So, no podcast last week, because I am bad and uncaring, and also exhausted and never home, but by golly, you're getting a new Betsy chapter if it kills me!  Which it didn't, quite. 

Proper podcast on Friday, lots of good stories to tell, cross my heart!

I got home last night in such a state of exhaustion that I knew that there wasn't no podcast happening then.  But I could set my alarm early and do it in the morning!  Ha ha ho.  That was a hollow laugh, in case you were wondering.

So after two bad nights of sleep in a row, getting up two hours early in order to record what would likely be a very poor podcast seemed a lose-lose proposition.  So!  No podcast for you!  Today, anyway.  I'll should just about manage to record one tonight and hopefully upload it tomorrow, if I have a decent enough wireless connection at the weekend theatre.

So, sorry!  Love you lots, I promise! 

Here, after a two week break, is the next chapter of Understood Betsy!  At last!  You have all been patient and good, so here is your reward.

Two more collaborations that I participated in are Barbara Frietchie and Richard Cory, the latter being about my favourite poem of all time, and the former actually appearing in this week's Betsy chapter!  Which is very fitting, I think.

Ahh, a lovely podcast recorded in a relaxed manner at a reasonable hour, what a treat!  Except for the cat walking across my keyboard, my chair losing altitude, and the CONSTANT mouse-clicks!  Have there always been this many mouse clicks and I am only just noticing?

Anyway, mentioned in passing were Librivox, the recording of Richard Corey, and the Podsafe Music Network.

Artist of the Podcast: Deirdre Flint, whose cds can be purchased here and here (and also here), is a member of Four Bitchin' Babes, and whose truncated (but still brilliant) podcast is available here.
Songs played: "The Boob Fairy", "King of the Rollerama", "Food" and "We Fit Right"
Podcast of the Podcast: Cast On (at last!)
Bumper by: The Membrane

Special thanks, as always, to Karen Hansen for the fab logo and Cagey House for the theme music.  Remember, to subscribe via iTunes, click here, to subscribe with another podcastcher, copy and paste the rss feed into it, and if you just want to listen, right click on the mp3 file at the bottom of the page! 

I can be reached at tbh at hedgehog dot net, or you can ring and leave an audio comment at 206-202-2867, (that's 206-20-ACTOR) and leave a voicemail that I can play on the show!

Lord have mercy, do you know what I did last night?  I FORGOT to do my podcast!  Until I was lying in my bed and going to sleep and...whoops!  So I got up early again this week and I did my damn early morning podcast thingy.  Mentioned casually in passing, Brenda Dayne's Cast-On, (again!  It will really be the Podcast of the Podcast someday, I promise!), Clever Little Pod, and CLP's new episode with my guest fabulousness on it.

Artist of the Podcast: Tracy Newirth
Songs played: "I'm the Girl", "Miss Byrd", "Imagine My Surprise", and "My Simple Christmas Wish", from Tracy's 2001 album, "I'm the Girl" available at CD Baby dot com.
Podcast of the Podcast: The Membrane by Steve Amaya, whose brilliant website that I couldn't remember what it was called while I was talking was Evaporation.

Special thanks, as always, to Karen Hansen for the fab logo and Cagey House for the theme music.  Remember, to subscribe via iTunes, click here, to subscribe with another podcastcher, copy and paste the rss feed into it, and if you just want to listen, right click on the mp3 file at the bottom of the page! 

I can be reached at tbh at hedgehog dot net (the spammers already got this address, so I don't even know why I'm bothering, or you can ring and leave an audio comment at 206-202-2867, (that's 206-20-ACTOR) and leave a voicemail that I can play on the show!

Okay, so I thought this was going to be a short episode, since I did it this morning instead of last night, and it turned out to be the longest one yet!  Sorry about that, but there is lots of swell music, so I think it's going to be okay with you guys.  It was recorded even more on the fly than usual, and the clicking that you hear during the show is me fiddling with the Lust Pollution cd cover.  Whoops! 

I have some fab new theme music, "Octopus Two" by Cagey House, a new bumper from Clever Little Pod, I mentioned Ten With Tom in passing, and the Lust Pollution TV recording show that I saw in NY I wrote about here, and the other person I went with besides Shmuel was my friend Lucy.  I am ashamed for forgetting who you were during the podcast, Lucy!  Admittedly, it was seven years ago, and also I am losing my mind.

Next podcast my goal is to stop saying "um".  Planning what I am going to say ahead of time might help!

Artist of the Podcast: Lust Pollution
Songs played: "Sex Toys", "Whore", "Sadists in the Stars", "Kubla Khan" off of their 1998 album, Songs From a Moist Place
They don't have a website, but there's an old fan site here.  If anyone is interested in contacting them and buying a cd or a t-shirt, their email address is in the show, otherwise you can contact me at tbh@hedgehog.net
Podcast of the Podcast: Filmspotting, a terrific movie review programme, and the second podcast that I ever listened to.

Special thanks, as always, to Karen Hansen for the fab logo.  Remember, to subscribe via iTunes, click here, to subscribe with another podcastcher, copy and paste the rss feed into it, and if you just want to listen, right click on the mp3 file at the bottom of the page!

Of course, because of the holiday Monday, I have been a day off all week, which is why Chapter 4 didn't go up yesterday.  Sorry to disappoint, all you Understood Betsy fans!  But here it is, Chapter 4.  I honestly don't know whether there will be a chapter next week, as I am crazy busy until the 11th, 13 hour days being the short ones.  So I think let's just say that Chapter 5 will go up on the 14th of June, and next week I'll be lucky if I have the time or energy for my regular podcast!

Two more additions to the Librivox catalogue that include recordings of mine are Daddy-Long-Legs and last week's Weekly Poetry Project,  Embankment at Night Before the War - Outcasts by D.H. Lawrence.