Monday

22 December

7 pm - Tripping Life Fantastic w/Joe in Norway

Taking stock of the photos (and a few videos) taken during the past year of travel across southern Europe, the Middle East, the Asian sub-continent, East and Southeast Asia and a couple Pacific islands.

8:00 pm - Reading and Writing Workshop w/Nate in Wisconsin

9 pm - The Funny Hour

Bring your stand up and funny videos where the whole community participates.

Tuesday

23 December

7 pm - Happy Festivus for the Rest of Us! w/ Bruce and Friends

Join us for an evening of Festivus traditions including the Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, and other Festivus fun.

8:30 pm - Good News Everyone! w/Prof. Jon

Prof Jon reads articles that are not so good news.

Wednesday

24 December

6 pm - Weekly Marx Office Hour(s) w/Ann Li

Reading: Mizuoka Chapter 6

Join us for a daily topical conversation about cultural and political economic research subjects plus discussion about scholarly articles posted to the Discord.

Thursday

25 December

7 pm - Bring the News w/Whomever Brings It

If you come across an article or bit of news that you feel the group would find interesting read it aloud (or ask someone to) and open the floor to discussion.

9 pm) - Xmas Watch Party Mama (Rock’n’Roll Wolf) (1976) w/CinemaTAC

What It’s a Wonderful Life is to the US juletime, Mama is to Norwegian media consumers. “Mama (Rock’n’Roll Wolf) is a musical film from 1976 and is a Romanian–Soviet–French co-production.”

Friday

26 December

7 pm - The After Hours Show S03E31

On tonight’s show:

• Ann Li updates us on Ukraine and blesses us with a rant
• Joe in Norway departs from the Kitchen ASMR credo due to an ethical dilemma we shall cut into
• TAC week in review, week looking forward

8:30 pm - A Guided Tour of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: Last Rites for a Dead Druid

Attorney Bruce Tarraday is tormented by the statue of a Druid sorcerer which his wife impulsively bought, claiming that it resembles him. Starring: Bill Bixby, Carol Lynley, and Donna Douglas.

10 pm - CinemaTAC: Poker Face w/Travis

I would like to invite everyone to join me for the mystery crime/comedy series, Poker Face. A Columbo inspired drama.

A mystery-of-the-week series following Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road in her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. Guest stars are plentiful throughout, from Ellen Barkin and Adrien Brody to Luis Guzmán and Chloë Sevigny. An inverted detective series, also known as a “howcatchem” and popularized by “Columbo,” the crime and perpetrator are shown at the beginning of each episode, and follows Charlie as she tries to solve the mystery.

Saturday

27 December

7 pm - Saturday Night Theatre: TBD

9 pm - Bring the Music

Bring tunes you want to share, check #music Discord channel for this week’s theme.

Sunday

28 December

5 pm - A Star Trek:The Next Generation Watch Party & Discussion w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: The High Ground

While visiting a planet under civil war, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by an opposing faction of the planet’s ruling government. Guest Starring: Kerrie Keane and Richard Cox.

? pm - Sunday Soul Social (Following Star Trek) w/Lane

Note: all times in ET.

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Monday

15 December

7 pm - Tripping Life Fantastic w/Joe in Norway

Taking stock of the photos (and a few videos) taken during the past year of travel across southern Europe, the Middle East, the Asian sub-continent, East and Southeast Asia and a couple Pacific islands.

8:00 pm - Reading and Writing Workshop w/Nate in Wisconsin

Nate reads Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris in honor of Nancy and her reading of her Aunt’s memoir. (If people enjoy we could do it for a while.)

9 pm - The Funny Hour

Bring your stand up and funny videos where the whole community participates.

Tuesday

16 December

6 pm - The Red Hour w/Bruce

Join the us for a short story discussion. See #the-red-hour Discord channel for more information.

This week’s reading: Duel by Richard Matheson

This Tuesday the Red hour will start an hour earlier 6pm ET. We will read the Richard Matheson short story Duel followed by a screening of the Spielberg directed made for TV version.

7 pm - The Red (Film) Hour Duel Screening w/Bruce

8:30 pm - Good News Everyone! w/Prof. Jon

Prof Jon reads articles that are not so good news.

Wednesday

17 December

6 pm - Weekly Marx Office Hour(s) w/Ann Li

Reading: Chapter 5 Mizuoka

Join us for a daily topical conversation about cultural and political economic research subjects plus discussion about scholarly articles posted to the Discord.

Thursday

18 December

7 pm - Bring the News w/Whomever Brings It

If you come across an article or bit of news that you feel the group would find interesting read it aloud (or ask someone to) and open the floor to discussion.

