Pimp

You might not know that I host and produce a public radio program called The Marketplace of Ideas. If you haven't been listening, or at least haven't been listening since the time of my last Pimp post, here are the luminaries my conversations with whom you've been missing:

• Thinker, writer and "Agent of Change" Seth Godin
• Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire, the finest music magazine in existence
• On Romantic music, poetry and philosophy with James Donelan, the only professor to ever give me an A
• Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll on the arrow of time and the challenges of science writing
• North Korea scholar B.R. Myers on the worldview of the "Hermit Kingdom" as revealed by its propaganda
• Musician, writer, and ex-blogger Nick "Momus" Currie on the occasion of his 50th birthday and the closing of his blog
• Cinematic curator and journalist Livia Bloom on the films and personality of documentarian Errol Morris
• Economist, rationalist and Overcoming Bias blogger Robin Hanson
• On advertising, marketing and narrative with New York Times "Consumed" columnist Rob Walker
• Economist Steven Landsburg on how to address philosophy's big questions with the techniques of economics
• Oxford historian Chris Wickham on how to do the history of the Middle Ages right

You might also not know that I've been transcribing my Marketplace of Ideas interviews on a weekly basis and posting the transcripts to 3QuarksDaily for yr reading pleasure. Here are the texts currently available:

• B.R. Myers on North Korean propaganda
• Seth Godin on not being a cog
• Wire editor Chris Bohn on running a successful modern-music mag
• Merlin Mann on escaping "tip" culture and doing less stuff better
• WFMU general manager Ken Freedman on the craft of freeform radio
• ZBS Foundation president Thomas Lopez on audio dramatism
• Three music writers on Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left
• Nick "Momus" Currie on enjoying, and leaving, blogging
• Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt on broadcasting the best conversations with authors
• Robin Hanson on being rational and signaling status
• The Sound of Young America host Jesse Thorn on bringing something new, and apparently frightening, to public radio
• Ramin Bahrani on being a "neo-neorealist" filmmaker

And hey, have your realized that I also write a monthly film column called "The Humanists" on that very same site? Well, I do. Here are the films I've covered there in the past five months:

• Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse
• Jia Zhangke's Still Life
• Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light
• Frederick Wiseman's High School
• Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up

Speaking of columns and media, I also write one on podcasts, called "Podthoughts", for The Sound of Young America's web site. Podcasts recently reviewed include:

• The Pipeline
• RISK!
• Superego
• Talk to Me
• Arts and Ideas
• Creative Destruction
• The SModcast
• XO
• Well-Rounded Radio
• Chatterbox Audio Theater
• The World in Words
• The Mustache Rangers
• The Popdose Podcast
• The Amateur Scientist Podcast
• KEXP: Music that Matters
• Sound Opinions
• X Minus One
• Everything from Resonance FM

OTHER FUN FACTS: I also host and produce a radio program on local arts and news issues with the Santa Barbara Independent. For that outlet, I also write a column on the past, present and future of KCSB, the station from which that program broadcasts.

Now if only any of this stuff paid a dime, I'd be sittin' pretty! I understand lives of crime are paying awfully well these days.