Ink and Worm

Ruth Barabe writer, musician, actress and model and purveyor of the blog babysittersfashionclub

Daniel Kibblesmith is a author, comedian, writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and co-writer of the new comic book The Doorman, Issue #1 on sale in March

The Books: “Meryl’s Special Blend” from the forthcoming collection “I Came Here to Make Friends” by Ruth Barabe, “The Doorman” by Daniel Kibblesmith, “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers, “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, “The Seal Mother” by Mordicai Gerstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein, “Forever” by Judy Blume, “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, “The Clasp” by Sloane Crosley, Jason (cartoonist)

The Music: “One Day Like This” by Elbow and “I Feel the Earth Move” by Carole King

Actionable Takeaway: Write a story about that afternoon you spent with a celebrity (one you love or one you know nothing about)

#inkandworm #rfb #merylstreep #relationships #thelateshow #muddywriting #sketchwritng #finaldraftwriting #spark #comdeywriting #parodywritng #dontoverthinkthings #lovingyourjob #themetascientist #earlywriting #manifestingideas #wantingtobeawriter #trickingyourself #neuralpathways #howmanywayscanyouwrite #complex #steady #twitter #overthinking #likehighschool #heresthepostersonmywall #theinternetislikehighschool #lronhubbard #busy #heavymetalpress #scifi #fantasy #gory #edgy #sexy #darkhorse #kendallgoode #idbuythat #aimconversationsarethebestwriting #threwawaythebestbooks #itsokaytostop #romancingbeingawriter #itsokaytochangeyourmind

The Guests: Cooper Wilhelm: Twitter: https://twitter.com/cooperwilhelm also, http://poetryandstrangers.com/.

The Books: “As Planned” by Frank O’Hara, Robert Creeley, James Schuyler, Sonnet 16 by Shakespeare, The Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audiolanding, Robert Hass, “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman, “The Hidden Messages of Water” by Masaru Emoto, “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, “Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain, “Otherland” Series by Tad Williams, Dr. Seuss, “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury, “Nameless” by Grant Morrison, “Stoner Coffee Table Book” by Steve Mockus

The Music: “Walk in the Sky” by Bonobo and Bajka; “Between the Bars” by Madeleine Peyroux

Writing: Hit the wikipedia random article and write!

Movies: “Stardust”: WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN’T! :), “What the Bleep Do We Know?,” “American Crime Story”

#inkandworm #rfb #BKiscold #poetryandstrangers #idontliketheMTAsubwaypoetry #poetry #humansofny #mysteriousnoises #shewascalledrita #molecularchemistandbiophysicisttopoet #gowherethemoneyis #thebelovedonealwaysleaves #whycanteverydaybelikeyou #bettertohavelovedandlost #ghosted #blackmagic #necromancy #wikipediarandompage #elizabethanmedicine #dontsigh #cantcontrolthesethingsyoucanonlysayyes #marktwaintherearenonewideas #everytimeyoureadapoemyoumakeitliveagain #readpoetryoutloud #memorizepoetry #recite #onthespot #swanblushes #jiminycricket #doonething #doneisbetterthanperfect #poetrycanbelonely #poetrycommunity #poetryinbrooklyn #attentiondeficitdating #babiesarealiens #babiesarenotaliens #happyvalentinesday #starsonlyshineatnight #starsarestillthereduringtheday #winter #mourning #africa #coneyisland #emfwaves #wereelectricalcreatures #love #secondhalloween #happyvalentinesday #water #watersnob #noiceinwater #thesimplicityofwater #filteredwater #snap #love #evanwilliams #antilove #catslovepoetry #poetrylovescats #loveissocoolwhenitworks #animalsacrifices #moloch

The Guests: Alexandria Guillen IG: @TeamBookReport, FB: TeamBookReport, TW: @BookReportTeam

