In May 2009 I had lunch with Mike Wilkinson and Alicia Wilkinson-Mehr, owners of the DC-based pizzeria Pete’s Apizza. Why am I only now getting round to putting up a podcast of the interview? Good question. [display_podcast] Let me evade your inquiries, random website visitor, and instead urge you to…

Every Friday after I upload a podcast interview I’ve been following up with a briefer Where Are They Now? update in which I call the interviewee to find out what they’ve been up to since they sat down to a meal with me. Until now. [display_podcast] Slight problem getting an…

New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. [display_podcast] So thinks Gretchen Auer. My eighth interviewee, Gretchen was born in a small town in Ohio and for years longed to move to Manhattan. As I found out when we sat down to brunch in New York back in…

Following on from Tuesday’s podcast reliving my interview from 2009 with single mother Lynda Eselp, today you can find out what she’s been doing since she sat down with me for a late-night meal in Brooklyn. Note: The podcast is currently unavailable Look for a new interview coming on Monday….

Ooh, number 13, unlucky for some. Lynda Eselp might have felt unlucky in May 2009 given that she had to spend an evening in Brooklyn sitting across from me and listening to me firing questions at her while scarfing down my dinner. But if she was feeling that way she…

Back under the big top for today’s Where Are They Now? interview. The other day I called Diego Barquinero, better known as VeeKay the Clown, to ask him what he’s been doing since the night in March 2009 when he and I sat down to a meal of burgers in…

Roll up, roll up for the latest podcast! My sixth interview was quite memorable because my dining companion showed up in his work clothes. That might not be so notable if the person in question worked as a plumber or an office drone. But Diego Barquinero is a circus clown,…

So the podcasts were on a brief hiatus owing to 1) travel, b) unavailability of some interviewees and iii) general ineptitude on my part. I’m sure it’s been difficult to cope without listening to my dulcet tones online. Ever the problem solver, I’m going to end that difficulty today with…

My interview with blogger Dan Silverman was the first dinner with a stranger I ever did in DC. It was also in March 2009. It’s so dated that the restaurant we ate at has since closed. Nevertheless, today you get a podcast of it. [display_podcast] Normally I’d follow up the…

Following Tuesday’s podcast of my interview with Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold in Philadelphia more than two years ago, here’s a Where Are They Now? podcast providing an update on what he’s doing these days. [display_podcast] Meanwhile, one week from now I’ll be flying to Montreal, Canada. I don’t have…