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Episode 14: Dave Awl
My guest this week is the delightful Dave Awl, a performance poet, author, and alumnus of the Neo-Futurists and Pansy Kings.
In this episode Dave tells many wonderful stories, shares a few works from his collection What the Sea Means, and compares your host to a pair of trousers.
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Episode 13: Jess Hutchinson/World Theatre Day
I met Jess Hutchinson at the League of Chicago Theatres offices to talk about how Chicago is celebrating World Theatre Day. Jess, who is the Artistic Director of New Leaf Theatre, is one of the driving forces behind Chicago’s participation in WTD.
World Theatre Day is this coming Saturday, March 27. If you’re here in Chicago, check out the facebook page for the celebration at the Chopin. Wherever you are, you can have a look at the map of worldwide events hosted on TCG.org.
Download with care; I have a head cold so bad that you might catch it from listening to the show…
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Episode 12: Kevin Zolkiewicz
Talking transit, from hot-button CTA politics to charming Kenosha streetcars.
Look, you’re already here at my podcast, right? So you’re probably kind of a dork, right? And your ears perked up when I said “public transit”, didn’t they? I thought so.
Transit is especially a thing here in Chicago at the moment because of the recent CTA cuts, which came into effect in February. I called up my friend Kevin Zolkiewicz, a dedicated transit wonk who runs ChicagoBus.org, and we met up for coffee and wonkery.
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ETA: Kevin just wrote in to correct himself re: the streetcars we talked about near the end of the episode:
I should note one correction regarding PCC streetcars. They actually weren’t a government thing, but rather were designed by a committee of street car operators. I got confused with the “State of the Art” rail car design commissioned by the FTA in the 1970s.
Episode 11: John Campbell and Friends
A Chicago webcomic artist at home with special guests Corinne Webb, the L train, and the flu.
I sat down with John Campbell, writer/artist behind the webcomic Pictures for Sad Children, last week as he was getting over a nasty flu. As promised in the program, here are links to the After Last Season INCIDENT:
An EW article in which John Campbell says “gosh”
We had a really interesting talk; I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks also to Corinne for talking about her work on the show and for being generally vivacious.
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Episode 10: Actor Slash Model
This week, Actor Slash Model talk about their music and filmmaking projects and perform a couple of songs.
I met with Simon Strikeback (right) and Madsen Minax (left) in Madsen’s basement-slash-recording studio to chat about their music, their new documentary, the intersection of trans activism and the arts, all that good stuff.
Actor Slash Model will be performing at Lily’s Bar on Saturday the 27th. The movie is continuing to hit the festival circuit at home and abroad — maybe it’s coming to your town?
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We invented the skyscraper, split the atom, made our river flow backwards, created a lakefront from scratch, figured out the transistor, drew all the railroads to us, pioneered the continuously dominated commercial air travel, broadcast the world’s first all-color TV station, built the number one manufacturing city of America, invented risk management markets, won more Nobel Prizes than any city on earth, communicate more data on a daily basis than any other city on earth, threw away more basic industries than most other cities ever had, you know, like, hog butcher, stacker of wheat, steel capital of America. Should we tell anyone?
— Paul O’Connor, executive director of World Business Chicago.
A lull in the imaginary schedule
Next episodes (in which IJGH will be dorking out about transit with Kevin Zolkiewicz and paying a visit to indie-grass musician-rockumentarians Actor Slash Model) (not at the same time) (although that would be cool too) will show up pretty late in the month of February.
ETA: Also on the show in February: John Campbell, writer/artist behind the webcomic Pictures for Sad Children. He’s famous on the internet.
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Episode 9: Dan Telfer
On Tuesday evening I caught up with comedian Dan Telfer before he performed at Chicago Underground Comedy.
(Not right before, mind you. Right before he went on was when he had to kick that heckler out. There’s nothing like live performance, kids.)
We had a wide-ranging talk about comedy performance, the interwebs, how to decide if it’s a good moment to ditch all your material and impersonate a fish, and so much more. By the way, here’s the clip, referenced in our conversation about the recent late-night clusterheck, of Jack Paar quitting The Tonight Show over NBC’s corporate dumbassery… fifty years ago.
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ETA: My apologies to my friend Mont Chris Hubbard, who composed and performed the incidental music used in this episode — I’ve always credited him on-air when using his music, but this time I plumb forgot. Here’s a link to Chris’s website and here’s where you can buy recordings of the Permutations of 88 series.
