Supplement to Podcast "Quarantine Madness / 'The City' by Chelsea Effect"

Hi everyone!
I posted a podcast today featuring Chelsea Effect's new song "The City" (out April 17). To hear it, please follow the link.

You can also just search MBeckelhimer Book Reviews on whatever podcast app you choose to use, and it should come up.

In the podcast, I discuss briefly reading Dr. Seuss to Ora and her "reading" it back to me. Here's a photo.



And here's a photo taken after eating Chinese food with Mandi Perkins in NYC in 2011.


The rest of my photos seem to be lost to time. I can't find them anywhere. I used to have photos of me with Anderson.Paak and his guitarist Jose Rios and everything, but I can't find them. Oh, well.

Check out the podcast for the full story.

Comments

  1. The Happy WhiskApril 11, 2020 at 7:07 PM

    Great to see personal stuff. Happy weekend and boogie boogie.

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    1. Megan Boggs BeckelhimerApril 11, 2020 at 7:23 PM

      Doing someone a favor for all 6 people who listen to my podcast, but it was a fun one to record after taking a Xanax and reminiscing about old times and successfully surviving my crazy children today. LOL. I'm glad you like the personal touch.

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    2. Megan Boggs BeckelhimerApril 11, 2020 at 7:25 PM

      Believe it or not, I do lots more than read, but this is what I know most about and what I felt most comfortable podcasting about. I'm definitely a lit nerd all the way.

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    3. The Happy WhiskApril 12, 2020 at 8:11 AM

      Hey Megan. I believe you do more than read. But nothing wrong with reading. I got two more Kindle books this week, haven't read them yet.

      As for podcasting, I've been away again and not sure when I'm due back. I might do one more and then call it for awhile. Working on a few other things these days.

      But yeppers, I like the personal stuff. It's fun to see what people are up to and all that good stuff.

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