holiday reschedule

New webisodes will post (most) Tuesdays and Thursdays through year end, so I can devote some time to driving across the country.

- Adam

anna and jay, part 4

Part 4 of Anna and Jay's date is now live on http://feedmeshow.com. Remember, you can now subscribe to Feed Me via its inclusion in the iTunes Podcast Directory:



It's going to be exciting taping Feed Me Show long-timer Lila with the UnionDocs folks tonight!

I stand corrected, and the cheese stands alone

Anna and Jay's heroic struggle with the diabolical salad spinner can now be seen on feedmeshow.com. Bigger news is that you can now subscribe to The Feed Me Show through iTunes, via its inclusion in the iTunes Store's Podcast Directory!

A correction: readers with better eyes for Portland geography than some natives have pointed out to me that my new neighborhood there is not in fact in Brooklyn, which is further to the southwest. I'm in Laurelhurst. In Laurelhurst, with an affordable rent, my own parking space, and a few blocks away from a great indie moviehouse that serves pizza and beer; an excellent cafe or three; and my favorite Portland restaurant, which means delicious, creative food, a good wine list, a friendly staff, and a counter with a view of the kitchen.

clocking in

Part 2 of Anna and Jay's date is now available on feedmeshow.com, our blip.tv page, our iTunes feed, RSS, and Miro... and I don't even know what Miro is yet.

Meanwhile, in the wee small hours of the morning (East Coast time) we filmed the first West Coast episode of the Feed Me Show in Portland, Oregon, my new home for the coming months. It would not have happened at all without the incredible generosity of videographer extraordinaire Carl Jameson, his wife and de-facto line producer, Sharon, and, in the finest Feed Me tradition of someone breaking something right before a shoot, a car accident... but not like you might think. The results were wild, and so was the meat. More on that when it hits the website in about a month. In the mean time, for the love that all is Feed Me, you owe it to yourself to check out Carl's web series turned feature, The Bicyclist, which does for Portland bike culture what Bike Snob NYC does for New York's, only at 30 frames per second, instead of 100 words per minute.

Some viewers have expressed concern about this whole West Coast thing. They say I'm forsaking Brooklyn. Ok, I tried, but I couldn't do it. Last night, I learned the name of my new Portland neighborhood: Brooklyn. There is no escape.

- Adam

new date friday, and other notes

Today, the Feed Me Show presents the first installment of Anna and Jay's date, with a visit to Urban Rustic to gather springtime ingredients. Ah, springtime in New York... local asparagus, semi-local hothouse tomatoes, and ramps. Yup, we filmed this one during ramp week, and Jay puts those little wild leeks to good use on some delicious crostini. (No fair-weather market, Urban Rustic has plenty else that's appropriate to this chilling season. Sign up for their newsletter by emailing urbangeneralstores@gmail.com.)

Meanwhile, back west, it looks like we're a go for the Feed Me Show's first Portland episode. All props to Carl Jameson of thebicyclist.tv for securing a location, and providing cameras, lights, time, effort, and expertise, all for what appears to be his personal cause of being an incredibly great guy.

don't get me wrong, new york's got heart

Big apple, big heart. Amazing people, cooking amazing food, in a way I want to document. I'm keeping Feed Me: Brooklyn going. There are more episodes in the can. I'm talking to some people about keeping it going here. I just lined up the Feed Me Show's first girl-girl date, in Brooklyn, and I'm stoked about making it. There's gonna be Mystery Fish and ass-kicking pastry. The tradition of a Feed Me Show cook breaking some bones before a taping continues. I'm doing it in cooperation with UnionDocs, a local documentary coop. It's gonna be awesome.

But it costs a lot of money to live here, and it'd do me some good to get out of here for a year before the schmutz turns cancerous.

