Message from the Underworld

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Wake up, babe, it’s Pynchon Season
Rumors of My Demise, This Ain’t No Disco & Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Oct 8 • 
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Perils of seasonal tourist economies
Football, Friday the 13th, and CBGB in this week's Orca Alert!
Oct 5 • 
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Vladimir & Estragon’s Excellent Adventure
Waiting for Godot in Galway 1992 and on Broadway 2025
Oct 1 • 
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September 2025

Society is burning me up
Blackbraid and the Circle Jerks
Sep 24 • 
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Multiplicity of artistic timelines
Head-banging dinosaurs, Ferlinghetti's visual art & punk rock in Cuba in this week's edition of Orca Alert!
Sep 21 • 
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Mystery Train turns 50
An interview with Greil Marcus
Sep 17 • 
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You can't wash away genocide
An octopodal edition of Orca Alert
Sep 14 • 
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Sonic church
Mares of Thrace at Gasa Gasa
Sep 10 • 
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Within the deep grotesqueries
Punk rock dinos, the link between air pollution and dementia & remembering Katrina
Sep 7 • 
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Driven by passion
An interview with Sahan Jayasuriya, author of Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen
Sep 3 • 
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August 2025

Yet more horror
Unpacking Cormac McCarthy, progress with pig livers, and the emotional lawlessness of Elizabeth Gilbert in this week's Orca Alert!
Aug 31 • 
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Walking around with my head in the clouds
An evening with Bob Mould
Aug 27 • 
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