Shows
Podcast in A minor110 ~ Weird TumorsYes, weird tumors, in song! A whole extra lifetime has passed since those little weirdies encircled my inside parts—that’s a blessin’! Get the story here, and how about a little callback to episode 75, “AI Art Song”? My skeleton foot, wearing flesh for a sock…🎵 Have you ever seen your skeleton foot in an x-ray? Sexay!!Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics — Miriam Engleberghttps://a.co/d/czxtjTO27 Kinds of Loneliness— McAnally / Vorwarkhttps://a.co/d/7FMz...
2025-06-2617 minPodcast in A minor107 ~ Song Slam (for National Poetry Month)National Poetry Month 2025 lends us its shimmer for just a few days more! So let’s investigate Slam Poetry—what is it? For years I never knew! Let’s find out what it is and what it ain’t, and let us all agree that “So I Married an Axe Murderer” provides the ultimate example of an exaggerated beatnik-style poetry performance cinema has to offer. And remember, be a Mensch!Slam poetry | Definition, Guidelines, & History | Britannicawww.britannica.com/art/slam-poetrywww.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam
2025-04-2714 minPodcast in A minor106 ~ Drunken TercetsPoetry Freaks! It’s National Poetry Month 2025! Let us toast the occasion with poem-to-song “Drunken Tercets,” a string-of-pearls poem filled with lines from moon poems by favorite poets, and a reading of my handmade chapbook MOON-DEVOURED from cover to cover! You can find Moon-Devoured in “A Howling Breakfast of Moon Soda—4 Chapbooks in One!” by Amy Zoellers (McAnally), link below! And don’t forget to check out my sister-podcast, POETRY FREAKS as we jam ourselves with poetica all April long!A Howling Breakfast of Moon Soda https://a.co/d/8BTcy1jht...
2025-04-2122 minPodcast in A minor103 ~ Grieving FlapperFlappers! Those party gals of a century ago—unflappable! Until stricken with the universal thump of human grief. Diphtheria funerals—elevator mishaps—and the terrible death of a moonstruck poet……….https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qrhttps://www.instagram.com/podcast.in.a.minor?igsh=MWMzNHZicGN3aW9yYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qrhttps://www.amazon.com/Ordeal-French-Lipstick-Amy-Zoellers/dp/1737208350https://www.harpercollins.com/products/final-exits-michael-largo?variant=32123000586274http://www.j...
2025-03-0713 minPodcast in A minor98 ~ A Werewolf at the WindowThere’s a werewolf at the window! I never should’ve opened that door…Spooky October continues! Katie, bar the door, there’s a wolfman on the loose! Let’s howl and wallow in “An American Werewolf in London,” Sabine Baring-Gould’s BOOK OF WEREWOLVES, and the Canadian coming-of-age classic werewolf film, GINGER SNAPS! And don’t miss my new collection of poetry, BEATNIK WEREWOLF, available now—link below! Listen to the end for an immediate correction: “Prince of Darkness” is not a werewolf movie—merely a scary terror-movie. I kept waiting for the werewolves. But they never showed....
2024-10-2120 minPodcast in A minor91~ Everything I Touch Turns to Graveyards“Everything I touch turns to graveyards,” Patty Duke lamented in a 1971 episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery! And for ten years, I KNEW it would become a song. And here it is! In your hot little hands! Let’s plunge into an eerie tale of a cursed diary—followed by a short list of other cursed objects, and gratitude to Patty Duke for advocating for mental health awareness and funding.
The Diary (Night Gallery)
https://midnitereviews.com/2019/08/night-gallery-episode-14-the-diary-a-matter-of-semantics-big-surprise-professor-peabodys-last-lecture/
Cursed Objects
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spooky-curses-urban-legends
2024-06-2618 minPodcast in A minor90 ~ The Spleen is Purple, Man (Poetry Freaks crossover!)Time to consider the spleen! That magnificent purple organ that cleans your blood and does you all kinds of good! And didn’t Keanu Reeves and Christian Bale both rupture theirs in motorcycle accidents back in the ‘90s? A vague memory, unconfirmed. Anyway! Here is your formal intro to POETRY FREAKS The Podcast—and Three Poems Called Spleen! Talk about summer fun!!
POETRY FREAKS The Podcast https://youtu.be/J0-cM6dgYW0?si=IC7FmMAee0LGkCIu
POETRY FREAKS The Game https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/451053/poetry-freaks
2024-06-0813 minPodcast in A minor89 ~ A Quiet Bit of Mind-Blowing (Count Dracula in Swinging London)Whoa—Count Dracula in Swinging London?? I’m a little breathless again! It’s “Dracula A.D. 1972”! What more could we want? The kaleidoscopic colors—the misty churchyard—the bloodbath! My goodness, what are you waiting for? A spurt of go-go music for a vampire chase in the fog? Well, you’ll get it! Freak out!!!
2024-06-0416 minPodcast in A minor88 ~ John Keats After DarkWas 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&qp...
2024-05-1823 minPodcast in A minor87 ~ Vaguely Cursed (Accursed Poets!)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/
Br...
2024-04-2820 minPodcast in A minor86 ~ Gum Wrapper SongWhy 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 Hirsc...
2024-04-2418 minPodcast in A minor85 ~ Best Chair in the RoomThe 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=MTZ1...
2024-04-2212 minPodcast in A minor84 ~ Fear and Smoking (Poetry in The Twilight Zone)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...
2024-04-1415 minPodcast in A minorBONUS! ~ Half-Hippie Thursday FULL VERSIONCurrently in bloom: dogwood tree, strawberries, wild violets! Inspiring the unearthing of the lost first half of this classic tune from episode 8! EIGHT! Full-Hippie Thursday! Shazam.
2024-04-0603 minPodcast in A minor83 ~ Hepped-Up Nursery RhymesNursery 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...
2024-04-0520 minPodcast in A minor82 - 2 ~ BONUS! Gospellalia Addendum with OuttakesOverkill? 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
2024-04-0107 minPodcast in A minor82 ~ GospellaliaAnother 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/
2024-03-2622 minPodcast in A minor81 ~ Oops I Hit a Weird ButtonOops 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.i...
2024-03-1721 minPodcast in A minor80 ~ Games, Amanda SaidGames! 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...
2024-03-1046 minPodcast in A minor79 ~ Ok, Cookie TimeOK, 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 so...
2024-03-0425 minPodcast in A minor78 ~ Hungarian Puzzle BoxOh, 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
2024-02-2615 minPodcast in A minor77 ~ Strong Ghost (The Inevitable Valentine’s Episode)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 re...
2024-02-121h 20Podcast in A minor76 ~ If Your Pajamas Could Talk (Warren G. Harding)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/Flor...
