Video of appearance on KOMO TV's Northwest Afternoon

Last month my segment on on KOMO TV's Northwest Afternoon aired, and I finally got a copy of it. This is a popular daytime show in Seattle that caters to the stay-at-home crowd, and is known for its daily soap opera recap. Keep in mind that this is the interview I mis-scheduled, and almost missed. After getting a call from the producer just minutes before they started to tape, I threw on a jacket and rushed across town (and through some detours when I got lost), and was ushered onto the stage a mere five minutes after screeching into a handicapped space in the garage downstairs. So my adrenaline was pumping and my hair was a little messy. My mom thinks I look a little nervous in it but, given the situation, I think it turned out okay. This was the first time I'd taped a show in front of a live audience, which was a bit surreal. While the spectators were quite a few feet from the stage, I could still feel their stares, and they didn't all look admiring. When we went to the commercial break, a guy stood in front of them with a big "applaud" sign.

Going on Tim Shaw's Asylum on Kerrang! Radio

I just got invited to appear on Tim Shaw's Asylum on Kerrang! Radio, which is based in Birmingham and is broadcast throughout the West Midlands (not that I really know what that means). It's a pretty popular show (3.5 million listeners) and Shaw is one of the UK's most infamous radio hosts, who is, from what I can tell, something like an English Howard Stern (pre-Sirius). His co-host goes by the name "Juicy Lucy." Another one of his sidekicks is called "Weenhole." He pulls outrageous stunts, has been fired from a lot of jobs, and has guests that include naked women, transvestites, and rock stars.

With guests like this, I have no idea why he wants to talk to me.

Maybe it's because he's had a bit of negative experience with eBay himself, which is why you may have heard of him. Last year, after Tim told model Jodie Marsh on-air that he would leave his wife and two children for her, his wife got angry and sold his Lotus Esprit Turbo on eBay for 50p (90 cents), which is about 1/50,000 of its true value.

I'm not sure if the sale went though, but it made headlines around the world.

Shaw also once called his grandmother and told her, in his own voice, that he was dead.

I've never done a show like this. It should be interesting.

At this point, it looks like I'll be on Thursday night at 11:30 PM GMT, which, for those of us in the USA, is 6:30PM EST and 3:30PM PST. Check the Appearances page on this site for more details. The Kerrang! Radio website allows you to listen live, but only if you're in the UK. If you know how to mask your IP address with a UK proxy, you can get around this, but I'm sure few of you are geeky enough to accomplish this. So I'll try to record it.

Strangely compelling?

Following up its feature story about FAKE from last month, The Guardian printed a review of the book on Saturday. Steven Poole called it "a strangely compelling, breezily told tale of a world in which everyone is driven by pure greed."

Audio clip of Sports1140 interview

Things have been a little slow on the news front lately, due in part to my preparing for, going to, and recovering from Burning Man. It took a lot out of me but, as usual, was well worth it.





Here's something book-related: An audio clip of my recent interview on "Talkin' Money with Jeff Tarbell," which aired on Sports1140 in Sacramento a couple of weeks ago. I was on for almost the whole show, and the clip, with commercials edited, is just over 30 minutes.

Listen to it here.