End of a summer break I hadn't meant to take ... everybody here has been down with horrible stomach flu - sequentially - so that means 3+ weeks of misery.

But with a new season comes a new episode, at last - interpreting all our genres of show business in music.

No, not your cousin, who sends you a cassette hoping for heaps of praise as she caterwauls at someone's wedding - really good music (with links). I think a good song can add to the way we understand ourselves and our loves. Decide for yourselves!

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Oy! I let a podcast get out of here with 5 huge editing glitches!

Fixed 'em, and the replacement file is now a whole lot better to listen to. Sorry.

Woohoo! Great topic Can't wait to listen...

Heather... congrats on your lucky 13th post!

There has been some curiosity as to what's in the current episode - is it songs about tattooing and shoving screwdrivers up your nose, or tunes about elephants and clowns?

(Mind you, I had one dynamite elephant song in the Jimmy Zajicek episode, but I was including enough replays already)

Here's the playlist, and I commend it to you for a listen:

LISA RICHARD – BIG TIME (how to get your name in lights)

DAVID KRAUT & MISSI HALE – A DAY JOB AND A DREAM (you perform because you gotta perform)

BUDZ – NEW SHOW COME TO TOWN (repeat) (this show plays November 4 only, but the ballyhoo is happening now)

REWAKE - CARNIVAL (what more to say?

TOM SMITH – EVERYTHING IS DANGEROUS (including screwdrivers up your nose)

BIG GEORGE JACKSON – I'M A BIG MAN (repeat) (George the Giant, Bruce Snowden, howya doin'?)

JOE NICHOLS – WALMART PARKING LOT (where else do you set up 95% of the time?)

DAVE POTTS – FERRIS WHEEL (repeat) (all the charms of the midway)

KACEY JONES – APPLES DIPPED IN CANDY (repeat) (I never knew one of these was an aphrodisiac)

DAVE POTTS – ONE NIGHT IN THE SOUTH (it all comes down to ... where do you feel at home?)

DAR WILLIAMS – CHRISTIANS AND PAGANS (for our renfaire friends)

GREG TANNEN - CONEY ISLAND MID-JULY (the joys of a summer afternoon)

THE LASCIVIOUS BIDDIES – CONEY ISLAND DAY (and the feeling that it's fading)

DAVE KEMPERS – AQUARIUM FROM CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS (for the walk back across the lot in the dark)

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See you next episode, when someone else interviews me.

Ooo I can't wait to hear it!!
I still have a lot of catching up to do though I'm only up to number 18 because of not having the net at home for a while.

Thanks!!!