Episode 025: Weaving it Together with Carolyn Mount

On this episode, I'm joined by Carolyn Mount. Carolyn is a talented artist who works in a variety of media. She speaks passionately about the role of art in every day life and the value of the  simple practices  of every day life. For the past number of years, her primary form of artistic expression has been weaving, producing beautiful, functional pieces. We discuss her journey as an artist, how she fell into weaving and has turned that passion into her own business.

You can support Carolyn by purchasing something functional AND artistic (like the best tea towels you'll ever own) at https://www.naturalbornweaver.com

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Episode 024: Digging into the Past with Dr. Douglas Ross

This week I'm talking to Dr. Douglas Ross. Doug  holds a PhD in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, specializing in the lives of early Chinese and Japanese immigrants on the West Coast. He is Currently living the high life in sunny California, where he’s a senior archaeologist at Ablion Environmental, an archaeological consulting firm in Santa Cruz. 

Doug was also my very dear friend and former university  roommate. We met in first year and became fast friends. In fact, he's one of the only people I have ever sung in public with. During the years we were at WLU, we both introduced each other to things that we're still passionate about and discovered things together.

Doug and I have similar approaches to our fandoms - we like to collect and learn as much as we can about them; and they're eclectic. Doug recently contacted me, after listening to the podcast, and had realized how many of his seemingly varied interests actually trace to a fascination with the darker side of human existence: the folkloric, the superstitious, the "supernatural." Our conversation, the kind that only happens between  good friends, goes all over the map: corpse medicine, fears of being buried alive, vampires,  Doug's recent interest in gothic literature, tiki bars and Dutch painters.

If you'd like to be in contact with Doug, he's at Dross@albionenvironmental.com

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Episode 023: The House That Dripped Cev Moore

Cev Moore Is a UK based musician and podcaster. He cohosts Film Guff Podcast, which offers low brow talk about low rent movies, and Here Lies Amicus, which explores the work of the decidedly low rent British horror studio Amicus Productions. His love of movies - particularly the under funded and under appreciated - is infectious. We cover the schlocky, and not so schlocky, British horror - from Ealing's Dead of Night, to Amicus and Hammer. We're talking The Psychopath (1966), Dr. Who and the Daleks (1963), Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966), Taste of Fear (1961), Asylum (1972) Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee!

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