Month: August 2022 (Page 4 of 4)

It’s time our latest edition of STUFF TO DO. But first we’re going to tell you about some friends in need.

Since 1969 Appalshop has been documenting life and giving voice to the culture of Eastern Kentucky, Southern West Virginia and Appalachia through film, theater, literature music and radio.  They are headquartered in Whitesburg, Kentucky, right in the middle of the recent severe flooding in the region.  The full damage to their property and archives has yet to be assessed, but they have a page up seeking donations, not just for themselves, but for the entire region.

If you want to find out how you can help, please GO HERE.  For the latest information about the ongoing situation with their radio station, WMMT, GO HERE.  You can also find updates at their Facebook Page.

Meanwhile, in and around Charleston…

This weekend MultiFest happens downtown. Find all the details HERE.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM. Friday it’s Alondra Johnson feat. Aaron Fisher & Friends. Saturday sees Andrew Pauley at Charleston’s Bookstore/coffeehouse/art gallery institution. The links will take you to the Facebook event page for more details.

At this point, there are no vaccination or mask mandates for any of the events listed this week. However, we all need to remember that the pandemic is not over yet. Many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out.

In the meantime, if you’re up for going out, here are some suggestions for Thursday through Sunday…

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Your PopCulteer has been back from this year’s Kentuckiana GI Joe & Toy Expo for a few days now, but this is the first chance I’ve had to bring you photos. Because of ongoing technical issues, we’re limited to ten pictures per photo essay here in PopCult, so you can expect several more photo essays over the next week or so, and hopefully a video by Sunday. As you can see by the custom re-packaging of a vintage set to the right, there was a lot of great vintage GI Joe stuff for sale.

We had a great time. The convention set and add-on were spectacular, plus we got to see the prototypes of the new Super Joe Unlimited figures. Sadly, a different technical glitch (a bad SD Card this time) wiped out the last twenty photos I took, which included close-ups of those prototypes, but they will still get their own photo essay after I pull images from the video we shot.

It was nice to catch up with old friends and spend way too much money on cool toys, and we’re seriously considering going to the winter show in January, just so we can check out the new location as Kentuckiana moves to a dedicated convention center, having grown too large for the hotel conference rooms that have been its home since the beginning.

For now, this is just a taste of what we saw. PopCult will have several more 2022 Kentuckianua GI Joe & Toy Expo photos in the coming days.

The aforementioned “spectacular” convention set and add-on. And extra add-on accessory was made and sold by Brad Curry, and you’ll get to see it in a later photo essay.

Very cool sets from Mattsquatch Customs (one came home with me).

Tearle Ashby with his way-cool shark cage and repro Crash Crew Firetruck Box. Also, his repro of the rare Space Capsule Flotation Collar.

I always have to get a good photo of Cotswold Collectibles‘ flocked head display.

As you can see, the RAH incarnation of GI Joe was also well-represented.

The amazing Ace Allgood, with his usual assortment of primo vintage Joe-ness.

3D Printing master, Brad Curry, of Bee-Active Toys, making a sale.

Old friends, including Steve Bugg from JoeLanta  and Scott and Charlotte Beckmann of The Trenches fame. .

Finally, even Mrs. PopCulteer got into the act, finding a Walking Dead figure she didn’t have hidden among the GI Joes.

Check back in the coming days for more pics and video from Kentuckiana 2022.

It’s Tuesday on The AIR  and you know what that means. For the first time in a few weeks it’s time for yet another one-third-new, three-hour  episode of Radio Free Charleston. You simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here and  listen to the cool embedded player elsewhere on this page.

It’s one more hybrid edition of Radio Free Charleston at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday.  This week we open with a full hour of  local and independent music, and then we hit you with two hours of classic Radio Free Charleston International from the summer of 2016.

Our first hour, opens with new music from Three’s Company Blues.  You’ll also hear cool new music from Jaysin Christ and Bane Star and we have loads of great recent local tunes . We also have some new tunes from Chicago bands, Curious Grace & Black Rabbit and Cosmic Bull. Clarifying a note from the show, the new single from Curious Grace & Black Rabbit is available now.

The second and third hours of our show re-present a cool episode of Radio Free Charleston International from January, 2019, when your humble host veered off into several different half-assed mini-themes.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store (live links will take you to the artist’s pages where possible)…

RFC V5 098

hour one
Three’s Company Blues “River Song”
Jaysin Christ “We The People The Sheep And The Wolves”
Reckless Threat “Dehumanize”
Byzantine “Oblivion Beckons”
Cassius At Best “Alabaster”
Disarm The Fallen “Cold Dead Night”
Lost Decades “Come Ruin”
Curious Grace & Black Rabbit “Believer”
Cosmic Bull “Unless You Know People (Trigger Mix)”
Bane Star “Behind The Veil”
Agile Thumb “Edocesrom”
Joseph Hale “My Biography”
Emmalea Deal  “Sugar and Champagne”
Rob Fetters “Prophets”

hour two
Rockestra “So Glad To See You Here”
The Lennon/Claypool Delirium “Boomerang Baby”
James McCartney “Wisteria”
thenewnotwo “Wide Awake”
Julian Lennon “How Many Times”
Midge Ure “Day After Day”
Toyah Wilcox “Out Of The Blue”
Skillet “Burn It Down”
Big Audio Dynamite “Psycho Wing”
Shakespear’s Sister “Hello (Turn Your Radio On)”
Peter Garrett “I’d Do It Again”
Oingo Boingo “Helpless”
Lene Lovich “Savages”

hour three
George Harrison “Shanghai Surprise”
Oktopus “World’s Apart”
Frank Zappa “You Are What You Is”
Eskobar “Rocketship”
MaidaVale “The Greatest Story Ever Told”
They Might Be Giants “Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind”
Owl City “The Bird and The Worm”
Dalek I Love You “Horrorscope”
The Descendants “Spineless and Scarlet Red”
Zodiac “Down”
The Misfits “Nightmare on Elm Street”
Ultravox “Perfecting the Art of Common Ground”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of MIRRORBALL at 1 PM. At 3 PM we re-present the two-part crossover between Curtain Call and The Swing Shift as “Broadway Swings.”

This week it’s another mixed media piece. The drawing above started out as a phone doodle, done with a thick Sharpie while I was on the phone.  After I scanned it, I laid in some colors and effects and came up with what you see above. It’s just an example of pushing a pen around on paper without really thinking, and coming up with a pin-upish pose.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a recent episode of  Psychedelic Shack, followed at 3 PM by a recent edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. Classic episodes can be heard Sunday at 9 AM as part of our Sunday Haversham Recording Institute collection.

You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM.

Tonight at 8 PM you can hear an hour of hilarious musical comedy from Garfunkle and Oates on The Comedy Vault. Wednesday evening at 10 PM, we’ll have another new episode of The Comedy Vault.

Then, at 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of Radio Free Charleston, It’s my birthday month, so I’m going to celebrate with extra airings of our me-starring flagship program.