Lounging with LannaLee

It's been a long time! Join me as I discuss what I've been up to and what we have in store next for Lounging with LannaLee! I maintain my veneer of positivity, shout out to Kitty Critic, and lead off with a freudian slip. Have a new day job and new apartment, but the Lounge, it's eternal.

In Lieu of a proper lounge, I chat with myself about wanting to do all the things, Wicked Twisted, Twisting balloons, having a bad clown day, Orange is the New Black and Outlander, and being stubborn. [Recorded 6/11/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

I Lounged with Idamae last May in LLL063 Idamae Peacock/ida mishaan: Love and Loss and Life and Death. Ida and I catch up a year later to talk about the artistic process, ecstatic painting, tattooing, graffiti-based art, religious kitsch, and Maya Angelou. We riff about swearing, character assignation, and being cool. Ida gushes about working with metal and a magical vibrator. Ida talks about courage, love and how she is using art to get her heart back. And she answers 10 questions. Idamae Peacock/ida mishaan is... middle aged and unashamed of her youthful forays into unlistenable music, unfathomable make up, and ridiculously high hair. now a twenty year veteran of tattooing in all it's majesty and ridiculousness. dalliances that involve exotic spices, rubbing diverse meats, and laughing until her sides hurt, are what fills her soul. advocate for the earnest and hopeful, champion of the willing. now armed with magnum sized sharpie, glitter, and silver tongue... The 411: Idamae Peacock/ida mishaan Facebook: Idamae Peacock Google+: idamae mishaan [Recorded 6/4/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Recorded in the aftermath of Huzzah! the Historical Wargaming Convention for New England, Flip brings the Bance! We talk about board games, clowning, balloon twisting and how to make the world a better place. Flip dishes that he met his wife Deb while playing Magic The Gathering. We chat about Flip The Table, playing HeartThrob, VHS tape games, and what BANCE really means. We commiserate about getting pulled over in our clown costumes, and reminisce about wearing our costumes in public. Flip talks about working as the Easter Bunny and tells me why he takes funny business seriously. And he answers 10 questions. Flip Florey Since his application to Starfleet as the first Jedi/Robot Lion pilot was denied at the age of 12, Flip Florey went on to greater things. Such as balloon twisting, clowning, boardgame evangelist, podcaster and student. Long time friend of the one and only Lanna Lee and fellow enthusiastic cat lover, Flip Florey is one bad bald dude that can't dance and dreams about hunting down a copy of Vanilla Ice's Electronic Rap and Rhyme board game one of these days. The 411: Flip Florey Flip the Table Board Game Geek: Flip the Table Facebook: Flip Florey Facebook Group: Flip the Table Twitter: Flip Florey | @GameKnight [Recorded 5/18/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Julie and I chat about unschooling, living vicariously through Facebook, and living a life of happiness. We talk about living in Maine, and rural life. Julie tells how her art projects Chicks in Hats and The Adventures of Claudia started, and she dishes about etsy. Julie encourages you to find your path. And she answers 10 questions. Julie lives in rural Maine with her husband, her two free-range children, her dog, cat and pet chickens. Her passion for photography developed at age 11 when she received her first camera, and she's been taking photographs for over 30 years. Julie’s art is a juxtaposition of the quirky and the mundane; she combines these elements in her photo series titled Chicks in Hats, where she crafts miniature hats and puts them on her pet chicks to be photographed. She is also currently working on The Adventures of Claudia; a photography project following the adventures of a small antique porcelain doll. Julie finds inspiration in the smallest of details and can often be found on the ground taking photographs of tiny plants and creatures. Julie Persons The 411: Julie Persons Chicks in Hats The Adventures of Claudia Facebook: Julie Persons Facebook Page: Chicks in Hats Twitter: @chicksinhats Tumblr: Julie Persons [Recorded 5/4/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Laura pours her heart out in this refreshing and honest conversation. The week before Mother's Day Laura and I sit down at The Red Barn to talk about giving until it hurts, filling the soul first, and how she leads from her heart. Laura talks about growing up poor, her lowest of lows, and how she came back from depression to be the happiest she has ever been. To make the world a better place, she encourages everyone to join the Random acts of kindness crusade. And she answers 10 questions. Laura Benedict Laura Benedict has utilized her business in Augusta, the Red Barn, to help raise over $700,000.00 for local organizations and individuals in the community during the past four years. She has been so successful in raising money that other non-profits often ask for her advice. More recently, she received a letter from the Attorney General’s Office to “stop operating as a charitable organization” because she had raised over $35,000.00 in a calendar year, prompting the application of a license to continue raising money for charity with the current Maine law. The letter and incident received press coverage through out the entire state of Maine, and was even picked up by the Associated Press and the Non-Profit Quarterly. Legislators from all over Maine offered to help by submitting an amendment to the Charitable Giving Act, which required for-profit entities to have a license if certain thresh holds were reached. There should not be a limit to what a for-profit business can do to give back to their local communities in Maine. So, an amendment was submitted by Representative Lori Fowle and passed unanimously in the House and Senate, Governor LePage signed the amendment into law shortly after. Laura is one of ten siblings and knows what it is like to struggle; she has turned her experiences growing up into her passion for giving. She knows without the compassion she received from other individuals growing up, she would not be where she is today. Laura Benedict not only gives financially, but she has also built a community of giving through her business. This is perhaps her most significant accomplishment because she has inspired so many others to give back to their own communities. The 411: Laura Benedict Facebook Page: The Red Barn Twitter: @redbarn1977 [Recorded 5/4/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

