Multi-award winning Winnipeg Free Press columnist Melissa Martin joins me to talk about the many things she nerds hard for: languages, history, Japan. Melissa and I have been social media friends for years, but this is the first time we sat down (virtually) to talk. And she didn’t disappoint. Melissa is supersmart and her enthusiasm for everything from Roman concrete to curling.
This week’s episode is an audio essay about my love of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 and how it helped create community while I was in University.
The original version of this essay appeared on the now defunt Area of Effect site. I’m very grateful to my friends at Mythos & Ink Publishing for permission to reproduce this expanded audio version and for including that classic version in their upcoming book, Always Look Up (and Other Wisdom I Learned from Geek Culture that Changed My Life) — Area of Effect, Vol. 2 (coming Oct 2020).
In this week’s epsiode, I talk to Tara Maslowsky, a lifelong fan of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and, more broadly, Winnipeg sports. Winnipeg has a special relationship to its teams.
Tara also discusses how being a fan changed when her father, Jerry Maslowsky, joined the Blue Bomber organization as the Vice President of Saleasand Marketing and how it changed again with his untimely passing in 2016.