While You Work (@whileyouwork)

Originally released on Bandcamp in 2021: https://adamhorowitz.bandcamp.com/album/behold-be-held

Songwriting became an unexpected anchor for me this past year: a practice for directing attention amidst turbulence, for returning to wonder and reverence amidst uncertainty, for stumbling toward mystery, even—or especially—when the path is hard to come by.

This album, my first, is an intimate sharing of some of the melodies and words that emerged from inner and outer landscapes during these strange, in-between times. My hope is that you’ll find at least one song in here that resonates with the wonderings and wanderings of your own heart. I invite you to take your time exploring them.

This is not a glossy production. Recorded without preciousness from home, it has a kind of pandemic sparseness to it: just my voice(s) and a baritone ukulele. I hope to one day collaborate with other musicians.

If you choose to download the digital album, half of the sale proceeds will be donated to grassroots Indigenous-led efforts where I live, via the Honor Native Land Tax; the other half will support the next musical project.

Thanks for listening! I hope you enjoy.
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released December 26, 2021

All songs written, performed, and recorded by Adam Horowitz.
Mixed by Dan Kluger. Mastered by Jessica Thompson.
Album art by Erin Elder.

Puzzled

Don from San Mateo, Florida, recalls that when he asked his mother what he was getting for Christmas, she’d reply with: I got you a fastareus. It’s bigger than a breadbox and smaller than an elephant. His father also used fastareus as a placeholder word like doohickey or thingamajig. The word may be related to the Irish words fooster, foostering, and foosterins, all of which have to do with idling about. The expression bigger than a breadbox has a much clearer origin. The idea first popped on national television on January 18, 1953, spoken by panelist Steve Allen on the game show “What’s My Line?” http://waywordradio.org

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A Havertown, Pennsylvania, listener wonders why her mother used to answer queries about how she was doing with phrase that sounded like either Fair to midland or Fair to middling. Middling has long meant “just OK” or “right in the middle,” and the expression fair to middling is among the categories used to grade agricultural products such as cotton, grain, and livestock depending on their quality. http://waywordradio.org

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A North Carolina listener is curious about his meemaw’s use of a term meaning “food” that he heard as either jasmine or jassum. A dialectal term with various spellings that include jassum, jasum, and jazm can mean “gravy,” “sauce,” or even “juice from a rotten apple.” It may stem from an older root that suggests energy, vigor, or vital force and may in fact be related to jazz. http://waywordradio.org

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After several weeks in Hawaii, a South Carolina listener returned curious about the terms aloha and aloha spirit. Founded on ideas of mutual respect among humans and in harmony with nature, the concept of the “Aloha spirit” is so fundamental to Hawaii that its definition is written into the state’s legal statutes. Although it’s often suggested that the word aloha combines the  Hawaiian words for “face” and “breath,” that’s a case of folk etymology. Aloha shares a linguistic root with words in several other Polynesian languages. The Hebrew greeting shalom and Arabic salaam convey some of the same notion of harmonious, mutual respect. http://waywordradio.org

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Dilly-dally comes from Anglo-French dalier, which means "to chat" or “act playfully,” making it a linguistic relative of dally, “to trifle with” or “to spend time frivolously,” and dalliance, a “frivolous act.” http://waywordradio.org

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The English language has a variety of expressions referring to the excretion of moisture from the skin due to heat. There’s the verb perspire and the Yiddish borrowing schvitz. If you perspire profusely, you may sweat buckets, or be sweating like a sinner in church. The Spanish idiom  sudar como un pollo means “to sweat like a chicken,” a reference to juices exuding from a bird as it roasts. One Dutch idiom translates as “sweating like an otter,” and another as “I’m sweating little carrots,” possibly because the Dutch word for “little carrots,” peentjes, sounds a lot like Dutch for “pints.” http://waywordradio.org

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Martha shares a funny story about her 5-year-old great-niece, who misunderstood the name of her adopted home state, California. Then again, Unicornia does have a nice ring to it. http://waywordradio.org

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To talk about social media and politics, and how AI can help spread – or tackle – disinformation, the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Josephine Lukito, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media. Her research specializes in malicious political language in the public sphere, focusing on cross-platform flows of messages and frames about global economic and political issues. 

