"Americana musician and songwriter Raina Rose revels in sharing with you her beautifully twisted, yet refreshingly optimistic perspective on the world. Her unique voice and exceptional guitar playing transcend age, gender, generation, and even catch the ears of those who aren't typically into acoustic guitar-driven songwriting. With a naturalist's eye, an artist's pen, and a lion's attack, Raina lays everything she has on the line; she makes you feel as if she's your best friend whispering a honeysuckle-sweet secret in your ear, warmly inviting you into a joyfully intimate and darkly candid conversation."

Fun fact: Raina penned a song on my band Nobody's Girl's debut EP, Waterline, called "Bluebonnets," which I actually got to sing lead on in the studio. It's become one of my all-time favorite songs- to sing and in general. Every line is poetry, and the melody sings itself, like a classic Willie Nelson song. None of this surprises me, now that I know that Raina is the daughter of both a "country music historian and a Jewish poet." But the soul in every one of Raina's songs is unique and all her. "Raina Rose: even her name reads like a poem,” said William Harries Graham in the Austin Chronicle. It's true, y'all.

We review Star Trek (the Original Series), Season 1, Episode 6, "Mudd's Women." Topics include: the "folkanomics" of touring in your 20s with a baby, sexism blows and let's fix it, countries we daydream of moving to that support artists and families and the overwhelming temptation to just get in the car and drive north till we hit Canada, Childress has no chill, Spock is amused, pretty drug withdrawal = every woman ever before coffee and brushing her hair, beauty addiction culture, Harcourt Fenton Mudd's appearances in the Star Trek universe, Mudd's mail-order brides as stand-ins for Ivana, Marla, and Melania, the actual women who played them (Karen Steele, Susan Denberg/Dietlinde Zechner and Maggie Thrett/Diane Pine), creative followthrough as an act of keeping promises to yourself, Raina's starring role in a children’s production of “The Trouble with Tribbles," why you should always take the placebo and forgo the drugs and losers on Rigel 12, and a re-written last act for this episode, courtesy of us, with a much more satisfying, empowering, and logical ending for Eve.