Brian D. Mains

So it goes . . .

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  • Um, I did a podcast thing

    Um, I did a podcast thing

    It’s getting cold out. Plants are dying. I can’t keep mopping the floor in between interviews I conduct for work to manage my pre-election anxiety.

    So . . . I finally put together the first episode of that podcast I promised in my last blog entry.

    In this inaugural Occasional Podcast episode, I spoke with Jillian Harrison-Jones, MUSE’s music director, a progressive, all-women choral group in Cincinnati.

    Jillian and I discussed how MUSE took its concerts from in-person to online during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

    We also discussed the message MUSE’s online 2020 concert series that wraps up at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, hopes to deliver to young, marginalized voters on the even of this year’s Presidential election.

    Here are some pertinent links and an imbed of one of the concerts MUSE produced and posted on Youtube.

    SIGN UP FOR SUNDAY’S EVENT

  • Old Dog New Tricks

    Old Dog New Tricks

    It would be unfair to say I am not creative in my work. I interview people, compose television scripts, web stories and record voice-over tracks for those stories day-in-and-day-out.

    The work takes creative intelligence for sure.

    But sometimes, when reporting on some stories, I get an itch to try my hand at something different.

    Take this story on a collaborative project between a group of Greater Cincinnati writers and illustrators. They created an anthology-style comic book called “Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities,” where artists re-imagine popular and not so famous local urban legends.

    What got me wasn’t their ability to draw. I can hardly draw a recognizable stick figure.

    It was the fact that some of the folks I interviewed also run a podcast. Looking at our group zoom interview after the story aired on television (see embed below), I thought, “Hey, I could do this too!”

    I have the equipment to put a podcast together. I lack the technical knowledge to produce one. It is so frustrating to learn a new skill, but I think it is time this old dog learned a new craft.

    So, stay tuned for a poorly edited podcast based on the Zoom interview mentioned above.