ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER
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One Damn Thing After Another focuses on deep dives in a world of sound bytes: discussions and interviews with experts, thinkers, creatives, and practitioners, in damn near everything that you're never going to hear on the same old outlets and circuits.
One Damn Thing After Another asks these folks, "What's that one thing you wish everyone knew about....?" It also spends particular time with the personal stories and more of those people with scientific, historical, ethical, creative, technical, and community expertise.
Mz Xtal was inspired to start One Damn Thing After Another because as a multipotentialite she has met and knows a lot of people whose expertise, experiences, stories, and ideas deserve wider consideration and conversation. These are discussions with urgency and import.
Why the title, One Damn Thing After Another?
If you asked Mz Xtal’s father, “How are you?” He usually replied, “It’s one damn thing after another.” This project honors that frankness and accuracy.
Regarding building a life, Mz Xtal’s father offered two unusual gems: “You should try lots of things, even if they aren’t necessarily good for you.” And: “You can have everything you want in life, but usually not all at once.”
Mz Xtal has been a teacher, an academic, a fiction writer, a punk rock performer, a farmer, an economic developer, a researcher, an exchange student, a Fulbright recipient, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a tech startup founder, a waitress, a wine bartender, a mother, a wife, a late bloomer, a cofounder of a celebrity’s nonprofit, a personal organizer, a camp counselor/director, cofounder of a Permaculture Institute, an ESL instructor, a door-to-door women’s rights canvasser, a small business developer and owner, and a youth program worker.
She is the daughter of an eccentric small printing business owner (who opined about practicing the same profession as Benjamin Franklin) master local Democratic party Parliamentarian, and outsider artist/loner (father--who looked a bit like a poor man's Sean Connery) and, a bluegrass festival-going, very social, loyal friend, former factory seamstress and sharecropper and world class country Head Start cook (mother, who, in her youth, was Jane Russell from the neck down and Loretta Lynn from the neck up). Those two got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout, and their marriage ended about like that as well.
The granddaughter and niece of coal miners in Appalachia, Mz Xtal has lived and worked in nine different countries, and also in East Harlem/El Barrio, New York City, and in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, next to Compton.
Mz Xtal maintains that if you can’t have a good time with someone from West Virginia, then that’s your own damn fault.
She also maintains that meeting Temple Grandin and the writer Ann Pancake remains of consequence to her.
One Damn Thing After Another asks these folks, "What's that one thing you wish everyone knew about....?" It also spends particular time with the personal stories and more of those people with scientific, historical, ethical, creative, technical, and community expertise.
Mz Xtal was inspired to start One Damn Thing After Another because as a multipotentialite she has met and knows a lot of people whose expertise, experiences, stories, and ideas deserve wider consideration and conversation. These are discussions with urgency and import.
Why the title, One Damn Thing After Another?
If you asked Mz Xtal’s father, “How are you?” He usually replied, “It’s one damn thing after another.” This project honors that frankness and accuracy.
Regarding building a life, Mz Xtal’s father offered two unusual gems: “You should try lots of things, even if they aren’t necessarily good for you.” And: “You can have everything you want in life, but usually not all at once.”
Mz Xtal has been a teacher, an academic, a fiction writer, a punk rock performer, a farmer, an economic developer, a researcher, an exchange student, a Fulbright recipient, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a tech startup founder, a waitress, a wine bartender, a mother, a wife, a late bloomer, a cofounder of a celebrity’s nonprofit, a personal organizer, a camp counselor/director, cofounder of a Permaculture Institute, an ESL instructor, a door-to-door women’s rights canvasser, a small business developer and owner, and a youth program worker.
She is the daughter of an eccentric small printing business owner (who opined about practicing the same profession as Benjamin Franklin) master local Democratic party Parliamentarian, and outsider artist/loner (father--who looked a bit like a poor man's Sean Connery) and, a bluegrass festival-going, very social, loyal friend, former factory seamstress and sharecropper and world class country Head Start cook (mother, who, in her youth, was Jane Russell from the neck down and Loretta Lynn from the neck up). Those two got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout, and their marriage ended about like that as well.
The granddaughter and niece of coal miners in Appalachia, Mz Xtal has lived and worked in nine different countries, and also in East Harlem/El Barrio, New York City, and in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, next to Compton.
Mz Xtal maintains that if you can’t have a good time with someone from West Virginia, then that’s your own damn fault.
She also maintains that meeting Temple Grandin and the writer Ann Pancake remains of consequence to her.
