I would just add that in the future this blog and the podcast might take on new forms that not even you could predict. Just as few want to hear a novel recited on stage, or a play filmed unaltered on a movie screen, the magazine article / radio interview formats are transforming in response to new media – most interesting to me is how audience interaction has already become central to these formats. I would rarely think of contacting a print media journalist, and yet I routinely do so online. And conversely, on my own blog I often receive the most amazing, inspiring and informative comments from readers. I can easily foresee the dialogues on “Contrabass Conversations” blossoming into much larger conversations, encompassing the whole bass community, and archived for posterity as well.

So please watch out for those speeding Chicago buses – and exploding Saturns! – because we want you around, blogging and podcasting, for a long time to come!