The Thinkingest Episode 5: The Fluidity of Freaks

[audio:http://lascheratlarge.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Episode-5.mp3] What's behind the term "overthinking?" What's behind this urge to have a podcast of the things we over-analyze and dissect to exhaustion? In some sense there's an anxiety about being thought a freak, about doing things "wrong" by some sense. So I thought I'd spend some time having a conversation with Stevi Costa, an old friend of mine who devotes most of her overthinking to studying freaks and their portrayal in literature.