Wednesday, October 29, 2008
It’s an uphill battle explaining that Kerry and I aren’t the Radio Sweethearts mentioned above. Those Sweethearts are Bob Garfield, Brooke Gladstone, and The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name.
That said, we’ve grown to love the title. Okay, we’re sweethearts. Okay, we run a blog about the radio. It may as well be us.
But […]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
It seems that stocks are sliding again, despite the Dow having its largest single-day gain in history earlier. I don’t know what that means. I’m trying incredibly hard to understand what’s going on, but it’s all numbers to me, even when someone tries to explain it to me.
All I know is that I like the […]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
’Cause that’s what they do. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, the Penetrators gotta penetrate.
I’m behind on my podcasts. There was an episode of “All Songs Considered” released on Sept. 29 that I’ve just now got around to. Which surprises me. Kerry and I have been huge Okkervil River fans since last year’s fantastic “The […]
Kerry and I found out, the hard way, that when you cram two people who are used to a long-distance relationship into a one-bedroom apartment about the size of my parents’ living room, small arguments flourish.
We don’t like that. So, like WNYC, we moved. In the move, we gain an additional bedroom (from which […]
Thanks to everyone coming to check us out; we’ve seen a major spike in traffic today, and expect to see another one in the next couple days; Laura Conaway from NPR’s Bryant Park Project interviewed us this morning, and there should be a story from them soon.
Of course we’re going to link it when they […]
Being as I’m in Muncie for a few more months, and Muncie is home to Jim Davis, creator of the amazingly still-in-production “Garfield” comic strip, I figure I might as well give a nod to its greatest variant.
“Garfield Minus Garfield”.
Enjoy it before the inevitable Cease and Desist letter steals one of my greatest reasons for […]
R/S brokers historic Rock accords
That’s a bit grandiose. I don’t feel like this is as huge as Hendrix at Monterrey Pop - or even Hendrix opening for the Monkees.
But it’s still very, very cool. Last week, I posted about the Penetrators’ song,”The Scandalizer” and its appearance on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.”
I’d mentioned how Will Sheff of Okkervil River had […]