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July 2010

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:14:35 +0000

the memory palace has gone fishing (strictly catch and release). Back with new episodes in August and a new, improved and expand website shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, if you happen to be in Australia on August 1, A: lucky you, and … Continue reading →

June 3, 2010

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:13:56 +0000

There’s an article about the podcast in Mojo, the British music magazine. It’s awfully flattering…

May 10, 2010

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:12:58 +0000

I normally don’t use this section for radio updates–I often don’t know exactly when one of the pieces is airing long enough ahead of time to make it useful to put it here. But: on saturday, May 15th and Sunday the 16th, the memory palace episode, “the messrs. craft” will air on WBEZ in Chicago as part of an excellent hour of radio centering on Radio Diaries’ terrific documentary about Willie McGee (this one, not this one) by the mighty Joe Richman and the under-heralded Samara Freemark, that aired on All Things Considered last week. You can hear it any time, here.

April 3, 2010

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:11:52 +0000

I’ve been getting two questions a lot this week. Answer 1: If you are looking for past episodes, you just need to click on the button just below the top banner that says “older posts.” Answer 2: yes, I screwed up. I should’ve said “episode 28″ instead of 29 during the intro and outro of Babysitting. It was not, as has been suggested, the world’s lamest April Fools joke.

March 24, 2010

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:10:55 +0000

FWit’sW, I am now the proud owner of www.thememorypalace.org. The same memory palace site you know and love just got a little org-ier.

March 13, 2010

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:22 +0000

I have five short memory palace style pieces up as part of the exhibition “Remix, Rewind, Replay” at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. If you happen to be in the neighborhood.

February 2, 2010

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:09:21 +0000

I forget to update this as often as I should (I do update the facebook page, though, if you’d like to sign up for the fan page). What’s going on? KUT in Austin has begun airing an episode a week on their show O’Dark 30. KUOW in Seattle continues to air nearly every episode. More radio announcements soon.

I’ve also added a “donate” button to a new page (“Spare a Dime” at the top of the main page). People have asked for it. Really. IIII know! Who’d want to donate? Crazy right?

November 4, 2009

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:08:22 +0000

Episode 13, High Above Lake Michigan, now has an odd little home on the City of Chicago’s official tourism website. So, please, travel to Chicago. Mention “the memory palace” and get 15% off. Of Chicago.

October 28, 2009

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:06:54 +0000

Episode 20, “this ungainly fowl” will air on the national program, Here and Now, on friday, 10/30/09.

Check your local listings here.

Episode 21, “a gas gas gas,” will air on Halloween on KUOW in Seattle.

I have finally succumbed. The memory palace is on twitter. Follow it if you like @thememorypalace

October 8, 2009

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:06:11 +0000

There’s a hidden memory palace episode within the latest episode of the public radio history program, BackStory. It’s about 20 minutes into the program.

September 10, 2009

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:05:24 +0000

On September 25th, I’ll be performing a memory palace episode live in front of an audience at Issue 2 of Pop Up Magazine in San Francisco. Info here.

August 28, 2009

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:04:43 +0000

Episode 17, “Plummeting Approval” will air: today on 94.9 KUOW in Seattle, on September 3rd at 7:55 p.m., local time on various stations in Wyoming and Montana via Yellowstone Public Radio, and many, many places around the country on Labor Day, on the show Here and Now, look here to see if your local station carries it.

August 4, 2009

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:57 +0000

Episode 6, “the saddest president,” will air on KFAI, 90.3 in Minneapolis on Monday, August 10th at 7:00 p.m.

August 3, 2009

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:02:50 +0000

The podcast cracked iTunes Podcast Top 15 for the first time today. Whoo hoo.

