The Mr. Dan Kelly Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dan Kelly
An irregular podcast about Chicago, history, architecture, comics, horror, and whatever else crosses my mind. Reach me at dan@mrdankelly.com or visit my Twitter @mrdankelly (https://twitter.com/mrdankelly).
It's the 30th anniversary of Chicago's Lumpen Magazine. This episode I speak with the original Editorial Nodes, Ed Marszewski, Leslie Stella™, Chris Molnar, Pat "Chairman Thar" Jones, and Jackie Wolk about 1990s Wicker Park, independent magazine publishing in the pre-Internet and social media days, protests, pranks, pet suicide, and the joys of communal living at the Lumpen House on Armitage.
Visit Corinne's site at corinnehalbert.com to pick up copies of her zines and buy her art. More sensitive folks may wish to look elsewhere. Sensitive weirdoes who enjoy horror, erotica, and comics, however, will find exactly what they need.
This time around I speak with author Michael Tisserand about his comprehensive biography "Krazy—George Herriman, a Life in Black and White". Michael speaks of many things Herriman, krazy and otherwise: Hal Roach, cartooning, race, language, and a dream he had about Herriman. Purchase the book here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061732997/krazy/
Note: Apologies for the poor audio for part of the interview. I did my best.
Happy Halloween! This episode I speak with author Mike "McBeardo" McPadden about horror movies, teen sex comedies, and teen sex horror comedies, among other cinematic subjects. Mike's books can be purchased at the Bazillion Points website: www.bazillionpoints.com. My original interview with Mike can be read at the Third Coast review site: https://thirdcoastreview.com/2019/06/21/smells-like-heavy-metal-poisoning-an-interview-with-cineaste-mike-mcpadden/
Chicago writer Robert Loerzel talks about the research and writing that went into his Chicago Magazine article, "Blood in the Streets", a compilation of first-person accounts of the Chicago Race Riots, which happened during the Red Summer of 1919. I recommend reading his (terrific) article first! https://bit.ly/2Ywg5ng
This episode I speak with my sister in law Marnie Ware, a Chicago Public Schools teacher who started up the Chicago Farm Lab, a two-acre community garden on the Charles A. Prosser Career Academy school grounds in Chicago’s Belmont-Cragin neighborhood. Crops! Chickens! Soil testing! This show has it all! Find out more about the garden at chicagofarmlab.com.
I speak with my friend Seth Patner, a CPS social studies teacher, about one of the first civil rights sit-ins at Chicago's Jack Spratt Coffee Shop, his family’s west side and Rogers Park history, the “smooth” racial transition of Marshall High School in Garfield Park, and his favorite Polish deli. Listen for Seth’s impressive Chicago cop accent!
Theme music by Chicago musician John Hasbrouck [johnhasbrouck.com].