Hello and welcome to Blight Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. This features Tom McGowan on the impermanence of life, two stories by Justin Spaller and the debut single by Lonely Games, "Charlene."

Hosted by Sean Williamson
Show music by Shawn Stephany
mixed by Shane Olivo

BLIGHT SEASON 3 : EPISODE 3 : DISAPPEAR

Welcome to Blight : Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair : Season 2 : Episode 1

Season 2 of Blight will be a series of episodes about how we confront our uncertain future in the time of the COVID19 Virus, in essay, interview, storytelling and song.

Episode 1 features host Sean Williamson on the outlook for the next 18 months, Adam Krause on food-sharing and compost, and Jo Hylton on the catalog of human behaviors that make this world worth rising for. 

Theme Music by Adam Krause. 

"Be the Dirt" by Marielle Allschwang and the Visitations

Interpretation of the Imperial College of London COVID19 finding were taken from a twitter thread by writer and educator Jeremy C. Young.

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Blight : Season 2 : Episode 1 : The Next 18 Months

Welcome to Blight : Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair : Season 2 : Episode 2

Season 2 of Blight will be a series of episodes about how we confront our uncertain future in the time of the COVID19 Virus, in essay, interview, storytelling and song.

Episode 1 features host Sean Williamson on fear and the uncanny, Adam Krause provides history in disaster as well as resources for survival, and Jim Winship lends some advice on how to make it through.

Show music by Shawn Stephany. Voice acting by Marielle Allschwang

"The Only Rational Response" by Snag

COLLECTIVE CARE DIRECTORY : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uP49OQGhosfBN4BOYQvyy_Mu3mpCSOYzip13LksC-S8/preview?pru=AAABcWvFCWY*6-DQSFhWet6iK9ggEf_y1g

MURRAY BOOKCHIN LECTURE: http://unevenearth.org/2019/10/bookchin_doing_the_impossible/

Blight : SEASON 2 : EPISODE 2 : JUST A COAT RACK

Welcome to Season 2 of Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. A series of episodes on confronting our uncertain future in the time of the COVID19 Virus, through essay, interview, storytelling and song.

Episode 3 : Planes Come In features host Sean Williamson on worry and runways, Adam Krause on the correlations between human stress on nature and pandemic, Jake Newborn from the Wisconsin Bike Fed, and Rhea Dhanbhoora on the life of sand. 

“Ease Your Soul, Chapman” by LeAnna Eden.

Theme music by Shawn Stephany. 

Mix by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording

BLIGHT 2 : EPISODE 3 : PLANES COME IN

Welcome to Season 2 of Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. A series confronting our future through essay, interview, storytelling and song.

Episode 4 : BOOK REPORTS features host Sean Williamson on The Ghost Map, Adam Krause on The Plague, and Erin Wolf on walking, birds, and sea change.

“no nome” by Jorge Oliveira.

Theme music by Shawn Stephany.

Mix by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording

BLIGHT 2 : EPISODE 4 : BOOK REPORTS

Welcome to Season 2 of Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. A series confronting this big future through essay, interview, storytelling and song.

In recollection and memorium of a hideous week in American history, Sean Williamson calls for the unconditional abolition of the police, Adam Krause speaks of social responsibility to each other and Tom McGowan tells a story about gained family and loss.

"Before the Bardo (Kolo Dance)" by Lomira

BLIGHT 2 : EPISODE 5 : IN BARDO

Welcome to Season 2 of Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. A series confronting this big future through essay, interview, storytelling and song.  

EPISODE 6 : SPLINTER OF HISTORY is further examination of the shadowy history of police in America and what we can do to change things going forward.   Sean Williamson talks about shifting the budget, Adam Krause turns back the clock and Marielle Allschwang leads us through the better future of our minds.  

"One Love," by Dameion Perkins, Nate Hamilton, Emmanuel Blackmon and Steven Fowlkes.  

Mix by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording.

BLIGHT 2 : EPISODE 6 : SPLINTER OF HISTORY

Welcome to Season 2 of Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. A series confronting this big future through essay, interview, storytelling and song.

EPISODE 7 : OUT OF TIME : Sean Williamson talks about having a new baby in an uncertain world and reads his story Christ of the Abyss, published in 2018 at Malasana Arts and Letters. Jim Winship joins the show again with a piece about how time is out of place.

"Tin House" by Hello Death

Mix by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording.

BLIGHT 2 : EPISODE 7 : OUT OF TIME

Blight 8 - The End of the Beginning, is the final episode of Season Two. Sean talks about togetherness, Nabila Lovelace and the Black is Beautiful bike ride. Dan Vierck on Inheritance and poetry by Ashley Mayne. 

Show music by Shawn Stephany

Mix by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording

BLIGHT 2 : EPISODE 8 : THE END OF THE BEGINNING

Welcome to Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair: Season 3: Episode 1. In this episode we talk about Milwaukee's Cactus Club and the importance of punk rock. 

Jessica Heuer tells a story about being isolated with chemotherapy, observing as the world outside moves on in it's own pain and joy, without her.

Robert Trettin tells an adventure about hiking to meet a Buddhist nun, in the mountains of Nepal.

Music by X Harlow. Show mix by Shane Olivo. 
Mix on "Springtime in Quarantine" by Nathaniel Heuer

Blight Season 3: Episode 1: The Shrine Within the Shrine

Hello and welcome to Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. Sean Williamson talks about the importance and preciousness of independent venues. Jo Hylton on appreciating one film. Parker Winship on the appreciation of many films,

"Shimmer" by Cairns

Show music by Shawn Stephany. Show mix by Shane Olivo.

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