Megan Gogerty

…and now it’s over.
Thanks to everybody for tuning in this summer.  Now that it’s over, if you have a hole in your heart because you want to hear more podcasts, let me know, okay?  Perhaps I’ll resurrect the ol’ podcast down the road.
And if you’re one of those folks who always meant to listen to [...]

Wherein I tell a sweet lil’ story about going to the video store and thinking about how I could foment its destruction.  I also mention naked ladies.
Excerpt:
And it’s sad.  A desolate wasteland of forced grins and rubber chicken wit.  Movies we’ve never heard of, starring faces that almost look like famous people.  Who knew Dane [...]

 

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Wherein I tell a totally true story about getting my blood drawn.
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She’s been working at a table this whole time.  Snapping on rubber gloves, Sticking adhesive labels onto bottles, readying her instruments.  And this whole time, she still hasn’t looked at me.  Not once.  Until now.
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Wherein I uncover the secret of Jon Testa, student and pot smoker.
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In class one day, I show my students a video.  I ask them, has anyone seen this video before?  And one student, this 5th year senior named Jon Testa, says, “Yes.”  And it’s kind of a rare video, not rare exactly, but definitely avant-garde, [...]

 

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Wherein I tell a made-up story about, among other things, lavender and yellow crepe paper.

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The first time my heart stopped, I was twelve years old at my cousin’s wedding. The reception was held in this postal union hall, only my aunts had done everything over in lavender and yellow crepe paper. They had a D.J. [...]

 

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I’m thinking of changing my name. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about women playwrights. Somebody did a study a while back and discovered that even though women make up half the graduates of playwriting programs across the country, only something like ten percent of new play productions are going to women playwrights. Or something like that – I can’t remember the exact numbers, probably because I’m a girl and girls are stupid.

 

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Behold!  The first episode of my eagerly-anticipated-in-my-mind new podcast.  
THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT:  Coming up with the name for my podcast.  Hence the title.
More soon!  
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