I just got back from the Upper West Side studio (on Central Park West, no less) where I conversed on the air with Our Girl in Chicago, who was speaking from (no points for guessing) Chicago. We chatted with Edward Lifson of WBEZ-FM, Chicago’s public radio station, about the state of the arts in Chicago, taking a few calls from various art-loving types who had better things to do than watch the Super Bowl. We even managed to get in a plug for Chicago arts blogger Golden Rule Jones!
Needless to say, OGIC and I talk on the phone two or three times a week, but it felt very different to be talking to her from a radio studio halfway across the continent, hearing her voice over headphones. She confesses to having been a bit nervous, which hardly surprises me–I mean, I didn’t have to make my radio debut in front of a live microphone–but the whole thing ended up being great fun, and proved what I’ve always suspected, which is that my co-blogger has a radio voice as lovely as the rest of her.
I expect you’ll be hearing rather more from Our Girl and rather less from me this week–I’ve been blogging to excess and not writing nearly enough for money, aside from which I have to spend three or four nights in aisle seats between now and next Monday. I’ll poke my head in from time to time, but I’m sure she’ll keep you more than sufficiently amused.