Ladies and gentlemen, the reaction to my Christmas post about David Mamet, politics, prose, and religion may someday appear to have been a watershed moment.
My original plan for the Hot Plate radio show was to focus on politics (sociology, really) and music. In the months before the election, I imagined the political content would be just tolerated by music fans, and would constitute a benevolent welcoming of conservatives back into the fold in the aftermath of a Clinton presidency.
In the current environment, I've publicly focused on the political/sociological end of it, because it's all anyone's talking about, but in the background I've been preparing a lot of music-related material.
The Mamet threads gave me pause. I'd already been thinking about including some literature content on the show. I'm inclined to caution on that front-- but it may be that a certain amount of material in that vein could fly. Could Hot Plate be a place where smart people go to have fun, but also a place where fun people go to smarten up? Is it possible to have a radio show where the Stooges and Bernard Malamud are both grist for the mill? Is there an audience who will listen to discussion about Louis Jordan, but also about Louis-Ferdinand Celine?
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