LLL086 Todd Neufeld: Wherein Todd is a bad influence Todd and I sit down to chat after helping build a 5-story balloon sculpture and reminisce of our days twisting together in Boston; back when I was a clown and he was a law student. Todd tells me how we can make the world a better place and he solves my performance anxiety. We are too loud for Suzanne, and won't let Mike in the room. We talk about "Lawyer school" and how Todd created Manager Sal. Todd dishes about twisting balloons at the White House. And he answers 10 questions. Todd Neufeld Todd "Twistin' Todd" Neufeld is a professional balloon artist in New York City. He has been featured in many TV shows and magazines, at the White House, and most recently, on an episode of Lounging with LannaLee. The 411: Todd Neufeld Todd Neufeld's Twisted Balloons Manager Sal The Balloon Academy Todd Neufeld Facebook: Todd Neufeld Facebook Page: Todd Neufeld's Twisted Balloons Twitter: @toddneufeld Google+: Todd Neufeld Linkedin: Todd Neufeld [Recorded 2/5/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Phileas Flash gets deep in this fantastic conversation. In the aftermath of creating a five-story balloon sculpture, I hunker down with Phileas Flash and he tells me how we should make the world a better place. We discuss how balloons are like life and life is like a tapestry (or a river!) Phileas encourages everyone to believe in ourselves, follow our dreams and support people in their dreams. He tells me how we went from being an actor, to Ringmaster to magician and balloon artist, and became a world traveler (From England, Phileas has lived in a tent in France, performed in Egypt and the Dominican Republic, and he now lives in Canada with the love of his life!) Phileas tells us to Pass it forward. And he answers 10 questions. Phileas Flash Phileas Flash (aka Rupert Appleyard) is a British entertainer who has been creating large scale balloon sculptures internationally for the last ten years. Largely self taught, his distinctive style and freestyle methods have pushed his creations to the forefront of balloon art, with images of his signature pieces being seen and shared all over the world. He loves performing and the combination of art and entertainment puts his work in hot demand both in Canada (where he now lives with his wife and two dogs) and internationally. In 2014 he released his first instructional DVD 'The face of things to come' which taught a pattern for building his signature balloon face. 2014 is bringing him all sorts of exciting opportunities, he was recently featured in Balloon Magic Magazine as a spotlight artist, has been featured for the third time by internet sensation George Takei and is at the forefront of the Random Acts of Balloon Artistry movement (dedicated to spreading happiness through balloon art). The 411: Phileas Flash Flash Balloons Facebook Page: Flash Balloons Facebook: Phileas Flash Twitter: @PhileasFlash Random Acts of Balloon Artistry #RAOBA [Recorded 2/6/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

In the aftermath of building a 5-story balloon Jack and His Beanstalk at Balloon Manor 2014, I sit down with Airigami's artistic director, Kelly Cheatle. We talk about the artistic proccess, and how Kelly says we can make the world a better place. Hint: Don't be a Jerk! Kelly talks about how she started making incredible, large-scale balloon sculptures, and encourages us all to open a door for someone, literally or figuratively. And she answers 10 questions. Kelly Cheatle Artist Kelly Cheatle has been fascinated with micro art since the age of 10, when she read an article about scientists etching miniature angels on the head of a pin. Since then, she’s created miniature, wheel-thrown teapots and highly-detailed crochet sculptures – both small enough to sit on a penny. Kelly received her Design degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a minor in Illustration and a major interest in every studio elective she could find. Her diverse knowledge of traditional materials and image-making techniques has given her an appreciation for texture and dimensionality, even in digital formats. ln 2001, she founded Greener Pastures Design & Illustration, and her graphic work appears nationally. When given an opportunity to work with balloons during Balloon Manor 2006, she was excited about a new medium for creating artwork. Now, as a partner in Airigami, her design sense and illustration background have helped to take it in new directions, including designing inflated fashions that have appeared on runways in Rochester, NYC and Las Vegas. The 411: Kelly Cheatle Kelly Cheatle Airigami CraftyB Twitter: @craftyb Facebook: Airigami Linkedin: Kelly Cheatle Google+: Kelly Cheatle [Recorded 2/5/2014] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You! Additional materials at LannaLee.com

One more solo pod before we get back to proper lounges. I pick up where LLL083 - LannaLee's Existential Angst left off, give you an update of what's been going on, and get you (and me!) pumped up for next week's podcast, which will feature Kelly Cheatle from Balloon Manor. [Recorded 04/15/2014] Balloon Manor - this is one of the things I talk about in the pod Flickr Pictures of Balloon Manor Wincross Tab Tips - My New Blog   Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard!   Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

I’m BAAAACK! Here I am with another solo episode full of angst and dangerous driving (well, kinda). In this installment I talk about my current obsessions (Fringe, Sir David Attenborough, Life of Animals), why I haven’t had a podcast lately, the bean debacle, and my existential angst, all while driving in a snow storm. [Recorded 12/10/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Well, for the lack of a proper lounge, here's a podcast of me talking to myself in the car about my current obsessions (Vine, Blue Planet, Physics), taking care of myself, and maintaining a thread of sanity. [Recorded 10/22/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

I love Robin Merrill! We sat down last week at Portland Maine's busy (and LOUD) Bull Feeney's and had a fun conversation about her stint in the Merchant Marines, homeschooling and her Jesus freakishness. Robin talks about slam poetry and her feminism. And she answers 10 questions. Robin Merrill Robin Merrill is a freelance writer/editor. She has written five children’s books, all available through Scholastic. Two poetry collections have been published by Moon Pie Press. Her poems, short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in hundreds of publications, including The Cafe Review, Ledge Magazine, Margie, Pearl, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Stolen Island Review. Three of her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. She is a 2013 recipient of an Emerging Artist Award from St. Botolph Foundation. Robin has performed her poetry and fiction at dozens of venues all over New England and New York. She is a member of the 2013 Rhythmic Cypher National Slam Team from Portland, Maine and is a semi-finalist for both the Port Veritas and Rhythmic Cypher 2014 teams. She has her MFA from Stonecoast and frequently leads creative writing workshops for writers of all levels. The 411: Robin Merrill Robin Merrill Twitter: @Robin_Merrill Facebook: Robin Merrill Linkedin: Robin Merrill Google+: Robin Merrill [Recorded 10/8/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

For our 80th episode, I talk again with Alex Steed, Lounging with LannaLee's first guest.Alex asks us to be honest with ourselves. We chat about movies, FoodComaTV, the Knack Factory and showing the reality. Alex illustrates his geekiness. I confess my love of Stephen King, we discuss The Shining movie vs. The Shining Book, and we agree about Stanely Kubrick. Alex talks about blurring lines, and we DON'T reference Robin Thicke (I can't believe we missed THAT one!) Alex documents real life, wants to avoid self-imposed restrictions, and likens FoodComaTV to a "Traveling Punk Rock Band." And he answers 10 questions. Alex Steed Alex is a partner and oversees project execution and day-to-day agency operations at Knack Factory, a content and strategy firm based in Portland, Maine. Having worked with Change.org, NetSquared, and a number of organizations and businesses, he brings 8 years of experience creating web-based community outreach strategies to the table. He also blogs about politics and culture for The Bangor Daily News. Alex first lounged with LannaLee in LLL001 @AlexSteed in the Lead published on March 1st, 2012. The 411: Alex Steed Knack Factory Burbon. Portland. Beer. Politics. Twitter: @alexsteed Twitter: @knackfactory Facebook: Alex Steed Facebook Page: Knack Factory Linkedin: Alex Steed Google+: Alex Steed [Recorded 10/7/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

