{"id":1068,"date":"2012-11-04T16:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2012-11-04T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:34:55","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e17-grueling-whittling-with-mike-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E17: Grueling Whittling with Mike Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in northwest Portland with comic artist and film critic Mike Russell<\/a>, co-host on the Cort and Fatboy <\/em>podcast, creator of Culturepulp<\/em>, Mr. Do and Mr. Don’t<\/em>, The Sabertooth Vampire<\/em>, and more. They discuss the excruciating process of drawing an interview; his adaptation of a page of David Foster Wallace’s “Up, Simba”<\/a>; what it’s like to artistically live-blog the Portland Opera; the unusual robustness of the Portland comics industry, and its incentivization of “putting comics where they shouldn’t be”; his current task of drawing a comic for a set of European finance ministers; the origins of Portland podcasting, and how he became a part; how Star Wars<\/em> formed at least part of his cinematic consciousness, and what it takes to grow up into an astute genre fan; the worrisome effects of nostalgia and “remix culture”; the Portland “put it out there, what the hell” attitude; Portlandia<\/em>‘s proper title of Southeast Portlandia<\/em>, and how Los Angeles still sees the dream of the nineties as alive in the city; Portland as an undrying source of drawable weirdness; and the quintessentially Portland sport of “hashing,” or taking runs from bar to bar, drinking beer at each.<\/p>\n

Download the interview from\u00a0Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Marshall sits down in northwest Portland with comic artist and film critic Mike Russell, co-host on the Cort and Fatboy podcast, creator of Culturepulp, Mr. Do and Mr. Don’t, The Sabertooth Vampire, and more. They discuss the excruciating process of drawing an interview; his adaptation of a page of David Foster Wallace’s “Up, Simba”; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}