2024-01-2827 minPodcast in A minor75 ~ AI Art SongAI 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
2024-01-1314 minPodcast in A minor74 ~ Snow DaySnow 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
2024-01-0913 minPodcast in A minor73 ~ Two Blues SongsHappy 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!
2024-01-0319 minPodcast in A minor72 ~ Pudding CharmsOh, 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%20f...
2023-12-2312 minPodcast in A minor71 ~ What a Bunch of Fruitcakes!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.
2023-11-2919 minPodcast in A minor70 ~ Pie Sonnet***THE MANIC PIE EPISODE **** Thanksgiving, coming up! Let us celebrate with pie ~ pie tips, pie bliss, pie devotion, pie poetry! Embrace this American food-treasure that’s shorthand for love, comfort and tradition. Learn the secret, scrapped ending to “Dr. Strangelove”! Hands in the crust, and—go!
Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life https://a.co/d/9OKEoFD
Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life https://a.co/d/77tcxu9
Martha Stewart's New Pies and Tarts: 150 Recipes for Old-Fashioned and Modern Favorites: A Baking Book https://a.co/d/9NquQfd
THANKSGIVING 101 (Holidays 101) https://a.co/d/c...
2023-11-2024 minPodcast in A minor69 ~ Capture the ShadowHappy Halloween! Let’s gawk at America’s death chronology from the 17th century to the present! And let’s gaze upon the images of the dead in memorial photography. Dare we? Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America https://a.co/d/97mLQVZ Leila's Hair Museum https://g.co/kgs/RwtdRt
2023-10-3110 minPodcast in A minor68 ~ Little Drunken GhostIn spite of the provoking title, this week’s episode embraces the “innocence” of bygone Halloweens—the bonfires! The fortune-telling! The little drunken ghosts! Enter if you dare!
The Book of Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley:
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Book_of_Hallowe_en.html?id=semBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1
The Book of American Traditions by Ruth Edna Kelley
https://www.abebooks.com/9780517703120/Book-American-Traditions-Stories-Customs-0517703122/plp
The Little Colonel’s Holidays
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40463
Meet Me in St. Louis
https://g.co/kgs/cTLs9z
2023-10-3118 minPodcast in A minor67 ~ Ghost GalleryA gallery of ghosts for your October pleasure!
Grave stuff - tragedy - a splash of automatic writing- corpse candles - death omens! Poetry! A freakin spooky buffet— belly up to it! Sing morbidly along and shudder. Death’s gonna get us all, baby, so eat your candy corn by the fistful.
Death in early America: The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourninghttps://a.co/d/19SquU4
Erring in Circles https://a.co/d/7onhp85
The Book of Hallowe'enhttps://a.co/d/4JrbUgR
Warm Summer Sun by Mark Twain | Poetry Foundation
www.poet...
2023-10-2512 minPodcast in A minor66 ~ Six End TablesTwenty-two years AIN’T a bad try!
Friendly divorce! Is that even possible? Turns out yes! But only if you’re both borderline fabulous ~ and don’t wish to go on thrashing at the other one for being who they are. Welcome to grown-ups! Relax, it’s a shorty! And every day contains a collection of joys. So kick back for a spurt of confessional, musical poetry. And don’t be afraid to find the laughs!
New Poetry Collection ~
Vandal: Poems of Disentanglement https://a.co/d/hJz7OJ5
2023-10-0406 minPodcast in A minor65 ~ Radium GirlsRadium Girls—the Zeitgeist is now full of this radiation-tragedy with shimmering women at its center. But the song’s inspiration predates it: The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum. Is that morbid? Yes indeed. But I could not look away. Strap in for a load of history and gloom, dear ones, and steer clear of the thallium salts.
https://clsiewert.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/the-poisoners-handbook-by-deborah-blum-or-how-chemistry-without-regulation-kills-people/
www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-lethal-legacy-of-early-20th-century-radiation-quackery/2020/02/14/ed1fd724-37c9-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html
The Poisoners Handbook - PDF Free Download (epdf.pub) www.epdf.pub/the-poisoners-handbook.html
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Bi...
2023-09-2718 minPodcast in A minor64 ~ Angel PieHay, Angel Pie!! Don’t be shy—come right on in for the step-by-step concoction of a 13-year-old song—how 3 disconnected pop-culture moments birthed this inevitable classic. Oh, you’d better get in on this!! And a little whisky pie to boot!
The Kinks ~ I’ll Remember
https://youtu.be/ZB0llR3FJ60?si=c43U_oVugA7Q12UU
Top 21 Kinks Songs | Highest Chart Hits (playback.fm)
www.playback.fm/artist/the-kinks-top-songs
Mummas Watching Her Stories - Lisa The Simpson - S09E17 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGGbXmPSQe0
Author Link
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?re...
2023-09-2018 minPodcast in A minor63 ~ A Little Bent Upstairs ~ (Songs of Insanity)“A Little Bent Upstairs” b/w “That Psycho” — a mental health two-fer! Wade through some slightly maniacal poetry, slang of the unsound mind, a collection of madhouse suitcases, and 19th-century asylum portraits, and songs of emotional anguish!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:insane
Songs of Insanity
https://www.ranker.com/list/metal-songs-about-insanity/ranker-metal
https://www.songfacts.com/category/songs-about-insanity
Willard Suitcases
https://www.willardsuitcases.com/
Asylum Portraits
https://allthatsinteresting.com/victorian-mental-asylum-portraits
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5829113/haunting-portraits-of-female-patients-locked-up-in-infamous-19th-century-lunatic-asylum-in-trances-strapped-in-straitjackets-and-with-notes-scrawled-across-their-backs/
Author Link
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
2023-09-1326 minPodcast in A minor62 ~ No ClueNo clue! Yes, Clue! And: Clueless! Believe me ~ my foggy recollections of those two movies is a stroke of fortune compared to the prospect of some whiny discourse about LIFE. Ain’t it true! You decide. https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
2023-09-0615 minPodcast in A minor61 ~ Haunted SundayWhen life gets hectic and weird enough, you might forget who you are. Collect yourself of a Sunday and come along with me on some thrilling discovery, featuring spooky elementary schools, art with a death-mood, poetry, pumpkins and a dive-bombing bug! https://www.emporia.edu/documents/1851/1960-KMT-program.pdf https://www.heidehatry.com/icons_art.html. https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Lawrence-America-Paul-Thomas/dp/1625859201 Heide Hatry : heads and tales : twenty-seven stories and twenty-seven portraits https://g.co/kgs/1f21jQ https://www.amazon.com/Icons-Ash-Portraits-Heide-Hatry/dp/1581771614/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1693367275&refinements=p_27%3AHeide+Hatry&s=books&sr=1-1 https://www.thriftbooks.com...
