The road to hell is paved with good intentions, they say, and maybe it's true! I had intended to back on my usual programming schedule beginning last week but then I got hit with the flu :'(

I'm feeling much better but my voice is still a little froggy. SO I decided instead of recording another chapter of Planet of Exile with a weird husky voice, I'd instead record a little chatty episode about new year goals, body-grief, aging (my birthday was yesterday), and how to cope with ever-changing abilities.

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Introduction & Rocannon's World pt. 1

Today we begin an entirely new journey with Ursula Le Guin! Opening the pages of Library of America's anthology of her Hainish Novels & Stories, I read you her 2016 introduction to the collection and begin the first novel within it, Rocannon's World. Enjoy :)

Songs featured:

Planet Queen by T. Rex

Time Trap by Built to Spill

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Returning from an unintentional break, I talk about the struggle of creating work while sick, give some life and world updates, and nerd out about, patron Saint of the show, Ursula Le Guin.

I read you The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and The Day Before The Revolution by Ursula Le Guin!

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Where did MAHA come from? What am I doing to prepare for the worst? Plus some media recommendations and chitchat :)

https://open.substack.com/pub/thegauntlet/p/rfk-jrs-maha-movement-doesnt-want?r=7ta9f&utm_medium=ios

https://lux-magazine.com/article/dean-spade/

I reflect on the 5 year anniversary of my very first COVID infection.

A recording of a workshop I gave in December 2024 on the basics of Covid, from what it is, how it spreads, to how to prevent and treat it!

Throughout the episode I mention several people I wanna shout out here:

-The Finders Collective, who hosted the workshop. Follow them @finders.c0llective on IG

-Lola Germs, science communicator and extraordinaire. Follow @lola.germs on IG and YouTube

-Xtian who runs Western Mass Mask Bloc and spoke to us about it. Follow them @westernmassmaskbloc on IG

-mask chain and jewelry maker @frog.chains on IG

I’m back with my two most recent Your Sick Friend columns, originally published in The Montague Reporter. The first, from September, goes into the worrying prevalence of Long Covid in children. The second, written on the 381st day of the Zionist entity’s genocide of Palestinians, is about the importance of bearing witness to the horrors unfolding so that we may actually fight to stop them. Child liberation now! Free Palestine!

You sickos asked for it! I delivered 😎 herein lies my sordid wellness crunchy granola goopy bullshit past!

This podcast is supported by a grant from the Montague Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Councils, a state agency.