A year-and-a-half after our first lounge, I talk with Shay about race, privilege, class and how to make the world a better place. I put my foot in my mouth. Shay lays it all out for us about diversity and difference. I try not to whitesplain and Shay calls me out for being uncomfortable. Shay tells us to be We-focused (not me-focused). And she answers 10 questions. Shay Stewart-Bouley Our guest this week is award-winning blogger, columnist, and non-profit goddess Shay Stewart-Bouley. Her blog, Black Girl in Maine, was named to Babble’s Top 100 Mom Bloggers of 2011. Also in 2011, she won a New England Press Association award for her writing on diversity issues at her monthly column at the Portland Phoenix, entitled Diverse-City. In the non-profit sector, Shay is the executive director of the Biddeford’s Joyful Harvest Neighborhood Center. Shay first Lounged with LannaLee in LLL002 Shay Jumps In the Fray published on March 8, 2012 The 411: Shay Stewart-Bouley Black Girl in Maine: Blog Portland Phoenix News: Diverse City Column Joyful Harvest Neighborhood Center Twitter Facebook [Recorded 10/03/2013] Of note: The VERY Tall Tale of Jack & His Beanstalk - Giant Sculpture Lounging alum Larry Mossis at it again with a 5-Story Jack & His Beanstalk Balloon sculpture to be made in February 2014. Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle will lead a fantastic community project that will also bring balloon artists in from all over the country. So if you have a few bucks, they would love your support. Every little bit helps! Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Did you miss the Maine TweetUp? Well, here's a taste of some the conversations we had tonight. Tonight was the monthly Maine TweetUp in Portland Maine, and I thought it would be fun to talk to a few folks and make a podcast out of it. So I did! I spoke with people I just met, like Kristi Trimmer (@dragonflytweet), and some I've known for several years, like Chrystie Vachon (@ilovetogossip/@ccMaine) and GriffinClubMerv (@GriffinClubMerv). To keep things simple, I asked everyone the same 5 questions. To top it off, I asked Greg Daly how we should make the world a better place, and he gave us a call to action. The 411: METweetUp Number 1: @J_C_Robinson aka John C Robinson Number 2: @Emmisaurus aka Emmie Noel Number 3: @bobbbyg aka Rob Gould Number 4: @GriffinClubMerv aka El_Merv Number 5: @ilovetogossip Chrystie Vachon [also aka as @ccmaine] Number 6: @dragonflytweet aka Kristi Trimmer Number 7: @RocSbar aka Rocco Sbardella Number 8: @acrimoniousmofo aka Rick Number 9: @beedlephotos aka Judy Beedle Number 10: @djnorequest aka Greg Daly [Recorded 9/26/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

For today's lounge, I was fortunate enough to sit down with entrepreneur Ry Russell and talk about how he (and his crew) saved the Saco Drive-In, how he learned how to start a business (by doing it), and what we should do to make the world a better place. Ry tells us how Google can make you a Marketing Genius, and about his hands on, get dirty philosophy of getting things done. He urges everyone to mentor kids. And he answers 10 questions. Ry Russell Ry Russell is an Entrepreneur and Social Media Expert. Ry's most commonly known for his operations of the Saco Drive-In, a small drive-in movie theater in Southern Maine. Ry speaks on the concepts of Social Media Marketing and also Entrepreneurship for young students. Ry has a diverse portfolio of work in entertainment, retail, and marketing. The 411: Ry Russell Ry Russell Saco Drive-in Facebook: Ry Russell Twitter: @russell_ry [Recorded 9/16/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

It’s No Judgment, Scream Closet, Tattoo Maven Time! Join me as I revisit three conversations with fantastic, kick-ass women: Sydney Mackey Haggerty, Angela Shelton, and Idamae Peacock. These are all conversations I think of from time to time even now, and thought it would be great to share some highlights! Syndey talks about failure being a success, not judging yourself and using her cheerleading skills in everyday life. Angela talks about expressing anger and getting oneself a scream closet. And Idamae, well, that runs the gamut, joking about being best friends, a hilarious interruption, and Ida spills the beans about being a Tattoo artist. So strap on your seatbelts, people! It's time to be inspired. Sydney lounged with LannaLee in LLL070 Sydney Mackey Haggerty: Breathe Deep in the Belly   Angela lounged with LannaLee in LLL067 @AngelaShelton: Healing with my Sword   Idamae lounged with LannaLee in LLL063 Idamae Peacock/ida mishaan: Love and Loss and Life and Death   Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

