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Bonus Episode ~ It’s Christmas Eve! Enjoy a Christmas punch recipe courtesy of Mr. Charles Dickens, followed by his roll call of Christmas ghosts in the old stories! Then thrill to Rosemary Timperley’s “Christmas Meeting.” Merry Christmas! Wassail!

Was the poet John Keats a graverobber? Who wants to know? And why shouldn’t he be? He was the whole gothic package—-tubercular, pale, preoccupied with death, poetic… Here is your sleek transition from poetry hangover to summer sleepovers with their ghostly thrills. And OHHH catch a brand new urban legend starring your dauntless host—wowie!! Keats A-Go-Go: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190723-was-the-poet-john-keats-a-graverobber Exploring John Keats' Poems About Death - PoemVerse www.poemverse.org/keats-poems-about-death/ www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2021/02/why-keats-s-haunting-reflections-tuberculosis-resonate-age-covid-19 Lonely Water Spirit ~ Donald Pleasance 1973 www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=donald+pleasance+publc+service+tv+water&qpvt=donald+pleasance+publc+service+tv+water&view=riverview&mmscn=mtsc&mid=959D29E41B471F87A2BF959D29E41B471F87A2BF&&aps=0&FORM=VMSOVR Jenny with the Iron Teeth www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/jenny-wi-airn-teeth/ Overheard on a Saltmarsh www.allpoetry.com/overheard-on-a-saltmarsh Jenny Greenteeth the doll https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-74p8MDXX/?igsh=MTl6ZXd2N28xMTZnZA== https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx243kJA-q4/?igsh=NTA3ZmhjN3R5Ynh0 Jenny with the Iron Teeth https://www.instagram.com/p/BxWC7dFAMUH/?igsh=bjgxcWNwdXh4YW12 other dolls https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPrkxpgDHc/?igsh=MXN5cDV2c3Z3c2FhNA== https://www.instagram.com/p/BxASfmMAA71/?igsh=MWk2ZmpxbHVpOTF5dA== https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDUNX1APac/?igsh=MWcxNW9scTg3ZnRpNA== https://www.instagram.com/p/BwTM0zpAXaw/?igsh=NDYzempzbDIzeXA2 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwKBnE7A3gf/?igsh=MWt4aDBkNnB4OTF0dg==

Poets and Poetry Freaks alike–gather, gather! For a song of accursed poets and a nice long swim in their wake. Hey, there’s a French term for those folks: Poétes maudits! And you know how a very specific phrase in another language just grips me by the soul and sets me to shivering with joy! Cursed poets, symbolists, decadents! With a trifecta like that, how can we not emerge more poetic? This is the dream! A Poet’s Glossary www.edwardhirsch.com/a-poets-glossary-2/ White Heliotrope https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50496/white-heliotrope Decadent poems https://interestingliterature.com/2019/12/best-decadent-1890s-poems/amp/ Brief guide to the Symbolists https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-symbolists The Fellowship of the Cursed Poets - Ethics & Public Policy Center (eppc.org) eppc.org/publication/the-fellowship-of-the-cursed-poets/#:~:text=In%20“Edgar%20Allan%20Poe%2C%20His%20Life%20and%20Works”,Poe’s%20case%20with%20alcohol—for%20his%20invaluable%20art’s%20sake. www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2012/01/drink-every-time-you-see-the-phrase-cursed-poet

Why yes, poetry on gum wrappers—you should try it sometime. National Poetry Month toodles along, leaving starry trails behind it — and things get groovy with poetry glowed up with ambient musical coolness—thanks to Scott Chaffin! This one’s a love letter to poetry practice with a whole load of poems written on gum wrappers—plus a list of books that have inspired me the most! Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave M Train by Patti Smith Headcleaner by Blixa Bargeld Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme A Poet’s Glossary by Edward Hirsch The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates Grapefruit by Yoko Ono Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg The Practicing Poet edited by Diane Lockward and Wild Raspberries ~ Andy Warhol’s cookbook of paintings with recipes on them. Poetry Freaks (the game) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/451053/poetry-freaks Breakfast Poetry Live ~ daily livestreams throughout April 2024 (archived) https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr YouTube (Breakfast Poetry Live & more) https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage?si=7w5dhDo5exiU3xF9

