259 - DIY VAX

This week we try to make our own vaccines. We also talk about the Van Gogh laser light show coming to San Francisco. What do you think about that show? Let us know at congratulationspinetree@gmail.com

The music in this episode is by bastiengoat

Support the Cause Against Anti-Asian Violence

asians4blklives - Bay Area solidarity organization

Help rebuild the Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay

Oakland Councilmembers Bas and Fife video address

Why Is the California Attorney General Investigating the San Francisco Art Institute? by Sam Lefebvre

Virtually Asian by Astria Suparak

Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

If Van Gough were alive would he take MDMA?

258 - 829,000 E-mails

This week we are all over the place in this XXL-sized episode! Money! Intrigue! Listener emails! 

The intro and outro music in this episode is by Happy New Year

Links from Poppers the Pony:
Trash Can Art Appears
Why is Soma CBD censoring leather community art?
Queer artists allege censorship by SOMA West CBD
Your Art Isn’t Good Enough for Our TRASH CANS?

Link from Erin Keaton:

Zodiac killer code cracked by Australian mathematician Sam Blake more than 50 years after first murder

Other link:

Chairwoman of San Francisco Art School Facing Budget Issues Resigns

Keeping up with the emails!

257 - Hobby Horses

 This week we're taking up some new hobbies and projects. We also give some nice updates and do some corrections. We share our friend BaubleRob's definitive list of what order to watch Studio Ghibli movies. How are you filling your time? Let us know: congratulationspinetree@gmail.com

All the music in this episode is by Bézier & Vin Sol

Darning socks is cool and good.

256 - Baseball Danger

 This week we try to crack the case on a mystery residency in Oregon. We also talk about whether drive-in movie theaters are open. Plus Kate invites artists to think about the danger of standing in the middle of a baseball game with no glove. Sorry for all the hand sounds in this episode- just pretend you’re listening from under a table.

All the music in this episode is by Burd Hauz

Return the Eye by DROUGHT SPA presented by CLOACA

UC Regents buy SF Art Institute’s $19.7M debt, are now school’s landlords — will SFAI’s Diego Rivera mural be next to sell?

proposalsforall.com

Here's the baseball diagram.

Maysoun found a safer one!

255 - Star Trek IV

 We voyage home with the crew of the Enterprise and learn all about humpback whales! Happy solstice and if you have any info about what pizza restaurant is featured in this movie please let us know. 

10 out of 10 stars

254 - Radio Wars!

 This week we are in all-out war with KQED. We ask Julie Deppish to PICK A SIDE! We also check what's going on with art on craigslist. 

Be sure to watch these movies for next week's episode:

Gattaca

THX 1138

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

All the music in this episode is by Bézier & Vin Sol

A BATTLE FOR THE AIRWAVES

253 - Marcel Vs. Covid Command

This week Maysoun is offering her service as a mean daddy. We also invite your suggestions for Bay Area movies to watch! Send us your recommendations! congratulationspinetree@gmail.com

 
All the music in this episode is by bastiengoat

Listen to Rightnowish

Please stay in your bubble as much as possible.

252 - Pretend Journalism

We continue our award-winning journalism in response to a listener question from last week. Maysoun comes dangerously close to talking bad about Dolly Parton. Kate goes off about a new lesbian romcom. 

The music in this episode is by Tomu DJ

 Alive & Present: Cultural Belonging in S.F. Chinatown & Manilatown by Christine Wong Yap

Interview with Gordon Chin about CCDC, and organizing and gentrification in Chinatown

Committee to Reimagine SFAI presentation from November 6th

Pay your Shuumi Land Tax

Short lesbian, tall lesbian.

251 - Fonts and Taunts

 This week we have a listener email asking about a new gallery logo. We also salute essential workers and have some legal news. Kate accidentally doesn't record the podcast for an hour, so that was fun. 

Most of the music in this episode is by No Vacation

Oakland Workers Fund

Shotgun Players

San Francisco DA's Office Launches Its 1st Homicide Prosecution Of A Police Officer

Here is the logo that our listener wrote in about.

250 - Bye Bitch

Just got through the longest week of all time... or at least of the COVID times. We run through some election results and then get back to our bread and butter of art things. Stay warm and stay safe.

The music in this episode is Bye Bitch by Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman

Alameda County Foodbank

Town Fridge (instagram)

SF Community Fridge (instagram)

Bass & Reiner

Sometimes I say I'm gonna put a link in the underworld, but I forget. Let me know if you need a link to something.

Fucked around and found out.

249 - Pandie Ramblin'

This week there are some event and show announcements?! Many of them are documentaries, which Maysoun is ambivalent about. We also listen to a poem!

