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The PopCult Comix Bookshelf

Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror
edited by Jon B. Cooke and Ron Turner
Last Gasp
ISBN-13 : 978-0867198836
$24.95

Slow Death was one of the most notable of the underground comix published back the 1970s. The first issue was commissioned to be released on the very first Earth Day in 1970, and the title ran for ten more, roughly annual, issues, with one revival issue in 1992.

With a mission to mix ecological and political themes with cautionary horror and science fiction tales in the style of  EC Comics and the best of underground comix creators, the book left quite an impression.

My personal connection to the title goes back when an embryonic PopCulteer would bum rides to Downtown Charleston so he could pick up underground comix at Pepperland, in the Arcade building. Nobody else would sell undergrounds to a pre-teen kid, most likely due to the possibly tragic circumstance of me seeing a stray drawing of a naked lady or something.

So I grew up reading Slow Death in my formative years, and the underlying messages probably shaped a lot of my worldview on such things as pollution, climate change and how evil corporations tend to act.

It was a treat to see this new one-shot revival of Slow Death (designed to come out on the 50th anniversary of the first issue, but delayed a year by a certain pandemic, among other reasons) and I’m happy to say that this new anthology is as wildly entertaining and informative as the original series.

Edited by Jon Cooke (the editor of Comic Book Creator, and before that, Comic Book Artist) with Ron Turner, the original editor and publisher of the underground comix version of Slow Death, Slow Death Zero is a beautifully-produced, slick, thick collection of new stories created by a mix of original contributors and newcomers (with two pages by Robert Crumb being a reprint). There’s over 120 pages of new comics here, a mix of full-color and black-and-white, along with a great article by Cooke that tells the full story of Slow Death and the title’s publisher, Last Gasp.

With 28 stories by 33 creators, I’m just going to mention the highlights here.

The cover story is a beautifully rendered treatise on the importance of conservation in Antarctica, by award-winning cartoonist/illustrator, and all-around nice guy, William Stout.

What is believed to be the final work by Richard Corben before his passing last December is a heartbreaking look at a bleak future, written by Bruce Jones. This brilliantly-crafted look at a dire, pollution-filled world and how it affects one man is a series of emotional gut-punches.

Tim Boxell contributes a very satisfying political satire about a certain ex-president, rendered in full color. We get a two-pager from Peter Bagge that depicts post-apocalyptic human behavior in a cynical, if realistic light.

Cooke and Errol McCarthy contribute “Last Chance Gas” which may be a perfect distillation of what makes a Slow Death story. Rick Veitch’s “Tiny Dancer” might be the most plausibly horrific story in the book, as humanity is blinded by technology, and forced to fight corporate wars.

Slow Death Zero is a nostalgic treat for fans of the original series, but also works as collection of ecological horror stories for folks who were born too late to be long-time fans. These are scary, thought-provoking, often hilarious comix stories with a definite agenda.

Slow Death Zero is highly-recommended for fans of classic underground comix, connoisseurs of good comics and people who don’t mind (or badly need) a good dose of harsh reality mixed in with their horror comics.

Available from any bookseller, using the ISBN code, or directly from Last Gasp.

Oh, you probably think that means another week where RFC is a rerun.

Well…yeah.  But it’s a special one. This week we have revived the very first episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Five, which first aired all the way back in January, 2020, eons ago, before the pandemic.

Remember those good old days?

You can hear this classic Tuesday on The AIR .  Radio Free Charleston V5 #1  is back on The AIR for the first time in just over a year.  To relive the magic, you simply have to move your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to the cool embedded player over at the top of the right column.

