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We can't all be famous, but we all certainly have something unique and special about us. This podcast, hosted by Dr. Conor Logan, explores the people around his area of Southern California, exposing the 'extra' that should be thought of before 'ordinary.


    • Jun 8, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 11m AVG DURATION
    • 38 EPISODES


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    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring Jan Wesley - May 11th, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 56:38


    Jan Wesley is our special reader for the May 11th, 2022 poetry reading at the Newbury Park library.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring Elaine Alcon - April 12th, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 62:21


    Elaine Alcon is the featured reader for the Ventura County Poetry Project

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring Ann Buxie - Mar 10th, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 68:10


    Ann Buxie is the featured reader for our March poetry reading of the Ventura County Poetry Project at the Newbury Park Library branch. Enjoy!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring David Oliveira - Feb 9th, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2022 68:19


    Join us for a great reading with our special guest:David Oliveira was born in California's San Joaquin Valley. He was a long time resident of Santa Barbara, California, where he was publisher and editor of Mille Grazie Press. He was a founding editor of Solo, a national journal of poetry, and founded the long-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series. In 2000, he was named Santa Barbara's millennium poet laureate. Oliveira has published widely, including two poetry collections, A Little Travel Story and As Everyone Goes, with a third forthcoming in 2022, Still Life with Coffee. His poems are featured in several important anthologies, including: How Much Earth: the Fresno Poets, which he co-edited; California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present; and The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry. He lives and writes on the banks of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Thousand Oaks Reading - Jan 26th, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2022 70:37


    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring Nancy-Jean Pément - Jan 12th, 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2022 55:45


    Nancy-Jean Pément is from the Outaouais region of Québec where she was raised in a bi-racial, bilingual, and multicultural family.Her poems have been published in literary magazines in the US and in Canada. Her poem, Migration, was a finalist for the 2014 Common Good Books poetry contest. In 2015, her piece, PHL>YOW, was the Editor's Choice for Poem of the Year in ARC Poetry Magazine.In 2018-2019, in collaboration with the California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks (CMATO) and the painter, Kevin Sloan, she curated ekphrastic poetry by local poets to accompany the exhibit A Collection of Rarities. Nancy's poem Snowperson Wonders at What is Left of the World inspired by Kevin's painting, The Inevitability of Warmth, was exhibited at the museum.Most recently, her poems appear in La fille de Léonard: What québécois cultural sovereignty taught me about working with historically marginalized students, a chapter in the book, Campus Service Workers Supporting First-Generation Students published by Routledge in November 2021.Currently, she is working on a study of racial, ethnic, political-linguistic, and citizenship identities to be published in the peer-reviewed journal, Genealogy. Nancy teaches in the Graduate School of Education at CSU Channel Islands, and in the Doctor of Education program at CLU.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for October 30th 2021 - Halloween SPOOKtacular!

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 103:31


    The Jammers bring a Halloween Jam to remember!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for September 10th 2021 - Sonya's BDay Jam!

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2021 71:52


    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents a special Logan Brothers Banned Jam - August 14th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 67:59


    The Logan brothers: Ron, Conor, Michael, and Matthew.... get together to play a jam after years.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for July 9th 2021 - Lots of Jams!

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2021 63:17


    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for July 2nd 2021 - Matt's BDay!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 47:12


    The Jam celebrates Conor's brother, Matt!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for June 25th 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2021 37:44


    Scott Cooper and Conor Logan bring you a special 2-person jazzier Covid Smile Jam. A chill jammer....

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for June 19th 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2021 141:01


    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for June 11th 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2021 101:37


    A special version of the Covid Smile Jam, from Scott Horn's driveway.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring Peg Quinn - June 9th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2021 41:41


    Peg Quinn does a special reading for the Ventura County Poetry Project. You can buy her book 'Mother Lode' from Gun Powder Press, or Amazon.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Project - Newbury Park Reading featuring Jennifer Kelley - May 12th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 66:20


    The Ventura County Poetry Project's Newbury Park branch, hosted by yours truly and Ron Fullerton, brings Jennifer Kelley to the front of the stage for a special reading, followed by some fantastic open mic poets.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for May7th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2021 56:22


    The CSJ Jammers bring it again!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for April 30th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 57:05


    The CSJ is back again! We even have musical theater in this episode!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for April 23rd, 2021 - 1 Year Anny!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 59:08


    The 1 year anniversary of The Covid Smile Jam! Enjoy!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for April 16th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021 52:34