All the music in this episode is by

Imprisoned by algorithms

San Jose Museum of Art

BAMPFA Quilt Press Release

Canessa Gallery Thing!

The LAB !

Crutch Documentary

Maya Angelou - Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Berkeleyside

Phonebank for prop 15!

The blue moon is coming!

248 - 2020 Voter Guide EXTRAVAGANZA

This year we introduce snake ratings! Have a great vote!

All the music in this episode is by DUNGEON WEED

Jackie Fielder for State Sentate

Carroll Fife for Oakland City Council

YES on 15!

San Francisco Voter Guides

The SF League of Pissed Voters 
SF Green Party 
SF Guardian Clean Slate 

East Bay Voter Guides

Alameda County Green Party 

Oakland Rising

SpaceCat

California Voter and Election Information

Track Your Ballot
New SF Supervisorial District Map

Where to drop off ballots in SF

Phone bank for Sleepy Joe

Watch out for sneaky snakes!

247 - NO on 22

This week Kate cautions against re-staging photographs at 2am. We talk about the Headlands ending their affiliate program. Also some museums are opening?! Keep your eye on the ball, everybody!

All the music in this episode is by Brijean

Elections and Polling Information for California
Vote Center and Ballot Dropbox location lookup

No on Prop 22

Headlands to End Affiliate Artist Program, Launch Bay Area Fellowships by Sarah Hotchkiss

No Neutral Alliance

Exploratorium

Ireland Train Ride

Don't get sucked into a left-wing QANON situation.

246 - Yes on 15!

This week we contemplate the political leapfrog that could result from Kamala Harris becoming VP. We lied about doing the voter guide this week- but we're going to do it soon! We mention art at some point as well.

All the music in this episode is by Monophonics

ACCE Action

Forms of Reparations: The Museum & Restorative Justice

Hey, you can pre-order Kate's comic here.

The cool people are saying YES on 15!

245 - Psyops Babies

We're back from our summer break! We take a listener question about their apartment building getting sold. We tell billionaires to buy buildings and give them to the people who live there. We'll see how that works out. We also talk about Civil War II, propaganda, and sneakers.

Congratulations Pine Tree says NO to war!

Tenant and Neighborhood Councils
Causa Justa :: Just Cause
Pigeon Palace
ACCE - Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Florida Rights Restoration Colation

Octagon Breathing Gif

Mindfulness Coach App

Mind wars only.

244 - Drop the cops!

This is our last episode before summer break! We talk about white hysteria, SFMOMA, Angela Davis, and more. Go ahead and email us if you miss us.

All the music in this episode is by Wizard Apprentice

The Anti Police-Terror Project IG: antipoliceterrorproject
The Black New Deal
The Coalition on Homelessness IG: coalitiononhomelessness
Poor Magazine IG: poormagazine

Bay Area Anti- Repression Committee Bail Fund

People's Breakfast Oakland (linktree)
NO NEUTRAL ALLIANCE
SOMArts
slash art
Shahid Buttar - Get Pelosi out of there!
Petition and numbers to call to tell the SEIU: DROP THE COPS! Email us if you want to get more involved in this campaign!
National Association of Government Employees (part of the SEIU)
Oakland City Council
San Francisco Board of Supervisors 

Podcasts/Radio to listen to:
UpFront (on KPFA)
Hard Knock Radio (on KPFA)
We Want the Airwaves

Couples Therapy
Fanti
The Read
1619

243 - The Walk the Walk is Behind the Scenes

This week we're getting closer and closer to the anarchist uprising. Maysoun "went" to some more Zoom panels, Kate has some micro-updates about SFAI and Dave & Busters.

All the music in this episode is by K.K. Slider

San Francisco's Arts Community Town Hall

#BlackNewDeal

New circles!

242 - Goodbye, Salad Bar!

This week we say goodbye to Sweet Tomatoes. We talk about some other things that are closing, pizza again, and radioactive dirt on treasure island! Plus Maysoun hates zoom.

The music in this episode is by asonic garcia

My Lennar Lemon!
This former radioactive-waste site off the coast of San Francisco is turning into a $5 billion housing development by Melia Robinson
Lawsuit aims to stop thousands of planned Treasure Island homes by Adam Brinkow
Moms 4 Housing

sad salad

241 - Lawyers in the Bathtub

This week Kate's reporting from the bathtub. We introduce Wazwaz & Rhoades Law Firm! Maysoun got a swab in the brain to see if she had the virus. It's an action packed episode, people!

