Remember a few weeks ago I mentioned that I had never eaten at Flatbush Farm and wondered if  anyone like to join me for lunch?

Well, one OTBKB reader responded and we had a lovely lunch. But not at Flatbush Farm. The place does not serve lunch except on weekends. We met at the farm anyway and admired the bar sign which is BARN with the N blacked out.

Nice.

My Lunch Date suggested Miriam on Fifth Avenue but sadly that was closed, too. We ended up at Brooklyn Fish Farm, a place I love. I told him I’d been meaning to go in there because there’s a waitress in there that worked at Two Boots for years. She’s one of the great Park Slope waitresses and I’ve been meaning to find out her name.

My Lunch Date reminded me that he makes music podcasts. He’s also the person who turned me on to Amy Rigby’s site, The Little Fugitive a site I love because I was an Amy "Diary of a Mod Housewife" Rigby an back when that CD first came out.

My Lunch Date was kind enough to make a podcast of more recent Amy Rigby tunes, as well as a a mix podcast with Rigby, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons and many more. I told him: "We have the same taste in music."

I asked My Lunch Date to share with OTBKB readers what he’s doing and tell them how they  can get some. Here’s the info he sent me.

Like many people, I have been making mix tapes for decades.  At the turn
of the 21st century, I moved from tapes to CDs.  Whatever the medium,
the way I would go about creating the mix was the same: find an idea (a
sound or a lyrical theme) and find songs based that idea that would flow
from one to the other.

About two years ago, it occurred to me that the way to overcome the one
idea limitation of the mix was to have a break between sets of songs. 
As a former DJ (at the University of Pennsylvania’s carrier current in
the dorms station, WQHS) I knew the way to create those breaks was to DJ
the mix.  And the idea of creating  one’s own show now had a title:
podcast.  So I went out and bought a stereo microphone, hooked it up to
my computer and in November 2005 created my first podcast, Best of
2005.  I did two more podcasts in 2006, including Best of 2006.

This year, I’ve had more time to devote to my podcasts and have done
four so far.  I expect that I will have done six by the end of the year
(and there will be a  Best of 2007).

My podcasts are available to members of the Idiots Delight Digest, a
group loosely organized around Vin Scelsa’s  WFUV radio show, Idiots
Delight.  Although this group discusses music, the topics can and often
do roam.  One of the latest topics was which team’s hat will Tom Glavine
wear on his Hall of Fame Plaque (the consensus was Atlanta, even among
Mets fans).

However, I have arranged for your readers to be able to sample my latest
podcast, cleverly titled August 07, at:
http://www2.bigupload.com/download_frame.php?id_file=46416C4B