french toast

The Friday Beer Buzz was weirder and more unpredictable than usual when Bob Cordaro crashed the party (at around 10 minutes). 

On this week's episode, Linus, Vita, and Dezmen share their hilarious opinions about food. More specifically baked goods. Who knew it could be such a polarizing topic?? 

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Today, Debbie speaks with bestselling author Abigail Thomas whom Stephen King calls “the Emily Dickinson of memoirists."

Her new memoir, titled "Still Life at Eighty," is a series of loosely connected essays on the topic of aging. But it's so much more than that. Abby, as she insisted that Debbie call her, is funny and frank and profane as she talks about the good and the bad of aging. Yes, there are aches and pains. No, she doesn't mind being old. In fact, she loves it. She no longer cares what people think of her and - just for the record - she is not afraid of death. As she puts it: "Please God, let there be no afterlife."

In this conversation she and Debbie talk about her writing (Debbie finds it "transcendent"), her relationship to time and memories, her longterm friendship with literary agent Chuck Verrill (who died in early 2022), and why she loves working with clay.

Abby is the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas, the mother of four children and a grandmother of 12. She is the bestselling author of several previous memoirs, including "A Three Dog Life" and "What Comes Next and How to Like It." She lives in Woodstock, NY with her dogs, where she writes and teaches writing.
 

Mentioned in this episode or useful:

• Her website: Abigail Thomas
• Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing by Abigail Thomas (Golden Notebook Press (February 28, 2023)
• What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir by Abigail Thomas (Scribner; 2015)
• A Three Dog Life: A Memoir by Abigail Thomas (Mariner Books; 2006)
• The Next Interesting Thing from Abigail Thomas (Next Avenue, March 9, 2023)
• Hope? Ha Ha Ha Ha... - by Abigail Thomas (Oldster Magazine, May 3, 2023)
• Memoir is Exploration, So Keep Yourself Open: An Interview with Abigail Thomas (Brevity Blog, April 20, 2023)
• Chuck Verrill, Editor and Agent, RIP (Chuck Verrill (her literary agent) died in 2022)

"STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY is a little jewel box of a book, full of epiphanies that are comforting and merciless in the gentlest possible way. Both a series of meditations and a user’s manual about growing old, I was amazed by its clarity... Even the title, with its deliberate ambiguity, is a very cool thing." — Stephen King

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In this very special episode, Chris, Darrell, and TC share news of the business separation between Dice Hate Me and Greater Than Games, why it happened, and what’s in store for the future of Dice Hate Me Games as a wholly-independent publishing house, again. All this, plus Compounded news,  horse and moped racing, subway construction, Golem, the upcoming Unpublished Games Festival, gaming with the kids, French Toast, and more! 

00:00 - 08:52 - Intro/What is Helium?

08:52 - 10:18 - How do you earn Helium tokens?

10:18 - 12:36 - How do you get into Helium?

12:36 - 17:20 - Possible future applications of cryptocurrencies

17:20 - 25:13 - Security issues

25:13 - 31:41 - Quiz/Outro

00:00 - 03:15 - Intro; What Strain?

03:15 - 10:38 - Credentials

0:38 - 13:07 - Crypto markets vs Stock Markets?

13:07 - 19:14 - What’s the utility of Crypto?

19:14 - 25:01 - What is the blockchain?

25:01 - 29:54 - Mining?

29:54 - 35:21  - How is the value determined?

35:21 -  35:58 - Outro

Next, on a very special episode of Tell 'em Why You Mad, Son...

Alex takes Dave on a walk (cane assisted) down memory lane as he shares his recent saga with neck surgery and an auto-immune disease we both can't pronounce. We laugh, we cry, we bitch about hospital food. It's all part of our very unique healing process.

Later on, we talk about social awkwardness in a post-lockdown world with Dave's wife Denice. We are then joined by Sye who asks us a harmless question about Cardi B and Off Set that Alex completely overreacts to. 

We recently discussed our top LOL movies of all-time. In this episode we are devoting all our time to, in our opinion, one of the funniest movies ever, Not Another Teen Movie.  This movie brilliantly lampoons at least 25 teen comedies, includes many future stars, and has a killer soundtrack.  We loved discussing it, and we thank Giff for choosing it.

In addition to the movie discussion, we also rank our top teen comedies from 2000-2009, and we close the yearbook with our overall favorite movies of 2001. Put on your glasses, some paint covered overalls, and put your hair in a ponytail before listening to this great episode. Do it for Marty's torso!

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 Welcome to The Intergalactic Candycast, a fully improvised live broadcast, "radio comedy", podcast, and one-man ensemble! Follow Atticus and the candy crew to become a better and truly whole person, just like Atticus!  

In today's episode, Atticus talks pumpkins, theatre, and french toast!

Streamed live with Podbean on 9/25/21 at 230pm PST    

Quiz time! Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway of Home Cooking podcast join to deliver questions about food etymology, as well as what are the two words that make a dance track, and whether 'za' is an acceptable abbreviation for 'pizza'.

Play along and keep track of your score using the interactive scoresheet at theallusionist.org/foodquiz.

For the rest of September 2021, you can stream the London Podfest performance of the new Allusionist live show, full of eponyms, music and planets. Link is at theallusionist.org/events.

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