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Side Dish with Mark and Rick #43
January 25, 2015

Welcome to this week's Side Dish with Mark McNease and Rick Rose. On the menu today: Obama jets off to offer condolences to the most repressive regime on Earth; being gay in Iran not so fun; everything turns 50; and Billy Crystal suffers an attack by the

Side Dish with Mark and Rick
January 22, 2015

Welcome to the new Side Dish, a stand-alone podcast with Mark McNease and Rick Rose. We've been doing these as part of the Aged to Perfection podcasts at lgbtSr but decided, given its unique nature, to uncouple them. And here we are! Give a listen as we t

Side Dish #42 with Mark and Rick
January 11, 2015

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at 'The Imitation Game', free speech and bloodshed, My Husband Most Certainly Is Gay TV dreck, marriage equality comes to the Florida sunshine, and best drag names.

Side Dish with Mark and Rick on the Aged to Perfection Podcast
January 04, 2015

Join us for the first Side Dish of 2015. Mark and Rick take a look at the incoming GOP Congress, Rick's take on 'The Interview,' the death of Mario Coumo and the progressive dream, turning 50 with Patti LaBelle, and our don't-call-them-resolutions resolu

Side Dish with Mark and Rick - Holiday Edition
December 20, 2014

Welcome back to our weekly Side Dish with co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose. On this week’s podcast we take a look back at some of the very biggest stories of 2014: Obama hits his stride after Dem defeat, Obamacare takes root, Cuba libre!, the Pope is

Author and Activist Sue Katz Joins the Aged to Perfection Podcast
December 19, 2014

Join me as I welcome author, activist, wordsmith and rebel Sue Katz back to the podcast. Her new short story collection, Lillian's Last Affair, is available now and it's one of the things we talk about. We also chat about her recent essay here, From Baby

Side Dish #40 with Mark and Rick
December 07, 2014

Welcome to Side Dish #40. This is our weekly podcast with co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose where we take a look at recent headlines, cultural topics, and offer our perspectives on an occasionally mad, mad world. On today’s menu: protests spread afte

Side Dish #37 with Mark and Rick on the Aged to Perfection Podcast
December 01, 2014

It's that time again: our weekly Side Dish edition of the Aged to Perfection Podcast. Join me with my co-host Rick Rose as we take a look at recent headlines, culture hiccups, politics and perspectives. On the menu this week: Black Friday gun sales spike,

Weekly Side Dish with Mark and Rick
November 25, 2014

Welcome back to the Side Dish, the weekly edition of our Aged to Perfection podcast, co-hosted by editor Mark McNease (NYC) and Rick Rose (Shreveport, LA). Rick and Mark have been doing the Aged to Perfection podcast for over two years now. It's moved fro

Author Lee Lynch Joins the Aged to Perfection Podcast
November 20, 2014

Join me as I welcome Lee Lynch to this week’s podcast (LISTEN HERE). Lee is an author whose writing I’ve had the pleasure of sharing here for the past few months, by way of her Amazon Trail columns, now collected in her book An American Queer. Her oth