Welcome to Collier Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere. I'm Amina Tussau and I'm Anne Friedman

On this week's agenda cultural moments we are living for including

Oscar Red Carpet looks like Billy Porter's Tuxedo gown Jason Mamoa Screnchi and Selma Blair's Kane

also pen 15 and revisiting the traumas of early teendom and an amazing obituary for soul singer Jackie Shane

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Hello, hi, Anne Friedman. Hello. Hello. Hello. How's it going over there?

You know bodies are struggling, but we are here. I know I've been making a quilt babies first full-size quilt

So I've been watching a ton of TV and listening to a lot of podcasts lately, which is a delight

Except that I could only kind of half watch TV or like watch things that are

focused on like the the sound or dialogue portion like that are not heavily visual because I'm not staring at the TV the whole time

That's what's going on with me. I love that. What about you?

I I cannot watch a lot of TV because a lot of the non book work that I'm doing when I'm not writing this book with you

Is that I'm just unpacking boxes from the apartment that I moved into three months ago that I have only lived in for like 10 days

So we're both half watching TV right well. No, I'm not watching TV at all because I just like I can't do both at the same time

but I um I'm listening to a lot of

I'm listening to a lot of records that I know back to front because it's the only thing that keeps me going

But what I do want to do is just sit down and watch all the television in the world

So when I feel like I've done sufficient amount of unpacking

I just retreat into my computer

Did you watch the Oscars this year? You know, I started off not watching the Oscars and then got sucked in like halfway through

I didn't realize that there wasn't a presenter until you know

I was like well, this is really breezing through. Why is this less annoying them?

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