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Monday, July 24, 2006

 

Neural Gourmet on the radio


Neural Gourmet on WPVM's
Tips For Political Bloggers
With Paul Van Heden
July 24, 2006 7:00PM-7:30PM EST

OK, this has to be the height of cross-blog pimping, but I figure my voice alone makes this Braindead Shithead material. About 5PM this afternoon Paul Van Heden of Brainshrub fame, easily one of the best political blogs in all of Left Blogistan, shot me an e-mail asking me if I wouldn't mind being a fill-in guest on his radio show about blogs and blogging that airs weekly on WPVM 103.5 FM Asheville, NC. Despite having a voice that several environmental groups have sought court orders to have banned as detrimental to wildlife I enthusiastically agreed. Paul, whom I have great respect for, is one of the hardest working people in the blogosphere and beyond. As you might know, Paul and I are co-conspirators in the Carnival of the Liberals and have known each other for well over a year. Probably more. So I was thrilled when he asked me on.

Overall I thought it was a pretty good interview, and certainly a lot of fun. This was a bit of a last minute thing and as such I definitely stammered a little as Paul switched between topics (and pulled out a couple I wasn't expecting). I hope in the future (assuming another radio host throws caution to the wind and has me on) I could be a bit more coherent. Give a listen as we talk blogs, Drupal, Dilbert, spammers and more. Oh, and a little cotton swab in your ears will stop any bleeding caused by my voice.


Comments:
Neat!

Listening to it right now.

Your voice sounds fine to me. Of course, I have hearing damage, so who knows;-)
 
Nice interview! You have a fine voice. Nobody likes the sound of their own.

Is WPVM a community radio station?
 
Yeah, WPVM is a great little progressive community radio station.

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Re: my voice. I had major hearing loss when I was just a wee lad that wasn't caught until I was almost 6 and a half years old (they just didn't test for hearing on young kids back then) and wasn't really resolved until I was almost in fourth grade. So I went through years and years of speech therapy. Anyway, whenever I hear my voice I hear all the problems that never got corrected in speech therapy. I joke about it, but it really doesn't sound too bad if I listen objectively. Still I cringe.
 
Community radio is great. I'll give a shout out to "mine": WMPG. They have Democracy Now, Dick Dinman's DVD Classics Corner, and a wide range of music. They even play some of the JR shit. (Not "shit" meaning "shit" but "shit" meaning "awesome".) Which is to say, JR's SIM feature could/should be a show on there.
 
Dude, this is great! You sound fine.
And, I think it's been resolved, but I couldn't say my R's until I hit about 14-15. Yet, I still named my child something starting with an R.
Bright, I know.
 
Thanks Madame! Heh -- I couldn't properly pronounce Ls until I was about that age, and I have a double-L name. I think makes me a candidate to be a character in a Superman comic -- Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor...

Montag -- yeah, seriously. We need more community radio in this country.
 
The best radio station ever (in my opinion) was the community radio station in Madison, Wisconsin - WORT.

Bad name. Great station.
 
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