Filthy Armenian Adventures24 Okt 2021

1. The Filthy Professor in San Diego

The Santa Ana Winds are met by a magical storm, spurring an OG Filthy Armenian Adventure to San Diego to shoot the breeze with old friend and literary guidepost Stephen Cox, the author of The Titanic Story, American Christianity, The Big House: Life and Reality in the American Prison, The New Testament and Literature: A Guide to Literary Patterns, and The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, and editor of Liberty Magazine.

Location: Greek restaurant formerly known as Aesop's Tables

Sights discussed: Joan Didion, Raymond Chandler, Eve Babitz, Columbo, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, South Park, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gone with the Wind, Nick at Nite, Gaslight, Angela Lansbury’s three acts, The Picture of Dorian Gray movie, George Sanders, GWTW screenplay and first screening story, Armenia’s revolution, Another Round, Le Grand Bouffet, Little Shop Around the Corner, Shadow of a Doubt, Rebecca, The Fountainhead, The New Yorker, salt, Elmer Gantry, Dr. Fauci, Los Angeles, Australia, New Zealand, masks, Isabel Paterson, Ayn Rand, A Star is Born, The Mission Inn, The Reptile Factory, Jehova’s Witnesses, podcasting, cults, Mormon Church, God of the Machine, Walter Lippmann, National Review, Louis Aulchincloss, Ruth Suckow, Eva Marie Saint, William F. Buckley, Gore Vidal.

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