Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purring voice as she reads you classic works of short fiction. Sweet dreams.
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The Self-Contained Compartment
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
During a trip by car I noticed a guy on the phone in a parking lot frantically trying to start his car, a kid really, a kid in trouble, just laying into the ignition while the engine was turning halfway over which indicated, to my limited capacity for automotive troubleshooting, that maybe his vehicle was [...]
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The Pukey
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
“But when it thinks, I feel like vomiting.”
With these words, it is clear that if Nigel Dennis were still around I’d be his groupie. I’d start the FaceBook Club and make mashups on Youtube for him and disguise myself as an editor at Rolling Stone Magazine to obtain his personal email address, which I [...]
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Eveline
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Were I a listmaker, and perhaps I am, you would be the warm recipient of many reasons to be grateful when the internet goes for broke on Bloomsday. This list, were I to make one, would include the subcategories: FOR ME and FOR YOU. Topping the FOR YOU list, were such a thing [...]
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The Cask of Amontillado
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Jun 11, 2008
So I read in the news today about the Indonesian macaque monkeys who’ve learned to successfully catch fish, and how exciting this is for biology, and how it’s a living and breathing example of the adaptation of a species to its conditions and environment, and really it was all astonishing stuff to read.
But [...]
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A Rose for Emily
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sun, Jun 01, 2008
So, my "identity" was stolen recently. And not for the sake of sordid members-only internet sites or international travel or a weekend of Spitzering other scandalous activities that, if you're going to have your identity stolen, would constitute Theft in Style. No, my identity was used to buy clip art and stock photography and website services, which is about as exciting as cutting school to go and get a root canal, sneaking out of the house late at night to mow the lawn next door. You get the picture.
So a personal note to identity thieves in training: when you're done with me, at least return me with a few heavy anecdotes and a thrilling punked-up haircut. OK?
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A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sat, May 03, 2008
Fishing season began early this year for your Miette, with the streetside discovery of a freshly abandoned goldfish with wonky telescopic eyes, in its bowl and with a note reading:
Free Fish! Please Give Steve Buscemi a good home.
And of course I did. I found an exceptional home for him, a home where he’s [...]
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Truth or Consequences
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sat, Apr 19, 2008
After a week of muscle-burning manual work and long long drives, some of us settle in with a nice cold beer. For others-- maybe like me, who's to say -- it takes more that that... way more, maybe, to relax muscles as sore as these and attempt to put together nerves which have been plucked to the bone. For that reason, perhaps it's best to just shut up and read (if you're me) or grab a beer and listen (if you're you) and maybe write the Pulitzer committee about considering a Podcasting category.
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Last Class
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Apr 04, 2008
All week I've been wanting to read this to you, waking up more excited than the trashman on the day-after-Christmas, and running into my.... uh... recording studio (read: three paces from the bed) to see if it's quiet enough...
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Binoculars
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Mar 26, 2008
A saw a sign the other day while out on a drive, a sign that said this: Frost Heaves.
And I almost had to stop and compose myself, because I was so deeply distressed by the fact that frost can't heave in private (and I'm not a histrionic sort of girl), and saddened that a frost's heave has to be announced clearly for any old asshole who happens to be driving by...
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A Handful of Dates
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Mar 21, 2008
The question that's been asked a few times of me now: why don't I read more African writers? Actually, it's been asked more than a few times... enough times, in fact, to warrant the sort of qualifier most accurately described as MANY.
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In a Hole
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Thu, Mar 13, 2008
It's confusing, the name of tonight's author, right? I mean, the better known writer sharing this name didn't bother with a middle pseudonymous initial, and there's a slight tweak to the surname, but we readers would be none the wiser, push-to-shove, and would settle back with a cup of tea and upperclass accent.
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Lonesome Road
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Feb 29, 2008
A mildly embarrassing problem when getting under way with tonight's story, confessed in full in these lines: when I first sat down to read it to you this evening, I got caught on a raft in a sea of lexical continental drift, and over and over I stammered out the title only to have it read "Roadsome Load." No kidding: again and again.