The Books: “Bridget Jones Diary” by Helen Fielding, “Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer, “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova, “A New Collection of Poems” by Wendell Berry, “Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins, “Sudden Death” by Alvaro Enrique, “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee, “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” Audiobook, “Unfamiliar Finishes” by Sarah Vowell (was the BBC pick by Sarah Vowell), “Brooklyn Spaces” by Oriana Leckert, “Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling, “Purity” by Jonathan Franzen, “Swallows and Amazons” by Arthur Ransome, “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch, “Am I Beautiful?” by Else Holmelund Minarik, “The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munsch, “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman, “Writing Down the Bones” by Natalie Goldberg, “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, “Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger, “Go Ask Alice” by Beatrice Sparks, “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, “Blood and Chocolate” by Annette Curtis Klause, “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, “What is Not Yours is Not Yours” by Helen Oyeyemi, Haruki Murakami, “The Beautiful and the Damned” “The Great Gatsby” and short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk, “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” Ayn Rand

http://bookriot.com/2016/02/05/romantic-literary-valentines-day-gifts-every-stage-relationship/

http://youngtopublishing.com/

The Music: “Introduction to Palace Players” by Mew and “Lemonade” by CocoRosie

#inkandworm #rfb #riverheadbooks #readingissexy #chickswhoread #teambookreport #creativebookpeople #publishing #talkbooks #books #publicity #marketing #readharderbooks2016 #bookriot #sundaymornings

The Guests:

Brian Bins— IG: BrianBins, FB: Brian Bins, Web: www.BrianBins.com, LinkedIn: Brian Bins

The Books: “Spark Joy” by Marie Kondo, “Eat, Pray, Love” and “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert, “The Art of Asking” by Amanda Palmer, “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson, “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, “The Very Hungry Catapillar” by Eric Carle, “1984” by George Orwell, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt, “Drawing People” by Barbara Bradley, Frida Kahlo, “Humans of New York” by Brandon Stanton

The Music: “Walkabout (w/Noah Lennox)” by Atlas Sound and Noah Lennox, “Crazy Feeling” by King Coleman

Actionable Takeaway: Build a blanket fort and color in it OR create unstructured time

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/dangers-of-blowing-kissesn6810416.html

Eaux Claires Music Festival http://eauxclaires.com/

Helmet Newton, Photographer

#inkandworm #rfb #theMet #thelouve #beautifulclosets #jacksonpollock #dontstopdrawing #ideasarealive #nycismagical #itsnotreallywinter #subwaymusicians #subwaybreakdancers #noifellonmyface #cartherapy #marcmaron #cartherapy #picassoscows #abstractart #billmurray #saintvincent #eauxclairesfestival #whereyoufromwhatdoyoudo #brooklyn #brooklynlove #mentalillness #homeless #seeinghobosashumans #hotwaterisablessing #publicmasturbation #bedbugs #paradoxes

The Guests: Triss Stein, author of recently released “Brooklyn Secrets” as well as “Brooklyn Bones” and “Brooklyn Graves”

The Books: “Brooklyn Bones,” “Brooklyn Graves,” and “Brooklyn Secrets” by Triss Stein, Margaret Maron, S J Rozan, Penelope Lively

The Music: “In Too Deep (feat.Emily Bruce)” by GoldFish and “My-getsu” by DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo

#inkandworm #rfb #snowpocolypse2016 #trissstein #brooklyn #brooklynmysteries #neighborhoodsofbk #bkpl #libraries #adventurouslibrarians #history #historicalfiction #relationships

The Guests: Rommel Wood listen to Ear Hammer, Thursday evenings 8-10 pm EST, archive here: radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/ear-hammer/

Ksenyia Yarosh, co-host of Bonnie and Maude, creator of “I Love Bad Movies” and co-organizer of The Brooklyn Zine Festival.

