{"id":10544,"date":"2017-09-04T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2017-12-23T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T15:32:24","slug":"episode-234-kathy-bidus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-234-kathy-bidus","title":{"rendered":"Episode 234 – Kathy Bidus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 234: Kathy Bidus<\/a><\/p>\n

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“If you write something and you think it’s not that good, you should throw it away. If you write something and you think it’s really good, you should throw half of it away.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poet\/muse\/amanuensis Kathy Bidus joins the show to talk about her contribution to the new collection SisterWriterEaters<\/a> (Griffith Moon). Along the way, we get into her “quit college and move to New York” decision in the late ’70s, the formation of an art salon in the early 80s, her Jean Valjean moment, meeting her husband (artist and past pod-guest Drew Friedman<\/a>), Mad<\/em> cartoonist Al Jaffee’s<\/a> impact on her sense of humor, the Old Jewish Comedian she’s had a crush on all these years, what she learned from raising champion beagles, and the worst “please read my poetry” moment she ever had. Plus: I talk a LOT about dogs. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy SisterWriterEaters<\/a>\"\"!<\/a><\/p>\n