The best chair in the room is all yours for the next leg of our party for National Poetry Month! This one’s a poem-to-song—utilizing a poem written last National Poetry Month (2023) when randomly-drawn Beautiful Words provided the prompts (the word was PICTURESQUE). Then snuggle in for a reading of 3 poems (two of them rare), a little Dorothy Parker, and an impromptu string-of-pearls poetry exercise using books of song lyrics and dice! Wheee! Poetry Freaks (the game) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/451053/poetry-freaks Breakfast Poetry Live ~ daily livestreams throughout April 2024 (archived) https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr YouTube (Breakfast Poetry Live & more) https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage?si=7w5dhDo5exiU3xF9 Vandal: Poems of Disentanglement https://a.co/d/gR2PMM5 Dorothy Parker public domain https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68353

Our second episode of National Poetry Month ‘24 dives into POETRY … in The Twilight Zone, that mid-20th-century television chocolate box of the weird! How much poetry can The Twilight Zone hold? Does poetry make a difference in the lives of the young? Well, it sure did for me! Get some poetry in ya—with a dash of the bizarre! Time Enough at Last https://frankhudson.org/2019/04/06/poetry-in-gray-part-1/ Cecil Hickman poem https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-twilight-zone/ Twilight Zone Poetry No. 3 https://s-a-carter.medium.com/twilight-zone-poetry-no-3-8c3a76657a2d E. Housman poem AND allpoetry review of Donald Pleasance reading https://allpoetry.com/XIII:-When-I-Was-One-and-Twenty https://greatbooksguy.com/2022/01/15/the-twilight-zone-season-3-episode-thirty-seven-changing-of-the-guard/ The Paris Review - Masks: On Confessional Poetry and the Twilight Zone www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/27/masks/

Nursery Rhymes! Our first poems, the lyrics of our infanthood— tuning our little ears to the rhyme … the rhythm … the horror… And when the horror is done, have some pie. Pie Bakers galore—whether simple or delirious, it’s National Poetry Month. Get a faceful of the goods! Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary: A Guide To The Language Of Jive (1938) - Flashbak flashbak.com/cab-calloways-hepsters-dictionary-a-guide-to-the-language-of-jive-1938-378657/ https://youtu.be/b3rjQnfm6Yk https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150610-the-dark-side-of-nursery-rhymes What’s the Deal with Nursery Rhymes? https://www.city-data.com/forum/writing/3275246-what-s-deal-nursery-rhymes.html Darkest Nursery Rhymes https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/darkest-nursery-rhymes Fireman Johnny Gage. https://youtu.be/qRTG7OjUd0A?si=9-Aj4Y1sz6jblPc9 Scott Chaffin: https://brightonstreetghosts.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=PAAaaGBI32yNNrSAMzdvz3hcsaLn8U0Nt2oM8g_MBuBS3AC6Wfh9AqnNQjqoY_aem_AeAEU6Dk75QB70JTwRnVw85SfbiNxIKe8qJvnaqIHFUMYAeQy3ZzJQ-WMy9CfTDFMW8 Steve Allen: Funny Phone Calls (Wanted: Girl to Share Apartment) https://youtu.be/AemdMjgnaQI?feature=shared

Overkill? Perhaps. But you don’t wanna miss those very-human outtakes. And at the end of the day, isn’t that right at the heart of gospel—imperfect but adored? Anyway! Just a handful of extra thoughts — esprit d’escalier! And more Good News: our new “Pie Baker” EP is now available for free on Bandcamp under the Minutewax label—treat yourself to some gospel and gospel-oid anthems from your new favorite musical perpetrators! Amen. https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/album/pie-baker-ep

Another 3-fer! Your new favorite trio of songwriting freaks can’t be stopped, don’t even try—this time tackling GOSPEL and gospel-like musical party favors. —> devotion —> pie bakers! plural!! —> and….forbidden realms. Tread lightly, do. Amy Zoellers, Scott Chaffin and Seann McAnally are in it up to their necks again. Musical gluttony! Of course. salvation is always an option… Scott: www.instagram.com/brighton Seann: www.instagram.com/johnny.pharaoh/ Amy: www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage/ Minutewax: https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/

Oops I hit a weird button! Well, someone did. Of course it was me. And a musical collaboration was born. Three songwriters, three days, one kooky phrase! Hear all three versions of “Oops I Hit a Weird Button” right here – it’s a totally rad musical grab-bag–each song astonishingly distinct from the others! You’ll want to dive in and waller. With the two irrepressibles: Scott Chaffin and Seann McAnally! Oops I Hit a Weird Button https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/album/oops-i-hit-a-weird-button Cool collaboration https://youtube.com/shorts/bfq5EPjsicQ?si=rZRM1f2zhHoeobB9 Scott: www.instagram.com/brighton Seann: www.instagram.com/johnny.pharaoh/ Amy: www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage/ Minutewax: https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/

