Show Notes
Come, enter the Landscape of Thorns and join Jesse and Lucy Valentine (of the Boonta Vista podcast) by the fire. New episodes of Sludgefest are coming soon, and they're pretty upsetting so, we're taking a brief psychic rest to discuss mildly less depressing topics. Jonathan Frakes’ haunted chalkboard, Spam musubi, radioactive cats, car salesmen with sharpened nipples. It's all here.
Things you can do:
American Friends Service Committee (@afsc_org on twitter) compiled a list of campus protest orgs that need support here.
Things we mentioned:
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance by Dr. Shourideh C. Molavi
Ray Cats Song
Beyond Belief with Jonathan Frakes crazy chalkboard episode
More from Sludgefest
Everything is aggressively stupid and evil right now, so Lucy and I just talked about whatever we felt like for about an hour. With as few references to Elon Musk as we could manage. Need to tune your brain to TV static for an hour? This is the episode for you. Energy drinks, television shows, AI slop, manosphere ghouls, edible books, biased steaks, and a sequel to the groundbreaking 2015 documentary Chappie. CW: we do discuss briefly Criminal Minds, which is a pretty offensively shitty show about serial killers and sex criminals. Please feel free to skip ~8-14 minutes in if you (understandably) don't want to hear about the television program Criminal Minds. Working on the next proper Sludge episode too I promise <3
The first in our series on the environmental and humanitarian legacy of US uranium mines in The Navajo Nation and abroad. Before we get there, we will need to bring along some history. In this episode, we outline the broader historical context, in which the Navajo find themselves beset by a succession of ruthless settler-colonial empires: first Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States.