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PZ's Podcast episodes

February 19, 2014 Episode 164 - Happy Clappy
"No use calling, 'cause the sky is falling,
and I'm getting pretty near the end."
This concerns the practical consequences of
(near-)death in life. Join forces with Wolfman Jack (R.I.P.)
and The Guess Who; and 'Charlie Kane'.
31 min
February 13, 2014 Episode 163 - Deetour
It's getting bigger. Bigger, at least, from where I sit.
The Contraption, I mean.
And thank you, Karen Young!
And thank you, Mike Francis!
This podcast is dedicated to JAZ, the Minister of Edits.
33 min
February 05, 2014 Episode 162 - Rain Dance
Thinking about Obamacare got me onto this one.
But it's not about Obamacare!
It's about Reality.
And Guess What?
28 min
January 09, 2014 Episode 161 - PBS
That's Percy Bysshe Shelley,
who gets a little help -- as if he needed it -- from Eric Burdon,
and B.T.O, and John Harris Harper.
And MAY this meditation on termination not be half-baked.
34 min
December 20, 2013 Episode 160 - Who Is Going To Love Me?
How can we know God?
Where is God locatable?
With a little help from D. Warwick and a little from St. John,
I want to answer.
Podcast 160 is dedicated to Jono Linebaugh.
28 min
November 17, 2013 Episode 159 - The Happiest Actual Life
It's really possible:
"the happiest actual life", I mean.
That was Booth Tarkington's phrase for the hope we could have
in real terms, even when circumstances went against us
and our intrinsic indelible nature went against us.
Case in point: his novel "Alice Adams" (1921).
Case in point: his character 'Alice Adams'.
I think the story is so real as to be Real.
29 min
November 11, 2013 Episode 158 - Changing Social Conditions in Indianapolis
Boy, do we need a miracle.
Such things really happen.
As in Booth Tarkington, and as in John Galsworthy.
As in me and you.
And as in: The Buckinghams.
35 min
October 19, 2013 Episode 157 - Every Mother's Son
Taking a break now for a couple weeks, but wanted to leave a little white-pebble trail -- not of tears, but of hope. "Come on down to my boat, baby"; and I'm talking about you, Miss Wyckoff; and you, Mr. Cardew; and you, Mr. Zahl.
30 min
October 16, 2013 Episode 156 - I Am Curious (Orange)
A Protestant spin on a Golden Oldie from Sweden.
This is also a warning against categorization -- a very personal warning,
as I've suffered from categorization and feel it keenly still.
"Och du?"
27 min
October 06, 2013 Episode 155 - Mandy
Alternate title: Mandy and the Episcopals.
Irving Berlin sets the stage;
Sandra Dee plays the lead,
together with Troy Donohue;
and James Gould Cozzens,
like Sister Mary Ignatius,
Explains It All for You.
40 min

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