The discussion covers how social media and AI are influencing political communication, disinformation, and election strategies in the US and globally and about the evolving role of platforms, algorithms, and AI tools in shaping elections and democratic governance.

This episode was produced by Chris Gilson and Avan Fata.  

Further reading and resources
•	Lukito, J., & Pevehouse, J. C. (2022). Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 20(2), 125–138. 
•	Rodarte, A. K., & Lukito, J. (2024). Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election. Political Communication, 42(3), 382–404. 
•	Lukito, J., Lee, T., Martin, Z., Glover, K., Hu, A., & Cui, Z. (2023). Connective action in Myanmar: a mixed-method analysis of Spring Revolution. Information, Communication & Society, 27(7), 1422–1440. 
•	Candidata - https://www.candidata24.org/ 

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Listen to Malala Yousafzai read an excerpt from her memoir, FINDING MY WAY.

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What was the inspiration behind Philip Pullman’s Northern lights series? How does he want readers to feel on Lyra’s final adventure in The Rose Field? And has his demon changed now that he has got to the end of this writing journey? How do you say goodbye to characters you love? And, how does storytelling help us all learn to live? 

In this special edition of Ask Penguin, host Rhianna Dhillon visits Philip Pullman at his Oxford home, surrounded by books (and barking cockapoos), to mark thirty years since the world met Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights we ask the award-winning author reflects on a lifetime of storytelling, returning to Lyra’s world one final time in The Book of Dust series , The Rose Field. 

Discover all the books mentioned in this episode here:  https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/ask-penguin-podcast-phillip-pullman/

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Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Carnegie of Carnegies and the Whitbread Award, Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic. It has sold 17.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 languages. In 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Oxford.

Is never growing up the secret to great storytelling?

Jillie Mae Eddy / "Happy" / ALL THE BOYS (2016)

All Words & Music, Vocals, Instrumentation, Production, Mixing & Mastering by Jillie Mae Eddy

Full album available at: jilliemaeeddy.bandcamp.com/all-the-boys

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We all grow up lost and lonely / Wanting to be happy but never knowing how / Thinking the rain rains on us only / Every one us under our own little rain cloud / But I know better than that now / We were driving in my car / You had the wheel, and I was listening to you talk / And that’s when I knew that wherever you are / Is where I want to be, I’d give you anything I’ve got / If could listen to you talk / So tell me a story and make it ours / Play me that pretty song about the wildflowers / Honey, when I’m with you, I feel so free / And that’s all I need, you’re all I need to be happy / I still have days when I get angry / Looking at myself, wishing I were anybody else / Days when even breathing isn’t easy / I wanna kick, I wanna cry, I wanna scream and yell— / We all need a little help / But you always know how to make me laugh / And how to make me forget that I was ever feeling low / You put my head to your chest, and I feel so loved / You take me into your arms, and I feel like I’m home / I’ve got you and that’s enough / CHORUS X 2 / I don’t need money, I don’t need success / There’s only one thing I need, and I will never settle for less / Honey, when I’m with you, I feel so free / And that’s all I need, you’re all I need, and to be happy / We’re gonna be so, we’re gonna be so, we’re gonna be so happy / Honey, I know, honey, I know, we’re gonna be so happy

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Kid A

Everything In Its Right Place

Intro

Available on Apple Music & Spotify http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1503178323?ls=1&app=itunes

Stay Free

Morning Asana

Exhausted (Kohinoorgasm Remix)

I’m just a fan, located in one of the most rural parts of the Norwegian Sea 

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Jillie Mae broke into show biz after winning the Miss Bogen County Beauty Pageant--no wait. This is some other actress/singer/musician with blonde curly hair.

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Jillie Mae Eddy

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