Sagittarian Matters

Today on Sagittarian matters! We’re over the moon to welcome Morgan back to the show to  talk about Cafix, CELERY, Trader Joes Vegan Fish, TJ's Bird Nest, signs of aging, the smell of trader joes, Alfred Coffee, Outstanding Cheeseballs, Lagusta's cheese powder, Lagusta's turtles, Molasses cookies, Moku mushroom jerky and SO MUCH MORE. 

PLUS! An unsolicited food review from Dawn Riddle, with special guest Megan DIneen. 

We are on a summer break & will come back at some point in the fall with an actual season of the show!\

But in the meantime, 

We are over the moon today to bring you Tortoise Drama, Diary Comics, Unsolicited Vegan Vacation Food Reviews, Big news, where to find AJLT recaps and MORE. 

You can find Nicole's new book here: https://www.phasesevencomics.com/phase8/dogs-breakfast/

Get her 2024 calendar here: nicolejgeorges.com/shop

Find an unlocked And Just Like That finale recap bonus episode with Bran Taylor at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

And find Nicole live in person at SPX Small Press Expo, Cartoon Crossroads in Columbus, and Short Run Comics Fest in Seattle. 

Featured on today's show, 

Roving reporters Dawn, Luca, Morgan & Torrence bring us unsolicited vegan food reviews from Spain, Tucson, & Denver. 

Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer and so much more. 

Luca J. Davis is a writer, web designer and long distance hiker. You will notice their review is in two parts, because it was  originally sent to me as a video text, which you can see on our instagram page, but  after hearing just the names of BEAUTIFUL tahini drink & breakfast items from Houlden’s Rise Above, I demanded more details. Which Luca sent. Via memo. 

Morgan is a baker and seed lover, and Torrence is a cat lover who was once my  very excellent roommate. 

Alec Longstreth is an award winning cartoonist. He also works as a freelance illustrator, animator, digital colorist, and comics educator.

He works at the Center for Cartoon Studies, just did all the images and some animations for Weezer’s summer tour, and is the author of Basewood 

And the all ages comic Isle of Elsi. He runs Phase 8 publishing, and you can get my NEW BOOK by going to his website. 

Phasesevencomics.com. You’ll see the phase 8 logo in the top right, click on it, and be taken to a print AND digital download link that directly benefits me!

Find Alec's comics at phasesevencomics.com.

The audio portion of this episode with Alec was originally recorded and edited by Alec for his Patreon page! Find him here: 

https://www.patreon.com/longstreth/posts

Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What.

Today's episode was guest edited & produced by our theme song composer, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. Thank you Carolyn! 

You can find Beth & join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .

You can find Dopamine Press, Beth Pickens, and Nicole all on  on instagram RIGHT NOW! https://www.instagram.com/dopaminebooksla/

We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn dream LIL MISS HOT MESS to the podcast to discuss her book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It, Drag Story Hour, queer drag pedagogy, standing up to fascists and MORE. 

AND

Aquarius friend to the show MICHELLE TEA joins us to talk about the recent anti-queer violence at the Glendale School Board meeting, and how to show up, resist, and keep your queer joy. 

Also- Nicole discusses the latest drama from her "friendly" tortoise Facebook group. 

Lil Miss Hot Mess is the author of the children's books If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It (Running Press Kids, 2022) and The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish (2020) and serves on the board of Drag Story Hour.  She has also appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, was a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy, and has published essays in The Guardian, Wired, and Salon.  When not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess is a university professor.

Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including Knocking myself up, Valencia, Against Memoir, and Black Wave. 

She is also the co-creator of Sister Spit and Drag Queen Story Hour. 

Michelle joined me from a literary festival’s wellness center in Denver Colorado to discuss the recent attack on the Glendale school board by the proud boys, and how to be an ally and spark queer joy in the face of it. 

Please enjoy my talk with Michelle Tea 

Today on a Super Special Pride Edition Crossover Episode, noted Virgo  Karen Tongson of the Gaymazing Race & Waiting to X-hale joins me to talk about THE ULTIMATUM- QUEER LOVE. Stay tuned. 

Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Television and the Spectacle of Normalcy (forthcoming 2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). Her current book-in-progress is titled, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory (Duke University Press). She received Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of writing in 2019. Tongson currently chairs the department of gender and sexuality studies at USC, where she’s Professor of GSS, English and American studies & ethnicity.

Today’s episode brought to you by  Jaime Raybin, Khale McHurst, and Zella Minor-House !

If you would like to support sagittarian matters, especially producer Chris sutton, please send $5 $40000 via paypal to [email protected] or Hellbooks on Venmo. 

Thank you for your support and we look forward to saying your name on the podcast. Producer Ponyo looks forward to it too. 

We are over the moon to welcome EILEEN MYLES back to the program. 

We talk about Meditation, the concept of home, Making money as an artist, films, tea bags, coparenting, girlfriends ex girlfriend, tolerating the intolerable, activist groups, self-care, ambition and creativity. 

Plus, Nicole gives an Unsolicited Whole Foods music review, hardcore music revisit & introduces HERMES THE TORTOISE! 

Eileen Myles  is a Sagittarius, a poet, a  novelist, a performer and an art journalist.

Their more than twenty books include Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice, Chelsea Girls, afterglow, and MORE.  Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. 

Eileen joined me from their home in Marfa, Texas to talk about their new book of poetry, A Working Life. 

“With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.”

They ALSO have a giant, beautiful, important new anthology, Pathetic Literature. 

Go get both!

Morgan is a frequent contributor to Sagittarian Matters. She is the former purveyor of Dovetail Bakery, and  loves dry crunchy foods  more than any earthling could understand. 

Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What.

Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. 

You can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .

Foods we discuss this episode:

Golden beet poke

Bon Devil ganache

Bam Milk

Snak Club Tajine Gummy Bears

Flaxmeal!

Chocolate covered chickpeas

MEAL TRAIL ADVICE: Veggie Galette, Pho, Mix-n-match Por Que No (Portland)

The zen of Grocery Outlet

Maciel’s plant based butcher (LA)

Ranchside Cafe Ethiopian menu (LA) 

Fermenter Koji (Portland) Beet Reuben 

Hot Tongue Pizza (LA) - two tongues up. 

Baked Feta recipe from 

Vegan Cheese by Jules Aron

Food Fight peanut butter cup shake (Portland)

THERMOS

Kitchen Mouse bakery soup

Milk frother

Maca Powder drink

Sip Cart Almond butter maca date smoothie

Today on a very special episode of Sagittarian Matters, 

We are talking about the connections between TERFs & fascism! Plus the word dyke. With Professor Greta La Fleur. 

Greta LaFleur is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the author or editor of three books and three journal special issues., including the new issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, 

“Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right”, which was co-edited by with Serena Bassi.

You can get this special issue right now from dukeupress.edu. 

At the top of the show, Nicole discusses a local chipmunk, her upcoming diary comic collection, and reading March 24 at Heavy Manners Library in LA.