All the music in this episode is by CAPE


Be an emergency volunteer - San Francisco
Indigenous Mutual Aid
Tom Mooney!
Fill Hotels not Graves - The Village (Oakland)
CA Lawyers for the Arts
How to become a lawyer in California
Et al.
Carey Lin
Animal Crossing: Tarantula

Can you help Maysoun and Kate pass the bar? Please?

240 - Squares and Stripes

Kate and Maysoun avoid being sabotaged this week! We talk about Maysoun's crafting career, disaster service work, how to pay dance teachers, and so much more.

The music in this episode is from this album: Stay Home: COVID​-​19 Benefit Comp

SaveFineArt.com

Welcome to the new art world!

239 - Pizza Publishing

This week we talk about SFAI some more. We try to save Art Practical. Plus we come up with great pizza-related ideas.

All the music in this episode is from the soundtrack to the video game, Monkey Island

Sign the petition to save SFAI!
Art Practical
Prescription for a healthy art scene

Put your art reviews in here!

238 - Walk in the Woods

This week we didn't feel like talking so Kate just took a walk in the woods. Enjoy the sounds of nature. We love you.

Shoutout to Rob Marland and Jenny Odell.

Taking a stroll

237 - WPA Murals

This week we chat about some WPA murals in San Francisco! We wish a happy birthday to Max, talk about llamas, and move couches around.

Most of the music in this episode is by No Vacation

Where to donate PPE
FoundSF
SFAI Faculty Townhall (email us)
SFAI Board of Trustees

Helen Forbes and Dorothy Puccinelli 

Part of Sargent Johnson's huge mosaic at the Maritime Museum

236 - Staying Home

We got some listener feedback this week! We field your questions about etiquette, eggs, and this new fucked up world we're living in. Please take care of each other, but also stay away from each other, and stay mad at our fucked up government that didn't test people fast enough. Kate clearly doesn't know what a snow leopard is.

All the music in this episode is by the Monophonics

Support Kirk Stoller's Recovery From Brain Surgery
CPT Resource Spreadhseets
Bay Area Senior/Disability/Worker Mutual Aid Form
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Support Bay Area #TogetherAlone
SF United in Crisis
SWARM hardship fund for sex workers in crisis
St. James Infirmary - resources for sex workers of all genders
List of Arts Resources During the COVID-19 Outbreak (from Creative Capital)
Emergency Funds for Freelancers, Creatives Losing Income During Coronavirus
COVID-19 Resources for the Artist Organization Field
COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources

Bay Area Rallies to Ensure Seniors Don't Go Hungry During Coronavirus Pandemic (KQED)
8 Calming Livecams of Kittens, Penguins, Jellyfish and More (KQED)
Dunktown Podcast

Mutual aid is when people get together to meet each other’s basic survival needs with a shared understanding that the systems we live under are not going to meet our needs and we can do it together RIGHT NOW!

235 - Roni

Dear listeners, please take this virus seriously. Even if you're very healthy and think you won't be adversely affected by it- being reckless could spread it to someone who is more at risk. Take care of yourself and your neighbors.

Most of the music in this episode is by KOOL A.D.

Johns Hopkins COVID-19 page
Mindfulness Coach
Shahid Buttar for Congress

Get those mitts clean!

Quarantine!

No new episode this week, because we're in isolation!

Take precautions!

• Wash your hands
• Don't touch your face
• Stay away from Kate's mom- I don't want her to get sick!

See you next week!

234 - Grease

This week we accidentally talk about the movie musical, Grease three times. We also discuss 500 Capp Street's reopening, LACMA, Xandra Ibarra getting censored in Texas, and we make a bet for $10. Please call us and tell us what you want.

Most of the music in this episode is by Sun Hop Fat

Movement Voter Project
Xandra Ibarra, Spictacle II: La Tortillera, 2014
Uffizi scientific committee resigns in dispute over Raphael loan
Earth’s new ‘mini-moon’ is leaving soon. But it’ll be back.

Mini Moon!

233 - Puzzling

This week we shoot the shit about an event at the Herbst Theater, we dissect the last dem debate, and Kate finally gives the answer to the trivia question from about nine million episodes ago. We also have guests Karla and Freddy tell us about local political scandals in San Francisco.

The music in this episode is by quest?onmarc

More info about voter registration: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/
Shoutout to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose where this episode was edited.

Life is a mystery!

232 - March 2020 Voter Guide

This week we give our endorsements in the upcoming elections in Oakland and San Francisco! Text us if you're confused. Call 311 if you need to know where to vote. Get your friends to vote!

