Thursday, January 20, 2005

I'm on NPR's "Best of Our Knowledge" This Weekend...

I taped a long interview with these guys a couple of weeks ago; they will be turning that raw material into innovative radio journalism, before our very ears, this very weekend! The theme of the larger show is "The Desert" for the first hour, and it is as part of that hour that I shall be speaking. The program airs on over 100 NPR stations nationwide; go here for a full list. It airs at different times in different markets, but this show debuts this Sunday Jan. 23, and I am apparently in segment two of hour one, according to their Web site here. I shall take the liberty of listing some right here for areas where I know I and/or my book or Burning Man itself have many fans. All times are LOCAL:

San Francisco: KQED 88.5 FM--Sunday Jan 23, starting at 3 am and then repeated at 7 pm.

Los Angeles--KCLU 88.3 and 102. 7 FM--now the web site confuses me on this, as they seem to divide the show into two separate hours, one on SATURDAY noon-1, the other on SUNDAY 9-10 p.m.--the show allegedly FIRST airs on Sunday, so perhaps that will be the first hour (the one I'm on) with the second hour NEXT Saturday? Who knows, alas.

Eugene, Oregon--KRVM 1280 AM--starting at 8 am Sunday Jan 23.

San Antonio, TX--KSTX 89.1 FM--starting 10 am Sunday Jan 23.

Again, that's just a tiny sampling. See here for a map of the U.S. that will tell you every area you can hear this.

I didn't know it until it was too late, but C-SPAN2 re-ran the New York reading again last Saturday, at noon est, 9 am pacific. Pete Goldie let me know when he ran into me at the Odeon.

The vote for Arts Council members and guest curator for Borg2 are over. Those wonderful folk at Madagascar Institute got curator. I couldn't be more delighted. Go to the Borg2 web site for all details, and Borg2 Tribe for all arguments and tomfoolery. It truly will be the Best Burning Man Ever.