Poem – Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allen Poe, read by Basil Rathbone, put to music by Foxiekitten25
Song – Annabelle Lee by Fiddler’s Green.
To Earthward by Robert Frost
Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air
That crossed me from sweet things,
The flow of—was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Downhill at dusk?
I had the swirl and ache
From sprays of honeysuckle
That when they're gathered shake
Dew on the knuckle.
I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.
Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain Of tears,
the aftermark Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.
When stiff and sore and scarred
I take away my hand
From leaning on it hard
In grass and sand,
The hurt is not enough:
I long for weight and strength
To feel the earth as rough
To all my length.
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Quentin Quill is in-studio with a totally FASCINATING review of a deck of playing cards! Then, Roger Bunting stops in to recite a love poem for Tappie Daniel.
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It’s his father’s 81st Birthday, and Toppie decides to go all-out and make a KILLER pot roast!
Mentioned on today’s podcast: Join DJ Starsage and Toppie this Friday, May 1st at 9:00 PM (EASTERN) for a live-streaming episode of Matinee Minutiae as they discuss the trivia behind 1972’s “What’s Up Doc,” directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, and Madeline Kahn.
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Christian Messer is our special guest on today’s Smellcast. Listen and learn how our Pride48 family member is doing today and hear his uplifting story of recovery and healing.
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Toppie describes the weeks leading up to and following his father’s 80th birthday party.
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Toppie decides to tell Quentin the truth about Quentin’s little friend the mouse.
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At long last… Aunt Tappie tells the sturry behind the sturry… of her long lost best friendsies with Bettina Du Pres! What tore their one-time unbreakable forever-bond asunder?? LISTEN as Tappie Daniel reveals — in the most gut-wrenching, emotional performance of her life — the DARK SECRETS behind what she had hoped would remain forever UNTOLD!!!
Don’t miss the continuation of this epic sturry as it crosses over to the the Shy Life Podcast, episodes 99 and 100!
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Representing episode 133 of the Smellcast: And they’re off! It’s Christmas shopping season: time to SPEND! SPEND! SPEND! BUY! BUY! BUY! Toppie has only $100.00 in cash money to spend on Black Friday. But he also has a credit card in his wallet. Will Toppie — who has only just recently reduced his debt to zero — succumb to the season’s sinister seduction to SPEND SPEND BUY BUY? Meanwhile, Sassy has discovered “Grindr!”
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In our Christmas special, Aunt Tappie recalls life back in 1934, and her marriage to Henry Danielle and how a single red tulip in the winter brought them together.
Brian and Kevin of the Dansbury Connecticuts are back in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. One night over dinner, Toppie discusses the delicate issue of Brian and Kevins’ impending adoption of DJ Junior.
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