2023-08-3018 minPodcast in A minor60 ~Chaos CallingIn the midst of LIFE doing that thing she does, a blitzingly impromptu episode! About chaos, its meaning and mythology and symbols — plus, here and there, an antidote! Fling up your scream of chaos to the cosmic ocean and have a nice cup of tea. You’ll feel better, I know it! Correct me at: hipnessandoutrage@gmail.com
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/superstitions-of-the-sea-a-digest-of-beliefs-customs-and-mystery_james-clary_jim-clary/562957/
https://lifefamilyfun.com/spiritual-health/symbols-of-chaos/
2023-08-2314 minPodcast in A minor59 ~ Existential A-Go-Go!Existence! Being! Nothingness! Freedom! Absurdity! The Other and the Look! DESPAIR.
Come right in, Existentialism, you highly poetical exploration of life and self! How sexy can a philosopher be? Will women swoon? Will there be cake? Games? Apricot brandy? Join me and the Johnny Marr Fender Jaguar for Existential A-Go-Go, one big screamin’ philosophical romp!
Philosophical Poems
https://aestheticpoems.com/philosophical-poems/
AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFhttps://a.co/d/2RkXpGt
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2609/c2d79a10678e5a31b6339296b13b1f92108f.pdf
Kierkegaard, A Poet, Alas
www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/ancient-quarrel-between-philosophy-and-poetry/kierkegaard-a-poet-alas/64D1F81419213C21455D409781B3...
2023-08-1627 minPodcast in A minor58 ~ 3 O’Clock (The British Invasion Anthem)It’s 3 o’clock. Where has your lover gone? Why so wicked and edgy? Why, indeed! When the British Invasion (1960s musical onslaught) slipped into my life on kitty-cat feet in the Summer of ‘86 ~ that was that. All of my questions were answered. And I was only eleven! Not bad! Life: solved! Here is my anthem thereto. Look Through Any Window (French version)
https://youtu.be/YzLgTz9Sblc
Dang Me (Hollies)
https://youtu.be/59hKE9aGEaw
ART WRAITHS (songs of searing devotion)
https://a.co/d/eIcAqEY
GET IN THERE BABY
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdoVgYTOtCv/
HipnessAndOutrage - Etsy
www.et...
2023-08-0924 minPodcast in A minor57 ~ All it Takes is A Naked Ghost (Diana of the Dunes)So how’s about the ghost of a naked nymph of the Indiana dunes, first bathing in Lake Michigan, then cavorting along the beach to dry her body? Done speaking. You’re in.
Poetry Hats
https://a.co/d/avexiPz
Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray by Janet Zenke Edwards
https://a.co/5cnWZJR
www.historydaily.org/diana-of-the-dunes-a-lake-michigan-ghost-story-with-a-basis-in-reality
www.nps.gov/indu/planyourvisit/diana-s-dare.htm
(Indiana Dunes Mystery)
www.icestationpoetry.medium.com/what-is-the-likeliest-solution-to-the-indiana-dunes-mystery-45492c60ec42
Diana of the Dunes Dare Field Trip | Indiana Dunes
www.indianadunes.com/blog/post/a-diana-of-the-dunes-dare-field-trip/#:~:text=The%20Diana%20of%20the%20Dunes%20Dare...
2023-08-0226 minPodcast in A minor56 ~ Weird, Weird SummerOh my stars! What a weird freakin summer. Bizarro. Intriguing. Reflected in an opening song of unprecedented length!! Well, MY summer’s going weird, but rather than make a big deal out of it, let’s celebrate with some totally unhinged medieval paintings—more Unsettling Events from the Tacoma Public Library—and a few Fortean yarns chosen entirely according to the coolness of their names. That’s not weird.
Here's My Collection Of Strange Art From Medieval Times | Bored Panda www.boredpanda.com/strange-art-from-medieval-times/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
https://youtu.be/hw3CE04LGiA (Muttley’s laugh)
40...
2023-07-2632 minPodcast in A minor55 ~ Specter Cow!! (and Other Headless Ghosts)Can you stand the cry of the blue jay? I certainly hope so because this episode is FAT with a headless ghost cow — !!! — and other headless ghosts! PLUS — serious newspaper reporting of ghostly events—please—oh—stand by while I catch my breath! It’s the Weird, Weird Summer of ‘23!! https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-headless-cow-of-johnstownthe.html
www.paranormal-world.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cambria_County_Ghost_Cow
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/insider/ghost-stories-new-york-times.html
www.blog.genealogybank.com/researching-old-ghost-stories-haunted-houses-in-newspapers.html
10 Headless Ghosts and Monsters ~ Listverse
https://listverse.com/2013/10/27/10-headless-ghosts-and-monsters/?fbclid=IwAR28qbBftkLc3heWNkn5Hug8vEW414dOKd9_Fx8sibGADOYSuwu2YCWMBfc_aem_AZliWe26qNsfKx-_qyl48kwtmOLQHp7M...
2023-07-1920 minPodcast in A minor54 ~ CRYPTID CAMPFIRE ~ Slide Rock Bolter SlideOk, hear me out: LAND WHALE. Right? Sliiiiding down a mountain and — but no, it’s too unthinkable! It’s another CRYPTID CAMPFIRE in the Summer of ‘23 — gather ‘round! This one’s trippy.
www.birdymagazine.com/text/fearsome-forest-creatures-the-slide-rock-bolter-by-lauren-shults/
https://morbidkuriosity.com/slide-rock-bolter/
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William Cox: https://archive.org/details/fearsomecreature0000john
www.colorado.com/articles/learn-about-colorados-mythical-creatures-where-spot-them
www.onlyinyourstate.com/colorado/colorado-vampire-grave/
www.atlasobscura.com/places/vampire-grave-of-lafayette
2023-07-1218 minPodcast in A minor53 ~ CRYPTID CAMPFIRE ~ Squonk SongSquonk—the saddest of all cryptids—don’t cry! You have your own unique beauty AND your own Cryptid Campfire episode of Podcast in A Minor! All is well. Huddle up to the campfire quick! before the storm hits—and we’ll tell the tales the lumberjacks told in 1910—just see if we don’t! Marshmallow me—we must sweeten the night for our sad little Squonk!
www.pennlive.com/life/2023/03/what-is-a-squonk-pas-quaint-beast-cries-over-how-ugly-it-is.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/magical-mythical-beings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squonk
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=nebraskianapubs
https://squonkapalooza.com/
https://www.theatlantic.com...
