Episode Nine: Surfer on Acid & Ken Kesey

WARNING: This episode contains adult language and discussion of a certain guy in red fur that may not be appropriate for small children.

Welcome to our first 'ber month Lit for Christmas party of the year!

In this episode, Marty and his friend, Madeline, become Merry Prankster’s as the discuss Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in honor of what would have been Kesey’s 88th birthday on September 17.

BONUS POINTS: Take a drink every time someone says the word “crazy.”

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT:

Surfer on Acide (recipe adapted from Liquor.com)

 Ingredients

• 1 shot of Jagermeister (substitute non-alcoholic bourbon for non-alcoholic version)
• 1 shot of coconut rum (substitute coconut cream for non-alcoholic version)
• 1 shot of pineapple juice
• Pineapple wedge for garnish (optional)
• Ice

Directions:

1.   Add all the ingredients in a shaker with ice.

2.   Shake, strain, and pour into a highball glass with ice.

3.   Garnish with pineapple wedge (optional).

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT NONALCOHOLIC ALTERNATIVE:

Use ingredients and follow above directions, making the substitutions listed above.

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YOUR HOSTS

Marty has a Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press.  For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, also on Anchor.fm.  Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.

Madeline has a BA in English Creative Writing and gin drinking.  Currently, she is pursuing a Library Science graduate degree and avoiding the Lizard Man of Bloomington.  In her spare time, she enjoys reading eco-lit, true crime, and Alice Hoffman books.

Music for this episode:

"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.

"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.

Other music in the episode:

"O Come All Ye Grateful Dead-Heads."  Rivers, Bob. Twisted Christmas.  Critique/Atco/Atlantic, 1988.

A Christmas Carol sound clips from:

The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.

This month's Christmas lit:

Kesey, Ken.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  Penguin Books, New York:  1962.