Episode 125 of the Letters Page: Creative Process: Monsters and Magic

Adam steals the intro http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-125-creative-process-monsters-and-magic

do we want to take sides now on Smash Mouth and what Powerhound we like best? dose Sonvar count as a Powerhound?

next episode will be dispiration writer's room- who wants to hear "extream Fanatic destroys hell"?

anyone else think that tragic mermaid story happened near Copenhagen?

Anyone remember Crystal Powerhound? The 90's were strange.

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Great googly moogly

I think this is the second time C&A have referenced Ghostbusters and then start singing Neil Cicirega's Bustin' rather than the original song, and it makes me happy every time.

Just to get it off my chest: Steel is made by mixing iron and carbon.  Iron and oxygen makes rust, which is neither difficult to make nor particularly useful in tool-making.

You're correct -- I assumed he was trying to refer to the Bessemer process, which does start by pumping oxygen through the molten iron to burn off the carbon and most of the impurities, before they add carbon back in to the correct percentage.

Strong disagree that all mummies are zombies. The original mythology of the zombie from Haitian folktales wasn’t necessarily even dead, just sort of hypnotized to work forever as a worse-than-slave. Often they would have been buried as if dead, but it was more like they were out into suspended animation with a paralyzing poison. So your classic plague zombie shouldn’t even really be called that, and Gloomweaver being voodoo-based should be less about then than he is, but I’ll accept that one …I draw the lines at mummies.

I like the idea that the Atlanteans set the Kraken to guard Atlantis under the assumption that attempts to loot the ruins would be made promptly and consistently, but that didn’t happen, so the Kraken is constantly starving, and that’s why it attacks the lowest HP. (Of course, C&A immediately contradict that )

They’re not lizard people you fools! Read your Conan the Barbarian textbooks, they’re SNAKE people, get it right!

It’s a cute idea to think that genies are just the Alexa control systems of the lamp and the ring.

I too prefer to always fight Advanced Powerhound, but haven’t had the courage to deal with Powerhound on Challenge mode. Frankly it’s obviously never been playtested and is ridiculously hax.

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