While listening to “Books That Die,” the last story in the Nov. 27 episode of NPR’s “On The Media,” Kerry laughed, and said it sounded like a Ken Burns documentary. So I turned it into one. Brooke Gladstone’s “The Civil (Book) War” from Radio Sweethearts on Vimeo. I just downloaded the audio, and threw some [...]
Be Ira Glass!, originally uploaded by frank-chimero. Just found this while browsing Flickr for unrelated items. Thought you might enjoy it. (And if you try this out, take pictures. We want to see. Welcome to the “highest echelons” of “hipster nerdom” as the image’s creator jokingly/affectionately/scathingly calls it.
Bob isn’t off this week; he’s just hunkered in a bunker. Brooke sunk her feelings into a clunker of an opening to this week’s episode. Sort of like how I just did, back there. Anyway, I don’t know what’s up with Bob being away from his regular microphone – and I know that coupling a [...]
You probably already know this, but Jonathan Goldstein, of “This American Life” fame, has his own radio show, “WireTap,” that runs on the CBC Radio One in Canada, and, via Public Radio International, several American public radio stations. It’s more or less like his stuff on “This American Life,” with his sense of humor shifting [...]
Tonight, I ran out of space on the external hard drive that houses two important things: my iTunes library, and every episode of This American Life aired since they started podcasting. Truly, the latter is a vast storehouse of knowledge, wit, and storytelling matched only by the Library at Alexandria, lost to history. I kept [...]
We’re all alone with Bob Garfield and his sweater this week. Brooke Gladstone is off writing her book, or at least she’s supposed to be. Bob seems to have his doubts. This week is all about the sickness. The show opens with a story on health segments on news shows, specifically the ones that talk [...]
Hi everybody, Matthew and I just wanted to let you know that we’re going to be taking this week off from posting here. Things are a little crazy right now with our jobs, our house, and my practice schedule and we need a week to get some things taken care of. Regular posting will resume [...]
NPR, you’re about to cause some problems at the CT Homestead. I read a lot of books. That’s a stupid sentence, but it’s true – there are about 15 books sitting on one of our bookshelves waiting to be read. So NPR, when you post your weekly list of the books you’re reading, I just [...]
Terry Gross accidentally made Tracy Morgan cry, but listening to it again, rather than being the funniest and most touching thing ever, it sounds like Morgan was being bullied. Gross seemed unfazed by his vulnerability, and poked at his frailness with something approaching a dumbstruck disbelief, until it cracked him. Gross expected him to be [...]
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People like to classify things. Conservative, liberal, girl, boy, good, bad, etc. If I remember freshman sociology correctly, when something is not easily classified, people will create parameters with which to classify. This behavior is extremely common with music. There’s a listicle on Monitor Mix today by Lars Gotrich (which can’t possibly be his real [...]