LWSD Ep 55 - Mandy, Mika, and Frankenstein

Long Walk Short Drink

Palmer goes to a Little Person wrestling match and gets a new cat. Dave weighs in on MANDY and geeks out on his favorite book, FRANKENSTEIN, in honor of its 200th anniversary. (Recorded October 3, 2018) Watch the video version on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/Iv5979Xg6gU Experience the show the same way we do--as live video chats on YouTube. Subscribe to our channel for all of our YouTube updates, and click the bell to get notified every time we LiveStream our recordings - bit.ly/2LXHysC Join the conversation on Twitter: twitter.com/lwsdpod #LWSD55 Download a free audiobook on us by visiting our sponsor: www.audibletrial.com/lwsd Subscribe, rate, and review using your favorite podcast app: iTunes - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/long-…d1184182879?mt=2 Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/s?fid=125872&refid=stpr Google Play - play.google.com/music/m/Ifz6es6bs…_Walk_Short_Drink YouTube - bit.ly/2LXHysC ****SIGNATURE SEGMENTS*** Dave Digs (1:51:18) twitter.com/davidullman FRANKENSTEIN (Original Manuscript) https://www.spbooks.com/en/75-frankenstein-9791095457459.html THE NEW ANNOTATED FRANKENSTEIN http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-New-Annotated-Frankenstein/ THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/165585/the-original-frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-with-percy-bysshe-shelley-edited-by-charles-f-robinson Dreaming Out Loud Archive Outro Segment (4:23:26): Frankenstein [Version 1] (1988) Boasting a wardrobe of hooded sweatshirts and karate uniforms in place of three-piece suits; art direction involving lavatories-for-laboratories; and a one-flight staircase for mountainside, the story begins as Henry Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant Fritz plunder the back-yard graveyard’s pine-tree gallows and cardboard-box coffins for stuffed pajama-cadavers to be used for Frankenstein’s raw materials in the creation of a man. After Fritz makes the fatal mistake of dropping the stolen brain, a dazzling display of light-switch-flickering brings the stuffed pajamas to life, cueing the famous lines “It’s alive! It’s alive! (Laughter) Now I know what it feels like to be God!” However, in this particular rendition the outburst is followed by the outtake “Done for today!” and the stop-signal is flashed--a fist rested firmly against the mad scientist’s cheek. What follows closely resembles, however heavily condensed, the scenario set forth by the James Whale directed, Boris Karloff version of Mary Shelly’s novel, released by Universal Pictures in 1931. The Monster’s unveiling and destruction all occur in a few short minutes, with familiar pantomime of key moments and an unfortunate injury of the junior Ullman, when as Frankenstein, he is thrown down by his creation into the corner of the kitchen counter, prompting the frantic flashing of the previously established stop-signal over the anguished ad-lib “I’m really hurt!”