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Jan 22, 2011 
I just got off the phone, doing a live interview with Mark Lipinski on his toginet.com radio show Creative Mojo about my 2006 book Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures. Lots of fun! Yes, my palms were sweaty and I probably sounded more than a little hyper: I’ll see once they post the podcast, which will be available through that Creative Mojo link above down the road (I’ll post when it comes up). But I enjoyed the show, and was able to calm down a little and focus beforehand by the trick of imagining myself as one of the very experienced interviewees one sees on talk shows-famous actors and directors and so forth. This is similar to the trick of imagining what it’s like to be a college professor before taking a standardized test, which in one experiment helped people remember more facts more confidently.
Mark Lipinski
When I look at the show Mark runs, I have to be impressed. Mark edits several craft magazines and yet does this radio show once a week where he has a number of guests whose work he seems to know well. He clearly had delved into my book with a will and asked some great questions. How do you do that with six people a week? Interestingly, Mark characterizes himself as a procrastinator. Maybe he’s just the kind of person who initiates so many projects, sometimes it’s hard to choose which one to proceed with? If so, he and I would have that in common. I’ve been enjoying the process of narrowing down my focus to one major project at a time, though. More on that in past and future posts.
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