My blog was down for a bit, so I’m late posting about my awesome interview with Erica from Fucked in Park Slope, which you can hear here.

I was aware of her blog for ages, but I didn’t meet her until we were both guests at a Shabbat dinner. After that, Rob and I both became good friends with her (and interviewing friends is such a delicious treat for me!) so we had a time in the studio.

I spaced on taking a photo of her (life is hard, yo, and I can’t keep on top of everything!) plus we interviewed at night and I like to take my photos outside, so she sent me a cute photo of her at her wedding. I love the sleeved gown!

Here, because I still don’t have a photo of her, I used a photo of Oliver, her dog. He’s cute.

I let Dan do the intro, a Hey Brooklyn first! We were in the studio goofing off for a while and he tried to imitate me. I don’t think he nailed it, but he made me laugh.

He has a podcast called VendrTV where he hops around the country interviewing food cart proprietors. I’m jealous. What he does is similar to what I do in terms of interviewing people with interesting stories, but he does it on camera, and he set his show up so he can travel to places. I, of course, focused on the local scene, and now I never get to go on planes. Live and learn. My next podcast is going to be called Hey Tropical Islands.

Go here to listen to the show and visit vendr.tv for the show’s site.

This is Rachel Lee Walsh. She’s pretty awesome.

This was the first time it occurred to me to snap photos of our studio. Rob likes to have the microphones just so, and you can tell in the sound quality of my final project. If you need a sound engineer in Brooklyn you should hire him and pay him lots of money. He’s worth it.

Rachel and he were scheming to play together, because she noticed his upright base in the corner of our sound booth and found out that he used to play blue grass. She has a country/folk/blues kind of thing going on. I think they’d rock together.

At one point in the interview I say to her, “Oh, you are of my people” which is a weird thing to say, I know, but the way she writes songs is from the perspective of wanting to tell a human story, and this is the way I do my podcast. Her writing is both clever and simple.

This is Rachel’s guitar strap, and I think it’s SO cool. It’s from Kelly Horrigan.

To listen to our interview, go to the interview page at HeyBrooklyn.com or type Hey Brooklyn into iTunes.

Sean Kershaw of Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers

Go here to listen, or download the show on iTunes by typing in “Hey Brooklyn”.

It was a fun sight to see a man on a bike in a cowboy hat riding to the studio! In this episode, Sean told me that every Wednesday this month, he and his band are going to be playing at Hill Country in Manhattan. Hill Country is authentic Texas BBQ, and that’s pretty much all you need to say to get me to show up with my bib on. Especially if there’s beer, too.

The music at the end of this podcast is hilarious; it includes what is probably “the only country song written about Brooklyn”.

Thanks, Sean, for a great interview!

(Rob pointed out to me that I should be cross-posting my weekly episodes of Hey Brooklyn here on the blog, so I’ll be doing that every Monday from here on out.  I might as well, there are all these “tidbits” and little funny things that happen when I’m recording these that just don’t make it into the interview because of time restraints, and now I can share them all here.)

Evidence that I have zero being-interviewed skills.  Zero!

Here is the interview I did with Eugene Ahn for the People You Don’t Know podcast.  (I’m the second half of the episode.)

http://www.pydkpodcast.com/?p=458

Apropos of nothing, here is a photo of me and Tino, taken by Tracy.

This is the Kaiser Cartel’s song “Oh No”. The video makes me happy.

I interviewed them for Hey Brooklyn, and the show is up today. You can listen on the site, or on iTunes by typing in hey brooklyn.

Happy weekend.

Yahoo! It’s up! Go listen! Most exciting birthday ever! This might even beat my 9th birthday, when the weather was so freakishly warm that my parents took me and Gus out for hot dogs on the beach to celebrate AND my 11th, better known as the blizzard of ’93, which I spent watching TV all day combined.

edit: err… um… guess I should have posted a link. HeyBrooklyn.com

This is a tiny bit old; it took me a while to figure out the editing. In case you are all, wtf? I was on my stomach in bed at one in the morning. That should explain a few things.

I’m launching a podcast! I’ve mentioned it before; it’s called “Hey Brooklyn” and in it I’ll be interviewing the owners of small, creative businesses in Brooklyn. I’ll be photographing them in their workspaces, too, and you’ll be able to listen to the show on the website and download it on iTunes. The website is up now, but looks nothing like the finished project will be. I have my slave darling husband working on that now.

I contacted Sarah Miller, one half of the design firm Miller/Cormier and writer of the fascinating typography-centric blog oatmeal&cinnamon and asked her to design a logo for me. I told her I wanted it “doodely” and fun, but from there she could just rock it out with her own unique style. She did, and I love it and JUST WAIT until you to see it! You’ll love it, too.

The podcast will be launched on March 13 which is the first day of SXSW Interactive, and, much more importantly, the anniversary of the day that I was launched into the world myself. It seemed fitting.

Happy weekend!

photo by me

Months ago Rob got the idea to interview his friends and record it as a podcast (similar to StoryCorps), but never got it going. Then today, our buddy Dave is in town couch crashing while he goes to a convention, and Rob said that he wanted to do an interview him, just for the heck of it, while he was here. (We have this fancy recording booth in the house… we might as well use it!) I complained that Rob had never interviewed me before, so he set up a last-minute recording session with just the two of us. It was pretty fun!

Check out InterviewsWithFriends.com. Episode one, with yours truly.

Happy Weekend.