{"id":453,"date":"2012-03-14T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=453"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T07:14:24","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e9-suggested-user-with-alison-agosti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E9: Suggested User with Alison Agosti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-454\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"2171_55023316155_503361155_\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/03\/2171_55023316155_503361155_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/03\/2171_55023316155_503361155_.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/03\/2171_55023316155_503361155_-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Feliz with comedy writer, baseball reporter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/alisonagosti\">Twitter<\/a> &#8220;suggested user&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/alisonagosti.tumblr.com\/\">Alison Agosti<\/a>. They discuss the preferred pronunciation of &#8220;Los Feliz&#8221;; Rancho Cucamonga&#8217;s chief industry of teenage pregnancy; how Los Angeles looked while she was growing up in the Inland Empire; the promise of New York as a land of letters, art, and coats; her mass childhood purchase of used Woody Allen tapes, including but not limited to <em>Husbands and Wives<\/em>; the morning she woke up to 1500 e-mails from Twitter in her inbox; her realization that comedy writing could count as a job; what it takes to get on a Maude team; her struggle to coming up with new ways to write &#8220;hit the ball&#8221; or to present a narrative in a 2-1 game against the Diamondbacks; her music blog <a href=\"http:\/\/headphonesin.tumblr.com\/\">Headphones In<\/a>; finding humor in the complicated, as unworkable as it can end up in a sketch; raking in the Twitter stars by mentioning eating something weird by yourself; her weariness of apologizing for Los Angeles, a city that doesn&#8217;t work against you except when you can&#8217;t find parking; Venice, either the &#8220;weirder&#8221; or &#8220;non-shitty&#8221; Santa Monica; how we only children who refuse to network or compete can explain ourselves to actual grown-ups; the appeal of the intelligent, loud, brilliant but unself-aware Woody Allen-type character; what she likes to satirize in herself; playing (but not beating) <em>Ecco the Dolphin<\/em> on the Sega Genesis; and &#8220;the woman-in comedy thing,&#8221; which turns out not to be a thing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e9-suggested-user-with-alison-agosti\">here<\/a> or on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Philip Eierund)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Feliz with comedy writer, baseball reporter, and Twitter &#8220;suggested user&#8221; Alison Agosti. 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