S. G. Ellerhoff

Episode 2 of May the Force Be With Jung is now live! This time I was so chuffed to have Vicki Goldsmith as my guest -- the first on the show. Since my book, Jung and Star Wars, is dedicated to her, it just felt right. Great thanks to her for being on the program. shows.acast.com/may-the-forc...

Everybody stop what you're doing and read this brilliance!

I don't know about you, but I still think about Faiza.

I'll show you exactly what you should do with a pig's ear mushroom (if you already know it won't upset your tumtum, that is). 🐖👂🍄‍🟫

RIP Marjoe Gortner. 🕯❤️

My Robert Sheckley odyssey pitched me tonight toward The 10th Victim (1965). Ursula Andress and the OG machine gun jubblies! #BoShek

It's not all bad. The deer are making out.

"Sometimes you don't survive in whole. Just in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. Being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under impossible circumstances." -Toni Morrison

Each book you write will make you read so many other books so that you will see it through.

Deebo Threebo is the droid equivalent of a Glup Shitto.

Thank you @starwarspodcast.ca for inspiring me to join this elite club... #StarWars #ZeroCompany

Just beat it this evening. So fun!

“Taste The Biscuit” was written by Vincent Gargiulo and originally performed by Toasters ‘N’ Moose (Estelle Piper and Tom Shaw).

Stumbling upon swifts roosting in a chimney is quite a nice thing, ya know it?

A very important person, @vicmmic.bsky.social is.

This month marks one year since my book Jung & Star Wars: A Contemporary Mythology was published. My favorite reader quest was when Beth of @truenorthmediaco.bsky.social took her copy to Tatooine in Tunisia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of filming there. Thank you forever, Beth! 📘✨🌌

Come and get your love, World!

Immense gratitude to Kevin Wetmore for the triumph that is Ray Bradbury: A Companion, and including my chapter, "Imagining Transgender Realities..." Thanks, too, to Robert Anderson of the LA Public Library for tracking down the tragic news item from 1937 that likely inspired Bradbury's story.

Fantastic new episode of @thursdeighties.bsky.social eighties this week with @danpasternack.bsky.social. Comedy, LA, Stand By Me, The Interviews project -- and a wonderful story about Mel Blanc. Give it a listen! shows.acast.com/63fbda2dd6d5...

I'm old enough to remember when a teenage couple tagged a temple in Des Moines with swastikas and Iowans were utterly disgusted. They were ordered to take classes from the rabbi, made good, and later invited the rabbi to their wedding. I do not recognize Iowans anymore.

Opening Night by Sara Baume ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Sometimes our item descriptions of books listed online crack me up... 🌊📚

The track I play when the bookstore is still full of custies 5 minutes before we close. youtu.be/neLyfku-O6E?...

🕯❤️ youtu.be/qApyS3m__xQ?...

New WIP calls for a new notebook, which itself calls for an emblem that's appropriately symptomatic of the whole blastedly neurotic endeavor. Thus: slapped a sticker on the cover for the (defunct?) bookstore named after my great-great-great-grandfather.

Also tucked into that 1st/1st of Cat's Cradle. 🤣🤣🤣

Tucked inside that 1st printing of Cat's Cradle.

Stellar new episode of Thursdeighties is live -- Billiam talking with Lance Guest! I grew up watching The Last Starfighter, so this conversation is just so fun. 👨‍🚀🚀

Leonard Nimoy’s 1974 recording may be the best possible way to experience There Will Come Soft Rains! youtu.be/nmcURKn2sf8

Ray Bradbury’s post-apocalyptic short story, There Will Come Soft Rains set on August 4, 2026. Published in 1950. Read here. (Warning, the dog (also) dies) www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

Flight delayed in Toronto, so Air Canada gave me free poutine!!! (this means I should stay, right?)

So grateful to have been present with everybody in Canada for Professor Peter Nazareth's Celebration of Life. Today has been exceptionally special. www.youtube.com/live/6cpU1IW...

What can I possibly say to praise Fantasmagoriana Deluxe enough? Published the same time the Brothers Grimm brought out their fairy tales, these stories carry folktale elements while steering toward death, the afterlife, strange happenings. They will surprise readers today in a number of fun ways.

Was listing this rare Swedish biography online today when I noticed some of its pages remain uncut along to top text block. That's when I discovered this special message -- meant just for you! 🌊📚

Another Jungian nugget in Star Wars: Legacy! One of the sacred Jedi texts is titled Aionomicum, volume two. In Carl Jung’s Collected Works, Volume 9, Part 2, is his book Aion. It is a study on what he called the Self, the archetype of archetypes, so to speak.

Not a spoiler: Star Wars: Legacy begins on the planet Pacara -- a play on the word picara, a term for a female adventurer. The picaresque is a form of novel made up of episodic adventures, the famous example being Don Quixote. Rey is absolutely a picara, so it fits to catch up with her on Pacara.

Well, these look like fun reads. My Jedi Memoir by James Kahn, and Madeleine Roux's Star Wars: Legacy.

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln raised money to rebuild my great-great-great-grandpa's house after gurriers burned it down in retaliation for his opposition to slavery.

Fantastic piece on the resilience of Eaton Fire survivors.

Great-great-great-grandpa Hecker in his No Kings outfit. Baden, 1848.

Great feature on my favorite American writer, Willy Vlautin. youtu.be/eYDrb3Ci57c?...

God bless you, Robert Sheckley. From "The Ogre Test" (Planet Stories, Summer 1954). #BoShek

Yeah!!

If you couldn't be at the Grad Bar at Lancaster University in England in 2002 and 2003 when Tin Pan Alley would come through and play, well, at least you can check out what it was like thanks to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=am7i...

There will never be another actor like Gene Wilder. He was uniquely hilarious. #YoungFrankenstein #TCMParty

Reading this book about my great-great-great-grandfather and suddenly find out the Force was with him... #StarWars

When the unconscious dishes up an antifascist horror story, you write an antifascist horror story...

Blade Runner was released 44 years ago today.

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Great big thanks to Scott and Emily and Zac Ziegler, a Reporter at KLCC, for our Tsunami Books appearance on Oregon Rainmakers. A fun group interview here about our efforts to buy the Tsunami Books property. www.klcc.org/podcast/klcc...