In a swanky hotel, Billy and Lanna talk about slam poetry, being true to yourself, the fun of competition, and how to make the world a better place. Lanna struggles to make her point. Billy talks about his start in performance poetry via Hip Hop and Graffiti, Slam Bingo Topics, and why he usually doesn't go political in his poetry. Billy gives a call to action! And he answers 10 questions. Billy Tuggle Billy Tuggle a.k.a. Karma Threesixty is a vocalist, performance poet, mentor, student, and HipHop culturalist. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Chicago multimedia arts collective PolyRhythmic and, in 2009, co-founded the Chicago Four Star Poetry Club with Andi Kauth. Billy has co-hosted “In One Ear” at the Heartland Café since 2008 with Pete Wolf. As of 2010, Billy is a member of the Arkansas Grand Slam organizing committee. Billy has been published in such anthologies as The Columbia Poetry Review #14, The 16th & Mission Review, Minglewood Haiku and Learn Then Burn. His first chapbook, Conscience Under Pressure, was published by Fractal Edge Press. Since 2004, he has recorded and released 3 CDs: Flawed Glory (Live Mental Graffiti), Syllabalistics 101 with DJ Risky Bizness, and Turnstyles. In the independent film Urban Poet [New Film Productions, 2002], he played himself. Billy has been active in the Temple of HipHop for over a decade. Music and poetry have led him to share stages with Brother Ali, Pevin Everett, the Large Professor, Denizen Kane of Typical Cats, DJ Spinna, Jesse De La Pena, Saul Williams, KRS-ONE and “American Idol” finalist Crystal Bowersox. Billy has represented the Chicago area at the National Poetry Slam 7 years running. Other slam accomplishments include Rustbelt Regional champion- 2006, finalist 2008; Chicago Grand Slam Champion- 2008; NPS semifinalist 2006, 2008; Arkansas Grand Slam finalist and Grand Haikuster- 2009; Lethal Poetry/Chicago Grand Slam Champion 2010. Other teammates and collaborators have included Def Poets Nikki Patin, Marty McConnell, Alvin Lau and Death From Below plus Tristan Silverman, Jon Sands, Laura Yes Yes and JW Baz; all inter/national slam competition finalists. Billy has been a regular volunteer for the Women of the World Poetry Slam, Louder Than A Bomb, the Chicago youth slam, and Brave New Voices. Billy has also appeared in the educational video Literature Launchers for McGraw-Hill. He has performed, facilitated workshops or has just plain spoken to students at or for the University of Chicago; Columbia College (Chicago); Northwestern University; the University of Minnesota; the University of Connecticut; Hampshire College (Massachusetts); the University of California-Santa Cruz; Humboldt State University, and, in addition to other colleges across America, middle and high schools all over Chicagoland. The 411: Billy Tuggle Billy Tuggle YouTube: Billy Tuggle/karmaquarius Facebook: Billy Tuggle/karmaquarius [Recorded 8/16/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Wherein Lanna tells you what's going on and gives you a call to action.  Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

In this nerdy podcast, Jonathan and Lanna chat about solving problems with code, open-source software, and thinking like a hacker. They discuss WordPress vs. Drupal. They talk about the Hobbit and Tolkein text-based roll-play computer games, where Lanna attests (again) that dwarves are NOT HOT. Jonathan talks about Aleister Crowley and Thelema and his transition from vegetarian to vegan. And he answers 10 questions. Jonathan Webb Jonathan is a vegan and a career computer nerd with interests in Thelema, mindfullness, and music. The 411: Jonathan Webb Twitter: @webbj74 Google+: Jonathan Webb Linkedin: Jonathan Webb [Recorded 8/14/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

On a warm summer night, Alexis and Lanna sit down to chat about understanding each other, getting to know people, sharing a love of books, gender and Alexis' favorite things. Lanna gets offended. Alexis tells Lanna how to make the world a better place. Alexis talks of her love for Maine, kale, board sports and winter surfing in Maine. And she answers 10 questions. Alexis Lyon Alexis Lyon studied Asian Studies and Psychology at Bowdoin College. In Sri Lanka, she researched worship of the goddess Kali in a Sinhalese Buddhist context. She entered the Maine College of Art to work on her oil painting, and emerged as a ceramic installation artist. She has taught wilderness skills and environmental education to teens and pre teens, as well as a variety of community art classes to students young and old. She is currently working on her Masters in Education and ELL certification while teaching middle school English. When not teaching or studying, you may find her hiking mountains in New England or surfing on the coast of Maine. The 411: Alexis Lyon Alexis Lyon Twitter: @alexislyon Google+: Alexis Lyon Linkedin: Alexis Lyon [Recorded 8/5/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

On a beautiful day in central Massachusetts, Junie and Lanna talk about listening to your own heart, shadow work and creating places to heal. Junie tells Lanna to be more quiet. Junie chats about creating community and how to make the world a better place. And she answers 10 questions. Junie Moon Schreiber Junie Moon Schreiber is passionate about life and enhancing the lives of others. Her challenges of pain and the gifts of her own transformation inspired her to become a Certified Shadow Work® Group Facilitator, Transformational Coach, Author and Speaker. She is a graduate of the Robbins/Madanes Institute for Strategic Intervention where she studied Tony Robbins Coaching Techniques and is the co-author of the #1 Amazon Best-Selling book Journey To Joy. She loves supporting others with tools to embrace life more deeply and allowing joy in more fully. For over 20 years, Junie has been in service helping people realize their truest potential to have magnificent lives. The 411: Junie Moon Schreiber Junie Moon's Soulful Expressions0 Facebook: Junie Moon Schreiber Facebook Page: Junie Moon's Soulful Expressions Twitter: @juniemoon21 Google+: Junie Moon Schreiber Linkedin: Junie Moon Schreiber [Recorded 8/4/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

A few weeks after the Zimmerman trial, Samuel and Lanna hunker down to discuss race, politics, music and how to make the world a better place. Lanna asks Samuel if he's ever had a "real job." Samuel talks about his obsession with music, his creative process, and how he taught himself to play the guitar. And he answers 10 questions. Samuel James Samuel James is an award-winning, solo-acoustic, blues/roots performer from Portland, Maine. He can be seen on tour on the west coast of the US and the east coast of Canada this summer, and in Europe in the fall. The 411: Samuel James The Real Samuel James Facebook: Samuel James Facebook Fan Page: Samuel James Twitter: @therealsjames Referenced: Interview with Samuel James written by Alex Steed: Talking the Zimmerman trial and “making things about race” with Samuel James [Recorded 7/30/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

LLL070 Sydney Mackey Haggerty: Breathe Deep in the Belly On beautiful Sebec Lake, Sydney and Lanna talk about staying positive, how Americans work too hard, martial arts, Qigong, and breathing deep in the belly. Sydney tells us how to make the world a better place. Sydney reveals that people are her passion, that her art is in her body, and what she does to keep going. And she answers 10 questions. Sydney Mackey Haggerty Sydney is a Housewife, Martial Arts Teacher, Freelancer & Consultant who lives in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. The 411: Sydney Mackey Haggerty Linkedin: Sydney Mackey Haggerty Facebook: Sydney Mackey Haggerty Twitter: @sydneyblythe [Recorded 7/21/2013] Women in Podcasting! Women in Podcasting Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

In a hotel in Kennebunk Maine, Trisha gathers her oldest BFFs (Best Friends Forever) for a Summit of epic proportions - the first time Anna and Lanna meet. After a wonderful meal of delicious seafood, they have a free-flowing conversation about being a BFF, sex toys, sleeping together, and how they all met. Complete with periodic interruptions by a spunky, recalcitrant teen. They talk about Trisha being a Pillar of the community. Anna tells us about her lawyer-dom. And she answers 10 questions. The Players Trisha Smith: The head BFF. Female impersonator impersonator. Florist. Kick-Ass Chick. Saucy Vixen. Pillar of community. Lanna Lee Maheux: The oldest BFF. Podcaster extraordinaire. Data Geek. Anna Gabrielle Levine: The Second Oldest BFF. Lawyer. Smart ass. Women in Podcasting! Women in Podcasting Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

