Episodes
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Episode 1 - LJ Smith: Night World: Dark Angel
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Backlist: It's episode one of our final season, and thank god we got a fun one! We're chatting about NIGHT WORLD: DARK ANGEL by LJ Smith, published December 1996, a book that starts out feeling like a bit of a departure, and ends up being the most LJ thing LJ has ever written. Lisa Jane. Can we talk about the cousins?
Chill: Cyna is drinking an Ambiguously Brown (coffee, hot cocoa, cinnamon sugar, Rumchata) and Ollie is drinking a Dark Angel (St George Absinthe and A&W root beer) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: The Chosen!
(1h 54m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of stalking, child murder, incest, body/medical horror, brief description of a slightly gory medical procedure.)
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Monday Apr 03, 2023
Episode 3 - LJ Smith: Night World: Spellbinder
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Backlist: We're back with SPELLBINDER, book three of the Night World series, published in October 1996, which is somehow simultaneously the MOST and LEAST LJ Smith of the Night World books so far. At least we got to see Lisa Jane flex her horror muscles again, though!
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Love Potion (Wendy's strawberry lemonade + raspberry licour + limon rum + TOO MUCH edible glitter) and Ollie is drinking a brilliantly-conceived Cup of Lethe (spike Arnold Palmer + ginger ale) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: the EXTREMELY CURSED season THIRTEEN begins!
Stay safe, friends.
(2h 02m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism, murder, misogyny.)
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Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Episode 2 - LJ Smith: Night World: Daughters of Darkness
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Backlist: We're back with THE Night World book, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (originally published August 1996), in which LJ Smith tries, just really TRIES to write a murder mystery. Like, she did her best. To, ah, varying degrees of success for us. THIS MAY BE A CONTENTIOUS ONE Y'ALL.
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Horny Goat (cranberry juice + limon rum + 7up) and Ollie is drinking a Starry Night (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche (RIP) + blackberry ginger ale) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: NIGHT WORLD VOL 3: SPELLBINDER
Stay safe, friends.
(1h 45m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of misogyny, sexual assault, racism, classism, violence, violence against animals/animal death.)
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Episode 1 - LJ Smith: Night World: Secret Vampire
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Intro Episode: Night World
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
We couldn't leave it that way with our girl LJ, so we're back, standing at the at the foot of the mountain, her unfinished masterpiece, her magnum opus (if you don't count the new Vampire Diaries I guess), NIGHT WORLD! And for once, LJ has provided us INFO. How did she plot the series? Which of LJ's core philosophical belief is WOVEN into each and every book? Which author does she (probably) have a wildly unreasonable grudge against and why? LISTEN AND FIND OUT!
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. See y'all next time (with booze!) for Episode 1: Secret Vampire!
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Episode 3 - LJ Smith: Dark Visions: The Passion
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Episode 2 - LJ Smith: Dark Visions: The Possessed
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Backlist: What happened, y'all? How did DARK VISIONS: THE POSSESSED (published 1995), a book literally designed for sexy, emotionally intimate rendezvous, end up being so fucking boring??? This is Lisa Jane's bread and butter! HOW???
So anyway it's a short one.
Chill: NGL, we may have phoned these ones in, in our defense, so did LJ. Ollie is drinking A Waste of My Time (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche + honey + Nixie Watermelon Mint sparkling water), and Cyna soothed her throat with The Possessed (apple spice chai + Fireball) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: DARK VISIONS VOL 3: THE PASSION
Stay safe, friends.
(1h 17m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism and classism.)
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Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Episode 1 - LJ Smith: Dark Visions: The Strange Power
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Backlist: LISA JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE is back on her bullshit and so are we! This month we're talking about DARK VISIONS: THE STRANGE POWER, published December 1st, 1994 and HOO BOY does it feel like it. LJ is back and indulging in her worst habits, and Ollie is NOT having it.
Chill: Cyna tried to drink a Third Eye (creme de violette, gin, grapefruit juice, and club soda) but ended up drinking wine $9 peach clearance wine, bb! Ollie is drinking a Witch Eyes (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche + Seagram's Ginger Ale + Glacial Freeze Gatorade) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: DARK VISIONS VOL 2: THE POSSESSION
Stay safe, friends.
(1h 35m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism, misogyny, acephobia, homophobia, ableism.)
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Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Episode 3 - LJ Smith: The Forbidden Game: The Kill
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Episode 2 - LJ Smith: The Forbidden Game: The Chase
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022