Seersucker Semiotics (Trauma Processing Special)

After a run of well-received episodes with prestigious guests and
a Bookforum mention we are ready for our slow decline! It's just
us boys on this pod, testing out our new mics and recording
software, beginning to drift imperceptibly away from our lo-fi
roots & thus our scruffy charm and ultimately, our integrity.
But for now we're talking about trauma! As listeners who follow
us on so-called Twitter probably know, Lauren was attacked on the
Metro by a mentally ill man a couple weeks ago and wrote a very
famous 4000 word essay about  it in the style of Knausgaard,
kind of. ALSO: We finally return to the Book and finish Part One,
a miracle praise Adonai.


HOUSEKEEPING: We have a google voice number now for you to leave
messages for our eventual call-in episode.  It is
443-584-6486


cheat sheet:


0:00 - Lauren is eating a gluten free snickerdoodle; Drew
reflects on his appreciation of the Steppe and its peoples.


9:30 - The trauma unpacking begins; Lauren ever so briefly lets
down her defenses, reveals a crack in her facade or a chink in
her armor, or is it a soft underbelly? At any rate vulnerability
is definitely momentarily glimpsed. Drew interviews Lauren about
her anti-trauma-essay and Lauren uses the phrase "brain colonized
by X" about 8,000,000 times.


40:00 - Drew reflects on his recent trauma of being initiated
into the "dripping wound" that is Twitter. We try to probe what
exactly makes Twitter so alienating and upsetting - why is it not
a utopian collaborative literary exercise? Something to do maybe
with commodification or narcissism, two intimately linked
phenomena of course....


57:00 - We have our first struggle session in a long time (bless
me Father for I have sinned); Karl Ove takes Hanne to the DSA
meeting; springtime arrives but not in an annoying way; Karl Ove
attends his father's weird divorced Midsommar-like party/ritual
and Part One ends. What a ride!


Thanks so much for listening! As always feel free to reach out
with your questions, comments, and expressions of
concern/solidarity at teixeira.lauren@gmail.com or
deohringer@gmail.com. And do stay tuned for a special guest next
week......


OUTRO: The Stranglers- Golden Brown