On a busy street in Manhattan, Carrie and Lanna talk about dairy farming, cheese, and job satisfaction. Carrie expounds on her love of her career, and of course, cheese. She also answers 10 questions. Carrie Mess WI #Dairy Farmer& Agvocate. I'm a #cow, #cheese, music & #beer lover. #Christian. Often inappropriate, always honest. I give a damn. The 411: Carrie Mess DairyCarrie.com Facebook Fan Page: Carrie Mess/DairyCarrie Twitter: @dairycarrie [Recorded 6/18/2013] Women in Podcasting! Women in Podcasting Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

On a hot June Day in New York City, Angela and Lanna have a hilarious conversation about the power of getting angry, touching your tears, and creating a Scream Closet. Angela discusses healing with her sword, confronting her abuser, and being "all inspiring and shit." And she answers 10 questions. Contains Adult Language Angela Shelton Author, Actor, Orator - started writing at the age of eight as well as a mime at the mall. Became a model at 15 and traveled the world, started acting, then back to my love of writing. Adapted my first novel into the movie Tumbleweeds. Became a paid screenwriter for years, that was fun. Then made a documentary that took a few wild turns and ending up changing my life - Searching for Angela Shelton. Now back to writing a book series while inspiring people to live happily ever after no matter what they've been through. The 411: Angela Shelton Angela Shelton Healing Speakers - Healing Survivors The Magic Hat Shop Books Facebook: Angela Shelton Facebook Fan Page: Angela Shelton Linkedin: Angela Shelton Google+: Angela Shelton Twitter: @angelashelton [Recorded 6/18/2013] Women in Podcasting! Women in Podcasting Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Join Janine and Lanna as they discuss spirituality, Heathenism, Gods and Ancestors, Hospice Care and quieting of the mind. Janine expounds on her gypsy life. They explain exactly what a Heathen is (someone who follows the Norse Gods). Janine talks about her recent trip to England and Ireland. And she answers 10 questions. Janine Marie in Her Own Words I am a Woman in Service, Born Again Pagan, Seeker, Heathen, Priestess, Web Weaver, Home Maker, Healer, Red Queen, Mother, Taxi Driver, Caretaker, Lover, Frith Maker, Dancer, Poet, Fire Starter, Artist, Mystic. The 411: Janine Marie Facebook: Janine Marie [Recorded 6/13/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Leslie and Lanna talk about personal finance, moving from the city to the country, the perils of owning an old home, and preparing kids for the future. Leslie tells Lanna to not be afraid. And she answers 10 questions. Leslie Linfield Leslie E. Linfield, Esq. is the Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Financial Literacy™ and a national authority on adult financial literacy education and consumer finance issues. During her career as a banker, stock broker, housing counselor, financial counselor and practicing attorney she has conducted hundreds of presentations on money management and consumer finance. Some of her recent presentations were: Financial Counseling for Pension Clients (AoA Pension Counseling and Information Program), Financial Readiness=Mission Readiness: How DCU Can Provide Effective Financial Education Programs (DCUC Conference) Budgeting Basics: Family Inc. (The Money Conference for Women and Families), Less Money, More Results: The Nuts and Bolts of Program Evaluation (Annual Conference on Financial Education and Building Assets for People, Families and Communities Symposium), and The Evolution of Financial Literacy: Let’s Hear it for Catherine Beecher (AAFCS Northeast Regional Conference). A noted author, her work has been widely covered in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Kiplingers, and SmartMoney, among other publications. Ms. Linfield is also a contributing editor for the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal and regularly appears on television as a personal finance expert. She has served on two committees of the American Bankruptcy Institute and on the Advisory Board for the Center for Consumer Financial Services at R.I.T., and currently serves on the Finance Authority of Maine’s Financial Literacy Advisory Council. Ms. Linfield is a graduate of Charter Oak State College inConnecticut and New England School of Law inBoston. In addition, Ms. Linfield holds professional certifications as a consumer credit counselor and a Personal Family and Finance Educator (CPFFE). Ms. Linfield has been published on a variety of topics in professional journals, magazines and newspapers. Her published research includes, “2010 Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Demographics Report: The Five Year Perspective of the American Debtor;” “2009 Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Demographics Report: The American Debtor in The Great Recession;” “2008 Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Demographics Report: American Debtors in a Recession;” “Proposed Rebates in 2008: How will Americans Spend Their Tax Rebate Checks?”, “2007 Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Demographics Report;” “Aging and Bankruptcy: Are Older Americans Truly Afforded an Economic Fresh Start?”, and “Who Went Bankrupt in 2006? A Demographic Analysis of American Debtors.” Ms. Linfield has published several books on personal finance, including: Senior Financial Safety (2010); Guide to Insurance & Investing (2010); First Step: Family Financial Management (2008); Guide to Credit & Debt Management (2007); Budget! It’s not a Four Letter Word (2005) Fresh Start: Personal Financial Management (2005); and Guide to Budgeting (2004). The 411: Leslie Linfield Leslie Linfield Institute for Financial Literacy Facebook Page: Leslie Linfield Linkedin: Leslie Linfield Twitter: Leslie Linfield [Recorded 6/10/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Let's work on opening our hearts. Lanna talks to Orion Foxwood about spirit and enlightenment, and Julie Woods talks about world domination through love, and spreading her love all over Facebook. Orion lounged with LannaLee in LLL004 Orion Foxwood: Orion Foxwood Conjures up a good time   Julie lounged with LannaLee in LLL003 Julie Woods: Julie Woods tells you what to do   Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Join Ida and Lanna at the festival Rites of Spring where they have a raucous conversation about paganism, spirituality, walking your walk, living in community, volunteering, service, and unconditional love. Ida confesses she has the voice of a drag queen, and explains how she combated body-loathing badness. Lanna laughs uncontrollably. Ida talks deep about tattoos and shepherding someone to the other side. And she answers 10 questions. Idamae Peacock/ida mishaan is... middle aged and unashamed of her youthful forays into unlistenable music, unfathomable make up, and ridiculously high hair. now a twenty year veteran of tattooing in all it's majesty and ridiculousness. dalliances that involve exotic spices, rubbing diverse meats, and laughing until her sides hurt, are what fills her soul. advocate for the earnest and hopeful, champion of the willing. now armed with magnum sized sharpie, glitter, and silver tongue... The 411: Idamae Peacock/ida mishaan Facebook: Idamae Peacock Google+: idamae mishaan [Recorded 5/22/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Three interesting people answer the same 10 questions: writer and musician John Hill Rogers; author and entrepreneur Chris Brogan; advocate and educator Elizabeth A. Webster. John lounged with LannaLee in LLL034 John Hill Rogers: Entropy Experience   Chris lounged with LannaLee in LLL028 @ChrisBrogan Is A Liar   Elizabeth lounged with LannaLee in LLL054 Elizabeth A. Webster: What the Hell Was I Thinking?   Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Hey! It's MarieIris and LannaLee again on the LannaLee OnAir Experiment! Recorded on Mother's Day, join them as they chat about the holiday, quitting the Coke, candy, the Insanity Workout, going to the movies, buttered popcorn, laundromat Etiquette, Dr. Candace Karu, Pink! hair, shopping with an eleven-year-old, going to the mall, Goodwill, Shoulda Got It When I saw It At Mardens, going off-the-grid, and camping. 

