Harvey Pekar audio interview - Boing Boing JBooks has an audio interview with pioneering underground comix writer Harvey Pekar, author of American Splendor. In discussion with Brown University cultural historian Paul Buhle, Pekar talks about being a secular Jew, speaking Yiddish, and Studs Terkel. Buhle is the editor of Jews And American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form, and is currently working on a biography of Pekar. By fjordaanin Public bookmarkswith audiocomicsharveyinterviewpekarpodcasttolisten
Dan Carlin - Common Sense In "Hardcore History" the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This is a difficult-to-classify show that has a rather sharp edge. It's not for everyone. But the innovative style and approach has made "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History" a New Media hit. By fjordaanin Public bookmarkswith carlindanhistorypodcasttolisten