Episode 102: Hunter Ready to Write
Back to Work
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🗓️ 15 January 2013
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Creative Costumes vs. Pushing Out Product
This week Dan and Merlin talk about how the legends and mythologies around creative people and beautiful losers can become such a destructive MacGuffin for us aspiring civilians.
Getting gakked out on Hunter S. Thompson's cocaine and buying Sylvia Plath's oven are unlikely to take you anyplace useful, interesting, or…creative.
Also: "BRIANMICHAELBENDIS!"
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- Daredevil Visionaries - Frank Miller, Vol. 2: Frank Miller: 9780785107712: Amazon.com: Books
- Nerdist Podcast: Warren Ellis « Nerdist
- Spider-Man Read Order
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- [SPONSOR] Frank & Oak
- How to Start Reading Avengers Comics!
- Amazon.com: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human (9780812981384): Grant Morrison: Books
- Marvels: Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross: 9780785142867: Amazon.com: Books
- Spider-Man: Big Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Amazon.com: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human (9780812981384): Grant Morrison: Books
- Marvels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Twitter / ewanmorgan: A day in the life of Hunter ...
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- The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2 #669G - Spider-Island - Part Three: Arachnotopia in merlinmann's Comic Collector Connect collection
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- Norman Osborn's Hair
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- Liz Hurley: Beauty and the beasts - Celeb News, Independent Woman - Independent.ie
- Warren Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- The Wire - Season One Opening Scene - YouTube
- Conversion disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Fugue state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) - IMDb
- William Faulkner: Trouble in Oxford
- Top 15 Great Alcoholic Writers - Listverse
- Buzz Bissinger: I Was Deluded to Believe Lance Armstrong When He Denied Doping - The Daily Beast
- Black Cat (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Kelly Sue DeConnick
- Warren Ellis
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- Dominic West - IMDb
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- [Brown-Haired Rapunzel Sampler]
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- Grant Morrison
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| 0:00.0 | four 15 cocaine, four 30 cocaine, four 54 cocaine, five oh five cocaine. |
| 0:06.0 | Yes, I'm wearing a Deadpool shirt, but we're not talking about comics. |
| 0:11.3 | No comic today is no comics, no comics day. |
| 0:13.8 | No, we're definitely going to talk about comics. |
| 0:15.1 | That's just I'm hoping that I'll become like a kind of a new line. |
| 0:19.2 | And then this our last show after all. |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah, you know what? |
| 0:21.8 | I, uh, I can't be honest with you. |
| 0:24.4 | I was, uh, please. |
| 0:25.8 | I was at pretty much not all night, but for at least a couple minutes, |
| 0:28.7 | just thinking about our last show and what it was going to be like. |
| 0:31.6 | I was working on the clip reel. |
| 0:33.6 | I was in my final cut express, you know, is that |
| 0:37.3 | are you going to finally admit to doping on the last, the last show? |
| 0:43.9 | I'll tell you it's sort of not live. |
| 0:45.5 | I'll tell you what I, what I told, what I told my lady. |
| 0:48.3 | Right. |
| 0:48.9 | Your special lady or your lady friend? |
| 0:50.6 | My very special lady friend. |
| 0:51.9 | I told her this last night. |
| 0:54.8 | Dan, as you know, I'm trying to evolve as a person. |
| 0:58.0 | You know that, right? |
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