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Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Feb 20, 2008
As I lay writhing on my sickbed I was catching up on my milehigh stack of unread periodicals, and made my way to an article about one of the leading competitors for an upcoming race for a high position of public office in the country in which I'm living.
Because, you know, there aren't many articles written about this, which is surprising, because from the sound of things, the race for this public office is not of no importance....
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Lawyer Kraykowski?s Dancer
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Tue, Feb 05, 2008
A few days ago I was driving down the street behind a car which, as was warned by prominent display of rooftop sign, was being operated by a Student Driver... a sign which really wasn't necessary, given the stammering mid-intersection braking and sideview-mirror clipping taking place all the way down the road, and I had this great idea that it'd be a real public service - a true exercise of civic duty - if other drivers could collectively contribute to driving lessons, by driving like raving lunatics around students, just to get them on their toes and on the lookout.
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From the Mouths of Buildings
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Tue, Jan 29, 2008
A message from the author of today's story:
Do you ever wonder as you are reading a story, or hearing one, such as on a podcast, for example, what or whom has inspired a particular story? Picture this: imaginary "directions" or "instructions" for a story that the author creates-- after the story has been written--or told. Imagine that these "directives" led to this story--which in actuality they did not--well at least the author had no idea of any directives of any sort when the story came into being.
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Youth, Beautiful Youth
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Tue, Jan 08, 2008
Returning soon with a much-awaited all-new MBSP. Leaving you with a mightylong one to hold you till (the longest yet in one sitting, I think).
For Dream, remembered always, and loved even longer.
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Fedya Davidovich
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sat, Dec 15, 2007
HEY, Internet, I want to tell you all about Earideas.
Wow, that sounded a little snake-oily- let me try that again:
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The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Tue, Dec 04, 2007
I was thinking about the last story I read to you, and thinking it’d be nice if other events of this variety, the sort of events that are difficult to explain to small children, were similarly reimagined. And not just on a large scale, either. I’m talking about The Pulling of My Wisdom [...]
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The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Nov 28, 2007
I hope those of you celebrating All Things Autumnal are settling into it well, the roast fowl and the hot cacao and woodfire smoke for dessert, and, well, you know the picture I'm aiming for here. It does wonders to the general countenance, I think:
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Nov 09, 2007
I read in the news yesterday that television writers here in the U.S. have gone on strike, and that because of the strike, everybody's arms are collectively thrown up in a great wide panic, because nobody knows what's going to happen on Charmed and because there's nobody to script the next great Wardrobe Malfunction, and this sounds like very bad news indeed and I was sorry to read it.
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The Bell Tone
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Oct 26, 2007
At times during my podcastressing career, I have stumbled upon authors about whom I know very little, and have been fortunate to find that you, resourceful mariners of the Internet's belly, have proven yourselves well worth your collective avoirdupois in gold and other fine metals, and for that, I thank you.
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The Lady of the House of Love
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Oct 12, 2007
Andrea was kind enough to suggest and supply a sufficiently Halloweeny bit of ghoulishness to reconcile the setback of temporary lack of access to mine own troves. In the hopes of exponentially increasing the sympathy factor, let it be known that in addition to being without books, the chief operating offices of Miette's bedtime have been largely internet-free for the past weeks, in what would, under normal circumstances,
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The Red Room
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Sep 28, 2007
So listen, about today's story, well, as you'll know when you listen to the first minute, I'm running low on resources at the moment, tapped, so to speak, at least, until things are nice and orderlied again.
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The Fly
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Mon, Sep 17, 2007
While settling in and to avoid the appearance of mothballs, here's another Mansfield. And while this isn't the first time we've rocked her boat, she's a voice so nice I'll read her unspliced.
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I See You Never
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Mon, Aug 27, 2007
Last night, I was thinking of what to write to you today while starting to doze off just prior to handing over the wheel. I woke up with one of those Holy Mother I'm Dozing Off kind of starts, and, as I was now more alert than usual during this leg of the trip, I made the sad discovery that what I'd read as the Bikini Avenue Exit was actually something far more G-Rated, and significantly less scandalous.
