Doug Abbott's guest appearances

Doug Abbott

UpZones podcast

Michael Hobbes

Stephanie Stokes

Alex Garland

Liz Berry

Katie Wilson

Brady Walkinshaw

Jackson Taylor

Cary Moon

Kenneth Arthur

Ryan Purcell

Ben Yisrael

Tiana Duncan

Matthew Holmes

Xiao Wang

Linda Breneman

OwlTail

Greg Brisendine

Seattle poet, playwright, longtime former advice columnist, and book-publishing industry impresario Greg Brisendine popped by the bookstore for a chat about finding the balance between day job and night moves -- between carreer and passion for the thousands of artists and innovators who don't make enough money to live off of art.  Greg and Ian perform a love poem to HTML, and Greg describes the "risk paradox" of the book publishing industry in the early 2000s.  Ian and his pal Doug Abbott discuss a cure for Internet trolls over a bowl of chicken dumpling soup.

Upisode 34: Greg Brisendine & Doug Abbott

Inveterate hockey fans Jackson Taylor and Doug Abbott swung by the bookstore late at night to rap about the soon-to-be-named NHL team everyone expects to be playing home games in Seattle Center by 2020 or 2021.  They discussed the importance of alliteration, clever regional wordplay, and, of course, callbacks to historical team names and local landmarks.  Early candidates like "The Seattle Freeze" and "The Cascadia Kraken" were examined but ultimately discarded for the consensus top choices, which the Oak Group should immediately trademark and pursue.

Upisode 24: NHL in Seattle?! w Jackson Taylor and Doug Abbott

Ian hops on the phone with Kenneth Arthur, Managing Editor of Field Gulls -- the primary source of knowledge and analysis for all things Seahawks -- to discuss how he got into sports blogging and whether the 'Hawks will stay relevant in the Pacific Northwest.  Ian is then joined by out-of-the-box marketer Doug Abbott of DouglassM Digital for a detailed analysis of which cities Seattle should steal an NBA team from.

Upisode 05: Seattle Sports Bonanza feat. Kenneth Arthur & Doug Abbott