Friday

19 December

7 pm - The After Hours Show S03E30

On tonight’s show:

• Ann Li updates us on Ukraine and blesses us with a rant
• Joe in Norway preps holiday cabbage and radish dishes via pre-fermentation for Kitchen ASMR
• TAC week in review, week looking forward

8:30 pm - A Guided Tour of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: The Late Mr. Peddington

Impoverished Cora Peddington shops for a cheap funeral for her husband. Starring: Harry Morgan and Kim Hunter.

10 pm - CinemaTAC: Poker Face w/Travis

I would like to invite everyone to join me for the mystery crime/comedy series, Poker Face. A Columbo inspired drama.

A mystery-of-the-week series following Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road in her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. Guest stars are plentiful throughout, from Ellen Barkin and Adrien Brody to Luis Guzmán and Chloë Sevigny. An inverted detective series, also known as a “howcatchem” and popularized by “Columbo,” the crime and perpetrator are shown at the beginning of each episode, and follows Charlie as she tries to solve the mystery.

Saturday

20 December

7 pm - Saturday Night Theatre: Marty w/Susanna

🍿 Saturday Night Theatre will present the 📽️ 1955 Oscar winning Best Picture of the Year: MARTYby Paddy Chayefsky and starring Ernest Borgnine. A warm-hearted smash hit and a nice prelude to the holidays. 🦋

9 pm - Bring the Music

Bring tunes you want to share, check #music Discord channel for this week’s theme.

Sunday

21 December

2 pm - Course: Oligarchy w/Class Unity

“The history of all hitherto existing societies,” Marx once wrote, “is the history of class struggle.” What if the central political form of our time is not democracy — the rule of the majority of people — but oligarchy — the rule of the few? This course examines the idea and structure of oligarchic power in theory, in history, and in contemporary practice. We’ll read political theorists and social scientists who have analyzed how wealth, status, and institutional control concentrate in the hands of a small elite even within ostensibly democratic societies. Core readings include Michael Parenti’s Democracy for the Few, G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America?, and a selection of historical documents. We will trace how “national” concerns are invoked to justify decisions that primarily benefit dominant classes and will ask whether oligarchy today operates more through persuasion than coercion. We will also compare classical notions of aristocracy and plutocracy to modern networks of corporate, bureaucratic, and intelligence power.

5 pm - A Star Trek:The Next Generation Watch Party & Discussion w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: The Hunted

Investigating a planet applying for membership into the Federation, the crew of the Enterprise finds a group of inhabitants who used to be soldiers, but now fight for their very existence.

? pm - Sunday Soul Social (Following Star Trek) w/Lane

Note: all times in ET.

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Monday

8 December

8:00 pm - Reading and Writing Workshop w/Nate in Wisconsin

Nate reads Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris in honor of Nancy and her reading of her Aunt’s memoir. (If people enjoy we could do it for a while.)

9 pm - The Funny Hour

Bring your stand up and funny videos where the whole community participates.

Tuesday

9 December

7-8:30 pm - The Red Hour

Join the us for a short story discussion. See #the-red-hour Discord channel for more information.

This week’s reading: The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut. Jr.

8:30 pm - Good News Everyone! w/Prof. Jon

Prof Jon reads articles that are not so good news.

Wednesday

10 December

6 pm - Weekly Marx Office Hour(s) w/Ann Li

Reading: Relative Space

Join us for a daily topical conversation about cultural and political economic research subjects plus discussion about scholarly articles posted to the Discord.

7 pm - No War on Venezuela! Webinar w/The People’s Forum

In the wake of the powerful Nationwide Day of Action for “No War on Venezuela” where over 65 cities mobilized to demand an end to the US war drive on Venezuela, we gather again to assess the current moment and chart the path forward.

This webinar will provide space to evaluate the impact of our mobilizations against a potential war with Venezuela and discuss how we can deepen anti-war consciousness in our communities.

As U.S. threats and manufactured narratives escalate, our responsibility to build a broad and politically grounded anti-war movement becomes even more urgent.

Thursday

11 December

7 pm - Bring the News w/Whomever Brings It

If you come across an article or bit of news that you feel the group would find interesting read it aloud (or ask someone to) and open the floor to discussion.

Friday

12 December

7 pm - The After Hours Show S03E29

On tonight’s show:

• Ann Li updates us on Ukraine and blesses us with a rant
• Joe in Norway cooks up kala chana masala and spiced rice for Kitchen ASMR
• TAC week in review, week looking forward

8:30 pm - A Guided Tour of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: A Feast of Blood

Sheila Grey’s homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive. Starring: Sondra Locke, Norman Lloyd, and Hermione Baddeley.

10 pm - CinemaTAC: Poker Face w/Travis

I would like to invite everyone to join me for the mystery crime/comedy series, Poker Face. A Columbo inspired drama.