Become a Part of the RFB Community: radiofreebrookyn.com/pledge

The Books: “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown, Tomi Ungerer, “The Grief Recovery Handbook” by John W James and Russell Friedman, “Clan of the Cave Bear” by Jean M Auel, “Game of Thrones” By George R R Martin, “Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, “M Train” by Patti Smith, “Gallapagos” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Olivia” by Ian Falconner, “The Boss Baby” by Marla Frazee, Cozy Classics for Kids, “Thunder and Lightning” and “Century Girl” by Lauren Redniss, “The Good Bones” by Margaret Atwood (Rommel’s favorite is “The Log”), “Color Me Good James Franco” by Mel Elliott, “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Nancy Drew” by Carolyn Keene, “Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “On Writing” by Stephen King, “Delores Claiborne” by Steven King, “The Virgin Suicides” and “Middlesex” by Jeffery Eugenides, “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, John Grisham, “Edible Woman” by Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, T C Boyle

The Music: “Five Years” by David Bowie at the Beeb, “Space Oddity” by Seu George

Actionable Takeaway: Make a zine! Put it on paper, print the paper, fold the paper, staple the paper.

Films/TV Shows: Tomi Ungerer documentary on Netflix: “Far Out Isn’t Far Enough,” The Sesame Street Episode about death: “We all feel sad, Big Bird” talked about the passing of Mr. Hooper, Fresh Off the Boat “Louis Gives Eddie The Talk,” “Weetzie Bat” by Francesca Lia Block, “Forever” by Judy Blume, “Amy”

Bookriot.com/2015/12/15/2016-book-riot-read-harder-challenge/

#inkandworm #rfb #technicaldifficulties #childrensbooks #childrensbooksarepoems #childrensbooksaresongs #WORD #HousingWorks #bannedbooks #tomiungerer #uglyanimals #death #sex #parentsexplain #thetalk #sexscenesinbooks #sexybooksyoureadasateen #griefandboners #itchangedme #strongwoman #dogearsexscenes #kidsbooksareforeveryone #distil #lennythecat #droolingcats #margaretatwood #atwoodjunkies #literarytimecapsule #atwoodpoetry #bookriot #readharderbooks2016 #regencyromance #moodreading #moodmusic #jennorthrup #adultcoloringbooks #bubbletuesday #nylife #adultplayground #paperdolls #dannydevitopaperdoll #theresapaperdollforit #zines #patsyclinezines #fanzines #genresofzines #fig1andfig2 #hobbyzines #dontstopdrawing #deloresclaiborneminute #discoverbooksonIG #judgeabookbyitscover #humanrelations #obviouschildathumanrelations #molassesbooks

The Guests:

Madeleine Lloyd-Davies

The Books: “Classical Mythology” lectures of Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph. D through “The Great Courses” http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/classical-mythology.html, “On the Move” by Oliver Sacks, Kate Beaton, “Oh Joy Sex Toy” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/, Tom of Finland, “Dune” by Frank Herbert, “Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person’d God” by John Donne, “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon, “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow, Romanian Folktales, Harry Bush, “Massive” by Anne Ishii, Leah Wishnia, "Graphic Women" by Hillary Chute, “About Writing” by Samuel R. Delany

The Music: “Buzzcut Season” by Lorde and “Sexual Healing” by My Bubba

Actionable Takeaway: Explore something that hitherto-now you have not. Ask yourself why you read the things you read.

Polari, Gay Dialect link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/07/28/polarithegaydialectcanbeheardinthisgreatshortfilmputting_on.html

Jia's Jezebel:

Cortez “Burn the Ships”

#inkandworm #rfb #allbodiesaresexy #queereroticcomics #flamecon2016 #language #queernessnormalized #writingishard #greekmythology #greekmythologyisAMAZING #writersneedtherapists #writeaterriblenovel #writetheworstromancenovel #riverwriting #writethecrapout #wordswithpictures #benice #inheritedbeliefs #thosekids #digitalexpansion #onlinecommunities #littlegirlsneedcomics #womenincomics #anonymity #holisticsexuality #shock #burntheships #womentrendingincomics #madeupstoriesarethebest #spidersolitaire #cleanyourspace #rituals

The Guests: Michael Stuart-http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/collision-time-revisited/, http://www.iamtheangel.com/, TW: michael_stuart, IG: stockton22

The Books: “I Am the Angel” by Michael Stuart, “On Writing” by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, “You Suck” by Christopher Moore, “The Green Mile” by Stephen King, “Carrie” by Stephen King, “Sacre Bleu” by Christopher More, “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl, “Fabelhaven” by Brandon Mull

The Music: “Oh Oh I Love Her So” by The Ramones and “Just the Way You Are” by The Goo Goo Dolls

Writing: [From “On Wrting” by Stephen King] Write a scenario of a “battered husband” in the house alone and just discovers his abusive wife who just escaped from jail is there, go!

