NEW YEAR, same old podcast … with a slight twist. THE NO PANTS COCKTAIL HOUR has been going strong since 2018, through 65 episodes of me talking about … well, me. And my writing! I am still inordinately proud of this trailer I created for it long ago:
For 65 episodes the podcast has been focused on fiction (and alcohol), but this year I thought I’d mix it up a bit and spend 12 episodes talking about and reading nonfiction essays I’ve published over the years. To start with, I chose “You’re Eating Yourself, You Don’t Believe It,” an essay I published in Angry Thoreauan back in 2000.
It’s just me riffing on an incident from my college days, living in a windowless, subterranean, and possibly illegal apartment with my friends Ken and Jeof. Slowly going insane, one night we decided to make a horror film using a random VHS camera that had come into our possession. As with most of our projects at the time, what began with lofty ambition soon soured in Apocalypse Now-esque insanity and failure.
Now, if that isn’t a compelling hook for a podcast, I don’t know what is. Check it out! And remember: Whatever else might be true, I am very likely delicious.