In this very special episode LannaLee drives to work while she chats about her broken window, money, cutting the cable (satellite) television, working in Kennebunk, and the wonders of Amazon Prime. [Recorded 5/8/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

It's time for another Experiment! Join Joanna, MarieIris and Lanna as they talk about depression, archery, SCA, Poetry Slams, bad hair, TweetUps, Rob Gould's Social Social, Wife Swap, reality television, Gold Rush: Alaska and the awesomeness of naps. Check out Joanna's writing/life coaching at 3speedlife.com [Recorded 4/28/2013]

In this very special episode LannaLee does some chores while chatting about Wife swap, a family crisis, cleaning the house, her high school year book and one or two of her pet peeves. Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

It's the first LannaLee OnAir Experiment! Join MarieIris, Dana, Diane and Lanna as they talk about culture shock, scraping mold from cars, the tutalage of Mr. Rainbow, and winging it. [Recorded 4/7/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Ever wonder what bodybuilders go through in order to compete? The night before the OCB Pine Tree State Bodybuilding, Figure & Bikini Championships, Kate and Lanna sit down to talk about running marathons, bodybuilding, and those crazy things bodybuilders do. While Kate dehydrates and carbs up, she teases Lanna about wearing garbage bags in high school (it was PUNK DAY!) and chats about living in Maine. And she answers 10 questions. Kate Mantor Raised up in Monson, Maine - after traveling around a bit came back and settled in Central Maine in fabulous downtown Skowvegas. A proud mother of two beautiful daughters, Karma (12) and Niamh (10) and proud pet mommy of Boston and Kitty. And happy to be finally enjoying my life with my love, Tim. I make my living as a personal trainer, nutritionist, holistic health counselor, and work site wellness coordinator for the micro businesses in Somerset County and also moonlight at the Skowhegan Farmer's Market. Love what you do and do what you love - that is how I choose to live - happy! As you'll hear in the podcast, my "free time" is spent working out - more of what I love! The 411: Kate Mantor Ripple Effects Health [Recorded 4/05/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Think the life of a musician is romantic and exciting? Well, it kind of is. Join Pete and Lanna as they discuss a musical career, touring, recording albums, rockabilly and day jobs. Pete commends Lanna on her logical systems and explains how he writes songs about Zombies. They geek out about the Hobbit. Pete promises his second album is even more demented than the first. And he answers 10 questions. Pete Witham of Pete Witham & The Cozmik Zombies Pete Witham is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the rockabilly/twisted americana band, Pete Witham & The Cozmik Zombies. Pete toured for two years as lead guitarist with national recording act Spookie Daly Pride, opening for musicians such as Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade, Arrested Development, Bob Dylan, and other major bands. He returned to Portland and began playing original rockabilly and roots music with his good friend Steve Dunphy eventually forming Pete Witham & The Cozmik Zombies in 2009. Since playing his original music, Pete & The Zombies have performed with local rockabilly greats like: Sean Mencher and King Memphis, as well as national recording acts such as Sonny Burgess and The Pacemakers, Nick Curran, and Los Lobos. The band is comprised of Portland's best americana musicians who blend their unique take on familiar styles, entertaining lyrics, the fire of an up and coming original act, and a solid foundation of americana rock and roll. The band puts on a high energy performance that makes for an unforgettable show. You can catch them at their monthly gig at the Frog and Turtle (Every 2nd Friday of the month), Monday nights at the Pier Patio Pub in Old Orchard Beach throughout the summer, or at various gigs in Portland. Venues played: Kah Bang! music festival, Hard Rock Cafe Boston, Venue, The Empire Dine and Dance, Bayside Bowl, Midway Cafe, The Beachcomber (Wellfleet), Fryeburg Fair, Brian Boru, Harvest on The Harbor, The Frog and Turtle in Westbrook. TV Appearances: 207 (WCSH 6), Private Stage (WPXT-TV), Good Morning Maine (FOX 23), Poets' Cafe (CTN Channel 5) Radio Appearances: Stay Tuned (WSCA 106.1 FM Portsmouth, NH), Local Motives, Get Hot or Go Home, and Ed's Grindhouse (WMPG Portland, Maine) The 411: Pete Witham Pete Witham & The Cozmik Zombies Facebook Page: Pete Witham & The Cozmik Zombies Facebook: Pete Witham Google+: Pete Witham Twitter: @petewitham [Recorded 3/27/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

