November 2012
64 posts
PFT Counts To Ten
The numbers from one to ten as they appeared in the introductions to my podcast. - Paul
Paul F. Tompkins counts to ten. Delightful.
“I grew up reading a generation of American and English people like [Saul] Bellow, [John] Updike or [Martin] Amis. Everybody’s neutral unless they’re black — then you hear about it: the black man, the black woman, the black person. Of course, if you happen to be black the world doesn’t look that way to you. I just wanted to try and create perhaps a sense of alienation and otherness in this person, the white reader, to remind them that they are not neutral to other people.”
—Zadie Smith, discussing how she never mentions the race of any of the characters in her new novel, NW, unless they are white. (via theraconteurasaurus)
American Aquarium Drinker: Relevant to the news of the day →
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One afternoon long ago, I was walking down 1st Avenue with my friend Jancee, who was getting ready for her first interview with the one of the editors of the New York Times SundayStyles section. She went over some story ideas she wanted to pitch the guy, we discussed them, we stopped at a bodega…
David Petraeus Affair Photos →
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Thanks to Slapclap for showing me this.
PODCAST ROUNDUP, PARDNERS!
FREEEEE-HAW!
JANIE & AARON DOES HOLLYWOOD: EPISODE 23
I make a guest appearance on a podcast that is recorded in my own home by someone to whom I am married! It only took the host/my spouse TWENTY-TWO EPISODES to invite me!
THE THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR: EPISODE 96
BEYOND BELIEF: “Caped Fear”
From nerdist.com:
Starring Paul F. Tompkins and Paget Brewster as those married mediums Frank and Sadie Doyle. Also starring Mark Gagliardi, Jorge Garcia, and Clancy Brown as vampires.
Recorded November 3, 2012.
COMEDY BANG! BANG! EPISODE 186
From Earwolf.com:
“Fellow podcasters and first timers Julie Klausner and Jake Fogelnest are here on today’s Comedy Bang Bang! Jake & Julie recall the first time they met, each describe their podcasts “The Fogelnest Files” and “How Was Your Week” respectively, and share their love of BuzzFeed’s Katie Notopoulos. Garry Marshall returns to reveal his secret name, tell us about his new family sitcom based on The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, and plays a game of Would You Rather? You will hear tales of Garry’s past and we’ll finally answer the age old question as to if there is indeed a Scope brand toothpaste.”
ALISON ROSEN IS YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND: PAUL F. TOMPKINS PART 1
From AlisonRosen.com:
“Paul F. Tompkins stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to discuss clothes, words such as natty and Zumba, vegetables, the YMCA, guarding his house from early morning intruders, Sniglets, his career (Mr. Show with Bob and David, Kelsey Grammar Presents, Best Week Ever, DAG), the Pod F. Tompkast, relationships and therapy and having dated the wrong people and more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone (click here to see the JMOEs we put on the screen), Topic Sombrero and HGFY. This is a special two-parts-in-one-week episode and some of the above is discussed in the second part which you can download bright and early on Thursday morning. Set your alarm. Which one? ALL OF THEM.”