Basically, your PopCulteer is dealing without some assignments outside of PopCult (that means “paying work”) and there simply wasn’t enough time to crank out a new RFC or Swing Shift in time for Tuesday. So I went back and dug our first three-hour show out of the radio closet, and re-uploaded it for your enjoyment. Check out this pretty epic playlist…

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hour one

Kevin Scarbrough “Impetus Worm”
The Who “All This Music Must Fade”
Frank Zappa “Peaches En Regalia”
Rasta Rafiki “Vicki”
Joy Division “Atrocity Exhibition”
Edgar Winter “Hoochi Coo”
John Radcliff “Here We Go Again”
U2 and A.R. Rahman “Ahisma”
Ann Magnuson “The Sun Don’t Care”
Club Des Belugas and Maya Fadeeva “Love Is like A Legend”
Sparks “Never Turn Your Back On Mother Nature”
Emmalea Deal “Queen”
The Steve Howe Trio “Gilded Splinter”
Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer (Dance Mix)

hour two

Wang Chung “Everybody Have Fun Tonight (orchestral)”
Beggars Clan “Maiden Voyage”
The Beat “A Good Day For Sunshine”
The Specials “Breaking Point”
Joe Jackson “Kisses”
Sheldon Vance “Keep On Talking”
Adrian Belew “When Is It Coming Back”
Gary Numan “Down In The Park”
David Synn “Blood Moon”
Eddie Jobson “Easy For You To Say”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Schizo”
Rick Wakeman “The Shoot”
Todd Tamenend Clark “Childhood Shadows”
Frenchy And The Punk “Carried Away”

hour three

Fletcher’s Grove “Virgil Burgess”
Andy Partridge & Robyn Hitchcock “Turn Me On Dead Man”
Go Van Gogh “Requiem For Peppeland”
Trevor Horn and Seal “Ashes To Ashes”
Three Bodies “The Trax”
Ringo Starr “Better Days”
Heather Findlay “Cactus”
Howard Jones “Hero In Your Eyes”
John Wetton “New Star Rising”
The Heavy Editors “How The West Was Won”
Todd Burge “On My Knees”
After The Fire “Carry Me Home”
Alien Skin “Charles Dickens”
Jeff Lynne’s ELO “Goin’ Out On Me”
Jon Anderson “Make Me Happy”
Stark Raven “More To Life Than This”

This was the show where I combined Radio Free Charleston and RFC International into one, weekly (almost) three-hour program where I mix local artists with the best music from around the world, and it comes out of the internet.

For almost a year beore I pulled the trigger, I had been contemplating a move that would reformat RFC and RFC International to be more like the original concept of RFC back in 1989, when it was on broadcast radio.  Instead of producing Radio Free Charleston as a one-hour weekly showcase of local music from Charleston and the surrounding areas, and RFC International, as a two-hour show where I play anything I want, I combined the shows into Radio Free Charleston Volume Five, a weekly three-hour show that mixes local music with the best indpendent, avant-garde and classic music from multiple genres.

It keeps me from getting bored with it. I don’t ever want to get bored with music.

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Thursday at 3 PM, and Friday at 9 AM. At 7 PM Friday, this episode will kick off a multi-day marathon of Radio Free Charleston that will run over the Memorial Day weekend, when nobody’s really listening to internet radio.   The marathon will run every episode of the show that we currently have on the servers over at The AIR, and that means that I will return with a new episode two weeks from Tuesday because I’m lazy that way.

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, and NOISE BRIGADEat 2 PM. at 3 PM we will re-present a two-part episode of The Swing Shift that brings you Benny Goodman’s entire 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall. This was a legendary show, packed with guest musicians and featuring his epic version of “Sing, Sing, Sing.”

A friend of mine was recently in Washington DC, and posted photos of a Metro station there. It reminded me how cool I thought they looked, with the curved and contoured ceilings, so I dug up some old reference photos of a Metro Station from my first trip to our nation’s Capitol, some ten years ago, and tried my hand at some faux Impasto, using some really cheap and lumpy acrylics I had laying around. The combination of cheap paint, wonky fingers from Myasthenia Gravis, and the need to slip a piece of clear plastic between the still-wet art and the scanner gave the finished piece more of a smooshed quality than I’d hoped for, but it still came out sort of accidentally impressionistic, so I’m posting it here.

