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Amy Zoellers

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81 ~ Oops I Hit a Weird Button

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/03/17

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

00:46:11

80 ~ Games, Amanda Said

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/03/10

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

00:25:57

79 ~ Ok, Cookie Time

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/03/04

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

00:15:53

78 ~ Hungarian Puzzle Box

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/02/26

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

01:20:55

77 ~ Strong Ghost (The Inevitable Valentine’s Episode)

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/02/12

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

00:27:25

76 ~ If Your Pajamas Could Talk (Warren G. Harding)

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/01/28

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.

00:14:40

75 ~ AI Art Song

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/01/13

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

00:13:52

74 ~ Snow Day

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/01/09

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)

00:19:28

73 ~ Two Blues Songs

Podcast in A minor ·

2024/01/03

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!

00:12:28

72 ~ Pudding Charms

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/12/23

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

00:19:28

71 ~ What a Bunch of Fruitcakes!

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/11/29

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

00:24:17

70 ~ Pie Sonnet

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/11/20

***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

00:10:46

69 ~ Capture the Shadow

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/10/31

Happy 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

00:18:17

68 ~ Little Drunken Ghost

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/10/31

In 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

00:12:25

67 ~ Ghost Gallery

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/10/25

A 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

00:06:04

66 ~ Six End Tables

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/10/04

Twenty-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

00:18:35

65 ~ Radium Girls

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/09/27

Radium 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

00:18:45

64 ~ Angel Pie

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/09/20

Hay, 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)

00:26:13

63 ~ A Little Bent Upstairs ~ (Songs of Insanity)

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/09/13

“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

00:15:25

62 ~ No Clue

Podcast in A minor ·

2023/09/06

No 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

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