I always listen to “This American Life” at work on Mondays. Because work on Mondays tends to be a little insane, the “TAL” podcast always lasts way longer than it should – I digest it slowly, in five-minute chunks. Anyway, today, I was removing some scam ads from the site while listening to this week’s [...]
I keep singing “Secret Cheney Man! Secret Cheney Man! He’s sending you to Gitmo, and obfuscating the blame!” Why do I keep singing it, even though it has meter completely unlike the original’s? Because I have nothing better to do. Also because Dick Cheney thinks he’s not part of the executive branch, and so has [...]
Since the Great Bryant Park Project Diaspora of late July, we’ve been keeping up with former BPPers via twitter, facebook and the BPP Diner (where you can still get The Most). As far as we can tell, everyone is doing well. Though, it still weirds me out to hear Mike Pesca using his Official NPR [...]
Last night, I was feeling all out of sorts. Meaning I’d eaten way too many Virginia peanuts while at work, and my insides were not happy about that.I came home and immediately passed out on the futon listening to “All Things Considered.†Somewhere in there, I missed “Marketplace†and the end of “ATC.†I awoke [...]
In a world where time stood still, only one radio show could simultaneously earn my undying respect and make jokes like my dad. The story that jumped out at me most this week was Brooke’s sweet tribute to Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice guy. Brooke sounds so completely reverenty and sweet – I wonder [...]
If you read last night’s post on army fashion, you probably gathered that we watch a lot of “Project Runway” (and if not from that, then you surely noticed all the instances of one of us typing “make it work!”). And last night, Matthew and I watched the fantastic, campy, shark-jumping season premiere of “America’s [...]
 It’s very rare that bad puns in public radio headlines feel right to me. It’s even rarer that they strike me as being perfectly reasonable; even fitting.It’s rarer still that I have kind words for “Marketplace.” So it should go without mention that I kind of love the headline, “Army launches attack on fashion biz.” [...]
I had started writing this post and it had kind of an awful pun in the first sentence. I proudly showed it to Matthew, who cringed and suggested that I start with my second sentence. A fine suggestion, provided I had thought about what the second sentence would be. Instead, I’ll give you the Reader’s [...]
Thank God someone finally got Bob to put his shirt back on. Throughout the duration of the contest to design “On the Media’s” first T-shirt, Bob says he’s hosted the show topless (which, ew). It’s to the credit of Cincinnati, Ohio’s Phil Mastman that he entered the contest, with a design prominently featuring [...]
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I was going to write about something positive. It would make me happy to write about salmon portraits again. A couple readers made some great suggestions for new posts, and we fully plan on taking those tips. But this is simply too important to ignore. NPR had the great idea to gather black and white [...]