If you want to see it bigger, just click on the image.

Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of  Psychedelic Shack, followed at 3 PM by a new 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 at the top of the right-hand column of this blog.

At 2 PM, Nigel Pye’s new Psychedelic Shack includes the following songs:

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Eric Burdon & War “Spill The Wine”
CSN & Y “Woodstock”
The Moody Blues “Legend of a Mind”
Gratefu Dead “Dark Star”
Love “Alone Again Or”
The Who “I Can See For Miles”
Traffic “Dear Mr. Fantasy”
Oingo Boingo “Lost Like This”
Mamas and Poppas “Happy Together”
Donovan “Jennifer Juniper”
Janis Joplin “To Love Somebody”
Jimi Hendrix “Manic Depression”
Neil “Hole In My Shoe”
The Rutles Let’s Be Natural”

Psychedelic Shack can now 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.

At 3 PM, Herman Linte offers up a new Prognosis, which spends it’s first hour bringing us tracks from new Prog-Rock releases and then devotes the second hour to 1970’s classics, including Rick Wakeman’s Journey To The Center of the Earth.

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Strawbs “Judgement Day”
Cirkus “The Lure of Santa Monica”
Django Django “Spirals”
Mars Volta “Take The Veil Cerpin Text”
Jean-Michel Jarre “Amazonia Pt. 2”
YES “To The Moment”
Liquid Tension Experiment “The Passage of Time”
Jethro Tull “Minstrel In the Gallery”
Rick Wakeman “Journey To The Center of the Earth”
PFM “Paper Charms”

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.

At 7 PM, stick around for a 12-hour marathon of New Wave Music with Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. 

Periodically, I like to run something here in PopCult to remind my readers that DEVO was right about everything, and that fact explains the sorry state of politics and human behavior in the world today. Here they are performing at Lollapalooza in 2003, doing songs from their first two albums. If only more people had done their duty then, for the future.

We are DEVO.

This week we go back to April, 2015, for an episode of The RFC MINI SHOW that brings you four songs by Slate Dump, in under nine minutes.

With his rustic voice and distinctive guitar stylings, Slate Dump brings a punk sensibility to folk music, with originals and covers, some of them country and pop standards including tunes made famous by Frank Sinatra and Marty Robbins. Some of his cover versions are also a bit less than safe for work, so be warned.

Slate Dump is a West Virginia native, one-man band, and an old friend of RFC. It was cool to showcase him on his own show.

The PopCulteer
May 21, 2021

{Updated Special Note: Due to technical issues that disrupted the broadcasts of the shows listed below, they will be re-run Friday at 7 PM for Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, and at 9 PM for MIRRORBALL. They will also air in their regular encore timeslots and will be repeated next Friday in their regular spots. We apologize for the inconvenience}

Your PopCulteer is still playing catch up after a bunch of doctors appointments (all of which went reasonably well) this week. We did manage to deliver a full slate of our AIR music specialty programming this week, and that means that Friday afternoon we offer up new episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. The AIR is PopCult’s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player at the top right column of this blog.

At 2 PM, Mel Larch uncorks a new MIRRORBALL! The AIR’s showcase of classic Disco music presents a collection of the Disco hits of Earth, Wind and Fire, one of the funkiest and most musically accomplished of the Disco-era dancefloor hitmakers. Check out this assortment of EWF gold…

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Earth Wind and Fire
“Boogie Wonderland”
“Getaway”
“September”
“Let Your Feelings Show”
“Can’t Let Go”
“Runnin'”
“Fantasy”
“And Love Goes On”
“I’ve Had Enough”
“Got To Get You Into My Life”
“Let’s Groove”
“Let Me Talk”
“Shining Star”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Saturday at  Midnight and 9 PM, Sunday at 11 PM, Monday at 9 AM, Tuesday at 1 PM and Wednesday at 7 PM, exclusively on The AIR.

