It's the first ever "Request Line" episode! In which I take a listener's request and utterly warp it into my usual variety of utterly weird shit! Enjoy! Spookiness coming soon!

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All excerpts from copyrighted material included for educational and/or cultural critique purposes.

Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

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[**SOURCES**]:

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (John Canemaker, 1996) — definitive biography from Da Capo Press.

https://archive.org/details/texaverykingofca00cane

The Tex Avery interview (1975) from Animation World Magazine archives — insight into his humor and philosophy.

https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.1/articles/lamb1.1.html

A Wild Hare (1940) & Duck Amuck (1953) — both available in the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection (Warner Bros.) and on the official Warner Bros. YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ9FzYw9K1g

Metafiction & cartoon semiotics

Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Routledge, 1992) — foundational text on audience participation and fictional awareness.

Umberto Eco, “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage,” in Travels in Hyperreality (1986).

Borges, “The Circular Ruins” (1940) — prototype of creator/creation recursion in fiction.

Occult / cultural crossover

Joshua Cutchin, The Ecology of Souls (2022) and Fourth Wall Phantoms (2023) — discussions of thoughtforms, media attention, and liminal awareness.

https://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=176

Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (1995) — classic study of imagination shaping the real.

Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working materials summarized in George Pendle’s Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).

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