Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

Hi, it's me, Andy, your tourist in the city. Do you listeners know how much time it takes to produce a 14 minute podcast of Tourist In The City?

It takes about 20 hours of editing time, post-recording. And I work 70 to 80 hours a week. And that work is underwriting Tourist In The City. And I know Thanksgiving was four days ago!!!

So any time I'll have the first installment of our Macy's Day Thanksgiving recordings.

In the meantime, write me a note. Yep, you can do it. TouristInTheCity@gmail.com

Love you!

Andy

PS --> I came back to this blog with the breakthrough information that I am the Super Grand Prize award winner of the Overnightscape Extreme Competition. Alright, I made up that title; I won a quiz on the podcast "Overnightscape", OK? You can all about the tiebreaker and the full announcement here: http://www.Overnightscape.com (episode_0336.mp3)

its coming

these posts take so much time! I've already clocked 5 hours of editing and have so much further to go. In the meantime, my arrangements are made for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, also known as the macy's parade, and macy's day parade. I begin today with a recording of Clown Camp, the once-a year training in professional clowning for the hundreds of volunteer parade clowns....

In the meantime, here's a link to a new podcast I found by another New Yorker, Jason, who I don't know but I expect I'll meet at the New York Podcasters Association. It's called GOTHAMCAST. Like Tourist In The City, Jason looks for slices of New York's big apple pie in the sky, but, it's a different spice: Tourist use more nutmeg and brown sugar, and I think Gothamcast has extra Cinnamin. For some reason, they're tasty together.

you can find it at gothamcast.com, or download the most recent episode

GOTHAMCAST:


--Andy

nasty HALLOWEEN in the olde village

In its third decade, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is traditionally sexy, grotesque and inventive. Anyone in a costume can march, and many of the creative homemade costumes cost hundreds of dollars and hours and hours of time to construct. In a few days I'll have my recording of the Parade on post.

On December 10 I'll be inagurating a second podcast, SNOWBARK, devoted to invention, creativity and music of emerging artists.

So, see you in a few days with Snowbark's HALLOWEEN.

-- Andy

LapPOP! San Francisco

Direct download: TiC_051017_LapPOP_copy_1.mp3
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In SAN FRANCISCO! My stream of mind based on LapPOP! - a night of performance & readings & photography from notable APA bloggers and artists.

An intersection between geekery, personal expression, and pop culture.

Guest MC & Curator of Lap-POP!
Min Jung Kim of www.minjungkim.com

Featured Performers

Ernie Hsiung, Writer of www.littleyellowdifferent.com
Glenda Bautista, Writer of www.agendacide.com
Robynn Takayama, Sound Artist of www.nonogirl.com
Courtney Patubo, Visual Photography of www.endofthetour.com
Annie Lin, Musical Performer of www.annielin.com


Robynn NONOGIRL Takayama's Webzine, with an audio link to a dozen of her radio pieces produced between 2001 and 2005, is available exclusively at:

http://webzine.nonogirl.com/

and her listening room --> http://nonogirlradio.typepad.com/listening_room/

ANNIE LIN's cd "Truck Was Struck" is available through CDBaby.com


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Chess Girl

Near the Hudson River I met a man playing chess, and losing, against a fifth grade girl. We were behind a snack bar near a miniature golf course, and the Sultans of Swing struck up the band.

click this link TiC_050710_Chess_Girl.mp3 to download or listen to the MP3 file


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Still have questions? Just email me at TouristInTheCity@gmail.com

--> The fascinating world of Maternal Geekdom: Mur Lafferty's ** Geek Fu Action Grip ** http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/

Links:
Marlon Cherry: http://www.cdbaby.com/marloncherry
Now, this is not the musician by the same name from Norwich, U.K. The Marlon Cherry you hear lives and works in New York City, actively drums for national dance companies including Paul Taylor and Martha Graham, and is the subject of an upcoming Tourist In The City profile. You can reach the real Marlon Cherry by writing me; I'll forward it on to him directly.

David Berger and the Sultans of Swing, playing on the nearby pier:
http://www.sultansofswing.com

The fascinating, special mini-golf: http://www.hoopla.org/Minigolf/GGGIndex.html

4th of July Fireworks

Macy's Department Store sponsors the New York City fireworks display to honor the USA Independence Day. And as do all good children on their own, we love our mother country.

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photos by Margaret Polaneczy




music:
Vienna Teng "Harbor"
http://www.viennateng.com

The PodSquad

I'm really pleased to announce that TouristInTheCity is now a part of a network of podcasters based in the New York area, NYCPodSquad.com. Since mid-April I've met most of the creative talent behind the several other podcasts in the NYC PodSquad network. I like many of the programs, which include music, talk, conjecture, business advice and eating. I invite you to sample them, too.

Visit http://www.NYCPodSquad.com

Rooftop Garden

Manhattan is an island of apartments, and people create gardens for themselves on terraces and rooftops. I visit a friends' garden in their apartment building on the upper east side.

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Write the Tourist at TouristInTheCity@gmail.com

The Carol Bui Band

The Carol Bui band is blowing through town on June 18 -- hard rock energy.
PIANOs on Ludlow Street, Manhattan



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http://www.carolbui.com

Grandpa's Cadillac

A day for memory:
Here in the city things just blow through for awhile. A few days ago this song appeared on my iPod, apparently brought in by one of the compiling shows that offer an editor's idea of four or five interesting podcasts. This one had no information. Anyone know anything about the writer or performer or name of this song? I call it Cadillac, and I note it references a Michael Murphy song made popular by Hoyt Axton, and it references the first Cadillac by dating the story on the Cadillac's birthday. There are likely other references I don't know -- Ypsilanti, perhaps 113th street.

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in the catskills

The Tourist joins his son's Fifth Grade in a trip to the Catskills, and records the birds in the trees at Frost Valley, a YMCA-run nature preserve in Claryville, New York.

Links:
http://www.frostvalley.org/

music:
Vienna Teng, "Homecoming"

Podcasters' Secret Lair April 2005

I walk through Times Square and meet some podcasters at the dawn of the age of enlightenment.

Link:
http://podcasting.meetup.com/33/

Main Post Office April 15, 2005

The USPS and postal employees work hard to help you, but there's only 90 minutes until midnight. After that, it's prison.


"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

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Links:
http://www.irs.gov
http://www.usps.gov
http://www.missiledickchicks.net/audio.html
http://www.columbia.edu
http://www.hkhyalliance.org
http://www.smwa.org/Veronica_Lueken.htm


music clip:
Maggie Kim's "Perfect"

Paul's Park April 13, 2005

Some thoughts of Paul CYMERMAN's work on a playground.

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or!


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Place: Paul's Park
Location: The Bronx
Links:
http://www.paulspark.org
http://www.paulspark.com

music clips:
opening: "Perfect" by Maggie Kim
closing: "Homecoming" by Vienna Teng

Paul