Binary System Podcast #240: What's getting us through the week

<p>Original broadcast date October 29, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-240-whats-getting-us-through-the-week/</p> <p>What with, you know, THE WORLD, sometimes you have to take the time to watch some movie or read some book that either makes you happy or just makes for a nice distraction FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES, HONESTLY 2020 KNOCK IT OFF.</p> <p>So after the weekly SitRep with beers, we're talking about rewatching <em>Midsommar </em>and <em>Red Dragon</em> (the former being amazing, the second being, uh, not boring?) before jumping into the latest chapter of <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&amp;page=1" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&amp;page=1">Lore Olympus</a> (read episode 128 on your phone with the music on!), the latest issue of <a href="https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/review-strange-academy-4/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/review-strange-academy-4/">Strange Academy</a>, and just about anything <a href="https://pixelatedgeek.com/tag/n-k-jemisin/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://pixelatedgeek.com/tag/n-k-jemisin/">N.K. Jemisen</a> has written. Plus we go over ideas for Halloween costumes based on great mashups or terrible puns.</p> <p>This week’s outro is a clip from <a href="https://youtu.be/tLiIfE1NcLQ" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://youtu.be/tLiIfE1NcLQ">Future Ghost</a> by TeknoAXE. (Which he posted two days ago, just in time for Halloween! He's amazing!</p> <p><em>Correction: there was a four-month gap between issue 1 and 2 of Strange Academy, and a 2 month gap between 2 and 3, but only one month between 3 and four. So Elizabeth has no idea why she thought it’d been months since the last issue.</em></p> <p>Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a