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April 2, 2016 / 0 Comments

Podcast Episodes I Liked This Week: Racist Food Edition

The one thing I find I have trouble sharing to my circle these days are podcast episodes. Episodes are hard to share from within most apps. The context in which I am usually listening isn’t conducive to sharing.

Hey! I have a woefully underutilized blog.

Here are some podcast episodes I rather enjoyed this week:

Is This Food Racist?

I haven’t been listening to Dan Pashman’s podcast as religiously as I had been. One of the last episodes I listened to sparked the current series that’s being discussed on this episode of On The Media. It’s a great convo but what I most like is that it validates my suspiciousness of Rick Bayless. It also got me to revisit The Sporkful.

Pappy

I love bourbon. I love true crime. I love Phoebe Judge’s voice. This episode of Criminal so relevant to my interests.

Crimble Bramble

Sampler Show is such a great concept: a podcast about podcasts. This edition examines a space of the podcast world I’m never in, comedy. More than that, I always enjoy hearing Reply All’s Alex and PJ banter as friends and colleagues. I don’t think I’ll be trying any of the shows mentioned but I was entertained.

Small Batch: The Real Housewives of the Potomac

This is the one series of The Real Housewives Tiffany isn’t watching (I don’t think) but this brief Pop Culture Happy Hour conversation kinda makes me wanna binge watch some weekend soon. It also features Sampler Show’s host Brittany Luse so, you know, synergy.

Sighting The Sites Of The New Orleans Slave Trade

I’m obsessed with Tripod. It is fascinating and infuriating and is the kind of history storytelling I wish we got in our education system. The reminder that one million people were bought and sold all over New Orleans—my second favorite city in the country—and that we rarely reckon or remind ourselves of this fact is the core of this episode. I will not forget the next time I walk by or into the Omni Hotel. And I just might sneak into the hotel pool. For the ancestors.

Your turn. What podcast episodes did you love this week?

October 7, 2013 / 1 Comment

Louisville is for Lovers

“Like a kiss of sunshine on my face” – Basement Jaxx, What A Difference Your Love Makes


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Tiffany and I were asked to do a reading that excerpted part of this conversation between Calvin and Hobbes about love at a wedding this past weekend and were delighted to do so.

I’m still all filled up with love as I type this at 36,000 feet on our return from Louisville, so let’s take an accounting of the things I loved about the last four days

  • The 21C Museum Hotel
  • Seeing Felicia for the third time in six weeks
  • Meeting the boyfriends of some of my favorite people
  • Genuinely liking and approving of those dudes
  • Rain. Lots of it.
  • Lightning.
  • Accidentally going to Indiana.
  • The Silver Dollar.
  • Babies with expressive old man faces
  • My yarmulke staying on my head
  • Not accidentally driving into a flooding creek
  • Please and Thank You chocolate chip cookies
  • Bourbon and Orange Juice
  • The giant Louisville Slugger
  • Nancy and Sheldon
  • Brigid Kaelin playing the saw
  • Photobooth antics
  • Large red penguins in odd places
  • Double rainbows
  • Endless nerdy conversations
  • Endless laughter
  • Lipgloss and vitamins
  • The delight that is the brides’ friend Allison
  • Golden Boy
  • Feeling so honored to be participating in the first wedding in the newly renovated synagogue.
  • Acknowledging the power of love. This wedding was of two women, together for 18 years, civilly married this summer in another state, religiously married in front of friends, and family, and their congregation.
  • Being so impressed by a religious institution taking the opportunity to accept and love this non-traditional couple into their flock and use it as a catalyst to re-affirm their commitment to love, to learning, and to being a welcoming place.
  • Realizing that this was 8 years after I first met them in person at the scene of their commitment ceremony. It’s the first time I’ve been a part of a Jewish wedding and the first time I’ve been part of a wedding since June’s Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality but not the first time I’ve been part of a celebration of their love and commitment.
  • Those two ladies. Our lovely brides. So best.