I'll Drink To That

Recorded: 7/28/26

New Years Joy!

Birthday tea party!

A year of production unemployment

Life is loss

Thai and donuts

Importance of stability for me

1 year no booze!

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl

Bookmobile adventures

3rd Doctor! (from Doctor Who)

Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Still not a librarian

No DEI for Burbank

Tired of the endless ladder

God of War

Video game ROI

ASAP science

Bye bye gummies

100 percenting video games

LEGO Hobbit

18 years in LA

60s Batman

Artemis II

Mayor Mamdani

Jedi Survivor

Epic Mickey

Tomb Raider

Red Dead Redemption II

Local history librarian work

History and democracy

Husband job update

Production is in the past now

The Full Monty broke me

Who knows…

Last minute update and goodbye

Thanks everyone for 18 years of adventures! Please follow me on

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Recorded: Thursday 7/23/26

Zelda Oracle Games on Switch

Uncle Mame

January 2025 Fires

the five Ps: People, Pets, Prescriptions, Photos, and Papers.

18 months without a drink

Crazy heart rate

Thinking of my drinking experience the way I think of my high school experience

Sobriety isn't just not drinking

Craving anxiety in the pit of your stomach

Zelda: Minish Cap

Zelda: Twilight Princess

Timothy Zahn's mid-90s Star Wars novels

Noises Off

Doctor Who from the beginning

Feeling feelings for the first time

Gargoyles

Book forts

Hard core board gaming

Exploring my non-drinking/non-queer life

Educating conservative family members

I'm not a puzzle person

X-men

Ken Burns marathon

Learning to appreciate the national parks

First public post about sobriety 157 days in

Counting my rhinestones

Parade at the Ahmanson

Drives crashing

Diana Ross at the Hollywood Bowl

Beach Boys in Palmdale

Shucked

Arthurian legend adventures!

Scandal noted

Pink Panther marathon

Sorry for the audio quality during this chunk

Santee alley

Journey to the Bookmobile!

So much growth and maturity 👴🏻

Baldur's Gate adventures

Not an impromptu concert!

ABOS in St. Louis

Don't combine anniversary trips with business trips

Winning best dressed (pic for episode)

City Museum in St. Louis

Little Shop of Horrors - Nocturne Theatre

Being a team with my husband

Holidays on a budget

Get fun color earbuds

Recorded: Monday July 13, 2026

Friends LEGO

I am a LEGO person, not a puzzle person

Le Petit Trois

Spider-Man 2

Super Mario RPG

Seattle marathon visit

Dad insisting upon it

The damn Dodgers cap

Dressed as a tiger for the Super Bowl

The Wiz

Senior Clerk Promotion!

What an ordeal

Buying a new bed!

Reading for fun! The Neverending Story

LEGO The Hobbit

90s SNES Disney Games on the Switch

My Peeps hat!

Easter dinner

Tuna bad! Too many purines…?

Come From Away

Fat Ham

Grease 2

Poor Stockard Channing

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Nesting in my new space

Puzzle desk

Friends of the Library

Old school NES games

Gummi Bears and my crush on Gusto

Resuming trivia

Working on not saying "no"

First summer as a Senior Clerk

Last Pride at the bar, grieving the past, and the change

The unfairness of sobriety

Surprise 4th of July hotel stay

25th High School reunion

The trip was a mess

Karaoke was awesome

Puzzle table

Gender switch version of Company

Hungover interview

First friends bachelor party

Rage rooms

Brazilian restaurant

Indian Wedding

1980s Anne of Green Gables

King Arthur

Love triangles are a mystery

Spotlight Award at work

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Grinch holiday card

Recorded: June 5, 2026

No longer part of the entertainment business conversation

Jan 2nd deep clean

First Vegas trip since COVID

I joined a union!

Starting AA

500 days sober

Backstory - counseling where I lied and then drank

Naltraxone

Finding my meeting

The Big Blue Book

The 12 And 12 (Traditions not affirmations)

It IS a cult

My final AA meeting

Masters Degree Portfolio

Revisiting my Queer Elders paper

Music backup recovery

Tripping falling up the stairs

1776

Dodgers Pride night Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence kerfuffle

You DON'T need an MLIS to work in a library!

LGBTQIA2S+ Library Services Class

Information Literacy!

Blog link

Birdo as Queer Icon

Futurama

Animaniacs

John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl

Wine and painting night

Barbie

Deciding to not go to movies anymore

Prioritizing my own serenity

Nintendo Switch

I don't think I'm a cozy game lover

Tom Nook is a usurer!

Chateau Marmont

Hurricane in LA

Palm Springs Graduation Vacation

Pee Wee Dinosaur

Pee Wee's Playhouse

Covid round #4

Switch emulators - all Mario Bros, all Zeldas

Online proctored test nonsense

Blueberry Stoli and soda

Digitizing VHS projects from 25 years ago

Grateful for the friends who play pretend with me

Jerry Springer Hosts a Cabaret

Jerry Springer and the Silence of the Lambs

Macbeth in 8th grade

Disneyland visit!

