One Bad Rerun - Episode 498: The House Is Trashed But The Bones Are Good, with Maggie Smith

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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ONE BAD RERUN - Episode 498: The House Is Trashed But The Bones Are Good, with Maggie Smith Home and life feeling like a wreck? Slap some paint on that fixer-upper. Author and poet Maggie Smith joins Biz to talk whittling words, Good Bones, and her new memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful. Plus, Biz is in purgatory.

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0:00.0	This is Biz, and if hosting One Bad Mother for over 10 years has taught me anything, it's that parenting
0:05.5	is hard and nobody gives a shit. So belly up to the low bar, where fine is good enough and you'll
0:11.5	never feel alone. This is One Bad Mother. This week on One Bad Mother, but if I fail as a cat parent, it's okay, right?
0:24.7	Jessica Howes, creator of the webcomic Litterbox Comics, joins to say yes.
0:30.0	It's okay.
0:33.0	Welcome, Cheska.
0:37.0	Hi.
0:37.8	Hi. Hi.
0:39.0	I think I had a cat just meow right on time there.
0:42.0	I'm not really a cat.
0:45.8	For anybody who is not already following Cheska and Litterbox comics, she was born in London, England in the early 80s, and was always the quote cartoonist at
0:59.0	school and went to university for animation.
1:02.0	She married Jay, aka Ghost House in 2009, and they moved to Austin, Texas.
1:09.4	That is a journey.
1:11.0	After becoming a mom to two boys,
1:13.4	Cheska wanted to do something that combined cartoons
1:15.6	with her newfound parenting knowledge.
1:17.3	And in 2018,
1:18.9	she struck upon the idea of starting Litterbox comics,
1:22.5	a web comic based on her family,
1:25.0	but everyone is animals because she hates drawing people i can't draw anything
1:31.7	except the exact same deserted island with one little person sitting under a palm tree which my husband
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