July 30, 2009

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:02:01 +0000

Two things: 1. the memory palace cracked the iTunes Podcast Top 25 for the first time today. Pretty cool. 2. if you happen to be University of Illinois adjacent on Saturday at 6:00, you can hear episode 13, “high above … Continue reading →

July 28, 2009

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:00:32 +0000

I just noticed that the memory palace is front-paged on the iTunes podcast page. Cool, right? Now, I’m so not complaining. But, there’s a new logo and the tag-line “surprises from the past.” Again: not complaining. I am just kind of confounded: someone at Apple liked the podcast and took the time to come up with a whole new logo and slogan? Huh? How? Why? Does anyone have any insight into the innerworkings of iTunes HQ? Shoot me an email at nate@thememorypalace.us. And if you, you there, reading this item, are the person at iTunes who front-paged it and did the heavy lifting, thank you very much ma’am/sir.

July 27, 2009

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:58:42 +0000

I don’t usually point to my non-memory palace stuff, but ~~I’ve got a story on Morning Edition tomorrow, Tuesday, 7/28~~

I also had a story on Morning Edition that’s vaguely memory palacey. It’s about a big prop shop out here in Hollywood that’s shutting down.

July 21, 2009

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:58:02 +0000

The good folks of Chicago can hear episode 8, “the world within the world” on the show Re:Sound on WBEZ, on saturday at 1:00 and sunday at 6:00.

July 20, 2009

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:56:00 +0000

Episode 15, “Presidente Walker” has been posted to PRX.org. Perfect for pegging to a news update about the Honduran coup. (hint hint).

Episode 12, “these words, forever” will air on 94.9 KUOW in Seattle at 2:00 P.M. on Monday, 7/21/09

July 19, 2009

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:55:08 +0000

Episode 12, “these words, forever” will air on WABE in Atlanta on Monday 7/21/2009 at noon.

July 18, 2009

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:53:39 +0000

the memory palace has a Facebook page. (if the link doesn’t work, you just search for “the memory palace” on Facebook.) Sign up for updates and whatnot.

July 14, 2009

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:52:57 +0000

If you happen to be in Seattle at 2:00 today, Tuesday 7/14/2009, you can hear a story from the podcast on KUOW 94.9 FM.

July 11, 2009

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:51:44 +0000

Seems a couple of episodes of the memory palace aired last week on Marfa, Texas’ new public radio station. Sorry for the lack of heads up to folks out Way West Texas way. Look for news here as to when … Continue reading →

July 9, 2009

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:50:50 +0000

The nice folks at public radio’s Third Coast Festival (it’s a conference in Chicago that features an awards show for radio documentary, etc.–it’s like the nerd Emmy’s; people asking Peter Segal of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me who he’s wearing) are featuring the podcast on their website. There’s an interviewwith me there too.

July 7, 2009

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:49:31 +0000

I just noticed that episode 14 hasn’t fed to iTunes. I’m working on it. And when I say “working on it,” I pretty much mean I’m opening pages up at random and pretending I know how to actually fix anything on my website beyond typos. If there are any wordpress/podpress adepts out there who know how to fix my problem (or can relatively easily teach me how to fish in this instance), drop me a line at nate@thememorypalace.us (you may even get a memory palace t-shirt. I may actually make them. And if I do, you, Savior of Episode 14, will get the first).

July 6, 2009

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:48:00 +0000

the memory palace has begun it’s week-long run on KUT, 90.5, in Austin today. Folks in the Austin area will be able to catch a story each day during Morning Edition.

June 26, 2009

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:47:07 +0000

KUT, Austin, Texas’ great public radio station, will be airing a different memory palace episode every morning during the week of July 6. They’ll be slipping it into their Morning Edition broadcasts. If you live in the Austin area, tune in. And let them know you’re a fan of the podcast. Might encourage them to take it on as a regular segment…

June 18, 2009

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:26 +0000

Pieces from the memory palace are airing on XM/Sirius satellite radio channel 137 136 as part of a rotation of cool stories, documentaries, and whatnot from cool public radio producers. The pieces pop up now and then. Read more about the channel here.

June 17, 2009

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:42:57 +0000

Folks in the Atlanta area will be able to hear stories from the memory palace now and then on their fantastic local NPR affiliate, WABE starting monday June, 22. So far, they’re scheduled to air a piece from the archives once every week or so on their show, City Cafe, that airs from noon to 1:00.

A couple of more radio announcements coming soon…