I’m tempted to tell you to skip most of this week’s episode and fast forward to about the last 45 seconds because there’s a lot to learn from Bob’s sign off this week. For example, the show this week was edited “more or less by me [Bob]“. In a year and a half of dedicated [...]
I had a good day Wednesday. I was really enjoying what I was doing at work, and busted out some classic girl group sounds on my way home. It was a sunny, relatively cool day in Memphis, and traffic wasn’t that bad. But as I turned the car off of Poplar and on to I-240 [...]
I have a ton of iPhone apps. I know I’m not alone in that, but even for a former Apple salesman, six pages of apps is a bit much. I don’t use all of them every day, and I’m cool with deleting a few that aren’t getting used. There are a few apps, however, that [...]
Every week when I sit down to recap, I get all excited that maybe – just maybe – this will be the week that Brooke returns from her leave. Nothing against Bob, but I miss Brooke (and I think he does too, despite sounding almost giddy announcing Katya’s editorial credit at the end of the [...]
Stop me, oh whoa oh, stop me – stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before: Scientists in the Philippines are working on some innovative new strains of rice, that rice procurement may be easier and prevent famine in places like Bangladesh. Wait a minute. Try comparing this text, from today’s story: In [...]
I love it when NPR happens to answer a question that’s been in the back of my mind forever. Like this one – how exactly is it that professional artists make a living? Granted, I have a friend who owns a glass studio and she makes money by teaching classes, taking commissioned work and selling [...]
This week’s “On the Media” is a collection of the show’s commentary on how the Internet is changing the ways we communicate. Which, you might think, would result in a recap made from a collection of our commentary on how Bob Garfield doesn’t get it, and how Brooke Gladstone does. That wouldn’t be wrong, if [...]
NPR’s new site is pretty great. Everything is easy to find, the colors are nice, the podcasts are all right there at the top. But even on an awesome new site, sometimes things aren’t where you thought they were. But having just gotten the new 404 page on npr.org, I’m totally ok with not quite [...]
Okay, look. The thing is, I haven’t watched this whole thing yet. And I don’t want to waste good listening time to writing a better title than that. (Sorry.) I don’t know if the music in this video is any good, but it is Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, and I like the music they [...]
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Kerry’s New Public Media Obsession: Man vs. Truck
A few weeks ago, I was in a particularly bad mood. Zach was kind enough to let me come over and watch his TV. When I got there, he was watching a show where some lovely British guys in a souped-up truck were racing a dude on a dog sled to the North Pole. The [...]