Bless the Child (2000)- film

#inkandworm #rfb #strongfemalecharacters #editing #collisiontimerevisited #magicalrealism #afterlife #spirituality #transformativeconversations #toughlove #sashialandlyra #unearthingthefossil #writingstories #shortstoriesturningintonovels #puns #heaven #heartofanangel #tellingstories #formsofevil #inspiration #thewritelife #dailywritinggoals #drinkwhilewriting

The Guests: My siblings! James, Shani, Dani, Morgan, Cheyenne, Rachel, Ray and my mentor Faceboy

The Books: “Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling, “Fablehaven” by Brandon Sanderson, “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles” by Patricia Wrede, “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon, “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman, “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Mansion” Henry van Dyke, “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, “Olaf’s Night Before Christmas” by Disney & Jessica Julius, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, “Sovereign of the Seven Isles” by David A. Wells

The Music: “All I Want for Christmas” by Mariah Carey and “I Saw Three Ships Sailing” by Nat King Cole

Actionable Takeaway: [From “Wild Mind” by Natalie Goldberg] Write about home, but you cannot write about an apt, street, town, city you have to find another home, go!

#inkandworm #rfb #stealingbooks #alwaysreading #readaloud #readtoyourkids #journal #physicalbooks #booksaresharks #shoplocal #localbookstores #siblings #mysiblingsarecrazycool #NY’straditions #traditons #traditionswithbooks #santaclausisreal #idoallthevoices #christinchristmas #merrychristmas #happyholidays #wordfortheyear #reflection

Choosing a Word for 2016: http://www.susannahconway.com/word/

Shani’s Blog: http://www.sunshineandmunchkins.com/, #sunshineandmunchkins, IG:sunshineandmunchkins

The Guests: Kyle Tigges, http://www.mississippicotten.com/

The Books: “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, “Light on Yoga” by B.K.S. Iyengar, “Becoming your Own Therapist & Make your Mind an Ocean” by Lama Yeshe, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Ancient Futures Learning from Ladakh” by Helena Norberg-Hodge, “1984,” by George Orwell, “Panda Bear’s Paintbox” by Michaela Muntean, “The Doors of Perception” by Aldous Huxley, “Bhagavad Gita”

The Music: “1929 Dream,” “Pin the Tail on the Monkey,” “Fortress,” “Violet,” “Now’s the Time” all performed by Kyle, live- BRILLIANT!

Writing: Find something from the street to write about-do a timed write, 10 minutes. “Don’t think.”

Article I mentioned about hit songs: http://nypost.com/2015/10/04/your-favorite-song-on-the-radio-was-probably-written-by-these-two/

Rumi, “There is a Community of the Spirit” quote I couldn’t recall: “feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.” http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual-and-devotional-poets/contemp/rumibarks/1-2-2/

#inkandworm #rfb #illonoisian #streetbooks #readslower #ecclecticbooks #songwriting #streetart #moviesbasedonbooks #digestingbooks #dictionariesrock #harmonicas #pinthetailonthemonkey #makeyourmindanocean #corporatemusic #localmusic #fredmcdowell #johnhorton #myownstraightnaturalblues #guitar #tuning #makingmusic #musicalletters #patreon #paywhatyouwant #amandapalmer #busking #fortgreenepark #3feetof$1’s #subwayartists #onsitepoem #present #breath #joshuabell #hootenanny #oilandwater #nancytheguitar #dylanthomas #vibrations #elizabethcotten