A mystery-of-the-week series following Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road in her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. Guest stars are plentiful throughout, from Ellen Barkin and Adrien Brody to Luis Guzmán and Chloë Sevigny. An inverted detective series, also known as a “howcatchem” and popularized by “Columbo,” the crime and perpetrator are shown at the beginning of each episode, and follows Charlie as she tries to solve the mystery.

Saturday

13 December

7 pm - Saturday Night Theatre: One Battle After Another w/Travis

9 pm - Bring the Music

Bring tunes you want to share, check #music Discord channel for this week’s theme.

Sunday

14 December

5 pm - A Star Trek:The Next Generation Watch Party & Discussion w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: The Defector

The Enterprise is tasked with stopping a galactic war between the Federation and the Romulan Empire. But are they actually being tricked into starting that war? And if so, by whom? Guest starring: James Sloyan and Andreas Katsulas

? pm - Sunday Soul Social (Following Star Trek) w/Lane

Note: all times in ET.

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Monday

1 December

7:30 pm - Reading and Writing Workshop w/Nate in Wisconsin

Soft opening time. Nate reads Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris in honor of Nancy and her reading of her Aunt’s memoir. (If people enjoy we could do it for a while.)

9 pm - Tripping Life Fantastic w/Joe in Norway

Taking stock of the photos (and a few videos) taken during the past year of travel across southern Europe, the Middle East, the Asian sub-continent, East and Southeast Asia and a couple Pacific islands.

10 pm - The Funny Hour

Bring your stand up and funny videos where the whole community participates.

Tuesday

2 December

7-8:30 pm - The Red Hour

Join the us for a short story discussion. See #the-red-hour Discord channel for more information.

This week’s reading: Two Potters by Doris Lessing

8:30 pm - Good News Everyone! w/Prof. Jon

Prof Jon reads articles that are not so good news.

Wednesday

3 December

6 pm - Weekly Marx Office Hour(s) w/Ann Li

Reading: Subsumption of Space, A Theory of Marxist Geography

Join us for a daily topical conversation about cultural and political economic research subjects plus discussion about scholarly articles posted to the Discord.

Thursday

4 December

7 pm - Bring the News w/Susanna

Thoughtful discussion on ZERO HOUR with guest Norman Solomon. Video: “The DEMS' Role in Our Trumpian Hell”

If you come across an article or bit of news that you feel the group would find interesting read it aloud (or ask someone to) and open the floor to discussion.

Friday

5 December

7 pm - The After Hours Show S03E28

On tonight’s show:

• Ann Li updates us on Ukraine and blesses us with a rant
• Joe in Norway cooks up cornmeal dumpling, rosecoco beans, and marrow squash for the allergic amongst us for Kitchen ASMR
• TAC week in review, week looking forward

8:30 pm - A Guided Tour of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

Tonight on Night Gallery, a double feature. Our first episode is Big Surprise, Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it. Starring: John Carradine and Vincent Van Patten.

Followed by The Painted Mirror, removing paint from an antique mirror, shop owner Frank Standish reveals an alien landscape. Starring: Zsa Zsa Gabor and Arthur O’Connell.

10 pm - CinemaTAC: Poker Face w/Travis

I would like to invite everyone to join me for the mystery crime/comedy series, Poker Face. A Columbo inspired drama.

A mystery-of-the-week series following Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road in her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. Guest stars are plentiful throughout, from Ellen Barkin and Adrien Brody to Luis Guzmán and Chloë Sevigny. An inverted detective series, also known as a “howcatchem” and popularized by “Columbo,” the crime and perpetrator are shown at the beginning of each episode, and follows Charlie as she tries to solve the mystery.

11 pm - Open Dialogue

Saturday

6 December

19:00 (07:00 pm) - Saturday Night Theatre: “Witness for the Prosecution” w/Susanna

🍿 Agatha Christie’s 1957 smash hit starring Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Elsa Lanchester. Directed by the great Billy Wilder. (8.3 rating on IMDB)

9 pm - Bring the Music

Bring tunes you want to share, check #music Discord channel for this week’s theme.

Sunday

7 December

2 pm - Course: Oligarchy w/Class Unity

“The history of all hitherto existing societies,” Marx once wrote, “is the history of class struggle.” What if the central political form of our time is not democracy — the rule of the majority of people — but oligarchy — the rule of the few? This course examines the idea and structure of oligarchic power in theory, in history, and in contemporary practice. We’ll read political theorists and social scientists who have analyzed how wealth, status, and institutional control concentrate in the hands of a small elite even within ostensibly democratic societies. Core readings include Michael Parenti’s Democracy for the Few, G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America?, and a selection of historical documents. We will trace how “national” concerns are invoked to justify decisions that primarily benefit dominant classes and will ask whether oligarchy today operates more through persuasion than coercion. We will also compare classical notions of aristocracy and plutocracy to modern networks of corporate, bureaucratic, and intelligence power.

