Archive for February, 2007

Popsci Podcast - Nearly the Best

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

The waiting is over. The Magazine Publishers of America announced the winners of this year’s digital awards (I know - who did what to the what now?) and guess which Contributing Troubadour took second place in the Best Magazine Podcast category? I don’t know what’s up with this National Geographic “walking around” podcast that took [...]

A Kinder Gentler Mix-a-Lot

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Randy sends me this simply beautiful video for Baby Got Back - it’s Mix-a-Lot’s original MTV video speed-treated and time-warped so that he appears to be singing my version (must have taken forever). Even with the giant butt set piece, when you slow things down all the rump shaking takes on this really graceful quality [...]

You Know What I Need?

Monday, February 26th, 2007

A monkey. A monkey who is willing to upload all of my songs to the podsafe music networks. I consider all my stuff podsafe, but I just haven’t had the time to upload everything in the catalog. I’ve got an account and a few songs up at Podsafe Music Networks, but I know there are [...]

The Merlin Show Interview

Monday, February 26th, 2007

When I was playing at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, I agreed to do an interview with Merlin Mann, the supergenius behind 43folders and 5ives and other things, for his new internet TV show The Merlin Show. Imagine my surprise when I showed up and there were two cameras, a couple of lav mics [...]

Quicklinks For the Very Fast

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I’m going to get better with email, I swear it. Stuff has really been piling up, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to resort to another episode of Quicklinks to get all these things about me out to you, the viewing public. If you sent me something and nothing happened, I’m sorry. But still:
Funny [...]