Since moving across the Atlantic, I’ve been delighted by the number of public holidays Americans get to enjoy. So it was that yesterday I had Monday to myself thanks to the Labor Day holiday. I should have been productive with my time off and cleaned the house, maybe gone for…
Interview 35: Hitting The Jackpot
Jason Ryan has it pretty good right now with a new child, renovated house and decent feedback to a book he wrote about pot smugglers in South Carolina. It was Jason’s book “Jackpot” that acted as the catalyst for the two of us getting dinner on a Saturday night during…
Podcast #20
Good things come to those who wait. At least, that’s the saying. Maybe my inherent impatience is the reason why the number of good things coming my way tends to be somewhat teeny. Regardless, actor Cecil Baldwin is an incredibly patient man. [display_podcast] In my interview with Cecil back in…
Podcast #19
All the world’s a stage and something something. I don’t remember much of my English literature classes on Shakespeare except for my kindly old grandma of a teacher who hated confrontation, and would whisper the platitude “perceptive insight” in response to whatever thoughts you had about the Bard’s works no…
Podcast #18
On Tuesday I uploaded a podcast of my interview with Mike Wilkinson and Alicia Wilkinson-Mehr, co-owners of Pete’s Apizza in Washington, DC. [display_podcast] Earlier this week I called Mike for a quick chat to find out how Pete’s has developed in the roughly two years since the interview.
A Taste Of India
Last night my friends and I had dinner at Capitol Hill Tandoor & Grill, a restaurant in DC’s Eastern Market neighborhood. The venue’s website offered “the exotic tastes of India,” a promise that I approached with a cautiously arched eyebrow because my bland taste buds usually mean that spicy Indian food…
Podcast #17
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…
Zesty Sunday
Had brunch today at Zest, a new restaurant in DC’s Eastern Market neighborhood. In terms of appearance, it’s a very peppy (zesty, perhaps?) place, with plenty of natural light and an upbeat soundtrack of pop tunes playing at a respectable level in the background. But that’s about as far as…
Podcast #16
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…
Podcast #15
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…