2023-07-0419 minPodcast in A minor52 ~ CRYPTID CAMPFIRE ~ Batsquatch, Take Me Away!Batsquatch! What are yeh?? Scuttle up round the CRYPTID CAMPFIRE again with the marshmallows and the marshmallows and the tale of a surly winged cryptid who got jostled from his mountain home when Mount St. Helens erupted. He might psychically tamper with your ride, whizz past the window of your home room, and/or claw up your T-shirt!! Stick close to the fire and don’t look behind you… www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/smores-hacks-for-the-summer-article
www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/recipes/2018/7/6-genius-ways-to-make-s-mores-this-summer
https://portlandghosts.com/the-story-of-the-batsquatch-the-terror-that-mount-st-helens-awoke
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Batsquatch
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Batsquatch
https://www.mabonhouse.co/n...
2023-06-2823 minPodcast in A minor51 ~ Nicotine HeadacheMoons and dictionaries in the gloaming! Cigarette poetry! Cigarettes—sublime or not? Soothe any nicotine or other headaches with this nicotine-heavy, song-heavy romp —from Podcast in A Minor!
Strawberry Moon – June 2023 (timeanddate.com)
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/strawberry.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69880/7-fake-words-ended-dictionary
www.amazon.com/Cigarettes-Are-Sublime-Richard-Klein/dp/0822316412
https://www.glenlaurel.com/about-us/blog/the-legend-of-brigadoon/
https://www.healthline.com/health/copd/quit-smoking-acupuncture-herbs
2023-06-2126 minPodcast in A minor50 ~ Death in the AfternoonEpisode 50, huzzah! And this one has it all: a marshmallow soldier, champagne & absinthe, Ernest Hemingway, ancient glittering eyes, improvisational memory, a six-word tragedy, postwar Paris, and free-floating dysphoria! Strap in, children. It’s Happy First Anniversary to PODCAST IN A MINOR!
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/death-in-the-afternoon/
de bene esse: Ernest Hemingway's mother reveals she cultivated the author's early writing talent (bulcranium.blogspot.com)
Short Story - A Day’s Wait - by Ernest Hemingway - small.pdf (google.com)
www.docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtcnRzZW5nbGlzaGNsYXNzcm9vbXxneDo0NzUzMGMxNTFlM2M5OWY
www.kansascity.com/news/your...
2023-06-1418 minPodcast in A minor49 ~ When I’m BrighterWhen I’m brighter, I’ll … no, no! If you wait until then, cuties, nothing will flower! Furthermore, it’s possible you’re even getting brighter by the minute, just living your life! Entertain the notion.
This 49th episode, dig into smug piano chicks, why band nerds are probably excellent kissers, what some pretty flowers symbolize—-and if you’re holding a grudge against Christian Bale for some reason . . . may I invite you to let go? Who among us doesn’t stray into uncool behavior now and then?
Language of Flowers:
www.bouqs.com
www.petalrepublic.com
www.tasteofhome.com
It Ain’t Me, Bab...
2023-06-0720 minPodcast in A minor48 ~ Tacoma, TacomaTacoma—city of the damned…ok, I just improvised that for dramatic thrills. But in a way, yes—will she really run this time? Leave it all behind? … I’ve never set foot in Tacoma, but somehow it has a mysterious hold on me. Anyway. Chain-smoking? Wanna stop? Here’s your song—your courage—your episode. Tacoma ghost stories ~ Tacoma sea monsters ~ Unsettling Events ~ and a Very Popular Flapper Death (surmised). AND a wondrous, happy first anniversary to: PODCAST IN A MINOR. https://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17061coll5/search
Tacoma Public Library ~ Unsettling Events
http://cryptomundo.com/movie-monsters/w...
2023-05-3118 minPodcast in A minor47 ~ Hey There, Sweet PotatoHey there, sweet potatoes! What would you like to know about sweet potatoes, huh? Because I know a few things. And on the side — Ancient Greek philosophy and spelling bees for that mid-week shot in the arm! Aren’t you glad you came? https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/antioxidants#
Encyclopedia of Healing Foods https://a.co/d/iku2aID
Song and Play Time With Pete Seeger https://a.co/d/aCs8exl
www.philosophyzer.com/the-allegory-of-the-cave-by-plato-summary-and-meaning/#:~:text=In%20Plato’s%20theory%2C%20the%20cave%20represents%20people%20who,of%20those%20who%20believe%20empirical%20evidence%20ensures%20knowledge.
2023-05-2416 minPodcast in A minor46 ~ Pawn SaxophoneLong song (in my world) ~ short episode! Allow me to be brief concerning an awkward song I don’t wish to talk about — except to tease a little story out of scattered phrases. Let us don our Parisian turtlenecks and costume jewels and rehearse our laments — til hell wouldn’t have it again. BLESSINGS on our feet of clay! www.livescience.com/32174-do-hair-and-nails-keep-growing-after-death.html
www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/vampire-panic
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
The story of Mercy Brown: New England’s last vampire (thevintagenews.com)
2023-05-1715 minPodcast in A minorInterlude! Short break!Hey dudes. Quick smoke break. Please enjoy these clips of songs that may or may not appear in future episodes! Don’t ask me! Life is erratic and fluid and nonsensical. SOAK IN IT.
2023-05-0803 minPodcast in A minor45 ~ Rattlesnake DreamOh no, rattlesnake dream! Vomit dreams—wolf dreams—dreams of mysterious corpses… how many times can you dream about Noel Gallagher before you hate yourself?—the original plan was to collect YOUR dreams to share, but perhaps another day! Another song! For now, a gathering of not-boring dream poems, and my 1991 romantic encounter with the poet Randall Jarrell. 8 Spiritual Meanings of Snakes in dreams: is it good luck? (angelicalbalance.com)
www.mythicmedicine.love/shop
www.bing.com/search?pglt=41&q=dream+songs+john+berryman&cvid=ae085098ad164b72a92b139519496c9f&aqs=edge.1.69i57j0l7.4739j0j1&FORM=ANNTA1&P...
2023-05-0325 minPodcast in A minor44 ~ Shimmering (Poetry? Are You There?)Shimmer on, you diamonds of Neptune! For the last week of National Poetry Month 2023, we search for the meaning of poetry — in the words of the poets — and it gets thrilling up in here! Go on, let the poetry have you. Let’s cram our faces with poetica!!! (it’s the one month we can do it without looking too weird)
https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage6774
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Poet_s_Glossary.html?id=1flJAQAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
https://www.digitalsurgeons.com/thoughts/creative/words-ar...
2023-04-2616 minPodcast in A minor43 ~ Villain of the VillanelleThis episode might be a trainwreck, but it’s a trainwreck poetical. Happy National Poetry Month! And we indulge in an episode all about poetry forms—destined to be our most popular episode yet—with a song surrounding that villain of form, the villanelle. Ok, it’s not a villain at all. It’s actually a pretty fun puzzle to work as you try to say the thing you want to say. But National Poetry Month practically demands a little wordplay, and also, the weather got hot and the poet is exhausted from work and the post office, et al. So bear wi...
