 Review of The Finest Cigarette
By Ahmad Al-Khatat Review by Julie Carpenter The Finest Cigarette is another book of distilled love and longing, terror and tenderness by poet Ahmad Al-Khatat. The poems hover between pain and fragile beauty, haunted by tragedy and war, reaching for a transcendant love, often collapsing into compulsions that deaden the pain of life.
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 Julie and Jarad discuss the trickster nature of the devil in folklore and why you better read the fine print if you make a deal with him. Jarad introduces some folklore about witches and offers to buy Julie a cowbell. Also some weird frogs and St. Augustine get thrown into this weird, witchy brew.
Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889/episodes/17245150-the-devil-at-the-crossroad-plus-more-cowbell-and-toads-from-hell  In which:
Julie and Jarad fall down a super deep borehole right into Hell. We discover that we have listeners besides that one crow by Jarad's apartment. Jarad finds hard evidence that Julie is actually Lilith. Satan has digestive issues and a hole in the ceiling. Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889/episodes/17207115-can-you-dig-a-hole-to-hell-and-will-the-devil-have-to-renovate  Julie and Jarad natter on about The Harrowing of Hell with more chutzpah than actual knowledge. If Jesus can break people out of Hell, does that change theology? If you don't like the story about Hell's biggest jailbreak, what's wrong with you? Is time real? Does it matter? Is the crow that lives outside Jarad's window our one true listener? These questions and more are not answered in any meaningful way. Meet us here at Perdition City Station every week for another excursion into Hell. Hosted by Julie Price Carpenter and Jarad Johnson. Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889 Jarad asks Julie about his favorite Things Get Weird in Whistlestop story, The Bite. What happens when you make fairies mad? Things get weird. Also we learn that it's always best to go where the moon is happy.
If you haven't read the Whistlestop stories, this episode does have a few spoilers. We will have an audio recording of the story up by the end of the week if you'd like to listen to that first. Things Get Weird in Whistlestop is available through any of your favorite bookstores, an e-book is also available. Listen here- https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889/episodes/17120040-the-bite-when-fairies-attack  Julie and Jarad go back on the timeline to the point where people started to say, "Hey! Life isn't fair. Wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to make it fair after we die?"
Come for the scenery, Jarad's incessant whining, and the discussion about how every idea gets ruined by power hungry chaos goblins - even Hell. Listen here- https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889/episodes/17037390-went-on-a-field-trip-to-tartarus-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt |
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