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In Lieu OfILOARI | JUST SAY NO to Sam Raimi Directing DOCTOR STRANGE 2EMERGENCY IN LIEU OF A REGULAR ISSUE, KIDDOS! Clear all frequencies! Sound all alarms! Re-watch Spider-Man 3!Oh I am just so angry!!!2020-02-0610 minIn Lieu OfILOARI | The Audacity of X-Men: The Animated Series' First SeasonGreetings, fellow mutants & gifted youngsters!Follow your telepathic guide with a heart of adamantium, Dixby Karavaggio, as he revisits one of his favorite (and frankly BEST) animated series of the 90s: the one-and-only X-Men: The Animated Series. How audacious was this show's first season? There's only one way to find out, kiddos!SNIKT! SNIKT!2020-01-3034 minIn Lieu OfVOL. I | Iss. 5, “This is Your Family, I am Your Father”Like the first light on the fifth day, In Lieu Of comes ROARING BACK into your lives, kiddos, with the conclusion to VOLUME I: CULTURED FEAR. It has been a minute so remind me... what are we talking about today again? Could it be that little-known indie comic from the mid-80s by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird? Their series had a limited run, was marginally successful, developed a small, cult following, rihgt? It’ll come to me. Just give me a sec............. GOD I WANTED TO BE A TURTLE!!!!!!... when this movie...2020-01-021h 14In Lieu OfPrestalgia News | Joker, Obi-Wan, and Four ThorsHow goes it, kiddos!? We’re trying something new this time. But instead of droning on and on in this description box, why don’t you just check out what we’ve put out this week. (Listen for the part where Dix freaks out over A FOURTH THOR MOVIE. He doesn’t take the news... quietly.) 2019-08-2911 minIn Lieu OfILOARI | The Silence of the Guru; or, Crawford's Indifference & Dixby's AmbivalenceHello, kiddos! In lieu of a regular issue, Dixby ponders Jack Crawford's indifference towards seemingly everything and everyone in the world (his indifference being on full display in the award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs). Snack on this shorter audio delight whilst we prepare a fully-baked (and ALWAYS high in fiber) issue of In Lieu Of... COMING SOON!2019-08-2226 minIn Lieu OfVOL. I | Iss. 4, “Welcome to the Next Level"Salutations and consolations, old chums! It’s-a-me, Dixby Karavaggio. Join me, won't you, kiddos, as we reenter the hallowed year of 1991! In this issue we’re gonna collect as many rings and keep as many chaos emeralds away from Dr. Robotnik as we can, all while avoiding sharp objects, drowning, and Robotnik’s Badniks, those animal slaves powering fiendish, robotic exoskeletons. I’m talking about the most famous hedgehog to lace up a pair of running shoes, to enjoy his own mega-lucrative video game franchise, and to hide his shame as Hollywood tries to make him a film...2019-08-1553 minIn Lieu OfILOARI | Sweating the Details in “Dreams in Darkness”Good day, all you professors of psychology specializing in phobias! In lieu of a regular issue, your humble savant, Dixby Karavaggio, brings you a thoughtful (and quite needless) meditation on the Batman: The Animated Series episode: “Dreams in Darkness.” It’s a (nearly) perfect episode, and Dixby is a (nearly) tolerable nitpicker. Enjoy, kiddos! And rest assured that a fresh, NEW (regular) ISSUE is COMING SOON!!!2019-08-0823 minIn Lieu OfVOL. I | Iss. 3, “We Made a Toaster Dance With It”Salutations and consolations, my fellow paranormal investigators and eliminators! It’s hard to believe we’re back here… not “here” as in In Lieu Of but “here” as in the summer of 1989! Feels like we were just here, like, two issues ago. OK... how about New Years Eve, 1989? That’s not when this particular movie came out but it does take place around that time of year, so we’ll go with that. Am I ever ready to slide down a fireman’s pole, hop into Ecto-1, and bust some ghosts! But first we ought to tediously review the...2019-08-0154 minIn Lieu OfILOARI | Challenging the Greatness of Spider-Man 2Welcome, Fiends and Friends, to... something different this time. Your old companion, Dixby Karavaggio, would like to share his thoughts (his mostly negative thoughts) on 2004's Spider-Man 2... ya know... in lieu of presenting a regular issue. Regular issues, like our two previous releases, are longer pieces, researched, edited mercilessly and with thoughtful music. This ain't that. Listeners can expect shorter (but probably still a bit too long) works, usually focused on one thing, one movie, one character. Simpler music, less editing, DIXBY IN THE WILD! Enjo...2019-07-2523 minIn Lieu OfVOL. I | Iss. 2, “His Murder Suspect is a Giant, Blood-Sucking Worm”Salutations & consolations, kiddos! In this issue Dixby deep-dives into the history of so-called social parasites in the former Soviet Union and the 1960's law passed to staunch their growth. And how a mutated monstrosity from one of the 1990's most iconic science fiction TV series brought to life the fears of what lies beyond what we chose to see, beyond the periphery of the subversive and the submerged. In lieu of conceptualizing labor as a right or as a duty and this argument’s legacy after the Cold War, why did The X-Files give us a Fluke...2019-07-1951 minIn Lieu OfVOL. I | Iss. 1, “Takin’ ‘Em Out a Whole New Door”Salutations and consolations, kiddos! Welcome to the VERY FIRST issue of In Lieu Of! I’m Dixby Karavaggio, your humble nostalgia podcaster, broadcasting from a dilapidated ranch outside of Home, Pennsylvania, here to serve you a heaping helping of my favorite things from the 1980s and 90s (and maybe some stuff from this century, too). We call these musings issues, audio serials, half-comic book and half-news article. I’m interested to see how some of my favorite movies, TV shows, and video games fit in to, inform, or maybe clash with the larg...2019-07-0744 min