On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while ruminating on fame: what we look for in, and from, celebrity. Also, they share a few words on listening, extrapolative thinking, and purism in art, taxidermy-adjacent and otherwise.
Show notes:
If you would know more about the Frisbee — the origins of its name and other things disk-related — visit https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/frisbee/ and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee
Steve Burns, the one-time host of the Nickelodeon kids’ program “Blues Clues,” reflected on how he had become, if not exactly famous, then fameish, in an endearing Moth storytelling session that can be found at https://themoth.org/stories/fameishness.
Your own host Steve (Sklar) will soon launch his lit-cast, and release to the public for your reading pleasure his short story, “The Solo.” An announcement about that release will be forthcoming on THIS site shortly.
For a sample of Hozier’s music, check out this YouTube video of “Too Sweet”: https://youtu.be/NTpbbQUBbuo?si=SDtWp8sWDEOdGvFh
Ars Nova, at https://arsnovanyc.com/events/tiresias-presents-mysteriosa/, reports that “Tiresias is a hybrid writer, director, composer, performer, producer, curator, puppeteer, oracle, weirdo, songbird, shapeshifter, mythmaker and ritualist based in Brooklyn.”
Information about one particular taxidermy showcase and competition can be found at https://wunderkammernyc.com/.
[Edit to add:] If you need to see that mud-covered seal blissed out in the slop, you can find it here: https://ifunny.co/picture/space-cowboy-flawless-cowboi-i-need-to-be-like-him-rjdNSvfYA
Here’s a lyrebird:
Here’s a bowerbird (specifically, a Satin Bowerbird):
And finally (for now), consider the following: the Tiresias of old, a figure in the Odyssey and Greek mythology, has been described as a blind seer. I mean, no one wants to be blind, but if you happen to be, pretty cool job description, eh?