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Radio Sweethearts is no Fail Whale: The NPR Twitter Accounts List Part I

Last week, I promised our awesome friend Scott that we would round up all of the NPR people who actively use Twitter and post links here. This is how it works: I’m going to start a list of NPR twitter-ers (tweeters? twits?) that will be updated every so often with links to relevant Twitter accounts. […]

Army seeks to make it work with fashion, instead of tactics, supplies, or being the Army.

 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.” But that’s […]

Merlin Mann: productivity guru, insightful little bastard.

A friend brought this to our attention:

Unlike 34,368 other Twitter users, we don’t follow @hotdogsladies; he seems far less inclined to shake the haters off than the fans, but once in a while, he’ll go on an insight spree.
This is pretty awesome, but we’re still not following.
Besides, it’s inaccurate. Robert Siegel doesn’t host All Things […]

Call and Response Radio

This afternoon, I caught some of American Public Media’s “Marketplace” while I was driving. It’s classic public radio, really - host with a somewhat pretentious name that no one can spell (also, I picture Kai Ryssdal -yes, that’s how you spell it - wearing wrap around sunglasses and making finger guns when he makes a […]

Linkblogging through Analogy

Apparently people have been saying that while I’m the friendly one, Kerry’s the fun one.
Kerry’s friendly, too. She just has all the snark.
Sorry I’m, you know, boring.
If I am Morning Edition, she is The Bryant Park Project.
If she is Morning Becomes Eclectic, I am Performance Today.
If I am Weekend Edition, She is Weekend […]

April is the Cruelest Pretentious Joke

EDIT: The Studio 360 link broke; but it seems like that may be a problem with Studio 360’s website. Let me know if it starts working again.
T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” begins with the words, “April is the cruelest month.”
Which is why it’s really stupid that April is National Poetry Month.
But it […]

Garrison Keillor is a Grumpy Old Man

The New York Times’ “Lede Blog” reported today on the sale of Garrison Keillor’s St. Paul home. Apparently, he’s leaving because he doesn’t get along with his neighbors.
From “The Lede Blog:”
For those not keeping regular track of all matters Keilloric, the listing marks the end of an ugly feud that cast Mr. Keillor as […]

BREAKING MOTHERFUCKING NEWS

Attention public radio personalities: We are not like Andrea Campbell. We have crushes, but we respect the distance.
Might I refer you to the “Legal” section of our site? We’re making most of our stuff up.
This, however, is total truth. Check the Chicago Tribune: Garrison Keillor has a real-life stalker.
So that’s why he had […]