Sagittarian Matters

WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Vegan food, Grief, Comics, Advice, and MORE. Plus- unsolicited vegan food review from Morgan!

Today on Sagittarian Matters!

We give advice on grief, moving, comics and more- Plus the premiere of Vegan I Don’t Think so Honey. With my special guest, graphic memoirist, WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Stay tuned. 

Unsolicited Vegan Food Review with MORGAN!

Four Sigmatic vegan coconut creamer

PLUS: The world premiere of Vegan I Don't Think So Honey, a DIRECT ode/ripoff to Las Culturistas segment of the same name, which I highly recommend. 

Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and graduate of the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s debut graphic memoir, A PROS AND CONS LIST FOR STRONG FEELINGS, is available from Tin House! You can find Will’s comics anywhere you buy books, or follow them on instagram @Transboycomics

We are over the moon to welcome back noted TRIPLE CAPRICORN Jessica Lanyadoo!

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Also! Nicole mentions the campaign to stop a development from paving over the Verdugo mountain lion's home. Sign the petition & find out more here: nocanyonhills.org @nocanyonhills on ig.

Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. You may recognize her from her special guest appearance on Relative Fiction. 

Jessica is a triple capricorn, she has a wonderful podcast called Ghost of a Podcast, and

Her wonderful book,  Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!!

Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold. 

@jessica_lanyadoo on instagram 

We are over the moon to welcome esteemed Capricorn BETH PICKENS back to the show to answer your advice questions, AND to talk about the word Dyke and Nicole’s stories career as a sandwich artist. 

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Bran Taylor (Magic Hour Astrology) visited Babyland in 2018 & joined us to discuss watching a cabbage give birth, and the nefarious beginnings of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females visited Babyland in 2022, and sent us some updates. 

MEGAN MILKS! DAWN RIDDLE! KAIA WILSON! Queer Weirdness,writing, vegan banana-flavored food reviews and HOME ALONE. Tune in! 

We are over the moon to share an interview writer Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body. 

BUT FIRST!  We have unsolicited vegan banana-flavored food reviews with Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females, and a long review and revisitation of the movies Home Alone 1 and two, with spouse to the show Kaia Wilson. 

Hey! If you are listening to this and you’d like to take my graphic memoir workshop, I have a 5-week class coming up in April. Jog over to my website, Nicolejgeorges.com, for details. 

Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer AND unsolicited food review correspondent. 

Here are two reviews from Dawn’s recent travels to Philadelphia, and on the road with the band Screaming Females, including friend to the show Marisa Paternoster, who you’ll hear in the background. 

Kaia Wilson is a musician and a positive reinforcement dog trainer in Portland, Oregon. She has played guitar in the band Team Dresch since 1993, and has been working professionally with dogs since 2012. You can  find her on instagram at dogspeedtraining or on the World Wide Web  at dogspeed.dog

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories, a finalist for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, and tThey co-edited We Are the Babysitters Club, an anthology. 

You can sign up for Megan’s writing workshop: What is this thing called weird? Which starts JANUARY 24TH right now. Find it at theshipmanagency.com

We are over the moon to share an interview writer Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body. 

BUT FIRST!  We have unsolicited vegan banana-flavored food reviews with Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females, and a long review and revisitation of the movies Home Alone 1 and two, with spouse to the show Kaia Wilson. 

Hey! If you are listening to this and you’d like to take my graphic memoir workshop, I have a 5-week class coming up in April. Jog over to my website, Nicolejgeorges.com, for details. 

Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer AND unsolicited food review correspondent. 

Here are two reviews from Dawn’s recent travels to Philadelphia, and on the road with the band Screaming Females, including friend to the show Marisa Paternoster, who you’ll hear in the background. 

Kaia Wilson is a musician and a positive reinforcement dog trainer in Portland, Oregon. She has played guitar in the band Team Dresch since 1993, and has been working professionally with dogs since 2012. You can  find her on instagram at dogspeedtraining or on the World Wide Web  at dogspeed.dog

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories, a finalist for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, and tThey co-edited We Are the Babysitters Club, an anthology. 

You can sign up for Megan’s writing workshop: What is this thing called weird? Which starts JANUARY 24TH right now. Find it at theshipmanagency.com

This week we welcome Phil Elverum and Marianna Ritchey to talk about the life and art of Geneviève Castrée. 

Geneviève Castrée was a French Canadian cartoonist, illustrator and musician. She was the author of the books Susceptible, A Bubble, and more. She had art exhibitions around the world and toured musically under the names O Paeon and Woelv. 

Geneviève passed away on July 9, 2016, at only 35 years old. 

She is one of my favorite artists. 

 Drawn and Quarterly just released her complete works, a giant beautiful book organized, edited and assembled by her husband, Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie, Microphones). 

Marianna Ritchey is  a professor, a musician, and the author of the book Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era . 

She’s an old friend of mine, and a longtime friend of Genevieve’s. 

Towards the end of her life, Geneviève created an oracle deck from collaged magazines, and Ritchey was listed as one of her collaborators. If you get the book, which I really hope you do, you’ll see little bits of Ritchey sprinkled throughout, in a diary comic from Australia with her band Lloyd and Michael, and in lists. 

I invited her on to talk about the oracle deck and her late friend. 

"She was so great. She was a beautiful, wonderful, totally unique person, and I hope everyone will look through this book, and just think about how special she was, and how much she put into the world in such a short amount of time that she was here."  -Ritchey 

We are over the moon to welcome back cartoonist, professor and Jeopardy champion AJUAN MANCE to the podcast. 

Ajuan is here to celebrate the release of two books- 1001 Black Men (Stacked Deck Press) and Living While Black (Chronicle). Both of her books are out now! 

Also on this episode: Nicole talks about the Club Q tragedy & how to support the LGBTQIA+ community when something like this happens. 

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California, a professor of comics at California college of the arts,  and a lifelong artist and writer. In both her scholarly writing and her visual art, Ajuan explores the complexities of race, gender, and identity, Ajuan’s illustrations and comics have appeared in several anthologies, including, Drawing Power, edited by Diane Noomin. 

Ajuan has TWO books out that I urge you to get right now! 1001 black men from stacked deck press, and Living While Black with Chronicle books. 

You can find Ajuan, her books and more at ajuanmance.com

Now please enjoy my talk with Ajuan Mance. 

We are over the moon today to talk to you about Nicole's favorite New York foods, turning to decaf, getting a really gross matcha, Dawn inviting us over for dinner and having a calamity, Astronaut Ice Cream, Coalinga Coffee, Unwelcoming while still being a good neighbor, and MORE. Tune in!