Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

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My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

The July Solo show coming out August 1st,

as seems to be tradition about now.

In fact, we are facing the distinct possibility

of having two solo shows in a row, but we'll see what next week brings.

Anyway, the, I guess the inspiration for this one was a suggestion Austin Koppec made following following I think my most recent appearance on Aon Bightnostic Radio.

About why I think the future is brighter for novels specifically than people expect of books in general's and certainly novels.

But novels as a subset of I guess the wider field of expression that I'm

bullish on now yes this is a strange case to make right everything we consume at the moment seems to be

endless reboots or revisions the latest being Veronica Mars or just the fact that the

lion king which held title as the most fascist animation ever until

frozen came along, is what people are going to the cinema to see again now and talking

about on the socials. So it might seem strange when you look

across quote-unquote culture and it might seem strange to be mildly

bullish but the case is is a good yet odd one.

The good news is the malaise that we see in kind of like bigger cultural objects

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