Rancho Thatchmo

My Journal of a Plague Year: This is my deep dive into travel journalism. The usual sex, drugs and Vaticanism featuring: Warren Sloat on Naples, Tina Satter aka Half Straddle (!), Emmylou Potter (in …

This episode heralds a return to the medium after a slanderous absence.

Stories and lists about speaking and dying: celebrity sex, stories from the life, historical romance: the lost beatnik, and wha…

Many of us have had close calls, uncomfortable brushes, lucky breaks and cancelled reservations with the reaper. Here are a few of those stories. 

Featuring: Thea Storz, Elizabeth Steinvorth, Tim Fol…

Trigger Warning: Blue Jokes Galore!

Featuring Matt, Maureen, The Red Scare, Serena. Sarah Hutto, Daniel Arnold, Rachel Fleit, Noah Reibel, Derek Garner, Susanna Sonnenberg, Tommy Munroe, Joe Munroe, …

In this freestyle episode we have an assortment of people talking about us humans on the inside and out. Featuring Honor Titus, Cali DeWitt, Adam Marnie, Liz Lee, Sunita Prassad, Alesandro Riccarelli…

Folks telling stories about others and about interactions with others. Often things you did not know. So you can think of this as an episode of confidences, or Confidence Games.

This episode features…

Folks follow up their lover lists with how these relationships dissembled: sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

Featuring: Mike Houston, Karley Sciortino, Dusty Grella, Kay Kasparhauser, Tim Foljahn,…

This episode we plunge deeper into the cavernous black books of the citizenry and their thumbnail descriptions of playmates.

Featuring: The Chef with the Infectious Laugh, the Swinging Falsetto Opera…

Folks look at their romantic patterns with these thumbnail descriptions of lovers past and present.

Featuring: The Titan of Mope-Core, The Rural Radio Love Queen, A 90's Rock Star, The Mayflower WASP…

Slang from a few sections of the street corner society. Students and millennials, Jamaicans and Civil War soldiers, Twitter and jazz, and a bunch of slang collected by a British academic.

This episod…

Part two of a furthur dive into the use and abuse of language. We look at the proprietary shorthands used by odd corners of society: Mohicans, Persians, Lawyers, the NOI, the Intelligence community, …

Part one of a cursory dive into language use and abuse.

Bits about the variations and the wiggle room in verbal expression.

Visual language, swear words invented for Hollywood, word based free associ…

People share lists about words and work and self-help and sex and their souls.

Featuring Julia Nightingale, Sharon Mashihi, Derekk Garner, Peter Chinman, Reuben Radding, Sarah Sloat, Amanda Daisy Lee…

Spring on the ranch has a lot going on!

Featuring: Tina Reichenbach, Kay Kasparhauser, Rian Fossett, Sharon Mashihi, Francesca Lo Russo,  Johnathan Wood Vincent, Malik Vitthal, Johanna Lewis, The Der…