About this episode

Brendan O'Meara interviews Laura LeBleu and Paul von Zielbauer about their print-only magazine, Geezer Magazine, which explores the Gen-X aging experience.

"You can't go and find all of our stories. You can't just click a button and and be served up. You really have to appreciate them in person by holding the magazine in your hands, and that, to me, makes it more special," says Laura LeBleu, co-founder of Geezer Magazine. It's Laura LeBleu and Paul von Zielbauer, the founders of Geezer Magazine, a new, print-only magazine exploring the Gen-X aging experience. It's a killer experience. Issue 1 came out several months ago and it's this 11x15-inch-sized thing and it has pieces by Kim Cross and Tommy Tomlinson. Issue 2 comes out any day now and features an essay from ya boi. You can read my pitch for the essay at welcometopitchclub.substack.com [http://welcometopitchclub.substack.com/] titled Pitchin' from the Hip. So Laura dreamed up Geezer Magazine in the shower, that incubator of great ideas. She's been an Emmy award winning TV producer, a lead singer of an Italian band, voice of a virtual character, stilt-walking circus ringmaster, minor gay icon, and an NYC cabaret performer. She worked in tech for a bit and it was draining her soul and her creativity muscles were atrophying, she needed to do something, so she decided to bootstrap…

People in this episode

Host: Brendan O'Meara

Guests: Laura LeBleu, Paul von Zielbauer

Topics covered

• Gen-X
• aging experience
• print media
• magazine publishing
• storytelling

Keywords

• Geezer Magazine
• Gen-X
• Laura LeBleu
• Paul von Zielbauer
• print magazine
• storytelling
• aging

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Geezer Magazine

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