{"id":742,"date":"2012-07-15T18:43:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T01:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=742"},"modified":"2012-07-15T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T01:43:28","slug":"podthoughts-ask-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: Ask Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.netcastia.com\/Galleries\/ask-brooklyn-podcast152012911015.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: interviews with Brooklyn-based experts about their expertise and how it relates to Brooklyn<br \/>\nEpisode duration: ~30m<br \/>\nFrequency: 1-4 per month<\/p>\n<p>When one of my peers \u2014 i.e., anyone in that vast age group, \u201cabout thirty\u201d \u2014 tells me they live in New York, I just assume they live in Brooklyn. Thirty years ago, I suppose they would have lived in one of the more run-down parts of Manhattan, David Byrne territory. But something tells me that no \u201cmore run-down parts of Manhattan\u201d remain. I\u2019ve talked to the occasional youngish person who lives in Queens, but they always make it sound as remote as Guam. I\u2019ve never encountered anyone from the Bronx or Staten Island. Then again, I live in Los Angeles, a haven for the rootless, and I suspect Brooklyn provides the same solace. You see a lot of traffic back and forth; for every Brooklynite aspiring to Angelenohood, an Angeleno aspires to Brooklynism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, Brooklyn,\u201d I remember Buddy Bradley, protagonist of Peter Bagge\u2019s comic series\u00a0<em>Hate<\/em>, saying upon setting foot there. \u201cThe worst place in the world.\u201d That issue formed, in large part, my early impression of that part of New York: crowded, inconvenient, dangerous, dirty. I still haven\u2019t visited, though I understand that, somewhere in the past fifteen years, Brooklyn made the transition from<em>Crooklyn<\/em>\u00a0to something of a Portland East. Over this same span of time, though, my appreciation for the crowded, inconvenient, dangerous, and dirty has only grown, so I don\u2019t quite know what to do. Correcting my years of built-up inaccurate third-hand impressions by listening to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bboxradio.com\/ask-brooklyn\/\">Ask Brooklyn<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ask-brooklyn\/id511512554\">iTunes<\/a>] seemed like the beginning of a solution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2012\/07\/15\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-ask-brooklyn\">at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital stats: Format: interviews with Brooklyn-based experts about their expertise and how it relates to Brooklyn Episode duration: ~30m Frequency: 1-4 per month When one of my peers \u2014 i.e., anyone in that vast age group, \u201cabout thirty\u201d \u2014 tells me they live in New York, I just assume they live in Brooklyn. Thirty years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}