Spike takes us on a free-wheeling tour of her ranch, her businesses and Bastrop County, Texas. Spike talks about her new restaurant, small town Texas and fitting in, glamping, weddings, and creating happy communities.
In this week’s Plutopia podcast, Jon and Scoop make a deep dive into death… also Halloween, sex, pagan celebrations, and Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). “Everyone is…
Music of the Plutopian Spheres: John Coltrane: A Love Supreme in Seattle. A 1965 recording of Coltrane’s band performing his masterwork “A Love Supreme” at the Penthouse Club in Seattle,…
Halloween is a most Plutopian celebration. Our use of the word Plutopia is a portmanteau, a merging of two words, “pluralist” and “utopia.” Pluralism is about “the peaceful coexistence of…
Hugo award-winning author Pat Cadigan joins Jon and Scoop to discuss her novelization of William Gibson’s first screenplay for Alien 3, the third movie in the Alien franchise. The final…
Stephanie Vale, the pen name of a longtime WELL member, is a semi-retired attorney and part-time university instructor in the US Pacific Northwest. She has loved Jane Austen for more…
Johannes Grenzfurthner discusses discuss nerd culture, context hacking, sex and technology, cocktail robotics, and his new film.
Suzanne Stefanac talks about her work on low power FM radio, Covid and conservatives, the current state of journalism and education, and a new mantra, “Be good. Do good.”
Rock and roll! Plutopia News Network cohosts Scoop and Jon talk about their internet radio show, Radio Free Plutopia. They also discuss their lifetime love of rock and roll, vinyl…
Artist Eliza Evans returns with an update on her activist art project, “All the Way to Hell.” We also talk about fracking, the oil industry, nonprofit organizations, hybrid art forms,…