Games! You said it, Amanda. Who’s Amanda? Don’t overthink it—all will become apparent as we move around the board, zoom through the levels, roll the D20 — what have you. I’m no game expert, so I recruit others to share their wisdom on the subject—get sidetracked by earrings and apricot brandy (again)---and did you know there’s a game called POETRY FREAKS, invented right here in town? Let’s bounce from shap to shap (that was for you, Star Trek nerds) and move along home, dodging the pitfalls, and letting chance take a swing at us! Find “Games are the Enemies of Beauty, Truth, and Sleep, Amanda Said” in GUILTY PLEASURES by Donald Barthelme: https://books.google.com/books/about/Guilty_Pleasures.html?id=nFHMYgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description Poetry Freaks: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/451053/Poetry-Freaks Hoodwink: a version www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=game+hoodwink&mid=4F4680BFF350DCA0B8D04F4680BFF350DCA0B8D0&FORM=VIRE 6 DB and more: https://brightonstreetghosts.bandcamp.com/music Nina D’Arcangela https://spreadingthewritersword.com/ Angela Yuriko Smith https://substack.com/@angelayurikosmith Nerd Glows On (Seann McAnally) https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13124/Nerd-Glows-On etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/hipnessandoutrage/?etsrc=sdt my poetry https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 games gaming

OK, cookie time! Take a break from your dance moves and have a cookie—that splodge of dough baked into a disk of pure love. And twice the wholesome goodness: TWO versions of the opening song! What a score! This episode’s cookie jar also brims with frantic encouragement from mid-20th-century cookbooks, a couple of urban legends, a heroine who loses her poise over a bag of chocolate chips, and SO MUCH COOKIE INSIGHT! I guarantee you’ll feel better . . . Plus: what’s Gilmore Girls got to do with it? Vote for your favorite version of this week’s opening song! INSTAGRAM ~ https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr YOUTUBE ~ https://youtube.com/shorts/rqDqIVlEbXw?si=NQzUXHjvasL6_oQo ~ Also: more about the legendary Betty Crocker in Ep. 39 ~ To Shreds You Say ~ Betty Crocker's Cooky Book https://g.co/kgs/oevH2iX ~ American Cookie: The Snaps, Drops, Jumbles, Tea Cakes, Bars & Brownies That We Have Loved for Generations: A Baking Book https://g.co/kgs/8SfgtHz The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion https://g.co/kgs/BTi8f26 ~ The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook: Dedicated to the Pure Joy of Baking https://g.co/kgs/ufy7mWn ~ The I hate to cook book ~ Peg Bracken https://g.co/kgs/GgffqM2 ~ Buddy Holly ~ Ting A Ling https://youtu.be/Who10cHcJU4?si=q88t3jG25-hSDLiU ~ Ordeal in French Lipstick https://a.co/d/9IxhBuq ~ The Cookie Thief - Short Story (alltimeshortstories.com) ~ https://positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cookies-an-origin-story ~

Oh, cripes, it came out another love song! Get thee behind me, February! Anyhow, let’s talk puzzle boxes and dark circles under the eyes! History of Puzzle Boxes https://heartwood.com/blogs/history/history-of-puzzle-boxes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_box https://youtu.be/_NreYBwzRQk?si=as89wPmja-w_Af_u https://scariesthings.com/2023/08/15/mikes-review-puzzle-box-2023-popcord-frights-film-festival/ https://www.blondeupnorth.com/blog/eye-bags Takaritono https://youtu.be/eDMuCoc_6PE?si=qfFmjEx8GXRV4w59 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

