All Things Considered has been consulting famous chefs about meals that you can make to feed a family of four for less than $10. It reminds me of a potluck we had a few months ago where everyone had to make their dish with what they had already in the kitchen plus $10 for additional [...]
Perhaps the thing I find most amazing about the fact that the Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” has been declared Oklahoma’s “state rock song” is that Tennessee doesn’t have one of its own.
I mean, not only is it criminal that we don’t have one, given our history, but it’s not like we’re suffering for qualified [...]
Because we keep getting hits and comments on a story I posted about William Carlos Williams’ famous apology poem, I suddenly felt like writing another.
Forgive me. It was easy, and I forgot to ask Sean Cole about his book.
But yes. Here you go.
“Variation on William Carlos Williams.”
I have flown
the jet
that was in
my command
too close
to the [...]
We got back from our public radio-themed honeymoon to Boston and New York last night, and it was awesome. The trip, that is. Coming home was alright (apparently, the dog missed us).
On our first night in New York, we went to WNYC to meet the On the Media crew. Brooke, Katya and Megan were standing [...]
Ahem. Hello.
Matt and Kerry are off in New York, or Boston, or some place where it hasn’t gotten hot enough to fry people’s commonsense yet. My name is Zachary Whitten. I run a seedy little corner of the Internet called the Brain Release Valve. I try to keep up with the zeitgeist and the horror [...]
It’s – finally – time for our honeymoon, though we’ve been married a month, as of today. We’re off to New York and Boston for a couple days each. Our main NYC plans are up in the air – sort of. There’s a nice surprise in there somewhere.
Though we’d love to, we don’t have time [...]
Brooke Gladstone opens up this week’s “On the Media” with the following lines:
You know, most weeks, we could say something about Fox News (like Bill O’Reilly’s show stalking critics with camera crews, for example), but usually we don’t. Partly because Fox News won’t talk to us, partly because – well – it gets boring.
Today is the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style.” Or so I heard on “Morning Edition.”
I adore the book. It’s short; it’s my Bible. Kerry prefers the AP Stylebook, and sure, that’s a great book, too, but I’m pretty sure that the AP finds “Elements of Style” superior.
Except when it comes to [...]
Over on the Monkey See blog, a complete and total genius has come up with an NPR name meme.
I’ve always wanted to know where some of the worldly and vaguely foreign sounding names of NPR correspondents came from, and now there’s a simple formula. Take the first letter of your middle name, insert it into [...]
When I got home tonight, I queued up the episode, and in the opening bars of the self-sung theme music proclaiming the host as “America’s Radio Sweetheart”, I came to a very important conclusion: I don’t like this guy. At all.
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