Remembering the time Celeste came over to watch the Saints game dressed as Jeremy Shockey. We were together when the Saints won the Super Bowl. I keep telling people these last few days that they were like a best buddy at camp. One summer we went to Riis beach every day we could. Everyone was incredibly tan. We would play records and sing full-throated to each other in my living room. They were a big music head. One of the last things they wrote me they reminisced about us singing in my apartment and the songs that were more than just songs, but changed your being. It sucks when people leave us and we’re left holding the emotional bag. Celeste, I’m going to cry listening to certain songs my whole life from now on, you big jerk. I already have allergies and my eyes have been watering. If the state of the world did not uplift you I thought the music might, but I get it❤️✨👊
Today my guest is New York cartoonist @betheacomics , whose comics include Book of Daze and Francis Bacon (@dominocomicbooks ), All Killer No Filler, and Forlorn Toreador. She’s also appeared in anthologies like Peep (@samharkham ) and Crease.
Elizabeth is one of the great comics poets, and I loved learning about how she composes her work over time through daily writing. We also get into Elizabeth’s hometown of New Orleans, her recent forays into digital cartooning, the love life of Susan Sontag, the dreaminess of still lifes, pictureless poems, and more!
Thank you to @jvsonbvtler for producing the episode!
I found a litho that spoke to me in a junk shop and I hung it up, and then I found the litho hanging in a different litho of the artist’s studio on Broome St. circa 1971. This all sort of delighted me momentarily 🤓 #claytonpond @clayton_pond_art
An antimilitarism street find by the vice-presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in 1916, George R. Kirkpatrick, signed and with notes to read and propogate #georgerkirkpatrick #socialistpartyofamerica
