kip fulbeck

I’ve been doing more interviews than I can count lately, which is a good thing (considering the alternative). But the hard part is I’m doing lots of these via phone for NPR radio affiliates on the east coast. Which means I’m doing them 7:00 AM pacific time.

I don’t know about you. But I’m not overly “chatty” in the morning. I’m more about getting the piglet dog to get the paper, drinking orange juice, and convincing myself I’m not retarded because I can’t get the first line of Jumble.

I mean come on: HOTYU???

That’s ridiculous. And then it gets harder.

But I digress. So I get these 5-10 min things we’re I’m supposed to song and dance the complexities of The Hapa Project into something sellable to an audience that’s switching channels as they drive to work. And for those of you who know me, you realize I’m very gestural (spazzy) and I get a bit limited on the phone. And I end up doing a lot of the monotone R2D2 kind of thing sometimes.

So anyway, I’ve got a bunch of cyber interviews floating around out there. Some are better than others.

Here’s one of the better ones from WBUR Boston.

Not bad eh? Not Howard Zinn, but not Farrah Fawcett on Letterman either.

Now compare that to one where I get to spazz out, i.e. video interview. Here’s a great profile done by Discover Nikkei

Finally, see what you think of it when I get to just type, like now. I like it a lot more. Less likely to say something stupid or blast someone I shouldn’t be blasting publically or doing a Turrets thing. Check out the FAQs here.

So, a week till the opening at JANM. Printing like crazy. Thank God for my crew they are amazing.

Hope to see you guys at the opening. Come say hi and tell me you like the show willya?

Oh, swam a rinky dink meet yesterday. 24.5 in the 50 fly (yards). Not bad. Not good. Two months till World Championships where I get to see all the Franken40+ guys out there who don’t age and still are buff. Fun.

Thanks for reading. Bye.

Oh, it’s “YOUTH” Duh.