Public historian and amateur daydrinker walks you through areas of historical interest, from midcentury gay pulp fiction to ancient Roman stress dreams. Commission an episode on the topic of your choice (or the topic of my choice) for $20 at Ko-fi.com/skazka.
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Public historian and amateur daydrinker walks you through areas of historical interest, from midcentury gay pulp fiction to ancient Roman stress dreams. Commission an episode on the topic of your choice (or the topic of *my* choice) for $20 at Ko-fi.com/skazka.
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May 6, 2021
Episode 5: Episode Five: Late Medieval Menswear
This episode Ska gets sober and gets cozy, talking about how old tyme Western European dudes kept themselves from showing their junk off in church. Episode commissioned by adreadfulidea @ Tumblr -- commission your own at ko-fi.com/skazka! Highlights include: rich colors; thrifty diagrams; mixing fibers; keeping warm in a colder climate; silly little hats; a depressing tangent about the disenfranchisement of marginalized persons in Renaissance Florence. Recommended Reading: - Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies’ The Tudor Tailor - Janet Arnold’s Patterns Of Fashion books - The Renaissance Tailor’s research into 16th and early 17th century tailors’ pattern-books (http://www.renaissancetailor.com/research_main.htm) - Sexuality in Medieval Europe, Ruth Mazo Karras (for more on Bernardino of Siena, sodomy, and apparel) SCA and reenacting resources (with all their pitfalls, these are still really handy for visualizing historical construction and silhouette — SCA/reenacting names are given in italics) - An Overview of Men’s Clothing in Northern Italy c. 1420 – 1480 (14.4 MB), ??? | Lorenzo Petrucci (http://www.dellacivetta.org/lorenzo/handouts/) - “Men’s Clothing in the Second Half of the 15th Century: From the Skin Out”, James Barker | James de Biblesworth (https://web.archive.org/web/20140611050330/http://historiclife.com/pdf/15thCenturyMensClothing.pdf) - “15th-century Men’s Doublets: An Overview”, Susan D. Reed | Teleri Talgellawg (https://nachtanz.org/sdr-clothing/15th-century-mens-doublets.html) Music: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-tales Teller of the Tales by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-tales License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
February 8, 2021
Episode 4: Episode Four: Gay Pulp
This week Ska chats about the rise and fall of 20th century gay pulp fiction. Highlights include: the strange and curious twilight world of postwar publishing; dubious butches; E.M. Forster; Ed Wood, Jr.; gay detectives; gay housemasters; gay cowboys; gay whores; gay girls; gay psychos; gay brothers; gay awakenings; Fire Island. Reading recs: - 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Drewey Wayne Gunn & Jaime Harker - Pulp Friction: Uncovering The Golden Age Of Gay Male Pulps, Michael Bronski - Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Susan Stryker - Strange Sisters. The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969, Jaye Zimet For an extremely in-depth (and yet still not exhaustive) list of queer pulps and books determined to be of queer interests check out [the annotated index of books in the University of Toronto’s queer pulp collection drafted to accompany Ian Young’s Out In Paperback (https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/content/gay-pulp-fiction) Recs online: - “Gay Pulp” podcast (https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaypulp) - Arkhamlibrarian @ Twitter for all kinds of great pulp collecting sleaze (https://twitter.com/arkhamlibrarian) - PulpCovers (https://pulpcovers.com/tag/gay/) (many more under a keyword search for “gay” or “lesbian”, though some of the covers featured under the former keyword are gay-as-in-festive) Cocktails Imbibed: The Anita Bryant 1.5 oz. vodka (I used the cheapest I own) Apple juice (I used Martinelli’s) Measure vodka into highball glass; add apple juice to top and stir. Commission your own two-cocktail quarantine lecture and stipend my ridiculous interlibrary loans today at Ko-fi.com/skazka! This show is now on the Apple Podcasts store (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-information-than-you-perhaps-require/id1551682980) for those of you who can’t get enough of my vocal fry. * Music: Bummin on Tremelo by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3464-bummin-on-tremelo License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
February 1, 2021
Episode 3: Episode Three: Romantic Poets
I get zooted and tell you every single thing I know about several romantic poets. Topics include: vintage free love; spectral artistic control; obligatory sex on your mother's grave; a great band name; sotadic zones; several compelling reasons not to quit your day job. I bend over backwards not to have to pronounce the name "Bysshe". (This episode contains some very brief mentions of sexual assault/shit sexual ethics in the Lord Byron section and some talk about terminal illness/suicide with Keats; heads-up if that’s not your preferred listening.) Also when I refer to Byron’s gossipy letters as Ben Jonson-like I was thinking of BJ’s gossipy convos with William Drummond (https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/a-bizarre-well-of-jacobean-gossip-ben-jonsons-conversations-with-william-drummond/) — I realize out of context that must be baffling. Thanks to Briony for her genuinely rich and detailed research suggestions for this episode, and thanks to Wikipedia and the murky mists of memory for the research I actually did. More reading: - Follow @JuliaFtacek on Twitter for wonderful 18th century lit content, especially her lecture on Byron’s Manfred through a transfeminine literary lens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGOSS_Ci1k) - The wonderful folks at Romancing The Gothic (https://romancingthegothic.com/) - Briony’s booklist: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32906535-bri?shelf=romantic-poets Cocktails imbibed: The Chilton (not a fun themed name this time, just a name, courtesy of Texas Monthly) 1.5 oz vodka Juice of 2 lemons Soda water (I used carbonated mineral water, like Topo Chico or Gerolsteiner) Rim glass with salt (or, heretically, with sugar); add ice, vodka, and lemon juice, then top off with soda water. Drink through a straw, or not. * Music: Danse Macabre - Violin Hook by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3599-danse-macabre---violin-hook License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Danse Macabre - Sad Part by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3598-danse-macabre---sad-part License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3591-danse-macabre---busy-strings License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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