2023-04-1925 minPodcast in A minor42 ~ I Drank Some Wine (Mad Poet Ghosts)Happy National Poetry Month Week 2! In which we explore a gallery of troubled poets—who ever heard of a mad poet? Anyone who bothered, that’s who! It’s a lot of feeling to carry around, ok? This poet gig? So we salute Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath — in their respective struggles. And does insanity lead to love, or the other way around? A question to ponder for future days…. TRIGGER WARNING: suicide, stillbirth. https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage6774 www.neuroticpoets.com
https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
The Deaths...
2023-04-1126 minPodcast in A minor41 ~ Peacock Blue (Poem to Song)Your mind’ll go peacock blue at an entire episode dedicated to American actor DeForest Kelley—aka sassy Dr. McCoy of TV’s Star Trek! What was Kelley’s first-ever film role? Get the straight dope on what Dr. Leonard McCoy IS and IS NOT. What are Kelley’s hidden talents—I mean, besides mooning an entire audience while on stage? What did he have for breakfast in my dream? Discover these truths and more in this first episode of NATIONAL POETRY MONTH—with a song based on a poem about the breakfast habits of a Star Trek poet! Make yourselves at...
2023-04-0520 minPodcast in A minor40 ~ Hotel PresidentEpisode 40, angel face!! And therefore, indulgent! We visit the Hotel President in downtown Kansas City—that’s Kansas City, MISSOURI, mind you, and we settle once and for all just which Kansas City those sleazy characters in the old movies are talking about. After which, a rundown of favorite Perry Mason episodes, what else? Join me for a cup of coffee in the Drum Room, followed by a nice grasshopper cocktail with Private Detective Paul Drake and loads of eyelash-batting. Ooo, 40 looks hot.
https://fox4kc.com/news/unsolved-murder-in-1935-the-unusual-guest-at-a-kansas-city-hotel/
President Hotel (kchistoryadventures.com)
https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/what...
2023-03-2930 minPodcast in A minor39 ~ To Shreds You SayTO SHREDS YOU SAY! A departure, maybe, from the usual giddy-folky cotton-candy jingles, but I like to keep it fresh, right?
— on writing a song around a line from a prime time television cartoon
— on how to pronounce “syrup”
— on sharing an apartment with a robot
— on baking as an act of love
— Banana Cream Pie Sonnet
— on cabbage-based fortune-telling
And! “To Shreds, You Say?” by Iron Chic! https://youtu.be/VeiRANuWiTg
Finding Betty Crocker by Susan Marks
The Book of Hallowe’en by Ruth Edna Kelley
Futurama S1 E3 “I, Roommate”
Word Genius: “14 Words You’ll Say Differently Depending On Where You Are in the U.S.”...
2023-03-2223 minPodcast in A minor38 ~ (Leonard Nimoy never heard my) Spock LullabyAlternate titles: Feast of Lullabies. . . Lullaby Largesse . . . LULLABYPALOOZA . . . Lullabies! Space lullabies….spooky and deranged lullabies from around the world AND right here…. Also: a cool project where Carnegie Hall musicians collaborate with new and expectant mothers—and fathers—to write lullabies especially for their children. Hey. Leonard Nimoy never got to hear my Spock Lullaby because he died, and I didn’t know how to do these things back then. I have accepted it. This one has a lot of songs! Tip your artist! Ko-fi.com/hipnessandoutrage
Good Night Mr. Spaceman
https://youtu.be/zcf5DrTRsIM
The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies...
2023-03-1524 minPodcast in A minor37 ~ Parallel UniverseParallel universes ~~ but described in blandest television terms only, please, by your unhip host.
Poet Anne Sexton. Funeral Pie. Redneck Heaven. All contained in a love letter to a rock star who likes to push the shopping cart. Who could it be?
10 Poems by Anne Sexton, Confessional Poet | LiteraryLadiesGuide www.literaryladiesguide.com/classic-women-authors-poetry/10-poems-by-anne-sexton
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-sexton
www.gamerant.com/best-movies-about-multiverse/#spider-man-no-way-home-2021
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-funeral-pie
Bethany Bultman: Redneck Heaven: Portrait of a Vanishing Culture https://a.co/d/4vqBq8N
Noel Gallagher has a lot to say: https://youtu.be/-RB3QWselG4 Getting High: The Adventures...
2023-03-0826 minPodcast in A minor36 ~ Silent MoviesSilent Movies—featuring Buster Keaton, heartthrob ~ old-time movie tech ~ a silent candle in his hand ~ horehound drops! headache powders! Hot soda with a dead poet ~ DRINK IT UP
When Were Movies Invented? A Brief History of Motion Pictures (studiobinder.com)
Did a Silent Film About a Train Really Cause Audiences to Stampede? - Atlas Obscura ~https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-a-silent-film-about-a-train-really-cause-audiences-to-stampede#:~:text=The%20myth%20of%20the%20runaway%20movie%20train%20surrounds,the%20very%20first%20people%20to%20create%20moving%20pictures.
Buster Keaton's Most Insane Stunts (grunge.com)
Remembering America's Golden Age of Hot Sodas - Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com)
My Wonderful World Of...
2023-03-0122 minPodcast in A minor35 ~ Pancake Ballade No. 2Laudate to breakfast on Pancake Tuesday! Hooray for pancakes, donuts, coffee, Coco Puffs, sugar bowls, creamer jugs, French toast—you know I have a song about that. At LEAST.
Plus a little Twin Peaks and a whole stack of breakfast poetry!
@breakfastpoet
@schoooled
Amazon.com: A Howling Breakfast of Moon Soda: 4 Chapbooks in 1!: 9781959048015: Zoellers, Amy: Books
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Agent Cooper: Maple Syrup Collides with Ham ~ https://youtu.be/qP6ZowsV4GI
That Nick Cave poem ~ https://www.youtube.com/live/NyJ0WTt-0oA?feature=share
@podcast.in.a.minor
2023-02-2120 minPodcast in A minor34 ~ Happy St. Valentine’s Day MassacreOh no, Valentine’s Day is upon us again—what are we supposed to do now? And can you really be the only one who thinks this holiday is trash? No offense to the real St. Valentine. Find your guide to this Ordinary Tuesday in February in this disaffected though heart-shaped episode.
Happy St. Valentine’s Day Massacre! LUVYA.
