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“Thank you for your work. You’re really advocating for peace in your talks, and I really appreciate it.
You’re doing a good job that’s really worthwhile.”
- Glenn Garamella, author of A Need to Fill and The Floating World

#180 "Rant Fragments of a Distorted World" 13-minutes 4-15-24

#179 "Jesus Is In the Eye of the Beholder but the Moist Red Breathing Earth Nurtures All" 26-minutes 4-8-24

#178 “Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket: Perspectives on Easter” 25-minutes 4-1-24

#177 "The Front Lines of Journalism & Ray Bradbury's Mr. Electrico" 10-minutes 3-25-24

#176 “Part 2: Harmonious Complementarity: excerpts fromYanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru" 20-minutes 3-18-24

#175 "Harmonious Complementarity: a conversation with Hillary S. Webb about her book Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru"
54-minutes 3-11-24

#174 "Peace With Earth Is My Cup of Tea" 14-minutes 3-4-24

#173 "Utitia'q's Song (Inuit)” 8-minutes 2-26-24

#172 “The Music of Writing” 11-minutes 2-19-24

#171 "Cannery Row by John Steinbeck: a lesson in good writing" 16-minutes 2-12-24

#170 "Book Review, Part 4: The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States" ~ Joan Roelofs, 23-minutes 2-5-24

#169 "Book Review, Part 3: The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States" ~ Joan Roelofs, 31-minutes 1-29-24

#168 "Book Review, Part 2: The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States" ~ Joan Roelofs, 19-minutes 1-22-24

#167 "Book Review, Part 1: The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States" ~ Joan Roelofs, 21-minutes 1-15-24

#166 "Tribute to John Pilger: "... a long haul, and faltering along the way is not an option, really."
16-minutes 1-8-24

#165 “Happy Imperial, Vatican, Bill-paying Gregorian, New Year with a Shout-out to the Moon and Sun!"
12-minutes 1-1-24

#164 "Sad Irony: Deaths of Palestinians Writers and Family in the Lands of the Prince of Peace"
14-minutes 12-25-23

#163 “The People Season and The Commodified Savior” 13-minutes 12-18-23

#162 " 'and the Earth itself spoke' -- East and West Twain Meeting" 15-minutes 12-11-23

#161 "Substack: site for writers and readers" 17-minutes 12-4-23

#160 "The Meal Day^tm: a socially engineered look at so-called Thanksgiving”
11-minutes 11-27-23

#159 “GWOfT: let the descarification begin” 20-minutes 11-20-23

#158 "2024 Haiku Calendar and Autumn Haiku Moods" 20-minutes 11-13-23

#157 “Holy Shit With Literature: The Domination Script” 18-minutes 11-6-23

#156 “With A. Molotkov: "Memento" -- a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko"
16-minutes 10-30-23

#155 “Yishrah El: The Upright Ones and The Self-Discipline of Shalom”
20-minutes 10-23-23

#154 "The Non-Visible Spectrum and Other Sensory Experiences"
12-minutes 10-16-23

#153 "A, Ahem, Look at the Word 'Spectrum'" 16-minutes 10-9-23

#152 "Original Free Nations: The View from the Shore vs. The Declaration of Independence"
25-minutes 10-2-23

#151 "Kôan fragments of a distorted world: contentment, frustration, from whence the messages"
14-minutes 9-25-23

#150 “To Report Or Not To Report” 11-minutes 9-18-23

#149 “Learning Man: a response to Burning Man" 17-minutes 9-11-23

#148 - Part 2 "Escaping the Submissive Void: review of The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956) - Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D."
21-minutes 9-4-23

#147 "Escaping the Submissive Void: review of The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956) - Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D."
26-minutes 8-28-23

#146 “A Turtle Is More Than ‘A Turtle’” Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back
19-minutes 8-21-23

#145 "Nothing is forgotten, only left behind” (from the song "Unbound" by Robbie Robertson (Cayuga/Mohawk))
18-minutes 8-14-23

