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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 341 — Cameron Pierce

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Cameron Pierce is the guest. He is the author of several books and the editor of Lazy Fascist Press. Vol. 1 Brooklyn says "Whether he's describing a grandmother who gets pulled into a watery grave by an almost mythological fish or telling the creepy story of a creature that wouldn't be out of place in an H.P. Lovecraft story, Pierce constantly pulls together concepts from the outmost edges of outré fiction and the kind of unassumingly profound storytelling that made authors like Flannery O'Connor and George Singleton household names." And Beach Sloth says “Black humor has never been darker than this; this is the absolute pitch black of humor." Monologue topics: war, war on terror, word usage, Charlie Hebdo, terrorism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Today's episode is brought to you by Poster Text. Poster Text designs posters for book lovers.

0:05.7

They're posters made of text. Right now over at Postertext.com, you can get a 20% discount when you use the offer code, Other People 14, O-Thinger PPL 14. 20% discount. Postertex.com. Use that offer code, Other people 14. These are posters made of text.

0:22.8

They're great conversation starters. You stand up close to the poster and it's text. You move

0:27.3

slowly away. The text coalesces into a striking visual image. Do you understand how this works?

0:32.3

It's magical. Postertext.com. These are posters made of text. Go and get one. Oh my God.

0:41.6

You are not alone. You have found other people. You and I have a friend in common.

0:49.9

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful.

1:12.3

What a struggle, you know? It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. All right, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is something I made. This is something for you to consume with your head.

1:31.0

Hello, how's it going? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. I have a great show for you today. My guest is Cameron Pierce, and he is an author of several books. He's also the editor of lazy fascist press. Very excited to have him here. we had good talk and uh you'll hear it in uh mere moments i do want to say a couple of things or like one main thing it's been bothering me this past week

1:42.2

uh as most of you know as pretty much everybody knows uh the dominant news story over this past week. As most of you know, as pretty much everybody knows,

1:45.5

the dominant news story over the past week has been this awful shooting in France.

1:50.1

All of these cartoonists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo gunned down by crazy people in their place of work.

2:00.8

A massive march in Paris the other day, you know, over a million

2:04.2

people in the streets. It's been dominating the news. So I don't want to go over it again because I'm

2:11.0

sure all of you have probably been saturated. But I do want to say that watching and reading about

2:16.8

this, you know, watching it on the news and then reading about it in the news, the aftermath, one thing that stands out to me is the phrase war on terror, war on terrorism.

2:27.7

I can't believe that this gets actual airplay. I can't believe that CNN, you know, uses this phrase or any major news outlet, you know,

2:38.3

outside of the context of quoting a political actor, because we all know politicians love to use

2:43.3

the phrase war on terrorism. Journalists, writers have a responsibility to call them out on this.

2:52.8

And nobody really does.

2:54.3

And it drives me up the fucking wall.

2:58.9

So I don't usually go off on rants related to politics.

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