Sagittarian Matters

We are over the moon to welcome back friend to the show, MORGAN to taste test PRUNE LATTES today, as suggested by listener Paula Simon on instagram. But first! Nicole gives a round up on where she's been, we hear some coyotes freaking out, and we get some more UNSOLICITED VEGAN FOOD REVIEWS. Plus! Oh Happy Days Cafe in Altadena California. A restaurant/store harkening back to vegan days of yore. 

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We are over the MOON today to have esteemed Capricorn BETH PICKENS join us for a very special Beth's Birthday edition of the show. 

She gave us advice about breakups, burnout, Changing your relationship with Money, artist statements, making friends and MORE.

Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What. Find Beth, her books & Homework club on instagram @bethpickensconsulting or at bethpickens.com.

Happy New Year! 

We are over the moon this week to welcome friend to show Amanda Verwey on to talk about the time she tried to pick up Paula Poundstone. 

We also have vegan food reviews of chips, poetry, beverages and MORE with DAWN RIDDLE, MARISSA PATERNOSTER, MEGHAN DINEEN and SARAH DAEGLING. 

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Amanda Verwey is an illustrator, writer and artist from Los Angeles California. Amanda is the mastermind behind the instagram account chihuahua digest (@chihuahua_digest) you can find her actual life's work online at amandaverwey.com.  

We are over the moon to welcome award-winning graphic novelist BISHAKH SOM to the podcast today! 

Bishakh is the author of Apsara Engine & Spellbound. She was an  architect , who changed her life completely and dedicated herself to comics in New York City in her 40s.  

Bishak’s short story collection, 

Apsara Engine, won the LA Times Book prize for graphic literature. 

Her work explores themes of gender, sexuality, memory and urbanism, among other things. 

Her website states: On a formal level, some of my pieces conflate the tools of architectural representation with those of sequential narrative in order to question these very methods and offer new means of representing space, time and the role of the body in both simultaneously.

Bishakh joined me through the magic of the internet to talk about her books, food, trans cartography, world-building, comics tools, advice  and MORE. 

We are over the moon this week to unite seasoned guests to the show MORGAN & BRAN TAYLOR. Bran turns the tables & asks US vegan advice (reviews, protein, meal prep), plus they give some advice to a listener who just came out! 

FOODS DISCUSSED: Vtopia Brie, Sproud Milk, Sunflower Drive-in, True Nutrition.com, Dandies marshmallows, Soy nog & the British Bake Off!!!! 

We are over the moon to welcome back Kaia Wilson (Dogspeed Training) and Bran Taylor (Magic Hour) for a special all-advice episode of the podcast. 

This episode originally aired on Xray FM as a special pledge-drive edition!

You can listen to Producer Chris Sutton's show Record Lections as DJ Hell Books every Tuesday night from 10-11 p.m. 

Find Kaia at dogspeed.dog

Find Bran at magichourastrology.com

and find all things Nicole & Sagittarian Matters at 

@nicolejgeorges on instagram, & @sagittarianmatters. 

Today on sagittarian matters, Nicole talks reports back after reading the entirety of the internet, re: Bad Art Friend. THEN! BETH PICKENS joins us to answer your advice questions about comparing, despairing and the intersection of jealous and class rage/institutional oppression. THEN! Unsolicited Vegan Food reviews with Will Betke Brunswick, Eduardo, and Michelle Tea. TUNE IN!

We are over the moon this week to welcome Kaia Wilson & MORGAN to the show to give advice on travel routines and vegan health. We also get angry over ice cream, taste Kind brand ice cream, crack into a skull from Lagusta’s Luscious AND hear an unsolicited vegan food review for AvocaJOE from friend to the show Dawn Riddle. 

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Today’s episode brought to you by Josephine McRobbie, Emily Helmus, Maria Turner-Carney , Laura Perry Shoshanna Ruth Wechter, and JOEY SOLOWAY!!!

It is also brought to you by 

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Listeners, today is a very special vegan food episode. 

A show time ago, frequent contributor to the show Morgan and I were invited over to Bad Boy’s Diner for a 5 course meal made up of entirely original recipes. 

Bad Boys’ Diner is a free dining experience created by Portland artist, musician and playwright Dawn Riddle. 

If listening to a podcast is like hanging out with the host, then this episode will be like a dinner party with friends.  I invite you to a backyard  at the end of the summer, with Producer Ponyo, friend to the show Morgan, and Dawn Riddle.

We will talk about the sourest sourdough focaccia, hardcore music from my past that does not hold up, making the best out food fails, microwaved  a mild tahini milkshake recipe and MORE! 

If you would like to see some of Dawn’s culinary creations , go to @badboysdiner on instagram. 

Now, on with the show. 

Dine with us, won’t you? 

We are over the moon to welcome artist, cartoonist, and professor Ajuan Mance to the show this week. Ajuan, who was recently featured in the documentary No Straight Lines, joined me to talk about her comic in the Eisner winning anthology Menopause, A Comic Treatment, plus her years-long project 1001 Black Men, the time she was on Jeopardy, Nerdiness, Her new art show, Black Art From The Edge of the Universe, and MORE. 

You can find Ajuan’s art show: Black art from the edge of the universe” right now at the African American art and culture complex in San Francisco. Or find Ajuan, her comics, & the 1001 Black Men project, online at ajuanmance.com 

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race, gender, power, and the people and places in which they intersect.