#144 “Galeano and Chomsky: ‘A silence closely resembling stupidity’” 19-minutes
8-7-23

#143 Interview with writer Nowick Gray: The Hamster Wheel, The Prayer Wheel, and Freewheeling”
37-minutes 7-31-23

#142 “Print is the technology of individualism” - Marshall McLuhan” 8-minutes 7-24-23

#141 “Part-3: Zapotec Muxe and a Further Look at Gender-Bender Cultures”
28-minutes 7-17-23

#140 "Part-2: Review of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science - Jessica Hernandez, PhD" 23-minutes 7-10-23

#139 “Part-1: Review of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science - Jessica Hernandez, PhD" 19-minutes 7-3-23

#138 "minimalist haiku: the song titles of Thelonious Sphere Monk" 12-minutes 6-26-23

#137 "Sophisticated Facades" 10-minutes 6-19-23

#136 “Part 4- The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies - Guillaume Pitron”
33-minutes 6-12-23

#135 “Part 3- Review of The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies - Guillaume Pitron”
23-minutes 6-5-23

#134 “Part 2- Review of The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technology - Guillame Pitron”
25-minutes 5-29-23

#133 “Part 1- Review of The Rare Metals War: the dark side if clean energy and digital technologies - Guillame Pitron”
19-minutes 5-22-23

#132 “Intertwining: Activism, Meditation and The Arts: an interview with Arya F. Jenkins" 32-minutes 5-15-23

#131 “Preview of The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
- Guillaume Pitron (Scribe, 2020, original text 2018) 16-minutes 5-8-23

#130 ”At the beginning of the day...” 10-minutes 5-1-23

#129 “The Lipsticked Pig Evasion” 16-minutes 4-24-23

#128 “Nations Poetry Month” 23-minutes 4-17-23

#127 “Don’t Squelch the Muse” 12-minutes 4-10-23

#126 “empire of books” 19-minutes 4-3-23

#125 "Spring and Geopolitical Haiku" 5-minutes, 3-26-23

#124 "Interview with multi-media, collaborative and performing artist, Elena Botts" 17-minutes, 3-19-23

#123 “Part 2: It was the best of times, it was the not so bad of times” 15-minutes, 3-12-23

#122 “It was the best of times, it was the not so bad of times” 15-minutes, 3-5-23

#121 “Physics As Metaphor by Roger S. Jones & The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet - part-4,”
15-minutes, 2-26-23

#120 “The Conundrum of Disparity: Book Review part 2: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives”
34-minutes, 2-19-23

#119 “The Conundrum of Disparity: Book Review part 1: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives"
26-minutes. 2-12-23

#118 "Kôan Fragments: news bits and observations" 14-minutes, 2-5-23

#117 "Book Launch Interview with Janet A. Werner: A Pear in an Apple Tree: A Journey with Multiple Sclerosis"
36-minutes, 1-29-23

#116 “As Dire as it Seems, Ripe for Change” 21-minutes, 1-22-23

#115 “Poem and Tribute to Jeff Beck” 8-minutes, 1-15-23

#114 “Hand Grabs and Land Grabs or Organic Flow: The Meditative Art of Brush Calligraphy” 15-minutes, 1-8-23

#113 "Preview of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara" 10-minutes

#112 “turn of the year Rambling Rant: from the mundane to the spiritual" 19-minutes

#111 “Are We Having Fun-d Drive Yet?” 19-minutes

#110 "Review of The Psychology of Totalitarianism - Mattias Desmet (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022) -- 22-minutes

#109 “Art, Artifice, Artificial” 21-minutes

#108 “2023 Haiku Calendar” 19-minutes

#107 “Myth America” 21-minutes

#106 "Long Island Poems -- interview with and a few poems read by Barbara Southard, celebrating her new book"
33-minutes”

#105 "One-Liners (not funny) - a gist of 18 books in 15 minutes"

#104 "Alphabetization as Mind Control, The Script of Western Civilization" -- riffing off of a news article, "German man fined over letter 'Z'" 17-minutes

#103 "tribute to haiku poet Bill Kenney" 14-minutes

#102 "Part-3: The Metaphors of Space, Time, Matter and Number & The System Of Domination - Interview with Steven T. Newcomb" 48-minutes. Physics As Metaphor - Roger S. Jones; Pagans in the Promised Land - Steven T. Newcomb.

