The Canterbury Fails
David Coley and Matt Hussey
Reading marginal, minor, and absolutely unread Old and Middle English poetry, paired with a thematically appropriate cocktail.
Episodes
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Mar 10, 2024 • 56min
Wulfstan On Isaiah's Visions: David and Matt Wander East Van Breweries
A very special episode we like to call Canterbury Fails Ales Trails: a pilgrimage to several imbiberies punctuated with discussion of a bilingual apocalypto-prophetic wake-up call to the the English who are clearly eyebrow-deep in dissolution (much like the hosts).
Feb 16, 2024 • 51min
Bird with Four Feathers: Flimsy Penitential Allegory and Repugnant HubbaBubba Juice
A Middle English bird cries out for mercy, while we suck down the WORST potpourri vanilla chemical peach asscrap
Feb 3, 2024 • 55min
Old English Hexameron: Creation and Libation!
Ælfric lays out the first six days of creation--ecotheory, gender, epistemology (according to Coley)--and we have a stunning cocktail and IPA chaser.
Jan 20, 2024 • 55min
Jack and his Stepdame: Explosive Farts and Compulsive Dancing
A comic almost-fabliau about a boy, three wishes, and apocalyptic flatulence, with a layered cocktail that hides the darkness in the light.
Dec 8, 2023 • 27min
Special Episode: The Pastons
Margaret was both a medical and military rockstar. Do not mess with her.
Dec 2, 2023 • 53min
Peri Didaxeon: How to make yourself blind
An Old English barrage of healing recipes--dung! venison! breast milk!--with a cozy medicinal hearth warmer.
Nov 27, 2023 • 26min
Special Episode: Beetles, Buttholes and Bowel Movements
Who'd have thought that the super classy and amazingly sophisticated Marie de France wrote poems on exploding ass and pregnant men?
Nov 18, 2023 • 42min
Complaint Against Fortune: Meh
An anonymous Boethius-lite (TM) prison poem coupled with an opaquely frothy egg creme abomination.
Nov 3, 2023 • 55min
Bede's Death Song: Library Superhero
The short Old English death lyric embedded in an emotional Latin letter about an expiring superstar scholar, coupled with an explosive lemon and anise dropshot.
Oct 21, 2023 • 59min
The Colkelbie Sow: Utter Insanity
A poem so unruly and excessive that it cannot be summarized: unhinged bananas bull goose loony. With a trifecta of Penny cocktails.