What do you do when your find out your child has a disability? If you're Elizabeth, you help other families who have children with autism. Elizabeth tells Lanna about how her oldest son came into her life, from her days as a Catholic Missionary living in Taiwan, to the adoption process, to his autism diagnosis. Elizabeth brings her exuberant personality fully forward and talks about her work with Easter Seals, educating families and law enforcement with information and strategies for living and working with children who have autism. They talk about spirituality, sacred sexuality and finding ways that people with disabilities can be sexual adults. They laugh a lot. They have a not-so-surprise guest! Elizabeth also talks about her next projects, and her passion for empowering women. And she answers 10 questions. Elizabeth A. Webster Elizabeth is the mother of two wonderful boys, uh, I mean "young men". The first was adopted in Taiwan, ROC in 1990 at 6 mos old, and was diagnosed with autism and bi-polar disorder when he was 11 years old... the second was born in 1997 and is an awesome brother, trumpet player and outstanding citizen. Elizabeth works as an Autism Support Specialist with Easter Seals NH with families and as an educator about autism to caregivers, educators, emergency responders and law enforcement across the state of NH. She is blessed with a network of amazing and magical friends and wonderful parents. The 411: Elizabeth A. Webster Facebook: Elizabeth A. Webster [Recorded 3/23/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Recorded as a livestream Google+ Hangout, join Trisha, Allie, Edmund and Lanna as their discussion devolves from joy to strip clubs to burlesque shows to tittie bars. They talk about what brings them joy, how they get joy when they don't have it and how they are going to make their lives better over the next year. Also: strip clubs. And robot voices. Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Here is the sixth part of a six-part series featuring those special people who make art and entertainment out of folding air into latex balloons. Our conversations centered on making a living doing art, how they started in the biz and their creative processes. Laypeople and twisters alike will enjoy these fantastic conversations. Robbie tells Lanna about his missionary work, how he loves to help people, and his simple creative process. Robbie and Lanna geek out about balloons, while Robbie explains how he got started twisting. Robbie makes Lanna cry. And he anwers 10 questions. Robbie Furman Originally from Parsippany, New Jersey Robbie Furman, CBA has been working with balloons for over 20 years. His original designs and techniques have become the mainstay of many balloon decorators and artists the world over. As a small boy, Robbie saw his first twisted balloon at a birthday party and told his mother he wanted to make balloons when he grew up. His mother quickly replied…”Yes Dear, I’ll remind you…now go play” Well, his mother forgot to remind him, but years later, while working in a used book store, Robbie found a copy of Balloon Magic, by Marvin Hardy- and as they say, the rest is history. With this new love and knowledge of balloons, Robbie started volunteering at various non-profit events and, after several years, had a calling to become a full-time volunteer. He dedicated a year and half of his life to missionary work in San Diego and also served in the Domestic Peace Corps. During that time, he used his balloons to put smiles on many peoples’ faces. As a result of these experiences, he had a chance to try new things with his balloons and venture into the Deco-twisting world full-time. Robbie is currently based in the Northern New Jersey area, where his unique style has allowed him to decorate for thousands of events over the years. His balloons have been seen on ABC's All My Children, One Life to Live, Live with Regis and Kelly, Ugly Betty and Good Morning America. Over the past several years, Robbie has been teaching his Deco-Twisting style to thousands of students around the world. Most recently Robbie has traveled to Israel, France, Italy, Colombia, Japan, and England. Robbie’s passion and desire is to share his balloon knowledge and enthusiasm with those around the world. Recently, Robbie was awarded the Golden Light Award, given in honor of the late Linda Bruce. The 411: Robbie Furman Twisticology Remember Our Balloons: Building Incredible Events Facebook Page: Twisticologist Facebook: Robbie Furman Twitter: @twisticologist [Recorded 2/3/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Here is the fifth part of a six-part series featuring those special people who make art and entertainment out of folding air into latex balloons. Our conversations centered on making a living doing art, how they started in the biz and their creative processes. Laypeople and twisters alike will enjoy these fantastic conversations. Suzanne and Lanna talk about getting paid for their work, career trajectories, reinventing themselves, and being the funny girls. Daughter of an opera singer, Suzanne explains why she doesn't sing. Lanna airs some dirty laundry. Suzanne chats about her time as a Clown in Residence at Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. And she answers 10 questions. Suzanne Haring Suzanne Haring is The Soozi Show! Sheʼs been bringing her unique brand of entertainment to family & corporate events, movie premieres and festivals all around the world since 1982. Soozi has entertained at parties for both the NY Yankees and the LA Angels playersʼ families (major rivals in... football is it?), performs in one-of-a-kind balloon body puppets on stilts (and once on a Segway!) at Disney Movie Premieres including Up, Wall-e, Ratatouille, & Pirates of the Caribbean 2, 3 & 4 (accidently blocking Johnny Depp's entourage with her big-arse balloon ship). She is one of 60 multinational performers invited to entertain at the First 3 International Clown Festivals in Mainland China, has been the Production Manager for the world's largest balloon art project - Airigami's Balloon Manor (a 10,000sf haunted mansion built from over 100,000 balloons), entertained hundreds of hospitalized children with the award winning Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit in NY, performed her Statue of Liberty on Stilts for the 2004 Republican National Convention, body painted models at The Playboy Mansion(!) and entertained at family parties for The Sultan of Brunei (and lived to tell about it!), Johnny Depp, Neil Patrick Harris and lots of other nice people. Suzanne is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the world famous MAGIC CASTLE in Hollywood. The 411: Suzanne Haring The Soozi Show Twitter: @TheSooziShow Facebook Page: The Soozi Show LinkedIn: Suzanne Haring Yelp: The Soozi Show [Recorded 2/3/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Here is the fourth part of a six-part series featuring those special people who make art and entertainment out of folding air into latex balloons. Our conversations centered on making a living doing art, how they started in the biz and their creative processes. Laypeople and twisters alike will enjoy these fantastic conversations. Danny and Lanna talk about performing with balloons, circus skills and giving feedback. Danny admits he's an idiot. Lanna asks Danny what he thinks of the United States and remarks that he is her first foreigner on the show. Danny talks about working with Avner the Excentric at the Celebration Barn Theater and describes his creative process. And he answers 10 questions. The 411: Danny Schlesinger Danny Schlesinger is an award winning performer who works in theatre, circus, cabaret, tv and film. He has worked with (amoung many) The Royal Opera, The Natural Theatre Company, Circus Sensible, Dynamic New Animations and in 2005 made his West End debut in "Burlesque!" at the Arts Theatre, London. He has performed at the London International Mime Festival and at theatres, corporate events and variety shows. Danny's film and TV credits include Happiness (BBC2), Jack Dee's Sunday Service (CH4) and Danny was Homer Simpson. Danny was also the lead in "Sniffer" - a Norwegian short film which has won many awards including the best short film at Cannes 2006. Danny produces his own solo balloon shows for theatres and events and has won awards for doing this! The 411: Danny Schlesinger Circo Ridiculoso Twitter: @circoridiculoso Facebook Page: Circo Ridiculoso [Recorded 2/3/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Here is the third part of a six-part series featuring those special people who make art and entertainment out of folding air into latex balloons. Our conversations centered on making a living doing art, how they started in the biz and their creative processes. Laypeople and twisters alike will enjoy these fantastic conversations. Larry and Lanna chat about art, minor celebrity and being balloon famous. They discuss using community to create large-scale balloon sculptures and the ins and outs of getting a Guinness World record. Lanna quizzes Larry about his adventures in Cannes with Bright Bricks and Aardman Animations. Larry talks about his really bad Harry Anderson impression. And he answers 10 questions. Larry Moss Larry Moss began his career in 1985 as a NYC street performer, but has gone on to display his amazing air-filled art in 12 countries on four continents. His achievements have been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, CNN Headline, PBS, Smithsonian Magazine, American Profile and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Moss has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, NBC's "Today" and at the White House, and has held the Guinness World Record for the largest non-round balloon sculpture since 2000. The author of many published ballooning books, Larry also has a degree in applied math and computer science, as well as a master’s in elementary education. Building community through his large-scale art creations is of particular interest to Larry, and was the focus of his 2009 TEDx talk in Rochester, NY. The 411: Larry Moss Airigami: The fine art of folding air BalloonHQ How to Catch a Mouse: Simple Machines at work Facebook Page: Airigami Facebook: Larry Moss Linkedin: Larry Moss Google+: Larry Moss Behance: Airigami Twitter: @airigami [Recorded 2/2/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Here is the second part of a six-part series featuring those special people who make art and entertainment out of folding air into latex balloons. Our conversations centered on making a living doing art, how they started in the biz and their creative processes. Laypeople and twisters alike will enjoy these fantastic conversations. Annie and Lanna talk about collaboration, being creative and getting in touch with their inner brats. They discuss the finer points of improv. Annie confesses she doesn't want a job and ponders the eternal question "Why do you think that's funny?" And she answers 10 questions. About Annie Banannie in her own words Hi, I’m Annie Banannie … When you’re a kid, having the courage to write a story and share it with others is a huge thing! I travel to elementary schools and show students how fun it is to write a story, and then I give them a reason to share it: How about a contest with awesome prizes? After we’re done with the assembly, the teachers use my contest and the classroom materials to make writing assignments feel like a game. Why am I so passionate about this? I was THAT KID – the kid who couldn’t control my impulses: always getting in trouble, talking in class, etc. I was BORED. (A little ADD didn’t help things either.) I only wanted to learn what I was interested in, not the class assignments. So, I got to know the principal a little too well. Then I found music and theater. This was it! Here were the stories I loved, and now I got to tell them – loudly! Life was good, but only outside of school. Later, I discovered making up stories with kids is even more fun than musical theater. The sillier the story, the more fun we have, and the more we learn together. You see, kids don’t hate to learn. They just want to learn stuff they’re interested in, not what the California State Standards say it’s time for them to learn. So, our challenge: Can we make the educational standards exciting? You betcha. I turn California Language Arts Standards into a 60-minute creative extravaganza where students can’t wait to share what they know. I’m also the founder of StorytellerKids.com, which will be a safe online community where kids can share stories they write and earn prizes while they’re at it! My experiences as a kid in music and theater, and later as a storyteller, have shown me that if kids get passionate about something, there’s no stopping them. Now let’s bring that passion into the classroom and watch what happens. The 411: Anne Banannie Balloon Storyteller0 ACME School Assemblies0 Twitter: @BalloonStory Facebook: Annie Banannie Facebook Page: Annie Banannie, Balloon Storyteller Linkedin: Annie Banannie Google+: Annie Banannie " Flickr: Annie Banannie " BalloonHQ: Annie Banannie [Recorded 2/2/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

