I’m going to blame the ongoing heatwave in Washington for the reason that I haven’t updated this site in a while. It has nothing whatsoever to do with laziness or other personal faults. Not at all. Entirely due to the weather. Regardless, today you get a new interview. My 44th…
Interview 43: Chatting With A Cartoonist
It took almost three months, but here’s a new interview. A few weekends ago I traveled to Baltimore to get brunch with Ben Claassen III. He’s a cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Dirtfarm. Click here to learn about his work, and also about his somewhat unusual experiences…
Brunch With Ben
It’s been quite some time since my last dinner interview. That will thankfully change in the coming week when I put up my brunch interview with cartoonist Ben Claassen III. I met Ben in Baltimore and he told me all about his artistic work. More on that when I put…
Summer In The Sunshine State
The travel plans page has been updated to include an upcoming trip I’m taking in July to Florida. I’ll be in Miami from July 18-20 and Key West from July 20-22. If you live in either place and want to sit down to dinner for an interview, please get in…
Even More Malachi Reaction
My interview with former gay-for-pay porn star Malachi Marx is still generating comments almost two years after I sat down to lunch with him. I wouldn’t normally post an update on this or other comments — mostly because my site gets nothing but spam comments talking about the Zune or…
My Kind Of Town
Next month I’ll be in Chicago for a long weekend and am looking for people in the Windy City interested in having dinner with a stranger. I’ll be there from April 13 through the afternoon of April 17. Though I’ll be working for some of the trip — yes, I…
You Are In An Open Field
It’s always interesting (at least to me) to find out what past interviewees are up to these days. While I’ve taken a hiatus from doing “Where Are They Now?” podcasts — mostly out of sheer laziness — I still occasionally get email updates from some strangers. Case in point: Cecil…
Fighting Over Marriage
After reading about Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signing a bill legalizing gay marriage earlier this week, I remembered a Sunday dinner interview I had last year with Patrick Walker — a DC-based pastor who has fought against gay marriage. Read my interview with Patrick to learn more about his stance…
Interview 42: Dinner With Rozanne
It’s been a while since I put up a new dinner interview, but here’s the first one of 2012: my dinner with marketing communications executive Rozanne Weissman in Washington, DC. Rozanne told me how she got into public relations and her earlier career as a journalist. She also had plenty to…
Almost Maine (In Virginia)
Readers of this site living near Tysons Corner, Virginia, have a chance to check out a play directed by one of my former interviewees, magician Michael Chamberlin. However, time is running out because the play’s last night is this Sunday, February 26. Michael sent me a link to 1st Stage…