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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it.
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#125: The Balloon Doggies Demanded It [why I hate Jeff Koons] (opens the original)
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Jeff Koons is, without a doubt, the quintessential artist of our age: as bland and reassuring as a bowl of oatmeal, about as deep as a puddle, and more concerned about how much his work sells for than what it says. A hater's guide. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-balloon-doggies-demanded-it Key sources for this episode include Don Thompson's The $12 Million Stuffed Shark ; Jed Perl's "The Cult of Jeff Koons"; Hans Werner Holzwarth's Koons monograph; Norman Rosenthal's Jeff Koons: Conversa
#124: Skeedadded and gone to Hell [Pithole] (opens the original)
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For a long time it was just a hole in the ground. Then, for twelve months, it was the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania and the biggest oil field in the world. And then, just as abruptly, it was a hole inthe ground again. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/skeedaddled-and-gone-to-hell Key sources for this episode include Brian Black's Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom ; Ernest C. Miller's Pennsylvania's Oil Industry ; John J. McLaurin's Sketches in Crude Oil; the autobiography
How Much Chocolate is In Your Chocolate? (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Chocolope, where I dive into topics too nerdy for a Chocolate Snobs episode and too chocolate-oriented for an Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope entry. Today, we ask: "How much chocolate is in your chocolate?" https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/how-much-chocolate/ https://chocolate-snobs.com
#123: No Heretic Has Suffered Less [Immanuel Velikovsky and Worlds in Collision] (opens the original)
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In the 1940s, while trying to rebut Freud, psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovsky decided the reason ancient history didn't make any sense was simple: it was all the fault of the planet Venus. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/no-heretic-has-suffered-less Key sources for this episode include Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision , Earth in Upheaval , and Ages of Chaos ; Alfred de Grazia's Cosmic Heretics ; Kendrick Frasier's Paranormal Borderlands of Science ; and Michael D Gordin's The Pseudo-S
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