I am excited to present the first part of a six-part series featuring those special people who make art and entertainment out of folding air into latex balloons. Our conversations centered on making a living doing art, how they started in the biz and their creative processes. Laypeople and twisters alike will enjoy these fantastic conversations. Tawney and Lanna talk about balloon twisting, performance and living the artist's life. They tease each other about adult stuff and dish on balloon dresses. Tawney explains how she started in the biz. And she answers 10 questions. Tawney Bubbles So who is Tawney Bubbles? She’s the luckiest girl in the whole wide world, that’s who. At nearly 18, an eager faced little high school graduate set out for higher education. Turns out, college is really expensive. Reluctantly, she had to get a job. In a move that was part joke, and part rebellion, she became a clown (her mom is very proud). Four years, well maybe five years, okay five and a half years later, she had her degree. She contemplated a real job, but after careful reflection, eventually said, “$!@#% that!” She’s been playing with balloons ever since. The 411: Tawney Bubbles Tawney Bubbles - Balloon Artist Twitter: @TawneyBubbles [Recorded 2/1/2013] Show the love! Go Premium! Click Here for Details. Click Here to Become a Lounge Lizard! Let your Voice be Heard! 207-200-POD1 | 207-200-7631 Lounging with LannaLee needs your help. Here's three ways you can show your love! Click: click this link to Subscribe on iTunes. Rate: Once you've subscribed on iTunes, rate Lounging with LannaLee inside iTunes Share: Tell ALL your friends. Use the share buttons at the top or bottom of this post. Thank You!

Hear what it sounds like when a bunch of Balloon Twisters get togethter for a late-night Balloon Jam sesson at Twist & Shout, a convention for balloon entertainers and their ilk. I ask Victor, Sander, Crystal, Soozi, Brian, Nate, Connie and Todd 5 questions. With funtastic results!

Here is our second LLLSalon night! Our theme was Inspiration. Gennifer, Allie, Edmund, Keith, Candace and I talk about how inspiration is a lot of hard work and that you need to get out of the car every now and again. Historically a Salon is a intellectual gathering where the hostess gathers a group of interesting people together to discuss politics, literature, art, music and other topics of the day. It would last over a long dinner which included several courses. These salons attracted the intellectual elite and were meant to educate and amuse their guests. I always loved the idea of a good salon. People wielded power in salons. Each Lounging with LannaLee episode acts as if it were a mini-salon, with me and one or two guests. When I Lounged with Candace Karu I told her of my dream: to do a larger scale lounge. And to my great surprise and immense pleasure, she volunteer to host a dinner party at her house so we could do this.