When Kerry and I started R/S, we thought we were the only kids on the block with a geeky public radio fanblog. Turns out we were wrong. Public Radio Redux beat us to the scene. Erin Mishkin and Jen Nathan have a different take on it. Nathan is an independent radio producer, and that inborn [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
 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 [...]
 ’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 [...]
I’ve been hearing about NPR’s new social networking feature for a while now, thanks to its progenitor, the talented and affable Andy Carvin. Today, I realized I couldn’t wait any longer. Given that we know that a large portion of our readership is employed by or married to someone employed by NPR, I feel like [...]
In the last week or so, NPR has launched “Monkey See“, a new pop culture blog written by Linda Holmes. I’ve read the first few entries, and it seems to be off to a good start. Ms. Holmes was a former Television Without Pity writer, which gives me great hope, as I love TWOP’s scathing [...]
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 [...]
So, we trust NPR’s editors to make us sound a little smarter than usual, cutting just enough “ums” and “ahs” to boost our perceived intelligences just barely, but there are still some things we wish we had said when being interviewed by the remarkably friendly Laura Conaway, of the Bryant Park Project. After the jump, [...]
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Sudanese Basketball Sketchest
I was on the way to work when they were playing the story about Sudanese basketball players. And frankly, it seemed a little silly. I know what you’re saying – by which I mean that I know what my little brother is saying – I don’t understand, I’m not willing to see how basketball affects [...]