February 22, 2008
One Buffalo, Frozen
So I spent a very cold 24 hours in Buffalo earlier this week to do a fun "Meet the Author" interview with Bert Gambini, WBFO's music director and all-around expert interviewer. Bert has one of the best radio voices I've heard in a long time and he was fun to chat with before, during, and after the talk at the University of Buffalo.
You can listen here to the hour-long podcast.
Afterwards Bert took me to Wasabi, a local sushi restaurant hidden in a strip mall and I discovered that Buffalo actually offers pretty decent sushi. I was a bit concerned as I watched the storm blow up and start to snow hard but Bert assured me that the predicted six to eight inches (which ended up being only three) was hardly anything by local standards. Indeed by next morning everything was nicely plowed and the airport was running full speed—unlike, say, Washington where schools were cancelled across the region this week at the mere hint that there might be some sort of snow/sleet/ice falling from the sky.
UPDATE: Here's the UB Spectrum article on my talk.
