Annie's Story Cave
Annie Lanzillotto embarks on a solo decameron in her raw Bronx roar. While sheltering in place alone, Annie built a cave and with a nod to Boccaccio's Decameron during the Bubonic Plague, Annie aims to tell 100 original stories for starters.
Episodes
I wrote this song for the 99th Memorial of the Triangle Fire.
Originally I sang it to the tune of Leadbelly's
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
Then as I sang it, it found its own blues rhythm.
Girls, Girls, Where Did You Work Last Night?
Girls! Girls! Teenage immigrants,
Tell me, where did you work last night?
Somebody tell me. C’mon Rose, Sarah, Daisy.
Washington and Greene, in the factory,
whe...
San Valentino special.
Annie tells how to cook a heart. Based on extensive research and oral histories with the best butchers in town.
Replete with sage advice
Extinct New York voices. Annie Lanzillotto recorded the voices of blue corner mailboxes in New York City, before they were all sealed shut.
Annie Lanzillotto tells about meeting Storme De Lavarie, Stonewall icon.
“Your One Gay Life” by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
“Hey baby, stay a while.” This was the kindest thing anybody ever said to me. And the most life-affirming. Stonewall Veteran Stormé De Larvarie patrolled the streets and bars of New York helping generations of us on our way. She was a true superhero of the streets. Stormé did the work we each need to...
"Slow Loud Clear" by Annie Lanzillotto
You will never hear the word "America" the same way again.
This episode is dedicated to:
Sr. M. Raymond Aloysia (Caroline Paluzzi)
of the Sisters of St. Francis, Hastings-on-Hudson, She was born on December 10, 1916, and died on January 12, 2000. Her mother was Erminia Zaletti Paluzzi. Her father was Rocco Paluzzi. She had a brother Henry. She ent...
o"My Throwing Arm : This Useless Expertise"
by Annie Lanzillotto
A struggle in pink, the constant bouncing pulse, a Bronx girl and her Spaldeen.
When the chips are down, what good is being able to aim a ball at an X on the wall?
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Living alone, immunocompromised and sheltering-in-place during COVID-19, how do you prepare at night?
Annie's yellow post-it note flies around the house. A yellow post-it note butterfly. It reads: PREPARE TO BE FOUND.
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How to walk in Napoli and Roma on San Pietrini stones...
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One of the most profound days of my life was up a mountain in Sicilia. Eternal thanks to Stefania Taviano for taking me around her homeland, and to her ancestral land, of olive trees growing on steep slopes.
"Nerina” written by Annie Lanzillotto, was awarded an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award Honorable Mention sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. Published in Paterson Literary Review #49,...
Tony Chiappelloni was the last of the ..... "The Mayor of Prospect Park" earning that moniker with his scores of good deeds for everyone in his path. He schools Annie on everything from sexuality to the gnostic gospels with lessons from the streets of Ancient Rome.
Annie first published this story in the Paterson Literary Review, 2014.
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...this is the parmigiano snowglobe we all live inside...
in this episode you learn about "Cucinamania" and "Le Vecchiette Dentro" two syndromes....
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What happens when the spirits push you around?
When you think you're doing one thing when you're doing another
Annie thinks she's doing an art project, when the ancestors shake her to her bones.
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This is the story of Annie's Mom Rachele and how she always carried a frittata in her pockabook, and fed everyone.
Dedicated to Rachele Clare Petruzzelli Lanzillotto, 1926 - 2016, may her sparkle live on forever.
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Annie Lanzillotto recounts meeting Rabbi Simkha Weintraub at an epic party in Brooklyn, January 2020, the January before the plague. Rabbi Simkha counsels Annie using lessons from the destruction and rebuilding of The Temple. A parable in its tone.
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