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Episode Six: Fuzzy Navels & Fruitcake
Welcome back to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits flow all year long!
For this sixth episode, Amanda and Marty get hammered on peach schnapps and orange juice while talking about Truman Capote's short story "A Christmas Memory" and the wonder (or curse) of fruitcake. As they navel themselves into incoherence, they discuss yoga and Chippendale dancers and whether to go hairy or fuzzy.
BONUS POINTS: Count how many times Marty tries to get Amanda to eat fruitcake.
RECIPE FOR FUZZY NAVEL:
Ingredients:
Ice
3 oz. orange juice
3 oz. peach schnapps
Directions:
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, also on Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
Grandma's Killer Fruitcake sound clip from:
"Grandma's Killer Fruitcake." Abrams, Rita and Elmo Shropshire. Dr. Elmo's Twisted Christmas, Audio & Video Labs, Inc./Orchard, 1992.
This month's Christmas lit:
Capote, Truman. A Christmas Memory. Perfection Learning, 1956/2000.
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Welcome back to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits flow all year long!
For this sixth episode, Amanda and Marty get hammered on peach schnapps and orange juice while talking about Truman Capote's short story "A Christmas Memory" and the wonder (or curse) of fruitcake. As they navel themselves into incoherence, they discuss yoga and Chippendale dancers and whether to go hairy or fuzzy.
BONUS POINTS: Count how many times Marty tries to get Amanda to eat fruitcake.
RECIPE FOR FUZZY NAVEL:
Ingredients:
Ice
3 oz. orange juice
3 oz. peach schnapps
Directions:
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, also on Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
Grandma's Killer Fruitcake sound clip from:
"Grandma's Killer Fruitcake." Abrams, Rita and Elmo Shropshire. Dr. Elmo's Twisted Christmas, Audio & Video Labs, Inc./Orchard, 1992.
This month's Christmas lit:
Capote, Truman. A Christmas Memory. Perfection Learning, 1956/2000.