February? Again?? Well, you asked for it. In the vote to select the tone of our latest Valentine’s-Day-Cometh episode, “DRIPPY ROMANTIC” soundly whomped “CYNICAL.” And so two insufferable lovebirds (-slash-songbirds) track the origin and soaring arc of their honey-bloated companionship across SIX SONGS written for each other and passed like notes in a junior high math class. This episode is STUFFED with love songs—a total chocolate box—can you handle it? You must. And yes, the opener IS a ghost story! PLUS: attention, all music-lovers, history-lovers, gamers and nerds: meet Seann McAnally, capable force in all of those areas–and a real dreamboat, too. What else do you want? (For CYNICAL Valentine’s Day content, do revisit episode 34, “Happy St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Then come right on back to episode 77 and gorge on SIX FREAKIN’ SONGS, all for you, my honey-lambs!) *LANGUAGE ALERT!* (just this once) https://www.instagram.com/podcast.in.a.minor?igsh=MWMzNHZicGN3aW9yYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/ https://johnnypharaoh.bandcamp.com/album/23?t=9 https://thefurandthefang.bandcamp.com/ https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7601802.Seann_McAnally Poetry in Songwriting live stream with Angela Yuriko Smith https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyqPfi59o3k https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13124/nerd-glows-on https://gooniesworldpodcast.podbean.com/ https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ASeann+McAnally&s=relevancerank&text=Seann+McAnally&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 ART WRAITHS: (songs of searing devotion) https://a.co/d/99oX9c7

Try and guess the color of Warren G. Harding’s pajamas! I dare you! Jump right in for the story behind an ode to the 29th U.S. President, his sleepwear, possible poisoning, and tragic eyebrows! Plus, a delightful conversation with a local archivist and lifelong friend of mine, wherein we discuss Warren’s pj’s, Presidential baking, and cast our votes for the sexiest Prez. Be there! Or be grievously square, your choice. https://www.history.com/news/warren-harding-scandals https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/teapot-dome-scandal Florence Harding’s waffle recipe! https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/document/2020-05/Florence%20Harding%27s%20Waffle%20Recipe.pdf Mrs. Harding's Twentieth Century Cook Book and Her Recipes for Candy Making / Twentieth Century Cook Book An Up to Date and Skillful Preparation on the Art of Cooking and Modern Candy Making Simplified also the Process of Drying Fruits and Vegetables and Butchering Time Recipes https://a.co/d/bEyNdGy

AI art! I didn’t think much about it. Until I did. Snuggle up for a new weird song and one chick’s blatherings! * No artificial intelligence was involved in the making of this episode. Strictly human souls, maybe some ghosts. Human art: https://www.etsy.com/shop/hipnessandoutrage/?etsrc=sdt&load_webview=1&bid=dz7rro3kVTfQIwjRnwSrhmUcWg_P

Snow Days! Magical gifts of winter bestowed on the school-bound and those with schooly jobs—will they or won’t they … cancel school? A tense scene, but richly rewarding when closings are announced. The possibilities! The memories! A day suspended in a snow globe, throwing pixie dust on the everyday. How many marshmallows in your cocoa? Backbeat Band. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbeat_(soundtrack) Walk Like an Egyptian. https://youtu.be/vth-T1u7A58?si=8jqoLh-SVyMM4GpU

Happy New Year—with a pair of blues songs to springboard us into such topics as songwriting ghosts — Being and Nothingness (again) — and two quick tricks to make a blues song sound like blues song! Vengeful bathtub ghost! And Bob Dylan, too!

Oh, the charms of Christmas pudding! And the charms inside of Christmas pudding—little silver doo-dads in the shapes that tell your fortune! It’s Christmas time again, and we’re gawking at an old-time English holiday food tradition in curiosity and song. Have a lump of pudding and consult the new year’s oracle all at once. Time saver! Hey, that’s a big help this time of year. Nigella Christmas by Nigella Lawson https://a.co/d/eUX2qzS Pudding Charms by Charlotte Druitt Cole https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/pudding-charms Charmarama https://charmarama.com/blogs/blog/16097152-the-christmas-pudding#:~:text=A%20few%20different%20variations%20of,an%20anchor%20for%20safe%20harbour. Pudding charms: https://charmarama.com/products/christmas-pudding-charms Wassail to the Mausoleum Cakes – A Gathering of Christmas Ghosts by Amy Zoellers https://a.co/d/09POI5D

Hey, fruitcakes! It’s that time of year again—the steam of Thanksgiving pies has drifted into the sunset, and your favorite anti-hero, *FRUITCAKE*, glitters in the wings, ready for her big entrance! Stir it up! The time is now. And the rewards—thrilling and manifold. https://culinaryagents.com/resources/the-history-of-the-fruitcake https://www.harryanddavid.com/blog/fruitcake#:~:text=A%20regal%20history%20of%20fruitcake,their%20 experience%20in%20the%20 afterlife. https://www.marthastewart.com/338960/fruit-and-stout-cake https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-misunderstood-fruitcake-has-a-magnificent-shelf-life-and-history#:~:text=Even%20older%20is%20the%20fruitcake,president%20of%20the%20United%20States.