{"id":8314,"date":"2014-11-03T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:57:56","slug":"podcast-i-was-a-teenage-structuralist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-i-was-a-teenage-structuralist","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8211; I Was A Teenage Structuralist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show:<br \/>\nRichard Gehr &#8211; I Was A Teenage Structuralist!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve read enough Roland Barthes and Foucault to know it&#8217;s all fiction, man.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7219\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8314-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8314-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" 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sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/richardgehr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Gehr&#8217;s<\/a> new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0544114450\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0544114450&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=IK5G3SYDP2QWSZWE\">I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker&#8217;s Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0544114450\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Amazon\/New Harvest), profiles a dozen <em>New Yorker<\/em> cartoonists. We talk about the genesis of that project, lament the dearth of cartooning in print and online, bond over Abe Vigoda, and ponder why it is that so many <em>New Yorker<\/em> cartoonists had teachers or educators for parents. We also get into Richard&#8217;s history in the arts-journalism racket, the joys of Robert Walser, his time in the Boy Scouts with Matt Groening, how he built a career out of his oddball enthusiasms, and the most mind-blowing &#8220;Which celebrity did you totally melt down around?&#8221; story in the history of this podcast. (Seriously.) <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I love New Yorker cartoons, but they might be the whitest form of art ever conceived.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7220\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8314-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8314-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<a title=\"Richard Gehr on The Virtual Memories Show by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/15441147127\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3943\/15441147127_b83a739c60_z.jpg?resize=525%2C411&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Richard Gehr on The Virtual Memories Show\" width=\"525\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_42_-_I_Was_a_Teenage_Structuralist.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podchast-parental-guidance\" target=\"_blank\">Roz Chast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-look-day\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Gross<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-hello-columbus\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin McGurk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-feeling-gravetts-pull\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gravett<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mike-and-ivans-comics-cabaret\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Brunetti \/ Michael Kupperman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richardgehr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Gehr<\/a> has been writing about music, culture, and travel for quite a while. He has been an editor for the <em>Los Angeles Reader, Spin,<\/em> and Sonicnet\/MTV Interactive. He currently writes for <em>Rolling Stone, Spin, The Village Voice, Relix, AARP: The Magazine,<\/em> and other publications. He was a senior writer for the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062733834\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062733834&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=6RKTEQG7TXPD75NX\">Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the &#8217;90S &#8211; Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0062733834\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> and co-authored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375752544\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375752544&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=MWSEWUNV6567IU3L\">The Phish Book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0375752544\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> with the Vermont quartet. His new book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0544114450\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0544114450&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=IK5G3SYDP2QWSZWE\">I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker&#8217;s Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0544114450\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. He resides in the Brooklyn arrondissement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Homesickness<em>\u00a0by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou (because I&#8217;m on the road for a week). The conversation was recorded at Mr. Gehr&#8217;s home on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KCXMBES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCXMBES&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. The intro and outro were recorded on the same setup in a hotel room in San Diego, when my voice was shot from a three-day podcast-athon in Los Angeles. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Mr. Gehr by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show: Richard Gehr &#8211; I Was A Teenage Structuralist! &#8220;I&#8217;ve read enough Roland Barthes and Foucault to know it&#8217;s all fiction, man.&#8221; Richard Gehr&#8217;s new book, I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker&#8217;s Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists (Amazon\/New Harvest), profiles a dozen New Yorker cartoonists. We talk about the genesis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-i-was-a-teenage-structuralist\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast &#8211; I Was A Teenage Structuralist!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26,4,40,1183],"tags":[2096,3026,3021,3020,3025,2871,3018,3027,547,3016,3014,3009,3024,1010,841,2875,3010,557,3019,2873,3033,3028,2076,3023,2872,3011,3032,3012,1359,3017,3031,2979,2074,2980,3030,1749,1487,2600,3029,278,3013,656,3022,3015],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-literature","category-music","category-podcasts","tag-abe-vigoda","tag-ben-lerner","tag-bob-guccione-jr","tag-bruce-eric-kaplan","tag-captain-beefheart","tag-charles-addams","tag-charles-barsotti","tag-christian-marclay","tag-dan-nadel","tag-edward-koren","tag-emily-flake","tag-frank-modell","tag-frank-zappa","tag-gahan-wilson","tag-gary-panter","tag-george-booth","tag-george-price","tag-gilbert-gottfried","tag-i-only-read-it-for-the-cartoons","tag-jack-ziegler","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-jenny-erpenbeck","tag-joan-rivers","tag-lacan","tag-lee-lorenz","tag-leo-cullum","tag-lou-reed","tag-manny-farber","tag-matt-groening","tag-mick-stevens","tag-phish","tag-richard-gehr","tag-robert-kline","tag-robert-mankoff","tag-robert-walser","tag-roland-barthes","tag-roz-chast","tag-sam-gross","tag-susan-bernofsky","tag-thomas-pynchon","tag-victoria-roberts","tag-wes-anderson","tag-william-burroughs","tag-zachary-kanin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2a6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8463,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-hollow-man","url_meta":{"origin":8314,"position":0},"title":"Podcast &#8211; The Hollow Man","author":"Gil","date":"December 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Hollow Man It's the ONE-HUNDREDTH EPISODE\u00a0of The Virtual Memories Show!\u00a0And they said it would never last!\u00a0To celebrate hitting the century mark, I asked past guests, upcoming guests and friends of the show to interview me this time around! 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