I've lived in New York for nine years, eight of those in Brooklyn. I hear "Rhapsody in Blue" each time I see the skyline from the BQE. It's in my blood and it's not coming out, like mercury in Newtown Creek. I love this fucking place. It's time for me to go.

why I'm going to Portland (and taking the show with me)

Because I'm sick of the grime.
Because I'm sick of the struggle.
Because this place is freighted with a lot of bad memories for me, and I want a fresh start.
Because 3/4ths of my kitchen stuff is out there anyway.
Because, the other day, when I was walking September, these two bus drivers came and started dumping their trash in the dog run. I was like, there's a dumpster a block and a half down! And they were like, Hey, that's New York City. And I think that's kind of a shitty way to treat the place you live.
Because that was in Queens, where my time is running out, and the prospect of finding a new place in Brooklyn is both daunting and expensive.
Because my folks are just over 60, so if I want to move west, now's the time, because I'll be the one to come back and take care of them when the time comes.
Because I love to ride a bike, and I'd like it not to be a death race.
Because it takes me a jay and two glasses of wine to calm down from the traffic here after I get home.
Because when I asked my accountant, he said, "I hate it here. I'd leave if I could."
Because when I asked my lawyer, she said, "New York is tough right now. There isn't a lot of work, but prices aren't coming down. And Portland might be a receptive place for Feed Me."
Because I think, despite the recession, it's a place full of smart, well-intentioned young people, and, when you put enough of those together, something good will happen.
Because I want a yard.
Because I don't mind the rain.
Because when I wrote to this guy who does a Portland-based web series about wanting to shoot a trial Feed Me episode when I was out there, he was full of offers of help.
Because a friend of a friend, who I've never met before, is full of offers of help to hook me up with tech work there.
Because my heart is slow to turn from place to place, and, even though the rug got pulled out from under me, I'd finally made my peace with moving there.
Because, ok, I'm still hung up on my ex, and still a little hopeful, and I know that's the wrong reason, but I'm willing to live with the consequences.
Because the cost of living is lower. (I'd seriously consider SF, but that's NYC-expensive.)
Because I finally feel willing to sacrifice some diversity in exchange for people being nice to each other.
Because the produce, meat, and fish there are gorgeous.
Because it's got the best Mexican food I've had anywhere outside Mexico.
Because "I'm tired of sucking the cock of this cold, cold city." (Thanks, Kevin Barnes.)
Because I moved to NYC during Monicagate, lived out the Bush years in Brooklyn, and I hear the mandate for Change.
Because I feel like I have to swallow my fear and do it.
Because when I pick up my collected Allen Ginsburg, it falls open to poems I haven't read before, and they're about Oregon.
Because ever since I was a kid, I've loved riding my bike in the rain.

still coming down from Tuesday night?

I sure am. I find myself singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" while walking the dog, and meaning it. If it's all too much to process, why not check in with Bobby and Joey?

I never thought I'd see the day

And now, my fellow Americans, for your reward, Bobby Blue sings a love song.

feed me show goes to portland!

The Feed Me Show is going to Portland! Or I am, at any rate. I'll be out there from the 11th to the 18th and, with some luck, and some help from Carl Jameson of Portland's own thebicyclist.tv, hope to film an episode of the Feed Me Show while I'm there, featuring some great Portland-area produce (the best in any city, Paris included, says this New Yorker) and some great Portland people. If you know any local singles who are:
- good home cooks
- not camera shy
- neither celebrity chefs nor professional actors
- and have mad skills of some kind

... please send them my way! Easiest is for them to fill out a profile at feedmeshow.com, and I'll take it from there.

Thanks,
Adam

did you get out and vote?

To reward you for voting, and voting right -- er, left -- Bobby Blue will sing a heartbreaking love song for you tomorrow, only on feedmeshow.com.

And now, back to moms, Madonna, and kittens.

Our DNS issues have been resolved, meaning that if you're in the habit of going to http://feedmeshow.com (vs. http://feedmeshow.ning.com), it'll work for you again.
Thanks, DynDNS!

Now, go watch some Bobby and Joey.

go straight to http://feedmeshow.ning.com

Not just for the new episode.

DynDNS's webhop is down with a DDoS attack, so the redirect from feedmeshow.com isn't working as normal. Fix should be in shortly...