Episode 208 - Swamp Thing Rather Than Nothing

<p>BEHOLD!! The Swamp Thing Rather Than Nothing Episode!!</p><p>WITH!!!! Special Panel:</p><p>Curious wisdom-speaker and plant-woman<a href="https://www.rootedpod.com/about"> <strong>Em Grebner-Gaddis </strong></a>appears.&nbsp;</p><p>Painter and eccentric gatherer <a href="https://kennethnicholsonart.com/home">Swamp Ken</a> &nbsp;(Kenneth Nicholson) speaks to history, body-horror and early 90s bizarro.</p><p><a href="https://www.craigrandallwriting.com/"><strong>Craig Randall</strong> </a>thinks of living-thru-doom, hope and plants from the fertile crescent of the Pacific Northwest.</p><p>The guiding question and idea behind this fervid inquiry: <em>Why is Swamp Thing Important?</em></p><p>Host Ken Volante corrals most tendrils of this wonderful panel to: explore the brilliance and radical edge of <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/">Alan Moore</a>; the connection of Heather Locklear's foot and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772262/">Midsommar</a>; The Swamp Thing DC movie Universe speculated upon; the Wes Craven film (1982) dismantled and apprehended; the omnipresent threat to women in the films; Kudzu vine Swamp Thing biology theory; the (in)humanity of Alec Holland; the alien-transcendence of orchids; mental health, loneliness and alienation; and, so you know, SWAMP THING in a JEEP - this actually occurs in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifs_aMoas98&amp;t=44s"><em>The Return of The Swamp Thing</em></a></p><p><em>Enjoy!!!</em></p>