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July 2012: Motorcycles, the War on Soda and Red Velvet Pancakes We're back for another episode! Have a listen as we talk about topics such as Goldy's recent motorcycle trip from Toronto to New York, Goldy's fling with the woman whose life he saved, Mayor Bloomberg's war on soda, the NRA, the red velvet pancakes at IHOP and much more. Join award-winning writer/producer Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes and Stitcher. You can contact "How to Do Nothing without Really Trying" at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. If you use Stitcher, please add us to your favorites. And if you could tell a friend about the show, we'd be very grateful. Thanks, and happy listening.

We're back for our first episode of 2012!  Have a listen as we talk about topics such as wearing sandals in the shower at the gym, biking, Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies, Passover, Goldy's love life and much more. Join award-winning writer/producer Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their monthly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes and Stitcher. You can contact "How to Do Nothing without Really Trying" at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us.  If you use Stitcher, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

November 2011: Newspapers Listen in as we once more go back to slaveryfootprint.org and successfully log on in possibly our worst segment ever, and compare and contrast the New York Times, USA Today and the Weekly World News. Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their monthly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

October 2011: Customer Service Join us as we move from being a weekly show to our new monthly format as we try unsuccessfully to log onto slaveryfootprint.org, talk about our hatred of T-Mobile and Time Warner Cable, discuss the joys of Cel-Ray, chat about Halloween and much more! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Rich Bennett and Ana Breton, Part 04 Emmanuelle! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Rich Bennett and Ana Breton, Part 03 Costumes! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Rich Bennett and Ana Breton, Part 02 Traveling! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Rich Bennett and Ana Breton, Part 01 Interview! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Meghan O’Keefe and Gaby Dunn, Part 05 Jobs! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Meghan O’Keefe and Gaby Dunn, Part 04 Tramping! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Rejection! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

Simon Amstell! Join award-winning writer and filmmaker Mark L. Feinsod and his friend Goldy on their weekly podcast as they talk about various issues concerning New York and discuss the ways in which the city is so great, weird, wonderful, exciting and funny. Available for streaming or via iTunes. You can contact How to Do Nothing without Really Trying at podcast@feinsodville.com. Please feel free to subscribe in iTunes. If you do, please write a review and rate us as it helps other people to find us. You can also now stream the show on Stitcher. If you use that site, please add us to your favorites. Thanks, and happy listening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAgq76KrmK0&feature=feedu PITtv Team Lefthook Presents: Every Country in the World vs. the U.S.! Watch the made-up true story about all the nations on the planet banding together to start a war against America. This could happen tomorrow! Written/directed/edited by Mark L. Feinsod Voice-over by Thomas Michael Audio engineering by Emerald Catron

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Dr Brown's Cel-Ray soda is a soft drink with a celery flavor. It is fairly easy to find in New York City and in South Florida, but rather obscure elsewhere; it can sometimes be found at Jewish delicatessens and restaurants. It can also be found at certain grocers that specialize in American food in Israel, and other specialty grocers. The flavor, derived from celery seed extract, is reminiscent of ginger ale but with a pronounced celery flavor that is more pungent or peppery than ginger ale. Dr. Brown’s Celery Tonic was, according to the company, first produced in 1868 in Brooklyn, New York. It was served in New York delicatessans starting in 1869 and sold as a bottled soda starting in 1886. The Food and Drug Administration objected to its being called a “tonic”, and in the 1900s the name was changed to Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray (soda). Cel-Ray was so popular in the 1930s among New York City's Jewish community that it earned the nickname "Jewish Champagne". Dr. Brown’s briefly produced a diet Cel-Ray, but it was discontinued due to low sales. Other “celery tonics"/"celery sodas” were produced in the 1890s, but only Dr. Brown’s celery product remains today. Dr. Brown’s sodas are kosher and can be found in many delicatessans.

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Mending Wall by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'

I am thirty-three, she says. I’m too old not to know what I want to do with my life. I would tell her that she will figure it out, but I hate to lie—I cannot guarantee this. I know nothing of her. You did not take me from behind, she says as though I disappointed her. Sorry, I apologize jokingly. We will have to do it again, she says. We begin again with her riding me. Then she is on her knees and elbows in front of me. Her back is arched. The sound of my thighs against her is loud, constant, continuous, and steady. I hold onto her waist. Again, she moans. I come. We talk more, until she says she is cold. She asks for my telephone number and e-mail address. I give it to her, but do not take hers. She falls asleep under the covers. When we entered, I saw that the door locks automatically when closed so I do not wake her when I go. Through the darkness of downtown, I smoke as I walk to my apartment. The cat meows when I enter. He is angry that I have been away for so long. I am in another epoch now. Those horrible weeks stretching between Thanksgiving and New Year’s—parties, gatherings, presents and mild panics about having enough time to buy them, the threat of eviction that has hung over me since May. Every year I loathe the being alone surrounded by husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, children—the end results of whisperings and silhouettes of bodies in the dark before mystery is replaced by the earthliness and mortality of babies. I know none of it. Even more unbearable this year because she is not here. She has teased me by spending one holiday with me, and leaving me alone for the other two. I sit at a desk at this day job I have been reduced to. I now do the busywork of others, with red pen I correct the mistakes of others, by pressing buttons I draw pictures for businessmen—it is demeaning, it is forty hours per week. My film will be done soon, and I must end this. I must imagine what I would say to her, because she is not here. On Thursday I received a reply to two e-mails I had sent her—one inviting her to join my friends and I for dinner on New Year’s Eve, the other tell her to come with me to several performances by a chanteuse acquaintance of mine. She will think about the former, is intrigued by the latter. She is leaving for several weeks—for business and family rea