Shelter at Home!

“Shelter at Home! - 05” by Richard F. Yates

[Digital drawing over digital photograph with digital embellishments. 2020. By digital me.]

Greetings Talk Radio Fans!!! Mariah and I are back for our FIFTH episode of Shelter at Home! In this wacky show, we experience some UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA, like clanking and shrieking noises…and a bit of growling once or twice. (I wish I was making this up.) We think it has something to do with the microphone, but it might also be ghostly interference and a demon dog or two. We’ll let you know.

The point of this show is for us to share with you folks how we’re dealing with the LOCK DOWN that we are currently experiencing in Washington State (USA). We try to have some fun. Hopefully, you’ll be amused by our antics as well!

In the course of our conversation, we mention a lot of stuff. Here is SOME of it…

[Ink on notebook page with digital embellishments. 2020. By me, if there was some question.]

---Cinco de Mayo (a Mexican holiday)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo

---Trader Joe’s (a hipster grocery store)
https://www.traderjoes.com/

---Siouxsie and The Banshees (a brilliant British music group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees

---Spoonflower (a site that lets you make your own fabric patterns)
https://www.spoonflower.com/

---Knott’s Berry Farm (an amusement park)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knott's_Berry_Farm

---“Murder Hornets” (scary bugs that are, apparently, real)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/invasion-murder-hornets-180974809/

---Gyoza (a food)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi

---Bigfoot (a local cryptid)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot

---The Stranglers (a British pub / punk / postpunk band who were great)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranglers

---“No More Heroes” by The Stranglers

---“Get a Grip on Yourself” by The Stranglers

---“All Roads Lead to Rome” by The Stranglers

---“Skin Deep” by The Stranglers

---Kraftwerk (a pioneering electronic band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk

---Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (a British New Wave band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark

---Kevin Seal (MTV VJ)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Seal

---Kurt Loder (MTV VJ)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Loder

---“Downtown” Julie Brown (MTV VJ)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Julie_Brown

---Pauly Shore (MTV VJ, actor, comedian)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauly_Shore

---Fred Schneider (singer for The B-52’s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Schneider

---The B-52’s (a fun, party band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52%27s

---VJ (a term for the hosts on MTV, probably short for “video jockey” as opposed to DJ)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJ_(media_personality)

---Disneyland (a theme park)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland

---Redbubble (a print on demand art site)
https://www.redbubble.com/

---USPS (a mail delivery service)
https://www.usps.com/

---Save the USPS! (a movement)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/savetheusps?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag

---Mail Art (an anti-commercial art movement)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art

---Ryosuke Cohen (a well known mail artist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryosuke_Cohen

---Brain Cell (Ryosuki Cohen’s big art project)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Cell

---Jake the Alligator Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_the_Alligator_Man

---my “Jake the Alligator Man’s Birthday…” post
https://noncom.art.blog/2019/08/07/jake-the-alligator-mans-birthday-celebration-3rd-aug-2019-in-long-beach-washington-usa-by-richard-f-yates/

---The Museum of Curious Things
http://www.museumofcuriousthings.com/

---Marsh’s Free Museum
https://marshsfreemuseum.com/

---The Museum of Postcard Art
@richardfyates/the-museum-of-postcard-art-by-richard-f-yates

---Astoria Sunday Market
https://www.astoriasundaymarket.com/

---Life magazine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)

---O’Brien’s photo
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/02/murder-hornets-washington-state-bees-twitter

---The Monster at the End of This Book (One of my favorite books as a kid)
https://www.amazon.com/Monster-This-Book-Sesame-Street-ebook/dp/B0078X2LKY

---Marine Boy (cartoon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy

---Ricochet Racers (a toy gun that shot cars back in the 1970s)
http://www.toysyouhad.com/Rico.htm

---Shamanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism

---My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (very strange movie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Left_Eye_Sees_Ghosts

---The New Church of DIM (the fake religion that O’Brien and I helped develop)
https://thenewchurchofdim.wordpress.com/

---The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (funny book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

---Life, The Universe, and Everything (another funny book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything

---Tree burial (a burial method)
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html

---Fire Force (a manga book) by Atsushi Ohkubo
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Force-Vol-Atsushi-Ohkubo-ebook/dp/B01M7V8ZNQ/

---New Mutants (a comic series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mutants

---X-Men (a different comic series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(comic_book)

---Chris Claremont (comic writer and novelist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Claremont

---Bill Sienkiewicz (artist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sienkiewicz

---Diane Mott Davidson (mystery novelist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Mott_Davidson

---Kindle (an electronic reading device and other stuff)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

---Feta (a type of Greek cheese)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feta

---“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” by R.E.M.

---honey bees kill murder hornet (gross)
https://www.newsweek.com/way-japanese-bees-kill-murder-hornets-terrifying-impressive-1502382

---Killer Bees (1974 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Bees_(1974_film)

---The Swarm (1978 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(film)

That’s a lot of what we talked about in this episode, but there are more words that came out of our mouths than these! We hope you have fun listening (if you decide to listen!!!)

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