Otis Brown's Podcast

In this first full episode of season two of the Otis Brown Podcast, I reflect on why I picked up a shabby little cabinet on the side of the road and put more time and money into restoring it than I would have spent on making something good! Through a conversation about woodworkers James Krenov, Christopher  Schwarz, Roy Underhill and Shakespeare's 130th sonnet, I attempt to articulate a theory of second hand stuff and second chance lives. So, in the spirt of Malcom Butler (the patron saint of second chances), I start the second season of the podcast with some thoughts on all that.

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Reflecting on the first year of Otis Brown Podcast!
Thanks so much everyone for supporting the podcast. It means so much to me that any of this has meant anything to you. 

In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I discuss the Urban Chicken Movement, William Carlos William's poem "XXII" (aka "The Red Wheelbarrow") from his 1923 collection Spring and All, as well as an earlier poem, "To a Solitary Disciple," the Allen Ginsburg poem "A Supermarket in California," the Taj Mahal song "Cakewalk Into Town," from Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff, and just about everything else! You know the drill--it's an Otis Brown Podcast.
 
I hope you enjoy it and THANKS! 

Now that the Graduation season is upon us, let's think about unlearning, let's sing the virtues of resisting training, let us move confidently now in the direction of our dreams .  I don't know. In this week's podcast, I tell a story about a friend who wouldn't throw a ball for a dog and reflect on a life spent mostly on a front porch playing a guitar and complaining about the heat.

I hope this is something you relate to and enjoy. 

In this week's podcast, I reflect on the early stages of what we are all hoping is the end of the pandemic and offer some thoughts on what we might become when we reach that point , as Katherine Anne Porter writes at the end of Pale Horse Pale Rider, where "there would be time for everything."

Keywords:
Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse Pale Rider, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Louis Armstrong
Mark Twain
Tom Rush "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm"
Wislawa Szymborska "A Word on Statistics"
15th Century Morality Play Everyman 

*the image of Pops is a photo of a painting hanging in my kitchen by Todd Lyons that Mrs. Podcast bought off the fence at Jackson Square last time she was in NOLA. 

Social anxiety, stage fright, glossophobia, lonesomeness, melancholia, I got 'em all. Yet, I persist. In this week's episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the perks of not being a wallflower and tell some embarrassing stories on myself, stopping along the way to explore paintings by Edvard Munch, the writings of Soren Kierkegaar and songs by Hank Williams and William Tyler.

Enjoy!