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Monthly Archives: February 2008

pardon the dust

I apparently don’t know crap about working with CSS.

Jesus Vs. Transvestite Buskers

An intrepid group of young churchgoers is trying to make holy things happen along I-35.
Take a listen.  
The journey hasn’t been easy - along the way, the group has encountered heckling, gay bars, and transvestite buskers. The group has taken to praying for people, whether invited to or not.
This is an interesting bit of coverage […]

Okay, Seriously? Hickeys?

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mike’s hickey, originally uploaded by cloois.
Still reeling from Valentine’s Day at NPR. Yesterday’s Story of the Day? “An Ode to Hickeys.” There’s not much to say about […]

OTM Recap 2/8: Real American Journalism Heroes

Edit: FOIA=Freedom of Information Act. Better for everyone that everyone knows.   Is anyone else absolutely thrilled that this episode doesn’t open with election coverage? Instead, it opens with some serious rage.
Ladies and gentlemen, the FOIA Ombudsman is dead, and it seems that President Bush buried the orders for the kill deep within his 2009 […]

Valentine’s Day: Tu Vas et Tu Viens

 
Happy Valentine’s day to you all you sick puppies out there who thrive off of candy hearts, unnecessary flowers and the highly dysfunctional love songs of the Beatles.

It occurs to me I am addressing myself.

Sappy though I may be, I find it weird that we call our loved ones our “Valentines” today… St. Valentine was […]

Right. Yes. Of Course.

Today, from the NPR News Blog Twitter feed:
“All vents welcome but I would only caution about some using some language - we’re still an NPR-affliated entity. Mainly the F-bomb. Folks upstairs might not let us keep doing if we get too outside the rules we have on the blog” 
I totally understand where they’re coming from. […]

The hits keep coming

Surely this is the pinnacle of journalism. Elizabeth Blair, on tonight’s “Weekend All Things Considered” conducted a particularly hard-hitting interview, as part of the program’s “In Character” series.

Her truly probing interview turned up several unexpectedly deep answers….
Did you know, for example, that while Cookie Monster’s favorite word is “cookie,” his least favorite is […]

A few things you should know about me: I have a huge soft spot for mix tapes (even if they’re CDs). I love spending hours agonizing over the perfect track list, picking out songs that hint at what I’m feeling about the recipient, but don’t come right out and say it, and listening and re-listening […]

The Bob Garfield School of Metaphor, Simile and Cliche

Has anyone else ever noticed that sometimes, Brooke totally sounds like the guy that does movie voice overs?
This episode of OTM starts with Brooke reading what could be the trailer voice over for an action movie starring John McCain as a party-line-breaking, truth-train derailing rebel with a heart of gold who survived the Viet Cong […]

So Wrong, Yet So Right

From the people that brought you “Jerry Springer: The Opera” comes “Meltdown”, a ballet about the life and times of Britney Spears.
Listen here. 
I’m not sure how to feel about this one. On one hand, I find it absolutely brilliant. It’s a ballet. It’s a ballet about the rise and fall of Britney Spears.
On the other […]