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Is Your Lawn Fascist? The Toxic History & Environmental Impact of Lawns – Science with The Blunt Letters
Is your lawn fascist? Find out now!In this episode of Science with The Blunt Letters, Micaela and Elle explore the classist history of the lawn and how the dream of perfect green grass is rooted in an ugly history of colonialism, conformity, exploitation, and even fascism.Then they dig into the environmental consequences of “the perfect lawn”. Micaela and Elle explore how pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and chemical runoff make their way into our ecosystems, while traditional lawn maintenance contributes to water waste, pollution, fire and flooding risks, and biodiversity loss. They uncover the human cost of maintaining lawns and the ongoing culture of conformity that go hand in hand with these status symbols.Discover how you can fight back with sustainable lawn alternatives, native ground cover, native plants, and other ways to replace your lawn with a healthier, more environmentally friendly yard.Become a Patron on our PatreonFollow us online: Website, shop, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Depop
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Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted and the Horror of Storytelling – Bleed With Me Horror Podcast
In this episode of the Bleed With Me Podcast, Micaela and Jerbil take on Chuck Palahniuk’s most horrifying novel, Haunted, a collection of horror stories, poems, and interconnected narratives inspired by the legendary literary gathering at Villa Diodati in 1816, where Lord Byron challenged his guests to write their own ghost story. This infamous gathering of Gothic horror writers would spawn Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and John Polidori's The Vampyre.Palahniuk’s cast of characters comes together at a twisted writers' retreat to write the ultimate horror story: the story of their descent into a nightmare of their own making. As the tales pile up, so do the rivalries, sabotage, grotesque acts, and increasingly unhinged attempts to become the author who turns suffering into celebrity.Micaela and Jerbil dig into what makes Haunted such an effective horror novel, from its unconventional structure to Palahniuk’s scathing take on reality TV’s voyeuristic appetite for torment and the horrifying lengths people will go to for fame.Is Haunted a novel, a short-story collection, a literary experiment, or one giant horror story? The answer might be all of the above.Become a Patron on our PatreonFollow us online: Website, shop, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Depop
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