Mr. President
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 562 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. the return of cartoonist Leslie Stein. With her wonderful, hilarious &...
Hitting The Links: 11/5/23
Unitard I got to record with Phillip Lopate yesterday. That episode will air in a few weeks — in the meantime GO READ his new essay collection, A Year And A...
Analog Digital
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 561 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. a conversation with cartoonist Josh Bayer. With his new graphic novel/memoir,...
Hitting The Links: 10/29/23
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down We made it back safe & sound from Barcelona on Friday, then spent Saturday in Princeton where I hosted a talk with Patrick...
The Secret Sharer
Keeping up appearances I’ll be interviewing Patrick McDonnell about his new book, The Super Hero’s Journey (Abrams ComicArts), at a live event on Oct. 28 at...
Hitting The Links: 10/22/23
He’s from Barcelona I’m in Barcelona for a trade show this week. We got in yesterday morning, waited ~45 minutes on line at passport control, and got to our...
The Analog Desk
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 559 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. a conversation with Lisa Morton as we celebrate spooky season & the release of...
Hitting The Links: 10/15/23
High Potency I was Dearborn, MI on Thursday & Friday for a client meeting about patient-centricity in drug development & manufacturing. It was a good event,...
OMFG JUBILEE STREET
Podcastery This week, I posted Episode 558 of The Virtual Memories Show, feat. a conversation with legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes about his amazing,...
Hitting The Links: 10/8/23
Intro Something weird happened at my pharma conference last Thursday-Friday: nothing weird happened. I mean, I know I over-plan, micromanage and stress the...
Challenges & Opportunities
Intro I’ll be heading out in an hour or so for the annual pharma conference I organize, host, and micromanage within an inch of its/my life. The main...
Hitting The Links: 10/1/23
Intro I’m in Columbus, OH for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), an annual comics festival co-founded by my late friend Tom Spurgeon. Last year, I came here...
Fast Reading
Intro [As mentioned on Sunday, I’ve decided to do 2 posts a week instead of one: Sunday gets the Link-O-Rama, Current Reading, and Sound Body/Fractured Mind...
Hitting The Links: 9/24/23
Intro [The weekly version of this email was getting WAY long, so I decided to split it in two parts. On Wednesdays (or thereabouts), I’ll send out the email...
BEOTI
Intro “How are you able to DO everything!?” By which they mean holding down a heavy-duty day job while making the podcast (and doing all the related...
Fierce Luigi
Intro In Greek myth, the three-headed dog Cerberus guards the gates of the underworld. When I rang the doorbell of my dying friend last Friday, I was greeted...
Eternal Sunshine of the Tweetless Mind
Intro When I decided to delete my account on Facebook 6+ years ago, I told a pal that staying on it was like saying, “I don’t agree with the politics of Der...
Dead Sirius
Intro On my way back from picking up lunch today, the 1st Wave station on Sirius XM (it came with the car in 2019 & I renew every year) seemed to be...
Cheesecake, Penguins, Bucks
Intro I’d offer up something profound, but this is already a day late & I’ve got advocacy letters & an article to write for work, so instead you get a little...
Read the Label
Intro “I do have a little bit of a habit, yes, hon. You ought to at least give me a few marks for originality.” I’m in much better shape than last week, now...