Show Notes
“The Untouchables” Train Station Scene: (warning! It’s a little bloody) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRJ539f5Ug
www.noneofthisisrealpodcast.com
Globsterotica: www.patreon.com/posts/exclusive-out-37696344
www.instagram.com/spasmspector/
www.youtube.com/@chrispenney3693
www.instagram.com/splatz007/
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2023-02-1429 minPodcast in A minor33 ~ Old Croak ~ The Booze SongsThe Booze Songs! TRIGGER WARNING: songs about booze and sadness. interestingliterature.com www.amyzoellersart.com www.poets.org https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
2023-02-0819 minPodcast in A minor32 ~ Soul GongLet’s mine classic television for key lines and build a whole song! Then, let’s mine the lyrics of that whole song —plus another song—so we can talk about ghost stories and beat poets! These are a few of my favorite things. Perhaps overmuch talk of absinthe spoons but oh well. www.theabsinthespoon.com diydistilling.com flightwinebar.com https://www.naropa.edu/academics/schools-centers/jack-kerouac-school-of-disembodied-poetics/ https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 amyzoellersart.com
2023-02-0127 minPodcast in A minor31 ~ Jenny Daguerreotype (A Fortean Ballad)Lightning daguerreotypes! Poetry. Ghostographs. Charles Fort and Fortean Phenomena!! A nude portrait imprinted on a window pane in a lightning flash: the STUFF OF LIFE. amyzoellersart.com. https://www.magzter.com/stories/Entertainment/Fortean-Times/The-Face-In-The-Window-Windowpane-Ghosts-And-Lightning-Daguerreotypes https://mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/the-mysterious-face-in-the-window-1872/ https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
2023-01-2518 minPodcast in A minor30 ~ Gingerbread from the Grave & Various Traditional WassailsFor the final Wassail Wednesday of 2022, shiver to the melancholy strains of “Marigold, Cold,” followed by a few recipes for hot winter’s punch. And finally, a collection of belated musical stocking stuffers: old wassail classics, a Smoking Bishop shout-out, and a few odds & ends. Happy New Year and wassail!
2022-12-2819 minPodcast in A minorBONUS: Christmas Eve Ghost Stories!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!
2022-12-2429 minPodcast in A minor29 ~ Christmas Alone ~ Wassail!Christmas Alone ~ Tragedy or tranquility? Blessing or curse? Let’s explore these questions through television specials, song, story, and the SIMPLEST recipe for hot Christmas punch ever! And find my new collection of Christmas ghost stories and collage: “Wassail to the Mausoleum Cakes” here: https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
2022-12-2130 minPodcast in A minor28 ~ Wassail! Christmas Cookies & Christmas GhostsA wassail to Christmas cookies, long may they reign! Perhaps a token wassail, that one, only mentioning “wassailers wassailing” in the final verse, yet the song contains a strong energy of well-wishing toward the Christmas cookie. Brief discussion of wassailing traditions, consulting “The Old Magic of Christmas” by Linda Raedisch. then onward to sweet blessings for the Christmas ghost story! Which reminds me: find my new collection of Christmas Ghost Stories (& poems & art & wassail lyrics) titled “Wassail to the Mausoleum Cakes” on Amazon! Author link: https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
2022-12-1429 minPodcast in A minor27 ~ Mourners’ Moon WassailLet’s bring back Wassail Wednesdays! (My 2021 December obsession) with its hot drink recipes, door-to-door singing, specific songs… In this episode, the audio from last year’s first live Wassail Wednesday gives us a recipe for Cafe Grog and a musical surprise! Author link: https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 Haunted Pudding Ornaments and more available in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/HipnessAndOutrage
2022-12-0725 minPodcast in A minorEp 26 ~ Invisible FriendInvisible friend says: don’t sit down on me!
Invisibility. Infertility. The enigmatic Only Child. Haunted children! And a grown man who sasses an 8-year-old girl about her dead siblings!
William Wordsworth: “We are Seven” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Marlo Thomas “Free to Be You and Me” (LP)
Mentioned:
Lost Hearts by M. R. James
The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Harry by Rosemary Timperley
Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
Glitter & Ghosts by Amy Zoellers
Erring in Circles by Amy Zoellers
2022-11-0915 minPodcast in A minorEp 25 ~ How Many Eyeballs?How many eyeballs in that gelatin salad? And do you dare to venture into the forest of the Doll’s Eyes? Spooky October wraps up with the evil eye, eye-related superstitions, and more haunted forests! Happy Halloween!
Author Link ~ Glitter & Ghosts
Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/anatomy-of-a-superstition-when-your-eye-jumps/
https://julieannbaumer.com/2015/11/16/suspended-in-aspic/
https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/haunted-forests-around-the-world
2022-10-2617 minPodcast in A minorEp 24 ~ A Dead CafeWhat goes on in a dead cafe? And what is that banshee guitarist up to? Tune in for more Spooky October to find out!
Happy spooky October, everyone!
Get in touch if you like at podcastAminor@gmail.com. Find photos and song videos on Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor
My art is available for sale on Etsy in my shop, HipnessandOutrage. More art and music showcased on Instagram @hipness_and_outrage.
Books of poetry, art, and now ghost stories! available on Amazon. Follow my author page there, Amy Zoellers.
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref...
2022-10-1912 minPodcast in A minorEp 23 ~ Glitter Elsewhere (Sophia)Spooky October continues to haunt! Hear the tragic story of Sophia Vaile, prominent in Independence, Missouri high society in the late 19th century (along with her husband, Col. Harvey Vaile). The Vailes wanted to bring the swanky artistic flair of Europe to Independence, but their success unraveled when servants blabbed about a scandalous art piece in the bedroom! Sophia died of loneliness, scandal and stomach cancer in 1883. And some say her ghost roams the local cemetery!
Happy spooky October, everyone!
Get in touch if you like at podcastAminor@gmail.com. Find photos and song videos on Instagram @podcast.in.a...
2022-10-1216 minPodcast in A minorEp. 22 ~ Whisky Rhinestones pt. 2: Wandering GhostsIt’s the spookiest month of them all! Let’s celebrate with creepy musical springboards into scary stories and folklore! This time it’s Wandering Ghosts—of those who died while traveling, vanishing hitchhikers, and the Flying Dutchman. Ooooo settle in for music, poetry, and frightful stories! October has arrived!! Ubume | Yokai.com
https://yokai.com/ubume/
The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits; Rosemary Ellen Guiley. The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand. Get in touch at podcastAminor@gmail.com
Check out Instagram: @podcast.in.a.minor for videos of the songs and pertinent photos and/or artwork.
Artwork available for purc...
2022-10-0521 minPodcast in A minorEp 21 ~ Whisky Rhinestones ~ Part 1: The Solitary ArtistA song that grew from secret poetical fiction as anti-anxiety medication leads to discussion of the solitary artist! Of course! Hang with me and the likes of Ingmar Bergman and James Joyce. Is the solitary artist life for you? Ponder….
podcastAminor@gmail.com.
Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor
Books of Poetry and Art:
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
The Myth of the Solitary Artist — The Way of Beauty
https://www.thewayofbeauty.org/blog/2019/1/the-myth-of-the-solitary-artist#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20popular%20myth%20in%20America%20of,But%20this%20is%20not%20at%20all%20the%20reality.
What Great Arti...
2022-09-2919 minPodcast in A minorEp 20 ~ Poetry TankFill your poetry tank! It’s birthday month! Poetry has been around almost forever—and it is one of my favorite things. From Shel Silverstein to that awkward teacher who “ushered” (!) me into the world of Edgar Allan Poe—to poetry as survival and poetry because you MUST—may this foray into poetics inspire you if only briefly…or take off the top of your head and change you forever! ………………………………….. podcastAminor@gmail.com.
Visit Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor for song videos, artwork and photos.
Art at www.etsy.com/hipnessandoutrage (all one word).
Books of poetry and art at https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B0
2022-09-2030 minPodcast in A minorEp 19 ~ Urban LegendaryBirthday month continues with new songs and indulgent, fun themes! This week, it’s URBAN LEGENDS! And a bonus ghost-story number!
2022-09-1423 minPodcast in A minorEp. 18 ~ Four Boys on the Wind: Paul is Dead??Paul is dead?? Or was it all performance art? It is birthday month! That means nothing but self-indulgent episodes, even if that means writing a whole new song to make it happen!
Join the cluesters, gather the clues, and decide for yourself whether Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966– and if his Beatle band-mates left a string of clues in backward song lyrics and album-cover codes! Mystery!
podcastAminor@gmail.com.
Instagram @podcast.in.a.minor
Author Link
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
“We Ain’t Written No Poetry” - Paul McCartney ~ https...
2022-09-0744 minPodcast in A minorS 17 ~ Cryptid CampfireMonsters of the Month— not one, but three! It’s a Cryptid Campfire to wind down the summer.
Three new songs!
And in between, we’ll talk jackalopes, Momo the Missouri Monster, and the Ozark Howler— wo00ooOoo!
Get your marshmallows ready and pull up a log—and try not to think about the deep, dark woods at your back . . .
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Just A Story - The Urban Legend Podcast episode 73: “Down the Rabbit Hole”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-73-down-the-rabbit-hole/id1065407404?i=1000384401792
Missouri Ghosts, 2nd Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Missouri-Ghosts-2nd-Joan-Gilbert/dp/0971255903#
Tales of the Ozark Howler
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Ozark-Howler-Saul-Ashton/dp/1097616479
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2022-08-3120 minPodcast in A minorEp 16 ~ Beautiful TuesdayOh, beautiful Tuesday! Or whatever day it may be. A song written on a peaceful, grateful, garden-toast-and-and-coffee morning. But recorded a month later after a run-in with The Phobia ~ resulting in a shameful, cowardly reaction! Swell.
*TRIGGER WARNING* - a little barf-talk, executed as gently as possible
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety https://a.co/d/bS6gpJz
The Spider and The Fly by Mary Howitt (poetry.com)
https://www.poetry.com/poem/117933/the-spider-and-the-fly
Bad Blood for the Vampyr: https://youtu.be/ze3JfWAUods
Salamandrina
https://youtu.be/Dcd7mJRvrng
Flaming Pie - Wikipedia
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2022-08-2427 minPodcast in A minorEp 15 ~ Obsession PoemObsession, anyone? This is not a podcast about Blixa Bargeld.
podcastAminor@gmail.com. Or message at Instagram, @podcast.in.a.minor – where you can also find videos of the songs from the podcast, as well as art work and other fun gibberish. Art and poetry on Instagram @hipness_and_outrage and etsy.com/hipnessandoutrage (all one word). Books of poetry-with-art available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
Tabitha Carvan:
This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It https://a.co/d/fz...
2022-08-1730 minPodcast in A minorEp. 14 ~ Fears to Art & Pottery AnguishExistential blip-blap, but what else is new?? Fears! Has every step been a misstep? Does the pottery wheel really hate you? Did you unintentionally sell your soul to the devil? Can you speak the name of your faith without massive repercussions? Plug in the Rat pedal and make 5 songs about it! Stitch bells to a glove and recite a poem! Blipblap!!!
Crown prince of the crying jag https://youtu.be/flqejy9xAGU. podcastAminor@gmail.com. Or message at Instagram, @podcast.in.a.minor – where you can also find videos of the songs from the podcast, as well as art work an...
2022-08-1026 minPodcast in A minorEp. 13 ~ 13th Song & Mausoleum CakeCelebrate episode 13 with ghosts and horror movies and songs about ghosts and horror movies! With summer winding down, it’s time to make the most of it with some 13-related fun! https://youtube.com/watch?v=R7jm0-R9N_o&feature=share
The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art - edited by Robert Cozzolino
podcast shout-out: The Final Girls. https://youtube.com/watch?v=R7jm0-R9N_o&feature=share
podcastAminor@gmail.com. Or message at Instagram, @podcast.in.a.minor – where...
2022-08-0342 minPodcast in A minorEp. 12 ~ Whisky, Cigarettes, MarshmallowsA still life with a side of ginger pie! Join Harold and Maude for outmoded methods of image-capturing, magic-chasing—and don’t forget your tambourine! Send your favorite tambourine moments to: podcastaminor@gmail.com or direct message to instagram @ podcast.in.a.minor ! That’s the song, “Whisky, Cigarettes, Marshmallows” — thank you for being here!
Rowley's Whiskey Forge: Ginger Pie, a Rescued Recipe (matthew-rowley.blogspot.com/2010/03/ginger-pie-rescued-recipe.html?m=1)
https://www.newmorningnaturalfoods.com/recipes/2014/1/14/oatstraw-tea?format=amp
https://youtu.be/UUAUuFJ2smw Shimmer on Three
My Daguerreotype Boyfriend – Vintage Portraits of Good-Looking Men (photographyblogger.net/my-daguerreotype-boyfriend-vintage-portraits-of-good-looking-men/)
https://youtu.be/wKGwiH2bw9s Valleri –...
2022-07-2726 minPodcast in A minorEp 11 ~ Queen of Shark WeekHello, Queen of Shark Week here—and when alerted, skip ahead to 11:27 if the contents of several sharks’ stomachs might upset yours!
Shark Week cometh, and I won’t have access to it this year. But is that going to stop me from having shark-sized fun? What a question. Let’s wrangle some nerdy reference books and classic works of fiction onto our dinghy and court some terrors of the deep! ‘Cause if we’re looking for a shark, we won’t find him on land!
email: podcastAminor@gmail.com
Instagram: @podcast.in.a.minor
Music written and performed by Amy Zoellers...
