My Journal of a Plague Year: This is my deep dive into travel journalism. The usual sex, drugs and Vaticanism featuring: Warren Sloat on Naples, Tina Satter aka Half Straddle (!), Emmylou Potter (in aural disguise), Angelo Larangera on Fruit, Quentin Anderson on Clubbing, Syd Barrett in a K-Hole, Chaterbate Geebeety pitching, My former lawyer Steve, Susanna Sonnenberg goes Poly, Paul Hunter talking about my friend, Joe Andoe talking about another guy, and making dessert is Ignatio Mattos. This is where we put a button on it and call the roast done. Onward!

Copy Edit: Tech issues keep me from being my best self, from connecting the dots in real time on the fly.  So here are some corrections, notes, and unmade jokes.

This is my 2nd Micro-Eurotrip with the carrot topped chaperone in the past year 

Chiaroscuro: I am certainly not the best at doing this kind of work these days (think Landon and Dita) but we’re also not the only ones doing it

JD Vance: “these presidents, ambassadors and senators are only jokes and errand boys. They do what they’re told to do or else - like John Kennedy”  WSB

Yeats: These love poems are known through America, Ireland, France, Spain and beyond

Berghain: I’m a handsy homophobic hetero and I resent the anti-inclusive marginalization - that said, I don’t know a raver worth his salt who hasn’t had a knob in his mouth once or thrice

Nick Cave’s Tailor: chriskerr.com/bespoke-suits/

Daddy Issues: WAS = Stepdaddio & Strahs was blooddaddy’s last BFF

Psychopathology: “When someone tells you who they are - believe them” Maya Angelou

Ignatio McMattos: Estrela Gigantigo

This episode heralds a return to the medium after a slanderous absence.

Stories and lists about speaking and dying: celebrity sex, stories from the life, historical romance: the lost beatnik, and what Raymond and Luigi hate. Featuring Chris Ryan, Ceasar, a Nantucketian, Mark Connell, F. LoRusso, Mazwell Hollie, Joe Mama Nitzberg, and Emmylou Potter.

This return is sure to get your toe-a-tappin.

Many of us have had close calls, uncomfortable brushes, lucky breaks and cancelled reservations with the reaper. Here are a few of those stories. 

Featuring: Thea Storz, Elizabeth Steinvorth, Tim Foljahn, Rian Fossett, Derek Gardner, Adam Marnie

A fish story, inanities, Monk's TTDs, Shopping in NYC, Chris Ryan on conversational intimacy, Smitty on a secret society, and the mind of a child. Featuring: Armando Nin, Arjun Srivatsa, Reuben Radding, Tina Richenbach, Chris Ryan, Smitty, Rian Fossett.

Some 1st person accounts of the Grateful Dead experience and a couple lovely house documents from the Dead organization. Featuring: Dick Munroe, Demi Vera, Dan Colen, Tito Rodriguez, Dusty Grella, Serena Southam, Jordan and Ryan Naideau.

A smattering of recounted recollections of time spent with the Butthole Surfers in some various capacities. Featuring Pat Riley, Michael Lavine, Pat Blashill, Colleen Cude-Taylor, and Reuben Radding.

Anecdotes about and criteria for cults. Featuring Chris Potts, Sharon Mashihi, Mike Hudson, Alexis Greene, Greg Zucculo, Brad Phillips, Nyquist.

Trigger Warning: Blue Jokes Galore!

Featuring Matt, Maureen, The Red Scare, Serena. Sarah Hutto, Daniel Arnold, Rachel Fleit, Noah Reibel, Derek Garner, Susanna Sonnenberg, Tommy Munroe, Joe Munroe, and Tim Foljahn.

This episode goes back to the source point of the show: lists of things read by people. More engrossing than a Marvel movie. Featuring lists from Lisa Sloat, Derek Gardner, Julia Cafritz, Sharon Mashihi, Warren Sloat, Irene Tremblay, Miriam Atkin, Kate Brehm, Jenna,  and Cali Dewitt.

In this freestyle episode we have an assortment of people talking about us humans on the inside and out. Featuring Honor Titus, Cali DeWitt, Adam Marnie, Liz Lee, Sunita Prassad, Alesandro Riccarelli, The Bread and Puppet Theater, The School of Making Thinking, Victor, Ben, The Magic Stranger, Dave Sewelson, Dados, and The Cathedral of All Saints.