At 3 PM, Sydney Fileen graces us with a mixtape treasure trove of the hits of Stiff Records, probably the most important New Wave record label. Sydney brings you a complete collection of all the Stiff Records stalwarts, from Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello to The Damned and the Pink Fairies to Tracy Ullman and The Pogues. Stiff Records was all over the map, stylistically, but they somehow made all this diverse music come together and change the face of pop music. You’ll hear pub rock, punk, pure New Wave, Ska, folk, and even a little Jazz…and it all managed to shove its way into the elevator known as New Wave Music in the 1980s.

Check out this playlist…

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Nick Lowe “And So It Goes”
Ian Dury and the Blockheads “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”
Elvis Costello “Watching The Detectives”
Lene Lovich “Lucky Number”
Madness “One Step Beyond”
Ten Pole Tudor “Three Bells In A Row”
Rachel Sweet “B-A-B-Y”
Members “Solitary Confinement”
Theatre of Hate “The Hop”
Pink Fairies “Between The Lines”
Richard Hell “Blank Generation”
The Adverts “One Chord Wonders”
Jill Read “Maybe”
Wreckless Eric “Whole Wide World”
Yachts “Suffice To Say”
Larry Wallis “Police Car”
Jane Aire & The Belvederes “Yankee Wheels”
Graham Parker “Back To Schooldays”
DEVO “Jocko Homo”
Kirsty MacColl “They Don’t Know”
Jona Lewie “I’ll Get By In Pittsburgh”
Desmond Dekker “Israelites”
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin “It’s My Party”
John Otway “Green Green Grass of Home”
Department S “Is Vic There”
Billy Bremner “Loud Music In Cars”
Tracy Ullman “You Broke My Heart In 17 Places”
The Equators “If You Need Me”
The Pogues “Dark Streets of London”
The Bele Stars “Sign of the Times”
The Untouchables “Wild Child”
Jamie Rae “Pretty One”
Dr. Feelgood “Don’t Wait Up”
Furniture “Shake It Like Judy Says”
Jakko “Dangerous Dreams”
Tyla Gang “Styrofoam”
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias “Kill”
The Damned “New Rose”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon, Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s what’s on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back because we have a fresh post every day and if all goes well, next week I’ll be posting reviews of graphic novels, toys and more.

You should know the drill by now. Here are a few cool events happening in or around Charleston this weekend. If you are fully vaccinated and ready to do your best to stay safe, you should go check this stuff out. Outdoor shows are okay for reasonable and vaccinated people to go maskless. Indoor shows leave you at the mercy of your fellow patrons, and be honest…you don’t know where they’ve been. So use your common sense and stay safe.

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Wednesday afternoon The AIR brings you special brand-new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call!  You can tune in at the website, or or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking over in the right-hand column of this blog.

At 2 PM, your truly returns to host a colorful  Beatles Blast mixtape. Stealing my own idea from this week’s episode of The Swing Shift, I decided to put together a show of Beatles’ tunes with colors mentioned in the title. Sure, it’s a gimmick, but it’s a fun one. We have music from The Fab Four, together and solo, plus some unusual cover versions plucked from the rainbow of Beatles songs. Check out the playlist…

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The Beatles “Baby’s In Black”
Ringo Starr “Red and Black Blues”
George Harrison “Going Down To Golder’s Green”
Wings “Bluebird”
John Lennon “Out The Blue”
Harry Nilsson and John Lennon “Black Sails”
The Beatles “Red Sails In The Sunset”
Dee Long “Blue Jay Way”
Desmond Dekker “Blackbird”
Paul McCartney “For You Blue”
The Beatles “Watching Rainbows”
Paul McCartney “Ebony and Ivory”
George Harrison “Old Brown Shoe”
Wings “Morris Moose and the Grey Goose”
The Dirty Mac “Yer Blues”
Ringo Starr “Yellow Submarine”

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM on Curtain Call, Mel Larch salutes the 50th anniversary of Godspell, the Jesus-y rock opera/musical that boasted a number of legendary performers among its many casts around the world.

