Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Storm Swimmer by Ernest Hilbert
– The iTunes/Apple Podcasts SLEERICKETS page
– The cover of my forthcoming book, Midlife, designed by Daniel
– Rattle/Rattlecast/Timothy Green (the guy we’re talking about at the beginning of the show)
– Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
– The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
– Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Laud Montgomery
– A Colorful History of Judging Books by their Covers by Ernest Hilbert
– The Shocking Novels that Scared the Hell Out of America by Ernest Hilbert
– Lupercal by Ted Hughes
– Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert
– All of You on the Good Earth Ernest Hilbert
– Caligulan by Ernest Hilbert
– Last One Out by Ernest Hilbert
– Easter Wings by George Herbert
– The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
– The Philadelphia Sun Oil Building
– Jantech Services (makers of the Caligulan sign)
– Ernie’s introduction to Classic Tales of Horror
– Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
– The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
– The New Criterion Poetry Prize
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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