2022-07-2028 minPodcast in A minorEp 10 ~ Waffles with MothmanWhat do
~ Iconic singer Marianne Faithfull
~ Folk duo Chad and Jeremy
~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer
~ and Kaboom cereal
have to do with Mothman and waffles? You’re about to find out!
It’s story time!
(plus a nod to improvised percussion)
Mothman Sightings https://exemplore.com/paranormal/Mothman-Sightings-and-the-Silver-Bridge-Collapse#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20supernatural%20omen%2C%20a%20harbinger%20of,a%20new%20creature%20so%20far%20unknown%20to%20science.and the Point Pleasant Silver Bridge Collapse - Exemplore
Mothman | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom
cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Mothman
Is the Mothman an Omen of Coming Disaster? (paranormalscholar.com)
www.paranormalscholar.com/mothman-omen-of-disaster/
https://www.snac...
2022-07-1327 minPodcast in A minorEp 9 ~ Creeps (with Beautiful Faces)All creeps within earshot! We’re no creeps, of course, none of us—-find out how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nick Cave and Star Trek Deep Space Nine all conspired in the weaving of a song! How can you resist?
email: podcastAminor@gmail.com
Instagram: @podcast.in.a.minor
Music written and performed by Amy Zoellers. https://youtube.com/channel/UCi4VozqqiMlTdLC_Wj03yng
Author link:
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
My art: www.hipnessandoutrage.etsy.com and Instagram @hipness_and_outrage
ART WRAITHS: (songs of searing devotion) https://a.co/d/eIcAqEY
https://www...
2022-07-0624 minPodcast in A minorEp 8 ~Half-Hippie ThursdayThe catnip is blooming, all right! It’s summer, and my hippie vibes have been triggered! Well, half-triggered. I’m going to watch a scary movie and eat a cheeseburger after this…
Learn about the Language of Flowers!
Learn about how this week’s song came to be, and what is a half-hippie, anyway?
And why do the ghosts in the house keep misplacing my journal that contains all of the verses?
Find out about Wicked Plants and embrace the spooky mood of gardening!
DISCLAIMER ~ Although herbal medicine and food-as-medicine are mentioned, I am neither herbalist nor medical professional. This podcast...
2022-06-2926 minPodcast in A minorEp. 7 ~ Nerd LifeLivin’ the Nerd Life!
But consider the word “nerd” for a moment…or several as I nerdfully plunge into my collection of reference books to wallow in the fluidity of language, the sculpting of its plasticine insults into terms of endearment—an improvement, I think, and possibly related to the movies…also: songwriting process and assorted fun.
Dead link to Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang Vol. 3, S-Z? https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9345804M/Random_House_Historical_Dictionary_of_American_Slang_%28Vol_3_P-Z%29
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_American_Slang
https://volopedia.lib.utk.edu/entries/jona...
2022-06-2327 minPodcast in A minorEp. 6 ~ Tragic EyebrowsDid you feed your tragic eyebrows? Calling all Mysterious Poet Figures! Once–quite recently–a Russian poet and fiction writer who writes beautifully in English put two words together in an exquisite poem to bygone poets. That little phrase inspired three poems and three songs and probably a whole breathless dreamworld. Rina’s poetry deals with love, queerness, death, illness, anguish, dreams….soak it up as I reveal the origins of the song “Tragic Eyebrows” and spotlight two favorite poets of mine.
Rina’s poetry:
https://rinainae.gumroad.com/l/songsofdespairbehindthecloseddoors
Instagram: @rina.inae
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria R...
2022-06-1529 min
Podcast in A minorEp. 5 ~ The Key of A MinorThis show has changed its names! Let’s join hands and explore the Key of A minor together–as well as specific moods assigned to each musical key by German-speaking cultures in the 18th and 19th centuries! CODE. Then we’ll discuss one brief facet of name-changing. Oops this was meant to be a 5-minute alert that the name of the podcast has changed . . . but you know how it goes.
Media:
How You Should Feel in the Key of A minor
by Maureen Buja April 15th, 2016
https://interlude.hk/feel-key-minor
Affective Musical Key Characteristics
Translated by Rita Steblin in A Histor...
2022-06-1235 minPodcast in A minorEp. 4 ~ Hello, Chuckling Vampire (Part 2)Hello, Chuckling Vampire!
Learn the origin story of the song *at last* —and once you know, what will this bit of information do with you?
Vampires!
A life-long enthusiasm for vampire stories can take you in strange directions.
→ bonus werewolf poem!
→ When the brides of Dracula show up, ohhhh yikes.
→ And at no extra charge, your new favorite West German post-punk Vampyr classic. Who’s quivering with anticipation? Is it me?
email: aggressiveeuphoria@gmail.com
Instagram: @aggressive.euphoria
Author link:
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060
media:
7 Short Twilight Films
https://youtu.be/dB7cEGpBP_U
B...
2022-06-0842 minPodcast in A minorEp. 3 ~ Hello, Chuckling Vampire(Part 1 of 2!) Let’s talk Vampires!! Officially ushering in Monster of the Month episodes of Aggressive Euphoria. Let’s do this thing.
I couldn’t find my childhood paperback about Vampires! But I did watch Salem’s Lot (1979) and read “The Vampyre” by Dr. John Polidori. Diving into the Year Without a Summer (1816), fireside at Villa Diodati (oops I left off the final “i” in my notes and say “Dio-dot!” But perfection is almost as annoying as precocious children, says I)--to Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva — fireside —weird skies in a volcanic winter. And loads of ghost stories!
Books and articles:
Fantasmago...
2022-06-0731 minPodcast in A minorEp. 2 ~ Scads of LicoriceHave you seen the licorice wall at IKEA? Joy!! Colors and joy. Owl talk, and a lot of it! And finally, haunted forests! Now if that doesn’t kick your Delighted Mind into full gear, I ask you: what will? Check out “The Forest in Folklore and Mythology” by Alexander Porteous and “The Werewolf of Paris” by Guy Endore. For a copy of “Maple Syrup Collides with Ham” (a breakfast-obsessed poetry chapbook by Amy Zoellers), go to https://ko-fi.com/hipnessandoutrage Email me at aggressiveeuphoria@gmail.com Instagram: @aggressive.euphoria
2022-06-0338 minPodcast in A minorEp. 1 ~ S’mores! S’mores!Welcome to the first episode of Aggressive Euphoria! Today’s relentless delights include the coffee mug that inspired my song, “S’mores! S’mores!” —-and plenty of talk about S’mores, old literary ghost stories, original werewolf poetry, and more (gentle) stuff about werewolves! Isn’t that delightful! Send your own ideas for positivity to aggressiveeuphoria@gmail.com. Visit on Instagram @aggressive.euphoria
2022-06-0238 min