Episode 8

Gramacast!

In this historic episode, I get Grama Shirley on the inter-net to dish about her many babies, lament the loss of the daily news, incite the Fabric Panic of 2009, discuss the man and his mustache, and plug her awesome handmade purses. I'm pretty sure we can set her up with an etsy shop if we try. Also included: Bay City through the ages, songs we hate, one of us gets freaky with Neil Diamond, the necessities of schooling and driving, adventures in home heating, beer for boys and glazed doughnuts for girls, the crazy things we get addicted to, the jobs fit for an uncompromising woman in the fifties, and other things you couldn't imagine living through.

Bonus: Gram bets me I can't get through a podcast without using the word "amazing." Gram, as usual, is right.

Below: Saucy pics of the woman herself, c. 1949 and 1970s

Episode 7

Photo: Rachael Pressley photography c2009

LARP is a Four-Letter Word
It's all about games, gamers and gaming this week as we discuss puzzles, AD&D, and our general geeky and misspent youths. Our preferred Clue characters give insight into our personalities, realize anti-feminist movies shaped our childhoods, leading to our respective choices of warrior princessery and buckling swash. I stick up for LARPers and patchouli, declare that costumes are the only defense for acting a damn fool on a fake battlefield, and Jackie only has one V for you if you miss the The Sock Gap (and it's not the one you were hoping for). Also, modeling is hard, we boo at the closing of Shaman Drum, beg you to tell us how to use pilates bands, and start the countdown to kitty-fauxhawk. MROW!

Nerd-Alert Vocab:
gestalt: a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts

Links:
Capitol City River Run (half-marathon)

Local:
Shaman Drum
Midas on Washtenaw
Great Lakes Cycling and Fitness

Episode 6

Untelevised

This week: cable free is the way to be! Action Jackie joins the table to discuss the many benefits of canceling our Comcast subscription, including lofty goals for marathoning (and marathon reading). Although we don't mean to, we also discuss professors with questionable hygiene, Boston and its nutty accents, and how much we hate Hemingway (a lot). Includes such hits as: Netflix is great if you can't (ahem) remember where your movies come from, it takes two to pronounce 'synecdoche,' and Star Trek: A Tale of Two Kirks. Later, Mrs. Spock Potato gets a crash course in comparative religion, and we don't even try not to let our elitist dicks hang out re: Twilight and Nicholas Sparks. Don't worry, we brought enough blasphemy for everyone.

[To clarify: Jackie is not from the UP, and Anna Jonsson is not blonde (but she is a genius!)]

Episode 5

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Kindle, Spock!

Why did Ira Glass make us cry when all we did was love him? Who is the last person on earth who doesn't know Ingrid Bergman is Isabella Rossellini’s mom? Where is the line between "experienced" and "just really old, you crazy freak of nature"? Join us as we answer these and many more questions, with plenty of Haterade left over for the Disney wedding experience, the complex mathematics of cellphones, and Amazon's pouring salt in my e-book wound. Also, check out the new local living section, highlighting a new local business (or three) every week!

Handy Links:
Green Porno

Gaybie of the Week: Oscar Fogden "Froggy" Styrs

Coming soon--swag! (Shh!)

Episode 4

Bumpin' the Night

In this fraught-with-innuendo episode, Joy equates jerky to mummies and Sarah is so hormonally-imbalanced she eats meat and considers public indecency. We christen the porn library (not like that!), read a bit of terrible prose, and wonder what the hell is up with the fourth-generation iPod. Special bonus features include the ups and downs of mustaches (not like that!) and a virgin shopper's guide to vibrators (totally like that).

Follow along with the worst writing ever published HERE.

Gaybie of the Week: Greta Jean Garber

Episode 3

I Love Technology

The new site is up and running! Oliver inspires us to celebrate all the things the 21st Century has done for us, for good (Pandora, the Kindle, RuPaul) or ill (pay-per-view porn, the stunted growth of Tim Burton), all while sitting too close to the microphone. Also, a heated discussion on Macs vs. PCs, more embarrassing tales of celebrity sightings, and Asimov's Jeans fails to catch on.

Name The Porn Library Contest! Click HERE to enter!

Gaybie of the Week: Shawn Tay Punn

Episode 2

Go Away, Beyonce

We discuss the positive message of the First Lady’s biceps, support several local businesses (regardless where their vanilla beans come from), create progeny for America’s hottest vegan lesbians, debate Jerry Seinfeld’s window of funny, and make first-rate enemies out of Sasha Fierce and Christina Ricci.

Gaybie of the Week: Nathan DiDeRossi



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