This week Curtain Call brings you the audio from Broadway HD‘s recent concert special presentation of Godspell.

The Godspell 50th Anniversary Concert features unmissable performances from theatrical legend Ruthie Henshall (Chicago; Billy Elliot) and Darren Day (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) – reprising their roles from the 1993 cast recording – alongside Sam Tutty(Dear Evan Hansen), Ria Jones (Sunset Boulevard; High Society), Jenna Russell (The Bridges of Madison County; Fun Home), and other popular West End performers.

“Godspell has always been a show that brings joy and hope to audiences.  It seems to me this year, we need it more than ever!  I hope this beautiful concert of Godspell helps to lift everyone’s spirits this holiday season,”  Stephen Schwartz.

Godspell is the acclaimed work conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Telebak with music and new lyrics by renowned composer Stephen Schwartz (Wicked; Pippin; The Prince of Egypt) which tells a series of parables leading up to the Passion of Christ. Directed by award-winning Michael Strassen (Billy; Assassins), the concert was recorded from the cast’s homes and edited together. This is a revival revamped for the modern age. With a driving message of hope and community, Godspell is the tonic that we need after a year of divisiveness and chaos.

Celebrating this iconic piece of musical theatre on its 50^th anniversary, the production also stars leading West End talents: Jodie Steele (SIX; Heathers), Danyl Johnson (The X Factor finalist), Jenny Fitzpatrick(Tina, The Musical; Our House), Natalie Green (The Prince of Egypt; Hair), John Barr (The Story of Bart; Tommy), Sally Ann Triplett (Mamma Mia!; Viva Forever), Matthew Croke (Aladdin), Alison Jiear (Jerry Springer: The Opera), Shekinah McFarlane (Six; Hair), Lucy Williamson (The Fix; Judy & Liza), Ronald Brian(Beautiful, The Carole King Musical; Newsies), Jerome Bell (The Voice USA; Hairspray) and supported by an ensemble from Italia Conti. 

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM and 9 PM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Tuesday on The AIR  we deliver brand-new episodes of Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift. It’s a block of programs that let you support the local scene and indulge your dancing desires. You simply have to move your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to the cool embedded player over at the top of the right column.

We have a newish Radio Free Charleston at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday.  This week we open with the new singles from The Settlement, and bring you one all-new hour of RFC, and one encore of an early RFC Volume Three episode from over six years ago that originally aired on Voices of Appalachia. Your PopCulteer is planning to come up with some excuse for slacking off again and insert it into this place-holder paragraph, eventually.  We do manage to bring you some killer new and vintage local and independent music in our first hour, plus some really great stuff in hours two and three.

After the first hour of RFC, stick around because the second hour revives an old Radio Free Charleston from 2015, which hasn’t been heard by human ears in almost six years. This was the show I recorded right after my first visit to Toy Fair in New York, and my voice is shot, but the all-localish music is pure ear candy.

Check out the playlist to see all the goodies we bring you this week…

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hour one
The Settlement “Opening Remarks Volumes One and Two”
Novelty Island “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”
Guitarmy of One “Nonesuch Napoleon Solo”
The Swivel Rockers “Lost Without Your Love”
David Synn “Walrus and the Carpenter”
All Torches Lit “Swim”
Jim Lange “Coming ‘Round Again”
Al Stewart “Paint By Numbers (demo)”
Juliana Hatfield “The Shame of Love”

hour two
Timothy Price “Kashmir”
Byzantine “Purity”
Burt Reynolds Death Metal Experiment “Finding Emo”
Science of the Mind “Taste My Fist”
The Renfields “Mars Attacks”
Under The Radar “Mothman Prophecy #1”
Radio Cult “Man Made Monster”
Linnfinity “Martian’s Bloom”
Sheldon Vance “No Reason To Ask Why”
Stone Ka-Tet “Here It Comes Again”
Stark Raven “It Never Goes Away”
Wolfgang Parker “Blood Red Water”
Pepper Fandango “Make-out Bandit”
Crack The Sky “Still Be There”

hour three
Timothy Price “Classical Gas”
Spencer Elliott “Some Forgotten Color”
Josh Buskirk “Neck Ties”
Punk Jazz “?”
Doctor Curmudgeon “?”
Underdog Blues Revue “Crescent City Stroll”
Trielement “Nut Butter”
John Lancaster “A Penchant for Hell on Earth part two”
The Jasons “Church Hymn”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Thursday at 3 PM, Friday at 9 AM and 7 PM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

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, and Ska Madness at 2 PM.

