Interview With The Basketcase, episode 153 of This Gun in My Hand, was questioned and bugged by Rob Northrup. With special guest Melinda as the voice of Miss Smith (an obvious pseudonym). This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. What helps hesitant people answer questions? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. I wrote interview questions and Melinda improvised answers based on the stories and world she has developed over decades about cats, ladybugs, hamquatches and other critters. Melinda started a zine around 1996 titled The Basketcase and has used variations on that as her internet handle for most of this century.
2. For more adventures with ladybugs and hamsters, listen to:
Episode 74, “Fly Away Home.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-74-fly-away-home
Episode 78, “Speed Detective.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-78-speed-detective
Episode 133, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Scamper.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-133-on-her-majestys-secret-scamper
Hamster Sex commercial in Episode 97, “How Did This Gun in My Hand Get Made.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-97-how-did-this-gun-in-my-hand-get-made
3. Dramatis personae for critters mentioned by name in this episode:
Dolores - Hamquatch
Flicka - Ladybug
Jethro - Marmoset, married to Flicka
Flickthro and Jethica - marmobug twins, children of Jethro and Flicka
Jamyang - Hamyeti
4. Tater Tots were developed in 1953 and first sold in stores in 1956. Presumably Hamquatches knew how to make them before that and only shared the recipe with humans later.
Credits:
Music in this episode came from these public domain films:
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and Too Late for Tears (1949, aka Killer Bait). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Opening Door by skradz
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/176611/
Sound Effect Title: Door opening and closing 7 by JakLocke
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/261110/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Heels on Pavement.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/B.Harkins/sounds/683658/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of All Detective Magazine, Volume 4, Number 10, August 1938. Artist unknown. The microphone image comes from a public domain photo, “Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 04251).”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billie_Holiday,_Downbeat,_New_York,_N.Y.,_ca._Feb._1947_(William_P._Gottlieb_04251).jpg
Image Alt Text: Painting of a young blond woman in white blouse with short puffy sleeves and red skirt, seated in a cane-bottom chair. She leans her head back in terror from a large radio microphone close to her face. They are framed by a keyhole shape with a yellow background within the keyhole, black surrounding the keyhole.
