Tag: death

Joel Murphy is joined by guest Kim Le. They talk about Kim's various projects, including her recent immersive theatre show with The Institute of Visionary History that delved into her family history. They also discuss the similarities between Vietnamese death rituals and the film Coco.

Introduction Bastille Day/Executions Emmy nominations Evil Dead remake/Google+ Gay and lesbian chat “Creepy Doll” by Jonathan Coulton Bastille Day has Lars speaking French. It also has him pining for lesbians and questioning his own sexuality. You see, Lars has had a few close encounters with homosexuality, but try …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … platitudes for the bereaved. I went to a memorial service last week for a six-year-old Down’s Syndrome boy who died of Leukemia. I’ve never witnessed such grief in person. For 90 minutes, the parents greeted …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … victims’ families’ sense of entitlement. This December, a police video surfaced of the latter stages of Timothy McVeigh’s arrest shortly after he felled the Murrow Building in Oklahoma City. It was pretty boring stuff as …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … public, tangible displays of grief for total strangers. They recently found the body of that three-year-old Florida girl that had gone missing. You know, the one whose mother waited a month before reporting her missing. …