QN Podcast (formerly Quirky Nomads)

2010 Podcast

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Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig

By Sage ⋅ March 19, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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Chapter one of Girls Fall Down, by Maggie Helwig. Read with permission from Coach House Books.

photo by Denmar

So I was recently invited to join a book club. I am… not the book club type. But when I read Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig I immediately ordered my friend Jonathan to read it as well. Which he did, and then he said, “I read the book you -”

And I hollered, “No! No! Don’t say anything! I don’t want to know if you didn’t like it!”

“But -”

“Shhhh!” I said, stomping my foot.

“Ohhh! I get why you don’t want to go to the book club,” he said, laughing. “Because you HAVE a book club already. It’s called: Read This Book, And Then Say I Loved It or be Silent.”

Which… okay. He’s right. Now, Jonathan did get to say, finally, that he really liked Girls Fall Down. That’s all he got to say, but he did get to say it. And now YOU can be part of my book club too!

Because I’ve gotten permission from Coach House Books to read you the first chapter. And once you’ve heard the first chapter, you will go out and buy a copy, yes? Yes. Then you may write and tell me how much you loved it.

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38.16

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Frozen: Based on a True Story

By Sage ⋅ March 17, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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On Saturday I went to see the new movie Frozen. Here is the plot of Frozen: three spoiled rich American kids go skiing and get stranded on a chairlift fifty feet in the air. Everyone else goes home. The ski lodge is closed for the next seven days. Aaaand: go. What most people don’t know is that Frozen is based on a true story. I mean, they made a bunch of changes to the original. English grown-ups on a ski vacation in Switzerland isn’t going to bring in the young, hip demographic. But I imagine the original went something like… this.

“Horror” via the Internet Archive, “Drama and Comedy Demo” by Cesc Vila

Sophie Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning
David Will McGree of Unbeknownst to Many
Jack Tim Ralphs of Room Behind the Bookcase
Movie Trailer Paul Maki of Between the Lines Studios

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15.57

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Build Prisons on the Moon

By Sage ⋅ February 12, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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So a bunch of members of the Westboro Baptist Church – you remember them, they’re the ones who run the site God Hates Ireland. And the ones who picketed an appliance store because it sold gay-loving Swedish vaccuum cleaners. And after a tornado killed four Boy Scouts, they went to the funeral with signs about how happy they were?

You remember them. They’re FUCKING EVIL.

Anyway, a bunch of members of the Westboro Baptist Church show up to protest outside the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter…

AthenaMuze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, Valina Cutler, Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios, Brian Brown of Slice of Sci-Fi, Maureen Blaskie of Baba’s Beach, Will McGree of Unbeknownst to Many, Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast, John Meadows of On the Log

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7.40

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Between Euston and East Finchley

By Sage ⋅ February 10, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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The Northern line between Euston and East Finchley; and the Rise of the Tiny People.

Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning, Will McGree of Septic Think Tank Brain Agency, Laura Goodenough of 20 Something

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6.08

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Flip Me

By Sage ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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The sorts of things the popular girlies from my high school grew up to discuss at restaurants; and a mysterious boombox at the edge of Kensington Market.

Elizabeth Green Musselman of Missing Link, Melissa Bartell of Escribition

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6.42

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M41 Reclaim the Streets

By Sage ⋅ February 3, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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Please note There will be no show Friday, February 5.

That was M41 Reclaim the Streets, via the Urban 75 zine. Read with permission by Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning.

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6.35

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Who DOES that?

By Sage ⋅ February 1, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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And the moral of this overheard conversation is: when you want to break the law in a small way, ask your friends for partner-in-crime recommendations first. Or you’ll never be able to use Facebook again.

Laura Goodenough of 20 Something, Leighanne Law of Sound Tsunami

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Burst of Joy

By Sage ⋅ January 29, 2010 ⋅ Comments

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I was doing some research into the year 1973 when I came across a photograph I’d never seen before…

“Dream of a Butterly” by Frozen Silence

Robert Paul Maki of Between the Lines Studios
Loretta Brenda Dayne of Cast On
teenage daughter AthenaMuze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland
photograph description Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind