The Con and Suranji Cosmicast

Episode 30,012-05 The Campaign Trail

Con, inspired by the politics overheard from Flubradda, decides to run for office.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Manhattan Beach March," 1906, Sousa's Band "I'm Just Wild About Harry," 1921, Eubie Blake "Comrades of the Legion," John Philip Sousa, United States Marine Band

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Hi, all. This is to announce the publication of my collection, A Night Garden and other stories. This collection of 33 short stories and novellas (many previously published in various journals and magazines) contains literary fiction of humor and horror, poetry and mystery, science fiction and myth, exploring the limits and inner and outer space. The long story "The Perquisites of His Position" tells a tale of ghostly revenge. The novella "The Darkness of the Heart" relates a story of the day slavery was abolished in Haiti. The satirical "Pangloss Triumphant" tells of a happy hermaphrodite. From the revelations of the aged Don Juan to the musings of B-movie actors trapped in deteriorating celluloid, from the voice of the ancient Sphinx to the senility of a quantum particle at the very end of the physical universe, the thirty-three artfully crafted stories presented here are full of deftly drawn characters, amazing plots, psychological insights, and universal truths. For now you can order this through lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/shop/brian-drake/a-night-garden-and-other-stories/paperback/product-20090610.html, but it will also be available at Amazon in a few weeks, as well as other online shops. But order it through lulu.com, I get a little more cash that way!

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Episode 30,012-04 Politics and Evolution

Suranji and Elder Thing Cthulhu are getting a bit annoyed with Con's continuing obsession over the political gas giants they've been monitoring.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Sophie Tucker for President," 1952, Sophie Tucker "C'est bian l'air que chaque matin," Meyerbeer, L'Etoile du Nord, sung by Sumi Jo

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Episode 30,012-03 Oratory

Con is enchanted by the oratory of the Flubraddarans, inhabitants of a gas giant, and explores the political speechifying of its own extinct species of origin.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Happy Days Are Here Again," 1930, Ted Weems Orchestra "Nur für Natur," Johann Strauss II, Der Lustige Krieg, sung by Rudolf Kreuzberger

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Episode 30,012-02 Toxic Gas

Con and Suranji, in orbit around a gas giant, have discovered the native life forms are in the middle of an election cycle. Elder Thing Cthulhu manifests the obligatory exposition.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "The Wibbly Wobbly Walk," 1913, Fred Elliot "Jazz Baby," 1919, Agnes Lynn

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Episode 30,012-01 R and R

Con and Suranji are on holiday in orbit around a gas giant, when Con makes a startling discovery: the gas giant contains life!

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Cocktail Lady," 1999, Funky Terrorist "Little know ye who is coming" Campaign commercials: Eisenhower, 1952; Kennedy, 1960; Nixon, 1972

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Episode 20,011-22 Going On

Con can't forget the higher-dimensional experience Cthulhu gave the probe, and finds standard reality stale and meaningless.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Some of These Days," 1925, New Orleans Jazz Band "Some of These Days," 1911, Sophie Tucker "At Peace with the World," 1926, Louis James, Franklin Bauer

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Episode 20,011-21 A Convocation of Horror

Cthulhu attempts to rouse Con from another depressive episode by whisking the probe off to a higher-dimensional assembly of Elder Things.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Badinage," 1912, Victor Herbert, Victor Light Opera Orchestra Interlude from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Shostakovich "My Baby Just Cares for Me," 1930, Ted Weems Orchestra

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Episode 20,011-20 Suranji and the Nut

Suranji finds a stray nut in Con's infrastructure and will not rest until it tears the probe apart to find where it goes.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa "Just Another Day Wasted Away," 1927, Abe Lymon Orchestra "Tell Me, Little Gypsy," 1920, Art Hickman Orchestra "Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans," 1026, The Five Harmaniacs

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