Starting a Craft Beverage Business
This event has been rescheduled due to weather. It will now be held on Wednesday, March 20. Panel Discussion, February 20, (New Date: Wednesday, March 20) Urban Forage Winery &…
QuOTeD Social & Storytelling
You’re invited… QuOTeD SocialFriday, February 22 at 7 p.m.Urban Forage Winery & Cider House3016 East Lake StreetMinneapolis, Minnesota 55406 It just takes one good question to spark an evening of…
10 Ideas for How to Get Some Damn Ideas
Last November I took on the challenge to post an episode of QuOTeD every day for the month. My friends Dave and Megumi also participated in National Podcast Post Month…
I Do Not Consume Podcasts
Could we just say what we mean? Do we mean ‘consume’ or ‘listen’?
by Rebekah Smith
When I had a college radio show the station manager would scold us for using insider lingo on the air. “Say ‘Public Service Announcement’ and not ‘cart'”, he would insist. Carts were these boxy looking tapes where the PSAs and other promos lived. You could easily jam them into a player, sort of like an 8-track tape, which made them ideal for these short bits. Today as more and more jargon infiltrates the language, I wish there were a staff meeting where someone would stand up and say, “Stop doing that! You sound like an idiot!”
Apologize When You’ve Done Something Wrong
On Facebook a friend shared the following post about apologies from the Instagram account of FeministVoice (December 21, 2016). “lately i’ve been replacing my ‘i’m sorry’s with ‘thank you’s’ like…
A Man and Two Wagons Waiting on the Sidewalk
A man sits with two wagons in the middle of the sidewalk. With the exception of a few plastic bags, the wagons are empty. What’s going on here?
T-shirts and Poetry Games
Brian and I were just in Chicago where I attended the Podcast Movement ’16 conference. I’m currently working on a QuOTeD episode that documents the extra day we spent in the Windy City after the conference. As we bummed around, with the exception of advertisements, I started to note the words people were wearing on t-shirts. I wondered if they could be strung together to either snap a sort of picture of the day or a specific time and place in the culture.
The t-shirts we saw were:
Purpose vs. Happiness, Another Take
Sixteen years ago, a friend and I found ourselves talking about purpose. The following is a partial transcript from that conversation. I had just made a comment about how “knowing yourself” always seemed to be the promise of the next stage of life. When you’re thirty, this. When you’re forty that. When you’re fifty…
Incidentally, the original Question of the Day was “Tell me about a wake-up call that informs the way you live your life today.”
Trading in the old car
How does it feel to trade in the old car? After 13 years, Brian trades in his Mazda that has had one too many repairs. The night before we take…
Can we say March?
So Valentine’s Day has come and gone and no podcast yet. It’s coming together and I’m aiming to post it by March. I can’t wait to share it with you!…