It was Friday, October 21, 1988.<\/p>\n
Only one interview today. But what an interview – at WOR Radio. Gotham’s version of WCCO (more or less).<\/p>\n
I met the program director at the studios. We had a brief – maybe fifteen minutes – chat. He seemed to have been very impressed – especially with my voiceover tape.<\/p>\n
At the end of the conversation, he asked “So if you’re gonna move to New York, I think I can use you as a staff voiceover guy”.<\/p>\n
My heart quickened.<\/p>\n
“It’d be nine hours a week at $25 an hour”.<\/p>\n
I did the math in my head. $225 a week.<\/p>\n
“Interested?”<\/p>\n
I smiled. “I’d have to figure out how to make ends meet, but I’m interested, yes”<\/p>\n
He agreed – I’d have a lot to think about. We shook hands, and I agreed to call with a decision next week.<\/p>\n
I walked up to Times Square.<\/p>\n
I could really learn to like this<\/em>, I thought.<\/p>\n Then, I turned my thoughts to figuring how I could move to New York and manage to earn the rest <\/em>of a living, on the pretty fair assumption that $225 a week wouldn’t go as far in New York as in the Twins.<\/p>\n I took the train back downtown and took a walk through the Village.\u00a0 I wandered around ’til close to midnight; eating Chinese food and stopping in bars and walking up Broadway way into the thirties, and back, as it got dark.\u00a0 It was a gorgeous night out.\u00a0<\/p>\n Somehow<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was Friday, October 21, 1988. Only one interview today. But what an interview – at WOR Radio. Gotham’s version of WCCO (more or less). I met the program director at the studios. We had a brief – maybe fifteen minutes – chat. He seemed to have been very impressed – especially with my voiceover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twenty-years-ago-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}