#101 “Physics As Metaphor (1982) by Roger S. Jones and
The Psychology of Totalitarianism (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022)
by Mattias Desmet - part-2” 19-minutes

#100 “Physics As Metaphor (1982) by Roger S. Jones – part-1” 17-minutes

#99 “The Art Of Journalists” 25-minutes

#98 “Nationalism Social-Status: Nazism Revisited” 27-minutes

#97 “Serendipitous Detour and Engagement: an interview with professor and writer Mindy Kronenberg” 44-minutes

#96 “Events, Emotions and Weather” 13-minutes

#95 “The Commodification of Cool” 17-minutes

#94 “Interview with Anne Keala Kelly: Our Rights to Self-Determination: A Hawaiian Manifesto -- part 2” 36-minutes

#93 “Interview with Anne Keala Kelly: Our Rights to Self-Determination: A Hawaiian Manifesto -- part 1” 38-minutes

#92 “Book Review: The Religion of Technology (1997) by David F. Noble - part 2” 16-minutes

#91 “Book Review: The Religion of Technology (1997) by David F. Noble - part 1” 13-minutes

#90 “Book Review: The Burnout Society by Cgyung-Chul Han - part-2” 22-minutes

#89 “Book Review: The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han - part-1” 16-minutes

#88 “Independence is an Illusion - part-2” 12-minutes

#87 “Independence is an Illusion” 15-minutes
with audio accompaniment by a Robin and cameo audio appearance by a Woodpecker

#86 “Book Review: Future Symptoms – poems by A. Molotkov” 19-minutes

#85 “Wordsmithing” 11-minutes

#84 “Book Banning and Burning: same difference” 12-minutes

#83 “Tibet not in the news” 9-minutes

#82 “Staying Centered with Decentralization” 11-minutes

#81 “The Kaleidoscopic Kontinuum” 13-minutes
(the “K” spelling is in honor of Klaus Schulze, a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician who passed away in April. His 2007 album Kontinuum is one of my faves in that genre)

#80 “All Over the Map: Wilderness vs. Civilization” 21-minutes
“wild – untamed, forest, meadow, soil”
“civilize – citify, bring out of a primitive or savage state”
“savage (from “sylvan”) – of the woods, forest, grove”

#79 “conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), author of Children of the Sun: prosetry unplugged” 48-minutes
Limited edition, second printing of Children of the Sun: prosetry unplugged.
Fundraiser for the recently started Akantu Institute

78 - “Diss Information and Books in the News, plus Books I’m Reading and Not Reading” 22-minutes
&
Interview preview: Now available: Limited edition, second printing of Children of the Sun: prosetry unplugged. Fundraiser for the recently started Akantu Institute

#77 “Book Review: Everywhere is enchanted if you let it be -- part-3” 14-minutes

#76 “Book Review: Everywhere is enchanted if you let it be -- part-2” 10-minutes

#75 “Book Review: Everywhere is enchanted if you let it be -- part-1” 13-minutes

#74 “Book Review: What if the unexplained actually works?” 10-minutes

#73 “Back at ya! The “solution” is “loosen”” 9-minutes

#72 “A Granddaughter’s Rite of Passage: Tales from tho McCarthy Era” book by Julie Gilgoff 12-minutes

