money

I wrote another poem! I tell you, I'm so damn creative when I have lots of other stuff that I'm supposed to be doing. Good news is, it's short:

I was reading an article
about people who make more
than $20 million a year.
And then I dropped it
and looked down
at a hill of ants.
And I noticed something:
The ants who make more
than $20 million a year
(I saw some, I really did!)
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Deke tells me that airing our first clip show means we've really arrived as podcasters. Yeah, either that, or were working on a new book from scratch and we don't have time to sit around sipping martinis because dekePeeps (TM Petra) need their Illustrator One-on-One! But this week, our intrepid bandleader, Buddy, put together some clips from some of our favorite shows from the early days (way back in 2009) of our show. And we did find time to pour ourselves each a respective drink, take off our respective shoes, turn on our respective Skypes, and listen to the clips together and laugh. Whether we chuckled because we were truly amused by past ourselves or the laughter was a smokescreen for our embarrassment of our early performances, we'll never tell. We're veterans now. This show proves it.

Here's a run-down on the clips included, the shows from whence they came, and what the passage of time has taught us. Read more » 

After the entertaining wildness of a couple of episodes with John and Russell, Deke and I decided this week to have a quiet tete-a-tete with just the two of us: shoes off, classic martinis, and some classic Martini Hour segments like the secret handshake and reader mail. (Oh, not to worry, we've got some wonderful guests lined up for upcoming episodes, but for now we're relaxing in the eye of the loungy storm.)

Here's a graphic that is only possible with the information imparted during this week's show. Check it out:

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