After a few weeks off from fresh episodes of our Tuesday music specialty show, The Swing Shift returns with today’s all-new episode at 3 PM. This week our show is a bit blue. It’s not sad or anything, but while I was putting the show together, I noticed that the first several songs all had the word “blue” in their title or the band’s name, so I decided to run with it. Check out the playlist, in case you want to feel blue…

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Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny “Big City Blues”
Stan Kenton “I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues”
Louis Prima “Alice Blue Gown”
Buck Clayton and the Marlowe Morris Trio “Blue Moon”
The Rusties Blues Band “Sweet Home Chicago”
Peggy Lee “Blues In The Night”
The Swing Shift Big Band “Blue Five Jive”
The Mighty Blue Kings “I Can’t Stop It”
Woody Herman “Blues For Red”
Royal Crown Revue “The Walkin’ Blues”
Frank Sinatra “The Birth of the Blues”
Louis Jordan “Blue Light Boogie”
Glenn Miller “Rhapsody in Blue”
Indgo Swing “Red Door Blues”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “’49 Mercury Blues”

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesdays at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM and 6 PM, Thursday at 2 PM,  and Saturday afternoon only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

It had never occured to me to paint a catfish before. What happened was, Sunday afternoon Mrs. PopCulteer wanted to run out to check out the new soap store opening out at Southridge (or Dudley Farms or Trace Fork–I just call all that stuff “Southridge”) and I was at home, downloading and scheduling our Haversham Recording Institute programs for The AIR this week, and also slacking off and looking at old photos from my first trip to Cabela’s in Wheeling ten years ago.

I took tons of photos in their giant aquarium, most of which didn’t come out well because of glare, or fast-moving blurred fish. However, I did get enough partial images of a large catfish to use as reference for a quick oil pastel painting. And so I did just that. It’s been scanned, lightly color-corrected and cropped.

If you want to see it bigger, just click on the image.

Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of  Psychedelic Shack, followed at 3 PM by a new 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 at the top of the right-hand column of this blog.

At 2 PM, Nigel Pye’s new Psychedelic Shack includes the following songs:

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Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Am I In Heaven”
The 13th Floor Elevators “Slip Inside This House”
Iron Butterfly “It Must Be Love”
Brian Wilson “Good Vibrations”
Fijid Pink “Pain In My Heart”
Janis Joplin “Oh Sweet Mary”
Klaatu “Sub Rosa Speedway”
Small Faces “Here Comes The Nice”
Julian Lennon “Crucified”
Sean Lennon “Part One of the Cowboy Trilogy”
The Monkees “Porpoise Song”

Psychedelic Shack can now 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.

At 3 PM, Herman Linte offers up a new Prognosis, which is a two-hour mixtape dedicated to spanning the career of Camel, one of the lesser-known, but no less amazing bands of the original prog-rock era. Here’s this week’s playlist…

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Camel
“Never Let Go”
“Arubaluba”
“Lady Fantasy”
“Freefall”
“Rhayadar Goes To Town”
“Dunkirk”
“Lunar Sea”
“Chord Change”
“Another Night”
“Unevensong”
“One of These Days I’ll Get An Early Night”
“Who Are We”
“Ice”
“City Life”
“Lies The Laser Farewell”
“You Are The One”
“Refugee”
“Rose of Sharon”

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.

At 7 PM, stick around for a 12-hour marathon of The Comedy Vault, because we plan to start compiling new episodes soon.