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    Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil

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    Episode 1: Hello from Robyn and Ricci - An AFTER DARK! episode of ME READING STUFF

    Episode 1: Hello from Robyn and Ricci - An AFTER DARK! episode of ME READING STUFF

    "See God, it ain't me.
    They 'bout to start a world war,
    I'm just tryna practice peace.
    " - Leikeli47

    "How the hell you walk outta Heaven?" - Leikeli 47

    "LEARN A TRADE" - Me

    "I. CHOOSE. LIFE!" - Ricci Oprah

    To anyone reading, I've missed you.

    If anyone out there is struggling with, well anything, I hope you can find the resources that are best, most comfortable and affordable to you.

    I always recommend Al-Anon, as many of my listeners have heard before. I've yet to meet a person who doesn't "qualify" for the miraculous program it can be.

    And I actually did end up finding tremendous help through Betterhelp.com by the way; that wasn't entirely a joke. So there's that, but it's very expensive.

    Be kind to yourselves, be extra kind to children, and I'll talk to you very soon.

    With infinite love to every person reading this, even you,
    Robyn

    p.s. THE AL-ANON PROMISES

    • If we willingly surrender ourselves to the spiritual discipline of the Twelve Steps, our lives will be transformed. We will become mature, responsible individuals with a great capacity for joy, fulfillment, and wonder.

    • Though we may never be perfect, continued spiritual progress will reveal to us our enormous potential. We will discover that we are worthy of love and loving.

    • We will love others without losing ourselves, and will learn to accept love in return.

    • Our sight, once clouded and confused, will clear and we will be able to perceive reality
      and recognize truth.

    • Courage and fellowship will replace fear.

    • We will be able to risk failure to develop new, hidden talents.

    • Our lives, no matter how battered and degraded, will yield hope to share with others.

    • We will begin to feel and will come to know the vastness of our emotions, but we will not be slaves to them.

    • Our secrets will no longer bind us in shame.

    • As we gain the ability to forgive ourselves, our families, and the world, our choices will
      expand.

    • With dignity we will stand for ourselves, but not against our fellows.

    • Serenity and peace will have meaning for us as we allow our lives and the lives of those we love to flow day by day with God's ease, balance, and grace.

    • No longer terrified, we will discover we are free to delight in life's paradox, mystery, and awe.

    • We will laugh more.

    • Fear will be replaced by faith, and gratitude will come naturally as we realize that our
      Higher Power is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

    from p. 269-270 "From Survival to Recovery"

    Episode 381: Goodbye.

    Episode 381: Goodbye.

    “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said to me, “in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is , a novelist whom you will read in time to come, claims that there is no remedy but silence and shadow.  And see you this, my boy, there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light; the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom of darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.” - Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way.

    "A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry." - Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

    "Good feeling, won't you stay with me just a little longer?" - Violent Femmes 


    "I'll be so alone without you. Maybe you’ll be lonesome too." - Price, King & Stewart, You Belong to Me


    LINKS:

    Buy Frank Spicer's "My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer".

    Send your questions/comments/concerns to: info@robynoneil.com

    My website: www.robynoneil.com

    "We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."

    Anton Chekhov

    Episode 380: Alfonsina Storni - The She-Wolf

    Episode 380: Alfonsina Storni - The She-Wolf

    "I am like the she-wolf. I travel alone and I laugh at the flock." - Alfonsina Storni

    "My biggest thrill this week was seeing that basket full of mini chips in the salon window." - Me

    LINKS:

    Buy Alfonsina Storni's Selected Poems HERE.

    Check out Western Exhibitions' Drawing Biennial!

    Watch F. Murray Abraham destroy all artists HERE.

    Mark Laita's excellent documentary youtube page THE SOFT WHITE UNDERBELLY. *I can't recommend this channel enough. He's doing some serious service here. 

    Episode 379: Mike White - Levi's Letter from Rehab on "Enlightened" + RIP Charles Simic

    Episode 379: Mike White - Levi's Letter from Rehab on "Enlightened" + RIP Charles Simic

    "We're animals, Amy. And some animals like to party. For me, God is a beer on the beach. Maybe that's fucked up, but at least it's honest." - Levi, Enlightened

    "Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships." - Charles Simic

    "Today wasn't anything spectacular and that's what I loved about it." Me, January 2, 2023

    LINKS:

    Watch "Enlightened" on HBO HERE.

