Rancho Thatchmo

My Journal of a Plaugue Year: This is my deep dive into travel journalism. The usual sex, drugs and Vaticanism featuring: Warren Sloat on Naples, Tina Satter aka Half Straddle (!), Emmylou Potter (in aural disguise), Angelo Larangera on Fruit, Quentin Anderson on Clubbing, Syd Barrett in a K-Hole, Chaterbate Geebeety pitching, My former lawyer Steve, Susanna Sonnenberg goes Poly, Paul Hunter talking about my friend, Joe Andoe talking about another guy, and making dessert is Ignatio Mattos. This is where we put a button on it and call the roast done. Onward!

This episode heralds a return to the medium after a slanderous absence. Stories and lists about speaking and dying: celebrity sex, stories from the life, historical romance: the lost beatnik, and what Raymond and Luigi hate. Featuring Chris Ryan, Ceasar, a Nantucketian, Mark Connell, F. LoRusso, Mazwell Hollie, Joe Mama Nitzberg, and Emmylou Potter. This return is sure to get your toe-a-tappin.

Many of us have had close calls, uncomfortable brushes, lucky breaks and cancelled reservations with the reaper. Here are a few of those stories.  Featuring: Thea Storz, Elizabeth Steinvorth, Tim Foljahn, Rian Fossett, Derek Gardner, Adam Marnie

Some 1st person accounts of the Grateful Dead experience and a couple lovely house documents from the Dead organization. Featuring: Dick Munroe, Demi Vera, Dan Colen, Tito Rodriguez, Dusty Grella, Serena Southam, Jordan and Ryan Naideau.

A fish story, inanities, Monk's TTDs, Shopping in NYC, Chris Ryan on conversational intimacy, Smitty on a secret society, and the mind of a child. Featuring: Armando Nin, Arjun Srivatsa, Reuben Radding, Tina Richenbach, Chris Ryan, Smitty, Rian Fossett.

A smattering of recounted recollections of time spent with the Butthole Surfers of some various capacities. Featuring Pat Riley, Michael Lavine, Pat Blashill, Colleen Cude-Taylor, and Reuben Radding.

Anecdotes about and criteria for cults. Featuring Chris Potts, Sharon Mashihi, Mike Hudson, Alexis Greene, Greg Zucculo, Brad Phillips, Nyquist.

Trigger Warning: Blue Jokes Galore! Featuring Matt, Maureen, The Red Scare, Serena. Sarah Hutto, Danny Arnoold, Rachel Fleit, Noah Reibel, Derek Garner, Susanna Sonnenberg, Tommy Munroe, Joe Munroe, and Tim Foljahn.

This episode goes back to the source point of the show: lists of things read by people. More engrossing than a Marvel movie. Featuring lists from Lisa Sloat, Derek Gardner, Julie Cafritz, Sharon Mashihi, Warren Sloat, Irene Tremblay, Miriam Atkin, Kate Brehm, Jenna,  and Cali Dewitt.

In this freestyle episode we have an assortment of people talking about us humans on the inside and out. Featuring Honor Titus, Cali DeWitt, Adam Marnie, Liz Lee, Sunita Prassad, Alesandro Riccarelli, The Bread and Puppet Theater, The School of Making Thinking, Victor, Ben, The Magic Stranger, Dave Sewelson, Dados, and The Cathedral of All Saints.    

Folks telling stories about others and about interactions with others. Often things you did not know. So you can think of this as an episode of confidences, or Confidence Games. This episode features stories from or about Joe Frank, Laura Esterman, Lisa Sloat, Sarah Sloat, Dusty, Larry Clark, Billy Mann, Shantal, Eno, JAPW, Al Maysles, The Fab Four, Harvey Weinstein, and Nate Larson.

Folks share tales of intoxicated hijinks, inebriated hard luck, drunken high adventure, tragedy while tripping,  and stoner train wrecks. Featuring: Sharon Mashihi, Rian Fossett,  (a supermodel), (an animator), (a media maker from Jersey), (an Ichabod Crane graduate), The Choir of Men and Boys.

Folks follow up their lover lists with how these relationships dissembled: sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Featuring: Mike Houston, Karley Sciortino, Dusty Grella, Kay Kasparhauser, Tim Foljahn, Sharon Mashihi, and Sarah Sloat.

This episode we plunge deeper into the cavernous black books of the citizenry and their thumbnail descriptions of playmates. Featuring: The Chef with the Infectious Laugh, the Swinging Falsetto Opera Contractor from Dirty Jerzy, the Super-Stylish Fish-Witch, the Local Journalist, the Ceremonial Magic Artist, the Roommate, Iraqi Lady Zelig, The Belnord Viking, the Fuzzy Street Seer, and the Titan of Mope-Core.

Folks look at their romantic patterns with these thumbnail descriptions of lovers past and present. Featuring: The Titan of Mope-Core, The Rural Radio Love Queen, A 90's Rock Star, The Mayflower WASP Writer, Canadian Radio Revolutionary, and the Texan Ten.

Slang from a few sections of the street corner society. Students and millennials, Jamaicans and Civil War soldiers, Twitter and jazz, and a bunch of slang collected by a British academic. This episode features Lia Wortendyke, June Walker, Thalia, Luisa Del Prete, Olga Axelrod, Mandy Babirad, Dave Sewelson, Tyler Thacker, Roi Cuydulkin, (Jason Edward), and Raquel Nave.

Part two of a furthur dive into the use and abuse of language. We look at the proprietary shorthands used by odd corners of society: Mohicans, Persians, Lawyers, the NOI, the Intelligence community, pick-up artists, Wiki's understanding of the occult, head shrinkers, and archaic terms for the whump and thump. Featuring Brock Schriber, Sharon Mashihi, (MegaChuck), Dick Munroe, Rian Fossett, (Algernon), Elizabeth Ammerman, Thea Storz, and Amanda Daisy Lees.    

Part one of a cursory dive into language use and abuse. Bits about the variations and the wiggle room in verbal expression. Visual language, swear words invented for Hollywood, word based free association, gibberish, prosodic poetry, an endangered language, verboten words, last words, and laughing. Featuring Preston Douglass, Pat Riley, Matt Shalzi, Quincy Long, Per Blumquist, Jen Fisher, Brock Scriber, Arjun Ram Shrivasa, Deenah Vollmer & Austin Kilham, Sharon Mashihi and Alexandra Tatarsky.

People share lists about words and work and self-help and sex and their souls. Featuring Julia Nightingale, Sharon Mashihi, Derekk Garner, Peter Chinman, Reuben Radding, Sarah Sloat, Amanda Daisy Lees, Kay Kasperhauser, (Atlanta Floor), Johnny Hoppe, Josephine Decker, Johnathan Wood Vincent, Christopher Funkhauser, Mike Houston, Suko Presseau, Brad Phillips, Julia Cafritz, and Rian Fossett.

A quick devotional to James Joyce's smash hit novel Ulysses plus a smidge of him himself.