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The Cat gets titular in the first episode of a brand new season, with special guest Jason Nahrung, Australia’s number one vampire and author of Blood and Dust and The Big Smoke. While Kaaron takes a creepy clown as her plus one and Aaron gets unwholesomely into napkins, Joseph gets a lift with a stranger to knifey-town. Jason shares his abiding love of New Orleans, and everybody learns about the life of pirate Jean Lafitte. Titles are discussed: titles from nowhere; titles by consortium; titles as a story’s guiding light. The comfort of titles on a bookshelf. The dangers of writing as a tourist. Everyone agrees you shouldn’t be a wanker. Kaaron and Aaron fall out over Love Story. Jason wonders where you got dem shoes. Joseph gets into jazz—wankily. Everyone agrees on the Bloody Mary.
Po-boys and beignets from this episode include:
- Harlan Ellison’s I have no mouth and I must scream
- Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
- Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
- Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs
- Spoon’s Lafitte Don’t Fail Me Now and The Agony of Lafitte
