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Monday, February 17, 2020

Quaquaversal Satellite – Winning (2/17/20)

41:23 – News from Coptic!! Jean Shepherd on Fred Allen!! (if you are impatient to get to the news, scootch up to about 28:25) – Music and more!!

Attribution by PQ Ribber.

Released February 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a free-form monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

posted by pqribber at 11:37 am filed in Coptic,Feb20,film,music,News,PQ  

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Quaquaversal Satellite – Pull the String (2/12/20)

50:11 – A new Evlis concoction, featuring Coptic Nerve!! Fred Allen from 1945 with Charlie McCarthy and Allen’s Alley!! Warren Ellis Comics!! PQ Ribber is your host of this dosage of Organized Chaos!!

Released February 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a free-form monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

posted by pqribber at 3:40 pm filed in Feb20,music,PQ,ramplers,reviews  

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Overnightscape Central – Old Time Radio (2/11/20)

2:02:47 – Marc Rose!! Rubinerd!! A note from Dave in Kentucky!! Frank Edward Nora!! Radio of the past is honored and analysed! PQ Ribber is your instigator!

Next: Pet Peeves

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Attribution by PQ Ribber. All guests appear courtesy of themselves.

Released February 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

posted by pqribber at 2:06 pm filed in Dave,Feb20,Frank,Marc,OvernightscapeCentral,PQ,ramplers,reviews,Ruben  

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Killer Serials #9 – I Love a Mystery: The Thing that Cries in the Night, Part Three (2/1/20)

1:19:12 – Dave in Kentucky with the final five chapters of the I Love a Mystery adventure The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus Athena Lorde, Jerry Booker, Gloria Blondell, Joan Blondell, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, Cafe Trocadero, Ted Healy, the Three Stooges, Ellery Queen, Jim Hutton, breaking the fourth wall, fair play in the detective story, Shakespeare, soliloquies, Greek & Shakespearean tragedy, tragic flaws, Mercedes McCambridge, All the King’s Men, The Exorcist, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, John Markle, Salomon Brothers, Stephens Inc., Jack and Witt Stephens, Betsy Palmer, I’ve Got a Secret, Mrs. Voorhees, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Harry Leopold, Emil Albrecht, Fake News from the United Press, and a few other odds and ends.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: Russell Thorson (Jack) stands by while Athena Lorde and Jim Boles (Doc) act out a scene, circa 1951.

posted by Dave at 1:06 pm filed in Dave,Feb20  

Friday, January 17, 2020

Killer Serials #8 – I Love a Mystery: The Thing that Cries in the Night, Part Two (1/17/20)

1:23:36 – Dave in Kentucky with the middle five chapters of the I Love a Mystery adventure The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus a Hop Harrigan update, “Chairy” on Jeopardy, the Barnums, what Carlton E. Morse sounded like, narration in the dialogue, Hollywood then and now, voicing the demon, a Bob Marley song parody, red herrings, silencers or suppressors, fair play in the detective story, last-minute rewrites, Walter Paterson, Michael Raffetto, Barton Yarborough, Dragnet, One Man’s Family, writing characters out of shows, partial and total nudity in the theater of the mind, and Undergarments Which Must Not Be Named.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: Mercedes McCambridge, NBC Radio promotional photo, date unknown.

posted by Dave at 2:47 pm filed in Dave,Jan20  

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Killer Serials #7 – I Love a Mystery: The Thing that Cries in the Night, Part One (1/2/20)

1:15:31 – Dave in Kentucky with Part One of an I Love a Mystery adventure, The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste, Vanilla Fudge, Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall, The Odd Couple, The Fear that Creeps Like a Cat, The Great Gildersleeve, Gildy and Mr. Peavy, Hop Harrigan, Mercedes McCambridge, Orson Welles, Linda Blair, The Exorcist, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Carlton E. Morse, One Man’s Family, Stuff the Lady’s Hatbox, Riders Radio Theater, Riders in the Sky, Ranger Doug, Too Slim, Woody Paul, Joey the Cow Polka King, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, the Emery Theater, Bob and Ray, Scooby-Doo, The Three Musketeers, John Dickson Carr, Douglas Greene’s The Man Who Explained Miracles, and practically nothing else.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles and Tony Randall, the featured cast of Mutual’s I Love a Mystery series, circa 1949.

posted by Dave at 11:00 am filed in Dave,Jan20  

Friday, December 20, 2019

Killer Serials #6 – Hop Harrigan: Ghostly Avengers, Part Three (12/20/19)

1:54:40 – Dave in Kentucky with the conclusion of Hop Harrigan’s Riddle of the Ghostly Avengers, plus Descartes, dualists vs. identity theorists, epiphenomenalism, a priori and a posteriori knowledge, causality, materialism, geocentrism vs. the Copernican theory, scientists who do the bidding of others, high crimes and misdemeanors, narcissism and the Presidency, decorating for Christmas, accents, Booked for Safekeeping, cops then and now, Time’s Person of the Year, child abuse, impending disasters, folk tales and their morals, preserving Old-Time Radio, culture shock for seniors, devils known and unknown, looking ahead to 2020, and very little else.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: Plainclothesman (Inspector Fry?) chats with uniformed patrolmen in front of the Orleans Parish courthouse.

posted by Dave at 9:00 am filed in Dave,Dec19  

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Killer Serials #5 – Hop Harrigan: Ghostly Avengers, Part Two (12/5/19)

2:00:43 – Dave in Kentucky with more of Hop Harrigan’s Riddle of the Ghostly Avengers, plus:  Irish cops, drunks and brawlers, fear of flying, righteous vs. self-righteous indignation, more stereotypes, David Goodis, Dark Passage, Bogart & Bacall, The Fugitive, Cassidy’s Girl,  Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, Devil Doll with Lionel Barrymore, the Kettering Bug, the Flying Pancake and other Flying Wings, Area 51, Glenn Campbell’s Groom Lake Desert Rat, New Orleans airport, John Moisant, Louis Armstrong, Satchmo & Keb’ Mo’, Lake Pontchartrain, and a tiny, tiny bit more.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: New Orleans Airport, circa 1947.

posted by Dave at 1:16 pm filed in Dave,Dec19  

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Killer Serials #4 – Hop Harrigan: Ghostly Avengers, Part One (11/23/19)

2:06:41 – Join Dave in Kentucky for the first part of a new three-part Hop Harrigan adventure, which is surprisingly NSFW. Dave’s curmudgeonly commentary is also somewhat NSFW, but then Dave is no more unsafe for work than work is unsafe for Dave, so no harm, no foul.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” in flight.

posted by Dave at 5:13 am filed in Dave,Nov19  

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Killer Serials #3 – Hop Harrigan: Vanishing Men, Part Three (11/13/19)

1:41:58 – The action really picks up speed as this juvenile aviation serial finally gets off the ground! Be in on the denouement as Hop brings in the suspects for a final showdown, and find out if you too were smarter than a fifth grader! Does the plot hang together, or do all the show’s writers need to hang separately?

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Show art: Beechcraft Bonanza Model 35, circa 1947.

posted by Dave at 1:00 pm filed in Dave,Nov19,reviews  
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