Episode 50: Brandon O’Brien – ”Content is Cuisine”

Tales from the Trunk

This episode’s reading carries a content warning for discussion of online harassment. If you would like to skip the reading, fast forward to timestamp 0:17:25 from the start of the reading.

This time around, it’s my absolute delight to welcome to the show Brandon O’Briend (@therisingtithes)! Brandon reads from their story, “Content is Cuisine,” before we launch into a wonderful conversation about the intersection of poetry and game design, how recipes and poems are alike, and how H. P. Lovecraft was accidentally kinda hip-hop.

Things we mention in this episode:

Suzan’s episode

Mike’s episode

Speculate!

Valerie Valdes

Girl By Moonlight

Iori Kusano

Jeoi Gawain Lin

FB moderation expose

Sin-eater

All Our Yesterdays

The Moon Wants Me To Leave You

Anteater tumblr post

Can You Sign My Tentacle?, by Brandon O’Brien

Interstellar Flight Press

Uncanny Magazine

Lovecraft’s cat (CW: racial slurs)

Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Cookbook

Shing Yin Khor

“Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Elgin Award

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Gregory A. Wilson

Blades in the Dark

Slugblaster

Lasers & Feelings

Evil Hat Productions

Friends at the Table (of course)

The Rookie

“Call ACab,” by Sam Stone

Sam Waterston

Aaron Sorkin

The Newsroom

Nickel Creek

Pavement

“Spit on a Stranger,” by Nickel Creek

Brandon’s insta and newsletter and website

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