FYMTQ: Molly Lambert of This Recording

We're still on the This Recording kick (GO READ IT NOW - IT WILL REQUIRE THINKING) and we're fortunate that managing editor Molly Lambert (and here) responded to a request to revive the FYMTQ. Put on your autumn sweater and listen to the sound of ten hearts beating as one...

What's your background? (Please include an explanation of This Recording.)
I first met Alex Carnevale when I saw him give an inflammatory political lecture in Portland, after which he convinced me to leave my dentist husband and run off to Greenwich Village to become a radical. My first published piece of writing was a review of the Armory Show. Carnevale and I had a tempestuous on and off open relationship over the next five years until I dumped him for Eugene O'Neill. Alex went to Russia to cover the revolution and when he came home we got back together. He then insisted on returning to Moscow to finish his book "Ten Posts That Shook The World" and was killed, becoming the only American ever buried in the Kremlin. In memoriam, I founded This Recording and made Alex editor in chief.

Why are you following us?
I don't know where I am

What era, day or event in blogging history would you like to re-live?
when Walt Whitman liveblogged Abraham Lincoln's funeral

Who do you consider to be the greatest blogger of all-time?
Benjamin Franklin

What's your blogging motto?
"whatever, just post it"

Describe that low moment when you thought you just might have to leave
blogging for good.
when I failed to make Danish Aziz's list of the top bloggers he'd like to see in a burqa

What was the last thing you read on LAist?
I keep up with all of Carrie Meathrell's posts

If you could change one thing about blogging, what would it be?
Fuck you, pay me

What was your best or most expensive medication experience just after midnight on a summer Saturday?
I don't understand this question, but that might be because I'm in LA where we get medicinal weed and I'm smoking something called Purple Monkey Clown Car Chernobyl

Los Angeles. It's not New York. What gives?
good avocados are a hallucinogen

Multiple Choice: Diablo Cody, Jayne Mansfield, Gilda Radner, Nude Natalie Portman, Miranda July or Dead Whitney Houston? Name one reason why.
Gilda, because I like to talk dirty to the animals too