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7. Goodbye for a Few
When I return for Szn 3, the podcast will have a new name inspired by the turn my essays have taken. "Don't Be Poor" my friends, don't be poor. | Listen…
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6. Don't Be Poor with Me
Listen now (36 sec) | Don't Be Poor with Lunar V
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February 2023

Don't Be Poor
For those of you who prefer to ready the angry tirade. And if you like typo-patterns. And my fav -- the links to anti-capitalist book lists.
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5. Don't Be Poor
Listen now | I wrote this episode on a day I finally broke from getting the same only-ever-subtext message from the online wellness community. Subscribe…
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12:20
Play & Pleasure
For those of you who don't like grammar, but do like links to devastating short stories.
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4. Play & Pleasure
Listen now | Johan Huizinga’s definition of “play” reminds me of Octavio Paz’s definition of “eroticism” – that it exists for the sake of itself. Which…
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19:29
Kindred vs. Kindred
For those of you who like to read pointless arts & culture criticizm. And posts from a person who could spell better in the first grade than she can…
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3. Kindred vs. Kindred
Listen now | I had been waiting forever for an adaptation of an Octavia Butler work. So when I saw the ad for the Hulu show, I counted down the days. I…
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39:13
SVC: Special Victims & Chill
For those of you who like stories about almost-kidnappings. And for the links, obv.
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2. SVC: Special Victims & Chill
Listen now | I wrote this episode in response to Sarah Marshall’s essay Violent Delights about the serial killer media industrial complex in the…
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12:40

January 2023

My Erotic Life
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1. My Erotic Life
This episode found its provenance in a letter i wrote to a person I was dating but never sent. Listen now.
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