It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast; this time, a four-minute interview with Andrew Huff, editor-in-chief of Chicago arts-and-entertainment website GapersBlock.com, caught at one of their monthly reader get-togethers, this time at Xippo in the Lincoln Square neighborhood (Damen and Grace). Sorry for the crappy audio! This will no longer be an issue just as soon as my new digital audio recorder arrives, which I'm expecting in the mail any day now. Oh, and the reason we both laugh near the end? Because Xippo is across the street from a fire station, and Andrew was joking beforehand how it'd just be our luck to have a firetruck take off in the middle of our interview...which is then what exactly happened.

Links to the things mentioned in this episode:
GapersBlock main page
Transmission (music)
Drive-Thru (food)
Book Club
Fuel (question of the week)
RSS feeds

Sorry as well that the official CCLaP iTunes channel isn't created yet; leave it to me to pick the same weekend that the iPhone first came out, leaving the iTunes store down just about every time I tried to access it. If you have iTunes, though, you can go ahead and add the CCLaP Podcast manually to your list if you want, by choosing "Advanced" and then "Add Podcast" and then the address www.cclapcenter.com/podcast.xml. By the way, turns out to be surprisingly difficult to get a Movable Type feed ready for iTunes; you need to add two plug-ins first, so that you can add the specific meta data iTunes is looking for in your feed, that Movable Type itself doesn't include. For any fellow MT users who want to try it*, here's an excellent step-by-step guide by Adrian Sevitz.

*And psst -- the two bugs that Sevitz talks about in that guide have now been fixed by the plug-in's developer; you can essentially now ignore all that fine print in step 2, and simply install the plug-in.

Download the MP4 (24.1 megs)

Download the MP4 (24.1 megs)