The Ontology of the Birthday
Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Midnight birthday wish and the somber passage into a new day. Ojai as a Spiritual Vortex where an absence of Airbnbs proves relevant to transcendence. A light champagne pour, to sing for another table, a new blush. Kate discovers the 'Instapot:' wonders, cackling in the frozen vegetable aisle. The writer's booth at the local bar for Jacqueline, the mysterious regular. Digging deeper on the problem of the highball glass.
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| 0:00.0 | With summer in full swing, I feel that familiar urge to refresh my closet, but I'm not trying to waste money on pieces. |
| 0:06.1 | I'll only wear once or for just one season. |
| 0:08.4 | We were very excited when Quince became a sponsor, the washable silk skirt. |
| 0:12.5 | I was wearing all over Europe this summer, and I just bought a light gauzy throw for those non-so-chilly nights. |
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| 0:38.5 | Quince.com slash hags. |
| 0:42.3 | Two best friends both alike in dignity, |
| 0:44.9 | nurturing phantoms and courting the muse. |
| 0:47.2 | The hag divines when something must die. |
| 0:49.5 | Yes, that was Pug. |
| 0:50.7 | But this is huge. |
| 0:52.2 | The ego loves to seek, but never to find. It was Berlant and Novak |
| 0:56.6 | the whole time. Greetings. Hello? We're going. Okay, hey. Hey, girl. Hey. Good morning. |
| 1:06.9 | Good morning. Well, by the way, you're going to be happy. Yeah. We got sent, they sent it to my address, but we got some makeup from Jones Road. We did? Yeah. Incredible. Yeah. And I'm, yeah. So that's good news. We'll have to talk about that and a little something called PC Product Corner. Hi. I have so much to discuss. Oh my God. You do? Well, first of all, the ontology of the birthday, because I had my birthday. Classically. By the way, the sweetest thing in the world, I woke up in the morning on my birthday and saw that Jacqueline had texted me at 1201, midnight, a minute after midnight to wish you happy birthday, which I found very sweet |
| 1:44.2 | and really warm to my heart. I like to try to get there in case someone's still awake and feeling |
| 1:48.4 | like the somber passage into the day. Totally. I was asleep, but it was really sweet to wake up |
| 1:53.9 | too. I mean, I have so much to say. I'm ready to lay down roots in Ohio. My God. Like so many other women. |
| 2:02.4 | I just, I fell in love with Ohio. And that's all. I'm going to shut out. Spiritual vortex. Is it? I don't think Ohio is. Oh, Kate. Is it? Yeah. No, you're kidding. No, you're kidding. 100%. It's like why everyone. I've been to Sedona. Right. No, Ohio is... |
| 2:17.8 | O'Hie is a vortex. |
| 2:19.3 | I mean, I'll double check this right now, but I mean, that's like... I had no idea. Well, I know for a fact it is known as having like, oh hi. I wrote spear and I got vortex. So let's see. Oh, hi is known as a spiritual vortex, believed to |
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