5 Holiday Gifts for Weirdos
With Black Friday looming over the holiday season like Krampus holding a stick, I thought it the right time of year to suggest you buy things from me. I’m a …
5 Holiday Gifts for Weirdos Read MoreFiction, Nonfiction, and Art
With Black Friday looming over the holiday season like Krampus holding a stick, I thought it the right time of year to suggest you buy things from me. I’m a …
5 Holiday Gifts for Weirdos Read MoreClick here to listen. Transcript below. The stories about Red Hill read like hyperbole, like Paul Bunyon or Mike Fink stories. Commended by the Canadian government for a life-saving rescue …
Episode 7: Red Hill Read MoreListen here. Full transcript: The audience held their collective breath as Annie Edson Taylor’s barrel fell over Niagara’s Horseshoe falls and disappeared into the mist. Then nothing, waiting, before Captain …
Episode 6: Annie Taylor Part 2 Read MoreI recently sent this letter to the Takoma Park Maryland Library. After reading this, please consider tweeting “Free @theodorecarter2” to @takoma. Dear Takoma Park Maryland Library, Recently, I tried to …
Blocked! A Letter to the Takoma Park MD Library Read MoreListen here. Full transcript: Annie Edson Taylor, a Victorian-era dance and etiquette teacher, strode gracefully toward the riverbank in her long black dress and wide-brimmed hat. She did her best …
Ep. 5: Annie Edson Taylor Pt 1. Read MoreListen here. Full transcript: This is Yuniko Harada, and this is “The Blondin March” composed by Albert Poppinberg: Blondin March Plays The betting odds had been stacked against him, and …
Ep. 4: Charles Blondin Part 2 Read MoreListen here. Full transcript: It’s 1862 in Sheffield, England, a city of less than 200,000 people and you are one of thousands, maybe as many as 80 thousand people, assembled …
Ep. 3: Charles Blondin Part 1 Read MoreListen here. Full transcript: Sam Patch, the Jersey Jumper, the Yankee leaper, reached celebrity status in the early nineteenth century for his death-defying leaps from great heights including two jumps …
Ep. 2: Sam Patch Part 2 Read MoreListen here. Full Transcript: Before Evil Keneval or Harry Houdini, before P.T. Barnum’s circus, Sam Patch drew crowds of thousands who came to watch his dangerous leaps from the rooftops, …
Ep. 1: Sam Patch Part 1 Read MoreIn the process of writing my next novel, I became enamored with the stranger-than-fiction tales of the daredevils of Niagara Falls. This fall, I’ll release a well-researched 20-30 min episode …
Niagara Falls Daredevil Podcast Read More