5 pm - A Star Trek:The Next Generation Watch Party & Discussion w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

This week’s episode: The Vengeance Factor

The Enterprise pursues a race of “gatherers” who continue to raid Federation outposts, unaware of the dangers lurking among them. Guest starring: Lisa Wilcox, Joey Aresco, Nancy Parsons and Stephen Lee.

? pm - Sunday Soul Social (Following Star Trek) w/Lane

Note: all times in ET.

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Monday

24 November

8 pm - The Funny Hour

Bring your stand up and funny videos where the whole community participates.

Tuesday

25 November

7-8:30 pm - The Red Hour

Join the us for a short story discussion. See #the-red-hour Discord channel for more information.

This week’s reading: The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias Buckell

8:30 pm - Good News Everyone! w/Prof. Jon

Wednesday

26 November

6 pm - Weekly Marx Office Hour(s) w/Ann Li

Reading: The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall

Join us for a daily topical conversation about cultural and political economic research subjects plus discussion about scholarly articles posted to the Discord.

(8:30 pm - Spirituality and Activism w/Texas Tom (separate Zoom)

Thursday

27 November

5 pm - CinemaTAC: The Last Waltz w/Bruce

7 pm - Bring the News w/Whomever Brings It

If you come across an article or bit of news that you feel the group would find interesting read it aloud (or ask someone to) and open the floor to discussion.

9 pm - “Texas Tom” Webber’s Night Owl Roost (separate Zoom)

Friday

28 November

3 pm - Office Hours w/Professor Adnan Husain

Office Hours 16-Haunting Futures: Big Tech and Resistance w/Syed Mustafa Ali

In this age of the machines and the oppression of the AI and algorithms, how can the human survive and even thrive? Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali, a radical computer scientist and decolonial scholar at the Open University-UK, joins us in Office Hours to provide anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist analysis of the racial regimes and colonizing constructs of Big Tech and the conceptual possibilities for resistance. Mustafa will illuminate how the spectres of Marx, Ludd and those “Other"ed haunt the big tech future while big tech futures haunt our present by attempting to foreclose alternative futures. This is the tech struggle of our time. Do we need a “Butlerian jihad”? Does science fiction, like Frank Herbert’s Dune series, point to Islamicate possibilities for resistance against the colonizing of big tech? What resources must we draw upon in political economy, political ecology and political theology? This is going to be a superb opportunity to engage key questions of the past, present and future. Join us!

To prepare, check out Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali’s fascinating recent article “A Butlerian Hauntology” in ReOrient, Journal of Critical Muslim Studies.

Professor Adnan A. Husain discusses a wide range of topics, hosts conversations and interviews guests, ranging from history, religion, left politics and thought, global affairs, especially on the Middle East and Islamic World, Sufism and Spirituality, Islamophobia and other forms of racism and religious bigotry, and even some culture, music, literature, and art.

7 pm - The After Hours Show S03E27

On tonight’s show:

• Ann Li updates us on Ukraine and blesses us with a rant or two
• Joe in Norway makes Singaporean noodles in sub-zero conditions for Kitchen ASMR
• TAC week in review, week looking forward

8:30 pm - Open Dialogue

Due to the holiday, the rest of the evening is free-form.

A Guided Tour of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery w/Prof. Jon

CinemaTAC: Poker Face w/Travis

Saturday

29 November

6:45 pm - Saturday Night Theatre: Anatomy of a Murder w/Susanna

I’ve got a gorgeous Blu-ray print of 1959 “Anatomy of a Murder” with James Stewart, George C. Scott, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara. Courtroom drama and major Oscar Contender. Introduction by Robert Osborne

9 pm - Bring the Music

Bring tunes you want to share, check #music Discord channel for this week’s theme.

Sunday

30 November

2 pm - Art Attack Zoom Group w/Texas Tom (separate Zoom)

2 pm - Course: Oligarchy w/Class Unity

“The history of all hitherto existing societies,” Marx once wrote, “is the history of class struggle.” What if the central political form of our time is not democracy — the rule of the majority of people — but oligarchy — the rule of the few? This course examines the idea and structure of oligarchic power in theory, in history, and in contemporary practice. We’ll read political theorists and social scientists who have analyzed how wealth, status, and institutional control concentrate in the hands of a small elite even within ostensibly democratic societies. Core readings include Michael Parenti’s Democracy for the Few, G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America?, and a selection of historical documents. We will trace how “national” concerns are invoked to justify decisions that primarily benefit dominant classes and will ask whether oligarchy today operates more through persuasion than coercion. We will also compare classical notions of aristocracy and plutocracy to modern networks of corporate, bureaucratic, and intelligence power.

5 pm - A Star Trek:The Next Generation Watch Party & Discussion w/Prof. Jon

? pm - Sunday Soul Social (Following Star Trek) w/Lane

This week: RIP Jimmy Cliff night.

Note: all times in ET.

Registration

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