Hooray for updates! I should have the 31st dinner interview online later this week. As always, laziness might intervene, but I’m hoping to fight it off. Likewise, podcasts should start up again as early as next week, so woohoo for that. Meanwhile, an update to my travel plans. For my…
Breakfast At Fripon’s
Woohoo, more Montreal restaurant reviews. Last Saturday morning my friend Brent, my housemate and I had breakfast at Le Fripon in Old Montreal. It’s a restaurant housed in a historic building in the Place Jacques-Cartier, a large square that apparently is home to nothing but dining option after dining option,…
Money’s Too Tight For Steak
Bonus points if you get the reference in the post title. Even more bonus points if you’re actually a reader of this site and not some spam comments robot. Following on from my post about poutine, I wanted to give praise to the place I had dinner on Friday night…
Canadian Bacon (And Poutine)
That’s a photo of a particularly dreary Friday in Montreal. Flew back on Sunday from a long weekend in the Canadian city, and boy are my arms tired. Ho ho. I was up there for a wedding on Saturday, giving me roughly a day-and-a-half to explore the city and its…
Podcast #9
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…
Podcast #8
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…
Podcast #7
What inspires someone to dress up as Benjamin Franklin and impersonate the Founding Father (some Brits might say traitor, but I won’t dwell on relatively ancient history)? Find out with today’s podcast, my interview with Ralph Archbold. He’s been impersonating Franklin for years and made quite the career out of…
A Vote For Mary Ann
Roughly one year ago I had an enjoyable brunch in Providence, Rhode Island, with Mary Ann Sorrentino — abortion rights activist, radio show host, and now a columnist for various newspapers and websites. She emailed to say that one of her articles, “Professional Women,” has been nominated as one of…
Podcast #6
Huzzah, another Where Are They Now? podcast. Today you can listen to my recent brief chat with Margarita Pracatan, finding out what the Cuban singer has been up to following my interview with her. [display_podcast] Hopefully I’ll have a new interview taking place on Sunday night, but given my procrastinating…
Podcast #5
My dinner with Cuban singer Margarita Pracatan is now available as a podcast. [display_podcast] A word of caution before you hit “play” above. The interview ended with Margarita and me taking a stab at singing some karaoke staples (“New York, New York” and “Take A Chance On Me”) and sound…