I just started a podcast.
Get in on the round floor and tell your friends you listened to it way back when.
It’s less than 10 minutes, guaranteed!
This week's Economist cartoon is really confusing.
Kevin Hines is nice enough to play along in my low-budget game show. Can he tell the difference between James Joyce’s Ulysses, considered the best novel of the 20th Century by the Modern Library, and A Dance With Dragons, book five of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series, “A Song of Ice and Fire”?
(He competed for almost an hour, but I edited the footage down to these three questions.)
Patrick Clair and Kevin Hines were nice enough to play detectives in this one.
They are trying to answer the question: What is the IMF?
At the Museum of the Moving Image with Kevin Hines and Silvija today, a clip of Al Jolson’s ground-breaking musical performance in The Jazz Singer reminded me of the video for Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower.”
I hope you enjoy my new podcast series, where I ask my guest just one question. Most podcasts are too long, mine is just right!
I was lucky enough to get Terry Gross to be my inaugural guest. As the host of Fresh Air, she is a role model for me and her interviews have inspired me in my work as an interviewer.
Here’s Bob Dylan’s Guide to December movies.
(Will Hines was DP for the sidewalk scenes.)
Here’s a quick song explaining the movies being released this month.
Consider participating in National Sketch Writing Month.
I’m writing a sketch a day all through September. You can follow my progress and read most of the sketches here.
Here are the titles of the last two sketches I wrote:
Erik Tanouye is a writer and performer in New York. He is not available for parties and does not teach guitar lessons. He is half Japanese, but was not involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
UC Davis cop eats donuts
Disturbing footage of UC Davis police officer trying to eat a doughnut.