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well

there is nobody else to blame. i fucked up and sent shirley manson to the wrong recording studio and our hopes of podcasting together today are dashed and what is worse, i did what i hate people doing to me and i’ve left someone standing outside a building that they can’t get into and wasted somebody’s time. 

she went to town. i went to leith. 

i’m sure we will reschedule and shirley forgave me. 

but i still need a hug, because i haven’t fucked up like this in a while and i feel like an asshole. 

the irony is that i was on the phone with neil last night, chiding him for not reading his emails and texts and leaving things hanging and pissing people off. 

the gods have answered.

but the gods also sent me susan cain, queen of empowered introverts, as my next podcast guest, and we spent part of the podcast discussing how fucked up i felt about being a bad adult. 

it was the best podcast. we wept and i read some poetry and at the end of the whole thing i felt better, even if shirley manson is never going to talk to me again. 

maybe this is why i’m doing a podcast. the point has come. 

amanda palmer presents 

“the art of asking everything“ about why we are podcasting and what it brings up for us 

adulting and therapy LIVE. 

anyway. shirley. my new white whale. await her with me. your questions were so good and i had such a good list. 

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