Unbridled emotion, soul-connected dance, and strobe lights as sex toys—Amy and Tommy don’t miss any of it in their discussion of Chapter 10 in Miranda July’s All Fours. Amy calls it the “love chapter” and perhaps it is, sprinkled with the tension of fraught desire and the finitude of time.

A strange irony exists in the very best moments both in love and in sex: the deep desire to stay right there in that very feeling forever which is both an act of relishing the present while actively craving that very existence in perpetuity. Whether shouting love into a void or drawing up blueprints for a well-placed hut, it’s another attempt to catch smoke.

But there’s also the split second moments that can blow up a world. Amy & Tommy tackle both in this juicy episode!

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Original Music:

Song: If I Remember It Right

Artist: Rick Real and The Warmth

Album: FM Perspective

References in this episode:

All Fours by Miranda July

Anatomy of the Abdomen

The only thing I can find on Graham Kemp

Tommy's former G2 boss waxes poetic about the early days of Silicon Valley

The Guayabera

"Same Time Next Year" starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn

Breitenbush

The Wendy Award by Walter Scott

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Work From Bed Friday is a podcast hosted by Amy Hoffmann and Tommy Borden, a committed couple of 30+ years. Funny, spicy, and insightful, they discuss marriage, sex, and connection through the lens of contemporary books and media. Every Friday. From bed.