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The Twist Podcast Android News Edition: Science, Politics, Entertainment and Culture Small Plates
If you’ve been listening to The Twist Podcast for any length of time, you know that Mark and Rick have opinions about things. Science, politics, food, entertainment, and the general state of the world as it lurches forward into whatever this era is going to be called when historians get around to naming it.
So we did what any reasonable pair of podcasters would do: we cloned ourselves.
Meet the android versions of Mark and Rick — same voices, same sensibilities, significantly less coffee dependency — and they’re here every week with The Twist Podcast: Android News Edition, your weekly roundup of everything worth knowing and a few things worth arguing about. Will we go weekly? If the interest is there and we can hire more robots.
Each week we’re covering four beats: science, politics, food trends, and entertainment. Politics, because ignoring it hasn’t been working out great for anyone. Science, because it tells you more about the world than just the news does. Food trends, because you deserve to know that beef tallow is making a comeback and tiramisu is officially everywhere. And entertainment, because even in complicated times the shows we watch and the stories we tell matter.
New episodes drop every Friday. Find us wherever you’ve always found The Twist, same feed, no new subscriptions required.
— Mark & Rick
(The originals. Probably.)
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LGBT Senior Announces: One Thing or Another – Life, Aging, and the Absurdities Of It All Now A Free Audiobook
OR LISTEN AT YOUR LEISURE HERE
Getting older was supposed to come with wisdom. Nobody mentioned the absurdity.
In One Thing or Another: Life, Aging and the Absurdities of It All, Mark McNease takes a clear-eyed, warmly funny look at the indignities, surprises, and occasional revelations of growing older. With the timing of a seasoned storyteller and the honesty of someone who has lived enough to laugh about it, McNease finds humor in the everyday moments most of us are too busy — or too embarrassed — to examine closely.
From the small humiliations of a body that no longer cooperates to the baffling speed of a world that keeps changing without asking permission, these columns remind us that aging is something we’re all doing together. We might as well laugh.
One Thing or Another is the perfect companion for anyone who has ever caught their reflection and thought, when did that happen?
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LGBT Senior Announcements: Cora Berke Joins LGBTSr As Contributing Writer
Cora Burke I started this website 15 years ago with several contributing writers. The amazing Stephanie Mott, trans activist and luminous soul, passed away a few years ago, and David Webb, of Dallas Voice fame, retired. It’s been a long and sometimes lonely time, and I’m thrilled to welcome Cora Burke as a contributing writer to LGTSr. – Mark
About Cora
Cora Berke has dabbled in writing since reading Nancy Drew Mysteries in 3rd Grade.
She has written for the Bucks County Herald covering municipal and school board meetings. Cora also blogged for the Bucks County Visitor’s Center and wrote a food column for Out in Jersey Magazine.
She served on the Board of FACT (Fighting AIDS Continuously Together) and volunteered over 15 years for New Hope Celebrates to preserve LGBTQ+ history.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Cora now lives in Lambertville, NJ.An avid reader, she also loves knitting and gardening.
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Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 19 – 21)
Welcome back to Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast, with Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller, chapters nineteen through twenty-one.
It’s 1992, and Marshall James is forty blocks into his first real walk through New York City — down through Chelsea, where hope is spilling out onto the sidewalk in front of every coffee bar. He’s thirty-three, starting over, and beginning to believe that might actually be possible.
That belief gets complicated fast. A tour of Muscles Gym leads to a dinner invitation from Leland Jenner that Marshall knows he shouldn’t accept — and accepts anyway. Meanwhile, he learns that Trent has his own standing Tuesday arrangement with a certain Senator Daniel Roth.
Then we jump forward. Marshall and his partner Boo arrive in Lambertville to look into the murder of a famous author — last seen alive at the bed and breakfast where they’re now unpacking. The canal, the locked rooms, and a housekeeper with perfect comic timing are all waiting for them.
Chapters Nineteen, Twenty, and Twenty-One. Night Flight to Murder Town.
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LGBT Senior’s Health Beat: Spring Into It
By the LGBTSr blog team
I just got a bicycle, something I’ve been intending to do for several years. Luckily a friend and neighbor had one to give away, saving me the considerable cost of a new bike. My plan is to start slowly, riding up the road every day and extending the distance a little each time. Eventually I’ll be doing a few miles, and who knows from there? I want the cardio, and I love bike riding. Stay tuned for an update. – Mark
It’s warming up. Your body is ready. Here’s how to meet it where it is.
Something happens this time of year that no gym membership or fitness app can replicate. The days get longer. The air changes. The front door starts to look like an invitation instead of just an exit. For those of us who spent the winter months moving a little less and sitting a little more, spring is one of the best natural motivators there is — and all we have to do is not waste it.
Here’s how to make the most of it, sensibly and enjoyably.
Start slower than you think you need to.
This is the one everyone skips, and the one that matters most. After months of limited activity, muscles can lose strength and flexibility, so it’s important to ease back in rather than jump straight to your pre-winter routine. That enthusiasm you feel on the first warm Saturday of the year is real and good — just don’t let it write a check your knees can’t cash. A twenty-minute walk is a complete success. Build from there.
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LGBT Senior Subscriber Freebie: The Vivid Press Edition of Vampire Classic ‘Carmilla’
Before There Was Dracula, There Was Carmilla
A Gothic masterpiece — and it’s yours free.
Most people know the name Dracula. Far fewer know the name Carmilla — and that’s a shame, because Carmilla came first.
Published in 1872, more than two decades before Bram Stoker’s famous count ever set foot on English soil, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla introduced the world to the vampire as a figure of seduction, obsession, and dread. It was groundbreaking then. It remains essential now. And it has a particular resonance for LGBTQ readers that no other vampire story quite matches.
We’re delighted to offer LGBTSr subscriber the Vivid Press Edition of Carmilla, both the ebook and audiobook editions. Beautifully produced with an original introduction written exclusively for this edition, this is complimentary for you, our readers. Current subscribers will receive in this week’s newsletter. Not signed up yet? HERE’S YOUR CHANCE.