    Someone in the neighborhood called the cops on us... but even the 5.0 could see the goodness in the vibe on this night and let the music reign!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for April 9th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 51:09


    The Covid Smile Jam takes to the driveway again...... Dead, Allman Brothers, Hall & Oates, Ozzy, The Police, and Moana! Lots of good stuff to listen to :-)

    Thousand Tales Ep. 10 - A Kind Writer - Sam Aleksanyan

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 61:59


    Conor Logan interviews Sam Aleksanyan from the Kind Writers organization to discuss old stomping grounds, differences in new places, writing, publishing, and more. Enjoy!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for April 2nd, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2021 62:36


    The Jam, per usual, brings the good noise to the neighborhood!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Covid Smile Jam for March 26th, 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2021 79:11


    The CSJ jammers bring some musical love to the Newbury Park neighborhood of SunTree.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 9 - Wild Hearts go West - Maura Dawgert

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 67:59


    Maura Dawgert and Conor Logan went to high school together, and found their ways west independently, and then their ways to the same medicine. Listen to this great conversation about moving west, experiencing new ways of living, and becoming Doctors of Chinese Medicine.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 8 - When will this easy feeling go easy on me? - Jayden Secor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2021 89:25


    Jayden Secor joins the podcast to play a tune and talk about music, 'the jam', baseball, and family. Enjoy this great interview with a special man... look him up @jaydensecormusic on Spotify as well.

    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Podcast - Publishers' Workshop with Kind Writers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2021 61:30


    The Thousand Tales Podcast presents The Ventura County Poetry Podcast - Publishers' Workshop with Kind Writers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 65:09


    Thousand Tales Ep. 7 - 'Why?' is the most difficult question - Ken Jones

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 96:51


    Conor Logan talks from across the world with Ken Jones, formerly of Ventura County. Having moved recently back to his home locale in England, Ken talks of living in Ventura, teaching, chemistry chats with passengers, and (of course) poetry.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 6 - Pillow Talk - Jonathan Kunke

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 101:47


    This is another on-site interview for The Thousand Tales podcast. This time we're at the factory of Honeydew Pillows, interview its owner Jonathan Kunke. Join host Conor Logan for a chat about pillows, acting, college, and everything in between. Bare with the audio as we were on-site for this interview, and people are working in the background. Enjoy!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast present The Covid Smile Jam for November 29th, 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2020 82:17


    This is the dress rehearsal audio for the December 5th BIG EVENT, the Covid Smile Jam BENEFIT at the Thousand Oaks Teen Center. Listen in for a nice set of music while you go for a walk or work around the house. Enjoy!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast present The Covid Smile Jam for November 13th, 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 67:38


    The Covid Smile Jam players have been bringing some free cheer to the SunTree neighborhood since the end of March.... this night was no different. A great collection of songs and a new jammer in the mix, Mimi Mayer, on harmonica.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 5 - Wheel! Of! Fortune! - Glenn Noyes

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 92:01


    Conor Logan sits down with Glenn Noyes of Dos Vientos to talk about selling everything from shoes to guitars, pyrotechnics, collecting drums, and skiing accidents. Enjoy!

    The Thousand Tales Podcast present The Covid Smile Jam for November 6th, 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2020 50:01


    The Thousand Tales Podcast's host, Conor Logan, also has been hosting The Covid Smile Jam since the end of March. It's a weekly neighborhood jam session of local musicians simply coming together to play tunes for the neighborhood.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 4 - The Archer, not the Arrow - Ryan Eriksson

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 102:40


    Recorded live in Ryan's home, this podcast takes place while processing an elk leg from his recent hunting trip to Arizona. We discuss how he became interested in hunting, how cooking changes when you're dealing with wild meat, the tools and techniques, all with a little life thrown in here and there. Enjoy!

    Thousand Tales Ep. 3 - Thaddeus Francis from Newbury Park

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2020 67:32


    Episode 3 focuses on lifetime local Thaddeus Francis. Stories of how the neighborhood used to be when the Conejo Valley had less than half today's population, basketball memories, and more.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 2 - Joe Norris from Newbury Park

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2020 85:11


    Conor Logan sits down with Joe Norris, fellow music lover and neighbor in the Suntree neighborhood of Newbury Park.

    Thousand Tales Ep. 1 - Costa Yiannakakis from Newbury Park

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2020 89:05


    The first Thousand Tales Podcast Episode focuses on my neighbor Costa. A Greek, raised in The Middle East, and then moving to Ventura, CA. Stories of importing a family Chevy, how he met his wife, his proud family history, and more. Enjoy this great chat with Costa!

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