Talking my way through Denver

In New Zealand, I took more or less speechless field recordings. In the "Mile High City" of Denver, Colorado, where I spent last weekend and a healthy chunk of last week, I've recorded a narrative travelogue. There for the 2010 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference — and, of course, to explore some urban terra incognita — I kept my Zoom H4n in tow to yammer into whenever a question or observation struck me. If you think it takes a good deal of mind over matter to unselfconsciously walk around an urban center talking into a recorder, you are right. But the transformation happens quickly. Yet another inhibition shed! Damn inhibitions.

So submitted for your enjoyment is my Denver travelogue (MP3, 17:30, 16.1mb), the first in what I imagine will become an irregular series of city podcasts. Subjects covered include:

• Denver's preponderance of brown-brick-and-glass architecture
• A presentation from artist/animator Kota Ezawa
• The Hyatt Regency's elevator-based ambient television
• Denver's unusually high amount of public sculpture, included but not limited to Claes Oldenburg's "Big Sweep" ("no fondling the broom, no caressing the broom")
• Lessons about publishing and creative work in general learned while browsing the AWP bookfair (more on this to come)
• What a glass-encased Quizno's is a synechdoce for
• What you have to do when you forget to pack any boxers

I now travel somewhere interesting at least once a year — and if things go right, that number will rise steadily — so expect more where this came from. Suggestions are welcome, though I realize I should've captured more conversations with other people. Maybe when I go to Mexico City. I still have some of my, uh, high school Spanish.

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