Dungen video

Daniel Eskils directed the video for the lead track from Dungen's Ta Det Lungt album. Frenetic imagery amidst the Swedish countryside -- interspersed with shots of the band that evoke The Who circa 1970.

And the song kicks too!

Christopher Monks is not stalking Star Jones

Beware -- your blog might bite you in the ass, as it did for Christopher.

Multilingual Valentine Wishes

Learn how to say "I love you" to your paramour in a variety of languages with this nice tool from WGBH.



Bonus points to those that can figure out which language is recited by yours truly!

The "Regis and Kelly of Boston"

Glenn Yoder's landmark Boston Globe piece on DriveTime is in today's Sunday Globe. It's a pretty deep look not just at DriveTime, but at vlogging in general, and features some rich insightful quotes from George Fifield, Steve Garfield and Tony Kahnfield... oops -- I mean, Tony Kahn! ;-)

"It's tough to tell how seriously Ravi Jain takes his talk show DriveTime, as he reels off ideas for this month's television sweeps: Surprise guests! A trip to the carwash! His wife driving! The 'Gridlock Griddle' cooking-in-traffic segment! An unedited DriveTime!

Moments later he's speaking earnestly about the 'conceptual art' behind the show, how it should be kept true to its nature and not overglamorized. He refuses to divert from the show's path -- literally."

Now I just need to see if I can brave the blizzard elements to pick up a hard copy!

Post blizzard excursion update:

We braved the white-out conditions and picked up the paper. Much more robust in print then on-line! Pictures! Transcribed episode banter!

Quick snap here:



Yet another update:

Steve Garfield has his own digital snap on his blog and correctly links to the episode 15 entry via its permalink, as opposed to just the video file itself.

DriveTime suggested on My Yahoo

The front page of My Yahoo suggests adding DriveTime to one's My Yahoo page.



Thanks to my brother Raj for calling this to my attention!

And since we still don't have a DriveTime logo... Yahoo kind of made one themselves!

Morning Call illustration

Jessica Berthold sent me a hard copy of her DriveTime article and lo and behold there was an illustration of me accompanying her piece that didn't appear with the online version.

The illustrator then sent me a copy of the image.

So here it is:


(illustration by Spencer L. Brinkerhoff III)

But where's my co-host?!