{"id":13976,"date":"2020-10-26T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2020-10-26T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:49:26","slug":"episode-404-michael-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-404-michael-shaw","title":{"rendered":"Episode 404 – Michael Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 404:
\nMichael Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The Elements of Stress is the perfect gift for the person who HAD everything.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Got the election \/ pandemic \/ climate change \/ midlife \/ inexplicable rash blues? Then listen to me and cartoonist & humorist Michael Shaw<\/a> talk about his new book, The Elements of Stress and the Pursuit of Happy-ish in this Current Sh*tstorm<\/a> (co-authored by the great Bob Eckstein<\/a>, from Weekly Humorist Press<\/em>)! We get into how Michael and Bob managed to mash up Strunk & White with Thurber & White to create a prose & cartoons handbook to dealing with This Whole Situation, then explore Michael’s history in cartooning and humor, how he balances that with a day job in writing and editing, his discovery that if he drew cartoons any better he’d be terrible, and why he took a hiatus from submitting gags to The New Yorker<\/em><\/a> (and whether they know<\/em> he’s taken said hiatus). We also get into his literary loves, the perils of listening to William S. Burroughs audiobooks on late-night commutes, how his florid-rococo style balances with Eckstein’s Hemingway-on-valium approach, the lesson he learned from Milton Glaser<\/a> about One Element of Dissonance, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read The Elements of Stress and the Pursuit of Happy-ish in this Current Sh*tstorm<\/a>!<\/p>\n