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Fear
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Thu, Aug 09, 2007
Where I am, dear listeners, it's hot. And for reasons which terrify some, confound others, and lead to the sort of mass collective eye-rolling that I'd rather avoid (because the energy produced therein would raise the outside temperature another half-degree), I'm not the sort to articondition the air. Which means: it's hot, here, big vats of frying oil hot, and there's no reprieve inside these walls.
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Virtuoso
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sat, Jul 21, 2007
Herbert Goldstone, what are you going to tell me about him? Writes crazy sci-fi about thinking machines more human than man. This story in dozens of brilliant anthologia. Very little else to be found. The wiki draws a blank. This story is not a drop shy of Wondrous.
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How the World Was Saved
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Jul 11, 2007
A delivery truck pulled out in front of me the other day, freshly deflowered by a graffiti artist who chose to express him- or herself by relaying the following, in big blue caps:
I LOVE SARAH, KINDA?
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Sarah Cole
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sat, Jun 30, 2007
Some days, as a podcastress, you find that it's about a billion and two degrees of sour sunshined degrees outside, measured by the scales of Daniel or Anders either/or, and while the last thing you feel like doing might involve heavy lifting dressed in black, the next to last thing, on days such as those, might involve trying to get discernible sound and meaning to emerge from your throat.
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Araby
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Sat, Jun 16, 2007
Happy Bloomsday to you, and happy third Bloomsday podcast from your Miette, an event which many of you will remember is dear to me.
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Inflexible Logic
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Thu, Jun 14, 2007
Dearest listeners of the internet, I know. I've been gone. Many of you have pointed this out to me, though by the time I returned to read your pleas and queries, I was back, relieved of goneness, and racked with guilt over how abandoned you'd all been left, was at a loss at what I might read to redeem myself.
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Everything
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, May 23, 2007
A caveat for you listeners. Hell, a full-out warning: this is a long one, today's story, long and, dare I say it, a little dark, and not in the "change the bulb" sort of way. Which is just my way of saying to you:
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The Dancing Bear
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, May 09, 2007
As a rule, yours (very) truly takes a big dollop of pleasure in knowing just a little something about the authors I'm reading to you. Where there are exceptions, they are serious exceptions, resuscitated from beyond the brink and leaving their snot in my mouth.
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A Literary Adventure
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Thu, Apr 26, 2007
Never having been one for bandwagonry (after all, the bumper's too high for me to jump, and I don't have much in the way of carnival skills from which is allegedly derived the phrase), but it can't be helped: if everybody and their thrice-removed step-great-uncle
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Two Gentle People
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Tue, Apr 03, 2007
Riding the big train today and started to daydream, in the daydreamy style of reductive logic unique to the accompaniment of a train horn, the subject which was What I Might Read to the Internet Tonight.
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Love in the Winter
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Thu, Mar 15, 2007
Given that Tonight's Story invokes the Mann Act, and given that the Mann Act is bar-none the best Congressional Act of 1910 (and I dare you to find a better one. I mean, Chuck Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act. Frank Lloyd Wright too.)
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One?s Ship
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Thu, Mar 08, 2007
The news today tells us that a respected literary journal (not to be named here) has just released a list of names they consider to be The Best Young American Novelists, and among them, a full third of these names have not yet had a novel published. And that's kind of odd.
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The Hour of Letdown
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Feb 23, 2007
What we’ve got going on here, for those assiduous enough to parse their eyes over these words (and I suspect that I’m not speaking about many of you, that most of you just download the listening bits, which is quite all right) — but for those of you reading, I thought I’d thank you with [...]
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Tobermory
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Fri, Feb 09, 2007
At times, this little podcast of ours is thought of not unlike a nice helping of ice milk-- not bad for you, tasty even, in the right circumstances, but of questionable nutritional value. Not harmful, necessarily, but nothing that might be considered Useful For You. At then sometimes, someone will say otherwise, and that's not bad, usefulness.
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The Haile Selassie Funeral Train
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Jan 31, 2007
NOTA BENE This podcast is published with permission of the Guy Davenport estate. To further enjoy the works of Mr. Davenport, please see amazon.com or abebooks.
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The Deal
Author: miette@miettecast.com
Wed, Jan 17, 2007
Listening to this one earlier, I noticed something. |