#mrs brightside

[its-mrs-blue]

[soaringflames-blog]

And there was nothing she wouldn't give. Just to trust him with her nightmares, with her dreams. She's running, she's running. Just to trust him. He got a big smile, he's fake news. Just run for cover, you've got nothing left to lose.

[dcbrierton]

I recently listened to series 1 of Susan Calman's Mrs Brightside, a podcast involving Calman talking with various comedians about depression. A topic not unrelated to *gestures broadly* whatever this is. (Gestures meant to encompass myself, my patient population, various friends and family, our societal moment as a whole...)

It's an interesting project, in part in that it is very open ended. Some episodes are the funny and upbeat conversations about mental health that Calman seems to have been looking for. Some episodes are awkward, involving guests who, having shown up for the recording, now don't really want to talk about depression and, being professional public speakers, can go on an entertaining tangent for quite a long time to avoid it. Sometimes Calman has been friends with a guest for years; other times she's speaking with someone she's just met.

It is also a podcast that was released several years ago and makes very frequent references to Hannah Gadsby's show Nanette. So at one point I just stopped listening to whatever episode I was on and rewatched Nanette instead.

It's a good pairing. More than just comedians + difficult topics, they're both works about how comedy serves the audience and the comedian, but especially the comedian. What it allows them to say, what it doesn't allow them to say. What it feels like to tell the comedy version of their story over on repeat, and whether or not they tell the non-comedy version to anyone at all.

[betweendevilanddeepbluesea]

[apolymathpainintheass]

I'm roughly 6 feet tall.

The bad news is that my hours at my retail job got cut. Everyone's did, it's not just a me problem. But I'm the one that you follow, so mine's more important. I went from 24 hours a week to 8 hours a week. So that's a thing now. This was my "need money" job. My "dream job" is still going strong, with 16-20 hours a week. 

The good news is that now I have more time to knit! And my knitting makes me money, so being able to knit is a great thing for me. :D :D 

[p-popule]

[crazy92falloutboy]

Mrs Brightside sing by Patrick is perfect!!!!

[meuqueridoamorplatonico]