Most of the music in this episode is by CAPE

Indivisible Guide to Registering to Vote
Join the DSA USA!
SF League of Pissed off Voters
SF Tenants Union Endorsements
SF Berniecrats Endorsements
Alameda County Green Party Voter guide
Official Election Site of Alameda County

Vote early, vote often!

231 - In Public (with Zoë Taleporos)

This week we have a traveling chat with Zoë Taleporos, project manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission and independent curator. We do a little tour of all the public art at the Hyatt hotel, which is connected to the San Francisco International Airport. You can go there and hang out any time you want!

The music in this episode (that isn't part of the hotel) is by No Vacation

Premiere Jr.
Look! Up in the sky! It’s public art—with Premiere Jr. from 48 Hills
San Francisco Arts Commission

Continental Breakfast!

230 - Joan5000 Lost Tape

This week Carrie Hott is helping Kate move. They find a mysterious cassette tape in Kate's closet.

Cheetah Legs

229 - Holy Shit Internet!

Kate got her fucking mind blown at the Prelinger Library! We learn about internet infrastructure, the power grid, sharks, and staring out the window.

Most of the music in this episode is by asonic garcia

Lacey Johnson
Prelinger Library
SDF Public Access UNIX System
10 Facts About the Internet's Undersea Cables
The Internet Cloud Has a Dirty Secret
Why data centres are the new frontier in the fight against climate change
350.org
moms4housing
Casemore Kirkeby
Nook Gallery
Richmond Bridge Bike Lane

Sharks are eco-terrorists!

228 - Index Cards

This week we have some listener feedback! Thank the goddesses! We also talk about moms4housing, the art fairs, and how everyone should have a fake press pass.

Almost all the music in this episode is by CAPE

Support Moms4Housing

Moms 4 Housing: Meet the Oakland Mothers Facing Eviction After Two Months Occupying Vacant House
#Moms4Housing: Meet the Mother & Daughter Armed Police Just Evicted from a Vacant House in Oakland
Zettelkasten
ACRE residency in Wisconsin
UpFront on KPFA
Tiny Splendor

Millions of index cards!

227 - Tanuki and Friends

Happy 2020! We're back on our regular schedule! This week we talk about the show up at the Wattis, BDSM masks at the Berkley Museum, the SECA show at SFMOMA, cat eyes, cartoon ducks, and East Bay representative Barbara Lee.

Almost all the music in this episode is by Sun Hop Fat

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
BAMPFA
In Praise of the Strangest Painting I’ve Ever Seen by Sarah Hotchkiss
2019 SECA Art Award
Jimi Hendrix - National Anthem
How to Read the Hierophant Card
Barbara Lee’s Long War on the War on Terror

This is a tanuki

Winter Break!

Hello, gentle listener! We are going on winter break. See you in 2020 for more rambles, bathroom reviews, hottt goss, and painting with cats!

Our holiday wish is for you to donate to RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) and the Coalition on Homelessness if you have some money to spare. 

Have a lovely end of December and email us your comments, questions and concerns while you're avoiding your loved ones! CongratulationsPineTree@gmail.com

RIP Thomas Kinkade

226 - Can't Talk About It

Maysoun tells us about what she saw on her trip to New York! She went to the newly remodeled MOMA, a Nathalie Djurberg show, and she walked by a long line for an infinity room. We also can't talk about a bunch of things and Kate tells a story from her semester teaching at SJSU.

All the music in this episode is by Introflirt

There are too many things we can't talk about!

225 - What's a curator? (with Elizabeth Thomas)

This week we go off with independent curator, Elizabeth Thomas. She helps us figure out what a curator is, how not to organize emails, Saddam Hussein's plates, and the state of Wisconsin. We also get into a short round of Like or Don't Like!

The music in this episode is by The Gonks

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Mural Arts Philadelphia 
RADIO SILENCE A soundscape of the Iraqi diaspora in Philadelphia

Alexandre Singh: A Gothic Tale

Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture

POSTCOMMODITY: THE POINT OF FINAL COLLAPSE

Curators are many different things.

224 - Chicanery

This week we just chat about some odds and ends. In the middle of the show we go to a talk by Jennifer A. González then we come back and talk about it. It's a wild ride!

All the music in this episode is by Y La Bamba

Swing Left!
Jennifer A. González
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee
After Harlem Community Protests, Simone Leigh Withdraws Proposal for Central Park Sculpture

Silence your ice buckets!

223 - Public Art Bullshit

This week we talk about some public art institutions behaving badly!