Magic at Galaxy's Edge

Beverly Hills Public Library

Angels in America in 2001

Recorded: Wednesday 6/10/26

2022 (NOT 2023)

COVID still a thing!

Sir Mix-a-lots basement Seattle New Year show

School all year long

New Years Deep Clean

Staff Day at Work - Teaching Podcasting

Managing Yappers

Boomer Not Understanding How Presentations Work

EVERYONE is creative

"You should write that!"

Work dress code

Elizabeth Goldman is a coont!

Last of Us II

LAPL Central Library

The Guilded Age

Sorry about the quality change during the second block of the episode. It gets better.

Orange is the New Black

Matt Baume, Sewers of Paris

Honey, I'm Homo

Irate Ireland

Library Donations telling a tale…and adding to my collection

Don't Say Gay

Heardle

YA Classes

Gay bashing outside the gay bar

I'm a bad boy

First bout with COVID

4/29/22 - My printing press tattoo!

It shouldn't be a surprise I want to be a librarian

Mothers Day cards

My Dad is sneaky

The gift of being oblivious

Googling myself

First post COVID visit home

Never underestimate down time with a family trip

Burbank airport hot tip!

Hierarchical relationships

Drinking was still a problem. And I still held onto it even though it's the only issue in my life I've treated that way.

510 Days without booze

Roe v. Wade overturned

Being silly

Officiating a gay Disneyland wedding

Diane Keaton project

Flash flood in the desert

Wrenching my back at work

Mpox

My open relationship

Variety show history paper

Academia icky

Loving collections management

https://archive.org/

My personal music database

X-files rewatch

Dramas aren't my thing

IRL drama!

Jinkx & De La Christmas special

Threads is Nice

6/19/24

Missing Mixer

Reflections on reflecting

40th birthday in lockdown

Week o' movie nights

Rage and frustration

January 6th

***Not me sharing misinformation about Fox News! There was no moment where they said "we're not news we're entertainment"***

The Last of Us game

Missing W-2

Biden inauguration

Amazing Race

Drag Race rewatch

VITU

A year of COVID

Vaccines!

New career game plan

You don't need a masters degree to work in a library!!

Covid outbreak at work

2nd vaccine

Tin Horn Flats Trump Rally

Science with impossible burger

The world opening up again

East coast Covid funerals

Dramatic revelations

Ask the question!

Paying off credit cards in May!

School scholarship

Bye bye PS2

Job offer at VITU

Page test Pickwick Gardens

Going back to school

LOTR marathon in 2020 heatwave

Star Wars Marathon

Questioning Star Wars fandom

La petit trios

Cop Rock

Hamilton

Hired by the library

Boston believing in me

Carvana used car

Helix piercing

Gay elders research paper

#librarypagefinds

Picture books count toward your annual reading goals

Stephen Sondheim's passing

3rd vaccine

Log Book Podcast

Delivery driver training

Libraries don't do fines anymore!

Back at trivia

Grandma smith passing

Final Season

Recording in 2024

Lost mixer

August 2020 last recorded episode

April 2020

Mom ready for a road trip!

Little Richard and Larry Kramer died

Black Lives Matter

To The Best of Our Knowledge Podcast, 6th stage of grief, giving meaning to loss.

Nintendo Power online archives

Personal archives scanning project Family COVID deaths

Lay off in July

Unemployment issues

1st Experience with Depression

That was the end of production for me

Just one day off

Scream into the void Iceland

Reface App

NOT LEGO Simpsons house

An Honor to be Nominated Podcast

Snow storm in CO in September 7th the day after 90 degree temps

Broadway dancer aerobics in the living room, 5th grade flashbacks

Gay bars COVID closures

2020 Election

We needed a little Christmas

What we do in the shadows

Lockdown thanksgiving

Being part of a team

Queer Magnolias

Libraries of LA

Music getting me through

World AIDS Day 2020

NORAD Santa Tracker

Santa Hat 2nd Place

Covid nightmares

Facebook

Losing My Mind Disco Album

Miserable weather

Coco's solitude videos

Streaming movie community

Late night drinking…cause I'm bored

Counseling chaos

Dad can't hug son

Superman

The Soundtrack Show

Earthquakes and locusts

Swallow some Clorox

Redecorating the apartment

Tuna noodle caserole

New Zealand

Day Planners

S.O.B. - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Facebook

Sweet Caroline COVID Meme

Pete Butigeg drop out, Primaries

Reluctant Biden

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12

COVID vs Early AIDS

Online Museums

Kanopy

Things Getting Cancelled in the Middle of March

Scanning project

Apocalyptic Ralphs

Adjusting to the new world

Dumping rain forever

Learning to survive via delivery

Start of my late night weekends

Tomie dePaola

Closing Time -Semisonic

Early Covid on the horizon

Clueless at work

Boston's Surgery

We've been here before

Joker

Parasite

Oscars Bingo

Springtime for Hitler

Lynn Shelton

Music compulsions

Primaries

Gout attack in my knee

Springtime for Hitler - The Producers