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From the Front Porch

Episode 169 || April Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

April showers bring Mayflowers, but what do Mayflowers bring? Well, that's complicated, but what Annie and Chris bring to the table is a new recap of what they read in April.  Also, social media? Donezo. Annie read: + Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley + Limelight by Amy Poeppel + The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills + Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton (on sale June 5) + Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann + The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan For a fantastic story about a local production of Peter Pan gone awry, check out this classic episode of This American Life. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like What Annie Didn't Finish, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

so I took April off of social media. I have been wanting to hear the results of this fast.

0:07.4

This grand experiment, right? I came back on the other day when May started and I've learned one lesson.

0:19.1

Okay. I don't care about anybody's lives anymore.

0:23.5

I don't care what people share on Instagram.

0:26.3

I spent 12 seconds scrolling on Instagram when I locked back in and said, I don't care about you.

0:32.4

I don't care about you.

0:33.4

I don't care about you.

0:34.4

I don't care about you.

0:36.0

The meaningless drivel that we put on social media is mind-boggling.

0:43.7

So, like, this is a 12-year run I had.

0:47.4

God, has Instagram been around 12 years.

0:49.3

Well, Instagram has on Facebook.

0:50.9

Okay.

0:51.6

So I've been on Facebook since I was 16.

0:53.8

Yeah.

0:55.2

And now I don't care. Which do you think, like, do you find yourself wanting to have any of it anymore? You're over all of it. I'm over all of it. I'm annoyed with Twitter. I was about to say, I did myself, and I haven't fasted. I know. But I got on Twitter the other day and I was like, why am I here?

1:11.2

And it's one of those things that's like, it's part of my personality to like collect an archive

1:16.8

and like, I don't know, keep an unbroken streak.

1:23.0

Now that I've intentionally broken the streak, I have no will to continue.

1:27.3

Did you ever know? Okay. Jess from Gilmore Girls, the real person. Yeah. Milo, whatever. Ventimilia. So he, now, until obviously he got his big gig on This Is Us, and I do think he's back on Instagram now. But for a while, he, like, had posted to Instagram, and I guess he's kind of an amateur photographer, very artistic, whatever. That makes sense. Yeah. Well, he posted, like, three or four years ago, I was like, finished. Like, like, he had, I'm done. Yeah, like, he had filled up his grids. Like, he was done. And he, like, even the whole first season of This Is Us, he never posted. He was like, no, I think I've said what I have to say on that medium. Yeah. And I do understand that because, like, otherwise it's never ending. No. And I think it's like I missed a month of, of like, internet inside jokes. So you can't catch up. I can't catch up and I don't care to.

2:24.5

Yeah. No, you don't. And so I think I'm clean. So what will you do? Do you think, like,

2:30.3

are they on your phone? I guess you'll write that dissertation. I don't have any of the bookmarks on my computer. Okay. I have Instagram and Twitter on my phone, which I haven't had Twitter on my phone in like a year. Because that was how I weaned myself off of that, but I was still on it on my computer all the time. So they're on my phone, but I have like no desire to open them. And when I do, it's like... I get that. Ten seconds. So Twitter, for whatever reason.

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