Life lately...

READ

Just finished reading Watch Me, a follow up to A Story Lately Told.  As Mindy said, "I can't believe Jack is O.K. with this book." To which Anjelica responded "of course Jack is okay with it - It's a love letter."  Ugh, love her.

Next up, Purity for Babes and Books.

LISTENING
I'm really digging You Must Remember This specifically their season on the infamous Manson murders. Which is timely because Anjelica mentioned the Roman Polanski scandal in her memoir. After every episode I dive deep into Wikipedia to read up on all the crazy stuff surrounding that lunatic. It's fascinating and so sad.

Random Facts: Anjela Lansbury's daughter was once a member of his "family".
Charles Manson is only 5'2".
Beach Boy Dennis Wilson was affiliated with the cult for a long time. This took me down a Beach Boy bender where I discovered that Dennis' cousin, Mike Love is brothers with Stan Love who is the father of Kevin Love - currently playing basketball for Cleveland.
After mentioning my current obsession to my mom she mentioned that my aunt knew one of the women in the Manson family!!!
It's so good and scary... highly suggest!

TRAVELING
I'm going to Austin this weekend with Mr. Louisville.  He's working which means I get to play!  I've already made reservations at Parkside for a date night but I've been looking up all kinds of fun things to do and see in a new to me city. Timeline to come!

CHEERING
I went to a Louisville football game with M and a Bengals game with Ley.  Wins for both!

xo.

Podcast love

I spend a lot of time on the road;  for work, Louisville for the weekends, roadtrips...
I love music but I don't have an insert for my iPod in my car, I'm not fond of trying to find radio stations and I get tired of the few CDs I have.  So, in the past year I've been getting into podcasts.  I suppose my love of talk radio started with Terry Gross and Fresh Air but here are a few of my other favorites.

Savage Lovecast

This was the first podcast I started listening to and now I'm a regular.  It's basically an advice column.  People call in with questions about love, sex, relationships, etc. and Dan Savage answers.  He's funny, articulate, thoughtful and open-minded.  He's changed my life, honestly.  My perceptions about relationships, monogamy, bi-sexuality, transgenders and more have been challenged and I've learned so much.  I really think that everyone should listen to this.

Dan Savage (on the right) with his husband, Terry.

Serial
This is a new podcast and I'm obsessed.  A true story unfolds week by week.  The first season is about a murder that took place in Baltimore, back in 1999.  A high school senior was strangled and her ex-boyfriend was found guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.  The way it unfolds reminds me of the documentary, Staircase. I flip back and forth.  He did it!  He's definitely innocent.  He's guilty!  There's no way!  It's riveting, well told and juicy.  I've listened to each episode twice through already.  It's so good.

The Dinner Party Download
This is a nice, fluffy podcast that I tend to listen to on long walks.  The podcast is played out like so.
Icebreaker - joke
History Lesson - something that happened around that date is history
Cocktails - a drink to accompany the history lesson
Playlists - music for the dinner party
Guest of Honor - special guest celebrity, writer, actor, etc.
Etiquette - questions answered usually by said guest of honor
Dinner time - some food related content like an emerging food trend
Anyway, I enjoy the tidbits of unconventional news and culture which provide excellent (you guessed it!) dinner party conversation starters.

Kevin Spacey was a guest on the show.

And a few more that I listen to:
The Moth
Death, Sex & Money

What are your favorites?  I'd love a recommendation!