Tonight, we have a Recommendation Corner (it's been a while!), a return to Vasko Popa, praise for Valentine's Day whether you like it or not, and some new sound clips 🖤
And I'll miss you forever, Billy. I'm devestated.
Love, Robyn

p.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't!

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If you grew up in the 70s and 80s like me, you certainly know Geri Jewell. If you don't know the full breadth of her career, you will for sure know "Cousin Geri", Blair Warner's comedian cousin with cerebral palsy from The Facts of Life. I have adored her from the first moment I saw her on TV, and recently read her 2011 autobiography I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond. In this episode, I read to you a small excerpt from a story she wrote involving a nun, some urine, and a car wash. ENJOY!  xoxo, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Geri Jewell's book I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond!

See Geri on Sesame Street HERE and HERE (with an appearance by Northern Calloway, who I told you about on THIS episode of ME READING STUFF). (and there are many more if you just search Youtube)

Geri's character dancing on Deadwood.

Geri Jewell's website.

Me on Substack

Me on Instagram

www.robynoneil.com

Today, we head back to Encyclopedia Corner, exploring the letter "A". Also discussed: The Prinzhorn Collection, Jean Dubuffet, Hypergraphia, Emma Hauck, Ants, Animals, The San Fernando Valley, Cardiology, and Cockroaches, Nudity, and Adoption. 

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"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines." - Agnes Martin

"Oh really, bitch? I don't think so!" - My Body

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Learn more about artist Agnes Martin HERE.

Buy "On Beauty" by Agnes Martin through PACE.

Buy "Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words" on INDIEBOUND. 

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov

"I love ruled paper." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Best American Essays of The Century

Buy Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

Learn more about my drawing HELL

See James Ensor in front of Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 as an old man. 

Dear You,

We last spoke in January and I've missed you; I've missed this. A lot has happened. A lot has not. Let's pick back up where we left off, but let's make it better and more loving this time. Let's not let the hoards of negatives overshadow the rest — the ever-present glimmerings of light. I simply can't anymore. I woke up different after that night. I even had pink cheeks for the first time in ages, according to some!

"Such fun to wake up though!
Such fun too if you don't!" - C.K. Williams

All my love,
Robyn

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Buy C.K. Williams "Writers Writing Dying" at INDIEBOUND.

Damien Jurado's INSTAGRAM

My INSTAGRAM

Our MEAL TRAIN ❤️🌮❤️ if you're so inclined.

Listen to every episode of ME READING STUFF on my YOUTUBE PAGE.

"Keep dying! Keep writing it down!"

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis

"I barely know what a uterus is for God's sake." - Me

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Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" HERE.

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Become a Paid Subscriber and get a drawing!

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"Help! I'm David from Sesame Street, and they're trying to kill me!" - Northern Calloway

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." - Zora Neale Hurston
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The Wikipedia article on Northern Calloway

My Substack

Damien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa

Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy.
Love, Robyn

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Buy Joshua Rivkin's Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly

Here is my SUBSTACK!

Here is my website.

The Cy Twombly Gallery

Robert Rauschenberg

Jasper Johns

Henry Darger

"The people who have made me feel the worst were always my best friends." -Detective Olivia Benson

"I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show." - Ice-T

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Watch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth Trailer

Watch the Fitzcarraldo Trailer

The NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton

Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law & Order SVU Intro

Buy Nedra Glover Tawwab's Set Boundaries, Find Peace book.

Damien Jurado's The Loneliest Place and Male Customer #1