Literature: The Fat Guy by Henry Roth
MOTS Ado About Nothing reviews a short story about what some people will do for a little bit of fame. It’s The Fat Guy by Henry Roth.
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Literature: A&P by John Updike
In this episode, we review the John Updike short story about a kid who watches some girls in bathing suits wander around a store. It’s called A&P.
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016 finale: Halloween 2
10/31/16
Happy Halloween! It is time for The Lost Signal’s MOTS-o-Ween finale, our annual review of a movie in the Halloween film series. Paging Dr. Myers, Dr. Myers to surgery.
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: Poltergeist
10/29/15
The final choice in this year’s MOTS-o-Ween celebration is the 80’s horror classic, Poltergeist. This podcast is certainly not clean.
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: Videodrome
10/28/16
Is the television screen truly the retina for the mind’s eye? Is the podcast the drum of the mind’s ear? And, do we all–at last–have special names? Listen as we change the channel for our next MOTS-O-Ween offering as we discuss what is real and what is illusion in David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome.”
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: Jacob’s Ladder
10/27/2016
As MOTs-o-Ween 2016 continues, the crew discusses the brilliant and influential, Jacob’s Ladder. Listen in as Steven Ormosi slowly realizes that he has died in a horrible podcasting accident. Who are the angels? Who are the demons? Who is simply a shady Santa Claus? Is Rich Perry the Lost Signals’ Danny Aiello? You decide.
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: The Beyond
10/26/16
MOTS-O-Ween 2016 continues as we venture through the Gates of Hell (and back?) in our discussion of Lucio Fulci’s 1981 film “The Beyond.”
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: Cabin in the Woods
10/25/16
The crew reviews Joss Whedon’s quintessential horror send up, Cabin in the Woods for MOTS-o-Ween 2016. Watch out for redneck zombie families.
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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: In the Mouth of Madness
10/24/16
The MOTS-O-Ween 2016 week long horror movie marathon kicks off with an oft-overlooked John Carpenter flick, In The Mouth of Madness, a modern Lovecraftian-inspired meta descent into insanity.
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Literature: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
For the final installment of MOTS Ado Halloween 2016, we attempt to wrestle with insanity-inducing indescribable things in a ‘cosmic horror’ story from the progenitor of the genre.
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