The music in this episode is by Jay Som

Plans for Maya Angelou Monument in San Francisco Face Long Delay
Audio Archive: Arts Commission Visual Arts Committee
After Harlem Community Protests, Simone Leigh Withdraws Proposal for Central Park Sculpture
Following Layoffs, Former Employees Protest at Marciano Art Foundation, Demanding Reopening and Recognition of Union
SEIU 1021 SFAI Bargaining Survey 2019

Expand your mind beyond statuary! 

222 - 2019 Voter Guide

This week we give our endorsements for San Francisco's next election.

Election day is Tuesday, November 5th!

The music in this episode is by Pit Stains

San Francisco Department of Elections
Alameda County Official Elections Site
Chesa Boudin on Democracy Now!
SF supervisor candidate Dean Preston to ‘rogue’ landlords: ‘We should run you out of town’
Valie Brown Evictions
This remix of Ellen’s pathetic defense of George W. Bush is devastating
Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club

Vote and if you can't vote- tell other people to vote!

221 - Power Tulle (with Dana Hemenway)

This week we talk to artist, Dana Hemenway! We discuss growing up in Petaluma, being a punk kid, tutu material, art handling, and the sounds of electricity.

Most of the music in this episode is by Nineteen Eightyfour

Dana Hemenway
Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Camille Utterback
Tasmania
50 Best ASMR Youtube Videos That Tingle and Relax

This is a Tasmanian devil.

220 - Sunrise

This week Maysoun shares an account of going to the Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz. We also talk about gemstones and lighting.

The Continuous Thread: Celebrating Our Interwoven Histories, Identities and Contributions
SOMA Pilipinas Events
Litquake Schedule

G E M S

219 - The Best Restrooms

This week we accidentally explore the best restrooms of the Bay Area while we're trying to answer a listener question about YBCA's new open call for curatorial proposals.

All the music in this episode is by No Vacation

Need to pee? Just download this app. What could go wrong?
Oakland Museum of California announces $85 million improvement plan
Ear Hustle
Alternative Exposure
Oakland Stock
The Awesome Foundation

Look at the size of that plant!

218 - We're back again!

This week we're back on our regular schedule. We really mean it this time! We mainly talk about Morgan Bassichis, our new favorite of all time. We also talk about some shows, some babies, and some corrections.

All the music in this episode is by Morgan Bassichis

More Protest Songs by Morgan Bassichis

Shoutout to Elaine Stritch!

217 - Forensic Forms!

CORRECTION: NORWICH IS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE UK! This week we catch up on all the stuff we didn't get a chance to chat about while we were on our summer break. We do a Forensic Forms™ segment where Maysoun describes an artwork and Kate tries to guess how it was made. There are a few television show references in this episode, so we're sorry if you're not tapped into pop culture and you don't understand what is going on. You can email us for explanations.

All the music in this episode is by XUXA SANTAMARIA (buy their new album!)

The Emma Goldman Papers
Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Casemore Kirkeby
Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Central Iowa DSA
Pittsburgh DSA
Episode where we talk about the meaning of art

This is a kitten heel.

216 - Think About Fish (with Anne Walsh Jr.)

Wow, listeners. We had a hell of a chat with artist, Anne Walsh. Kate was really on one. We talk about the afterlife, fan letters, studio visits, exchanging energy, and Leonora Carrington.

Most of the music in this episode is by Beyoncé

Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh
Anne Walsh Jr.
The Hearing Trumpet

Aspiring crones unite!

215 - Pop Culture and Trauma (with Việt Lê)

This week we chat with artist and scholar, Việt Lê. He weighs in on the Bay vs. LA! We also chat about failure, K-pop, the Vietnamese diaspora, and empathy machines.

All the music in this episode is by Wizard Apprentice

 Việt Lê
The Queer Art of Failure
The Wonder Gays

The fog rolls in!

214 - Eye Pleasure (with Craig Calderwood)

This week we have a glorious conversation with artist, Craig Calderwood. We talk about Dance Moms, hand massages, integrity, becoming ambidextrous, Fresno, and video games.  Craig is in a show opening tonight (8/24) at Guerrero Gallery from 6-9! Up until September 21st! Go!

Most of the music in this episode is by Giraffage

Craig Calderwood
Dance Moms ASMR
The Fresno Art Museum

SMASH ULTIMATE!

213 - Miracles! (with Lindsey White)

This week we ponder comedy, magic, and sandwiches with Lindsey White. Lindsey is an artist and educator in San Francisco. We also do a musical number and Maysoun recovers from a cold.

Most of the music in this episode is by Jack Hertz

Lindsey White
Quarter of Oklahoma
Morgan Bassichis
Jo Firestone
American Museum of Magic

Abracadabra!