    Charles Simic's Obituary.

    My website: www.robynoneil.com

    MY SHOP

    Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros)

    Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros)

    "Modern natural philosophers have found God in the folds of the skin of the rhinoceros." - Voltaire

    "I found the saltiest, greasiest corn chip at the bottom of this Juanita's bag this morning. It totally blew my mind." - Me

    LINKS:

    Buy the book here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/

    See what you think about these Daniel Ladinsky "HAFIZ" books: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/14/fake-hafez-how-a-supreme-persian-poet-of-love-was-erased

    And please meet Rajiv Surendra AKA Kevin Gnapoor!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uo2nomf4I0

    Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

    Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

    "We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries." - Dire Straits

    "I love turkey sandwiches." - Me

    LINKS:

    Check out the Dire Straits video for "Money For Nothing" HERE!

    See Damien Jurado's website for tickets to his upcoming 25th anniversary show.

    My #1 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY

    My #2 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SEQrHvd2o

    My #3 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kGUJOnuY4

    My #4 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNHTmqAny3U

    My #5 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcqTZ7P_IKQ

    My #6 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pegmYlozI

    Send your questions to: info@robynoneil.com

    My website: www.robynoneil.com

    Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

    Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout

    Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout

    "It is always tricky, the question whether to read an author’s work in light of his life or not." -Anne Carson

    "If you can drink a beer, you can smell patchouli." - Me

    LINKS:

    Check out "The Albertine Workout" by Anne Carson HERE and buy it at your nearest independent bookseller.

    Listen to Anne Carson reading from "The Albertine Workout" HERE.

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    See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

    Watch the videos about my work HERE.

    Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

    And here's my WEBSITE

    Thank you so much for listening. 

    Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things

    Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things

    "I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison." - Daniil Kharms

    "I'm exhausted." - Me

    LINKS:

    Buy "Today I Wrote Nothing" HERE (or wherever you buy books except Amazon).

    Buy a ME READING STUFF slut shirt or hoodie HERE!

    See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

    Watch the videos about my work HERE.

    Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

    And here's my WEBSITE

    Thank you so much for listening. 

    Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World

    Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World

    “I think I want, but what is it that I want?
    Do I want something? I don’t know." - Patrizia Cavalli

    "Kids tend to think of my violence as funny." - Me

    LINKS:

    Buy Patrizia Cavalli's "My Poems Won't Change the World" HERE.

    Check out my American Movie podcast HERE.

    Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

    See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

    Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

    And here's my WEBSITE

    Thank you so much for listening. 

    Me Reading Stuff
    en-usOctober 20, 2022

    Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings

    Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings

    "You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle

    "The End." - Me
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    LINKS:

    Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS.

    Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

    See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

    Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

    And here's my WEBSITE

    Thank you so much for listening. 





    Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman

    Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman

    "We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole." - Mark Strand

    "Have you guys seen the new squeezable sauerkraut?!?" - Me

    LINKS:

    Purchase Mark Strand's "Selected Poems" HERE.

    Check out my Artforum review!

    Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

    See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

    Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

    Check out Easton's Books in Mount Vernon, Washington HERE.

    Learn more about The Trevor Project!

    And here's my WEBSITE

    Episode 369: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery

    Episode 369: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery

    "Jeff, roommate: Left my stuff all over the house; left the fridge a mess.
    Mary, friend: Promised to make her a clock. Made it, but never gave it to her." -Workaholics Anonymous

    "Monica, Starbucks boss: Pretended I got a "gig" in Hollywood to be killed off in a horror movie. Never returned to job.
    Peter, Gallery Owner: Lied during a studio visit about how long I'd lived in California for no reason at all. I added ten years to the actual total."  - Me

    LINKS:

    Purchase any of the Workaholics Anonymous. books mentioned in this episode on the WORKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS WEBSITE.

    Visit my website HERE.

    Visit my shop HERE.

    Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again)

    Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again)

    "I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." - Anne Boyer 

    LINKS:

    Buy Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women HERE

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