My 12-Month Video Fast

Weeks 0-52: What I Learned

In which the podcaster stops by a diner, tells you what you don’t want to know, tells you what you do want to know, and bids you adieu. MY LINKS Creative website: http://richardloranger.com [http://richardloranger.com] Literary Services: http://PowerUnit17.com [http://PowerUnit17.com] Bandcamp page: https://richardloranger.bandcamp.com/ [https://richardloranger.bandcamp.com/]  Email: hello@richardloranger.com [hello@richardloranger.com]  LINKS & INFO Also sprach Zarathustra [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra ], tone poem by Richard Strauss  “Here at the end of all things” – Frodo and Sam escape Mount Doom at the end of Return of the King [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOnhBKPSuWA ], dir. Peter Jackson (2003)   Audacity – Wikipedia page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor) ] Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television – Wikipedia page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television] Porky Pig – Wikipedia page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porky_Pig ]  Theodor Adorno – Wikipedia page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno ]  Frankfurt School – Wikipedia page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School ]  The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D. and Michael E. Long, Health Sciences Research Commons [https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/books/249] Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, M.D., NPR interview [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/25/1030930259/in-dopamine-nation-overabundance-keeps-u-s-craving-more] Happy the Clown, entry on Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia webpage [https://www.broadcastpioneers.com/bp/howardjones.html ]  Balafon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balafon]– Wikipedia page   Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson] Dean Spade’s website [https://www.deanspade.net/%20] In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil  [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-defense-of-looting/9781645036678/?lens=bold-type-books%20] Halley Low on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theoriginalrevthing]  The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz%20] Joy Harjo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo%20] – Wikipedia page Henri Tajfel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Tajfel] – Wikipedia page Rimski & Handkerchief [https://www.rimskipiano.org/rimski-handkerchief ]  Mary Poppins [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/ ], dir. Robert Stevenson (1964)  ”Hello, I Must Be Going [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YrNQaXdOxU],” sung by Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (1930)   .. Drop me a note! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/support] And thanks for listening! Visit http://richardloranger.com [http://richardloranger.com] for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos.  :) 7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56 [https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56/]. Yay!

Weeks 49-50: I'll Show You the Life of the Mind

Episode 32 – Weeks 49-50:  I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind In which the podcaster gives a bad review, takes you on a walk to nowhere, and advocates ecstasy as a form of resistance.    LINKS & INFO Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra]   Barton Fink, 1991 film by the Coen Brothers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink ] Coen Brothers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers ]  Equus, a play by Peter Shaeffer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play) ] Surrealism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism]   Exquisite corpse [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse]    Influx Blinklists (chapbook) [https://richardloranger.com/books-chapbooks/#Blinklists ]   Blinklists as text art [https://richardloranger.com/visual-text-art/#Blinklists] Mammal (Roof Books, 2023) [https://www.roofbooks.com/mammal]   San Francisco International Arts Festival [https://www.sfiaf.org/ ]  Dandelion Dance Theater [https://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/ ]   Carla Lucero [https://carlalucero.com/]   Flower Moon [https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-may]     Drop me a note! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/support] And thanks for listening! Visit http://richardloranger.com [http://richardloranger.com] for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos.  :) 7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56 [https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56/]. Yay!

Weeks 47-48: The H-Word

Episode 31 – Weeks 47-48:  The H-Word In which the podcaster explains the tragedy of humankind and you can’t stop laughing.   LINKS & INFO The B-52s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52s]   “Rock Lobster” on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNlfoHm6rgs]   https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-we-laugh/ [https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-we-laugh/]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter]  O Brother, Where Art Thou? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F]   Doctor Strangelove [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove ]  Waiting for Guffman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Guffman ]  Galaxy Quest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest]   Marx Brothers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers]   What’s Up Doc? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Doc%3F_(1972_film)]   Mack Sennett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Sennett ]  Rick & Morty [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty ]  Madge & Bisket [https://www.instagram.com/madgeandbisket/?hl=en ]  Equus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play) ]  . Drop me a note! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/support] And thanks for listening! Visit http://richardloranger.com [http://richardloranger.com] for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos.  :) 7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56 [https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56/]. Yay!

Weeks 45-46: Aye, I, Eye

Episode 30 – Weeks 45-46:  Aye, I, Eye  In which the podcaster introduces himself, dissolves all boundaries, and stirs up some weather.   LINKS & INFO Moustafa Bayoumi [https://moustafabayoumi.com/ ]  graysexuality [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_asexuality]   Henri Tajfel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Tajfel]    Mammal [https://www.roofbooks.com/mammal], Roof Books, 2023   Neurodiversity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity ]  Vitreous Detachment [https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/vitreous-detachment]   Drop me a note! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/support] And thanks for listening! Visit http://richardloranger.com [http://richardloranger.com] for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos.  :) 7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56 [https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56/]. Yay!

Week 44: Resistance Mixtape

In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew.  LINKS & INFO Network [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)], dir. Sidney Lumet (1976).   Speech 1 Peter Finch as Howard Beale   Speech 2 Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen Joy Harjo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo ], “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983  Victor Hernandez Cruz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Cruz ], “tu no eres” recorded by Christopher Funkhouser at Naropa Institute, 1991.  Rough translation in the episode transcript.  Barbie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_(film)], dir. Greta Gerwig (2023) America Ferrera as Gloria (main speech)  Voices in response: Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie   Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie  Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie   Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter   Hidden Figures [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures], dir. Theodore Melfi (2016) Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson (speech)  Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group  Stonewall Forever, dir. Ro Haber, is a documentary from NYC’s LGBT Community Center. You can watch it in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync], and PLEASE DO. The voices that you hear in the excerpts are, in this order, Chella Man, Jay Toole, Martin Boyce, Agosto Machado, Wallace Sanders, Judy Bowen, Sylvia Rivera, Karla Jay, Bianey Garcia, and Zackary Drucker. Janice Mirikitani [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Mirikitani ], excerpt from the film Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?, dir. Russell Leong (1990)    Jane Fonda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda], excerpt from her acceptance speech for a SAG Life Achievement Award, Feb 23, 2025.  Tongo Eisen-Martin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo_Eisen-Martin ], “The Course of Meal”, recorded for the Create Justice project in 2017.   Monolog from Episode 1 of The Newsroom [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newsroom_(American_TV_series)], dir. Greg Mottola and written by Aaron Sorkin Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (main speech)  Other voices (in order): David Cromer as Debate Moderator  Riley Voelkel as Jennifer Johnson  Elizabeth Marvel as Sharon   Jason Butler Harner as Lewis  Senator Cory Booker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker] on the Senate floor, 2:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 1, 2025, 19 hours 45 minutes into a filibuster that went on until 8:05 pm, breaking the record at 25 hours 5 minutes. .   The Great Dictator [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator], written and directed by Charlie Chaplin (1940). THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, APRIL 19.  Drop me a note! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2370172/support] And thanks for listening! Visit http://richardloranger.com [http://richardloranger.com] for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos.  :) 7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56 [https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56/]. Yay!