#71 “Dear Rant,” 12-minutes

#70 “Epistemology - part-2” 31-minutes

#69 - “Epistemology . . . in context of media and current events” 11-minutes
(my DNA from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus prays for peace and am aware that those who suffer because of the chaos are mostly the masses of people and that all the hubbub is a distraction from caring about the Earth)

#68 - “Sacred Sexuality – part-4” 13-minutes
sexually speaking: collected sex writings by Gore Vidal, (Cleis Press, 1999)

#67 - “Sacred Sexuality - part-3” 12-minutes

#66 - “Sacred Sexuality - part-2” 9-minutes

#65 - “Sacred Sexuality - part-1” 12-minutes

#64 - “review of Birth of Music -- book of poetry by Craig Shay” 10-minutes

#63 - “Censored: news worth knowing, unless you’re a Roman magistrate” 9-minutes

#62 - “How Two Lines from the Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn) Can Help You Balance With the Earth” 9-minutes
“...never wanting, one may observe the wondrously subtle;
Desiring, one may witness the manifestations...”

#61 – “The Annual (unless popular demand demands more often) Fun-duh Drive” 13.5 minutes
from January 3 through January 10
Some jokes along with asking listeners to kick-in a few bucks for the ongoing free podcasts.
(the contribution offers of $5, $10 and $20 are good for one-week,
or if you’re communing with nature so as to cyber-detox so as to
clear the cobworldwidewebs from your mind and spruce up your aura
and have no solar-charger for your gadget, fair enough, two weeks)

#60 - “One Vine: as related to domination, media, greenwashing and your path” – 13 minutes

one-hundred gourds
from the heart-mind
of one vine
-Chiyo-ni

#59 - “holiday spin cycle” 13-minutes

#58 - “a shout-out to nature poets and those who avoid so-called politics” 8-minutes

#57 - “a glimpse behind the scenes of printing, publishing, and writing” 10-minutes

#56 - “Finding Your Voice: Letting the Muses Sing in You” 7-minutes

#55 - “Touching the Surface of Poetic Language: English, Native, Chinese, Japanese, Greek” 13-minutes

#54 - “Pattern and Connect-the-Dots in the Writing and Researching Process” 9-minutes

#53 Calendar2022cover03 Haiku Calendar 2022 8-minutes

#52 - book review Slave Laborer: A Holocaust Survivor Story by Francis O’Brien and Stephen M. Berger
12-minutes

#51 “trigger warnings” on books and articles
9-minutes

#50 about the new book Moving Through The Empty Gate Forest: inside looking out
16-minutes

#49 book review: Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare by Joseba Zulaika, University of California Press, 2020 - 14-minutes

#48 interview with Marcela Ossa, author of Cilantro y Cafe - 25 minutes
& more about her book

#47Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti “don’t fake it... and remember its innocence its original innocence”€ 21-minutes

#46 A Need to Fill - Poems by Glenn P. Garamella:
book launch interview and reading - 14-minutes

#45 2021 Haiku Calendar - 7-minutes

#44 little stories about the heart-mind - 5-minutes

#43 mini-interview with poet and artist Elena Botts, 14-minutes

To read sample poems, see the art, and purchase her book a little luminescence:
https://www.allbook-books.com/html/young_artists_.htm
&
Elena’s writings, audios, and artwork, individual and collaborative also at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhUbmlxZekEa_-9Dr-F4fA

https://sites.google.com/view/elenabotts

https://mourning-dove.bandcamp.com/

https://theunknownsoundcollective.bandcamp.com/

.........

#5 - Two short bits from two books, plus my comments 5-minutes:
Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880€ by Phillip H. Round, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2010
&
A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State€ by Charles Freeman, The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc, 2009

#4 - The States We’re In: What’s In A Name? 6-minutes

#3 - Haiku 5-minutes

#2 - Drive-thru Theofascism & The Hero’s Journey€ 5-minutes

#1 - sensory radar 4-minutes, from photo albums of the heart-mind