam-gorenstein/)
Narrators: B.J. Harrison (http://pseudopod.org/people/b-j-harrison/), Tad Callin (http://pseudopod.org/people/tad-callin/) and The Kaz (http://pseudopod.org/people/the-kaz/)
Host: Alasdair Stuart (http://pseudopod.org/people/alasdair-stuart/)
A Bar Story originally appeared on The Snarkology during the October 2014 Halloween Hop. It has since been reposted to Melissa’s author website as a free read (http://www.melissasnark.com/a-bar-story/).
Moon Face was first published in The Argonaut, July 21, 1902
Edgar is a Pseudopod Original.
Listen to this week's Pseudopod. (http://media.libsyn.com/media/pseudopod/Pseudo589_FlashOnTheBorderlandsXLII-Misanthropes.mp3)
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All were excellent stories.
Of the three, "Moon Face" was my favorite and the reading superb.
Glad to have Alasdair back at the helm.
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Alasdair often seems to add a lot of perspective to the older stories presented here, as he did with Oil of Dog. So it was here. I have often been puzzled by the constant romantization of jerk characters on TV. It has almost become a cliche of late.
The Moon-Face story certainly had a Poe-like flavor to it. Funny how so many of London's stories end up intersecting with dogs somehow though. I always thought his dog story Diable would make a good fit for Pseudopod, as it leans nearly into straight horror.
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All three stories were beautifully read. "Moon Face" was downright upsetting because of the harm to the dogs.
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"Moon Face" was the best, I couldn't help but grin when I realized what the protagonist was planning. Haven't we all had someone we irrationally hated, no matter how nice and good we are?
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I listened to this over the weekend, enjoyed the voice and character laugh of Moonface.
Until, at the Gym today, I heard the laugh and constant upbeat voice of Moonface in real life. It was a perfect duplicate. He remained unseen on the other side of a bank of lockers, but continued his ceaseless jovality and wheezing cackle.
I was glad that person doesn't pass by on a daily basis or I would have to start the rigorous training of a dog to play fetch.
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Moonface was great and terrible, because it the main character was a horrible person, but clever and relatable in many ways. I have indeed known people in the past that just infuriated me for no logical reason. Looking back now, maybe it was partially jealousy. I think the narrator was also jealous of Moonface. You don't want to admire him but wow, perfect crime. He could never be caught for that.
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Excellent reading of Moon Face. I was expecting the main character's plan to boomerang on him Wile E. Coyote style.