Download Schizophrenic Nightmare and Other Lurid Flavors Awful Grace Homepage I was working on the following episode for months before COVID-19 derailed it. The argument it attempted to make is still strong but only relevant during non “end tim

presenting EATHEACH

Nov 20th, 2019 13m 43s

EATHEACH, a new podcast from the producer of Awful Grace, featuring short works of indiscriminate origin. Listen on Apple Podcasts.

The Apocalypse Equation/Invocation of the Hyperreal

Sep 28th, 2019 33m 22s

The Apocalypse Equation/Invocation of the Hyperreal: A prelude to The Mulch Prophet, a forthcoming work of post-fiction from The Champagne's Electric.

Again the Never Came

Sep 4th, 2019 1h 19m

You only asked we not forget as you must do the same. Those memories died with you, my love. Again the never came.

How to Sell America! in the Twenty-First Century

Mar 20th, 2019 1h 3m

Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. - Emily Dickinson How to Sell America! in the Twenty-First Century, or Exhibits on the Withering Effect of Eternal Light Exhibits: I. Conversations with a Serial Rapist II. M

11.22.XXXX

Nov 22nd, 2018 30m 1s

11.22.XXXX A Day in America A tragedy told in XXXX acts, set in XXXX, USA during the year of our Lord XXXX, A.D. Produced by The Champagne's Electric, Chicago MMXVIII

Ruina Imperii

Jul 22nd, 2018 1h 22m

Ruina Imperii or Our Feet Still Wet from the Riveredge or A Mournful Addendum for Dr. Sagan (A Dirge in Six Parts) First, a content warning: The following piece is composed of some of the most disturbingly violent events ever recorded, most of

208 - 캥거루 / To Her, Everything is Precious

Feb 16th, 2018 40m 46s

Portions of this episode are presented in Korean with no accompanying English translation. Produced by Elise Byun and The Champagne's Electric. Chicago, MMXVIII --- LOUISE - Kangaroo. COLONEL WEBER - What? LOUISE - In 1770, Captain James Cook'

207 - They Tell Me You Are Wicked (III)

Oct 14th, 2017 1h 48m

“For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.” - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy INTERMISSION, from 54:09 to 1:01:24 This essay is dedicated to Shamiya Adams, Samuel Walker Jr. and the silent dead of this city. I als

206 - The Treachery of Sounds (II)

Jul 7th, 2017 32m 11s

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned

205 - bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! (I)

Mar 16th, 2017 31m 20s

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived from North Ar

204 - #A2ACAE

Nov 26th, 2016 40m 42s

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.

203 - I Heard it on the Road to New Jerusalem

Jul 13th, 2016 45m 26s

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold comple

202 - Winnow the Circle

Apr 12th, 2016 13m 2s

The Young Man's Last Words, said with Confidence to the Devil Unbeknownst. "Bet you won't."

201 - Manchild in the Promised Land

Jan 27th, 2016 20m 44s

We Real Cool, by Gwendolyn BrooksTHE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.

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Chapter 2 - Beneath the Bleachers of Stagg Field

Jan 6th, 2016 3m 19s

Chapter 2, beginning now.

110 - Splash

Sep 15th, 2015 22m 18s

Hanns Jones wanted to die. And so he drove to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida and jumped. 200 feet down, reaching speeds that kill, he hit the water like watermelon against a brick wall, 75 miles per hour. He should have died. Should have

109 - Stay Scared

Jun 23rd, 2015 11m 46s

While reporting on the Battle of Fallujah in 2004 for the Washington Post, Jackie Spinner found herself sitting at a table with Anne Garrels, a Foreign Correspondent for NPR. For Spinner, Fallujah was an initiation to war, and Garrels an experi

108 - Hardway

May 3rd, 2015 14m 1s

Colt Cabana only wanted to be a professional wrestler. He watched pugilists moon-eyed as a kid: He-Man, Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport, but especially the turgid giants of the squared circle. He loved the stories, the characters, the confl

107 - With Conviction

Apr 3rd, 2015 15m 8s

Antione Day spent a decade in prison for a murder he didn't commit. While there, he witnessed physical and mental abuse, beatings and killings. Day finds it hard to forget the incessant noise of prison, the dank must of the air. But Day adapted

106 - Revolver

Feb 11th, 2015 11m 9s

When the Robert Taylor Homes was finished on the South Side of Chicago in 1962 , it was the largest public housing project in the United States. Spread over large swathes of land, the projects consisted of 28 identical 16-story buildings with w

105 - Trigger

Jan 11th, 2015 10m 43s

When Joshua Ryan was five, he accidentally set his family's trailer ablaze. Though he and his mother were able to escape without harm, his two-year-old brother was caught in the fire. He suffered third-degree burns over most of his body.His pa

104 - Seamless to the Hip

Dec 14th, 2014 10m 55s

Christopher Hale woke up a year ago to find that he couldn't see fully out of his left eye. He was told he'd had a stroke, three quarters of his vision gone. Hale was over 300 pounds, depressed, and was told by doctors that he was lucky to have

103 - For Your Country

Nov 30th, 2014 7m 37s

As a young man, Don Catherall shook hands with John F. Kennedy minutes before he was assassinated. When told of the Kennedy's murder, he thought it a cruel joke.Catherall's father, a quiet man who seldom talked of his service during World War

102 - Prisoner of Hope

Nov 16th, 2014 16m 44s

Father Michael Pfleger knows the pain of loss. As a Catholic pastor for a Faith Community on the South Side of Chicago, Pfleger has been to more funerals than he cares to remember.He is passionate. He is honest. Sometimes to a fault: like when