In the patron only portion of Locust Radio episode 22, we listen to some more songs by Pet Mosquito and more excerpts from Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer. Tish, Adam, and Laura get cranky; discuss being, thinking and art…

In the second patron-only portion of Locust Radio Ep. 21, we continue our discussions with Sean Cashbaugh and Joe Shapiro on socialism and science fiction. 

In episode 20.5 we discuss cults, “boobies”, dinosaurs as a conspiracy between scientists and the devil, mysticism and opportunistic middle-class white people, cultural collision from below vs. appropriation from above, being-with working-class subjects, why we create gods when and where we make them, opiates, Walter Benjamin’s theologically-informed Marxism vs. positivistic Marxism, Anatoly Lunacharsky’s concept of socialist god-building, animism and use value vs. exchange value, infrastructures of dissent, leftist-rage-trauma-porn farming, the Internet as a displacement of everyday life, Cornel West’s unfortunate alliance with the People’s Party (after recording he thankfully switched to the Greens), and more.

In the patron only portion of Locust Radio episode 19, Laura, Tish, and Adam continue the discussion of monsters and the monstrous…

In the second half of episode 18 we discuss corn, being confronted by groundhogs and squirrels on the farm, squirrel funerary rites vs. capitalism, the Met Gala, glitchcraft as a reassertion of the subjective, social reproduction, how its harder to clean your house in the face of existential planetary crisis, John Keats’ concept of “negative capability” or “fine isolated verisimilitude,” the future workers’ society as the unrepresentable sublime, being-with the class as is while rejecting the world as is; abstract expressionism and the CIA, table-tap irrealist revolutionary RPGs, art and class, art as a column that pierces heaven with its base covered in shit and blood - the sublime and banal.

In the second half of our Halloween episode our digital recording system continually glitches in a gesture of solidarity to help free us from the grip of alienated machines. In between glitches we brainstorm about gothic and hauntological irrealist gestures, including the possibility of creating an animist dollar store in which all the commodities come to life…

In the second half of episode 16, Alex McIntyre, Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl discuss demanding our mayors fight bears, abolishing Wednesdays, mildly amusing riots, exploding the continuum of history, that Cahokia was not a hunter-gatherer society and therefore does not disprove the Marxist conception of “primitive communism,” how our anxiety rectangles symbolically take us outside of time while reminding us we are constrained materially in real life, the odd appeal of catastrophe vs. every day banality, the narcissistic comfort-alienation of emotional noise vs. ancient story-telling and art, breaking our backs by staring at screens at work, the contradictions of psychiatric pharmacology under capitalism, and more.

Our guest for the second half of Locust Radio episode 15 is our very own Alexander Billet. Alex is a writer, artist, and editor at Locust Review. They join us in the virtual Locust studio to discuss the editorial for Locust Review 8, “The Utopia Principle,” which Alex took the lead on writing.

In the second half of the episode, we continue to talk to Crystal Stella Becerril about making art as a human compulsion vs. making art for pleasure, how pleasure is distorted by capitalism, art and community, organizing for reproductive rights and unions, making art for our communities and working-class siblings and comrades, and more.

In the second half of the episode — for patrons only — we listen to more of Omnia Sol’s music, starting with “All CHiPs are Bastards,” and discuss nostalgia for terrible things, Erik Estrada fandom, Night Ridder, the politics of Art Bell’s vs. George Norrie’s Coast To Coast AM…

In the second half of episode 12, Tish, Adam and Holly Lewis focus on questions of art, culture and individual subjectivity as they relate to the pandemic…

In the second half of the episode — for patrons and subscribers only — R. Faze reads their story, “I Live an Hour from My Body” from Locust Review #4. We then continue to discuss art with Laura Fair-Schulz, including her works, “Song of the Barren Tree,” “Circuit Eye Vines,”and “Dysmorph Becoming Aware.”

In the second half of episode 10 — available to Locust subscribers and patrons only — Richard Hamilton reads more from his new collection of poetry, Rest of Us. Tish and Adam read “HPV/Ballgraves” by Michel(le) D. Yomack Wolheim III, a story about cybernetic labor in a major drug store chain, from Locust Review #6.

In the second half of episode 9, available for subscribers and patrons, we discuss the relationship between class, subjectivity, and art in collective wall writing and the socialist punk band, the Minutemen; post-capitalist culture; the need for revolutionary struggle in the absence of revolutionary models; the fragmentation of the left and the class; and more. Tish and Adam also read excerpts from The Stink Ape Resurrection Primer.

In the second half of episode eight, recorded in July, we read and discuss excerpts from the first issue of Imago; the new theory annual from Locust Review. Tish reads the 1937 Michelist speech, presented at the third Science Fiction convention in Philadelphia, “Mutation or Death,” outlining their communist perspective for the SF genre. Alex reads an excerpt from Kira Woodworth’s essay, “Pink Parasols at the Barricades” about the Seattle CHOP autonomous zone created during the BLM uprising in 2020. And Adam reads the Imago review of A.M. Gittlitz’s book, I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, explaining the particular origins of what has become a kind of socialist ufology.

Out of the swarm comes... Millard 19017 Fascist Hunter. On the trail of that most deadly of prey, Millard stops for quiet drink. But in a world on fire, can a quiet moment last?

In the second part of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Tish and Alex read some new poems. We also continue our discussion about surrealism, particularly how it might pertain to our organizations and the possibility of transformation. Can the odd and nonsensical allow us to envision our lives and cities dramatically reshaped?

In the second part of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Mike and Leslie join us to talk about how utterly feeble most conceptual poetry and art are, and contrast it with their own vital experiences in Corpus Christi’s underground music and arts scenes. We ponder how the pandemic relief packages may have provided some breathing room for the working class to rediscover its creativity. And finally, we ramble on for a while about our own work, and we hear some more poetry from Leslie.

For the second half of Locust Radio episode three, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, we share some of our current writing and research, including a much-overlooked group of writers who tried to claim sci-fi for communism in the 1930s, and an overview of the work of Hugo-nominated fantasy writer Chuck Tingle. If you want to hear this portion, and haven’t subscribed yet, do so now. You can listen to the first half of the episode, "Four Seasons Totalitarian Landscaping," at the Locust Review website.

For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, we discuss Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Roger Corman’s 1964 adaptation, in light of Donald Trump’s, shall we say, health problems. We also read a few more answers from the Irrealist Workers Survey and riff a bit about how the goths are right about (almost) everything.